Question: The lesser rosary, a string of beads used by Roman Catholics as an aid to memory during devotional exercises, has 55 beads. How many beads are there in the greater rosary?
Answer: 165

Question: What is the popular name for Sirius, which is 9 light years from Earth?
Answer: The Dog Star

Question: Who is the New Zealand-born physicist whose discoveries include most of the great advances in physics between 1899 and 1930?
Answer: Ernest Rutherford

Question: What is the name of the Temple built to Pallas Athene around 480 BC, from which marble friezes and statues were removed by Lord Elgin in 1812?
Answer: Parthenon

Question: Which 17th century philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and writer has been called the "Father of Modern Philosophy," through his books "Passions of the Soul", "Principles of Philosophy", "Discourse on the Method", and "Meditations on First Philosophy"?
Answer: Ren Descartes

Question: In what is now Iran in 1951 to 1954, what led to the Shah fleeing the country, the Prime Minister trying to dissolve parliament, crude oil being imported from Kuwait, and a breakdown of diplomatic relations with Britain and the USA?
Answer: Persian Oil Dispute

Question: Who beat Roger Federer in the men's Wimbledon final in 2008?
Answer: Rafael Nadal

Question: Who had a hit in 2009 singing "Womanizer woman-womanizer youre a womanizer oh womanizer oh youre a womanizer baby you you you are you you you are womanizer womanizer womanizer"?
Answer: Britney Spears

Question: The theatres for which war included Odessa, Yevpatoriya, Sevastopol, Balaklava, Inkerman, and Kinburn?
Answer: Crimean War

Question: Daniel Radcliffe is best known for playing which film role?
Answer: Harry Potter

Question: What is the largest dam structure in the USA?
Answer: Grand Coolee

Question: Under what name did Helen Porter Mitchell perform opera?
Answer: Dame Nellie Melba

Question: What is the name for the inherent property of matter to retain its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line unless acted upon by external forces?
Answer: Inertia

Question: In 2005, which championship had rounds in England, USA, France, Belgium, Turkey, Monaco, Germany, Bahrain, Australia, Malaysia, Italy, Spain, Canada, Hungary, Brazil, Japan and China?
Answer: Formula 1

Question: Who was the Teutonic legendary hero who slew Fafnir the dragon?
Answer: Siegfried

Question: In Great Britain, painted strips on the road to show where pedestrians should cross is named after which animal?
Answer: Zebra

Question: Who was the proprietor of "New York World" who made a bequest to award 12 prizes annually to American authors and composers?
Answer: Joseph Pulitzer

Question: What 1966 Broadway musical was based on Fellini's film "Nights of Cabiria"?
Answer: Sweet Charity

Question: A cornea is found in what part of the body?
Answer: Eye

Question: Who, according to the Sumerian king list, was the fifth king of Uruk around 2700 BC, and became the central character in one of the best known works of early literature, where he was described as two-thirds god?
Answer: Gilgamesh

Question: Most of Georgette Heyer's romance novels were set in which period?
Answer: Regency

Question: What is the name given to an unidentified serial killer who was active in the Whitechapel area and adjacent districts of London, England, in late 1888?
Answer: Jack the Ripper

Question: What is another name for a hippocampus?
Answer: Sea horse

Question: Which mountain chain runs along the border between France and Spain?
Answer: Pyrenees

Question: Hernn Corts de Monroy y Pizarro, known as Cortes, conquered which empire in the Americas?
Answer: Aztec

Question: By what name is Saul Hudson, a Velvet Revolver guitarist and former Guns N' Roses guitarist, better known?
Answer: Slash

Question: The World Cup for which sport is an annual international competition initiated in 1978 by Swiss journalist Max E. Amman, and originally sponsored by Volvo?
Answer: Show jumping

Question: What is the name for an inflammation of the larynx characterised by coughing, harshness (or loss) of voice, choking sensation and difficulty in breathing?
Answer: Laryngitis

Question: The first modern Olympic games as we currently know them were held in which century?
Answer: 19th

Question: What religious sect that uses dancing as a form of worship was founded by Ann Lee, who migrated with her followers from England to New York in 1772?
Answer: Shakers

Question: If you went to Bizet's "Carmen", what would you expect to see?
Answer: Opera

Question: Which US state was the first to secede from the Union, in 1860, leading to the American Civil War?
Answer: South Carolina

Question: Which song begins with "And now the end is near and so I face the final curtain"?
Answer: My Way

Question: The crane fly is also known by what name?
Answer: Daddy Long Legs

Question: Which Australian pop singer ended his four year marriage to Katie Price in May 2009?
Answer: Maurice Andre

Question: The airliner built in 1931 and capable of carrying 40 passengers, the Hannibal, was made by which company?
Answer: Handley Page

Question: In chess, castling involves the rook and which other piece?
Answer: King

Question: In Scottish legend, what is a kelpie?
Answer: A malignant water spirit in the shape of a horse

Question: Who is most likely to wear a tutu?
Answer: Ballet dancer

Question: Who is the eponymous lead character in a British mystery series starring Alan Davies as an eccentric magician's assistant who also solves seemingly supernatural mysteries through his talent for logical deduction and knowledge of illusionism?
Answer: Jonathan Creek

Question: Romulus, co-founder of Rome, was deified after his death and worshipped as which God?
Answer: Quirinus

Question: What is a form of cricket, originally introduced in the United Kingdom for professional inter-county competition by the England and Wales Cricket Board in 2003, that involves two teams, each of which has one innings?
Answer: Twenty20

Question: What chess piece is also called a "castle"?
Answer: Rook

Question: Feta cheese sold in Europe must contain 70% of milk from what animal?
Answer: Sheep

Question: By what name is an Ornithorhynchus better known?
Answer: Platypus

Question: Why was the Rosetta Stone, discovered in 1799 and a key to deciphering writing from ancient Egypt, so called?
Answer: It was discovered at Rosetta, a town in Egypt

Question: What musical term means "at moderate pace"?
Answer: Andante

Question: Bing Crosby died playing which sport?
Answer: Golf

Question: Who is Norman Cook better known as?
Answer: Fatboy Slim

Question: What is the name of the most famous art gallery in Paris?
Answer: The Louvre

Question: In World War I, the troops of New Zealand and what other country were formed into a single Army Corps called ANZACs?
Answer: Australia

Question: Lake Erie is connected to Lake Ontario by which canal?
Answer: Welland Canal

Question: The Banks children are characters in which film?
Answer: Mary Poppins

Question: Which part of the chilli is the hottest?
Answer: Seed

Question: The Mason-Dixon Line, surveyed by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, which became a popular name for the dividing line between the slave and free states, is the boundary between which two states of the USA?
Answer: Pennsylvania and Maryland

Question: Whose lifetime total of 714 home runs was a record in Major League Baseball for 39 years, until 1974?
Answer: Babe Ruth

Question: Which planet has a year of 687 days, a day of 24 hours 37 minutes, a diameter twice that of the moon and a mass one tenth of the earth?
Answer: Mars

Question: What was the name given to rocks in the Straits of Messina opposite the whirlpool of Charybdis?
Answer: Scylla

Question: Who wrote the plays "The Seagull", "The Cherry Orchard", "The Three Sisters" and "Uncle Vanya"?
Answer: Chekhov