Question: With the history of which country is Ghandi associated?
Answer: India

Question: Which capital city is situated on the mainland and 13 islands at the outlet of Lake Malar on the Baltic Sea?
Answer: Stockholm

Question: What is the common name for a mixture of calcium silicates and aluminium, prepared by prolonged heating of limestone with clay, which slowly hardens when mixed with water?
Answer: Cement

Question: What is the text of an opera called?
Answer: Libretto

Question: Which river runs through the city of Paris, France?
Answer: Seine

Question: Whose life was the 2004 film "Ray" about?
Answer: Ray Charles

Question: With which sport is Michael Jordan, who represented the USA at the Olympic Games in 1984 & 1992, associated?
Answer: Basketball

Question: Songwriter Jack White (vocals, guitar and piano) and Meg White (drums and occasional vocals) make up which American rock duo who produced three Grammy Award (Best Alternative Music Album) winning albums ("Elephant", "Get Behind Me Satan" & "Icky Thump")?
Answer: The White Stripes

Question: Who was the first president of the Turkish Republic after the overthrow of the Sultan in 1922?
Answer: Mustapha Kemal Ataturk

Question: Except for a short break from 1492 to 1512, which merchant family effectively ruled Florence from the 13th century to 1737?
Answer: Medici

Question: In the first decade of the 1900s, Henry Ford established the Ford Motor Company in which city of the USA?
Answer: Detroit

Question: Historically, what is the name of an official having authority for fiscal and other purposes within a defined area of England, typically a borough, port or shire?
Answer: Reeve

Question: In 2001, Count Jacques Rogge replaced Juan Antonio Samaranch as head of what body?
Answer: International Olympic Committee (IOC)

Question: Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tr Cool are collectively known as which band?
Answer: Green Day

Question: What is the character "George" from the UK TV series "Rainbow"?
Answer: Hippopotamus

Question: The members of which Christian organisation do not take the oath in a court of law, oppose military service, and believe that individuals can have a personal relationship with the divine without the need for intermediaries, such as priests, rituals or sacraments?
Answer: Quakers

Question: Which cold, low-salinity ocean current flows north-westward along the west coast of South America from the southern tip of Chile to northern Peru and can extend 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) offshore?
Answer: Humboldt Current

Question: What is the symbol for a 60th wedding anniversary?
Answer: Diamond

Question: At the 2004 Summer Olympics, why did the Russian Federation file an unsuccessful protest over the women's 100m hurdles, delaying the medal ceremony by a day?
Answer: Canadian Perdita Felicien fell on the first hurdle and took Russian Irina Shevchenko with her

Question: Who was the Iranian-US citizen who was jailed early in 2009 in Evin Prison, Teheran with an 8 year sentence for alleged spying?
Answer: Roxana Saberi

Question: With the exception of the last two segments, how many legs does a centipede have on each segment?
Answer: 2

Question: In baseball, which base is most frequently stolen by the runners?
Answer: Second

Question: What is Neptune's main satellite?
Answer: Triton

Question: Robbie Coltrane played a psychologist in which British TV series?
Answer: Cracker

Question: The mnemonic Roy G. Biv is an aid to remembering what?
Answer: The colours of the rainbow

Question: Where is the island of Tristan da Cunha?
Answer: South Atlantic Ocean

Question: With which sport is Florence Griffith-Joyner, also known as Flo-Jo, associated?
Answer: Sprinting

Question: What do we call the months that the Romans called Quintilis and Sextus?
Answer: July and August

Question: What song plays at the end of the film "You've Got Mail" when the two lead characters meet in the park?
Answer: Somewhere Over The Rainbow

Question: In what year was the Irish parliament abolished and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland come into being?
Answer: 1800

Question: Which model was engaged to Bryan Ferry of Roxy Music before she married Mick Jagger?
Answer: Jerry Hall

Question: What is the name given to a bone fracture when the bone bends and splinters rather than breaks in two?
Answer: Greenstick

Question: In the 18th century, Capability Brown popularised the naturalistic style of what?
Answer: Landscape gardening

Question: Which Russian revolutionary became Foreign Commissar, lost the battle for leadership to Stalin, was expelled from the Communist Party and lived in exile thereafter?
Answer: Leon Trotsky

Question: In 1977, Hamida Djandoubi was involved in what act that was special in French history?
Answer: He was the last person to be guillotined

Question: Before the 2008 Olympics, teams from which country caused a scandal by posing for a pre-Olympic newspaper advertisement pulling back the skin on either side of their eyes, to mimic the typical Asian?
Answer: Spain

Question: What is the name of a slender highly tempered, sharp-pointed, edgeless weapon about 3 feet long?
Answer: Rapier

Question: What is unusual about Rockall, a small island in the Atlantic Ocean?
Answer: It was not claimed until 1953, by Great Britain

Question: Who was an American gangster, the leader of a crime syndicate dedicated to smuggling and bootlegging of liquor and other illegal activities during the Prohibition Era, whose criminal career ended in 1931 when he was convicted for income-tax evasion?
Answer: Al Capone

Question: What name is given to the product of mass and velocity?
Answer: Momentum

Question: Why did Papua New Guinea's parliament not sit on Tuesday 12 May 2009?
Answer: They couldn't find the key to the room where the ceremonial mace was stored

Question: Who became King of England after defeating Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field?
Answer: Henry VII

Question: Which 20th century French writer and philosopher wrote the plays "Huis Clos", "Les Mouches" and "Les Mains Sales" and the novels "La Nause" and "Chemins de la Libert"?
Answer: Jean Paul Sartre

Question: What work of art dating from around 1100 AD is approximately 230 feet (70 metres) long by 20 inches (8 cm) wide?
Answer: Bayeux tapestry

Question: What is the deepest lake in the world, and the largest freshwater lake in the world by volume?
Answer: Lake Baikal

Question: Where is the classic English horse race, the One Thousand Guineas for 3 year old fillies, run?
Answer: Newmarket

Question: What is a word for a man dedicated to his smart appearance?
Answer: Dandy

Question: What is the name for the use of X Rays in medicine?
Answer: Radiology

Question: Which English duo had hits between 1984 and 1987 that included West End Girls", "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)", "Love Comes Quickly", "Suburbia", "It's a Sin", "What Have I Done to Deserve This?", "Rent" and "Always on My Mind"?
Answer: Pet Shop Boys

Question: Lake Winnipeg is in which Canadian province?
Answer: Manitoba

Question: Which father and son, 17th and 18th century composers, between them lived in Rome, Naples, Florence and Madrid and composed over 120 operas, 600 chamber cantatas, and 500 harpsichord sonatas?
Answer: Scarlatti

Question: The convention of moving the Olympic flame via a relay system from Olympia to the Olympic venue began with which Olympic Games?
Answer: Berlin, 1936

Question: What is the term for the greenish oxide formed on copper?
Answer: Verdigris

Question: What is a device that allows electric current to pass through it in one direction only, used for converting AC to DC?
Answer: Rectifier

Question: For administrative purposes, Turkey is divided into 81 provinces, formerly termed vilayet, which are now called what?
Answer: Iller