Question: Olympic gold medallists Nedo Nadi, Enrico Fabris, Domenico Fioravanti and Alberto Tomba represented which country?
Answer: Italy

Question: Besides the relatively recent annual honorarium of 5,750, the Poet Laureate of the UK has, since the 1500s, been traditionally rewarded annually with what?
Answer: A butt of sack

Question: The toga, a distinctive garment of Ancient Rome, was a sash, invariably made of wool, which was wrapped around the body and was generally worn over a tunic. Approximately how long was the sash?
Answer: 20 feet (6 metres)

Question: In which decade was Queen Elizabeth II born?
Answer: 1920s

Question: San Francisco is closest to which ocean?
Answer: Pacific

Question: Newton Marshall, who won the 1600 km Iditarod dog sled race in Alaska in March 2010 was born where?
Answer: Jamaica

Question: In the final of the Basketball competition at the 1972 Summer Olympics, the last 3 seconds of the game were ordered to be played again, which resulted in which team being awarded the gold medal?
Answer: Ussr

Question: Who won Best Spoken Word Album Grammy Awards in 2006 and 2008 for abridged audiobook versions of his books "Dreams from My Father" and "The Audacity of Hope"?
Answer: Barack Obama

Question: What do the notes for the currency "euro" have on the back (verso)?
Answer: Bridges

Question: What name was given to the night when Nazis destroyed Jewish businesses and synagogues in November 1938?
Answer: Crystal Night

Question: Who were the two Aikens in the Jamaican netball team in 2009?
Answer: Romelda and Nicole

Question: What US federal agency that was founded on 3 March 1915 was dissolved on 1 October 1958?
Answer: National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)

Question: What is the thick watery substance filling the space between the lens and the cornea of the eye?
Answer: Aqueous humour

Question: Which French record producer, actor, singer, songwriter and musical theatre composer, is best known for his collaborations with the lyricist Alain Boublil for the musicals "La Rvolution Franaise", "Les Misrables", "Miss Saigon", "Martin Guerre", "The Pirate Queen" and "Marguerite"?
Answer: Claude-Michel Schnberg

Question: What is prohibited by an unusual law that has been passed in Lanjarn, Spain, in three settlements in southern France: (Cugnaux, Le Lavandou & Sarpourenx), and has been proposed for Biritiba-Mirim, Brazil?
Answer: Death

Question: What country was established on 1 December 1918 by the union of the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs and the Kingdom of Serbia (which included the Kingdom of Montenegro) and lasted until it was invaded by the Axis powers in 1941?
Answer: The Kingdom of Yugoslavia

Question: The term "Nordic" means relating to what area?
Answer: Scandinavia

Question: When Russia became a communist state in 1918 with Lenin as dictator, who was his foreign secretary?
Answer: Leon Trotsky

Question: The first Telstar satellite, that relayed the first television pictures, telephone calls and fax images through space, was designed to provide satellite communications over what area?
Answer: The Atlantic Ocean

Question: What is the first name of the woman that Tiger Woods married on 5 October 2004 and was officially divorced from on 23 August 2010?
Answer: Elin

Question: Croutons are made with what?
Answer: Bread

Question: What is the name for the numerous tiny flowers that comprise a flower head of, for example, a daisy or sunflower?
Answer: Florets

Question: In England, at which venue are the Oaks and the Derby run?
Answer: Epsom

Question: What fashion in French architecture had much to do with the regency of Marie de' Medici? (The greatest architects of the style were Salomon de Brosse and Jacques Lemercier.)
Answer: Louis XIII

Question: What is the derivation of the word napalm, meaning a type of incendiary bomb?
Answer: The words naphthenic and palmitic (acids)

Question: If you have played 50 games and won 30, giving a 60% success rate, how many more games would you have to play to achieve a 75% success rate, assuming that you win them all?
Answer: 30

Question: Why is "Chantilly porcelain", made from 1730 to 1800 near the Chteau de Chantilly (Oise, France), technically an imitation porcelain?
Answer: Kaolin (i.e. "china clay") was not an ingredient

Question: Where was the Boer War fought?
Answer: Southern Africa

Question: Soccer player George Best once said that he spent 95% of his money on wine, women and song, and the other 5% he ... what?
Answer: Wasted

Question: The first Canadian province to adopt one of these officially was Nova Scotia in 1955, and now all provinces and territories (except Nunavut) and Cape Breton Island have officially adopted a ... what?
Answer: Tartan

Question: What author's non-fiction work includes "The Fate of Man", "The Future in America: A Search After Realities", "Little Wars", "The New World Order", "The Outline of History", "Russia in the Shadows" and "A Short History of the World"?
Answer: H G Wells

Question: Which Russian composer, after writing "The Firebird" for the Russian ballet, became a US citizen in 1945?
Answer: Igor Stravinsky

Question: What word describes the situation where someone has to choose between two difficulties, and to choose either would have an equally unpleasant outcome?
Answer: Dilemma

Question: Emilio Lavazza, who died in February 2010, ran a company which was associated with what product?
Answer: Coffee

Question: How many adverbs are in the following sentence: "Roger told his dog not to jump on the furniture with muddy feet"?
Answer: None

Question: The following were influential in developing which subject in China: Liu Hui, Zu Geng, Li Chunfeng, Yang Hui, Shen Kuo, Liu Xin, Zhang Heng, Liu Hui, Zu Chongzhi and Wang Xiaotong?
Answer: Mathematics

Question: What large, flat valley that dominates the central portion of the state of California USA and stretches approximately 800 kilometres (500 miles) has the northern half called the Sacramento Valley, and the southern half the San Joaquin Valley, which meet at the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta?
Answer: The Central Valley

Question: What is the name of the water sports that originated in Australia in the early 20th century, that has become popular in New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, and the USA?
Answer: Surf lifesaving

Question: What sporting event is 42.195 km (26 miles 385 yards)?
Answer: Marathon

Question: What autism spectrum disorder was first identified in 1944 due to a study of children who lacked nonverbal communication skills, demonstrated limited empathy with their peers, and were physically clumsy?
Answer: Asperger syndrome

Question: Complete the title of this James Bond film: "Licence To ... "?
Answer: Kill

Question: Strasbourg is in which country?
Answer: France

Question: What is the stage name of Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, who was born on 28 March 1971?
Answer: Lady Ga Ga

Question: What compound is also known as vitamin B9 or folacin?
Answer: Folic acid

Question: The early works of which American playwright (best known for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?") reflect an "Americanisation" of the Theatre of the Absurd, a movement that found its peak in works by European playwrights such as Jean Genet, Samuel Beckett, and Eugne Ionesco?
Answer: Edward Albee

Question: What book was to have been called, in translation, "Four and a Half Years (of Struggle) Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice"?
Answer: Mein Kampf

Question: Which river runs through the cities of Cincinnati and Pittsburgh?
Answer: Ohio

Question: What science features in "The Man In The White Suit", a 1951 film starring Alec Guinness?
Answer: Chemistry

Question: What method of writing, consisting of wedge-shaped and rectangular marks, was used from around 30th century BC to the 1st century AD?
Answer: Cuneiform