Question: Billy Bob Thornton won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for which film?
Answer: Sling Blade

Question: Where in the USA are the La Brea tar pits?
Answer: Los Angeles

Question: Which daughter of James V of Scotland became Queen of France in 1559?
Answer: Mary Queen of Scots (Mary I )

Question: What nest at Sandy Cape, the most northern point on Fraser Island off the coast of Queensland, Australia, which is protected as part of the Great Sandy National Park?
Answer: Turtles

Question: Which Channel Island is divided by a causeway called the Coupee, and has one port, Croux?
Answer: Sark

Question: John F Kennedy's father Joe was US ambassador to which country?
Answer: Britain

Question: What is a "Harvey Wallbanger"?
Answer: Cocktail

Question: The first Chinese round of what international series was first held in 2004, in Shanghai?
Answer: Formula One Grand Prix

Question: The island of Kos is in which sea?
Answer: Mediterranean

Question: In the TV series "Mork and Mindy", who was the mostly-unseen and long-suffering superior (voiced by Ralph James) who had sent Mork to Earth, and that Mork had to report to frequently?
Answer: Orson

Question: Who captained the "Endeavour" and the "Resolution" on 3 voyages to the Pacific in 176871, 177275 and 177679?
Answer: James Cook

Question: The warriors known as "berserkers" were legendary figures in which mythology?
Answer: Norse

Question: What is the surname of twin brothers Mike and Bob, who became the world's number 1 ranked men's tennis doubles team in 2007?
Answer: Bryan

Question: Double vision, the perception of two images from a single object, is properly called what?
Answer: Diplopia

Question: Who played a professional boxer in a 2004 film?
Answer: Hilary Swank

Question: Idi Amin, dictator in Uganda from 1951 to 1960, was a champion in his country in what sport?
Answer: Boxing

Question: What is the last book of the New Testament?
Answer: Revelation

Question: What is the "Ishihara test" for?
Answer: Colour blindness

Question: Who broke the NFL record for the most points in a single season, with 176 points, in 1960?
Answer: Paul Hornung

Question: Why did Captain Cook throw 6 of his 10 cannon into the sea at Great Barrier Reef, off the Australian coast in 1770?
Answer: To lighten it, as his ship was stuck on the reef

Question: Where are Akrotiri and Dhekelia, allocated by treaty to the UK as sovereign military bases?
Answer: Cyprus

Question: In December 2010, Continental Airlines was found criminally responsible for which airline disaster by a Parisian court and was fined 200,000 and ordered to pay Air France 1 million, while Continental mechanic John Taylor was given a 15-month suspended sentence?
Answer: Concorde, Flight 4590, 25 July 2000

Question: """Goal attack"" and ""wing defence"" are positions in which sport?"
Answer: Netball

Question: Transits of Venus occur in a pattern, with pairs of transits 8 years apart separated by much longer gaps, that repeats every how many years?
Answer: 243

Question: What is the Sunday before Trinity Sunday?
Answer: Whit Sunday

Question: The traditional song "The Ballad of Chevy Chase" is believed to describe which battle?
Answer: Otterburn

Question: Court Philippe Chatrier, which has stands named after Jacques "Toto" Brugnon, Jean Borotra, Henri Cochet, and Ren Lacoste, is the main court of an international tennis venue in which city?
Answer: Paris

Question: Who was Emperor of Rome during the great fire of 64AD?
Answer: Nero

Question: What are traditionally kept in a humidor?
Answer: Cigars

Question: How many days did Britain "lose" in September 1752 on changing from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar?
Answer: 11

Question: At the peak of its power, it was often said that "the sun never sets on" which empire?
Answer: British

Question: In medicine, what does "GP" mean?
Answer: General practitioner

Question: """Kraal"" is an Afrikaans and South African English word for what?"
Answer: An enclosure for livestock

Question: What card game uses a scoreboard with holes and pegs?
Answer: Cribbage

Question: Who is credited with inventing the gyroscope?
Answer: Lon Foucault

Question: The airship L.19, a World War 1 Zeppelin of the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) came down in the North Sea while returning from her first bombing raid on the United Kingdom during the night of 1/2 February 1916. What was the controversy following this incident?
Answer: The crew survived but drowned when a British vessel refused to rescue them

Question: How many members are there in the Italian lower house, the Chamber of Deputies?
Answer: 630

Question: Where are the islands called Greene, Herschel, Jack, Kitchener, Russell, St. Joseph, Thibault and Tyson?
Answer: Lake Huron

Question: What is the meaning of the Russian word "bolshevik"?
Answer: Majority

Question: What shape is a bar of Toblerone chocolate?
Answer: Triangular prism

Question: The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom abolishing slavery throughout the British Empire except for where?
Answer: The East India Company's Territories, Ceylon, & Saint Helena

Question: What are Halley's, Hale-Bopp, Kohoutek, West, Hyakutake and McNaught?
Answer: Comets

Question: Which British sprinter returned to competition in 2006 after a 2 year absence due to doping offences?
Answer: Dwain Chambers

Question: Sir Mortimer Wheeler was famous in which field?
Answer: Archaeology

Question: The "Little Rock Nine" incident of 1957 in Arkansas concerned what event?
Answer: The refusal by the state of Arkansas to honor a Federal court order to integrate schools

Question: What was the name most often used for the tower at the north end of the Palace of Westminster in London?
Answer: St Stephen's Tower

Question: What is the scientific study of insects?
Answer: Entomology

Question: What happened to Mr Creosote in Monty Python's "The Meaning of Life"?
Answer: He exploded

Question: On 25 November 2010, which country held a general election whereby the majority of seats (17 out of 26) in its Legislative Assembly were elected by universal suffrage for the first time?
Answer: Tonga

Question: Which US state would you go to to see Niagara Falls?
Answer: New York

Question: Benjamin Disraeli's government was elected in the UK how many times?
Answer: 1

Question: Who released an album called "Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only the Piano Player" in 1973?
Answer: Elton John

Question: The Mason-Dixon line, originally surveyed to define the border between Pennsylvania and Maryland, is along which longitude?
Answer: 40th parallel

Question: What comics series, created by writer Pierre Christin and artist Jean-Claude Mzires, first published in the magazine "Pilote" in 1967, reached its final instalment in 2010?
Answer: Valrian and Laureline

Question: What name is given to the giving up of food, often for religious reasons?
Answer: Fast

Question: What is claimed to be the fastest bird in level flight, (though its record is in dispute from supporters of the White-throated Needletail)?
Answer: Red-breasted Merganser

Question: What weapon is traditionally held in a scabbard?
Answer: Sword

Question: Paul Young and Susan Boyle have covered "Don't Dream It's Over", which was written for (and was a US hit record for) which band?
Answer: Crowded House

Question: Who entered Studio 54 in New York City in 1977 for her 32nd birthday party on a white horse, resulting in publicity that established it as the preferred nightclub for celebrities?
Answer: Bianca Jagger

Question: What is "Midway", the site of the Battle of Midway?
Answer: Pacific Island

Question: Goalkeeper Jens Ramme's debut for Dynamo Dresden was in the quarter-final of the 198586 European Cup Winners' Cup, when they were 31 up at half-time and he was brought on as a replacement. He let in six goals in 29 minutes: Dynamo lost. They were playing against which team?
Answer: Bayer Uerdingen of West Germany