Question: What does the classification "K-1" mean in canoe competition?
Answer: Closed canoe holding one person

Question: A Blue Ringtail is a type of what?
Answer: Damselfly

Question: Pol Pot was overthrown as ruler of what country in 1979?
Answer: Cambodia

Question: Prediction is hazardous, especially about the future is attributed to where?
Answer: Danish proverb

Question: Which Winter Olympics sport has involved the use of a .30-06 Springfield?
Answer: Biathlon

Question: Which island or islands lie on or near the Cocos Ridge?
Answer: Cocos Island, Costa Rica

Question: Who are the eponymous heroes of the popular UK TV series first screened in 2011, "Scott & Bailey"?
Answer: Female detectives

Question: The US TV quiz shows "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?" pits contestants against questions taken from what source?
Answer: Elementary school textbooks from first to fifth grade

Question: Who wrote the books "Blott on the Landscape" and "Porterhouse Blue"?
Answer: Tom Sharpe

Question: Mandalay, once the royal city of Burma and now with a population 30 to 40% Chinese, is sited by which river?
Answer: Irawaddy

Question: The botanist who discovered the plant in 1769 named it bougainvillea for what reason?
Answer: He was sailing on a ship commanded by Admiral Louis de Bougainville

Question: Since 2010 what is played at the Commonwealth Games when an anthem for an English athlete is needed?
Answer: Jerusalem

Question: Erik the Red from Norway founded the first successful Norse settlement on Greenland, and then his son Leif continued the tradition of exploring west and landed where?
Answer: North America

Question: Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler are known for their work in what area?
Answer: Detective fiction

Question: Barbara Vine is another writing name for which author?
Answer: Ruth Rendell

Question: Who was the last white president of South Africa?
Answer: F W de Klerk

Question: """Rocket"" is a type of what?"
Answer: Lettuce

Question: Where did the 2014 Umbrella Revolution happen?
Answer: Hong Kong

Question: Leonid Brezhnev led the Soviet Union as General Secretary then as Chairman of the Presidium, the longest term as leader since Josef Stalin; who was his immediate successor?
Answer: Yuri Andropov

Question: """Amontillado"" is a type of what?"
Answer: Sherry

Question: The .44 Magnum was made famous by which fictional TV policeman?
Answer: Dirty Harry

Question: Zurich SC Lions have been European Champions in which sport?
Answer: Ice hockey

Question: The Paschal Lamb figures in Judaism and Christianity at what time?
Answer: Passover or Easter respectively

Question: How does a traditional military bugler change pitch?
Answer: Change in embouchure

Question: Immediately prior to the United States Congress activated in 1789, the governing body was called what?
Answer: United States Congress under the Articles of Confederation

Question: This city was a frequent target of pirates in the early years of its European founding, for a time was keen to secede from the country of which it is currently the second largest city, and is still staunchly independent; which city is it?
Answer: Maracaibo, Venezuela

Question: What would one expect to find if there are homonyms?
Answer: Words spelt the same but with different meanings

Question: Griffin was the main character in which book by H G Wells?
Answer: The Invisible Man

Question: In 1968 the first Legoland was established where?
Answer: Billund, Denmark

Question: King James VI of Scotland was also King James I of where?
Answer: England

Question: What was the mascot for the XX Commonwealth Games 2014?
Answer: A green thistle named Clyde

Question: How are the strings sounded in a spinet?
Answer: Plucked

Question: Where in Australian is the Broncos rugby league team based?
Answer: Brisbane

Question: The US TV mini-series "Hatfields & McCoys" (2012) was shot in Transylvania against the backdrop of the Carpathian mountains to represent what US mountain range?
Answer: Appalachians

Question: Traditionally, mozzarella cheese is made from milk from which animal?
Answer: Buffalo

Question: Among Josef Mengele's masterminding of killing, torture, and deadly experiments what else is understood as an aim of his activities in concentration camps of WW II?
Answer: Research in eugenics and heredity

Question: A major fire in February and March 2015 threatened which Argentinean National Park in the Patagonia region, home to larch trees dating back more than 1,000 years?
Answer: Los Alerces National Park

Question: In the original Star Trek TV series which aired in the USA from 1966 to 1969, who played "Scotty"?
Answer: James Doohan

Question: Who was the youngest person, at the time, to be elected to the office of president of the USA?
Answer: John Kennedy

Question: What kind of quality is "priapic"?
Answer: Lustful

Question: Where was the January 2015 Dakar Rally held?
Answer: Buenos Aires, Argentina, through Bolivia and Chile

Question: Second only to the James Bond series of films, which is the longest continually running UK film series?
Answer: Carry On ...

Question: What most nearly describes the position of the human spine in relation to the heart?
Answer: Dorsal

Question: What type of work is Stephen Sondheim usually associated with?
Answer: Musical drama

Question: According to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, where did the village smithy stand?
Answer: Under the spreading chestnut tree

Question: The civil rights advocate, published writer and singer, Pauley Perrette, is also known as Abbey Sciuto the forensic scientist in what US TV series (2003-present)?
Answer: N.C.I.S.

Question: As at 2February 2015, when she won No 1 ranking in women's professional golf, what age was Lydia Ko?
Answer: 17

Question: How do the strings in a spinet sit in relation to the keyboard?
Answer: At an angle of 30 degrees

Question: Clematis vitalba, a plant of the Ranunculaceae family, is also known as Traveller's Joy and what other name?
Answer: Old man's beard

Question: The Wallace Line in Indonesia, characterised by particularly deep water e.g. between the islands of Borneo and Sulawesi, is also characterised by what?
Answer: Difference in fauna either side of the line

Question: Where were the Commonwealth Games held in 2014?
Answer: Glasgow, Scotland

Question: Which monarch presided in Great Britain over the time of the French Revolution, Britain's loss of its American colonies, and two decisive defeats of the French?
Answer: George III

Question: Bogot is the capital of which country?
Answer: Colombia

Question: The Seekers' song "The Carnival is Over" is sung to what music?
Answer: A 19th century song about Russian folk hero Stenka Razin

Question: During the 2006 FIFA World Cup fans at one of the games were displaying a logo of a beer which differed from the official sponsors of the Cup, which led to what?
Answer: They had their trousers confiscated

Question: Giovanni Boccaccio, who is best known for his work "Decameron" was involved in what type of activity?
Answer: Poetry

Question: Which UK TV series was screened first?
Answer: Dr Who

Question: When Sony withdrew its sponsorship of FIFA at the end of 2014 what reason did it give?
Answer: Concerns about allegations of wrong-doing around the award of the next two World Cups

Question: How many books are there in the "Harry Potter" series by J K Rowling?
Answer: 7

Question: As at 2015, after he was runner-up in the Australian Open, what is Scotsman Andy Murray's world ranking in tennis?
Answer: 5

Question: On what were the live action films in a French series 1999-2012 depicting the adventures of two warriors from ancient Roman-occupied Europe based?
Answer: The comic book series about the adventures of Astrix and Oblix

Question: Who sang with the Animals?
Answer: Eric Burdon

Question: Vidkun Quisling, infamous in Europe, allied himself and his country for a time with what other European figure?
Answer: Adolf Hitler