Question: Which ancient dog breed was originally bred in Tibet to act as sentinels in Buddhist monasteries?
Answer: Lhasa Apso

Question: Lawrence Atkinson and David Bomberg are associated with which artistic movement founded by Wyndam Lewis in the early 20th century?
Answer: Vorticism

Question: Which actor plays 'Mr. Han' - the new name for 'Mr. Miyagi' - in the 2010 remake of 'The Karate Kid'?
Answer: Jackie Chan

Question: Which South African golfer won the 2010 Open Championship last month?
Answer: Louis Oosthuizen

Question: Which American Nobel Laureate wrote 'The Grapes Of Wrath' and 'East Of Eden'?
Answer: John Steinbeck

Question: The Dove, Derwent, Erewash and Soar are all tributaries of which river, the third longest in the UK?
Answer: Trent

Question: How is 'Hanna Glawari' known in the title of an enormously popular Franz Lehar operetta of 1905?
Answer: 'The Merry Widow'

Question: The Lugg, Marteg, Monnow and Trothy are all tributaries of which river, the fifth longest in the UK?
Answer: Wye

Question: Which British golfer finished runner-up to Oosthuizen at this year's Open Championship?
Answer: Lee Westwood

Question: Which city, known for its manufacture of swords and knives, is the capital of the Spanish region of Castile-La- Mancha?
Answer: Toledo

Question: The two highest-grossing films of all time worldwide were both directed by which Director?
Answer: JAMES CAMERON ('Avatar' and 'Titanic')

Question: Which Belorusian-born artist designed the scenery and costumes for Stravinsky's 'The Firebird'?
Answer: Marc Chagall

Question: Elected in 2006, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is the female President of which country?
Answer: Liberia

Question: Which Latvian-born artist painted 'The Seagram Murals'?
Answer: Mark Rothko

Question: Elected in 2007, Cristina Kirchner is the female President of which country?
Answer: Argentina

Question: Which city, known for its bull run, is the capital of the Spanish region of Navarre?
Answer: Pamplona

Question: In which city do the baseball team known as the 'Astros' play their home games?
Answer: Houston

Question: Which Italian city was rules by the Visconti family between 1277 and 1477?
Answer: Milan

Question: In which Irish mountain range does the River Liffey rise?
Answer: Wicklow Mountains

Question: Which chemist discovered oxygen in 1774, calling it 'dephlogisticated air'?
Answer: Joseph Priestly

Question: The 'running of the bulls' is part of the San Fermin Festival held in which Spanish city?
Answer: Pamplona

Question: To which 'Hogwarts' school house does 'Harry Potter' belong?
Answer: 'Gryffindor'

Question: What was the name of the US Space Shuttle that exploded upon take-off in 1986, killing all seven crew members?
Answer: Challenger

Question: What was the name of the US Space Shuttle that disintegrated over Texas during its re-entry into Earth's atmosphere in 2003, killing all 7 crew members?
Answer: Columbia

Question: Which batsman got the first ever Test century for England, when he scored 152 in a Test versus Australia at The Oval in 1876?
Answer: W.G. Grace

Question: In which German town has a month-long festival celebrating the music of Richard Wagner been held every summer since 1876?
Answer: Bayreuth

Question: Which ancient Greek mathematician, known as 'The Father Of Geometry', wrote the hugely influential book 'Elements' that dominated European mathematics until the 19th century?
Answer: Euclid

Question: Which is the highest mountain in the Pyrenees?
Answer: Aneto

Question: Which French village is known for its exceptionally dense collection of megalithic standing stones that were hewn from local rock and erected by the pre-Celtic people of Brittany?
Answer: Carnac

Question: Based on an idea by Steven Spielberg and created by Diablo Cody, which American TV comedy-drama series, first broadcast in 2009, stars Toni Collete as a suburban housewife and mother coping with dissociative identity disorder?
Answer: 'United States Of Tara'

Question: Located near the Austrian border, what is the name of Germany's highest mountain?
Answer: Zugspitze

Question: Considered one of the best examples of Roman ruins in North Africa and particularly noted for its Triumphal Arch, which archaeological site in Morocco is situated near to Meknes?
Answer: Volubilis

Question: Which American comedy-drama detective television series broadcast between 2002 and 2009 starred Tony Shalhoub as the title character, a private detective
Answer: 'Monk'

Question: Who was the 18th century Swiss mathematician and physicist, who published more papers than any other mathematician in history and pioneered the theory of trigometric and logarithmic functions?
Answer: Leonard Euler

Question: Who was the legendary herald of the Greek forces during the Trojan War who was said to be able to shout as loudly as fifty normal men?
Answer: Stentor

Question: The American Football team are the 'Cardinals', the Baseball team are the 'Diamondbacks', and the Basketball team are the 'Suns'. Which city?
Answer: PHOENIX, Arizona

Question: The most famous works of which 18th century English painter include 'An Experiment On A Bird' and 'The Orrery'?
Answer: JOSEPH WRIGHT of DERBY

Question: The American Football team are the 'Redskins', the Baseball team are the 'Nationals', and the Basketball team are the 'Wizards'. Which city?
Answer: Washington D.C

Question: Which London area is mentioned in the opening line of the lyrics to 'The Kinks' hit 'Lola'?
Answer: Soho

Question: Which city on the south coast of the Gulf of Sidra, halfway between Tripoli and Benghazi, was the birthplace, in 1942, of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi?
Answer: Sirte

Question: Saddam Hussein was born, in 1937, in the village of Al Awja, on the outskirts of which large Iraqi town northwest of Baghdad on the River Tigris?
Answer: Tikrit

Question: In a mobile phone, for what do the letters SIM, as in SIM card, stand?
Answer: Subscriber Identity Module

Question: Which are the only two landlocked countries in South America?
Answer: Paraguay & Bolivia

Question: Which singer is mentioned in the opening line of the lyrics to 'Dexy's Midnight Runners' hit 'Come On Eileen'?
Answer: Johnny Ray

Question: The highest-grossing film of the year, so far, what is the title of the latest instalment in the 'Pirates Of The Caribbean' film franchise?
Answer: 'Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides'

Question: In 1517, Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses on the door of the church in which German town?
Answer: Wittenburg

Question: In May 1521, Pope Leo X presided over which assembly at which Martin Luther was summoned to renounce the views expressed in his 95 theses?
Answer: Diet Of Worms

Question: The third highest-grossing film of the year, so far, what is the title of the latest instalment in the 'Transformers' film franchise?
Answer: 'Transformers: Dark Of The Moon'

Question: Which 'Lady Gaga' hit was the UK's best selling single of 2009?
Answer: 'Poker Face'

Question: The architect Louis Kahn designed which Asian capital's Government Assembly complex in 1962?
Answer: Dhaka

Question: Edith of East Anglia was the wife of which pre-Norman English king, born in c. 993 AD?
Answer: Edmund Ironside

Question: Which 'Eminem and Rhianna' hit was the UK's best selling single of 2010?
Answer: 'Love The Way You Lie'.

Question: Edith of Wessex was the wife of which pre-Norman English king, born c. 1003 AD?
Answer: Edward The Confessor

Question: Sharing its name with an ex-Soviet state, which cruise ship sank in the Baltic Sea in September 1994 claiming 852 lives?
Answer: M.S. Estonia

Question: What is the name of the Spanish goalkeeper signed by Manchester United from Atletico Madrid this summer?
Answer: DAVID de GEA

Question: What was the name of NASA's last Space Shuttle that landed at the Kennedy Space Centre last week?
Answer: Atlantis

Question: Despite not being the capital, which is the largest city by population in Kansas?
Answer: Wichita