Question: What is the conifer native to the west coast of North America that grows to over 300 feet high?
Answer: Sequoia

Question: What is the name of the approach to music education that was devised by mile Jaques-Dalcroze in 1865 and is still being used?
Answer: Eurhythmics

Question: By what name is Iosif Vissarionovich Izhugashvili better known?
Answer: Joseph Stalin

Question: What is the average of 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9 and 25?
Answer: 8

Question: Rimsky-Korsakov named a piece of music "The Flight of the ..." what?
Answer: Bumblebee

Question: What artificial stretch of water in Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens London was made by order of Queen Caroline in 1730?
Answer: The Serpentine

Question: Which Belgian novelist wrote the "Maigret" stories between 1930 and 1935?
Answer: Georges Simenon

Question: Who was the last President of the Fourth Republic of France, and the first President of the Fifth Republic?
Answer: Charles de Gaulle

Question: What event brings a group of old friends together in the 1983 film "The Big Chill"?
Answer: Funeral

Question: Since women's water polo was introduced for the 2000 Olympics, which country has won more gold medals than the next two highest countries combined?
Answer: Hungary

Question: The Serbian Empire came under Turkish domination after which battle in 1389?
Answer: Battle of Kossovo

Question: Where are Prince Edward Island and the Iles de la Madeleine?
Answer: Gulf of St Lawrence, Canada

Question: With which country do you associate the sitar?
Answer: India

Question: The clove hitch, the reef and the granny are types of what?
Answer: Knot

Question: Which Norse god is a giant who personifies destructive fire?
Answer: Loki

Question: Which musical is set in Gary, Indiana?
Answer: The Music Man

Question: What did Spanish canoeist Jovino Gonzlez, Spanish cyclist Janet Puiggros Miranda, Swiss cyclist Oscar Camenzind and Irish distance runner Cathal Lombard, all in the 2004 Olympics, have in common with Spanish cyclist Maria Isabel Moreno in the 2008 Olympics?
Answer: They withdrew before competing in the finals

Question: The Severn Tunnel connects which two British cities?
Answer: Bristol and Cardiff

Question: Who has been called His Purple Majesty, His Royal Badness, TAFKAP, The Artist, Symbol, Love Symbol and The Purple One?
Answer: Prince

Question: What "Commonwealth" was formed on 1 January 1901, with Lord Hopetoun as Governor-General and Edmund Barton as Prime Minister?
Answer: Australia

Question: Which play by Alan Ayckbourn calls for a set with three double beds on stage simultaneously?
Answer: Bedroom Farce

Question: The Yucatan Channel is between which two countries?
Answer: Mexico and Cuba

Question: Who was the great great great grand uncle of the singer/composer known as "Moby"?
Answer: Herman Melville

Question: Which political party won victories in the Canadian governments of Alberta in 1935 and British Columbia in 1952?
Answer: Social Credit Party

Question: Who, the highest paid of any performer in music hall in the early 20th century and knighted in 1919, wrote "I Love A Lassie", "Stop Yer Ticklin' Jock" and "Roamin' in the Gloamin'"?
Answer: Harry Lauder

Question: What phrase appeared on screen at the end of Warner Brothers cartoons?
Answer: That's All, Folks

Question: Where is the highest point in the British Isles?
Answer: Ben Nevis

Question: For what were medals competed for at Olympic Games from 1912 until discontinued after the competition in 1948?
Answer: Art competitions

Question: Where was the decisive battle on 24 June 1314 where Robert Bruce defeated Edward II's army and secured the independence of Scotland at that time?
Answer: Bannockburn

Question: What name was given to the original owner of the skull found in Sussex in 1911 that was believed at the time to be from one of the oldest human race in Europe?
Answer: Piltdown Man

Question: According to the Guinness Book of World Records, what is the most watched TV series, ever?
Answer: Bay Watch

Question: Which 17th century French philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and writer showed, by using geometric construction and the law of refraction, that the angular radius of a rainbow is 42 degrees?
Answer: Ren Descartes

Question: In which book of the Christian Bible is the story of Lazarus being raised from the dead?
Answer: John

Question: In June 2009, who was found dead in his room at the Swissotel Nai Lert Park Hotel in Bangkok, where he had gone to begin work on his role in the film "Stretch"?
Answer: David Carradine

Question: What is the name of the model village near Birmingham, owned by a trust, that was founded for the employees of Cadbury in 1895?
Answer: Bourneville

Question: Who won an Oscar for directing "Slumdog Millionaire", which also won an Oscar for Best Picture?
Answer: Danny Boyle

Question: How did ex-South African cricket team captain Hansie Cronje die in 2002?
Answer: Plane crash, when flying from Johannesburg to George

Question: What sweet syrup is produced when sugar is refined and, when fermented, produces rum?
Answer: Molasses

Question: In which country was there a civil war which lasted several decades following independence in November 1975, when three main guerrilla groups, the FNLA, MPLA and UNITA, fought each other?
Answer: Angola

Question: Who played Paris in the film "Troy", released in 2004?
Answer: Orlando Bloom

Question: What sport is played with a cue on a table 10 feet by 3 feet, covered in green cloth, with nine holes numbered 1 to 9, and 1 black, 4 white and 4 red balls?
Answer: Bagatelle

Question: According to the English nursery rhyme, what clothes was Wee Willie Winkie wearing when he ran through the town?
Answer: Nightgown

Question: What term is applied to the fusion of Roman, Greek and Persian cultures that reached its peak after the 4th century AD during the reign of Justinian, and is seen in mosaics, frescoes, metal work, ivory carving and silk weaving?
Answer: Byzantine

Question: Which city was hit by a magnitude 6.2 earthquake about 5 kilometers below its centre at 12:29 a.m. 23 December 1972, killing around 5,000 of the 400,000 population, injuring 20,000 and leaving over 250,000 homeless?
Answer: Managua, Nicaragua

Question: In March 2009, which teams were confirmed to contest the World Netball Series in October 2009?
Answer: Australia, New Zealand, England, Jamaica, Samoa, Malawi

Question: Which city is built on both sides of the Tigris, 200 miles from the Persian Gulf?
Answer: Baghdad

Question: What is the colloquial name for the trefoil plant?
Answer: Shamrock

Question: What was first brought to Europe by Francisco Fernandes, and sent as a treat by Jean Nicot to Catherine de Medici?
Answer: Tobacco

Question: Which American situation comedy created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman premiered on NBC on September 22, 1994?
Answer: Friends

Question: In the Christian calendar, what is the name for the Sunday before Easter, the first Sunday of Holy Week?
Answer: Palm Sunday

Question: Which perennial herb, crocus sativus, has purple flowers and orange coloured stigmas?
Answer: Saffron

Question: What is known as the "standard gauge" for a railway?
Answer: 4 foot 8 1/2 inches

Question: Pol Pot became the de facto leader of which country in mid-1975, forcing city dwellers to relocate to the countryside to work in collective farms and forced labor projects, toward a goal of "restarting civilization" in "Year Zero", which resulted in the deaths of an estimated 1.7 to 2.5 million people, approximately 21% of the population?
Answer: Cambodia

Question: Where will the longest railway tunnel be, when it is opened in 2017?
Answer: Swiss Alps

Question: Who, in Greek legend, stole fire from the sun to give life to man?
Answer: Prometheus

Question: Which race when first run on 30 September 1906 from Paris, France, was won by Frank Purdy Lahm of the USA who, with co-pilot Henry Hersey, reached the northeast coast of England?
Answer: The Gordon Bennett Cup race