Question: Auguste Escoffier was famous for what activity?
Answer: Cookery

Question: What was the occupation of Samuel Ryder, after whom The Ryder Cup is named?
Answer: Seed merchant

Question: According to the Guinness Book of Records, what film became, in 1995, the biggest box office failure?
Answer: Cutthroat Island

Question: Which virus, which interferes with the endothelial cells lining the interior surface of blood vessels and coagulation causing hypovolemic shock, first emerged in 1976 in Zaire and came to international attention in 1989 after a widely publicized outbreak in Virginia, USA?
Answer: Ebola

Question: What is the nickname of the Australia national rugby league team?
Answer: Kangaroos

Question: Who composed "The Radetzky March"?
Answer: Johann Strauss the Elder

Question: The main aims of which society in Great Britain between 1838 and 1850 were, basically: a vote for every man 21 years of age, a secret ballot, no property qualification for Members of Parliament, payment of MPs, equal Constituencies, and annual parliaments?
Answer: Chartists

Question: Which Caribbean country, consisting of two main islands, is the smallest nation in the Western hemisphere?
Answer: St Kitts and Nevis

Question: Who got the vote in Britain in 1829?
Answer: Roman Catholics

Question: Over 40% of the population of the US state of Alaska live in which city?
Answer: Anchorage

Question: What is the evening prayer service in the Western Catholic, Eastern (Byzantine) Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, and Lutheran churches?
Answer: Vespers

Question: In cartography, the method by which a spherical shape is represented as a rectangle was invented by whom?
Answer: Gerardus Mercator

Question: What is the nickname of the Australian national basketball team?
Answer: Boomers

Question: Who has played (on film) Queen Elizabeth I twice, Galadriel three times, Katharine Hepburn and Veronica Guerin?
Answer: Cate Blanchett

Question: Elk Island National Park, Wood Buffalo National Park, and the Columbia Icefield are in which Canadian province?
Answer: Alberta

Question: What is the term for a wine with harsh and pronounced flavours?
Answer: Aggressive

Question: What area of Tokyo is one of the most luxurious shopping districts in the world?
Answer: Ginza

Question: Who was the Princess of Tyre who, after her brother Pygmalion killed her husband Sichaeus, fled to Africa where she founded Carthage?
Answer: Dido

Question: From 1956 to 1968 Al Oerter won gold medals in every Olympics in what sport?
Answer: Discus

Question: What sign of the zodiac is represented by a bull?
Answer: Taurus

Question: How many coronations had been held at Westminster Abbey before that of Queen Elizabeth II?
Answer: 37

Question: Where was the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Frances Spencer on 29 July 1981, held?
Answer: St Paul's Cathedral

Question: Where is the Sea of Serenity?
Answer: On the Moon

Question: Marcel Duchamp, whose work was associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements, abandoned his successful career as an artist in the later part of his life to do what?
Answer: Play chess

Question: By what name does history better know 11th-century Castilian military leader Rodrigo Daz de Vivar?
Answer: El Cid

Question: What was "the worlds first full-scale atomic electric power plant devoted exclusively to peacetime uses," that went online in 1957?
Answer: Shippingport

Question: What was the only painting that Vincent van Gogh sold while he was alive?
Answer: Red Vineyard

Question: The American War of Independence began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and how many British colonies in North America?
Answer: 13

Question: According to a quote from William Congreve's play "The Mourning Bride" (1697), spoken by Zara in Act 3, Scene 2, "Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman ... " what?
Answer: Scorned

Question: Helen of Troy was abducted from where?
Answer: Sparta

Question: In 1951 and 1952, American Jim Fuchs won 88 consecutive meetings and set four world records in what sport?
Answer: Shot put

Question: In which 2001 film is the death of Sir William McCordle, Bt (played by Sir Michael Gambon) investigated by Inspector Thomson (Stephen Fry) and Constable Dexter (Ron Webster)?
Answer: Gosford Park

Question: What are the young of a frog called?
Answer: Tadpole

Question: Which Soviet gymnast won the most medals in her career?
Answer: Larissa Latynina

Question: What was the name of the 1571 sea battle when a fleet of the Holy League, a coalition of Spain (including Naples, Sicily and Sardinia), the Republic of Venice, the Papacy, the Republic of Genoa, the Duchy of Savoy, the Knights Hospitaller and others, decisively defeated the main fleet of the Ottoman Empire?
Answer: The Battle of Lepanto

Question: What is the first line of the hymn "Jerusalem"?
Answer: And did those feet in ancient time

Question: What was the nickname for the German L14 Howitzer, used in World War I?
Answer: Big Bertha

Question: What proportion of the 206 bones in the human body is contained in the hands and feet?
Answer: A quarter

Question: What science features in "Proof", a play by David Auburn?
Answer: Mathematics

Question: A "mahout" is used in which sport?
Answer: Elephant polo

Question: The area that was known as "Cimarron Territory" to 1890 is now known as what part of the USA?
Answer: The Oklahoma panhandle

Question: What is another name for "fishing"?
Answer: Angling

Question: What is the setting for the Steven Spielberg film "Jaws"?
Answer: Amity Island

Question: What part of the body is affected by dermatitis?
Answer: Skin

Question: Who created the character of Dame Edna Everage?
Answer: Barry Humphries

Question: What was the Watergate building that was the subject of a US political scandal that began in 1972?
Answer: Office building

Question: What is the official language of New Caledonia
Answer: French

Question: What is the technique of mechanically widening a narrowed or obstructed blood vessel whereby tightly folded balloons are passed into the narrowed locations and then inflated to a fixed size using water pressures some 75 to 500 times normal blood pressure (6 to 20 atmospheres)?
Answer: Angioplasty

Question: What does an anthropologist study?
Answer: Human beings

Question: What is the national anthem of the UK?
Answer: God Save the Queen

Question: Who married tennis player John McEnroe in 1986?
Answer: Tatum O'Neal

Question: What is meant by "magnum opus"?
Answer: An artist's greatest work

Question: A live episode of which TV soap opera was broadcast on BBC One on 19 February 2010, to celebrate 25 years since the broadcast of the first episode?
Answer: EastEnders

Question: Felipe Caldern became President of which country on 1 December 2006?
Answer: Mexico

Question: Which plant is commonly used as a herbal treatment for depression?
Answer: St. Johns Wort

Question: What is the name of the British rugby international touring team?
Answer: Lions

Question: Alberto Vargas specialised in painting what subjects?
Answer: Pin up girls

Question: Where was the astronomer Copernicus born?
Answer: Poland

Question: Which of Little Red Riding Hood's relations was eaten by a wolf?
Answer: Grandma

Question: What name is given to the 4 mile (6.4 km) stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard which is mainly in the unincorporated communities of Paradise and Winchester?
Answer: The Strip

Question: In what decade was the Korean War?
Answer: 1950s

Question: The game of Sudoku involves filling in squares with what numbers?
Answer: 1 to 9

Question: Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" is mainly set in what city?
Answer: Verona

Question: The John F. Kennedy International Airport is located in what American city?
Answer: New York

Question: What is the stage name of Roberta Joan Anderson, whose recording career began in 1968?
Answer: Joni Mitchell