Question: What is the largest river in Europe in terms of length, discharge, and watershed, that flows through central Russia, and has some of the largest reservoirs in the world?
Answer: Volga

Question: Who, in 1969, was the first female prime minister of Israel?
Answer: Golda Meir

Question: In which ocean are the Scilly Isles?
Answer: Atlantic

Question: Who is considered to be the first Roman emperor?
Answer: Augustus

Question: How many players are usually involved in a present-day game of Snakes and Ladders?
Answer: 2

Question: Who, in 1982, while wearing his future wife's dress because she had hidden his clothes, was arrrested for drunkenly urinating on a cenotaph erected in honor of those who died at the Alamo in Texas, across the street from the actual building?
Answer: Ozzy Osbourne

Question: In North American history, who was "The Flemish Bastard"?
Answer: A Mohawk chief

Question: Who wrote the plays "Uncle Vanya" and "The Cherry Orchard"?
Answer: Chekhov

Question: How many degrees are there in the angle on either side of a straight line?
Answer: 180

Question: In the words of the song, who "spoke through tears of fifteen years how his dog and him travelled about. His dog up and died, yes he up and died, after twenty years he still grieved."?
Answer: Mr Bojangles

Question: What does a weathervane measure?
Answer: Wind direction

Question: What is the aim in a show jumping contest?
Answer: To jump cleanly over all the obstacles in a set course within an allotted time

Question: What was the first name of Mrs Dalloway, a fictional character created by Virginia Woolf?
Answer: Clarissa

Question: The range of a double bassoon starts how much lower than a bassoon?
Answer: 1 octave

Question: During WW II German official policy developed to eliminate all Jews and all Gypsies, as well as active elimination of homosexuals and those deemed mentally defective. As well as 6 million Jews it is generally accepted that the Nazi regime was responsible for a further how many deaths under these policies?
Answer: 4 to 5 million

Question: Where was gridiron football developed?
Answer: Usa

Question: By what name do we better know Mr van Rijn, who lived in Holland in the 17th century?
Answer: Rembrandt

Question: What was known as the place of "bearded ones" to early Portuguese and/or Spanish explorers?
Answer: Barbados

Question: According to the Bible, who is the father of Ham, Shem and Japheth?
Answer: Noah

Question: What is the duration of each half of a "rugby sevens" game in minutes, when played in the IRB Sevens World Series?
Answer: 7

Question: In 1960 Prince Andrew was the first child to be born to a reigning British monarch since when?
Answer: 1857

Question: A plasma display panel contains many tiny cells between two panels of glass which hold a mixture of noble gases. The gas in the cells is electrically turned into a plasma which emits ultraviolet light which then excites what to emit visible light?
Answer: Phosphorus

Question: For the type of bet called a "Trifecta", how many horses are picked?
Answer: 3

Question: What part did Bucephalus play in history?
Answer: Alexander the Great's warhorse during most of his conquests

Question: Capri is an island near which city?
Answer: Naples

Question: Which US president was in office at the start of the Korean War?
Answer: Truman

Question: When did Sugar Ray Leonard win his first world boxing title?
Answer: 1979

Question: What is the name of the waterway that connects the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean via Loch Ness?
Answer: Caledonian Canal

Question: What motive power does a yacht commonly use?
Answer: Wind

Question: What was worn in the 19th century in the west by women to give shape to the lower back?
Answer: Bustle

Question: According to legend, what was the name of Lady Godiva's horse?
Answer: Aethenoth

Question: Why is the ratio of the speed of a projectile to the speed of sound called the Mach number?
Answer: It is named after an Austrian physicist

Question: Where would one find a famous example of a campanile that is not properly vertical?
Answer: Pisa

Question: Prior to its annexation by the USA in 1898, Hawai had been a republic for about four years. What was it immediately before that?
Answer: Monarchy

Question: What colour are salmon eggs?
Answer: Orange

Question: The films "The Hunt for Red October", "Patriot Games", "Clear and Present Danger" and "The Sum of All Fears" feature which character created by Tom Clancy?
Answer: Jack Ryan

Question: Where was the prophet Muhammad born?
Answer: Mecca

Question: ETA, an armed nationalist and separatist organization, is based in which country?
Answer: Spain

Question: What is a "billet doux"?
Answer: Love letter

Question: Where did the cartoon character "Casper" first appear?
Answer: A film, "The Friendly Ghost"

Question: What is the title of Luxembourg's Head of State?
Answer: Grand Duke

Question: What name was given to 6 December 1745, after highlanders under Charles Edward Stuart reached Derby causing a financial panic in London?
Answer: Black Friday

Question: Who, after splitting from a long term girlfriend in 2008, briefly dated actress Kate Hudson, and in 2012 was dating Serbian tennis star Ana Ivanovic?
Answer: Adam Scott

Question: Mah Drysdale, Rebecca Scown, Juliette Haigh, Hamish Bond, Eric Murray, Pete Reed, Andrew Triggs Hodge, Ondrej Synek and Alan Campbell are international competitors in which sport?
Answer: Rowing

Question: What is the common nickname for a steam-powered winch, widely used in logging, mining and maritime industries?
Answer: Donkey engine

Question: If after spending 10% of your money, you have $180 left, how much did you start with?
Answer: $200

Question: Which war, which lasted for ten years, was fought between Agamemnon and Menelaus on one side and Priam on the other?
Answer: Trojan War

Question: Who sued Hootie and the Blowfish for plagiarism in their song "Only Wanna Be With You" in 1995, reaching an out-of-court settlement?
Answer: Bob Dylan

Question: Which is another name for the game variously called taca taca, kicker, baby-foot, langirt and futillo?
Answer: Foosball

Question: What power is the main source of electricity for Baja California?
Answer: Geothermal

Question: Edward Somerset, Denis Papin, Thomas Newcomen and James Watt are known for work in relation to what?
Answer: Steam power

Question: When was the armistice signed to end fighting in the First World War?
Answer: 11am on the 11th day of the 11th month 1918

Question: In May 2010, a vending machine was installed in the foyer of the prestigious Emirates Palace hotel in Abu Dhabi to dispense what?
Answer: Gold

Question: What is the branch of medicine dealing with the skin and its diseases?
Answer: Dermatology

Question: What acronym is used to acknowledge a debt?
Answer: Iou

Question: The line "Frailty, thy name is woman" is from what play?
Answer: Hamlet

Question: What was Harry Buermeyer's club in 1878 when he became the first official amateur heavyweight boxing champion in America?
Answer: New York Athletic Club

Question: In 1917, who led a Bolshevik insurrection against the Provisional Government of Alexander Kerensky, starting the Bolshevik Revolution, the second phase of the overall Russian Revolution?
Answer: Vladimir Lenin

Question: Up to the first half of 2013 who has won the most men's major golf championships, also known as majors (Masters Tournament, U.S. Open, The Open Championship (British Open) and US PGA Championship)?
Answer: Jack Nicklaus

Question: Beachy Head overlooks what stretch of sea?
Answer: English Channel

Question: A regulation basketball court in international games is 28 by 15 meters (approx. 92 by 49 ft). What size should it be for NBA games?
Answer: 94 by 50 feet (29 by 15 metres)

Question: What is the basic gauge most commonly used for both still photography and motion pictures?
Answer: 35 mm