Question: In September 1905 the government of New South Wales, Australia, voted to buy 1,000 miles of netting in attempt to control what?
Answer: Rabbits

Question: Matricide takes place when ... ?
Answer: Someone kills their mother

Question: What are the names of the twins born to Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie?
Answer: Vivienne and Knox

Question: What contest, held between 24 teams, was played in Dubai between 5 and 7 March 2009, and was won by Wales?
Answer: Rugby Sevens World Cup

Question: Who was elected Vice-Chancellor by the Swiss Federal Assembly in August 2005 and became Federal Chancellor of Switzerland in December 2007?
Answer: Corina Casanova

Question: On 15 May 2002, FIFA announced that which nation would host the Football (soccer) World Cup in 2010?
Answer: South Africa

Question: """Wisden"" is a reference book on which subject?"
Answer: Cricket

Question: """Chateau Snavely"", ""Amanda's"", and ""Payne"" were three attempts to remake which UK TV series for the US market ?"
Answer: Fawlty Towers

Question: Who wrote "Other people see things and say: why? - but I dream things that never were and say: why not?"
Answer: George Bernard Shaw

Question: Until 1992, TASS was the official news agency for which organisation?
Answer: Soviet Union

Question: Which 1940 film, a story of corruption in politics written and directed by Preston Sturges, is told in flashback by a bartender about his rise to, and fall from, being a state Governor?
Answer: The Great McGinty

Question: Which French scientist invented the first satisfactory revolving light for use in lighthouses, and has a type of theatre light named after him?
Answer: Auguste Jean Fresnel

Question: Of the 16 states of Germany, 13 are termed area states (Flchenlnder). What are the other 3?
Answer: City states

Question: What were first established by St Bel at Lyons, France, in 1762, and at London in 1790?
Answer: Veterinary colleges

Question: Who wrote the music for the musical (and later, film) "Cabaret"?
Answer: John Kander and Fred Ebb

Question: What is the cube of 100?
Answer: 1,000,000

Question: What is the name of the swampy area in Florida, south of Lake Okeechobee?
Answer: Everglades

Question: What is the symbol for a fifth wedding anniversary?
Answer: Wood

Question: Motorcycle riders attempt to impress judges with routines on a course consisting of multiple jumps of varying lengths and angles that generally occupy one to two acres (.4 to .8 hectares) in what sport?
Answer: Freestyle Motocross

Question: The film "Spirit of Youth" (1938) told the story of the rise of boxer Joe Thomas, which paralleled the life of which boxer who had the lead role?
Answer: Joe Louis

Question: Which musician's children are named Sarah, Kimberly, Sean, Liam, Renee, Alastair and Ruby?
Answer: Rod Stewart

Question: Who is said to be "the father of history"?
Answer: Herodotus

Question: Around 2,000 of which type of rocket-propelled pilotless bomb was launched on London from 8 September 1944 to March 1945?
Answer: V2

Question: In the USA, what is special about 2 February?
Answer: Groundhog Day

Question: When did the Football Association in the UK present the FA Cup for competition?
Answer: 1871

Question: In which state of the USA would you find Yosemite National Park?
Answer: California

Question: What is the greatest distance between a capital and one of its territories?
Answer: Paris to New Caledonia

Question: Which empire, established in and around Cappadocia, was powerful in Asia Minor from 1400 to 1200 BC?
Answer: Hittite

Question: Which sport, originated by native Americans and introduced to England in 1867, is played with a stick with a net on one end by 12 players per side on a field around 100 to 150 yards long?
Answer: Lacrosse

Question: Which English lawyer wrote "Dulcamara", "Pygmalion and Galatea", and "The Wicked World" before he became a librettist and lyricist for comic operas?
Answer: W S Gilbert

Question: What was the name of the home of Captain Haddock, a character in the "Tintin" books?
Answer: Marlinspike

Question: Which 19th century scientist first stated the laws of thermodynamics and was made a Baron in 1892?
Answer: William Kelvin

Question: What small, oily fish, of which there are 15 species, found in the shallow, temperate waters of the North Atlantic, the Baltic Sea, the North Pacific, and the Mediterranean, move in vast schools, coming in spring to the shores of Europe and America?
Answer: Herring

Question: What is the next in this series: Los Angeles, Seoul, Barcelona, Atlanta?
Answer: Sydney

Question: Which metal is liquid at room temperature?
Answer: Mercury

Question: Which soprano, who had a highly successful opera career between 1968 and 2004, starred as Maria in the "operatic version" of Leonard Bernsteins "West Side Story"?
Answer: Kiri Te Kanawa

Question: For administrative purposes, France is subdivided into 100 areas which are called what?
Answer: Departments

Question: Which UK TV series based around the fictional Holby City Hospital, focuses on the staff and patients of the hospital's Accident and Emergency Department?
Answer: Casualty

Question: Which Norwegian playwright wrote "Hedda Gabler", "The Master Builder" and "Peer Gynt"?
Answer: Henrik Ibsen

Question: Which 1955 film was withdrawn from the Venice Film Festival when the US Ambassador to Italy, Clare Booth Luce, refused to attend because the film gave too alarming an impression of conditions in US schools?
Answer: The Blackboard Jungle

Question: Who led the mutiny on HMS Bounty on 28 April 1789?
Answer: Fletcher Christian

Question: """He was a lion on the field"" is an example of what?"
Answer: Metaphor

Question: What is the name of the statue that was unveiled in October 1886, on Bedloe Island?
Answer: Liberty Enlightening The World

Question: What is the capital of the province of Ontario, Canada?
Answer: Toronto

Question: Where is the contest for the FA Cup held?
Answer: Great Britain

Question: What name was given to the architectural style adopted in Britain from 1714 to 1820 largely due to the influence of Sir Christopher Wren?
Answer: Georgian

Question: What is the Australian English word that means a small lake, such as is formed when the path of a creek or river changes, leaving a dead end?
Answer: Billabong

Question: What was the fate of "Violetta" in Verdi's opera "La Traviata"?
Answer: She died of consumption

Question: What is the only venomous lizard native to the USA?
Answer: Gila monster

Question: What is the former name of Helsinki, Finland?
Answer: Helsingfors

Question: Who created the English aviator "Biggles"?
Answer: Captain W. E. Johns

Question: Who became the King of Spain on 22 November 1975, two days after the death of Francisco Franco?
Answer: King Juan Carlos I

Question: In 1434, Portuguese mariner Gil Eanes made a major breakthrough to obtain a reliable trade route to Western and Eastern Africa and India by finding a route around which cape?
Answer: Cape Bojador

Question: What is the name for an artificial feature creating extra turns in a roadway, used in motor racing and on city streets, to slow cars?
Answer: Chicane

Question: Which 17th century philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and writer invented the notation which uses superscripts to show powers or exponents (e.g. the 2 used in x to indicate squaring)?
Answer: Ren Descartes

Question: Where was the Congress held in 1814-15, chiefly between Britain, France, Russia, Austria and Prussia, that adjusted frontiers after the fall of Napoleon?
Answer: Vienna

Question: What was the sub-title of the book "The Snow Goose" by US writer Paul Gallico?
Answer: A Story of Dunkirk

Question: The samba originated in which country?
Answer: Brazil

Question: The Great Lakes are called Superior, Erie, Ontario and which other?
Answer: Michigan