Question: What device did French inventor douard-Lon Scott de Martinville patent in 1857?
Answer: Phonautograph

Question: What is most likely to be seen at the World Freestyle Championships, held in white water venues?
Answer: Kayakers

Question: Where are the sheer cliffs of the Drakensberg?
Answer: Southern Africa

Question: In 2014 at the age of 93 Phyllis Latour Doyle, "Pippa", received the Chevalier de l'Ordre National de la Legion d'Honneur, (the Legion of Honour, knight class) for activities in occupied France in World War II; where was she born, and where did she grow up?
Answer: South Africa

Question: Which book about a castaway was written by Daniel Defoe?
Answer: Robinson Crusoe

Question: What 2002 film, an adaptation of stage musical that explores the themes of 'celebrity' and 'scandal', starred Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rene Zellweger, and Richard Gere?
Answer: Chicago

Question: Where is the White Desert National Park situated?
Answer: Farafra, Egypt

Question: Who moved to New York City in 1977 where she worked as a waitress in Dunkin' Donuts, performed as a dancer for French disco artist Patrick Hernandez on a world tour, formed the band "The Breakfast Club" with Dan Gilroy, and the band "Emmy" with Stephen Bray, and has been described as "a woman who pulled herself up by her bra straps?"
Answer: Madonna

Question: What is the name of a construction toy made of interlocking plastic blocks?
Answer: Lego

Question: Where does the Republic of Djibouti have a coastline or coastlines?
Answer: The Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden

Question: Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa won which major prize in 2010?
Answer: Nobel Prize for Literature

Question: What characteristic do bezoars, coprolites and gorochana have in common?
Answer: They are aggregated material which is or has been in the alimentary system

Question: Mozart wrote an opera about what kind of flute?
Answer: Magic

Question: Which city is in the Chao Phraya River delta?
Answer: Bangkok, Thailand

Question: The Tiger Quoll, Dibbler and Phascogale are native to which country?
Answer: Australia

Question: A law prior to 1920 regulating the speed of vehicles on the road in the UK required somebody to do what in addition?
Answer: Carry a red flag or lantern ahead of the vehicle

Question: A commentator in 1835 in England described two men at their first meeting as, variously, "full of trickery and treachery he has no ethics" and "as deadly and as poisonous as a rattlesnake with about the same ethics"; what were they doing together?
Answer: Fighting a bare knuckle boxing match

Question: Who was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952?
Answer: Albert Einstein

Question: Bartholomew Gosnold sailed there from Britain in 1602, very shortly after the death of Queen Elizabeth I, to found a colony, and in 1620 the Pilgrim Fathers on the "Mayflower" came ashore there. What place was it?
Answer: Provincetown Harbour, Cape Cod

Question: What is likely to be found in the Pantanal?
Answer: The giant river otter

Question: When was critical illness, or trauma, insurance first launched?
Answer: 1983

Question: The uninhabited Malgas Island, or Bird Island, off the Western Cape of South Africa, is the largest breeding colony in the world of what?
Answer: Cape gannets

Question: In autumn 2012 which phenomenon was observed in Alsace?
Answer: Blue, green and chocolate coloured honey was produced

Question: What is the name of the official list of books prohibited to be read by the Catholic Church?
Answer: Index Librorum Prohibitorum

Question: When and where were association football games first played under floodlights?
Answer: 1878 in sheffield uk

Question: What would one use a spurtle for?
Answer: Stirring porridge

Question: Who will be the defending champions in the FIP World Polo Championships in 2015?
Answer: Argentina

Question: Who's leigh is a vehicle that will travel fastest on snow?
Answer: Bob

Question: Which four-time Grammy Award-winning artist's hit singles included "Fast Car", "Talkin' 'bout a Revolution", "Baby Can I Hold You", "Give Me One Reason", "The Promise" and "Telling Stories"?
Answer: Tracy Chapman

Question: What name is given to a man's cotton or silk cloak buttoned down the front, with full sleeves, reaching to the ankles and worn with a sash?
Answer: Kaftan

Question: Thom Yorke is the lead singer for which band?
Answer: Radiohead

Question: What is one of the distinguishing features of Baku, capital city of Azerbaijan?
Answer: It is the lowest lying national capital in the world

Question: Who wrote "A History of Richard III" and "Utopia"?
Answer: Sir Thomas More

Question: How would a redingote usually be treated?
Answer: Worn

Question: Where did the Eureka Rebellion happen?
Answer: Ballarat, Australia

Question: What two teams were the first to compete in the Major League World Series in the USA in 1903?
Answer: Boston Americans (later the Boston Red Sox); Pittsburgh Pirates

Question: It is home to the Bayerische Staatsoper, Staatsorchester and Staatsballet, was burned down in 1823, rebuilt and re-opened 1825, bombed and destroyed 1943 and re rebuilt and re-opened 1963; what is it?
Answer: National Theatre, Munich

Question: How many islands are listed by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency as part of Chile?
Answer: Over 2,300

Question: What disease caused US president Franklin D Roosevelt to use a wheelchair?
Answer: Polio

Question: How can the land to the west of the Gulf of California be described?
Answer: Peninsula

Question: Where does the water in the Okavango Delta flow?
Answer: Into an endorheic basin of the Kalahari

Question: What is the term for intimate conversation in bed?
Answer: Pillow talk

Question: What links the TV shows Threshold and Ultra, and the televised version of a book series by G Martin?
Answer: peter dinklage

Question: In 1968, who was the first African American woman to be elected to the US Congress?
Answer: Shirley Chisholm

Question: What system was the spacecraft Rosetta launched on?
Answer: Ariane

Question: When South Sudan was established as an country independent of Sudan in 2011 how was this done?
Answer: By referendum

Question: Where is the time signature for a piece of music written?
Answer: Vertically across the stave

Question: The coastal city of Chittagong is in which country?
Answer: Bangladesh

Question: In 1995, what band was the first artist to receive as many as 4 BRIT (British Record Industry Trust) awards in the same year?
Answer: Blur

Question: When was the latest recorded outbreak of black death, or bubonic plague, the pandemic that swept through and ravaged Asia and Europe in the 14th century?
Answer: 2015 in Madagascar

Question: Three times F1 World Champion Niki Lauda was severely burnt in a crash on what track in the 1976 F1 World Championship?
Answer: Nrburgring

Question: Where would a haulm usually be found?
Answer: In a garden

Question: Which coin was first minted by Henry III in 1249, and not withdrawn from circulation until 1887?
Answer: Groat

Question: Which book attributed to Thomas Cranmer and published around 1549 is still in print?
Answer: The Book of Common Prayer

Question: What nationality is the female lead in the role of the Jane Doe in US TV series "Blindspot" (2015)?
Answer: Australian

Question: The Ob River, terminating in the long narrow Gulf of Ob, flows into what sea?
Answer: Kara Sea, north Russia

Question: The inaugural day-night cricket test game played at the Oval, Adelaide, Australia, in November 2015 was played between Australia and which other country?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: In 2011 the capture and killing of Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi changed the political landscape in which country?
Answer: Libya

Question: What is one aspect which singles out the Indus River from other rivers in Pakistan?
Answer: It is referred to as masculine, the other rivers as feminine