Question: What is the surname of the actors Henry and Peter, who are father and son?
Answer: Fonda

Question: The Hollywood sign, a landmark for Mount Lee in Los Angeles, California, originally said what when it was erected in 1923?
Answer: Hollywoodland

Question: Who won the World Rally Championship 9 times in a row from 2004 to 2012?
Answer: Sebastian Loeb

Question: What is the name of the days on the Roman Catholic and Anglican calendars that are the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday before Ascension Day?
Answer: The Minor Rogations

Question: Which cartoon series relied on the voices of Alan Reed, Jean Vander Pyl, Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet, Gerry Johnson, Don Messick, Harvey Korman & John Stephenson?
Answer: The Flinstones

Question: What is the word for an oblique-angled parallelogram with 4 equal sides?
Answer: Rhombus

Question: On 15 July 2004, which country imposed diplomatic sanctions against Israel after two Israeli citizens, Uriel Zosha Kelman and Eli Cara, suspected of being Mossad agents, were convicted of attempting to obtain local passports fraudulently?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: Which English author and model, the grand-daughter of author Roald Dahl, actress Patricia Neal and actor Stanley Holloway, married singer and pianist Jamie Cullum in 2010?
Answer: Sophie Dahl

Question: When Coubertin moved to establish a revived and international Olympic Games at the end of the 19th century his work had forerunners in the UK and in Greece and France. When was the earliest in the UK and what was it called?
Answer: 1612, Cotswold Olympick Games

Question: Which country is divided into thirteen administrative districts (Lautm, Baucau, Viqueque, Manatuto, Dili, Aileu, Manufahi, Liqui, Ermera, Ainaro, Bobonaro, Cova Lima and Oecusse Ambeno), one of which is separated from the rest by part of Indonesia?
Answer: East Timor

Question: What ballroom dance, recognised by the World Dance Council in the category of "International Latin", comes from Brazil?
Answer: Samba

Question: The plot of which play by William Shakespeare, whereby the King of Sicilia becomes convinced that his wife and his childhood friend have committed adultery and borne a daughter, was taken from Robert Greene's "Pandosto" (1588), but given a happy ending?
Answer: The Winter's Tale

Question: The International Skating Union (ISU) was formed in Scheveningen in the Netherlands in 1892 to govern speed skating and figure skating, and hosted its first Championship in Saint Petersburg in 1896. How many skaters competed?
Answer: 4

Question: What is the formal title of Guernsey, the British Crown Dependency in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy?
Answer: Bailiwick of Guernsey

Question: What was the first name of the opera composer Verdi?
Answer: Giuseppe

Question: A type of simple gentle profile portrait popular in the 18th century in Europe was called a silhouette, deriving the name from what?
Answer: tienne de Silhouette, a French finance minister with an 18th century austerity budget

Question: From 1894 to 1960, all of the Mosquito Coast was part of which country?
Answer: Nicaragua

Question: Who leads "The CBS Orchestra", the house band for "The Late Show with David Letterman"?
Answer: Paul Shaffer

Question: What is the estimated length of the year of the newly-discovered earth-like planet KOI-172.02?
Answer: 242 Earth days

Question: """Aegrotocatellus jaggeri"" an extinct marine arthropod which disappeared about 250 million years ago, is named after whom?"
Answer: Mick Jagger

Question: Which associations of men in similar employment, started in the 12th century, were formed to assist poorer members, sometime securing charters and becoming the governing body of a town?
Answer: Guilds

Question: Jrgen Grbler is a famous coach in what sport?
Answer: Rowing

Question: The unit of electrical resistance was named after whom?
Answer: Georg Simon Ohm

Question: What is unusual about the skeletons of sharks, skates and rays?
Answer: They have no bones

Question: In snooker, what coloured ball scores 7 points?
Answer: Black

Question: Which American revolutionary leader wrote the influential pamphlet "Common Sense" in 1776?
Answer: Thomas Paine

Question: What navigation canal, when it opened in 1894, was the world's largest, and, now the 8th longest in the world, is still operating?
Answer: Manchester Ship Canal, England

Question: In a 1996 film John Travolta played what character ?
Answer: Angel

Question: The American TV serial "Twin Peaks" was set in what state of the USA?
Answer: Washington

Question: What colour is the medal presented for winning an event at the Olympic Games from 1904 onwards?
Answer: Gold

Question: What is the highest mountain in Queensland, Australia (1622 metres), named in 1873 after a British colonial administrator who later became president of the Royal Geographical Society?
Answer: Mount Bartle Frere

Question: Who won the 2010 Nobel prize for chemistry for their work in the 1960s & 1970s to find ways to bond carbon atoms (such as palladium-catalysed cross coupling)?
Answer: Richard Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi & Akira Suzuki

Question: The "Missouri Compromise" allowed which state to join the USA in 1820 to balance the admission of Missouri?
Answer: Maine

Question: In which game would you use a wooden ball called a cochonnet?
Answer: Boules

Question: What is the closest planet to the sun?
Answer: Mercury

Question: A tirade by Christian Bale directed at Shane Hurlbut, director of photography was on the set of which 2009 film?
Answer: Terminator Salvation

Question: What is a surgical procedure to improve the function or the appearance of a human nose?
Answer: Rhinoplasty

Question: A glockenspiel, a percussion instrument with tuned metal keys arranged like a piano keyboard, gets its name from German. Roughly what does it mean?
Answer: To play bells

Question: Between 500 and 850 AD, often referred to as the Dark Ages, the 7 kingdoms into which England was supposedly divided (the Heptarchy) were Wessex, Mercia, Kent, Essex, East Anglia, Sussex and which other?
Answer: Northumbria

Question: Who wrote the play "The Cocktail Hour", a US comedy exploring the world of upper-class families in the Northeast set in an apartment in the 1970s, and promised his parents it would not be produced in his hometown during their lifetimes because "the details are so close to home"?
Answer: A. R. Gurney

Question: What country would you get to first if you went due West from the port of Bari, Italy?
Answer: Albania

Question: What element is named after the sons of the Earth Goddess in Greek mythology?
Answer: Titanium

Question: What series of toys, aimed at little girls, was released by Hasbro in 1983?
Answer: My Little Pony

Question: Lawnmower racing as a sport took off in the second half of the 20th century in the UK, USA and Australia; what reason was quoted in the UK?
Answer: Other motorsport was too expensive

Question: What weapon is associated with Robin Hood?
Answer: Bow and arrow

Question: What is the primary intelligence agency of Albania that was created in 1991?
Answer: The State Intelligence Service (SHISH)

Question: Cragside House in Northumberland, England, was the first building to be lit by electricity sourced from where?
Answer: Hydroelectricity

Question: A piece for cornet, accompanied by a brass band plus clarinet and double bass, was composed and used as theme music for which TV show?
Answer: Coronation Street

Question: In the 19th century, Chief Shaka was the leader of which group?
Answer: Zulus

Question: A magnetron is in which common household appliance?
Answer: Television

Question: What is the name of the counter-terrorism specialist who is the lead character in the TV series "24"?
Answer: Jack Bauer

Question: Who plays Arizona Robbins in the US TV series "Grey's Anatomy"?
Answer: Jessica Capshaw

Question: Who won the golfing Open Championship 3 times between 1979 and 1988?
Answer: Seve Ballesteros