Question: Which country was divided at the 17th parallel by an agreement made in 1954 in Geneva?
Answer: Vietnam

Question: The Belgian artist Georges Remi is better known by what name?
Answer: Herg

Question: Complete Joseph Stalin's famous quotation "One death is a tragedy, one million deaths is a "
Answer: Statistic

Question: On which dates in the Gregorian calendar do places on earth currently have approximately 12 hours of day and 12 hours of night?
Answer: 20 March and 21 September

Question: What is the next in this series: Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, ?
Answer: Lithuania

Question: The symbol of the Olympic Games is made up of 5 interlocking rings, coloured blue, yellow, black, green, and what other colour?
Answer: Red

Question: In which British sitcom does recently-widowed Audrey fforbes-Hamilton have to sell her manor house, which is bought by Richard DeVere, a nouveau riche millionaire supermarket owner?
Answer: To the Manor Born

Question: What tree and its fruit is also known as the butter pear and alligator pear?
Answer: Avocado

Question: The most southern part of the South American continent is on which Chilean archipelago?
Answer: Tierra del Fuego

Question: By 1922 Fred Astaire and his sister Adele were so popular that George and Ira Gershwin wrote "Funny Face" and what other show especially for them?
Answer: Lady Be Good

Question: Who was the star of the 1970's TV programme "Policewoman"?
Answer: Angie Dickinson

Question: Which US holiday commemorates either a celebration by Spaniards on 8 September 1565 in what is now Saint Augustine, Florida, the arrival of 38 English settlers at Berkeley Hundred on 4 December 1619, or the Pilgrims activities in Plymouth in 1621?
Answer: Thanksgiving

Question: What was the fate of "Blanche" in Poulenc's opera "Les Dialogues des Carmelites"?
Answer: She decides to go the guillotine

Question: The first Victoria Crosses, Britain's highest military order, were made from what material?
Answer: Bronze from Russian guns captured at Sebastopol

Question: From 1781 until the adoption of the Constitution on 17 September 1787, the US government operated in terms of what document?
Answer: Articles of Confederation

Question: What small green fish with blue reflections (due to a silver longitudinal stripe that runs from the base of the caudal fin) is found in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans?
Answer: Anchovy

Question: Harvard University is in which state of the USA?
Answer: Massachusetts

Question: The food of the Gods is ambrosia: what is the drink of the Gods?
Answer: Nectar

Question: The first what was sent from "L'Illustration", Paris, to the London "Daily Mirror" on 8 November 1907?
Answer: Newspaper photograph, by cable

Question: After Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson won the 100 metre dash at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, why was his gold medal taken away and awarded to runner-up Carl Lewis?
Answer: He failed a drug test

Question: Who is Angelina Jolie's father?
Answer: John Voigt

Question: Who starred with Bette Davis in the 1962 film "Whatever Happened To Baby Jane"?
Answer: Joan Crawford

Question: To where, between June 1948 and May 1949, was over 1 million tons (up to 13,000 tons per day) of food, coal and other supplies transported by the aircraft of the USA, UK and France?
Answer: Berlin

Question: if someone is said to "have green fingers", we expect them to be successful as what?
Answer: Gardener

Question: Off which Japanese island would you find the Straits of Soya and Tsugara?
Answer: Hokkaido

Question: The invention of what game, needing only pencil and paper, is attributed to Clifford von Winkler in the early 1900s?
Answer: Battleships

Question: Who was the Bulgarian dissident poisoned with ricin when jabbed in the leg with an umbrella on Waterloo Bridge, London, on 7 September 1978?
Answer: Georgi Markov

Question: Which painter, born in Delft, produced works including "The Woman With A Water Jug", "The Pianist" and "The Lacemaker"?
Answer: Jan Vermeer

Question: Under a hire purchase agreement, whereby an item is purchased in installments, when do the goods in question become the property of the purchaser?
Answer: When it is fully paid for

Question: How did General George S Patton, responsible for a number of US victories in World War II, die?
Answer: As the result of a car accident near Heidelberg, Gemany, in 1945

Question: Producer Alex Korda engaged Anton Karas to score which entire film, after it had been edited together, using only one instrument?
Answer: The Third Man

Question: What did Chuck Yeager accomplish in a Bell XI in October 1947?
Answer: Flew faster than sound

Question: In baseball, what is the name of the position where the pitcher stands to throw the ball to a batter of the opposing team?
Answer: Mound

Question: Which Irish-born philanthropist founded over 112 institutions for deprived children in the last half of the 19th century?
Answer: Dr Thomas Barnardo

Question: Which painting of five figures by Pablo Picasso in 1907 was criticised for breaking the rules of composition, perspective and truth to nature, showing dislocated shapes seen simultaneously from different angles?
Answer: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

Question: According to The Bible, who was the older brother of Moses, who set up a golden calf on Mt Sinai for people to worship?
Answer: Aaron

Question: What is the English borough and market town on the River Otter in Devonshire, famous for lace making?
Answer: Honiton

Question: Where was Skype, the software that enables telephone calls to be made via the Internet, developed?
Answer: Estonia

Question: In the Christian calendar, Maundy falls on which day of Holy Week?
Answer: Thursday

Question: The hero of which film starring Alec Guinness was a mousy bank clerk with steel-rimmed glasses and bowler hat who devised a plan to smuggle gold bars out of England disguised as small souvenir replicas of the Eiffel Tower?
Answer: The Lavender Hill Mob

Question: After the signing of the Anglo-Ottoman Convention of 1913, Mubarak Al-Sabah was recognised by the Ottomans and British as the ruler of the autonomous caza of which city and its hinterlands?
Answer: Kuwait

Question: What joint is between the femur and the tibia?
Answer: Knee

Question: In L M Montgomery's book, where was Anne of Green Gables brought up?
Answer: Avonlea

Question: City Of Dreams was the second casino owned by James Packer to open in which European ex colony?
Answer: Macau, China

Question: Who is married to the Prince of Wales?
Answer: Camilla

Question: The irregularity in the orbit of the planet Uranus led to what discovery?
Answer: There was another planet, Neptune, nearby

Question: What name is given by scholars to the first 6 books of the Old Testament of the Bible?
Answer: Hexateuch

Question: Who supplies tyres for all A1 Grand Prix cars?
Answer: Michelin

Question: Which overweight knight from three Shakespearean plays was the subject of an opera by Verdi?
Answer: Sir John Falstaff

Question: Which residence of Scots kings was built next to a ruined abbey by James IV, and rebuilt by Charles II?
Answer: Holyrood

Question: Who was the first US president to travel outside the USA while in office?
Answer: Theodore Roosevelt

Question: What is the name for the measurement and description of navigable waters necessary for safe navigation of vessels?
Answer: Hydrography

Question: Which Beatle invested heavily in Handmade Films, the production company that made "Life Of Brian", "Monty Python In Search Of The Holy Grail" and "A Fish Called Wanda"?
Answer: George Harrison

Question: In which film starring Edward G Robinson are the main character's dying words "Mother of Mercy, is this the end of Rico"?
Answer: Little Caesar

Question: What is the name for an elaborate seat, frequently with a canopy, strapped to the back of an elephant?
Answer: Howdah