Question: """The Edge of Love"" (2008), a film starring Matthew Rhys, Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy & Keira Knightley, is biographical about which couple?"
Answer: Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and his wife Caitlin

Question: The World Flying Disc Federation, formed in 1984, governs what?
Answer: International Ultimate Frisbee Championships

Question: What is the name for the region of an astronomical object from which externally received light originates, which extends into a star's surface until the gas becomes opaque?
Answer: Photosphere

Question: What do Alfred Newman, John Williams, Johnny Green, Andr Previn, John Barry and Alan Menken have in common?
Answer: Winning the Academy award for Best Original Score

Question: The secretary bird is native to which continent?
Answer: Africa

Question: What worldwide movement describing itself as "a fellowship of men and women" was co-founded in 1935 by Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith in Akron, Ohio?
Answer: Alcoholics Anonymous

Question: When is the sport of shinty thought to have been introduced to Scotland?
Answer: pre Christianity

Question: Which team won the inaugural Fast5 World Netball Series, first contested in October 2009, which had modified rules (and was compared to Twenty20 cricket and rugby sevens)?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: How many piano sonatas did Ludwig van Beethoven write?
Answer: over 30

Question: Who directed the films "Miracle's Boys", "Inside Man", "When The Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts", "Miracle at St. Anna", "Passing Strange" and "Kobe Doin' Work"?
Answer: Spike Lee

Question: If you were to fly due east from the southernmost pont of the Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego what is the next land mass, bigger than the island you set out from, which you would meet?
Answer: Tierra del Fuego

Question: What is the name of the Goddess that personifies retribution?
Answer: Nemesis

Question: What is a mixture of saturated aliphatic and alicyclic C7 to C12 hydrocarbons with a maximum content of 25% of C7 to C12 alkyl aromatic hydrocarbons, which is used as an extraction, cleaning and degreasing solvent, and as a solvent in aerosols, paints, wood preservatives, lacquers, varnishes, and asphalt products?
Answer: White spirit

Question: What would you expect a quidnunc to do?
Answer: Gossip, or spread news

Question: What is a handmade shag wool item, traditionally made by the Vlachs in northern Greece and southern Albania in the Pindus mountains?
Answer: Flokati rugs

Question: Who is known for his law of elasticity, his book, "Micrographia", and for first applying the word "cell" to describe the basic unit of life?
Answer: Robert Hooke

Question: Who is the president of France and Co-Prince of Andorra in 2013 ?
Answer: Franois Hollande

Question: Where is the most easterly point in South America?
Answer: Brazil

Question: Who played the first doctor in the UK TV series "Dr Who"?
Answer: William Hartnell

Question: What philosopher, sometimes known by the honorific of "K'ung Fu-tzu" and born in BCE 551, has recently had his name given to a Peace Prize ?
Answer: Confucius

Question: What is the more common name for Chopin's "Waltz in D Flat Major"?
Answer: The Minute Waltz

Question: What was the last royal capital of the Burmese kingdom before its annexation by the British in 1885 when King Thibaw and Queen Supayalat were exiled after the Third Anglo-Burmese War?
Answer: Mandalay

Question: What was the stage name of Bernard Jewry?
Answer: Alvin Stardust

Question: What legendary place is said to have sunk into the sea?
Answer: Atlantis

Question: Where was the first IOC-run Olympics held in the 21st century?
Answer: Salt Lake City, USA

Question: In Greek legend, what were Stheno, Euryale and Medusa, winged female monsters with snakes for hair who turned mortals to stone if they looked directly at them?
Answer: Gorgons

Question: When was camogie established as a sport?
Answer: 1903

Question: Which American serial drama TV series, first broadcast in 2004, follows the lives of plane crash survivors on a Pacific island after a plane crash?
Answer: Lost

Question: Playwright Athol Fugard, multi-award-winning honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, is best-known for what theme in his works?
Answer: Opposing the South African system of apartheid

Question: A coup in February 2010 led by Colonel Djibril Adamou Harouna displaced president Mamadou Tandja in which country?
Answer: Niger

Question: Which Noble Order of Knighthood, whose motto is "honi soit qui mal y pense" was founded in 1348 in England by King Edward III?
Answer: Order of the Garter

Question: When his Late String Quartets were first performed in the 1820s, listeners described them variously as "indecipherable, uncorrected horrors" and "we know there is something there, but we do not know what it is". Who was the composer?
Answer: Ludwig van Beethoven

Question: What is a jury said to do when it leaves the courtroom to consider a verdict?
Answer: Retire

Question: According to Malory and Tennyson who was the son of Lancelot and Elaine, raised by nuns and knighted on his arrival at Camelot?
Answer: Galahad

Question: If someone is given hippocras what is being offered?
Answer: A sweet highly spiced wine, often used as a digestive

Question: In 2003, Kate Winslet married (and subsequently had two children with) whom?
Answer: Sam Mendes

Question: Well known in France, who are Valrian and Laureline?
Answer: Science fiction comic heroes

Question: What equipment is used in a tug o war contest?
Answer: A rope

Question: What is the world's smallest island nation, covering 21 square kilometres (8.1 square miles)?
Answer: Nauru

Question: Titicaca, which contains one of the highest freshwater lakes in the world, has a population who live exclusively on the Uros. What is that?
Answer: A group of 44 or so artificial islands made of floating reeds

Question: Tom Cruise played which role in the 1996 film "Jerry Maguire"?
Answer: Jerry Maguire

Question: Prior to the coming of William the Conqueror in 1066 where was the capital of England situated?
Answer: Winchester

Question: Which standard recurring character Batman comic book character did not appear in the film "Batman" (1989) nor "Batman Returns" (1992), but was in "Batman Forever" (1995) and "Batman & Robin" (1997)?
Answer: Robin

Question: Putting in place developments by agriculture expert Dr. A. Thimmaiah, together with international advisers one of whom is environmental activist Vandana Shiva, which country has pledged to become 100% organic, the first?
Answer: Bhutan

Question: On which continent are the native fauna called ostrich, lion, giraffe and okapi?
Answer: Africa

Question: What band released the albums "Wild Life", "Red Rose Speedway", "At the Speed of Sound", "London Town" and Back to the Egg" between 1971 and 1979?
Answer: Wings

Question: What year did South African golfer Gary Player first win the PGA Championship?
Answer: 1962

Question: Where is the second regional gallery in the Tate Gallery network, that was opened in 1993?
Answer: St Ives, Cornwall

Question: The libretto for Giacomo Puccini's opera "Tosca" was based on a play written by the playwright Victorien Sardou for performance by which actress?
Answer: Sarah Bernhardt

Question: Which golfer released the song "All My Exes Wear Rolexes" in 2002?
Answer: John Daly

Question: What instrument is traditionally played by the leader of an orchestra?
Answer: Violin

Question: The Jungfrau mountain is in which country?
Answer: Switzerland

Question: In ancient Rome, what was the title of a magistrate who was next in importance to a consul?
Answer: Praetor

Question: If Andrew ran 72 miles in 16 hours, on average how many miles did he run per hour?
Answer: 4.5

Question: Where did Henry Ford, in the early twentieth century, establish the Ford Motor Company?
Answer: Detroit, USA