Question: Which British actor made his film debut in Peter Ustinov's film adaptation of "Billy Budd" (1962) and went on to make a number of films, including "The Collector" (1965), "Far From The Madding Crowd" (1967), "Poor Cow" (1967), "Wall Street" (1987), "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" (1994), "Bowfinger" (1999), "My Boss's Daughter" (2003) and "Elektra" (2005)?
Answer: Terence Stamp

Question: Which bank, which had opened in 1762 (and was the oldest merchant bank in London) collapsed in 1995 after one of the bank's employees lost 827 million ($1.3 billion) speculating primarily on futures contracts?
Answer: Barings Bank

Question: What was the name of the policy making body of the USSR before it broke up?
Answer: Politburo

Question: What is Blackjack called in France?
Answer: Vingt-et-un

Question: In the USA, what is the minimum age that someone can become a senator?
Answer: 30

Question: How many ounces are there in 8 lbs?
Answer: 128

Question: The logo of which car manufacturer is based on an arrangement of three red diamonds?
Answer: Mitsubishi

Question: """Summer of the Seventeenth Doll"", a 1955 play by Ray Lawler, is set in Carlton, a suburb of what city?"
Answer: Melbourne, Australia

Question: Seoul is the capital of which country?
Answer: South Korea

Question: Who beat Muhammad Ali in his last professional fight in 1982?
Answer: Trevor Berbick

Question: What is a derogatory term for verse considered of little literary value?
Answer: Doggerel

Question: Which TV series had, as some of the characters, pigs called Pinky and Perky, a goat called Geraldine and a cockerel called Lenin?
Answer: The Good Life (Good Neighbors in the USA)

Question: """Black Cherry"" and ""Supernature"" are albums by which band?"
Answer: Goldfrapp

Question: What fluid results from lachrymation?
Answer: Tears

Question: What word's original meaning was "the common people"?
Answer: Hoi polloi

Question: What was invented by George de Mestral in 1957?
Answer: Velcro

Question: In which country is the city of Derry?
Answer: Northern Ireland

Question: Who watched his daughter win her first professional boxing bout in October 1999?
Answer: Muhammad Ali

Question: In 1794 in Pennsylvania, USA, more than 500 armed men attacked the fortified home of tax inspector General John Neville because of an excise tax on what product?
Answer: Whiskey

Question: Who wrote the poem called "The New Colossus" that is inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty?
Answer: Emma Lazarus

Question: In France, what is the SNCF?
Answer: Railway network

Question: The "Curse of the Bambino" was thought to have struck what baseball team until they won the World Series in 2004?
Answer: Boston Red Sox

Question: For the type of bet called a "Quinella", how many horses are picked?
Answer: 2

Question: Which cable suspension road bridge, known as "Galloping Gertie", was completely destroyed due to "aeroelastic flutter" on 7 November 1940?
Answer: Tacoma Narrows Bridge

Question: Joseph Pulitzer, founder of the Pulitzer Prizes, made his fortune from what?
Answer: Newspapers

Question: The first father and son win at the Oscars was in 1948 when John Huston won the award for Directing and for Writing Adapted Screenplay and his father Walter Huston won the award for Best Supporting Actor. Which film had they worked on together to win these awards?
Answer: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Question: What is the term used in wine making for the catalyst function that turns grape juice into an alcoholic beverage when yeast interacts with sugars in the juice to create ethanol and carbon dioxide?
Answer: Fermentation

Question: Brazil is the world's biggest coffee producer. What is the second biggest?
Answer: Vietnam

Question: Who played Alan's young son, Jake, in the TV series "Two and a Half Men"?
Answer: Angus T. Jones

Question: Comedian Ernie Wise was the subject of a publicity campaign launched in the UK on 1 January 1985 as being the first person in the UK to use what?
Answer: Mobile phone

Question: In which city was Andre Agassi born?
Answer: Las Vegas

Question: After winning the UK series "The X Factor", Steve Brookstein released his first single on 20 December 2004, which debuted on the UK Singles Chart at #2 and later was #1 on 2 January 2005 for 1 week. It was a cover of what song?
Answer: """Against All Odds"" by Phil Collins"

Question: How many faces are there on a cube?
Answer: 6

Question: EGM is the usual term for what?
Answer: Extraordinary General Meeting

Question: What war was waged 1852-1856, one side being an alliance between the Ottoman Empire, UK, France, and Sardinia?
Answer: The Crimean War

Question: In netball, the ball cannot be held by a player for more than how long at any time?
Answer: 3 seconds

Question: Where is the Sonoran desert?
Answer: On the US - Mexican border

Question: Who married Taylor Hackford (the director of "White Nights", in which she appeared), her partner since 1986, on 31 December 1997?
Answer: Helen Mirren

Question: The exterior of which real Boston pub was used in the TV programme "Cheers" in the 1980s?
Answer: Bull & Finch

Question: What sport is played by two teams of players in a space 60 feet by 40 feet?
Answer: Basketball

Question: In April 2010, what word used by Robin Williams on "The Late Show with David Letterman" caused the Australian Prime Minister to respond in such a way that Alabama newspapers demanded he apologise?
Answer: Redneck

Question: What device measures its the proper acceleration relative to freefall, and is increasingly used in portable electronic devices and video game controllers to detect the orientation of the device or provide game input?
Answer: Accelerometer

Question: In Greek mythology, which horned and hoofed being was the god of shepherds, pastures, and fertility?
Answer: Pan

Question: In 1635 Robert Hooke developed what?
Answer: The law of elasticity

Question: What European capital has the largest Turkish population of any city outside Turkey?
Answer: Berlin, Germany

Question: David LaChapelle is a leading figure in what activity?
Answer: Photography

Question: Mickey Mantle was a star of which sport?
Answer: Baseball

Question: In the nursery rhyme "The House That Jack Built", what was wrong with the cow?
Answer: It had a crumpled horn

Question: Improved well being and fitness is sought at what kind of establishment?
Answer: Health Farm

Question: What is the last part of a famous quotation from Malcolm X that begins "we didn't land on Plymouth Rock, brothers and sisters, ...."
Answer: Plymouth Rock landed on us

Question: Traditionally, a magician pulls what out of a hat?
Answer: Rabbit

Question: Fashion designer Ozwald Boateng specialises in what?
Answer: Suits

Question: In English mythology, who were Galligantus and Bunderbore?
Answer: Giants

Question: Which American singer, actress, songwriter and author who was born Cherilyn Sarkisian has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award and three Golden Globe Awards?
Answer: Cher

Question: What branch of anthropology compares and analyses the origins, distribution, technology, religion, language, and social structure of the ethnic, racial, and/or national divisions of humanity?
Answer: Ethnology

Question: Who designed both the obverse and reverse of the twenty-dollar gold coin, or double eagle, produced by the US Mint from 1907 to 1933?
Answer: Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Question: What is the name of the cooperation between the USA and Mexico and countries of Central America, with the aim of combating the threats of drug trafficking, transnational organized crime and money laundering?
Answer: Mrida Initiative

Question: What machine carries food vertically between kitchen and dining room?
Answer: Dumb waiter