Question: The Golden Raspberry Awards have been running since 1980. Who had won the award for Worst Supporting Actress the most times until 2005?
Answer: Madonna

Question: What is the nationality of former US Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali?
Answer: Egyptian

Question: What was the first Asian country to hold a Formula 1 Grand Prix?
Answer: Japan

Question: The boundary of which territory, disputed by the USA and Canada, that had started between the Russian and British Empire in 1821, was resolved by arbitration in 1903?
Answer: Alaska

Question: Which small island in the Straits of Bab-el-Mandeb at the south end of the Red Sea was administered as part of Aden during British occupation until 1967, when it was given to the Democratic People's Republic of Yemen?
Answer: Perim

Question: What is the connection between the computer programming language ADA, developed in 1980, and the daughter of poet Lord Byron?
Answer: Charles Babbage's "analytical engine"

Question: Rembrandt painted a number of paintings of himself, all containing what title?
Answer: Self portrait

Question: In Greek legend, who was the daughter of Zeus and Demeter?
Answer: Persephone

Question: Who is the next in this series: Adolf von Baeyer (1905), Henri Moissan (1906), Eduard Buchner (1907), Ernest Rutherford (1908), Wilhelm Ostwald (1909), Otto Wallach (1910) ... ?
Answer: Marie Curie

Question: At the 1980 Olympics at Moscow, which Cuban was the first to win three Olympic gold medals in Heavyweight boxing?
Answer: Tefilo Stevenson

Question: Who is the father of actress Lucy Davis, who played receptionist Dawn Tinsley in the UK TV series "The Office" (2001), junior writer Lucy Kenwright in the US TV series "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" and Dianne in the film "Shaun of the Dead" (2004)?
Answer: Jasper Carrott

Question: The world's oldest emergency call service was introduced first in the London area in 1937. What telephone number was used?
Answer: 999

Question: Argentina became the world champions in Taekwondo at the World Championships in Argentina in 2009. Which country came second?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: How many Kings of England were called Henry?
Answer: 8

Question: What would a beautician use an emery board for?
Answer: Filing nails

Question: Who won the 500cc Motorcycle World Championship in 1976 & 1977 and retired from racing in 1984?
Answer: Barry Sheene

Question: Which Austrian, the brother of Franz Joseph, was crowned Emperor of Mexico in 1864, and shot in 1867?
Answer: Maximillian

Question: Which venomous snake is able to dilate its neck into a hood?
Answer: Cobra

Question: What music was commissioned for George II's coronation in 1727, and has featured in every British coronation since?
Answer: """Zadok the Priest"" by Handel"

Question: The Royal Observatory, from which standard time was recorded, was established in Greenwich in 1676. Where is it now?
Answer: Herstmonceux Castle, Surrey, England

Question: The Golden Boot Awards, awarded annually since 1983, honour people involved in what?
Answer: Making Westerns for TV and films

Question: Which musical term denotes a vocal slide between two pitches?
Answer: Portamento

Question: The white ball in snooker is called the what ball?
Answer: Cue

Question: What is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet?
Answer: Alef

Question: Which British long running (27 years) police TV drama that began in 1983 ended in 2010?
Answer: The Bill

Question: What is the capital of the US state of California?
Answer: Sacramento

Question: What is a meal of bread, cheese and pickle known as?
Answer: Ploughman's lunch

Question: The Caroline Norton court case highlighted the injustice of what British law?
Answer: Most assets acquired by a wife went to her husband

Question: Three Gordon Bennett Cups were established for motor racing and ballooning early in the 20th century by James Gordon Bennett, Jr. Of what business was he the millionaire owner?
Answer: New York Herald

Question: Which scientist married his cousin from the Wedgewood family, famous for their pottery manufacturing business, following his father's example, who had originally married into the Wedgewood family?
Answer: Charles Darwin

Question: In 1990, who became the first son and father to play on the same Major League Baseball team at the same time (the Seattle Mariners), and the only father and son pair to hit back to back home runs?
Answer: Ken Griffey

Question: What would you do with an ottoman?
Answer: Sit on it

Question: What instrument is associated with Pablo Cassals?
Answer: Cello

Question: What is the capital of Utah?
Answer: Salt Lake City

Question: Jocky Wilson, an unemployed coal delivery man and miner, was World professional Champion in 1982 and 1989 in what sport?
Answer: Darts

Question: Which New Zealander, known as "The White Mouse", was a leading figure in the maquis groups of the French Resistance, and became one of the Allies' most decorated servicewomen of World War II?
Answer: Nancy Wake

Question: What is the nationality of Andrew Kelly and Richard Collett, who won the pairs championships, and Genevieve Baildon, who was women's singles champion, at the Bowls World Championships in Hong Kong in November 2009?
Answer: New Zealanders

Question: In "The Terminator", a 1984 film directed and co-written by James Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger had the famous line: "I'll be ... " what?
Answer: Back

Question: In the English nursery rhyme "Hickory Dickory Dock", what ran up the clock?
Answer: Mouse

Question: What was the nickname of the British army regiment called "The 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own)"?
Answer: The Death or Glory Boys

Question: Who was the lead singer of the band "Joy Division" who committed suicide in 1980 aged 23?
Answer: Ian Curtis

Question: Janet Reger is known as a designer of what?
Answer: Underwear

Question: Between 1973 and 1979, Mohammed Daoud Khan, Nur Mohammad Taraki, Hafizullah Amin and Babrak Karmal were presidents of which country?
Answer: Afghanistan

Question: What word is used in linguistics and science to describe distinct concepts?
Answer: Paradigm

Question: Which actress has a tattoo showing the co-ordinates of the birthplaces of her children?
Answer: Angelina Jolie

Question: The Spicebush Swallowtail, Small White, Common Jezebel, Karner Blue, Red Pierrot and Duke of Burgundy are varieties of what?
Answer: Butterfly

Question: In India in the 1930s, the left wing nationalist party was run by Subhas Chandra Bore, and Ghandi's followers were in the centre. What was the main right wing party?
Answer: The Muslim League

Question: Where are St Lawrence Island and St Matthew Island?
Answer: Bering Sea

Question: What is the highest peak in both the Western and Southern Hemispheres?
Answer: Cerro Aconcagua

Question: What strike of 1,400 women and girls was caused by poor working conditions in the Bryant & May factory in 1888?
Answer: London matchgirls strike

Question: What term was coined by Alfred Maury for the transitional state between wakefulness and sleep?
Answer: Hypnagogia

Question: What is another name for zucchini?
Answer: Courgette

Question: What is Hilary Clinton's maiden name?
Answer: Rodham

Question: With which sport do you associate "Flushing Meadow"?
Answer: Tennis

Question: In 1983, the highest TV audience in the USA was set by the last episode of "M*A*S*H". What programme broke that record?
Answer: The Superbowl, 2010

Question: In 1989, there was a peaceful transfer of power to non-Communist governments in East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and which other country?
Answer: Bulgaria

Question: What is a brief nap?
Answer: 40 winks

Question: What is obtained from a sturgeon?
Answer: Caviar

Question: The "Dome of Discovery" was built on London's South Bank for which occasion?
Answer: Festival of Britain, 1951

Question: A "bodice ripper" is a type of what?
Answer: Historical romance novel