Question: What is the name of a whirlpool between two islands of the Lofoten Group north west of Norway, which is the result of opposing tidal currrents sweeping through a narrow channel?
Answer: Maelstrom

Question: Where are the Straits of Magellan?
Answer: Between Tierra del Fuego and Chile

Question: Which book of the Bible contains the story of the visit of the Queen of Sheba to the court of King Solomon?
Answer: 1 Kings

Question: Who was the star of "8 Mile" (2002) a hip-hop drama film which was a fictionalized account of his growing up in Detroit and early career in rap?
Answer: Eminem

Question: At the 1972 Olympic Games at Munich, which 16-year-old Soviet gymnast won three gold medals?
Answer: Olga Korbut

Question: In which country is the city of Tangier?
Answer: Morocco

Question: Which politician issued a CD of love songs that he had written and co-written, in 2003?
Answer: Silvio Berlusconi

Question: What is another name for the larkspur?
Answer: Delphinium

Question: The term "musket" strictly refers to a firearm with what?
Answer: A smooth bore

Question: What is the maximum number of players allowed on the field during a game of Rugby Sevens?
Answer: 14

Question: What is the name of the result of the complete census of England carried out under the instructions of William I in 1086?
Answer: Domesday Book

Question: Who won the Women's Cricket World Cup played at Sydney, Australia, in 2009?
Answer: England

Question: Samoa, Hawaii and the Tokelau Islands are part of which geographic area?
Answer: Polynesia

Question: Pharology is the study of what?
Answer: Lighthouses and signal lights

Question: Who is the lead singer of the Rolling Stones?
Answer: Mick Jagger

Question: The last line of which 1939 film, spoken by Judy Garland, is "If I ever again go looking for my heart's desire, I won't go looking any further than my own backyard"?
Answer: The Wizard Of Oz

Question: Which Scottish sailor was rescued four years after being put ashore by William Dampier at Juan Fernandez in 1703, for insubordination?
Answer: Alexander Selkirk

Question: Where are The Kerguelen Islands, a territory of France, also known as Desolation Island?
Answer: Indian Ocean

Question: Which band had a hit record in 1980 with "London Calling"?
Answer: The Clash

Question: What word means staying in one place and electrical interference?
Answer: Static

Question: What was the name given to the irregular mounted troops raised for service in Cuba by Theodore Roosevelt in the Spanish American war?
Answer: Roughriders

Question: Which country would you go to in order to travel up the Amazon River?
Answer: Brazil

Question: Where, 25 miles West of Knoxville, Tennessee, was an Atomic Bomb Research Station set up in 1942?
Answer: Oak Ridge

Question: What are the 26 areas called that make up The Swiss Confederation?
Answer: Cantons

Question: Which colour in the visible spectrum has the longest wavelength?
Answer: Red

Question: In which country was there a civil war between 1936 and 1939, which was won by General Franco's forces?
Answer: Spain

Question: Who has won the most Olympic Gold medals?
Answer: Michael Phelps, USA

Question: According to the nursery rhyme, who could "eat no fat", while his wife could "eat no lean"?
Answer: Jack Spratt

Question: Where is the newspaper "The Village Voice" published?
Answer: New York

Question: Where is the House of Keys the governing body, with 24 elected members?
Answer: Isle of Man

Question: Stanley Mathews played which position for the English football team?
Answer: Inside right

Question: The English version of "The Magic Roundabout", a children's television programme created in France was broadcast from 18 October 1965 to January 1977. It was narrated by the father of which actress?
Answer: Emma Thompson

Question: What is the name for a straight line drawn from the centre of a circle to the circumference?
Answer: Radius

Question: What is the name of the traditional character in Commedia dell' Arte who is a braggart with a rough country wit, a black mask and large nose?
Answer: Punchinello

Question: A painting by Sandro Botticelli that depicts a goddess, having emerged from the sea as a full grown woman, arriving at the sea-shore on a sea shell is called "The Birth of ... " who?
Answer: Venus

Question: Which mountain range runs through the US states of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico?
Answer: The Rocky Mountains

Question: Why is the America's Cup so called?
Answer: The first race for the trophy was won by the "America"

Question: In the nursery rhyme, who was quite contrary and had an unusual garden?
Answer: Mary

Question: What name is given to the rocks that orbit the sun mainly between Mars and Jupiter?
Answer: Asteroids

Question: What was the name of an iron case containing gunpowder that was used to destroy a gate or palisade?
Answer: Petard

Question: What was the first name of "Rumpole of the Bailey"?
Answer: Horace

Question: Why were the Winter Olympic Games at Lillehammer in 1994 held only 2 years after the previous ones, at Albertsville?
Answer: To change the timing, to alternate with the Summer Olympics

Question: Near the end of August 2009, Australia lost to England by 197 runs in what sport?
Answer: Cricket

Question: In what sport would you find a beltman?
Answer: Surf lifesaving

Question: Which province of Ireland comprises the counties of Clare, Kerry, Cork, Tipperary, Limerick and Waterford?
Answer: Munster

Question: Which German is responsible for driving the Russians out of Germany at the Battle of Tannenburg in 1914, became head of all German armies in 1916, and was elected President of the Republic in 1925?
Answer: von Hindenburg

Question: Which propagandist broadcaster during World War II was jailed for 10 years in October 1949?
Answer: Tokyo Rose

Question: What is a simple container for stirring, mixing and heating liquids commonly used in many laboratories, generally cylindrical in shape, with a flat bottom and a lip for pouring?
Answer: Beaker

Question: Who wrote children's books featuring Noddy and Big Ears, and the Famous Five?
Answer: Enid Blyton

Question: According to a fragment of "The Achilleid", written by Statius in the first century AD, when Achilles the mythological Greek hero was born, his mother tried to make him immortal by dipping him in the river Styx. Where was he left vulnerable?
Answer: Heel

Question: The Neckar, Main and Ruhr are tributaries of which river?
Answer: Rhine

Question: Who formally became Emperor of Japan in 1926 and became its constitutional monarch in 1946?
Answer: Hirohito

Question: Which band, comprising David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison and Tina Weymouth, had hit records including "Burning Down the House" and "Psycho Killer"?
Answer: Talking Heads

Question: What ocean borders the US state of Georgia?
Answer: Atlantic

Question: What is the world's largest rodent?
Answer: Capybara

Question: In chess, what piece is allowed to jump over other pieces?
Answer: Knight

Question: To an imaginary observer above the North Pole, which way would the earth appear to rotate?
Answer: Anti-clockwise

Question: What is another name for a sweater?
Answer: Pullover

Question: What name was adopted in 1957 by London's Sadler's Wells Ballet Company?
Answer: The Royal Ballet Company

Question: What was ordered by Pope Paul IV in 1555 to be set up on the left bank of the Tiber?
Answer: Ghetto

Question: What is the largest country by land area in Africa?
Answer: Algeria

Question: In card games, what is the name for a proposal by a player to take no tricks?
Answer: Misre

Question: Who wrote the series of books about "Budgie The Helicopter"?
Answer: Sarah Ferguson

Question: During World War II, in north Africa, who was known as "The Desert Fox"?
Answer: Erwin Rommel

Question: The last edition of which British music chart television programme was broadcast on 30 July 2006 after running for 41 1/2 years?
Answer: Top of the Pops