Question: What country, with a population of around 12,000, is the third-least-populated sovereign state in the world behind Vatican City and Nauru, and at 26 square kilometres (10 sq miles) is the fourth smallest country in the world, behind those two and Monaco?
Answer: Tuvalu

Question: Which thoroughfare was closed and blanketed with flowers, trees and grass for 3 days in May 2010?
Answer: The Champs Elysees, Paris

Question: What comic strip is about the family of Dagwood Bumstead (who works at J.C. Dithers & Company), his wife, their 2 children (Alexander, originally referred to as "Baby Dumpling", and daughter Cookie) and Daisy, the dog?
Answer: Blondie

Question: Who was the Queen of the Iceni who led a rebellion against the Romans around 63 AD after they tried to take over her kingdom after her husband had willed his possessions to be shared equally between his daughters and Emperor Nero?
Answer: Boadicea

Question: Which landlocked country in Southeast Asia is bordered by Burma, the People's Republic of China, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand?
Answer: Laos

Question: What is the country of origin of the cheese called "caerphilly"?
Answer: Wales

Question: Between 2002 and 2008, where were Simon Cowell, Randy Jackson and Paula Abdul the judges?
Answer: American Idol

Question: Miss Worlds 1999 and 2000 both represented which country?
Answer: India

Question: What is a transient psychological disorder encountered by some people visiting or vacationing in Paris, to which Japanese visitors are observed to be especially susceptible?
Answer: Paris syndrome

Question: What was the last foreign invasion of Britain?
Answer: French invasion of Wales, 1797

Question: The first of what games was played in 1967, when the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League defeated the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League, 35 to 10?
Answer: Super Bowl

Question: Who began a collaboration with Walt Disney in 1945 to make the Academy Award-nominated short cartoon, "Destino", that was released in 2003, after his death in 1989?
Answer: Salvador Dali

Question: US President Reagan appointed two Republicans and one Democrat (John Tower, Brent Scowcroft and Edmund Muskie, known as the "Tower Commission") to investigate what?
Answer: IranContra affair

Question: What is the correct title for the country known as San Marino?
Answer: The Most Serene Republic of San Marino

Question: What chemical compound that is a colourless solid is about 3,000 times stronger than acetic acid?
Answer: Oxalic acid

Question: What name was given to an amateur archeologist's find of gold and silver treasures dating back 1400 years in England in September 2009?
Answer: The Staffordshire Hoard

Question: What colour is the jacket that has been awarded to the winner of the US Masters Golf Tournament since 1949?
Answer: Green

Question: In musical notation, what word means "lower in pitch by a semitone"?
Answer: Flat

Question: What is the only country in Central America which is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, and has English as its official language?
Answer: Belize

Question: The Berkshire, Australian Yorkshire, Danish Landrace, Mulefoot, Wessex Saddleback and West French White are breeds of what?
Answer: Pig

Question: In what country is the port town of Xai-xai, near the mouth of the Limpopo River?
Answer: Mozambique

Question: Through how many of the 5 boroughs of New York City does the New York marathon run?
Answer: 5

Question: What caused the ancient Egyptian temples of Dakka, Maharraqa, Wadi es-Sebua, Amada, and Derr to be dismantled in the 1960s and rebuilt elsewhere?
Answer: The building of the Aswan Dam

Question: In June 2009, Canada announced plans to extend which national park from 4,800 square kilometres to 30,000 square kilometres to help protect the habitat of grizzly bear, caribou and other species?
Answer: Nahanni National Park Reserve

Question: What piece of music was used by Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean when they won Olympic gold medals at Sarajevo in 1984?
Answer: Ravel's "Bolero"

Question: Which wonder of the ancient world was on the island of Pharos in Alexandria, Egypt?
Answer: Lighthouse

Question: What were the middle names of Oscar Wilde?
Answer: Fingal O'Flahertie Wills

Question: Lebanon is on what continent?
Answer: Asia

Question: Which 1929 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock is considered to be the first all-talkie feature British film?
Answer: Blackmail

Question: What nationality is supermodel Elle MacPherson?
Answer: Australian

Question: A courgette is a small variety of what?
Answer: Marrow

Question: The single largest collection of whose works (181 paintings) is at the Barnes Foundation, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?
Answer: Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Question: Bikram Choudhury is associated with what activity?
Answer: Yoga

Question: What part of the USA is known as "Tinseltown"?
Answer: Hollywood

Question: Who, when he retired as heavyweight boxing world champion in April 1956, was the only heavyweight champion in boxing history to retire having won every fight in his professional career?
Answer: Rocky Marciano

Question: What is the highest number of stars that the Michelin Guide awards to restaurants?
Answer: Three stars

Question: What 2009 film by Matt Tyrnauer documents the life of a fashion designer, his empire and his long-term companion between 2005 and 2007?
Answer: Valentino: The Last Emperor

Question: Who wrote "The Rocky Horror Show", the long-running stage musical which opened in London in 1973?
Answer: Richard O'Brien

Question: In 1895, William G Morgan, a YMCA physical education director in Massachusetts, USA, created "Mintonette", a game for older people as an indoor sport less rough than basketball. What is it called now?
Answer: Volleyball

Question: What name is given to a young seal?
Answer: Pup

Question: In the second US series of "The Office", the boss says that New York is so great that they named it twice. What did he say was the other name?
Answer: Manhattan

Question: What sport, the season for which is March to August, has been phased out in all states in Australia except for Victoria and South Australia, and will end in Victoria after the 2010 season?
Answer: Steeplechase

Question: Which part of the body would be treated if the patient was suffering from bunions?
Answer: Feet

Question: """Runaway Jury"" (2003), a film directed by Gary Fleder and starring John Cusack, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman and Rachel Weisz, is an adaption of the book by which author?"
Answer: John Grisham

Question: According to the English nursery rhyme, who "put the kettle on"?
Answer: Polly

Question: What was the nickname of the British army regiment called the "6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons "?
Answer: The Skins

Question: Which boxers fought in the "Rumble in the Jungle" in 1974?
Answer: Muhammed Ali and George Foreman

Question: A US Federal holiday observed on the third Monday of January each year marks what date?
Answer: The birth of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Question: What scale measures the hotness or piquancy of a chili pepper, as defined by the amount of capsaicin it contains?
Answer: Scoville scale

Question: What is Spiderman's secret identity?
Answer: Peter Parker

Question: What is the official news publication of the Salvation Army, the first edition of which was printed in December 1879 in London, England, and the first US edition in January 1881 in St. Louis, Missouri?
Answer: The War Cry

Question: Which American trumpeter and composer was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1997, the first time it had been awarded for a jazz recording?
Answer: Wynton Marsalis

Question: Zhou Yang, gold medal winner at the Winter Olympics 2010, made the news again later by being chided by China's deputy sports minister Yu Zaiqing for thanking her parents, but not her country, for her win. She had won gold in what sport?
Answer: Short track speed skating