Question: The Koran is the sacred book of which religion?
Answer: Islam

Question: If you travelled downstream from the Victoria Falls on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe, which country would you be in when you reached the ocean?
Answer: Mozambique

Question: Idris el Senussi, Emir or Cyrenu, was made the first king of what "United Kingdom" on 24 December 1951?
Answer: Libya

Question: What is the name for the area of the Atlantic Ocean south east of Bermuda distinguished by the mass of brown seaweed that floats there?
Answer: Sargasso Sea

Question: What is a key signature?
Answer: Combinations of sharps or flats at the beginning of each staff indicating the key of a composition

Question: In May 2009, suspected NAZI death camp guard John Demjanjuk was deported from where to Germany?
Answer: Ohio, USA

Question: What famous picture was stolen from its frame in the Louvre in 1911, was recovered in Florence and returned in 1913?
Answer: Mona Lisa

Question: What town 16 miles north of Boston, Massachusetts, USA, dominated by the Puritans in the 17th century, was famous for its witchcraft trials?
Answer: Salem

Question: What device found on ships from the 18th century, consists of a telescope, a graduated arc and two mirrors, one of which is attached to a moveable arm?
Answer: Sextant

Question: Who was Madonna's first husband?
Answer: Sean Penn

Question: Casts of Sir George Frampton's statue of "Peter Pan" are in Kensington Gardens, London; Sefton Park, Liverpool; Camden, New Jersey, USA; Perth, Australia; Toronto, Canada; Bowring Park, St. John's, Canada and which other location?
Answer: Brussels, Belgium

Question: What is the east coast of Nicaragua, fronting the Caribbean Sea, called?
Answer: Mosquito Coast

Question: Why did John Malkovich, Steven Speilberg, Kevin Bacon, Larry King, Mort Zuckerman, Senator Frank Lautenberg and co-owner of the NY Mets Saul Katz all form part of the same news item in 2009?
Answer: They were victims of Bernard Madoff's swindles

Question: What was abolished throughout the British Empire in 1833?
Answer: Slavery

Question: Who made the first solo non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in 1927?
Answer: Charles Lindbergh

Question: Which US TV show, where the star appeared as a fictionalised version of himself with his friends George Costanza, Elaine Benes and Cosmo Kramer, ran for 9 seasons?
Answer: Seinfeld

Question: What preparation, consisting mainly of citron, orange, bergamot, neroli and rosemary, was first prepared by Johann Maria Farina soon after 1700?
Answer: Eau de Cologne

Question: The Greek tragedians Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides wrote dramas dealing with which legendary woman?
Answer: Electra

Question: The River Danube is on what continent?
Answer: Europe

Question: Why was the FIFA World Cup, an international football competition contested by the men's national teams every four years since the first tournament in 1930, not held in 1942 and 1946?
Answer: It was difficult to organise due to the effects of World War II

Question: For what is "Halliwell's" is a reference book?
Answer: Film

Question: What is the name of the classic English horse race run at Epsom, two days after the Derby?
Answer: The Oaks

Question: What celebrity couple had a daughter named Frances Bean?
Answer: Kurt Cobain & Courtney Love

Question: In March 2009, 53rd Street in New York city was renamed what?
Answer: U2 Way

Question: Leon Trotsky, who had been Russia's foreign secretary from 1918 under Lenin, was exiled to Siberia in 1927 after Lenin's death. How did he die?
Answer: Assassinated in Mexico, 1940

Question: With what do artists working in oils wash their brushes?
Answer: Turpentine

Question: What is the name for the centre of an atom?
Answer: Nucleus

Question: In 1978, after escaping from Iran, where was the Ayatollah Khomeini granted political asylum?
Answer: France

Question: What is the name of the obelisk brought from Heliopolis, Egypt, that now stands in London?
Answer: Cleopatra's Needle

Question: What is the symbol for a 13th wedding anniversary?
Answer: Lace

Question: How many sides does a dodecahedron have?
Answer: 12

Question: The first Winter Olympic Games were held in what year?
Answer: 1924

Question: In tennis, the annual Grand Slam season consists of the French Open, the U.S. Open, the Wimbledon Championship and which other?
Answer: Australian Open

Question: What word can mean a tumble-down dwelling and a sailors' work song?
Answer: Shanty

Question: What was the last major land battle between England and France?
Answer: Battle of Waterloo, 1815

Question: Where did an icthyosaurus live?
Answer: Sea

Question: Who has been Prime Minister of France twice and President of France once?
Answer: Jacques Chirac

Question: If a steam locomotive is described as a 2-4-0, how many driving wheels does it have?
Answer: 4

Question: Nathan, Caleb, Matthew and Jared Followill are better known as which pop group?
Answer: The Kings of Leon

Question: The last time that anyone spoke to Adolf Hitler, he was in what city?
Answer: Berlin

Question: The lines "You are the reason that I breathe, you are the reason that I still believe, you are my destiny" is from the theme song to which film?
Answer: Slumdog Millionaire

Question: Where is the headquarters of the Surrey County Cricket Club?
Answer: The Oval

Question: For which novel, a study of provincial life published in 1856, was the author, Gustave Flaubert, and his publisher prosecuted for "an offence against morals"?
Answer: Madame Bovary

Question: Which harbour, a US naval base, was attacked by Japanese aeroplanes on 7 December 1941?
Answer: Pearl

Question: Bayonet and screw are types of fitting for what?
Answer: Light bulb

Question: The Mammoth Cave, near Louisville, Kentucky is famous for what?
Answer: Stalagmites and stalactites

Question: What card game, also known as Trente-et-Quarante, is played with 6 packs of cards, some of which are dealt in two rows?
Answer: Rouge-et-Noir

Question: How long is a year on the planet Mercury?
Answer: 88 days

Question: What is another name for the second magnitude star "Alpha" in the Little Bear Constellation which is the nearest conspicuous star to the north celestial pole?
Answer: Pole star

Question: What is the capital of the province of Quebec, Canada?
Answer: Quebec

Question: Which Ohio-born woman joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West show and was known as "the greatest woman marksman of all time"?
Answer: Annie Oakley

Question: 19th century French engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps, having supervised the construction of the Suez canal, was later famously tried and convicted for what?
Answer: Mismanagement of the construction of the Panama Canal

Question: What is another name for "laughing gas"?
Answer: Nitrous oxide

Question: Who is the star of TV series "The F Word" and "Hell's Kitchen"?
Answer: Gordon Ramsay

Question: Which capital city is on the northern bank of the La Plata estuary?
Answer: Montevideo

Question: In what year was the German Empire, including all the German states except Austria, with the King of Prussia as emperor, founded?
Answer: 1871

Question: When the Olympic flame is about to be taken to the venue for the next Olympic Games, it is lit in which city?
Answer: Athens

Question: What is the name of the multi-sport event for athletes with physical and visual disabilities, including athletes with mobility disabilities, amputations, blindness, and cerebral palsy, that are held every 4 years, following the Olympic Games?
Answer: The Paralympic Games

Question: The film "Jaws" was set in which town?
Answer: Amity, Long Island, USA

Question: What is the smallest interval in European music, of which 12 make an octave?
Answer: Semitone

Question: In which century was the Suez Canal opened?
Answer: 19th

Question: What is the name of the blocks that support rails for railway tracks?
Answer: Sleepers

Question: What is the largest loch in Scotland?
Answer: Lomond