Question: In the first two decades of the 20th century a number of European and USA expeditions were made, eventually successfully, to where?
Answer: The North Pole

Question: Solitaire is typically for how many players?
Answer: One

Question: Lake Chad, the second largest wetland in Africa, is shared by the Republic of Chad, the Republic of Cameroon, Nigeria and which other country?
Answer: The Republic of Niger

Question: Which revered world figure celebrated his 95th birthday, in hospital, in July 2013?
Answer: Nelson Mandela

Question: Who made the musical sculptures called "Pythagoras", "Kepler" & "Galileo" that were installed between the tracks of Kendall Station in Cambridge, Massachusetts from 1987 to 2007?
Answer: Paul Matisse

Question: One win away from eventing's Grand Slam in the UK in 2013, New Zealand equestrian Jock Paget had what mishap?
Answer: His horse tested positive for drugs after his previous victory

Question: What is a geographical character of the west coast of North America?
Answer: Edges of tectonic plates

Question: Which 2009 film is set in 2154?
Answer: Avatar

Question: Someone who has an abnormal fear of dogs is suffering from what?
Answer: Cynophobia

Question: William Shakespeare wrote plays set in Italy, Denmark, Scotland, England, Greece, Troy, Egypt, Tyre and more; what was his nationality?
Answer: English

Question: In the Alfred Hitchcock film "Psycho", where did the murder take place?
Answer: In the shower

Question: Where would you find a Tablehopper?
Answer: On the internet, with a review of eating places

Question: What is the last US federal holiday in a calendar year?
Answer: Christmas Day

Question: Which 18th century Italian adventurer was imprisoned in Venice, escaped and managed state lotteries in Paris, then travelled to England Poland and Spain before retiring in Bohemia?
Answer: Giovanni Jacobo Casanova

Question: In 2009 Iceland underwent its greatest emigrations since 1887, as a result of what?
Answer: All three major banks collapsed and the country teetered on bankruptcy

Question: G. H. Armauer Hansen discovered the cause of what disease in 1873?
Answer: Leprosy

Question: What is Little Brown Jug?
Answer: An annual harness race for three-year-old pacing standardbred horses

Question: Why did the British parliament pass Acts such as the Dress Act (1746), the Act of Proscription (1746), and the Heritable Jurisdictions Act (1746)?
Answer: To destroy the Scottish clan system

Question: What do the notes for the "euro" have on the front (recto)?
Answer: Windows or gateways

Question: What was the occupation of Polish trade unionist and politician Lech Walesa?
Answer: Electrician

Question: """Overwhelm"" is a word met reasonably often; what does ""whelm"" mean?"
Answer: Turn upside down, or downwards

Question: In mediaeval falconry, which social level was most commonly associated with a goshawk?
Answer: Yeoman

Question: Who was expelled from school, owned two failed businesses, worked for the Northampton Repertory Company and appeared in the film "Murder at Monte Carlo", where he was discovered by a Warner Brothers executive and went on to make 58 films?
Answer: Errol Flynn

Question: The island of Madagascar is off the coast of which African mainland country?
Answer: Mozambique

Question: What do Katharine Hepburn, Luise Rainer, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Vivien Leigh, Ingrid Bergman, Elizabeth Taylor, Glenda Jackson, Jane Fonda, Sally Field, Jodie Foster, and Hilary Swank have in common?
Answer: Winning an Academy Award for Best Actress

Question: The fifteen elements with atomic numbers 57 to 71, which includes Lanthanum (La), Cerium (Ce), Praseodymium (Pr), Neodymium (Nd), Promethium (Pm), Europium (Eu), Erbium (Er), Thulium (Tm), Ytterbium (Yb) and Lutetium (Lu), are known as what?
Answer: Lanthanoid series

Question: From the 17th century to the early 20th century what was the main material used for billiard balls?
Answer: Ivory

Question: What nationality was Abel Janszoon Tasman the voyager, explorer and map maker?
Answer: Dutch

Question: Which South American country extends the furthest east?
Answer: Brazil

Question: How many different people were Prime Minister of Australia in the first 100 years after it became a Dominion in 1901?
Answer: 25

Question: Whose chances of winning the 2010 PGA Chamionship were dashed when he received a two shot penalty at the last hole for grounding his club in a bunker?
Answer: Dustin Johnson

Question: Who created and performed the most soundtracks for the film Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps?
Answer: David Byrne and Brian Eno

Question: Prepatellar bursitis is more commonly known as what?
Answer: Housemaid's knee

Question: What is the name of the desert basin in the Libyan Desert which, at 133 m below sea level, contains the second lowest point in Africa?
Answer: The Qattara Depression

Question: On 27 April 2010, the debt rating of which country was decreased to 'junk' status by Standard & Poor's, amidst fears of default by the government?
Answer: Greece

Question: Who played "Elaine Robinson" in the 1967 film, "The Graduate"?
Answer: Katherine Ross

Question: The line "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures, the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge, has marked the upward surge of mankind ..." is from which film?
Answer: Wall Street

Question: What is the largest island administered by the People's Republic of China, which is due east of Vietnam?
Answer: Hainan

Question: Who were the parents of 5 girls and a boy, born between 1932 and 1940, who were killed by their mother in Berlin on 1 May 1945, before both parents committed suicide?
Answer: Joseph & Magda Goebbels

Question: What year did students at Oxford University organise the first university "athletic sports" meeting?
Answer: 1850

Question: Who wrote the poem "Paradise Lost"?
Answer: John Milton

Question: In the 3rd millennium BCE the Indus Valley civilisation was using distance measurements precise to a unit of what?
Answer: 1.704 mm (1/16 inch)

Question: In May 2001, Christopher Bailey was appointed creative director of which British luxury fashion house that manufactures clothing, fragrances and fashion accessories?
Answer: Burberry

Question: Which film actor (1895-1926) is known for his films "The Four Horsemen", "The Sheik" and "Blood And Sand"?
Answer: Rudolph Valentino

Question: Who was said to have interceded to save the life of Captain John Smith, was later taken hostage and held at Jamestown, married John Rolfe, came to England and died at Gravesend in 1617?
Answer: Pocahontas

Question: He is an American artist whose work is characterised by astonishing geometrics and distortions, and brilliant deep vivid colours. What is his name?
Answer: Maxfield Parrish

Question: Where are the Ottawa Islands?
Answer: Off the east shore of Hudson Bay, Canada

Question: What describes a variable signal that is continuous in time and amplitude, that can be seen as the opposite of "digital"?
Answer: Analogue

Question: Curling stones are currently made of what?
Answer: Granite

Question: What process concerns the passage of food through the human body?
Answer: Peristalsis

Question: What type of building in the Roman forum, the largest of its type there, was called "Julia"?
Answer: Basilica

Question: The highest measured waterfall in North America, among the highest 7 in the world, is in California and is known as what?
Answer: Yosemite Falls

Question: What style of French painting, influenced by Flemish and Dutch Baroque and Italian styles, with schools developed around Caravaggio and Peter Paul Rubens, was practised by Georges de la Tour, Simon Vouet, and the Le Nain brothers?
Answer: Louis XIII

Question: Who commited suicide after she was abandoned by Aeneas?
Answer: Dido