Question: Who was elected Mayor of New York City in 2001?
Answer: Michael Bloomberg

Question: The period of the French Revolution when the Girondists were guillotined, which ended with the guillotining of Robespierre, was known as what?
Answer: Reign of Terror

Question: What does blues singer B.B. King call his guitar?
Answer: Lucille

Question: What fabulous creature appears in the Heraldry of Wales, Japan and China and is typical of evil in Christian lore?
Answer: Dragon

Question: Which musical term denotes a slide in pitch which moves in discrete steps, such as dragging a finger over the keys of the piano?
Answer: Glissando

Question: What is the name for the area where tyres are changed, petrol is provided and minor repairs are carried out during a motor race?
Answer: Pits

Question: In 1918, when did the armistice take effect at the end of World War I?
Answer: 11am on 11 November

Question: In which US city is the National Air and Space Museum?
Answer: Washington

Question: A play by Eugene O'Neill is "A Long ... what .... Journey into Night"?
Answer: Day's

Question: What electricity voltage is provided as mains power in the USA?
Answer: 120 Volts

Question: The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is a cartel of 12 countries: Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Venezuela and which other?
Answer: Libya

Question: Which pole vaulter won 6 consecutive IAAF World Championships, an Olympic gold, broke the world record 35 times (17 outdoor and 18 indoor records), was the first to clear both 6.0 metres and 6.10 metres (20 ft)?
Answer: Sergey Bubka

Question: According to the Bible, who was told by God to build an ark to escape the Great Flood?
Answer: Noah

Question: Which state of the USA has the longest border with Canada?
Answer: Alaska

Question: Helen Clark, who was appointed Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme in 2009, is from which country?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: What is Berlin's "Unter Den Linden"?
Answer: Boulevard

Question: A station logo that TV broadcasters overlay over a portion of the screen-area to identify the channel (known in the UK and New Zealand as a DOG and in the USA and Canada as a bug), is known as what in Australia?
Answer: Watermark

Question: What is the name of the sterling silver salver awarded to the Wimbledon Ladies' Singles champion?
Answer: Venus Rosewater Dish

Question: What type of event is the London Marathon?
Answer: Running

Question: What was Melanie Brown's nickname when she was in the Spice Girls?
Answer: Scary

Question: Which cartoonist, famous for his work for the British newspaper the "Daily Express", used a cartoon family (including Grandma, the enigmatic matriarch, and Chalkie, the tyrannical school teacher), to comment on current affairs?
Answer: Giles

Question: Who is the next in this series: Nelson Rockefeller, Walter Mondale, George H. W. Bush, Dan Quayle, Al Gore ... ?
Answer: Dick Cheney

Question: Whose wife, on arriving at his death bed, reportedly shouted "Is the bloody man dead yet?"?
Answer: Dylan Thomas

Question: Which teams compete in the "Derby della Mole", which is also known as the "Turin Derby"?
Answer: Juventus FC & Torino FC

Question: What is the popular name for the ancient Egyptian works generally inscribed on papyrus and placed in coffins of nobility and royalty?
Answer: Book of the Dead

Question: In 1949, when the part of Ireland that was more independent than the rest was declared a sovereign independent state outside the British Commonwealth, what name was given to it?
Answer: Republic Of Ireland

Question: What is the name of the strip of land between a golf tee and the green?
Answer: Fairway

Question: What is the capital of Texas?
Answer: Austin

Question: Which American pop singer/songwriter who won the first season of the television series American Idol in 2002 won two Grammy Awards in 2006 - for her album "Breakaway" and the single "Since U Been Gone"?
Answer: Kelly Clarkson

Question: In 2010, Neil Robertson became the second Australian to win the World Snooker Championship title. Who was the first, who won the 1952 championship?
Answer: Horace Lindrum

Question: People from Brittany in France are known as what?
Answer: Breton

Question: What does "HM" mean, when referring to Queen Elizabeth II?
Answer: Her Majesty

Question: How did Helen Sharman make history in 1991?
Answer: First British person in space

Question: What right of a defendant was last used in "Ashford v Thornton", an 1818 English legal case that was a private appeal from an acquittal for murder?
Answer: Trial by combat

Question: Jugular veins carry blood away from which part of the body?
Answer: Head

Question: Who wrote the music for the ballet "Romeo and Juliet" and "Peter and the Wolf" (a children's tale for narrator and orchestra)?
Answer: Prokofiev

Question: Who succeeded Sir William Howe as Commander in Chief of the British forces in 1778 during the American War of Independence?
Answer: Sir Henry Clinton

Question: What do Green Day, the Beverley Sisters, Ace of Base, Atomic Kitten, Blink-182, Cream, Depeche Mode, Destiny's Child and the Dixie Chicks have in common?
Answer: They are all trios

Question: Which city, the second largest in Chile, was moved 3 metres to the west by an earthquake in February 2010?
Answer: Concepcin

Question: What Western Christian military order, which existed for approximately two centuries in the Middle Ages, was endorsed by the Roman Catholic Church around 1129?
Answer: Knights Templar

Question: Which band put out a single in 1996 called "Tonight Tonight"?
Answer: Smashing Pumpkins

Question: Where is the "Day of the Dead" celebrated on 2 November?
Answer: Mexico

Question: What phrase refers to an archaic method of excommunication for one who had committed a particularly grievous sin?
Answer: Bell, book and candle

Question: Who, in 1842, became the first US President's wife to die in the White House?
Answer: Letitia Tyler

Question: From 1946 to 1970, the Jules Rimet Trophy was awarded to the winner of what competition?
Answer: The FIFA World Cup (Soccer)

Question: How many different people were Prime Minister of Canada in the first 100 years after the first was appointed in 1867?
Answer: 14

Question: Where are gaiters usually worn?
Answer: Legs

Question: What embroidery technique is to gather fabric so that it can stretch, and was commonly used in cuffs, bodices, and necklines in garments where buttons were undesirable before elastic?
Answer: Smocking

Question: Which English king asked the Pope to annul his marriage as he had married his brother's widow?
Answer: Henry VIII

Question: What unit of work represents the work done to overcome a force of 1 dyne through a distance of 1 centimetre?
Answer: Erg

Question: What is the wine-tasting term for the aroma, smell or bouquet of a wine?
Answer: Nose

Question: Which city has "areas" called Burdiehouse, Clermiston, Corstorphine, Dumbiedykes, The Grange, Haymarket, Hermiston, Holyrood, Inverleith, Jock's Lodge, Leith, Meadowbank, Murrayfield, Oxgangs, Pilrig, Portobello, Riccarton, Shandon and Tynecastle?
Answer: Edinburgh

Question: What was the nickname of the British army regiment called the "11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own)"?
Answer: The Cherry Pickers

Question: Who was President of the International Olympic Committee from 1952 to 1972, who had opposed professionalism in the Olympics and the politicisation of sport, and had proposed eliminating team sports from the Summer Olympics?
Answer: Avery Brundage

Question: Winston Churchill started his first term as British Prime Minister during which event?
Answer: World War II

Question: Simon Baker, the star of the TV series "The Mentalist", was born where?
Answer: Australia