Question: Abraham Slender is a character in which Shakespeare play?
Answer: The Merry Wives of Windsor

Question: The Vedas are ancient texts relating to which religion?
Answer: Hinduism

Question: What does the Latin phrase ‘Scito te ipsum’ translate to in English?
Answer: Know yourself

Question: What is the first name of author Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple?
Answer: Jane

Question: Which female singer had a 1991 UK hit with the single ‘Promise Me’?
Answer: Beverley Craven

Question: In anatomy, otic relates to which part of the human body?
Answer: Ear

Question: Actor Lawrence Tureaud is better known by what name?
Answer: Mr T

Question: Delamere Forest is in which English county?
Answer: Cheshire

Question: What are the names of the three major airports which serve New York City?
Answer: JFK International; La Guardia; Liberty International

Question: The Xingu River is in which South American country?
Answer: Brazil

Question: Which US President was assassinated in 1881?
Answer: James Garfield

Question: Zakumi was the name of the official mascot for which sporting competition?
Answer: 2010 FIFA World Cup

Question: In mathematics, what type of angle measures more than 180 degrees but less than 360 degrees?
Answer: Reflex angle

Question: What is the basic currency of Brazil?
Answer: Real

Question: Which US state is known as the ‘Gem State’?
Answer: Idaho

Question: Selene (Selenological Engineering Explorer) was the second lunar orbital spacecraft launched by which country, in September 2007?
Answer: Japan

Question: Colomba Pasquale (or Easter Dove) is a traditional Easter cake which originated from which country?
Answer: Italy

Question: The metical is the basic monetary unit of which African country?
Answer: Mozambique

Question: Which Swiss folk hero was said to have walked past the emperor’s hat without bowing to it, and was forced to shoot an apple from his son’s head with a crossbow to avoid execution?
Answer: William Tell

Question: Which perfume was named after Coco Chanel’s birthday?
Answer: Chanel No. 19

Question: Who was the British Prime Minister during the 1956 Suez Crisis?
Answer: Anthony Eden

Question: The company Titleist manufacture which sports equipment?
Answer: Golf

Question: What type of fish is included in the ingredients of Worcestershire Sauce?
Answer: Anchovies

Question: How many planets make up our solar system?
Answer: Eight – Pluto is no longer a planet

Question: What was the first battle in the Wars of the Roses in England in 1455?
Answer: Battle of St Albans

Question: Who won the 2010 BRIT Award for British Male Solo Artist?
Answer: Dizzee Rascal

Question: A polygraph is more commonly known by what name?
Answer: Lie detector

Question: Pomology is the study of what?
Answer: Fruit production

Question: A balcony named after which US President is on the second floor of the Whitehouse?
Answer: Harry Truman

Question: Which sprinter lit the Olympic flame at the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Australia?
Answer: Cathy Freeman

Question: Who wrote ‘The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole’?
Answer: Sue Townsend

Question: What type of animal is a kob?
Answer: Antelope

Question: What type of car did Burt Reynolds drive in the 1977 film ‘Smokey and the Bandit’?
Answer: Pontiac Firebird

Question: What is the title of the 1931 film in which the Marx Brothers are stowaways on an ocean liner?
Answer: Monkey Business

Question: Who said, the day before he was killed in 1968, ‘I’m not worried about anything, I’m not fearing any man’?
Answer: Martin Luther King Jnr

Question: Brothers Richard and Simon Mantell played which sport for England in the 2010 Commonwealth Games?
Answer: Hockey

Question: An ossuary is a container or room in which what are kept?
Answer: The bones of the dead

Question: Which Mediterranean island attained its independence from Britain in 1960?
Answer: Cyprus

Question: In which year year did English footballer Stanley Matthews play his final international game?
Answer: 1957 – against Scotland

Question: Florimania is a passion for what?
Answer: Flowers

Question: Mary Helen Mackillop, also known as Saint Mary of the Cross, is the only person from which country to be recognised by the Roman Catholic church as a saint?
Answer: Australia

Question: The Kaieteur Falls are in which South American country?
Answer: Guyana

Question: Who wrote the book ‘Dubliners’, first published in 1914?
Answer: James Joyce

Question: La Sapienza University is in which European city?
Answer: Rome

Question: What is the first name of 2010 World Champion Formula One racing driver Vettel?
Answer: Sebastian

Question: What is the name of the narrow strip of land, with water either side, linking two larger areas of land?
Answer: Isthmus

Question: Film critic John Simon described which actor as resembling ‘A half-melted bulldog’?
Answer: Walter Matthau

Question: Myocardium is the muscular tissue of which part of the human body?
Answer: Heart

Question: Which legendary Greek hero killed the Minotaur with the help of Ariadne?
Answer: Theseus

Question: Curio is a character in which Shakespeare play?
Answer: Twelfth Night

Question: What is the official language of Egypt?
Answer: Arabic

Question: Which famous US outlaw shot the cashier of a savings bank in Gallatin Missouri in 1869?
Answer: Jesse James

Question: Which actor narrated the 1970’s UK tv documentary ‘The World At War’?
Answer: Laurence Olivier

Question: Which online bookstore was originally called Cadabra.com?
Answer: Amazon

Question: Magyarorszag is the local name for which country?
Answer: Hungary

Question: Who was the last English monarch to die on the battlefield?
Answer: Richard III

Question: Earth Day is celebrated in the USA during which month of the year?
Answer: April – 22nd

Question: The National Motor Museum is in which English county?
Answer: Hampshire

Question: Mal de mer is the French term for which ailment in humans?
Answer: Seasickness

Question: CDN is the international car registration for which country?
Answer: Canada

Question: FILA is an international federation for which sport?
Answer: Wrestling

Question: American 1940’s murder victim Elizabeth Short was known by what posthumous nickname?
Answer: The Black Dahlia

Question: What is the title of the humorous country song released by Australian singer Slim Dusty in 1957, the first Australian single to ‘go gold’?
Answer: A Pub With No Beer

Question: How many books make up the New Testament of the Bible?
Answer: 27

Question: Which nuclear physicist is known as the ‘father of the atomic bomb’?
Answer: Julius Robert Oppenheimer

Question: The Brazos Cliffs is a famous rock formation in which US state?
Answer: New Mexico

Question: Which country has the internet domain .is?
Answer: Iceland

Question: Which British scientist discovered acetylene in 1836?
Answer: Edmund Davy

Question: Which country hosted and won the 1995 Rugby World Cup?
Answer: South Africa

Question: Which US band released a 2002 album called ‘By The Way’?
Answer: Red Hot Chilli Peppers

Question: The character of Adam the servant was said to have been played by Shakespeare in which of his plays?
Answer: As You Like It

Question: Which writer created the fictional detective Charlie Chan?
Answer: Earl Biggers

Question: Who built the Roman wall which divided England and Scotland?
Answer: Hadrian

Question: Which company introduced the first triple blade cartridge razor, the Mach 3, in 1998?
Answer: Gillette

Question: Which famous London museum was established at the Baker Street Bazaar in 1835?
Answer: Madame Tussaud’s

Question: The Bernstein and Sondheim song ‘Somewhere’ was written for which musical?
Answer: West Side Story

Question: Catamarca, Mendoza and Formosa are all provinces in which South American country?
Answer: Argentina

Question: In humans, the medical condition aglutition is the inability to do what?
Answer: Swallow

Question: Pouchong tea is traditionally scented with the leaves of which flower?
Answer: Rose