Question: Who played the joker in the 2008 film "The Dark Knight"?
Answer: Heath Ledger

Question: What marked the 1895 game in Canada between the Halifax Stanleys and Dartmouth Jubilees hockey teams?
Answer: First recorded game involving two all-black hockey teams

Question: What term for a style of post-Impressionist painting with bold and flat forms separated by dark contours, a famous example odf which is Paul Gauguin's "The Yellow Christ" (1889), was coined by critic Edouard Dujardin in 1888?
Answer: Cloisonnism

Question: Which river runs through the cities of Turin, Piacenza and Ferrara, and is connected to Milan through a network of channels?
Answer: Po

Question: Which official knocks three times on the doors to the chamber of the House of Commons at the state opening of a British parliament?
Answer: Black Rod

Question: A critic hailed "Les Misrables", when it was first published in 1862, as "exaggerated and inflated nonsense"; what would have been a simile?
Answer: Dithyramb

Question: Which Canadian-born bandleader and violinist formed The Royal Canadians in 1924 with his brothers Carmen, Lebert and Victor?
Answer: Guy Lombardo

Question: Corcovado mountain overlooks which city?
Answer: Rio de Janeiro

Question: What do Anton Chekhov, Henrik Ibsen, Eugene O'Neill, Athol Fugard and Frances Boothby have in common?
Answer: They are playwrights

Question: The cruciate ligaments are in which part of the human body?
Answer: Legs

Question: Why are many of the river bridges in Milwaukee, USA, built at an angle?
Answer: Early rivalries made sure streets reaching either side of a river did not line up

Question: What was astronaut Buzz Aldrin's first name?
Answer: Edwin

Question: If you were to receive a floral tribute, what would you expect?
Answer: A formal arrangement of flowers

Question: Abu Simbel is in which country?
Answer: Egypt

Question: Which film, directed by Frank Capra, starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur, concerns a man from Vermont who tries to share his inheritance?
Answer: Mr Deeds Goes To Town

Question: Where was Geoff Ogilvie, the 2006 US Open golf tournament winner, born?
Answer: Australia

Question: What name was given to both of the Acts that united the parliaments of England and Scotand in 1707, and those of Britain and Ireland in 1800?
Answer: Act of Union

Question: Haughton impact crater, at latitude 75 degrees north one of the most northerly impact craters known, is located where?
Answer: Devon Island, Canada

Question: What was broadcast in 2012 on Fox News Channel's Studio B which caused it to issue an on-air apology almost immediately afterwards?
Answer: Live broadcast of the suicide of the object of a police pursuit in Arizona

Question: He was a founding member, songwriter, and guitarist with the rock band Magic Alex, made his professional acting debut in 1992 in UK TV, and in TV has starred alongside Robbie Coltrane, Philip Glenister, David Tennant and Jim Broadbent. Who is he?
Answer: John Simm

Question: A single flame gas burner frequently used in student science laboratories is named after whom?
Answer: Robert Bunsen

Question: In Victorian cookery, what was one of the main ingredients of mock turtle soup?
Answer: Head of a calf

Question: The Treaty of Peace with Japan (also known as the Treaty of San Francisco and the San Francisco Peace Treaty), signed by 49 nations that officially ended World War II, came into effect in what year?
Answer: 1952

Question: In the Christian biblical quotation, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a what than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God?
Answer: Needle

Question: What is the regulation size ratio for a pocket billiards table?
Answer: 2:1

Question: The Canadian state of British Columbia is almost exclusively where?
Answer: In the Rocky Mountains

Question: Why was the start of the Eurasian KHL (Kontinental Hockey League) 2011-12 season of ice hockey delayed for nearly a week?
Answer: The entire Lokomotiv Yaroslavl team and coaching staff died in an air crash

Question: """Facebook"" was launched in what year?"
Answer: 2004

Question: What was the name of the TV producer who started what became a long and outstanding career by establishing the UK TV series "Dr Who" in 1963?
Answer: Verity Lambert

Question: When was the last Act of amnesty passed in Great Britain?
Answer: 1747

Question: Where are the Indy Car races held?
Answer: Indianapolis, USA

Question: By what name is the wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia, who lived near Coventry in the 11th century, better known?
Answer: Lady Godiva

Question: Who was the first person to sign the American Declaration of Independence?
Answer: John Hancock

Question: What is the capital of the Australian state of Tasmania?
Answer: Hobart

Question: Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo play US Marshalls investigating the disappearance of a psychiatric patient in the 1950s in which 2010 film directed by Martin Scorsese?
Answer: Shutter Island

Question: What is an alchemist likely to be searching for?
Answer: Philosopher's stone

Question: """Hobson-Jobson"" is the short title of a book written by Henry Yule and Arthur C. Burnell, first published in 1886, that contains what?"
Answer: Anglo-Indian words and terms

Question: When and where did water skiing first develop as a sport?
Answer: 1922, Usa

Question: Which American serial killer raped and murdered at least 33 young men and boys between 1972 and 1978, burying many in the crawl space underneath his home, who became known as "Killer Clown" for entertaining children in a clown suit and makeup as "Pogo the Clown"?
Answer: John Wayne Gacy, Jr

Question: What element has the symbol Cu?
Answer: Copper

Question: In what kind of establishment was the TV series Fawlty Towers set?
Answer: Hotel

Question: What is a means for storing movies and so on, on a disc?
Answer: Dvd

Question: """The Kiss"" is a 1907 painting by whom?"
Answer: Klimt

Question: A sabre is what type of weapon?
Answer: Sword

Question: The game Hare and Hounds is typically played on which shape board?
Answer: Two-ended spearhead with orthogonal and diagonal lines running through

Question: Where would one encounter a rim shot?
Answer: Music

Question: Who was the Roman god of wine and fertility?
Answer: Bacchus

Question: When was the gambling casino, Monte Carlo, first opened in Monaco?
Answer: 1856

Question: Which author is the ex-wife of British designer, restaurateur, retailer and writer Sir Terence and the mother of designers Sebastian and Jasper?
Answer: Shirley Conran

Question: How many bones are there in the human backbone, including the five that are fused to form the sacrum and the coccyx?
Answer: 33

Question: Herodotus, one of the earliest writers now to be called a historian, lived when?
Answer: 5th century BCE

Question: Awarded since 1955, what is the name of the highest prize for competing films at the Cannes Film Festival?
Answer: The Palme d'Or

Question: Who had 2 hit records in his short career, "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" & "Time in a Bottle"?
Answer: Jim Croce

Question: The dessert "sachertorte" contains what main ingredient?
Answer: Chocolate

Question: What is directly opposite south southeast on a compass?
Answer: North northwest

Question: What is the next in this series: "Born to Run", "Darkness on the Edge of Town", "The River", "Nebraska", "Born in the USA", "Tunnel of Love" ... ?
Answer: Human Touch

Question: Whose visit to Vietnam in November 2000 was the first by a U.S. President since the end of the Vietnam War?
Answer: Bill Clinton

Question: Oak Ridge, Tennessee is widely associated with what?
Answer: The Manhattan Project

Question: What is the title of the officer in charge of supply in the British army?
Answer: Quartermaster

Question: How many years did the musical "Cats" run for in London's West End?
Answer: 21

Question: How many Popes were there in 1410?
Answer: 3