Question: Clive Owen starred in the title role of which 2004 film directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by David Franzoni, with Ioan Gruffudd, Keira Knightley and Ivano Marescotti?
Answer: King Arthur

Question: In which sport is a contest called honbasho or basho?
Answer: Sumo wrestling

Question: What is the oldest stock exchange in the USA?
Answer: Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX)

Question: Which country withdrew from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in 2008 after it became a net importer of oil?
Answer: Indonesia

Question: Which award-winning band are named after a South African football team?
Answer: Kaiser Chiefs

Question: Abraham Ortelius, a Flemish cartographer and geographer, is generally recognised as the creator of the first what in 1570 ?
Answer: Modern atlas

Question: How many US states begin with the letter "O"?
Answer: 3

Question: If someone is dismissed from one's employment, what are they said to be given?
Answer: Sack

Question: If 3 consecutive numbers add up to 27, what is the smallest of those numbers?
Answer: 8

Question: Who was on the throne of England when Francis Drake fought the Spanish Armada in 1588?
Answer: Elizabeth I

Question: The first Punic War was fought mainly on which island?
Answer: Sicily

Question: Who was the female lead in the film "Casablanca"?
Answer: Ingrid Bergman

Question: Cautley Spout, Gocta, Hannoki, ShirAbad, and Shoshone are the names of what?
Answer: Waterfalls

Question: In golf, what is the term for "four strokes under par"?
Answer: Condor

Question: What basic food can be evaporated, condensed, pasteurised or dried?
Answer: Milk

Question: Which Jewish festival, celebrated on the 14th and 15th of March, is to commemorate the preservation of the Jews in Persia from the destruction threatened by Haman?
Answer: Purim

Question: Competitors from which country won the most medals at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships held in Rotterdam, Netherlands from 16 to 24 October 2010?
Answer: People's Republic of China

Question: What 2005 science fiction-thriller film starring Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea and John Hurt, is an adaptation of a comic book by Alan Moore and David Lloyd?
Answer: V for Vendetta

Question: What is the current name of the country that was ruled by the Pahlavi dynasty from 1925 to 1979?
Answer: Iran

Question: The sausage tree, Kigelia or Worsboom is native to which continent?
Answer: Africa

Question: The islands of Kos, Leros, Nisyros, Patmos and Rhodes are in what sea?
Answer: Mediterranean

Question: Who was British prime minister at the start of World War I?
Answer: Herbert Asquith

Question: What is a medical term referring to the presence of pathogenic organisms in the bloodstream, leading to blood poisoning?
Answer: Septicemia

Question: What is the main qualification for being considered for the Turner Prize, which has been presented annually since 1984 and is awarded by the Tate gallery? To be...
Answer: A British visual artist aged under 50

Question: Which fictional character referred to his wife as "She Who Must Be Obeyed"?
Answer: Rumpole of the Bailey

Question: Especially in the USA, Canada and Australia, what term is used to describe an elected official approaching the end of their tenure?
Answer: Lame duck

Question: In English folklore, what symbolises fertility and rebirth?
Answer: The Green Man

Question: What term was used when 15 members of a US sports team were allowed to enter mainland China after a period of over 20 years in which Americans, except on very rare occasions, had been denied visas?
Answer: Ping pong diplomacy

Question: The boundaries of four states of the USA, known as the Four Corners states, meet at one point, the only such geographic point in the USA. They are Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and which other?
Answer: Utah

Question: What was the occupation of Anna Politkovskaya, who was found dead in the elevator of her apartment in central Moscow on 7 October 2006, shot twice in the chest, once in the shoulder, and once in the head at point blank range?
Answer: Journalist

Question: What are chlorine, bromine and iodine?
Answer: Halogens

Question: What fictional island off the coast of Sumatra that first appeared in the 1933 film "King Kong" is the home of King Kong and other creatures?
Answer: Skull Island

Question: What meteorological phenomenon is named after the Arabic word for "season"?
Answer: Monsoon

Question: What expression that comes from angling means "everything"?
Answer: Hook, line and sinker

Question: What is the middle name of Sir Austin Powers, KBE, a fictional character who first appeared in "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery" (1997) and is portrayed by Mike Myers?
Answer: Danger

Question: Which Australian, a winner of Golden Globe, BAFTA, Screen Actors Guild and Australian Film Institute awards, became, in 2009, one of 17 people to have won an Academy Award, a Tony Award and an Emmy Award?
Answer: Geoffrey Rush

Question: The London embassy of which country was seized in 1980 by gunmen demanding the release of political prisoners?
Answer: Iran

Question: Ricky Ponting represented Australia in what sport?
Answer: Cricket

Question: What creature is on the flag of Bhutan?
Answer: Dragon

Question: A US TV series (1974 to 1982) was called "The Little House ... " where?
Answer: On The Prairie

Question: Italy controlled which country from 1911 to 1943?
Answer: Libya

Question: """A pitch"" is the way that the ball is put into play in which game?"
Answer: Baseball

Question: What genre did Howard L. Chace, a professor of French, use when he wrote "Ladle Rat Rotten Hut", the story of Little Red Riding Hood written using English words (but never the correct ones) to demonstrate that the intonation of spoken English is almost as important to the meaning as the words themselves?
Answer: Homophonic transformation

Question: Mandy Rice-Davies, Christine Keeler and Stephen Ward all became infamous in the UK for their part in what event in the 1960s?
Answer: The Profumo Affair

Question: According to the saying, what "wasn't built in a day"?
Answer: Rome

Question: What items are in lots of 52 as standard, each with a unique combination of numbers and symbols?
Answer: Playing cards

Question: What is a variation of the standard card game of poker which consists of two cards being dealt face down to each player and then 5 community cards being placed by the dealer (3 as "the flop" then 1 called "the turn", then 1 called "the river"), with players having the option to check, bet or fold after each deal?
Answer: Texas Hold 'Em

Question: The seven brightest stars of which constellation form the asterism known as the Big Dipper in the United States and Canada, or the Plough in the United Kingdom and Ireland?
Answer: Ursa Major

Question: Early in November 2010, the Pope made a speech in which he relaxed the church's rules on what?
Answer: Contraceptives

Question: Who painted "Number 5" in 1948?
Answer: Jackson Pollock

Question: The magician David Copperfield broke off his engagement to whom in 1999?
Answer: Claudia Schiffer

Question: Who won the Indycar Championship in 1993?
Answer: Nigel Mansell

Question: How many sides does a hendecagon have?
Answer: 11

Question: From 14 November 1994 when services began until 14 November 2007, from where did "Eurostar" trains leave London for Paris?
Answer: Waterloo

Question: In Greek mythology, Hera sent two serpents to kill which baby?
Answer: Heracles

Question: The Forest of Arden appears in which Shakespearean play?
Answer: As You Like It

Question: In 2008, who became the first female recipient of the Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year award?
Answer: Gloria Estefan

Question: The UEFA cup is a soccer tournament for teams from which continent?
Answer: Europe

Question: If someone is referred to as "ursine", what animal are they being compared to?
Answer: Bear