Question: Which space telescope was carried into orbit by the space shuttle in April 1990?
Answer: Hubble

Question: Who wrote the line "In Xanadu did Kublai Khan a stately pleasure dome decree"?
Answer: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Question: Where would one go to see Moai?
Answer: Easter Island

Question: In the film "The Reader" (2008) Michael Berg and Hanna Schmitz were played by which actors?
Answer: Ralph Fiennes and Kate Winslet

Question: What machine separates grain from its stalk?
Answer: Thresher

Question: Swaying and dancing with hoops, like the modern hula hoop, has distant ancestors as well as current cousins, but not including...?
Answer: Hoop-la

Question: Which Polynesian island nation of 4 reef islands and 5 true atolls in the Pacific Ocean, midway between Hawaii and Australia, formerly known as the Ellice Islands, became fully independent within the Commonwealth in 1978?
Answer: Tuvalu

Question: Hamlet's thought: "The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of ..."?
Answer: The king

Question: What title did King Edward VIII of the UK take after his abdication?
Answer: Duke of Windsor

Question: Who did George W. Bush beat for the US presidency in 2000?
Answer: Al Gore

Question: When was the first message transmitted between UK and the USA by submarine telegraph cable?
Answer: 1858

Question: In 2010, the International Cricket Council turned down a nomination for Vice President from ex-Australian Prime Minister John Howard in favour of one from Alan Isaac, who was from which country?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: What is missing (e.g. has been airbrushed out) from the cover of later copies of The Beatles "Abbey Road" album that was published in the original?
Answer: Paul's cigarette

Question: How many multiples of 4 are there between 21 and 39?
Answer: 4

Question: What lies due east of Uruguay?
Answer: Atlantic Ocean

Question: Herbert Hoover and his wife Lou Henry Hoover often had public conversations in which language so that people could not eavesdrop on them?
Answer: Mandarin Chinese

Question: The long-running murder mystery play, "The Mousetrap" by Agatha Christie, was developed from an earlier radio play by the same author called what?
Answer: Three Blind Mice

Question: Koalas are native to which country?
Answer: Australia

Question: Who works in "The Oval Office"?
Answer: US President

Question: In which sea is the island of Barbados?
Answer: Caribbean

Question: What caused the end of the Triple Alliance made in 1883 between Germany, Austria and Italy against the power of Russia and France?
Answer: Italy joined the Allies during World War I in 1915

Question: What is produced from milk curds, and is drained, not pressed, so some whey remains and the individual curds remain loose?
Answer: Cottage cheese

Question: The Beach Soccer World Championship began in 1995 and became the Beach Soccer World Cup in 2005. Which country has won the contest most often since 1995?
Answer: Brazil

Question: What powers the form of transport known as lectica (ancient Rome), jiao (China), sedan chair (England), palanquin (India), gama (Korea) and tahtrevan (Turkey)?
Answer: Humans

Question: Bela Lugosi's most famous role was as who?
Answer: Dracula

Question: A range of devices including stick-on tattoos to be a password ID or hydration sensor, and a pill which when swallowed would emit a signal to communicate with external sensors and similar, was developed by which company?
Answer: Motorola

Question: Who was a session musician from Harlesden, North London, England who played for leading UK independent producers Shel Talmy and Mickie Most and performed on albums and singles by The Kinks, The Move, The Who, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Donovan, Jeff Beck, Jefferson Airplane, and the Steve Miller Band?
Answer: Nicky Hopkins

Question: Mary Lillian Ellison (1923-2007) was famous in what field?
Answer: Professional wrestling

Question: The phrase "wardrobe malfunction" entered pop music vocabulary following a performance at the Super Bowl XXXVIII between Janet Jackson and which other singer?
Answer: Justin Timberlake

Question: The tibia and fibula are found where in the human body?
Answer: Lower leg

Question: When the US swimmer Michael Phelps became the youngest person at the time to break a world record, what was the occasion?
Answer: 200 m butterfly in the World Championship Trials for the 2001 World Aquatics Championships

Question: According to Tennyson in "The Passing of Arthur", which knight stayed with the dying King Arthur to the end and threw the sword Excalibur into the lake?
Answer: Bedivere

Question: Which car maker has marketed models called Jazz, Accord, Civic and Legend?
Answer: Honda

Question: Talk-show host Jack Paar once welcomed which actress to The Tonight Show by saying, "Here they are, ... ", that became the title of her biography by Raymond Strait
Answer: Jayne Mansfield

Question: In 1990 the World Weightlifting Championships were run separately for men and women for the last time. Where were they held?
Answer: Budapest, Hungary, and Sarajevo, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

Question: Where would you find the Caves of Altamira, famous for prehistoric paintings on the rock?
Answer: Spain

Question: James Prescott Joule have his name to a unit of energy, and to what else?
Answer: Joule-Thomson Effect: temperature change in an insulated environment

Question: Complete the title of this James Bond film: "The World Is Not ... "
Answer: Enough

Question: Where would one find a hypotenuse?
Answer: As part of a right angled triangle

Question: What band's lead singer is known as "Suggs"?
Answer: Madness

Question: According to Ovid, a giant called Argus had his hundred what preserved forever in a peacock's tail, by the goddess Hera?
Answer: Eyes

Question: An island bearing the name Victoria Island is found in the Canadian Arctic archipelago, in Ottawa, near the Russian archipelago of Franz Josef Land, in Lagos in Nigeria, in the Chonos Archipelago in Chile, and where else?
Answer: The Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, California

Question: Which TV series concentrated on the death of Laura Palmer?
Answer: Twin Peaks

Question: The only middle weight boxer to win the World Heavyweight Championship was who?
Answer: Daniel Mendoza (1764-1836), England

Question: The Straits of Florida go between the Gulf of Mexico and where?
Answer: Atlantic Ocean

Question: Who ordered the building of the Great Pyramid of Giza?
Answer: Khufu

Question: Whose remains, after he died in 1506 at Valladolid, Mexico, were taken to San Domingo then Havana, and then, in 1898, to Seville?
Answer: Christopher Columbus

Question: Conventionally, Lent, the period of the Christian calendar leading up to Easter is how long?
Answer: 40 days

Question: What is the city where the White Nile flowing north from Lake Victoria meets the Blue Nile flowing west from Ethiopia?
Answer: Khartoum

Question: Platelets fulfil what function in human blood?
Answer: Clotting

Question: The Republic of Biafra (1967 -70) took its name from what?
Answer: The Bight of Biafra, which adjoined it

Question: Henry Croft, an orphan street sweeper who collected money for charity, is associated with what organised charitable tradition of working class culture in London, England?
Answer: Pearly Kings and Queens

Question: Jarlsberg cheese comes from which country?
Answer: Norway

Question: The Gunpowder Plot, planned for 5 November 1605, was an attempt by a group of Catholics to blow up the English parliament and which monarch?
Answer: James I

Question: The first three rounds of the 2009/2010 season for which world championship were cancelled, so that the first round was not held until 2010?
Answer: A1Gp

Question: When was Vatican City, the smallest independent sovereign state in the world, established?
Answer: 1929

Question: What was the "Lord of the Rings" character Gollum originally?
Answer: Hobbit