Question: What is the "national" and "first official" language of The Republic of Ireland?
Answer: Irish

Question: Where was the landing of the main invasion force on the Italian peninsula in World War II by the allied army (comprising the U.S. Fifth Army and the British Eighth Army) on 9 September 1943?
Answer: Salerno

Question: Which country launched an attack against the US naval base at Pearl Harbour in 1941?
Answer: Japan

Question: A Shiite terrorist group founded by Masan Sabbah in 1090 dedicated to the murder of enemy leaders led to which word in the English language?
Answer: Assassin

Question: What country co-hosted the Euro 2008 soccer competition with Switzerland?
Answer: Austria

Question: Which Bulgarian-born artist is famous for wrapping landmarks and landscapes in fabric?
Answer: Christo

Question: What colour is the dye made from woad?
Answer: Blue

Question: The first time that Roger Bannister ran under 4 minutes for a mile at an international meeting was at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, B.C. Which country was he representing?
Answer: England

Question: A cummerbund is worn on which part of the body?
Answer: Waist

Question: What is the oldest and southernmost city in Russia, with 7 miles of city wall?
Answer: Derbent

Question: In which country did student protest leader Steve Biko die while in police custody in 1977?
Answer: South Africa

Question: In what sport is "touch" said to signify that an opponent has scored a hit?
Answer: Fencing

Question: What would a joiner use to bore a hole?
Answer: Brace and bit

Question: If the numbers from 1 to 10 are mutiplied by each other, what is the last number of the result?
Answer: 0

Question: The success of which English rock band formed in Manchester in 1982 was based on the songwriting partnership of Morrissey (vocals) and Johnny Marr (guitar), with the rhythm section of Andy Rourke (bass) and Mike Joyce (drums)?
Answer: The Smiths

Question: What is the capital of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada?
Answer: St John's

Question: What is the name for a territory administered by two or more states?
Answer: Condominium

Question: How many different Kings of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland were there between 1840 and 1900?
Answer: None

Question: The rules for which sport were originally drawn up by the Knickerbocker Club in New York in 1843?
Answer: Baseball

Question: Which Indian won a Nobel Prize in 1969?
Answer: Mother Teresa

Question: How was Marie Antoinette killed?
Answer: Guillotined

Question: What character was played by Ronnie Barker in the TV series "Open All Hours"?
Answer: Arkwright

Question: In what year did competition for the Davis Cup begin?
Answer: 1900

Question: Which drummer was the band leader for his wife, Pearl Bailey?
Answer: Louie Bellson

Question: Which African country was never formally colonized, and resisted all kinds of European rule until 1920?
Answer: Somalia

Question: What Royal residence in London, originally part of St James's Palace, was used as the London residence of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh from 1949 to 1952?
Answer: Clarence House

Question: In rhyming slang, what is "to talk a lot"?
Answer: Rabbit

Question: What law is "the volume of a given mass of gas at a given temperature is inversely proportional to its pressure"?
Answer: Boyle's law

Question: Where is the world's oldest surviving bowling green, with the first recorded use being in 1299?
Answer: Southampton, England

Question: Among the works of which English landscape painter are "The Fighting Temeraire" and "The Sun of Venice Going to Sea"?
Answer: Turner

Question: Who was the first elected female head of state in Africa?
Answer: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Question: On the Isle of Man, the "House of Keys" is concerned with what?
Answer: Government

Question: In 1932 the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd unified with the regions of Al-Hasa and Qatif to form which country?
Answer: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Question: According to the Bible, the descendants of Noah tried to erect which construction against the will of God, who destroyed the plan by making the builders talk a variety of languages?
Answer: Tower of Babel

Question: Composer Arcangelo Corelli (1653 - 1713) is associated with which instrument?
Answer: Violin

Question: What mountain's volcanic eruption, on the island of Sumbawa, Indonesia, has discharged the most material?
Answer: Tambora, 1815

Question: What church, known as "the Irvingites" mainly due to the preaching of Edward Irving, was founded in Scotland in 1832?
Answer: Catholic Apostolic Church

Question: During the American Civil War, what city was the capital of the Confederacy?
Answer: Richmond, Virginia

Question: What does "bona fides" mean?
Answer: Good faith

Question: What is the largest and first discovered (by Piazzi at Palermo in 1801) of the minor planets?
Answer: Ceres

Question: English is a subsidiary official language of India: what is the main official language?
Answer: Hindi

Question: Most elite high jumpers used the Straddle technique, Western Roll, Eastern cut-off or Scissors-Jump until the development of which technique, when its inventor's gold medal in the 1968 Summer Olympics brought it to the world's attention?
Answer: The Fosbury flop

Question: How many ways can a batsman be dismissed in cricket?
Answer: 10

Question: Carlos Menem was the president of which country from 8 July 1989 to 10 December 1999?
Answer: Argentina

Question: What was the name of the literary coterie that met regularly around 1750 that included Mrs Vesey, Mrs Ord, Mrs Elizabeth Montagu, Elizabeth Carter, Mrs Hester Chapone and Benjamin Stillingfleet?
Answer: Blue stockings

Question: Where did Malcolm Campbell set a land speed record of 245.7 m.p.h. in 1931?
Answer: Daytona, USA

Question: What weather condition can cause a "whiteout"?
Answer: Blizzard

Question: Which brass musical instrument has a slide mechanism that enables the sounding length of the tube to be adjusted?
Answer: Trombone

Question: What is the capital of Sri Lanka?
Answer: Sri Jayawardenapura-Kotte

Question: After public outrage over a painting by Goya of a nude woman ("the first totally profane life-size female nude in Western art"), he refused to paint clothes on her, and created a new painting of the same woman in the same pose, clothed. The paintings are known as "The Nude ... " what and "The Clothed ..." what?
Answer: Maja

Question: Who was the last king of France?
Answer: Louis XVIII

Question: What is the French equivalent of the word "mister"?
Answer: Monsieur

Question: James Edward Oglethorpe founded the city of Savannah, Georgia, after obtaining a Charter from King George II to establish a colony for what sort of people?
Answer: People impoverished and imprisoned for debt

Question: What is the name of the hall in which meetings of the Salvation Army are held?
Answer: Citadel

Question: How many countries have ever entered teams in the Olympic Rugby Union competitions?
Answer: 7

Question: In which country is the region of Aragon?
Answer: Spain

Question: Why were Canadian men's rowing pair Chris Jarvis and David Calder disqualified in the Semifinal B round of the Men's coxless pair at the 2004 Summer Olympics?
Answer: They rowed into the lane for South Africa's Donovan Cech and Ramon di Clemente

Question: What amorphous form of graphite or pure carbon is used mainly as a lubricant for machinery?
Answer: Blacklead

Question: Who was the Archbishop of Canterbury when women were first ordained as priests into the Church of England?
Answer: George Carey

Question: In which country is the city and naval base of Cadiz?
Answer: Spain

Question: In August 2009, Britain's largest jewel robbery took place at which store?
Answer: Graff Diamonds, Mayfair, London

Question: Which 17th century composer wrote the opera "L'Orfeo"?
Answer: Claudio Monteverdi