Question: Ouzo is flavoured with what?
Answer: Aniseed

Question: Cambodia, which over the course of 1841 to 1953 was under the joint suzerainty of Thailand and Vietnam then was a monarchy under the protection of France which included an occupation by Japan, was steered to independence in 1953 by whom?
Answer: King Norodom Sihanouk

Question: Over its thousands of islands Indonesia officially recognises the religions of Christianity (Protestantism and Catholicism), Confucianism, Islam, Hinduism and what other?
Answer: Buddhism

Question: When was the last death penalty carried out, by guillotine, in France?
Answer: September 1977

Question: Which Swiss national is a leading tennis player?
Answer: Roger Federer

Question: Where is a fore-topgallant found?
Answer: On a ship

Question: The Chinese artist Zhang Huan, also in New York, USA, works in what field?
Answer: Painting and performance art

Question: Which place, used by Russians in 1814 to bombard Paris, became a popular entertainment area in the 19th and 20th centuries, outside the city limits, free of Paris taxes (and where the local nuns made wine)?
Answer: Montmartre

Question: With what area are the Beaker people, or the Beaker Culture, most associated?
Answer: Northwestern and central Europe

Question: Wu Zetian (625705), also known as Wu Zhao and Tian Hou, is the only woman in the history of China to do what?
Answer: Reign as Empress in her own right

Question: The American TV series "The Big Bang Theory" is an example of what genre?
Answer: Comedy

Question: Who is an Australian convicted murderer, currently serving 35 life sentences for murdering 35 people and injuring 21 others in the Port Arthur massacre, a shooting spree in Tasmania in 1996?
Answer: Martin John Bryant

Question: Who are Alvin, Simon, Theodore, and Dave?
Answer: The Chipmunks

Question: Up until 1869 where was the city known as Edo?
Answer: Japan

Question: The Royal Residence of George III of England and before him his father was at Kew Gardens, falling into disrepair in the early 19th century, and was known as what?
Answer: The White House

Question: The dish Apple Charlotte is said to be named after whose wife?
Answer: George III

Question: What 1976-9 UK TV series, written by David Nobbs, frequently featured brief footage of a hippopotamus?
Answer: The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin

Question: Manfred von Brauchitsch from East Germany, who drove in Grand Prix and European Championships in the 1930s winning, and sometimes losing with spectacularly bad luck, was associated with what car?
Answer: Mercedes Benz's Silver Arrow

Question: The island of Runion, Mauritius, is closest to which other country to its west?
Answer: Madagascar

Question: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, once managing director of the International Monetary Fund and a candidate for election as President of France, was dogged with accusations of what?
Answer: Illegal sexual activity

Question: Which melodramatic opera depicting graphic scenes of torture, murder and suicide, set in Rome in June 1800 when the Kingdom of Naples's control of Rome was threatened by Napoleon's invasion of Italy, contains some of Puccini's best-known lyrical arias?
Answer: Tosca

Question: A 2005 remix of the song "Axel F", music originally released in 1984 as the theme for American TV series "Beverley Hills Cops", became known as what?
Answer: The Crazy Frog song

Question: The Tasman Sea flows between which two countries?
Answer: Australia and New Zealand

Question: After the game of Australian Football was formulated in 1857 which was the first club (formed the following year)?
Answer: Melbourne Football Club

Question: Singer-songwriter sensation, New Zealand-born Lorde, who first attracted international attention in 2013 at the age of 16 has a parent who is also celebrated. Who is that, and for what?
Answer: Sonja Yelich, poet

Question: UK Ariel programme developed and launched 6 satellites 1962-79, which were launched for them by NASA; which was the only British satellite successfully launched by Britain using a British rocket?
Answer: Prospero, in 1971

Question: Who was the fourth king of the Kingdom of Judah who succeeded his father Asa, ruling for twenty-five years until 849 BC, until his son Jehoram succeeded him?
Answer: Jehoshaphat

Question: What is the title of a 2004 book co-written by Paris Hilton and Merle Ginsberg?
Answer: Confessions of an Heiress

Question: The passport of what lawyer, sportsman, singer, actor and civil rights activist was withdrawn by the US State Department in 1950 because of his alleged affiliation with the Communist Party?
Answer: Paul Robeson

Question: Which Dickens character was visited by the ghost of Bob Marley?
Answer: Scrooge

Question: The Man Booker prize is awarded for what?
Answer: Literature

Question: The cave hermitages around Namtso in mountainous Tibet are a celebrated pilgrim destination; what is Namtso?
Answer: Large salt water lake

Question: What BBC documentary film, screened in high definition and featuring narration and live orchestral accompaniment conducted by its composer George Fenton, had its world premire in Dallas in June 2010?
Answer: Planet Earth Live

Question: The Rance Barrage is the first example of what?
Answer: Tidal power station

Question: """Why don't you come up sometime and see me"" was a famous line by Mae West in the 1933 film ""She Done Him Wrong"". Which actor did she say it to?"
Answer: Cary Grant

Question: In 2005 Karina Hollekim performed what, the first woman to do so?
Answer: A ski-BASE

Question: What was the sack of Bziers in 1209 CE?
Answer: The first major military action of Pope Innocent III's Albigensian Crusade

Question: Which American swing and jazz guitarist's single string technique combined with amplification, while with Benny Goodman's bands between 1939 and 1941, helped bring the guitar out of the rhythm section and into the forefront as a solo instrument?
Answer: Charlie Christian

Question: What field of work does renowned Brazilian Sebastio Salgado work in?
Answer: Photography, and photojournalism

Question: What is the staple food of a Gelada baboon?
Answer: Grass and other vegetable matter

Question: What nationality was the 17th century leader Stenka Razin?
Answer: Russian Cossack

Question: Irish-born Francis Bacon (1909-1992) is known in what field?
Answer: Painting

Question: Modern versions of which appliance (commonplace by the 1970s in domestic residences in the USA) are descended from the 1886 invention of Josephine Cochrane which she unveiled at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair?
Answer: Dishwasher

Question: Where is the volcano Mount Sinabung, which on 29 August 2010 produced its first volcanic eruption since 1600, causing 30,000 villagers to be evacuated?
Answer: On the island of Sumatra

Question: Why did Soviet Union athletes not receive any medals at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics?
Answer: Their nations boycotted the Games

Question: Agatha Christie is famous for writing what type of book?
Answer: Detective fiction

Question: hat is the name for something which lives in salt water, and also for something which lives in mountain soil?
Answer: Anemone

Question: The capital cities of two neighbouring countries in the southern hemisphere are located on the opposite sides of the mouth of which river?
Answer: Rio de la Plata

Question: Which 1964 film, written by Terry Southern and Stanley Kubrik and directed by him, starred Peter Sellers (in three roles), George C Scott, Keenan Wynn and Slim Pickens?
Answer: Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb

Question: The second largest river, by discharge, runs mainly through which country?
Answer: The Democratic Republic of the Congo

Question: Demi Moore shaved her head for the title role in which 1997 film?
Answer: GI Jane

Question: The Potts children are from which film?
Answer: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang