Question: Between 1696 and 1851, the British government imposed a tax on what part of a house?
Answer: Number of windows

Question: What is the largest and least populated state of the USA?
Answer: Alaska

Question: What type of highly directional microphone, commonly used on television and film sets, in stadiums, and for field recording of wildlife, was invented by Fritz Sennheiser in the 1950s?
Answer: Shotgun

Question: Where is the Temple of Confucius?
Answer: Qufu

Question: In skeet shooting what are the discs made of?
Answer: Clay

Question: Which battle was partly fought on Senlac Hill?
Answer: Hastings

Question: What is the nationality of Mohammed Al Fayed, who sold the department store Harrods Knightsbridge to Qatar Holdings in 2010?
Answer: Egyptian

Question: What was the tallest man-made structure before the completion of the Eiffel Tower?
Answer: The Washington Monument

Question: Between 1901 and 1909, Karl Landsteiner, Jan Jansk and William Moss worked on the classification of what?
Answer: Blood groups

Question: Who, at 95 years of age, supposedly waved the Union flag out of the window of her house in Frederick, Maryland while Stonewall Jackson's troops were passing, and is the subject of a 1864 poem: "Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag," she said."?
Answer: Barbara Fritchie

Question: Three shepherd children had sightings of the Virgin Mary on the 13th day of 6 consecutive months in 1917, starting on 13 May, near a town called Fatima, which is in what country?
Answer: Portugal

Question: The US Stock Market crash known as Black Thursday happened on 24 October of what year?
Answer: 1929

Question: An American singer-songwriter, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 and given a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005, was nicknamed what (which was also the name of their last album, in 1971)?
Answer: Pearl

Question: Castoreum, which comes from a beaver, is used as an ingredient in what?
Answer: Perfume

Question: What award is the television equivalent of the Oscars?
Answer: Emmys

Question: Which US President was assassinated by Leon Frank Czolgosz at the Temple of Music at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York?
Answer: William McKinley

Question: What term, in musical rhythm, refers to playing three beats in the time of two?
Answer: hemiola

Question: What was the common name of the Volkswagen Type 14, a 2+2 sold from 1955 to 1974 in coupe and convertible bodystyles, which was then the car most imported to the USA?
Answer: Karmann Ghia

Question: Where are the Bismarck and Owen Stanley ranges?
Answer: Papua-New Guinea

Question: Archimedes is the first person recorded to have designed and built an elevator, in about 236 BC. Who is credited with introducing the safety elevator, which did not fall if the cable broke?
Answer: Elisha Otis (1811-1861)

Question: In a casino, what is the name of the box that holds multiple decks of playing cards?
Answer: Shoe

Question: How many nouns are in the sentence "My mother and father visited my sister in Wellington"?
Answer: 4

Question: What is the name for a raised block of the earth's crust thrown up between two faults?
Answer: Horst

Question: What is the occupation of the title character in "Finnegan's Wake" by James Joyce?
Answer: Hod carrier

Question: In the phrase "Leaving is such sweet sorrow, it's not top of the agenda" what is the grammatical term for the word "leaving"?
Answer: Gerund

Question: Until the introduction of the Euro on 1 January 2002, which country had the lira as its basic currency unit?
Answer: Italy

Question: The songs "Aquarius" and "Good Morning Starshine" are from which musical?
Answer: Hair

Question: What did Napoleon Bonaparte I establish in 1804, a measure which has had worldwide effect?
Answer: Napoleonic Code

Question: Formula One racing is officiated by officials called what?
Answer: Marshalls

Question: Whose last words have been reported to be "Kiss Me, Hardy"?
Answer: Lord Nelson

Question: The young female animal called a filly is what type of animal?
Answer: Horse

Question: The sinking, approximately 200 miles off Hampton Roads, Virginia, of which steamship on 12 November 1928, with a loss of over 100 lives, particularly of women and children after it was abandoned, had a major impact on the second International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea in 1929?
Answer: Vestris

Question: According to the nursery rhyme, whose lamb followed her to school?
Answer: Mary

Question: Britain's largest suspension bridge crosses which river?
Answer: Humber

Question: What name is given to a neuron which fires both when an animal performs an action and when the animal observes the same action performed by another animal, as though the observer were performing the action?
Answer: Mirror neuron

Question: The highly popular sport of skydiving started with what?
Answer: Successful parachute jumps from a hot-air balloon in 1797

Question: Who wrote "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"?
Answer: Douglas Adams

Question: Which film is the story of Willie Stark (played by Broderick Crawford) who starts with well meaning ambition to enter politics, is corrupted by power on his way to becoming a US state governor, and is assassinated?
Answer: All The King's Men

Question: """Leggie"" is a term that is used in what sport?"
Answer: Cricket

Question: What group did the UK join in 1973?
Answer: Eec

Question: What type of art would you be making if you glued macaroni onto a surface?
Answer: Collage

Question: Why was Dolly, the sheep cloned in 1996, so named?
Answer: After Dolly Parton

Question: The slang words "cool", "groovy", "cat", and "chick" came from the jazz music culture in what decades'?
Answer: 1920s and 1930s

Question: Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner starred in what TV series, first broadcast from 1966 to 1969?
Answer: Star Trek

Question: What is the main material out of which a pool cue is usually made?
Answer: Wood

Question: What is the name for the movement formed by John Nelson Darby and colleagues in the 1830s?
Answer: Plymouth Brethren

Question: What association, currently of 27 members, holds over just 7% (in 2011) of the global population and generates approximately 20% of global GDP when thought of in terms of purchasing power parity?
Answer: Eu

Question: What type of rock is formed by the solidification of molten magma?
Answer: Igneous

Question: Who was the subject of an unsuccessful kidnapping attempt on Pall Mall, London, on 20 March 1974 by Ian Ball, who shot Inspector James Beaton (a bodyguard), Alex Callender (chauffeur), Brian McConnell (a passerby who intervened) and Police Constable Michael Hills?
Answer: Princess Anne

Question: How heavy is a megagram?
Answer: 1 tonne

Question: """April is in my mistress' face, And July in her eyes hath place"" are the first two lines of what popular work in Britain?"
Answer: Madrigal by Morley

Question: Who played Ava Gardner in "The Aviator"?
Answer: Kate Beckinsale

Question: Of these card games which is the odd one out?
Answer: Canasta

Question: """Easter Parade"" (1948), starring Judy Garland and Fred Astaire, featured songs by whom?"
Answer: Irving Berlin

Question: When did Channel Four and the Welsh language channel SC4 first broadcast in the UK?
Answer: November 1982

Question: In 1985 Stevie Wonder won an Oscar for the song "I Just Called to Say I Love You"; shortly afterwards it was banned by the South African Broadcasting Corporation. What was the reason?
Answer: He dedicated the Oscar to Nelson Mandela

Question: Where would you hear the word "chukka" used?
Answer: At a polo match

Question: What river, that passes through Turin, is the longest river in Italy?
Answer: Po

Question: Who is thought to have first invented gunpowder?
Answer: Chinese alchemists

Question: Where did Portuguese traders begin to settle in the 16th century, administering the area until 20 December 1999?
Answer: Macau