Question: Who were the two main characters in "Bringing Up Father", a comic strip created by George McManus that ran from January 1913 to May 2000 about an Irishman who comes into wealth in the USA but wants to live much as he used to?
Answer: Jiggs and Maggie

Question: Which company won a formative case in UK labour law that held that a union taking strike action could be liable for loss of profits to an employer?
Answer: Taff Vale Railway Company

Question: What annual three day event held near Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, was first organised by the 6th Marquess of Exeter in 1961?
Answer: Burghley Horse Trials

Question: On which island is the port of Heraklion?
Answer: Crete

Question: In golf, who presents the traditional green jacket to the US Masters winner?
Answer: The previous year's winner

Question: In about 1,000 AD, it is believed that explorer Leif Ericson discovered North America and named it what?
Answer: Vinland

Question: Who invented infinitesimal calculus independently of Newton (and his notation has been in general use since then), invented the binary system, and promoted his philosophy of "optimism", that the universe is the best possible that God could have made?
Answer: Gottfried Leibniz

Question: What makes England's "White Cliffs of Dover" appear white?
Answer: They are made of chalk

Question: The viola is tuned one fifth below the violin and therefore they have three strings tuned in common: G, D, and which other?
Answer: A

Question: Which city's bid to hold the 2012 Olympics came second to London's?
Answer: Paris

Question: UEFA made international news in September 2010 when it banned Bayern Munich from displaying a banner at a Championship League game against Roma, but approved another. What film were the banner slogans taken from?
Answer: The Life of Brian

Question: What highly flammable metal, easy to ignite when powdered, producing a brilliant white light, and difficult to extinguish, being able to burn in both nitrogen and carbon dioxide, was used in incendiary weapons for firebombing cities in World War II and as a source of illumination in the early days of photography?
Answer: Magnesium

Question: Laura was the name of the First Lady of which US president?
Answer: George W Bush

Question: What is the title of a 2001 award winning documentary film directed by Sandi Simcha DuBowski about gay and lesbian Orthodox Jews trying to reconcile their sexuality with their faith?
Answer: Trembling Before G-d

Question: Who has been married to actress Patricia Arquette (1995 to 2001), singer/songwriter Lisa Marie Presley (daughter of Elvis Presley, 2002 to 2004) and is now married to former waitress Alice Kim, with whom he has a son, Kal-El?
Answer: Nicholas Cage

Question: David Seaman and David Beckham are connected with which sport?
Answer: Soccer

Question: The Super Bowl, the championship game of the National Football League, was first played as part of a merger agreement between the NFL and its rival, the American Football League, in what year?
Answer: 1967

Question: Which folk band formed by Randy Sparks in 1961 had several Top 40 hits, including "This Land Is Your Land", "Green, Green", "Today" and "Ramblin'"?
Answer: The New Christy Minstrels

Question: What is equivalent to 4 quavers?
Answer: Minim

Question: How many members are there in the US upper house, the Senate?
Answer: 100

Question: Who was best known for his role as Dracula, a role he first took on in film in 1931?
Answer: Bela Lugosi

Question: In 1956, a major uprising in Hungary was put down by forces from where?
Answer: Ussr

Question: In 2003, which planet passed 55.76 million km from earth, the closest since the Stone Age?
Answer: Mars

Question: What is a small ceramic dish used for baking an individual portion?
Answer: Ramekin

Question: Who stars in the TV series "Californication"?
Answer: David Duchovny

Question: What day was proclaimed in 1945 as "VE Day"?
Answer: 8 May

Question: What machine, called the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computing machine, was completed and demonstrated in 1941 and destroyed in 1943?
Answer: Z3, designed by Konrad Zuse

Question: An arctophile is a lover of what?
Answer: Teddy bears

Question: Which song has the opening lines "She says its cold outside, she has no raincoat. She always worries about things like that"?
Answer: """3 a.m."" by Matchbox Twenty"

Question: 15 monarchs from the The House of Plantagenet, including those belonging to cadet branches, ruled England from 1154 until 1485. Why were they called "Plantagenets"?
Answer: The name is derived from the latin name of the common broom plant

Question: What is a type of jukebox featuring 16 mm film, for which films were made between 1958 [notably for songs by the Kessler Sisters ("Quando Quando"), The Tornados ("Telstar"), Neil Sedaka ("Calendar Girl"), Procol Harum ("A Whiter Shade of Pale"), Dionne Warwick ("Walk On By") and Nancy Sinatra ("These Boots Are Made for Walkin'")] until 1978?
Answer: Scopitone

Question: How many countries border Brazil?
Answer: 10

Question: What is a starched, open-weave fabric, much like cheese cloth, that is used to wipe the ink off a plate during the intaglio inking process?
Answer: Tarlatan

Question: Buckey O'Neill Cabin, Kolb Studio, El Tovar Hotel, Hopi House, Verkamp's Curios, Lookout Studio, Desert View Watchtower and Bright Angel Lodge are historical buildings located at which tourist destination?
Answer: Grand Canyon

Question: Barack Obama is the first US president born outside the contiguous states of the USA. Where was he born?
Answer: Hawaii

Question: The international body called "FIFA" administers which sport?
Answer: Football

Question: Which English village, which grew from a tiny fishing hamlet in 1864, was competely drowned due to coastal erosion by 1921?
Answer: Hampton-on-Sea

Question: Who became world Middleweight boxing champion by beating Sugar Ray Robinson in London on 10 July 1951 and lost the title to Robinson in New York on 12 September 1951?
Answer: Randy Turpin

Question: What was the most populous city in the world in 1800?
Answer: Canton, China

Question: What became the world's largest passenger ship by gross tonnage when it was delivered in October 2009?
Answer: Oasis of the Seas

Question: A best-selling album by Bruce Springsteen was "Born in ..." what?
Answer: The USA

Question: What animal makes its home in a "drey"?
Answer: Squirrel

Question: In 2010, Usain Bolt talked of moving to which two sports after the 2012 London Olympic Games?
Answer: Long jump & 400m

Question: What sport is played in the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup Final, that has been held since 1914?
Answer: Soccer

Question: Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space in what year?
Answer: 1961

Question: Which president of the USA faced impeachment proceedings over his activities with Monica Lewinsky?
Answer: Bill Clinton

Question: What is the chemical symbol for Nickel?
Answer: Ni

Question: Where do Walloons come from?
Answer: Belgium

Question: For what was Thomas Bewick renowned in the 18th century?
Answer: Wood engraving

Question: 56 people were killed at which disaster in Bradford England in 1985?
Answer: Football stadium fire

Question: Which old London market for cloth goods, founded by a charter from Henry I in 1133 and held annually at Smithfield and then Islington, was abolished in 1855 due to the disorderly rabble?
Answer: Bartholomew Fair

Question: An ombrophobe or ombrophobous plant cannot withstand much what?
Answer: Rain

Question: """Silly mid on"" and ""gully"" are positions in which sport?"
Answer: Cricket

Question: What was the largest cruise liner ever constructed when it was completed in 2003?
Answer: Queen Mary II

Question: What is the first name of the Canadian singer whose last name is Dion?
Answer: Cline