Question: What is the name for the largest of the living primates, that are ground-dwelling and predominantly herbivorous, inhabiting the forests of central Africa?
Answer: Gorilla

Question: Shove ha'penny has been a game popular in pubs and with kings. What is a ha'penny?
Answer: A UK coin no longer in circulation

Question: What nationality is Marat Safin, who won his first Grand Slam tennis tournament at the US Open in 2000?
Answer: Russian

Question: What is the title of Geri Halliwell's 1999 autobiography?
Answer: If Only

Question: What date is famous for four co-ordinated terrorist attacks in the USA on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the United States Capitol?
Answer: September 11 2001

Question: If you are looking at a "sillion", what are you seeing?
Answer: Soil turned over by a plough

Question: Anthony Bourdain is famous in what profession?
Answer: Chef

Question: What was badly damaged when the ship "Shen Neng I" got into difficulties on 3 April 2010?
Answer: The Great Barrier Reef, Australia

Question: In a 1956 interview with the American journalist Anna Louise Strong, Mao Zedong described the USA as a paper what?
Answer: Tiger

Question: The iron pillar of Delhi, India, a 7 meter (22 feet) high pillar that is 98% pure wrought iron, has withstood corrosion in the open air for how long?
Answer: Over 1,600 years

Question: Who recorded the theme songs for three James Bond films?
Answer: Shirley Bassey

Question: What do Cate Blanchette, Russell Crowe, Nicole Kidman and Geoffrey Rush have in common?
Answer: They are Australian Academy award winners

Question: What alloy is created from copper and tin?
Answer: Bronze

Question: Which squash player was unbeaten for over 150 consecutive matches between 1981 and 1986?
Answer: Jahangir Khan

Question: A courgette is a type of what?
Answer: Vegetable

Question: Who provides the service called "Street View", that enables computer users to take virtual walks of residential areas?
Answer: Google

Question: What name was given to the conflict between Great Britain and Spain from 1739 to 1748, with major operations largely ended by 1742?
Answer: The War of Jenkins' Ear

Question: In 1997 at the World Snooker Championship, who made the fastest-recorded maximum break of 147?
Answer: Ronnie O'Sullivan

Question: Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D minor (Op. 125) is known as what?
Answer: Choral

Question: Golfer Vijay Singh, who was number one in the Official World Golf Rankings for 32 weeks in 2004 and 2005, was born where?
Answer: Fiji

Question: What real person did Martin Landau portray when he won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in the 1994 film "Ed Wood"?
Answer: Bela Lugosi

Question: Serengeti National Park is on what continent?
Answer: Africa

Question: What Hawaiian word is informally used for "an important person"?
Answer: Kahuna

Question: By what name was Lucille Le Sueur better known?
Answer: Joan Crawford

Question: David Palmer, Amr Shabana, Thierry Lincou and Ramy Ashour have been World Open Champions in which sport in this century?
Answer: Squash

Question: Who was in all of these films: "Alfie", "The Man Who Would Be King", "Educating Rita", "Little Voice", "Batman Begins", "The Dark Knight", "Last Orders" and "The Quiet American"?
Answer: Michael Caine

Question: Which English soccer player, whose career playing first class soccer ran from 1956 to 1973, was England's most capped player (106) when he retired from the England team in 1970?
Answer: Bobby Charlton

Question: In 1690 Jacob Bernoulli became the first European to do what?
Answer: Solve separable differential equations

Question: Derek Jacobi played Claudius in which BBC TV series?
Answer: I, Claudius

Question: The island of Angelsey is in which country?
Answer: Wales

Question: What was the name of a set of 3 treaties signed between the USA and the Kiowa, Comanche, Plains Apache, Southern Cheyenne and Southern Arapaho between 21 and 28 October 1867, requiring them to relocate to areas in present-day western Oklahoma?
Answer: The Medicine Lodge Treaty

Question: What was the tagline of the 1973 film "American Graffiti"?
Answer: Where were you in '62?

Question: The main religion in Tibet is a style of what?
Answer: Buddhism

Question: The colours red and blue mixed together makes what other colour?
Answer: Purple

Question: The 11th, 12th and 13th holes of which golf course are referred to as "Amen Corner"?
Answer: Augusta National Golf Course, Georgia, USA

Question: How many volumes are there in Spike Milligan's autobiography, the last volume of which was entitled "PeaceWork"?
Answer: 6

Question: Which river flows through the Grand Canyon in Arizona, USA?
Answer: Colorado

Question: How many legs do most crabs have?
Answer: 8

Question: Who flew under the Queensboro, Williamsburg, Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges along New York's East River on 21 October 1928?
Answer: Elinor Smith

Question: What 2009 science fiction disaster film starring John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, and Woody Harrelson references Mayanism and the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, depicting a series of "Doomsday" scenarios that plunge the world into chaos?
Answer: 2012

Question: White headwear is worn by the Pope and what other Roman Catholic clergy?
Answer: The Canons Regular of the Order of Prmontr

Question: What was the subject of the referendum held in Australia 1999?
Answer: To become a republic

Question: What field of work is Alessandro Volta (1745-1827) best known for?
Answer: Electricity

Question: On a rifle shooting target, what is the name of the ring between the inner and the outer?
Answer: Magpie

Question: In 1284, Prince Edward (later King Edward II of England), the first son born to Edward I of England, was the first English-born what?
Answer: Prince of Wales

Question: A sequence of overlapping and parallel mountain ranges, commonly called the American Cordillera, forms the backbone of the Americas and stretches from where to where?
Answer: Brooks Range in Alaska, to Tierra del Fuego

Question: What do golf balls have on the outside?
Answer: Dimples

Question: Australian Joan Sutherland is connected with what activity?
Answer: Opera

Question: What links the UK television programmes Dr Who and Lewis?
Answer: The respective leads in the two series, Billie Piper and Laurence Fox, are married

Question: Robert Mallet, a Victorian geophysicist, engineer and inventor, conducted a controlled experiment on a beach in southern Ireland as part of his seminal work in studying what and creating the science of what?
Answer: Earthquakes, and seismology

Question: According to John Aubrey in "Brief Lives", Sir Francis Bacon's death was caused after he contracted a fatal case of pneumonia after an experiment to do what?
Answer: Use snow to preserve meat

Question: Who had her first major movie role in "Crossroads" (2002), a comedy-drama film that also starred Dan Aykroyd and Kim Cattrall?
Answer: Britney Spears

Question: What dish would you expect if you asked for Fettuccine in an Italian restaurant?
Answer: Pasta

Question: """The Grand Old Duke Of York"" was whose son?"
Answer: George III

Question: What film studio was founded by Cecil B De Mille and J L Lasky in 1913?
Answer: Paramount

Question: Polocrosse is a sport combining polo and what else?
Answer: Lacrosse

Question: """Shock Treatment"" was the sequel to which musical?"
Answer: Rocky Horror Picture Show

Question: Two areas with the highest vertical tide ranges in the world are both in Canada and separate the Canadian mainland from what?
Answer: Nova Scotia; Baffin Island

Question: Who was made Archbishop of Canterbury under Henry VIII, introduced 2 prayer books under Edward VI, and was executed for heresy under Mary I?
Answer: Thomas Cranmer