Question: Trivial Pursuit was invented in which country?
Answer: Canada

Question: Which German-born composer became a naturalised Englishman, wrote 30 operas in the 18th century, and is more famous now for his oratorios such as "The Messiah"?
Answer: George Handel

Question: After World War II Emperor Hirohito of Japan signed the treaty ending the state of war with Britain on 9 September of which year?
Answer: 1951

Question: What word best describes a triangle where all angles are less than 90 degrees?
Answer: Acute

Question: Which 1973 British horror film, directed by Robin Hardy starring Edward Woodward and set on a remote Scottish island, was remade in 2006, directed by Neil LaBute and starring Nicolas Cage, set on an island in Puget Sound, Washington?
Answer: The Wicker Man

Question: What is the mountain range in Central Asia west of the Himalayas, the highest point of which is Tirach Mir?
Answer: Western Ghats

Question: What is the science of weather and climate?
Answer: Meteorology

Question: What is the name for the 7 kingdoms into which England was supposedly divided in the early Middle Ages?
Answer: Heptarchy

Question: Who created the characters of Willy Loman, Joe Keller and Eddie Carbone?
Answer: Arthur Miller

Question: Which film, released at the end of 2008, starred Kate Winslett and Leonardo DiCaprio?
Answer: Revolutionary Road

Question: What is the second largest organ in the human body, located under the diaphragm on the right hand side?
Answer: Liver

Question: Which category of instrument includes the flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon?
Answer: Woodwind

Question: What was the name given to the Minardi Formula One team after it was bought by Red Bull in 2005?
Answer: Scuderia Toro Rosso

Question: Which mythological Greek hero, the son of Telamon and Periboea and king of Salamis, plays an important role in Homer's Iliad?
Answer: Ajax

Question: What is the chief river of Uganda?
Answer: White Nile

Question: By what name is Domenico Theotocopuli better known?
Answer: El Greco

Question: John McCain's running mate for the 2009 USA presidential election was the governor of which state?
Answer: Alaska

Question: What range of mountains separates Europe from Asia and runs from the Arctic to the Caspian Seas?
Answer: Ural Mountains

Question: What is the hooped whalebone framework for a petticoat, a fashion brought to England by Catherine of Aragon from Spain on her marriage to Prince Arthur, eldest son of Henry VII in 1501, and worn in England until the 17th century?
Answer: Farthingale

Question: From 1797 to 1805 and from 1814 to 1866, the city of Venice was part of what country?
Answer: Austria

Question: The 2009 Super Bowl, played at the Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, was between the Arizona Cardinals and what other team?
Answer: Pittsburg Steelers

Question: The Houston Ship Channel connects the city of Houston, Texas, to what body of water?
Answer: Gulf Of Mexico

Question: In chess, how many squares does the King move when castling?
Answer: 2

Question: Fondue originated in which country?
Answer: Switzerland

Question: Which English composer wrote "The Planets", "Somerset Rhapsody" and the ballet "The Perfect Fool"?
Answer: Gustav Holst

Question: Which one of these characters is from the TV series "ER"?
Answer: Dr Elizabeth Corday

Question: Whispering Ted Lowe is best known as a commentator for which sport?
Answer: Snooker

Question: The story of which 1944 film starring Elizabeth Taylor involved a horse called "The Pie"?
Answer: National Velvet

Question: Which German Nazi leader flew solo from Ausberg in 1941 and landed by parachute near Glasgow on a private peace mission?
Answer: Hess

Question: In which state of the USA would you find the Great Salt Lake?
Answer: Utah

Question: Which country won the most races in the A1GP championship in its first 3 years (2005-06, 2006-07 & 2007-08)?
Answer: France

Question: Who was the daughter of Mahomet and his first wife Kadijah?
Answer: Fatima

Question: What was Greta Garbo's first sound film (advertised as "Garbo speaks!"), in a filmed version of a play by Eugene O'Neill?
Answer: Anna Christie

Question: Which country, whose chief port is La Guaira, became a republic after seceding from the Republic of Colombia in 1830?
Answer: Venezuela

Question: In July 1966 the Musicians' Union banned miming on the UK TV programme "Top of the Pops", but as some bands' attempts to play were inadequate, a specially recorded backing track was permitted as long as what?
Answer: All musicians on the track were present in the TV studio

Question: What is the capital of Mongolia, on the Tuul River?
Answer: Ulan Bator

Question: What is the next number in the series 1, 4, 9, 16, 25?
Answer: 2 hours

Question: In the USA, tournament play for Monopoly calls for a 90-minute time limit. What time limit is used for international play?
Answer: 2 hours

Question: Who abdicated on 30 April 1980, the day of her 71st birthday, and was succeeded by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands?
Answer: Queen Juliana

Question: What is the name for an instrument for sending messages using reflected light from a moveable mirror?
Answer: Heliograph

Question: Which Tennessee city has the same name as the ancient Egyptian city named after King Menes?
Answer: Memphis

Question: Which English computer scientist and MIT professor implemented the first successful communication between an HTTP client and server via the Internet on 25 December 1990 and is credited with inventing the World Wide Web?
Answer: Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee

Question: The "Entente Cordiale", signed on 8 April 1904, was a pact to resolve all outstanding issues that were outstanding between France and which other country?
Answer: Great Britain

Question: What is the more common name of the disease called consumption?
Answer: Tuberculosis

Question: What height should the top of the rim of a basketball net be above the court?
Answer: 10 feet (3.05 m)

Question: Which song begins with the lyric "People try to put us down, Just because we get around"?
Answer: My Generation

Question: What type of aircraft powerplant uses a gas turbine to drive a propeller?
Answer: Turbo prop

Question: In the advertising industry, what do cyclist Rebecca Romero, triple jumper Phillips Idowu, swimmer Gregor Tait and rugby players Paul Sackey, Steve Borthwick and Shane Williams have in common?
Answer: They have appeared naked in advertisements for "Powerade"

Question: What is the name for radiations of a wavelength longer than and immediately next to the visible spectrum?
Answer: Infra red

Question: Besides crosswords, where is the only place that you could see an emu in its native environment?
Answer: Australia

Question: Who received the first Nobel prize for literature to be awarded to a British writer?
Answer: Rudyard Kipling

Question: For womens basketball, the official basketball size is 28.5 inches in circumference (size 6) and what weight in ounces?
Answer: 20

Question: A film released in 1971, starring David Hemmings and Michael Kitchen, based on a 1958 radio play by Giles Cooper, was called "Unman, Wittering and " who?
Answer: Zigo

Question: What was unusual at the time about the newspaper published on board the liner Etruria in the mid Atlantic Ocean in February 1903?
Answer: It was based on news reports transmitted from Britain by radio

Question: Which American author wrote "The Call Of The Wild", "White Fang", "The Sea Wolf" and "The Game"?
Answer: Jack London

Question: Which canal operated along the banks of the Potomac in Maryland from 1850 to 1924 and connected Cumberland, Maryland, to Washington, D.C., allowing freight to be transported around the Great Falls of the Potomac River?
Answer: Susquehanna and Tidewater Canal

Question: The heel of the forward foot must contact the ground before the toe of the rear foot leaves it is a rule of which sport?
Answer: Walking