Question: Which city hosts the headquarters of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement?
Answer: Geneva

Question: What country forms the Easterly edge of the Horn of Africa?
Answer: Somalia

Question: What is the Christian festival, meaning 'fiftieth day', celebrated on Whit Sunday?
Answer: Pentecost

Question: What is Edward Hopper's famous night-time painting of customers in an American diner?
Answer: Nighthawks

Question: On which island did Noel Coward spend the last 23 years of his life?
Answer: Jamaica

Question: A Hoosier is a native of which American state?
Answer: Indiana

Question: What is the highest rank of officer in the RAF?
Answer: Marshall of the Royal Air Force

Question: What is the surname of Eddie played by Adrian Edmondson in the UK TV series Bottom?
Answer: Hitler

Question: What famous battle began with the English on Senlac Hill?
Answer: Battle of Hastings

Question: Vodka, Cointrea (or Triple Sec), cranberry juice and lime-juice make up which cocktail?
Answer: Cosmopolitan

Question: What British term equates to the American 'quarter-note' in music?
Answer: Crotchet

Question: What metal, safely used in food colouring, has the E-Number 175?
Answer: Gold

Question: Almeria, Merlot, and Waltham Cross are which fruit?
Answer: Grapes

Question: What three-letter Latin term used commonly in English translated literally as 'road' or 'way'?
Answer: Via

Question: Helvetia is the female personification of which country, appearing on its coins and stamps, etc?
Answer: Switzerland

Question: What is the Mexican in the 2001 film called The Mexican?
Answer: An antique pistol

Question: Which English artist was the subject of the 1974 film A Bigger Splash?
Answer: David Hockney

Question: What bridge connects Dawes Point to Milson's Point?
Answer: Sydney Harbour Bridge

Question: What is the longest play written by William Shakespeare?
Answer: Hamlet

Question: The Bhagavad Gita is an important scripture of which religion?
Answer: Hinduism

Question: Which British golfer won the 1969 British Open and 1970 US Open Championships?
Answer: Tony Jacklin

Question: Who was president of the USA during World War I?
Answer: Woodrow Wilson

Question: The Biobio River is in which South American country?
Answer: Chile

Question: Which Greek island is said to be the birthplace of the god Apollo?
Answer: Delos

Question: Geophagy is the eating of what?
Answer: Earth

Question: Cape Canaveral is in which US state?
Answer: Florida

Question: The late 'Father of Chicago Blues', McKinley Morganfield, is better known by what name?
Answer: Muddy Waters

Question: Which King of England defeated the French at the Battle of Agincourt?
Answer: Henry the Fifth

Question: Who was shot dead by Jack McCall in 1876 at a poker table in Number Ten Saloon?
Answer: Wild Bill Hickok

Question: Nel Gwyn was the mistress of which King of England?
Answer: Charles the Second

Question: What type of weather condition is a harmattan?
Answer: Wind

Question: In the UK which motorway crosses the Severn Bridge?
Answer: M4

Question: What are the members of the Unification Church commonly called?
Answer: Moonies

Question: Tenzin Gyatso is more famously known by what name?
Answer: The Dalai Lama

Question: What country borders with Belgium, France and Germany?
Answer: Luxembourg

Question: What alcoholic drink is distilled from the agave plant?
Answer: Tequila

Question: Which British prime minister resigned in 1957 after his failure to handle the Suez Crisis?
Answer: Anthony Eden

Question: Name the fraudulent chairman of Polly Peck who jumped bail and fled to Cyprus in 1993?
Answer: Asil Nadir

Question: What computer game invented by Alexi Pajtnov celebrated its 25th anniversary in June 2009?
Answer: Tetris

Question: Raymond Babbitt is the title character in which 1988 film?
Answer: Rainman

Question: The logo of the Yamaha corporation comprises three interlocking what?
Answer: Tuning forks

Question: What is the name of the US President's helicopter?
Answer: Marine One

Question: ENT is what department in a hospital?
Answer: Ear, Nose and Throat

Question: Vladimir Ulyanov was better known as which political activist and leader?
Answer: Lenin

Question: Who was the first king of Rome?
Answer: Romulus

Question: Who was the youngest player (as at 2009) to win the Wimbledon Men's Singles Final?
Answer: Boris Becker

Question: What is the chemical symbol for diamond?
Answer: C

Question: What is the velvet fabric with a pattern formed by burning the pile away with acid?
Answer: Devoré

Question: Which controversial footballer was the first to play for (and later to captain) England who was born after England won the 1966 World Cup?
Answer: Tony Adams

Question: Which US sportsman was nicknamed the Sultan of Swat?
Answer: Babe Ruth

Question: What is the birthstone for January?
Answer: Garnet

Question: What colour is LaLa of Teletubbies?
Answer: Yellow

Question: Holy Island off the English coast is also known by what name?
Answer: Lindisfarne

Question: What was the basic monetary unit of Greece before the Euro?
Answer: Drachma

Question: Whose Selected Papers on Hysteria, translated in 1909 by Abraham Brill, introduced the word libido into English?
Answer: Sigmund Freud

Question: What was the name of the mythical sculptor who fell in love with the statue of a woman he carved, as told by Roman poet Ovid, and inspiring George Bernard Shaw's play of the same name?
Answer: Pygmalion

Question: Who wrote the 2009 novel, The Princess and the President, criticized for hinting at an unlikely affair between Diana Princess of Wales and the President of France?
Answer: Giscard d'Estaing

Question: Who produced the 1983 hit record Relax, by Frankie Goes To Hollywood?
Answer: Trevor Horn

Question: Who famously said in the witness box, "Well, he would, wouldn't he?" when told that Viscount Astor denied having an affair with her (in relation to the 1963 Profumo scandal)?
Answer: Mandy Rice-Davies

Question: What language is 'Jeg elsker dig' ?
Answer: Danish

Question: Presenter Bill Grundy flirted with which future punk singer during the Sex Pistols' swearing on the live TV Today show in 1976?
Answer: Siouxsie Sioux

Question: In what city is the Venus de Milo statue displayed?
Answer: Paris

Question: Who is the Greek God of the Marriage Ceremony?
Answer: Hymen

Question: What part of the male anatomy takes its name from a literal meaning of bearing witness (to masculinity)?
Answer: Testicles

Question: What word meaning vanity derives from the fallen Greek god who perished while transfixed by his reflection in a pool of water?
Answer: Narcissism

Question: Dendrophilia is the tendency to be aroused by what?
Answer: Trees

Question: Oliver Barrett IV was the male lead character in what famous 1970 film?
Answer: Love Story

Question: What in 1972 was the first animated film to receive an X-rating in the USA?
Answer: Fritz the Cat

Question: A delusional jealous belief that a partner is unfaithful is known in psychiatry as what syndrome, after a Shakespeare character?
Answer: Othello syndrome

Question: Jeffrey Archer's bribe to Monica Coghlan gave rise to the slang 'Archer' for what sum of money?
Answer: Two thousand pounds

Question: The parents of the most famous Egyptian Queen, Cleopatra VII, were related in what way (aside from being husband and wife)?
Answer: Brother and sister

Question: Whose tale in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales tells of a knight sent away by his queen to discover what women want above all else?
Answer: The Wife of Bath

Question: Brigitte Bardot originally duetted on and prevented the release of what 1960s song, which later became a hit when she was replaced by Jane Birkin?
Answer: Je T'Aime

Question: Whose controversial activities were based at 32 Ambleside Avenue, Streatham, South London?
Answer: Cynthia Payne

Question: Who in 1953 appeared on the cover of the first issue of Playboy magazine?
Answer: Marilyn Monroe