Question: What object, which had been brought to Westminster Abbey in 1296 and placed under "St Edward's chair", was stolen and taken to Scotland in December 1950 and returned the following April?
Answer: The Coronation Stone

Question: What instrument is installed in an electrical circuit to vary the resistance?
Answer: Rheostat

Question: In the 2009 FA Cup Chelsea v Everton which player received a record 5th winner's medal?
Answer: Ashley Cole

Question: A novel by Frederick Forsythe was "The (what) of War"?
Answer: Dogs

Question: The third atomic bomb to be dropped from an aeroplane was where?
Answer: The Marshall Islands

Question: Who was the Puritan leader and first governor of the Pilgrim Fathers, who organised the voyage of the Mayflower to Plymouth, New Hampshire?
Answer: John Carver

Question: What is the next in this series: Rome, Tokyo, Mexico City ?
Answer: Munich

Question: Which religion has about 119 million known adherents in Japan?
Answer: Shinto

Question: Which country is made up of 176 islands, 36 of them inhabited, in 3 groups (called Vava'u, Ha'apai, and Tongatapu) which stretch north-south for 800 kilometers (500 miles)?
Answer: Tonga

Question: Which of the Hindu Trimurti is "The Creator"?
Answer: Brahma

Question: The Wimbledon tennis championships are held in which city?
Answer: London

Question: What happens when Venus is said to be in "inferior conjunction"?
Answer: It is precisely on the same side of the sun as the earth

Question: In the words of a song by Simon and Garfunkel, whose words were written on the subway wall?
Answer: The prophet

Question: Atlantic equatorial currents pushed westward by the Trade Winds unite in the Gulf of Mexico and then flow northward. What is the north-flowing current called?
Answer: Gulf Stream

Question: Which country returned to a democratic form of government after the death of dictator Juan Vincente Gomez in 1935?
Answer: Venezuela

Question: What is the name of the index of average daily prices on the New York Stock Exchange?
Answer: Dow Jones

Question: Who are the two main characters in the TV series "The Big Bang Theory"?
Answer: Sheldon and Leonard

Question: Where was the first motor race to regularly carry the name Grand Prix, the first of which took place in 1906 on a circuit roughly triangular in shape, each lap covering 105 kilometres (65 miles)?
Answer: Le Mans

Question: Where did Pope Benedict XVI make his first visit as Pope?
Answer: Germany

Question: If you travelled down the Yarra River in Australia, which city would you be in when you reached the ocean?
Answer: Melbourne, Australia

Question: Which TV series followed the exploits of Father Ted Crilly, Father Dougal McGuire and the retired Father Jack Hackett, who preside over a parish on Craggy Island?
Answer: Father Ted

Question: Who was the British nurse executed on 12 October 1915 for harbouring wounded and refugee soldiers in Brussels during the German occupation, and assisting escapes to Holland?
Answer: Edith Cavell

Question: In what year was the first demonstration of a helicopter lifting itself organised by Louis Breguet and Professor Richet?
Answer: 1907

Question: At Turin (2006), who became the first Canadian to win five medals in one Olympic Games?
Answer: Cindy Klassen

Question: Goidelic is one type of the Celtic language. What is the other?
Answer: Brythonic

Question: Nelson Piquet Jnr was accused of deliberately crashing at which F1 race in 2008 that paved the way for Renault's Fernando Alonso to win?
Answer: Singapore

Question: What has been the motto of the Prince of Wales since the 14th century?
Answer: Ich dien

Question: What is the name for a condition of decay in timber caused by attacks of fungi?
Answer: Dry rot

Question: Which district of Los Angeles is the centre of the US film industry?
Answer: Hollywood

Question: According to the old song, when will I "be waiting at the k-k-kitchen door" for "K-K-Katy, beautiful Katy"?
Answer: The m-m-moon shines over the cowshed

Question: When was the 1 mile running race discontinued at the Olympic Games?
Answer: It was never an Olympic distance

Question: What is the shortest book of the Old Testament?
Answer: Obadiah

Question: What shape are the 8 faces of an octahedron?
Answer: Triangles

Question: The crosses of how many saints make up the British flag, the Union Jack?
Answer: 3

Question: Which physicist wrote "A Brief History of Time"?
Answer: Stephen Hawking

Question: Which artist is famous for his "blue period"?
Answer: Picasso

Question: In what month is Independence Day celebrated in the USA?
Answer: July

Question: According to the legend, Peeping Tom was looking at whom?
Answer: Lady Godiva

Question: The "Ring of Fire" is an area of seismic activity around which ocean?
Answer: Pacific

Question: Whose daughter decided to have a sex-change in mid 2009, changing from being called "Chastity" to "Chaz"?
Answer: Sonny and Cher Bono

Question: Who did Venus Williams defeat in 2001 to win her second consecutive US Open tennis title?
Answer: Serena Williams

Question: Cayenne pepper is a condiment prepared from the dried and pounded pods of several species of what?
Answer: Capsicum

Question: Dayaks are native to what area?
Answer: Borneo

Question: The term "tessellated" refers to what type of art?
Answer: Mosaic

Question: What was the name that US President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave to his package of economic programs in the mid 1930's with the goals of "the 3 R's": Relief to the unemployed & farmers, Reform of business and financial practices, and Recovery of the economy?
Answer: The New Deal

Question: What is the name of an exhibition basketball team that combines athleticism, theatre and comedy that was created by Abe Saperstein in 1926 in Chicago, Illinois?
Answer: Harlem Globetrotters

Question: Where is the world's longest toughest horse race of over 1000 km in the footsteps of Genghis Khan?
Answer: Mongolia

Question: k. d. lang is best known in what occupation?
Answer: Singer

Question: What is the name of the dot on a lower case "i" and "j"?
Answer: Tittle

Question: Benjamin Franklin founded America's first what in Philadelphia in 1736?
Answer: Fire-fighting company

Question: The Australian Open Tennis Championship is held in which city?
Answer: Melbourne

Question: The painter Pablo Picasso was born in which country?
Answer: Spain

Question: What is measured in quires?
Answer: Paper

Question: In the 2009 British Open golf tournament, Stewart Cink and Tom Watson had to play how many extra holes to decide the winner?
Answer: 4

Question: What sent back the first pictures of the moon's surface by video?
Answer: Ranger 7

Question: The Lndler is a traditional dance from where?
Answer: Austria

Question: What name was given to the accidental destruction caused to British trawlers and fishermen by ships from the Russian navy on 21 October 1904, during the Russo-Japanese War?
Answer: Dogger Bank Incident

Question: What Three Laws were formulated by Johannes Kepler in the early 1600s?
Answer: Planetary Motion

Question: What is the main ingredient of pilau?
Answer: Rice

Question: Which 18th century writer produced "She Stoops To Conquer" and "The Vicar Of Wakefield"?
Answer: Oliver Goldsmith

Question: What is the name of the pet dog in the 1962 cartoon TV series "The Jetsons"?
Answer: Astro

Question: How many sides does a trapezoid have?
Answer: 4

Question: What made the first voyage around the world by air in 1929?
Answer: Graf Zeppelin

Question: With which sport is Babe Ruth associated?
Answer: Baseball

Question: Who was an American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the African-American civil rights movement who was assassinated on 4 April 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee?
Answer: Martin Luther King, Jr.

Question: In the UK, there is an annual celebration held on the evening of 5 November. What event does it commemorate?
Answer: An attempt to blow up a building, a King and a Parliament