Question: Harry Houdini became famous as what?
Answer: Magician

Question: Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis starred as Madeline "Maddie" Hayes and David Addison in which TV series (1985 to 1989) that revolved around cases investigated by Blue Moon Detective Agency?
Answer: Moonlighting

Question: Where, since 1903, has been the headquarters of British polo, where polo is no longer staged since the polo fields were compulsorily purchased to build council housing?
Answer: Hurlingham

Question: The Himalayas are on which continent?
Answer: Asia

Question: Where did Adolf Hitler spend his last days in Berlin?
Answer: Bunker

Question: Who would use a "huehuetl"?
Answer: A Mexican drummer

Question: What is the sum of the digits of the product of any number between 1 & 9 multiplied by 9?
Answer: 9

Question: Who is the next in this series: Laue (1914), W. L. Bragg / W. H. Bragg (1915), Barkla (1917), Planck (1918), Stark (1919), Guillaume (1920) ... ?
Answer: Albert Einstein

Question: What, according to John Lennon, "is just what happens to you, while you're busy making other plans"?
Answer: Life

Question: Which teams contested baseball's American League Championship series in 2009?
Answer: New York Yankees and Los Angeles Angels

Question: What is the name for the chemical signals that trigger a natural response in another member of the same species that affect behaviour or physiology?
Answer: Pheromones

Question: What do the 13 stripes on the US flag represent?
Answer: The original 13 colonies that became the USA

Question: Which 20th century Irish playwright wrote "Juno and the Paycock", "The Plough and the Stars", "Silver Tassie" and "Within the Gates"?
Answer: Sean O'Casey

Question: Why did the Mars Climate Orbiter, launched on 11 December 1998, drift off course during its voyage and enter a much lower orbit than planned before being destroyed by atmospheric friction?
Answer: A faulty computer software specification

Question: What is the best known work of Danish-Icelandic sculptor Edvard Eriksen, which he completed in 1913, that sits on a rock in the Copenhagen harbour at Langelinie?
Answer: The Little Mermaid

Question: What word was used by poets and nineteenth-century Irish nationalists in English as a romantic name for Ireland, that is the name sometimes given to the female personification of Ireland?
Answer: Erin

Question: Who was the last of these to win an Oscar?
Answer: Anthony Hopkins

Question: Rugby union was included in 4 Olympic Games between 1900 and 1924. Which team won the most gold medals for it in that period?
Answer: Usa

Question: Why is Harvard University named after John Harvard, a young clergyman from the London Borough of Southwark, England?
Answer: He bequeathed the College his library of 400 books and 779

Question: The second longest river in China, the Yellow River, is known locally as what?
Answer: Huang Ho

Question: The British Royal Mint that was established in the Tower of London in 1279 and moved to an adjacent site on Tower Hill in 1809 is now situated where?
Answer: Llantrisant, South Wales

Question: In literature, what is the word for a person, or a group of people who oppose the main character, or the main characters (in simple terms, "the villain")?
Answer: Antagonist

Question: Actor Lloyd Bridges is what relation to actors Beau and Jeff Bridges?
Answer: Father

Question: Which state of the USA has a Union Jack on its state flag?
Answer: Hawaii

Question: Which country was granted its independence from colonial rule on 4 July 1946, after being controlled since 1521 by Spain, Britain, the USA, Japan, and the USA (again)?
Answer: The Philippines

Question: According to the old saying, what doesn't change its spots?
Answer: Leopard

Question: What name is given to art that depicts scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, where sky is almost always included, and weather is usually an element of the composition?
Answer: Landscape

Question: Persia is the former name of which country?
Answer: Iran

Question: What is Tiger Woods' first name, really?
Answer: Eldrick

Question: As what does "vermicelli" literaly translate from the Italian?
Answer: Little worms

Question: Dr Benjamin Spock wrote books on what subject?
Answer: Child care

Question: The Hesketh racing team, with its Union Jack Teddy Bear logo, founded by Lord Hesketh and Anthony 'Bubbles' Horsley, had its greatest successes in Formula One when they employed which driver?
Answer: James Hunt

Question: How much treacle was there in the nursery rhyme "Pop! Goes the Weasel"?
Answer: Half a pound

Question: Oscar Wilde, Adolf Hitler and Jeffrey Archer have all written about their experiences in what?
Answer: Prison

Question: Which British awards for songwriting and composing, a solid bronze sculpture of Euterpe, the Muse of lyric poetry, are named after a Cardiff-born entertainer?
Answer: Ivor Novello Awards

Question: What is a sphygmomanometer used to measure?
Answer: Blood pressure

Question: Where was the first zoo in the United States, which opened on 1 July 1874 with 1,000 animals and an entry fee of 25 cents?
Answer: Philadelphia

Question: What is dried in an oast house?
Answer: Hops

Question: What were Operation Storax, Operation Niblick, Operation Whetstone, Operation Flintlock and Operation Latchkey?
Answer: Nuclear test series carried out in the USA

Question: With which sport is Sebastian Loeb associated?
Answer: Car rallying

Question: Which song by John Mayer, written for the Rob Reiner film "The Bucket List", is his highest charting single to date, and won Best Male Pop Vocal Performance at the Grammy Awards in 2009?
Answer: Say

Question: What are the names of the two daughters of Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall that have embarked on modelling careers?
Answer: Elizabeth and Georgia

Question: What is a pluviometer used to measure?
Answer: Rainfall

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

Question: Where do the Wombles live?
Answer: Wimbledon Common

Question: In the 1950s, which country on the east coast of the Bay of Bengal was bordered by Pakistan, India, Tibet, China, French Indo China and Siam?
Answer: Burma

Question: The flag of which country, consisting of three horizontal stripes of red, white and blue (almost identical to that of the Netherlands), was first used in 1845 and officially adopted on June 23, 1972?
Answer: Luxembourg

Question: What was a popular international art design movement from 1925 until the 1940s, affecting the decorative arts and industrial design, fashion, painting, the graphic arts, and film, which was, at the time, seen to be elegant, glamorous, functional, and modern?
Answer: Art Deco

Question: Who organised an Arab revolt against the Turks and wrote "The Seven Pillars Of Wisdom" about his experiences?
Answer: T E Lawrence

Question: Who did Johnny Depp play in the film "Public Enemies"?
Answer: John Dillinger

Question: Hideki Yukawa, the first to postulate the existence of particles in an atom of less mass than a proton and greater mass than an electron, was the first Japanese person to do what in 1955?
Answer: Win a Nobel Prize

Question: Small coloured dots on a squash ball indicate its "bounciness". Which colour, introduced in 2000, is the international competition standard?
Answer: Double-yellow dot

Question: In which country was "The Tunguska Event" on 30 June 1908, believed to have been caused by the air burst of a large meteoroid or comet fragment of 510 kilometres (36 miles) above the Earth's surface?
Answer: Russia

Question: Normally called a wolverine in North America, what is the largest carniverous mammal in the weasel family, which, it is said, has a habit of hiding articles which are no use to it?
Answer: Glutton

Question: Puttees are worn on what part of the body?
Answer: Lower legs

Question: Where is the stretch of water called the Gulf of Tartary?
Answer: Between the Russian mainland and Sakhalin island