Question: In the English nursery rhyme, who fell down and broke his crown?
Answer: Jack

Question: What charity that aims to create new opportunities for aspiring young musicians is headed by an ex-member of the Clash?
Answer: Strummerville

Question: What object, containing 14 lines of hieroglyphs, 32 of demotic and 54 of Greek, was a key to deciphering writing from ancient Egypt?
Answer: Rosetta Stone

Question: Corsica is surrounded by which sea?
Answer: Mediterranean Sea

Question: What was the fate of Mary Queen of Scots in Donizetti's opera "Maria Stuarda"?
Answer: She was beheaded

Question: What chain of islands stretches from the Netherlands to Denmark?
Answer: Frisian Islands

Question: At the 1988 Olympics, in a split decision, South Korean boxer Park Si-Hun beat American Roy Jones, Jr., though Jones landed 86 punches to Park's 32 and a judge admitted the decision was a mistake. All 3 judges voting against Jones were suspended. What was the final outcome?
Answer: Park Si-Hun remained the winner

Question: Which American abolitionist was one of a group who seized the Arsenal at Harper's Ferry in October 1859, was wounded, captured and, in December, hanged at Charleston?
Answer: John Brown

Question: Someone is unsuccessfully trying to look well-dressed is said to be "dressed up like a" what?
Answer: Dog's dinner

Question: Who announced his engagement to New Zealand cellist Jiaxin Cheng, to be his fourth wife, in June 2009?
Answer: Julian Lloyd Webber

Question: Who was Lawrence Edward Grace Oates, who died on 17 March 1912?
Answer: A member of Scott's party which reached the South Pole

Question: The yellow, brown and red pigments known as ochres are oxides of which metal?
Answer: Iron

Question: Who held the record for the number of Grand Slam tennis tournaments before it was beaten by Roger Federer at Wimbledon in 2009?
Answer: Pete Sampras

Question: What name was given to the loyal refugees that settled in Ontario after the American War of Independence?
Answer: United Empire Loyalists

Question: The song "My Kind Of Town", written by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen in 1964, was about which city?
Answer: Chicago

Question: What gambling game involves dealing 2 cards each to the player and the dealer, with the object of getting 9 or more points, counting their face value (except 10s and court cards, which count nothing)?
Answer: Baccarat

Question: What is a marriage called where one of the parties does not enjoy the privileges of rank of the other, nor inherit the possessions of the partner?
Answer: Morganatic marriage

Question: Which 20th century playwright wrote "Mourning Becomes Electra" and "Long Day's Journey Into Night",
Answer: Eugene O'Neill

Question: What is the name for the individual leaves of the calyx or outer whorl of a flower?
Answer: Sepal

Question: By what name was William Frederick Cody better known?
Answer: Buffalo Bill

Question: What do these people have in common: Fournier, Bodoni, Gill and Baskerville?
Answer: They invented fonts which are named after them

Question: Sacha Baron Cohen created which character which first appeared on "The Eleven O'Clock Show" on Channel 4 in Great Britain on 8 September 1998?
Answer: Ali G

Question: The Royal Yacht Squadron of Cowes, based on the Isle of Wight, started a competition in 1851 now known by what name?
Answer: America's Cup

Question: The 2003 film "What A Girl Wants", with Amanda Bynes as the illegitimate daughter of a British politician played by Colin Firth, was a remake of which 1958 film starring Rex Harrison and Sandra Dee?
Answer: The Reluctant Debutante

Question: Who is a mythological lumberjack who appears in tall tales of American folklore, usually believed to be a giant as well as a lumberjack of unusual skill, who was first documented in the work of American journalist James MacGillivray?
Answer: Paul Bunyan

Question: According to legend, where did Queen Guinevere end her days after the death of her husband, King Arthur?
Answer: A nunnery at Amesbury

Question: Peter Snell, who set 5 individual world running records, was part of a team that set a new four by 1 mile relay record and won 2 Olympic golds for 800 metres (1960 Rome & 1964 Tokyo) and a gold for 1500 metres (1964 Tokyo), represented which country?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: Which movement was founded by Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell?
Answer: Boy scouts

Question: Which major contemporary art exhibition, held every two years, began in 1895 mainly for decorative arts, showed increasing interest in innovation in modern art from 1907, and added Festivals of Music in 1930, International Film in 1932, Theatre in 1934, and Contemporary Dance in 1999?
Answer: The Venice Biennale

Question: Which Greek philosopher and mathematician, born on Samos around 582BC, established a school at Crotana?
Answer: Pythagoras

Question: H2SO4 is the chemical symbol for what?
Answer: Sulphuric Acid

Question: What game is played on a table 9 feet (2.64 m) by 5 feet (1.525 m), 2 foot 6 inches (76 cm) above the floor, divided by a net 6 3/4 inches (15.25 cm) high?
Answer: Table tennis

Question: Who, though he died at 35, wrote over 600 works including 23 string quartets, 5 string quintets, 21 piano concertos and 19 operas?
Answer: Mozart

Question: The Leominster Rams have won 16 US National titles, including four of the last five, in which sport?
Answer: Street hockey

Question: Where are the Crown Jewels for Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain stored?
Answer: Tower of London

Question: The first case of AIDS was discovered in 1981 in which city?
Answer: Los Angeles

Question: What is the capital of Serbia?
Answer: Belgrade

Question: Which pair of films directed by Quentin Tarantino were originally conceived as one film?
Answer: Kill Bill

Question: Who provided the voice of "Charlie" for Charlie's Angels in the original TV series and the films made in 2000 and 2003?
Answer: John Forsythe

Question: Someone who tells lies is what sort of person?
Answer: Mendacious

Question: What was the last position that Lyndon B Johnson held when he became President of the USA?
Answer: Vice President

Question: What was the cause of the sinking of the German battleship the "Admiral Graf Spee"?
Answer: Her captain sank her

Question: What is the name for what is basically an induction coil whereby the voltage of an alternating current can be increased or decreased without changing the frequency?
Answer: Transformer

Question: What is the traditional name for a Spanish white wine made near Cadiz, popular varieties of which are Manzanilla, Amontillado, Vino Fino, Olorosa and Montilla?
Answer: Sherry

Question: Who discovered Uranus and one of its moons, Titania, between 1781 and 1787?
Answer: Herschel

Question: Which country has Nukualofa, on the island of Tonjatabu, as its capital?
Answer: Tonga

Question: In two films made in 2000 and 2003, what was the collective name of Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu?
Answer: Charlie's Angels

Question: What is the common name for Chorea, a disease characterised by irregular involuntary movements, commonly found in children?
Answer: St Vitus's Dance

Question: Which single company, based in Johannesburg, South Africa and London, England, controls a significant proportion of the trade in diamonds?
Answer: De Beers

Question: Which river, 210 miles long, whose principal tributaries are the Wye, Avon and Teme, empties into the Bristol channel?
Answer: Severn

Question: Who was the elected President of Mexico from the overthrow of Maximillian in 1877 until a rebellion in 1911?
Answer: Porfirio Daz

Question: What was the name of the first turbo prop airliner, built in 1950?
Answer: Vickers Viscount

Question: Donald Campbell, the car and motorboat racer who broke eight world speed records in the 1950s and 60s, was born in which country?
Answer: England

Question: Atlantic City is in which US state?
Answer: New Jersey