Question: Which infectious disease, usually occuring in childhood, is characterised by eruptions of successive crops of vesicles?
Answer: Chickenpox

Question: The followers of John Wycliffe in the 14th and 15th century were known as what?
Answer: Lollards

Question: What colour is Bob the Builder's hat?
Answer: Yellow

Question: What fishing method used to catch salmon, mackerel and kingfish, involves drawing one or more fishing lines, baited with lures or bait fish, through the water?
Answer: Trolling

Question: A "bench press" is used in what activity?
Answer: Body building

Question: What causes the deposit of rocks and other matter called moraine on the earth's surface?
Answer: Glaciers

Question: What is the name of the character played by Charlie Sheen in the TV series "Two and a Half Men"?
Answer: Charlie Harper

Question: What is not mentioned in George and Ira Gershwin's song "Summertime"?
Answer: A little brown maverick

Question: Bill and Hilary Clinton and Jim and Susan McDougal were implicated in what financial scandal that was investigated by the US Justice Department in 1994?
Answer: Whitewater

Question: In 2001, which actor was re-elected president of the USA's National Rifle Association for a fourth term?
Answer: Charlton Heston

Question: What is the name of the small red oval mark painted on the face, common in Hinduism?
Answer: Bindy

Question: The First Lady of which US president was known as "Lady Bird"?
Answer: Lyndon B. Johnson

Question: What is it called when all the pins fall on the first bowl of an Indoor Bowling game ?
Answer: Strike

Question: Who was the youngest person to be elected president of the USA?
Answer: John Kennedy

Question: What character is played by Michael Douglas in two films released in 1987 and 2010?
Answer: Gekko

Question: Who was the manager of the English national football team from 1963 until he was sacked in 1974?
Answer: Alf Ramsey

Question: Archimedes' name is still used today to describe what type of mechanical device?
Answer: Screw

Question: What is a statement or group of statements that leads to a contradiction or a situation which defies intuition?
Answer: Paradox

Question: For which site have there have been several proposals to create a channel to the Mediterranean Sea or the Nile so that water can flow into a series of hydro-electric penstocks, which would release the water 90m below sea level where it would evaporate?
Answer: The Qattara Depression

Question: Mickey Hargitay, the second husband of leading blonde sex symbol of the 1950s Jayne Mansfield, was famous for winning what in 1955?
Answer: Mr. Universe

Question: Mercury and Venus are known as the two what?
Answer: Inferior planets

Question: Who led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957, led the 1963 March on Washington and, in 1964, became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end segregation and racial discrimination through civil disobedience and other non-violent means?
Answer: Martin Luther King, Jr.

Question: What is another name for athlete's foot?
Answer: Tinea pedis

Question: According to the Brothers Grimm, what was the name of the dwarfish creature who appeared to a young woman shut in a tower to spin straw into gold?
Answer: Rumpelstiltskin

Question: In November 2010, who released a song for which a repeated line of the chorus is "I'm In love, I'm In love, I'm In love, I'm In love, I'm In love, I'm In love, I wanna do it"?
Answer: Alex Gaudino

Question: In Walt Disney's "Snow White", which dwarf was completely bald, with not even a beard?
Answer: Dopey

Question: Argentinian David Nalbandian is a professional player of what sport?
Answer: Tennis

Question: Who was the first British monarch to visit the United States of America?
Answer: King George VI

Question: What children's game uses the phrase "What's the time?"
Answer: Mr Wolf

Question: Which country has the largest area and population in South America?
Answer: Brazil

Question: Which singer recorded "Unforgettable" in 1951, which his daughter, Natalie Cole made into a duet with herself in 1991?
Answer: Nat King Cole

Question: Bags, Burrino, Casareccio di Gorreto, Crema, Double Gloucester, Gioda, Lancashire, Pierino, Sakura and Tabor are all types of what?
Answer: Cheese

Question: In 1971, on which island was the largest underground test of nuclear weapons ever conducted by the USA?
Answer: Amchitka

Question: What is the nickname of the Australian national netball team?
Answer: Diamonds

Question: In 1987, competing in "Star Search", a US talent competition on which she used the name Alanis Nadine, she lost after one round. She is now better known as Alanis who?
Answer: Morissette

Question: Umberto II was the last king of which country?
Answer: Italy

Question: What city has more than one hundred kilometres of canals (the main ones called Herengracht, Prinsengracht, and Keizersgracht), which were dug in the 17th century to form concentric belts around the city, known as the grachtengordel?
Answer: Amsterdam

Question: In his autobiography "Life", what does Keith Richards say is his nickname for Mick Jagger?
Answer: Brenda

Question: Which comic strip written and illustrated by Bill Watterson, first run from 1985 to 1995, follows the antics of a precocious six-year-old boy and his sardonic stuffed tiger?
Answer: Calvin and Hobbes

Question: What international yachting regatta organised by the Royal Ocean Racing Club, competed for between 3 boats for each national team, based at Cowes on the Isle of Wight off southern England, was a biennial event from 1957 to 1999?
Answer: The Admiral's Cup

Question: In 1692, Sarah Good, Elizabeth Howe, Susannah Martin, Sarah Wildes, Rebecca Nurse, Martha Carrier, George Jacobs Sr., George Burroughs, John Willard, John Procter and others were executed in connection with what?
Answer: Witchcraft

Question: Which river flows through or forms the border of Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova and Ukraine?
Answer: Danube

Question: By what name was Rocco Francis Marchegiano heavyweight boxing world champion from September 1952, to April 1956 better known?
Answer: Rocky Marciano

Question: The olfactory organs are concerned with the sense of what?
Answer: Smell

Question: Who was the principal villan in the 2004 movie 'Spider-Man 2'?
Answer: Dr. Otto Octavius

Question: The character of John Bull is a national personification of which group of people in general?
Answer: Citizens of Great Britain

Question: What is the road featured in the "Wizard of Oz"?
Answer: Yellow Brick Road

Question: What is the name for a net of fine lines or fibers in the eyepiece of a sighting device, such as a telescope, a telescopic sight, a microscope, or the screen of an oscilloscope?
Answer: Reticle

Question: Frank Dekum, a 19th-century banker in Portland, Oregon, contributed money to import what to Oregon?
Answer: German song birds

Question: A "pass" is the way that the ball is put into play in which game?
Answer: Hockey

Question: What playwright was jailed for stealing and defacing books from the Islington Library?
Answer: Joe Orton

Question: What is the standard measure of quantity used in the oil production industry?
Answer: Barrel

Question: What is the popular name for Beethoven's piano sonata in C Sharp Minor?
Answer: Moonlight Sonata

Question: How did Lord Darnley, the father of James I of Great Britain, die on 10 February 1567?
Answer: He was blown up and killed

Question: What musical instrument is used to indicate that someone has "cooked the books"?
Answer: Fiddle

Question: Which actress received an Oscar nomination for her role in the film "Trans America"?
Answer: Felicity Huffman

Question: What film starred Michael Caine in the 1966 version and Jude Law in the 2004 version?
Answer: Alfie