Question: What 2003 film was about a murdered Irish journalist played by Kate Blanchett?
Answer: Veronica Guerin

Question: Which country was controlled by Sweden from 1814 (following the Napoleonic wars) until 1905 when Sweden recognised its independence?
Answer: Norway

Question: Who played Frank Spencer in the British TV series "Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em"?
Answer: Michael Crawford

Question: Until 1965, it was thought that which planet was synchronously tidally locked with the Sun, rotating once for each orbit and keeping the same face directed towards the Sun at all times, in the same way that the same side of the Moon always faces the Earth?
Answer: Mercury

Question: What airport was known as "Idlewild Airport" when planned in the late 1930s, was renamed "Major General Alexander E. Anderson Airport" when construction began in 1943, then "New York International Airport, Anderson Field" when flights began in 1948, had another name change in 1963?
Answer: John F. Kennedy International Airport

Question: In which country, following Napoleon's final defeat in 1815 at the Battle of Waterloo, was the monarchy re-established, ending with the Revolution of 1848?
Answer: France

Question: In 1799, who discovered nitrous oxide, that made patients insensible to pain, the first true anaesthetic?
Answer: Sir Humphrey Davy

Question: What does a glazier work with?
Answer: Glass

Question: In medicine, which suffix denotes "inflammation of"?
Answer: -itis

Question: Daley Thompson is an Olympic gold medallist in what sport?
Answer: Decathlon

Question: Who took the role originated by Jodie Foster in films about Hannibal Lechter?
Answer: Julianne Moore

Question: What is a terrifying and disturbing dream?
Answer: Nightmare

Question: What is Donald Duck's middle name?
Answer: Fauntleroy

Question: What items are produced in a darkroom?
Answer: Photographs

Question: In 1498, Vasco da Gama was the first European to reach which area by sea?
Answer: India

Question: What is the seven-branched candlestick, based on the candelabrum that was used in the Temple in Jerusalem in ancient times, that is the national symbol of the State of Israel?
Answer: Menorah

Question: Which scientist has the following geographical features named after him: a sound in Tierra del Fuego, a mountain in the Andes, a sound in British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands and an Australian state capital?
Answer: Charles Darwin

Question: Over one third of which state of the USA is in the Arctic Circle?
Answer: Alaska

Question: Who wrote the book "Studies in Hysteria" and "Interpretation of Dreams"?
Answer: Sigmund Freud

Question: Where is a complex of caves in southwestern France famous for its Paleolithic cave paintings consisting primarily of realistic images of large animals?
Answer: Lascaux

Question: What invention in the 17th century revolutionized mathematics by providing the first systematic link between Euclidean geometry and algebra, describing geometric shapes as algebraic equations involving the coordinates of the points lying on it?
Answer: Cartesian coordinates

Question: Who, in his autobiography "Open: An Autobiography" published in November 2009, admitted to using and testing positive for methamphetamine in 1997?
Answer: Andre Aggasi

Question: """Treason"" is what sort of word in relation to ""senator""?"
Answer: Anagram

Question: The headquarters of the United Nations is in which city?
Answer: New York

Question: What is the inner core of the Earth believed to consist of?
Answer: Iron-nickel alloy

Question: Figure skating was first contested as an Olympic sport at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London. There were 5 events: Mens & Ladies singles, Special figures, Mixed pairs, and Ice Dancing. Which country won the most medals (6)?
Answer: Great Britain

Question: What international scientific effort encompassing eleven Earth sciences that lasted from 1 July 1957 to 31 December 1958 was supported by both the USA and the USSR, who each launched a satellite?
Answer: The International Geophysical Year

Question: James Boswell is best known for his biography of whom?
Answer: Samuel Johnson

Question: Yvette Williams, Mary Rand, Willye White and Kathy McMillan are all medal winners in which Olympic sport?
Answer: Long jump

Question: Who secured the contract from the British government in 1838 to carry mail between Liverpool Halifax and Boston and formed the British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company with 4 ships?
Answer: Samuel Cunard

Question: What name is given to lung-breathing aquatic mammals such as whales, porpoises and dolphins?
Answer: Cetacea

Question: In Victorian times, what was an item of wardrobe known as a "stovepipe"?
Answer: Hat

Question: In 1964, what did University of Oregon grad. student Carolyn Davidson design for $35?
Answer: The Nike "swoosh"

Question: What USA national championship game, played on a Sunday, is the second-largest US food consumption day, after Thanksgiving Day?
Answer: Super Bowl

Question: The rock musical "Rent", about a group of artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York's Lower East Side under the shadow of AIDS, is based on which Puccini opera?
Answer: La Bohme

Question: According to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who had "a long grey beard and a glittering eye"?
Answer: The ancient mariner

Question: What was the first name of the playwright Williams who wrote "A Streetcar Named Desire"?
Answer: Tennessee

Question: What does a spelunker do as a hobby?
Answer: Explore caves

Question: What is the unit of force which, acting upon a mass of 1 gramme, will produce acceleration of 1 centimetre per second per second?
Answer: Dyne

Question: Meerkats are native to which continent?
Answer: Africa

Question: """I Know Him So Well"" is from what musical?"
Answer: Chess

Question: What is the term for a two week period?
Answer: Fortnight

Question: Who founded the Society of Jesus (Jesuits)?
Answer: Ignatius Loyola

Question: How is it generally accepted that Coney Island in New York got its name?
Answer: It was overrun by rabbits

Question: Archery was included in the Olympic Games in 1900, 1904, 1908, and 1920, and every time since 1972. Which country has won the most gold medals?
Answer: South Korea

Question: The phrase "Mountain Standard Time Zone" refers to which mountains?
Answer: Rockies

Question: What is the common name for London's Criminal Court?
Answer: Old Bailey

Question: What name is given to a young goat?
Answer: Kid

Question: What was the first name of the painter Monet?
Answer: Claude

Question: Which German was the first to satisfactorily demonstrate the existence of electromagnetic waves by building an apparatus to produce and detect VHF & UHF radio waves?
Answer: Heinrich Rudolph Hertz

Question: What condition caused by spasm of arterioles and sometimes small veins, results in the formation of small raised areas that are white or red, affecting mainly fingers and toes, which later throb and itch?
Answer: Chilblains

Question: In 1856, who invented the process whereby 5 tons of steel could be made in 30 minutes instead of in 50lb batches over 10 days and nights, at a tenth of the cost?
Answer: Henry Bessemer

Question: In "Kill Bill", who played the character of Black Mamba?
Answer: Uma Thurman

Question: In 1994, the "National Sports of Canada Act" declared which two sports as the national sports of Canada?
Answer: Ice hockey (winter) and lacrosse (summer)

Question: Christian II was the last king of where?
Answer: A united Scandinavia

Question: Carcinoma is a type of what?
Answer: Cancer

Question: What happened to William Tyndale, who translated much of the Bible into English and published it between 1525 and 1530, in Antwerp in 1536?
Answer: He was strangled and burnt at the stake as a heretic