Question: The nomadic Mongol tribes in Mongolia, Manchuria and Siberia united under which leader in the 1100s?
Answer: Genghis Khan

Question: The Mohs scale measures what?
Answer: Hardness of minerals

Question: A series of political protests against the government in Thailand in 2010 were organised by a group calling themselves what?
Answer: Red shirts

Question: What is the transparent front part of the eye which, while contributing most of the eye's focusing power, has a fixed focus?
Answer: Cornea

Question: Who was the first US Secretary of the Treasury?
Answer: Alexander Hamilton

Question: Who were Great Uncle Bulgaria, Tobermory, Orinoco, Bungo, Tomsk, Wellington and Madame Cholet?
Answer: Wombles

Question: In American football, who stands behind the centre and calls the play?
Answer: Quarterback

Question: Which musical term means "Slow"?
Answer: Lento

Question: Which English MP, Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under King Charles II and King James II, kept a detailed private diary during 16601669 which contained personal revelations and eyewitness accounts of great events and, after publication in the 19th century, became a primary source for study of the English Restoration period?
Answer: Samuel Pepys

Question: What country has an official residence called Blair House, kept for guests of the leader of the country?
Answer: Usa

Question: What sort of art work is the "Venus de Milo"?
Answer: Sculpture

Question: At midnight on 30 June 2012 a change was made to a system which affected all countries. What was it?
Answer: A leap second was added to the universal time record (UTC)

Question: In 1713 Charles XII, King of Sweden, created what position to ensure that public officials acted in accordance with the law and discharged their duties satisfactorily, and could initiate legal proceedings against them for dereliction of duty?
Answer: His Majesty's Supreme Ombudsman

Question: It has been ranked in the top 20 TV shows of all time, and ran in the US from 1987 to 1991, centring on a group of baby boomer yuppies. Which is it?
Answer: Thirtysomething

Question: The following people died from what cause: Eva Braun, Wallace Carothers, Odilo Globocnik, Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Gring, Heinrich Himmler, Gnther von Kluge, Erwin Rommel, Alan Turing and the residents of Jonestown?
Answer: Cyanide poisoning

Question: Darwin, Cottage, May and Parrot are varieties of what?
Answer: Tulip

Question: The Crucible, a 1953 play by Arthur Miller, was set in what city?
Answer: Salem

Question: Who was the first person to win "The Big Four" Grammy Awards (Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year & Best New Artist) in one year?
Answer: Christopher Cross

Question: In snooker, what coloured ball scores 4 points?
Answer: Brown

Question: The Peloponnesian War, fought around 430 to 405 BC, was primarily a conflict between the city state of Athens and people from where?
Answer: Sparta

Question: What major city lies on a line joining Toledo, Monroe, Wyandotte, Windsor and London?
Answer: Detroit, Michigan, USA

Question: The Hindu temple complex of Angkor Wat, built for the king Suryavarman II in the early 12th century as his state temple and capital city, is in which country?
Answer: Cambodia

Question: In rugby union, which position wears the number 2 jersey?
Answer: Hooker

Question: """Catriona""is a sequel to which novel?"
Answer: Kidnapped

Question: Who was the third wife of King Henry VIII who died of postnatal complications less than two weeks after the birth of her son, who briefly reigned as Edward VI?
Answer: Jane Seymour

Question: The Bill of Rights was passed by the Parliament of England in which century?
Answer: 17th century

Question: What are the two main symbols of the Freemasons?
Answer: Set square and compass

Question: Sergei Rachmaninoff was a virtuoso on which instrument?
Answer: Piano

Question: Who appeared in her first film for 15 years, "Monster In Law", in 2005?
Answer: Jane Fonda

Question: According to a song by Billy Idol "It's a nice day for a white ..." what?
Answer: Wedding

Question: Where are the Nicobar Islands?
Answer: Indian Ocean

Question: Which South American water rat is the world's largest rodent, growing to over 4 feet long?
Answer: Capybara

Question: What is a dart board usually made from?
Answer: Sisal fibres or cork

Question: What is the name of the Jamaican netball team?
Answer: The Sunshine Girls

Question: The TV series Bonanaza was set in which state?
Answer: Nevada

Question: Which city in the Zou Department of The People's Republic of Benin was formerly the capital of the ancient kingdom of Dahomey?
Answer: Abomey

Question: John the Baptist lived in the wilderness of Judea between Jerusalem and the Dead Sea, "his raiment of camel's hair, and a leather girdle about his loins; and his meat was ..." what?
Answer: Locusts and wild honey

Question: What do the US Declaration of Independence, Captain Cook's sailing to discover the North-West Passage, the publication of economist Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, and the first St Leger Stakes horse race at Doncaster, UK, have in common?
Answer: They happened in 1776

Question: Who was famously shot dead while playing cards in Deadwood, South Dakota, on 2 August 1876?
Answer: Wild Bill Hickok

Question: In 2003, a congestion charge was introduced to reduce traffic volumes in which city centre?
Answer: London

Question: A hit for the Marvelettes, the Beatles and the Carpenters was "Please Mr who?
Answer: Postman

Question: What system, developed for military use, was made fully available to the public from midnight 1 May 2000 on the orders of US President Bill Clinton?
Answer: Gps

Question: What are the "White Cliffs of Dover" made of?
Answer: Chalk

Question: Who plays Susan Mayer in the US TV series "Desperate Housewives"?
Answer: Teri Hatcher

Question: One of the oldest mountain ranges in the world lies along the east of the USA and Canada, and is called the...?
Answer: Appalachian Mountains

Question: Chainmail was a precursor to what popular board game first published in 1974?
Answer: Dungeons and Dragons

Question: Possession of what was made illegal in California, the first part of the USA to do so, on 6 October 1966?
Answer: Lsd

Question: Between April and July 1997 Andrew Cunanan killed 5 people (beginning with Jeffrey Trail in Minneapolis, David Madson, near Rush City, Minnesota, Lee Miglin in Chicago, William Reese in Pennsville, New Jersey) before shooting himself. Who was his 5th victim, shot in Miami Beach, Florida?
Answer: Gianni Versace

Question: What was the title of the 2001 film that was a sequel to The Silence of the Lambs?
Answer: Hannibal

Question: A function whose logarithm is a quadratic equation is represented graphically as what?
Answer: Bell curve

Question: The phrase "Crossing the Rubicon" is associated with which historical figure?
Answer: Julius Caesar

Question: In backgammon how does a player lose a gammon?
Answer: The player has not managed to bear off any of their pieces before the game ends

Question: """Regina v. Bartle"" [1994] is a leading Supreme Court of Canada decision regarding what aspect of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms?"
Answer: Police must first inform arrested persons of their rights and give them access to counsel

Question: In which country are the cities of Bishkek, Batken, Karakol, Naryn, Osh and Jalal-Abad?
Answer: Kyrgyzstan

Question: In the USA there is a national holiday annually on the third Monday in January, in honour of whom?
Answer: Martin Luther King

Question: What was a major change in cricket in the 1760s, some 2 to 300 or more years after it was first played in the UK?
Answer: Balls were bowled instead of rolled along the ground

Question: In 1768, Joshua Reynolds became the first president of what British institution?
Answer: Royal Academy