Question: Which country became a self-governing state within the British Empire in 1959, declared independence from Britain, joining the Federation of Malaysia in 1963, and left the federation on 9 August 1965?
Answer: Singapore

Question: What is the next number in the series 1, 16, 81, 256, 625?
Answer: 1296

Question: By what name is Reg Dwight better known?
Answer: Elton John

Question: In Britain, what was the name given to the M4 Medium Tank that was produced by the US from World War II until the end of the Korean War?
Answer: Sherman

Question: Which English actor, the majority of whose film work was between 1944 ("Waterloo Road") and 1960 ("Tunes of Glory"), won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in "Ryan's Daughter" (1970)?
Answer: John Mills

Question: What is the word commonly thought to mean "a morbid fear of open spaces"?
Answer: Agoraphobia

Question: Who set the record for winning the World Snooker Championship the most times (7) in 1999?
Answer: Stephen Hendry

Question: In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and New Orleans, Louisiana, what is the name for the day called Shrove Tuesday in Ireland and the UK where it is celebrated with pancakes?
Answer: Mardi Gras

Question: In sheep's stomach put finely minced heart, lungs & liver of sheep, 2 chopped onions, 1lb suet, juice of 1 lemon, 1/2pt oatmeal, 2tsp salt, 1tsp pepper, 1/2 grated nutmeg, 1/2pt gravy; boil 3 hrs is a recipe for what?
Answer: Haggis

Question: Which US state capital is on the banks of the Cumberland River?
Answer: Nashville, Tennessee

Question: Who was the first woman to make a solo flight from England to Australia in 1930?
Answer: Amy Johnson

Question: Which US TV show's theme song, by Judy Hart Angelo & Gary Portnoy, performed by Portnoy, contained the line "Where Everybody Knows Your Name"?
Answer: Cheers

Question: What is the familiar name for the British flag?
Answer: Union Jack

Question: What is the number of the beast, according to the Book of Revelation?
Answer: 666

Question: What is the name given to a class of coal that contains a high percentage of fired carbon and burns smokelessly with intense heat?
Answer: Anthracite

Question: What is the largest island of Denmark, that includes the cities of Copenhagen and Helsingr?
Answer: Zealand

Question: What was the name of the temporary harbours that were towed to the French coast to facilitate D Day landings on 5 and 6 June 1944?
Answer: Mulberry

Question: From which sport do we get the expression "Bowled a googly"?
Answer: Cricket

Question: What was Glenn Miller's signature tune?
Answer: Moonlight Serenade

Question: Which city held the 2012 Summer Olympics, making it the first city to host the Games three times?
Answer: London

Question: From which game do we get the expression "On a roll"?
Answer: Craps

Question: Who wrote the plays "Waiting For Godot", "Endgame", "Play", "Happy Days" and "Krapp's Last Tape"?
Answer: Samuel Beckett

Question: Which theatre in Dublin, built in 1904 where George Bernard Shaw, W B Yeats, Padraic Colum, and Sean O'Casey premiered many of their plays, was severely damaged by fire in 1951?
Answer: Abbey Theatre

Question: Which wars, from 1839 to 1842 and 1856 to 1860, were due to Britain smuggling goods from India into China in defiance of China's laws?
Answer: The Opium Wars

Question: How many signs of the Zodiac are neither inanimate nor human?
Answer: 7

Question: Which Beatle played "Youngman Grand" in "The Magic Christian" 1969, with Peter Sellers?
Answer: Ringo Starr

Question: What military rank and historical title for Hereditary Commanders of Armies in Japan ended when Tokugawa Yoshinobu relinquished the office in 1867?
Answer: Shgun

Question: Woody Guthrie, tired of radio overplaying Irving Berlin's "God Bless America", wrote a song in 1940 now known as what?
Answer: This Land Is Your Land

Question: What is produced by the cortex of supra-renal glands that stimulates the autonomic nervous system?
Answer: Adrenalin

Question: Which mountain range crosses North Africa for over 1500 miles from Cape Nun on the Atlantic Coast to Cape Bon on the Mediterranean?
Answer: Atlas

Question: Why did 66 nations, including the United States, Canada, West Germany and Japan, boycott the 1980 Olympic Games held in Moscow?
Answer: USSR's participation in the Afghan Civil War

Question: Which city was settled by the French in 1718, ceded to Spain in 1763, fell to France in 1800, and was bought by the USA in 1803?
Answer: New Orleans

Question: When bidding in Auction Bridge, what suit has the highest value below "No trumps"?
Answer: Spades

Question: Which dancer had success on stage with his sister Adele before achieving fame in films with Ginger Rogers?
Answer: Fred Astaire

Question: What is next in the series: Katherine, Anne, Jane, Anne, Catherine?
Answer: Catherine

Question: The publication of which book by Salman Rushdie led to threats on his life by Ayatollah Khomeini?
Answer: The Satanic Verses

Question: Over 99.9% of an atom's mass is concentrated in what part of the atom?
Answer: Nucleus

Question: What appeared in the Netherlands in 1608, developed by Hans Lippershey, Zacharias Janssen and Jacob Metius, and improved by Galileo in 1609?
Answer: Refracting telescope

Question: Who was the Greek god of medicine who brought dead people back to life, angering Zeus who killed him with a thunderbolt?
Answer: Aesculapius

Question: What is the alternative name for Pluto, the Greek God of the underworld, that has come to mean Hell?
Answer: Hades

Question: What is a green liqueur made from anise, hyssop, angelica and mint?
Answer: Absinthe

Question: Antoni Gaudi is responsible for the architecture of which building which is still being constructed to his original plans and drawings, 90 years after his death?
Answer: Sagrada Familia

Question: Which Olympic Games were the first where all continents were represented, with all athletes competing in one stadium?
Answer: 1912, Stockholm

Question: Queen Margrethe II of the Kingdom of Denmark is commonly called "the queen" in Danish, which is... ?
Answer: Dronningen

Question: Where have the World Snooker Championships been held since 1977?
Answer: The Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, UK

Question: Which large, non-venomous snake found in South America and on Trinidad grows to around 23 feet (7.0 m) long, and is olive green with black blotches with orange-yellow striping on either side of the head?
Answer: Anaconda

Question: What is the word for the minimum number of people necessary to formally constitute a meeting?
Answer: Quorum

Question: Which 1967 film ended with the deaths of the characters played by Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty?
Answer: Bonnie and Clyde

Question: Amyl nitrate is used in the treatment of what?
Answer: Pain in the heart

Question: The term "New England" covers the US states of Maine, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island and which other state?
Answer: New Hampshire

Question: What international movement has a pink triangle as its symbol?
Answer: Gay rights

Question: Which Hungarian-born actor acted in films from 1917 to his death in 1956, and is best known for playing the title role in the 1931 film "Dracula"?
Answer: Bela Lugosi

Question: Who was born in Cowley, Oxfordshire, and in Oxford built and sold bicycles, motorcycles and, in 1912, his first car, the Morris Oxford?
Answer: Lord Nuffield

Question: New York city consists of the boroughs of The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Staten Island, and which other?
Answer: Queens

Question: Which building on the le de la Cit in Paris took 300 years to build from 1163, and was one of the first to have flying buttresses?
Answer: Notre Dame

Question: The official basketball size for mens basketball is 29.5 inches in circumference (size 7) and what weight in ounces?
Answer: 22

Question: What term is familiarly applied to the university where one received one's education?
Answer: Alma Mater