Question: The plant soleirolia soleirolii of the nettle family has a number of common names, including baby's tears, angel's tears, mind-your-own-business, peace-in-the-home, pollyanna vine, the Corsican curse, Irish moss and which other?
Answer: Mother of thousands

Question: Croatia won their first ever Olympic gold in Atlanta in 1996 in which event?
Answer: Handball

Question: In October 2009 it was announced that director Sam Taylor-Wood was to marry Aaron Johnson, 23 years her junior, who were director and star respecitively of "Nowhere Boy", a film about whom?
Answer: John Lennon

Question: The words "a" and "an" are what parts of speech?
Answer: Indefinite articles

Question: Which river forms part of the border between the USA and Canada?
Answer: St Lawrence

Question: Which cartoonist, whose caricatures of public figures were published in "Private Eye" in the 1960s and 1970s, worked for Pink Floyd on "The Wall" album (1979) and movie (1982)?
Answer: Gerald Scarfe

Question: In what sport do the tests include an "away drive", "shedding", "singling", a "cross drive" and a "double lift"?
Answer: Sheepdog trialling

Question: In March 2010, what activity was made legal by the Board of Health in New York City?
Answer: Beekeeping

Question: The Russian city of Volgograd that was called Tsaritsyn from 1589 to 1925, changed its name in 1961 from what?
Answer: Stalingrad

Question: """The sum of the squares of the lengths of the four sides of a parallelogram equals the sum of the squares of the lengths of the two diagonals"" is known as what?"
Answer: Parallelogram law

Question: What 1936 film sets out a future to 2036, predicting World War II from 23 December 1940, bombing raids on cities, a plague ("wandering sickness") in 1966, and a civilization based in Basra, Iraq, that renounced war and outlawed independent nation-states?
Answer: Things to Come

Question: The eleventh studio album by Irish rock band U2, released in November 2004, was called How to Dismantle ..." what?
Answer: An Atomic Bomb

Question: What is the traditional design on a convict's uniform?
Answer: Arrows

Question: What chemical is mostly used in match heads?
Answer: Phosphorous

Question: Where did Martin Luther King, Jr. deliver his "I Have a Dream" speech on 28 August 1963?
Answer: The Lincoln Memorial, Washington

Question: The 2010 film "The Tooth Fairy", starring Dwayne Johnson, Julie Andrews and Billy Crystal, concerns a player of which sport?
Answer: Ice hockey

Question: Where is the US Bullion Depository, a fortified building used to store US official gold reserves, and a US Army post that holds the US Army Armor Center and the US Army Armor School?
Answer: Fort Knox

Question: What term is used to describe a wine with bold, brash and audacious flavours?
Answer: Sassy

Question: What subregion of Oceania includes Fiji, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Norfolk Island, the Solomon Islands, the Torres Strait Islands and Vanuatu?
Answer: Melanesia

Question: Who was known as "Ol' Blue Eyes"?
Answer: Frank Sinatra

Question: What headwear is traditionally worn at Harrow, the English public school?
Answer: Straw boater

Question: The nutmeg tree is important for two spices derived from the fruit: nutmeg and which other?
Answer: Mace

Question: International Workers' Day is observed in many countries of the world on 1 May. What does it commemorate?
Answer: The achievements of the international labour movement

Question: What are Gliese 876 d, OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb, MOA-2007-BLG-192Lb, COROT-Exo-7b, Gliese 581 d and Gliese 581 c?
Answer: Planets

Question: What is the southernmost national capital city in the world?
Answer: Wellington, New Zealand

Question: What does an horologist make?
Answer: Clocks

Question: Who is the last person to die on stage in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"?
Answer: Juliet

Question: What number do the numbers on opposite sides of a die always add up to?
Answer: 7

Question: What structural element of a building protrudes from the plane of a sloping roof surface, creating usable space in the roof by adding headroom and usually enabling addition of windows?
Answer: Dormer

Question: In an operation headed by Ali Hassan al-Majid (a cousin of then Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein), Iraq used the deadly nerve gas Sarin against what minority in 1987 and 1988?
Answer: Kurds

Question: David Mamet's plays "American Buffalo" (1975) and "Glengarry Glen Ross" (1982) are set in what city?
Answer: Chicago

Question: What, in Norse mythology, is a series of major events, that includes the death of a number of major gods, a great flood, and the repopulation of the world by two human survivors?
Answer: Ragnark

Question: What is the country of origin of the cheese called "feta"?
Answer: Greece

Question: Ahmet Ertegun, who was born in Turkey and died in 2006 aged 83 in New York City, USA, was a founder of the New York Cosmos team of the North American Soccer League and which record label?
Answer: Atlantic

Question: Where is the Sea of Waves?
Answer: On the Moon

Question: What electricity voltage is provided as mains power in Britain?
Answer: 230 Volts

Question: How did US president John F Kennedy die?
Answer: Assassination

Question: Which school is the setting for the 1939 film "Goodbye, Mr. Chips"?
Answer: Brookfield Public School

Question: The symptoms for which poisoning include violent stomach pains, retching, excessive saliva production, vomiting, a sense of dryness and tightness in the throat, thirst, hoarseness, difficulty of speech, diarrhea, clammy sweats and delirium?
Answer: Arsenic

Question: What couple, who have two children, bought neighbouring houses in Belsize Park, London, with a connecting doorway in 2003 because they felt they could not live in the same residence?
Answer: Helena Bonham Carter  & Tim Burton

Question: What is the next in this series: 1 John, 2 John, 3 John, Jude ... ?
Answer: Book of Revelation

Question: The "numbered treaties", a series of eleven treaties signed between the aboriginal peoples and the reigning Monarch (Victoria, Edward VII or George V) from 1871 to 1921, apply in which counry?
Answer: Canada

Question: Why is the Calcutta Cup, a rugby union trophy awarded to the winner of the annual Six Nations Championship match between England and Scotland, so called?
Answer: It is made of rupees from the Calcutta Rugby Club

Question: Jos Santos Zelaya, William Walker, Adolfo Daz, Emiliano Chamorro, Juan Bautista Sacasa, Anastasio Somoza Garca, Luis Somoza, Violeta Chamorro, Enrique Bolaos and Daniel Ortega are associated with the politics of which country?
Answer: Nicaragua

Question: What are "Libiamo ne' lieti calici", "O soave fanciulla" and "Parle-moi de ma mre"?
Answer: Operatic duets for tenor and soprano

Question: Orchard Road, that had a $40 million revamp in 2009, is the retail and entertainment centre of which city?
Answer: Singapore

Question: Who painted the famous painting known as "The Night Watch"?
Answer: Rembrandt

Question: Which rectangular flag centred with a white square was flown by British ships as a sign that it was due to sail?
Answer: Blue Peter

Question: The following are the first few examples of what: (220, 284), (1184, 1210), (2620, 2924), (5020, 5564) & (6232, 6368)?
Answer: Amicable numbers

Question: On 8 April 1933, the state government of Western Australia held a referendum on which subject, in which 68% of the 237,198 voters voted in favour?
Answer: Seceding from the Commonwealth of Australia

Question: What is English cricketer Ian Botham's nickname?
Answer: Beefy

Question: What Irish boyband formed in 1998 by Nicky Byrne, Kian Egan, Mark Feehily, Shane Filan and Brian McFadden became the 3rd biggest selling pop band worldwide and biggest selling band of 2000-2009, with 14 number 1 singles in the UK?
Answer: Westlife