Question: Food prepared under the dietary laws of Judaism is called what?
Answer: Kosher

Question: Variants of a card game, called Baba-nuki, Svarte Petter, Old Maid, Ungguy-ungguyan, Abu Foul, and Jogo do Mico among others, all involve discarding matched pairs and avoiding what?
Answer: Being left with the single unmatched card in the deck

Question: Who succeeded Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon Church, after he was shot and killed on 27 June 1844?
Answer: Brigham Young

Question: Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Djibouti, Eritrea, Somalia and Sudan border what area?
Answer: The Red Sea

Question: In 2001, who began a relationship with director Tim Burton with whom she has two children: Billy (born 2003) and Nell (born 2007)?
Answer: Helena Bonham Carter

Question: The iris takes it name from the Greek word meaning what?
Answer: Rainbow

Question: Who play the two lead characters in the UK TV 2010 series Sherlock?
Answer: Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman

Question: Why did teenager Ding Jinhao briefly become well-known in 2013?
Answer: He scrawled "Ding Jinhao was here" on the wall of an ancient Egyptian temple

Question: Which English cricketer scored a century in his test match debut in 2006?
Answer: Alastair Cook

Question: To play craps, players need an appropriately marked up board, chips and what else?
Answer: Spotted dice

Question: Brothers Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier were the inventors of a style of what?
Answer: Hot air balloon

Question: The term "banana republic" was first used in 1904 by O Henry, to describe what country?
Answer: Honduras

Question: How many times was Franklin D. Roosevelt elected president of the USA?
Answer: 4

Question: Which trophy is affectionately called the Auld Mug?
Answer: The Americas Cup

Question: What unusual item is used as an instrument in the chorus of Verdi's opera "Il Trovatore"?
Answer: Anvil

Question: Mr. Fantastic, the Invisible Woman, the Human Torch and the Thing are members of which fictional group?
Answer: Fantastic Four

Question: Who wrote the book "The Prince and the Pauper"?
Answer: Mark Twain

Question: Which Queen of Sweden came to the throne in 1632 around the age of 6 and abdicated in 1654?
Answer: Christina

Question: Who was Prime Minister of Great Britain at the start of World War I?
Answer: Herbert Asquith

Question: How is the value of eight expressed in a base eight numbering system?
Answer: 10

Question: How far north does Canadian-governed teritory extend?
Answer: 84o North of the equator

Question: Whose death on 25 June 2009 left behind three grieving children, a personal doctor to face manslaughter charges, and parents who then embarked on a range of litigations?
Answer: Michael Jackson

Question: Larry Hagman, the star of the TV drama that first ran from 1978 to 1991, "Dallas", is the son of which actress and singer who originated many roles over her career including Nellie Forbush in "South Pacific" and Maria in "The Sound of Music"?
Answer: Mary Martin

Question: In communication over two-way radios, in use by the military, police and fire despatching systems, and CB radio, what does "over" mean?
Answer: I have finished talking and I am listening

Question: The Anemone hupehensis (commonly known as the Japanese anemone, Japanese thimbleweed, or Japanese windflower) was originally native to where?
Answer: Central China

Question: The basic shape of the North American continent on a map is best described as which?
Answer: Triangular

Question: According to a story originating in the 9th century, and disputed by the Catholic Church, who was the first female Pope?
Answer: Pope Joan

Question: Who commanded the Roman army that invaded Britain in 55BC?
Answer: Julius Caesar

Question: Where is the headquarters of the international broadcasting network CNN, "the CNN Center"?
Answer: Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Question: One of Canada's UNESCO World heritage sites is "Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump", which was used for 5,500 years by which indigenous people to kill buffalo, by driving them off the 10 metre high cliff?
Answer: Blackfoot

Question: What was the tagline for the 1977 film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"?
Answer: We are not alone

Question: Which song begins by describing what happens at "nine o'clock on a Saturday" (when the regular crowd shuffles in)?
Answer: """Piano Man"" by Billy Joel"

Question: According to Greek legend, which of the 9 muses was the muse of Tragedy?
Answer: Melpomene

Question: Edwin Budding invented a tool in 1827 in Thrupp, just outside Stroud in Gloucestershire in the UK which in one of its current forms is used throughout gardens, parks, and sports grounds worldwide. What was it?
Answer: Lawn mower

Question: What is a genus of 422 species of flowering annual, biennial, and perennial plants commonly known as the cranesbills?
Answer: Geranium

Question: In the first century AD, which rebellious British chieftain, of the Catuvellauni, was taken to Rome in chains?
Answer: Caratacus

Question: Which screen villain likes liver, fava beans and chianti?
Answer: Hannibal Lecter

Question: What was the composer Mahler's first name?
Answer: Gustav

Question: How many "tribes of Israel" were there that descended from Jacob/Israel?
Answer: 12

Question: Who is the player who has come closest to meeting the modern definition of golf's Grand Slam by holding all four modern major championships simultaneously?
Answer: Tiger Woods

Question: Who composed the jazz / swing theme music for the television series Jeeves and Wooster?
Answer: Anne Dudley

Question: Which book of the Christian Bible's new testament comprises a letter from St Paul to members of a church that he had founded at Macedonia?
Answer: Philippians

Question: When did western scientists first demonstrate that it was possible to produce electricity from light?
Answer: 1839

Question: What is a 1938 crime film starring Edward G. Robinson, Claire Trevor and Humphrey Bogart, directed by Anatole Litvak and written by John Wexley and John Huston, based on a play by Barr Lyndon?
Answer: The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse

Question: What is the chemical symbol for hydrogen?
Answer: H

Question: What is an essential ingredient of a game of water polo?
Answer: Water

Question: Where is the Lateran palace?
Answer: Rome

Question: It has been a boy's name, is usually a girl's name, and is well known as the name of Peter Pan's friend in a J.M. Barrie play. What is it?
Answer: Wendy

Question: When was the company, the Tabulating Machine Company which later joined with three others to form the Computing Tabulating Recording Company, first launched?
Answer: 1896

Question: The name "Subbuteo" is most associated with a table-top version of what game?
Answer: Soccer

Question: """Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives"", which won the Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2010, was made where?"
Answer: Thailand

Question: In 1822 Brazil declared its independence from what European power?
Answer: Portugal

Question: What is the former name of the area that is now called Belize?
Answer: The British Honduras

Question: Ludwig Leichhardt was a Prussian naturalist and explorer explorer of what area between 1842 and 1848?
Answer: Northern and central Australia

Question: When did India first participate in the modern Olympic Games?
Answer: 1900

Question: In anatomy, what word refers to a difference in coloration, usually of the iris but also of hair or skin?
Answer: Heterochromia

Question: Who became the first woman to serve as a Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons, as the result of a by-election in 1919?
Answer: Nancy Astor

Question: What mountain range separates the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau?
Answer: Himalayas

Question: Where is it believed that fireworks were invented?
Answer: China

Question: Who won the 1996 Formula One Driver's championship?
Answer: Damon Hill