Question: UCAS, the organization which manages student applications for virtually all UK degree courses, is fully known as what?
Answer: Universities and Colleges Admissions Service

Question: During which battle of 1876 did the Sioux Indians massacre George Custer's Seventh Cavalry Regiment?
Answer: Battle of the Little Big Horn

Question: The Folketing is the parliament of which European country?
Answer: Denmark

Question: The eldest son of Queen Victoria became which king?
Answer: Edward VII

Question: What is a Smythson Daphne?
Answer: Handbag

Question: Who was the first British woman to win two Gold Medals at the same Olympic Games?
Answer: Kelly Holmes

Question: Welsh singer Michael Barratt is better known by which name?
Answer: Shakin' Stevens

Question: What is half a sphere called?
Answer: Hemisphere

Question: Which British comedienne's autobiography is entitled 'Look Back In Hunger'?
Answer: Jo Brand

Question: In ancient Greek legend, soldier Pheidippedes collapsed and died after running over twenty-five miles to Athens to give news of which battle?
Answer: Marathon

Question: Named by writer Jerry B Harvey after a west Texas city and metropolitan area, a group decision that no individual in the group wants is described as the 'what?' Paradox?
Answer: Abilene Paradox

Question: Holes in a standard round of golf?
Answer: 18

Question: The MS Windows computer operating system version that succeeded Vista?
Answer: 7

Question: Total dots on a die?
Answer: 21

Question: Total of the sides on a pentagon and a heptagon?
Answer: 12

Question: Days of the average human menstrual cycle?
Answer: 28

Question: Lines traditionally in a sonnet?
Answer: 14

Question: Whole miles in a marathon running event?
Answer: 26

Question: """The Lord is My Shepherd..."" psalm number?"
Answer: 23

Question: American Presidents assassinated in office?
Answer: 4

Question: Old Chinese method of counting on one hand, up to this number, using the thumb to touch the tip and three joints of each finger?
Answer: 16

Question: 'The curse of Scotland' diamonds playing card?
Answer: 9

Question: A Nebuchadnezzar wine/champagne bottle equates to how many normal bottles?
Answer: 20

Question: The average age of a US combat soldier in the Vietnam war (also a 1985 Paul Hardcastle No1 hit song)?
Answer: 19

Question: Red balls on a snooker table at the start of a frame (traditional full game version)?
Answer: 15

Question: The Boeing Superfortress B-'what'-type of American aircraft that dropped atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945?
Answer: 29

Question: Basic parts of the Chinese Taijitu symbol (related to Taoism philosphy and popular interpretations of yin and yang)?
Answer: 2

Question: British orbital motorway featuring the Dartford Crossing is the M-what?
Answer: 25

Question: Diez, Tio, Zehn, and Zece (in Spanish, Swedish, German and Romanian)?
Answer: 10

Question: Held in turn by the ancient Phonecians, Greeks and Romans, Cyrenaica is a region of which African country?
Answer: Libya

Question: Gametophobia is an informal term for the irrational fear of?
Answer: Marriage

Question: With species called common, Danube and Italian, what creature is a bleak; Bird; Fish; Crab; or Whale?
Answer: Fish

Question: For which English county cricket team did Australian Shane Warne play between 2000 and 2007?
Answer: Hampshire

Question: Which composer died on 5th December 1791, aged 35?
Answer: Mozart

Question: A mooli is which type of vegetable?
Answer: Radish

Question: A 2010 UK survey by the Campaign for Better Transport identified which city as the most car-dependent?
Answer: Milton Keynes

Question: What is the musical term for 'To be repeated from the beginning'?
Answer: Da Capo

Question: The Rockall Trough is in which ocean?
Answer: Atlantic

Question: In the 2004 film biopic Beyond the Sea, Kevin Spacey plays which 1960s singer?
Answer: Bobby Darin

Question: In June 1937, which US state became the first, and only, to celebrate Flag Day as a state holiday?
Answer: Pennsylvania

Question: Which European leader publicly welcomed a new female MP to parliament by reminding her of a 'rule' called 'jus primae noctis' ('law of the first night' - a medieval right of the Lord of the manor to deflower new brides) ? Silvio Berlusconi; Winston Churchill; Nicolas Sarkozy; or Helmut Kohl?
Answer: Silvio Berlusconi

Question: If something is 'bacilliform' what shape is it?
Answer: Rod-shaped

Question: The John Rylands Library is in which English city?
Answer: Manchester

Question: What colour is the pigment lycopene?
Answer: Red

Question: What class of creature is a scorpion?
Answer: Arachnid

Question: In which English county is Chilham Castle?
Answer: Kent

Question: In which year was the Metropolitan Police Service established in London?
Answer: 1829

Question: Madrilene is what type of food dish?
Answer: Soup

Question: Petrography is the study of what?
Answer: Rocks

Question: What is a bump on a ski slope called which is formed by skiers turning?
Answer: Mogul

Question: The Watergate Complex is in which area of Washington DC?
Answer: Foggy Bottom

Question: Mefloquine is used for the treatment of what?
Answer: Malaria

Question: What historic region of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro, gave its name to a dog breed with a striking appearance?
Answer: Dalmatia

Question: The Janka hardness test is used for which substance?
Answer: Wood

Question: Name the candidates in the UK Labour Party's 2010 leadership contest (and for a bonus point, the order they finished in the contest)?
Answer: Ed Miliband (winner), David Miliband (2nd), Ed Balls (3rd), Andy Burnham (4th), Diane Abbott (5th)

Question: Derived from the French word meaning to brood or hatch, what term refers to a male phantom or sympathetic pregnancy syndrome in response to a wife or partner's real pregnancy?
Answer: Couvade

Question: What is the third angle in a triangle if the other two are each 60 degrees?
Answer: 60 degrees

Question: What did US southerners call a northerner who moved to the south in the 1860-70s to exploit opportunities in the Reconstruction era, and which word today refers to an opportunitistic investor, especially where a mutual society might convert into a public commerial company?
Answer: Carpetbagger

Question: The UK Glastonbury music festival was originally known as what name (combined with 'festival'), taken from a nearby village?
Answer: Pilton

Question: In the UK snow of January 2010 a Thames Valley policeman was reprimanded for sledging on duty down a slope on his what?
Answer: Riot shield

Question: Composed in 1907, The Soldier's Song (that's the English translation of the title) was formally adopted in 1926 as the national anthem of which European country?
Answer: Ireland

Question: The Mills bomb, developed in Birmingham in 1915, and produced in numbers exceeding 70 million since then, is more commonly known by what term?
Answer: Hand grenade

Question: An ammeter measures electrical what?
Answer: Current

Question: The Sumida and Arakawa are two main rivers of which capital city?
Answer: Tokyo

Question: Anthracite is a type of what?
Answer: Coal

Question: Luke Rinehart's cult 1971 novel is called The 'what?' Man?
Answer: Dice

Question: What is the Italian word, meaning 'head', for the clamp-like gadget used on guitars and other fretted stringed instruments to change key and tuning?
Answer: Capo

Question: New France was the name given to French colonized lands in which continent from the 16th-18th centuries?
Answer: North America

Question: Sabena was which country's national airline?
Answer: Belgium

Question: Who owns the luxury food brand Duchy Originals, which announced £3.2m losses in 2010?
Answer: Prince Charles

Question: What is Spanish for heart?
Answer: Corazón

Question: Sir Robert Mark, who died age 93 in Sep 2010, performed what role in England from 1967-77?
Answer: Metropolitan Police Commissioner