Question: What was the setting for the British TV series "Taggart"?
Answer: Glasgow

Question: What needlework technique incorporating features of embroidery, cutwork and needle lace, popular in England in the 19th century, is characterised by patterns composed of small holes or eyelets bound with overcast or buttonhole stitches?
Answer: Broderie Anglaise

Question: What did the British nickname the V1 rocket during the London Bitz during World War II?
Answer: Doodlebug

Question: If the squares of the numbers 1 to 10 are added together, what is the result?
Answer: 385

Question: What area of Paris is served by the metro stations of Anvers, Blanche, Pigalle, Abbesses, Lamarck - Caulaincourt and Jules Joffrin?
Answer: Montmartre

Question: In which of Shakespeare's plays is Brutus described as "the noblest Roman of them all"?
Answer: Julius Caesar

Question: What is a steam packet?
Answer: A ship sailing a regular service between two ports

Question: What is the official spoken language of China?
Answer: Mandarin

Question: What, the largest of its type at the time, was destroyed by fire at Alexandria in the first century BC?
Answer: Library

Question: What is the largest city in the province of Ontario, Canada?
Answer: Toronto

Question: In soccer, how far does "the wall" of players have to be from the spot where a free kick is to be taken?
Answer: 10 yards

Question: In 1984, who had a hit single snging about how he "got my first real six-string, bought it at the five-and-dime, played 'til my fingers bled. It was summer of '69"?
Answer: Bryan Adams

Question: Most of the state of Nevada is in which time zone?
Answer: Pacific

Question: A rhombus has how any sides?
Answer: 4

Question: What name was given to a series of protests and political events that took place in Ukraine from late November 2004 to January 2005?
Answer: The Orange Revolution

Question: What character was played by Bill Cosby in his long running TV series?
Answer: Cliff Huxtable

Question: What was Cleopatra's favourite colour?
Answer: Purple

Question: In February 2010, Joseph Stack, a 53 year old software engineer, crashed his light plane into Internal Revenue Service offices in which city?
Answer: Austin, Texas

Question: Who created the comic strip "The Wizard of Id"?
Answer: Brant Parker and Johnny Hart

Question: In the nursery rhyme beginning "Hey Diddle Diddle", who was with a fiddle?
Answer: Cat

Question: The markka is the base unit of currency in which country?
Answer: Finland

Question: What event involving King John of England occurrred at Runnymede in 1215?
Answer: Signing of the Magna Carta

Question: Lavalava is a word common in the South Pacific. What does it mean?
Answer: A rectangular cloth worn as a skirt

Question: Who was the mother of Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland?
Answer: Anne Boleyn

Question: Who married Ethan Hawke in 1998?
Answer: Uma Thurman

Question: What religious organisation was formed under the leadership of George Fox in the mid 17th century?
Answer: Quakers

Question: The European parliament meets in Strasbourg and which other city?
Answer: Brussels

Question: In 2010 at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, who beat England's Jonny Wilkinson's record for scoring 1178 points in test match rugby?
Answer: Dan Carter

Question: Who were the main figures involved in the introduction in 1892 of 35 mm film for still photography and motion pictures?
Answer: William Dickson, Thomas Edison & George Eastman

Question: The Vistula is the longest river in which country?
Answer: Poland

Question: Which British political party led by John Hargrave wore green shirts as a uniform?
Answer: Social Credit

Question: What colour are copper sulphate crystals?
Answer: Blue

Question: What 1999 film had the tag line "Bigger, Longer and Uncut"?
Answer: South Park

Question: The "Authorised" English translation of the Bible was named after whom?
Answer: James I

Question: Where is the "Summer Palace" which is also known as the "Garden of Nurtured Harmony"?
Answer: Beijing

Question: In snooker, what coloured ball scores 2 points?
Answer: Yellow

Question: What name is given to the items collected by a woman in anticipation of marriage?
Answer: Hope chest

Question: What military slang term for members of the US Marine Corps was derived from a special collar once worn around the neck by both American and British Marines and soldiers from 1798?
Answer: Leathernecks

Question: Roger Moore first played James Bond in which film?
Answer: Live and Let Die

Question: What device is used to regulate a person's heart rate?
Answer: Pacemaker

Question: """The camel"" is a move used in what?"
Answer: Figure skating

Question: What is the capital of Wales?
Answer: Cardiff

Question: What is the media nickname of Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer who was said to be the inspiration for Nicolas Cage's character in the 2005 film "Lord of War"?
Answer: Merchant of Death

Question: A cor anglais is what type of instrument?
Answer: Brass

Question: Who was the 2005 European Eventing Champion?
Answer: Zara Phillips

Question: By what name were Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, Lee Weiner, and Bobby Seale collectively known when they appeared before Judge Julius Hoffman in 1969?
Answer: The Chicago Eight

Question: Who signed and issued the Emancipation Proclamation on New Year's day 1863?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln

Question: Which of North America's Great Lakes has the same name as a province of Canada?
Answer: Ontario

Question: Where did the old woman who "had so many children she didn't know what to do" live?
Answer: Shoe

Question: In April 2010, after riots in the capital which overthrew the government, President Kurmanbek Bakiyev left which country, leaving the way clear for the head of the new provisional government, Roza Otunbayeva?
Answer: Kyrgyzstan

Question: What is another word for jet lag?
Answer: Desynchronosis

Question: What were the frequent subjects of French impressionist painter Dgas?
Answer: Ballet dancers

Question: What is the former home and burial place of George Washington?
Answer: Mt Vernon

Question: Who was tried for treason on 17 November 1603 for trying to remove James I from the Engish throne?
Answer: Walter Raleigh

Question: The Garonne river passes through Toulouse and Bordeaux after rising where?
Answer: The Pyrenees

Question: Myalgic pain affects which part of the body?
Answer: Muscles

Question: Who is second in the line of US presidential succession, following the Vice President?
Answer: Speaker of the House of Representatives

Question: What word has come to describe a hatter who designs, makes, sells or trims hats primarily for a female clientele?
Answer: Milliner

Question: What is an "indigent" person?
Answer: Poor

Question: Longacre Square, a major intersection in Manhattan, New York City, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets, has been known as what since April 1904?
Answer: Times Square

Question: In snooker, what colour ball is spotted on the centre of the table?
Answer: Blue

Question: What was the name of the official newpaper of the USSR before it broke up?
Answer: Pravda

Question: More than 99% of the mass of our solar system is contained within what?
Answer: The Sun

Question: When was the first World Cup cricket contest held?
Answer: 1975

Question: These are the last lines of which musical: "Eliza? Where the devil are my slippers"?
Answer: My Fair Lady

Question: Why is the US city of Pittsburg so named?
Answer: It is named after William Pitt, Prime Minister of Great Britain

Question: What temperature scale is referenced to absolute zero (i.e. where there is the theoretical absence of all thermal energy)?
Answer: Kelvin

Question: In which classic arcade is the object to get an amphibian across a busy road?
Answer: Frogger

Question: A synapse is a space where a nerve impulse travels between what?
Answer: Neurons