Question: What name is given to the activities of the specially constituted group of British, American, Russian and French judges that tried NAZI Party leaders and German military commanders after World War II?
Answer: Nuremberg Trials

Question: What is the name of the seaway through the Arctic from Europe, north of Asia to the Pacific Ocean?
Answer: North East Passage

Question: How many Olympic Games have been cancelled due to World Wars?
Answer: 3

Question: Who wrote the music for what he described as "an American folk opera", which was set on Catfish Row?
Answer: George Gershwin

Question: Which calendar was different from its predecessor because leap years did not fall on years divisible by 100 unless they were also divisible by 400?
Answer: Gregorian calendar

Question: Where were the first modern Olympic Games held, from 6 to 15 April 1896?
Answer: Athens, Greece

Question: Which territory has abandoned its capital city of Plymouth and has Brades as a de facto capital?
Answer: Montserrat

Question: Which band, formed in Newcastle upon Tyne, had the original members of Eric Burdon, Alan Price, Hilton Valentine, John Steel, and "Chas" Chandler?
Answer: The Animals

Question: Which medium-sized, burrowing, nocturnal mammal, native to Africa, is the sole representative of the mammalian order Tubulidentata?
Answer: Aardvark

Question: Who is the subject of The Future Is Unwritten, a film by Julien Temple?
Answer: Joe Strummer

Question: The Rhine flows into the North Sea near which city?
Answer: Rotterdam

Question: Which animal character, who first appeared on film in 1933, was conceived by Merian C Cooper and created by Willis O'Brien?
Answer: King Kong

Question: Which birds from around Papua New Guinea and brought to Europe were believed never to land and to be kept aloft by their plumes, because native traders had removed the wings and feet from the specimens?
Answer: Bird of Paradise

Question: The phrase "as green as grass" is an example of what?
Answer: Simile

Question: What was the name of the meeting that drafted the United States Constitution in 1787?
Answer: The Philadelphia Convention

Question: In music, what does the term "Adagio" mean?
Answer: At a slow pace

Question: Who was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1908 for his work on the chemistry of radioactive substances?
Answer: Ernest Rutherford

Question: What is the Chilean desert between the coast and the Andes?
Answer: Atacama

Question: From what does vinegar derive its sour taste ?
Answer: Acetic acid

Question: What is the highest mountain on the continent of Australia?
Answer: Kosciuszko

Question: What is the name for an Australian Aboriginal spear-throwing device used to increase the power of a throw?
Answer: Woomera

Question: What was the name of the band that Louis Armstrong put together with his wife Lil, Kid Ory, Johnny Dodds and Johnny St. Cyr around 1925 in Chicago?
Answer: Hot Five

Question: The film actor Norma Jean Mortenson is better known by what name?
Answer: Marilyn Monroe

Question: What film starring Denis Quaid and Tyrese Gibson released in 2004 is a remake of one released in 1965 starring James Stewart and Richard Attenborough?
Answer: Flight of the Phoenix

Question: How many US presidents were named Franklin?
Answer: 2

Question: What measure of land area was defined in medieval England as the size of a field that could be ploughed by a yoke of oxen in one day?
Answer: Acre

Question: Which number is exactly opposite 12 through the centre of a dart board?
Answer: 2

Question: If Christmas Day falls on a Tuesday, on what day will New Year's Day fall?
Answer: Tuesday

Question: Following the Battle of Borodino, fire raged for four days, destroying an estimated three-quarters of which city?
Answer: Moscow

Question: For which painting was Edouard Manet condemned as incompetent and subversive by critics, which damaged his reputation for years?
Answer: Olympia

Question: Which soprano, who had a highly successful opera career between 1968 and 2004, sang Handel's "Let the Bright Seraphim" at the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer?
Answer: Kiri Te Kanawa

Question: Who is the youngest actor to receive an Oscar for the Best Actor in a Leading Role?
Answer: Adrien Brody

Question: Amortisation is similar to ?
Answer: Depreciation

Question: The Battle of Bull Run was fought in which war?
Answer: American Civil War

Question: Which architect died after being hit by a tram in the streets of Barcelona?
Answer: Antoni Gaudi

Question: What is the common name for decompression sickness?
Answer: Bends

Question: What flower is the English rugby team emblem?
Answer: Rose

Question: In England, what form of punishment was abolished by the Criminal Justice Act of 1948?
Answer: Hard labour

Question: What is the next in the series: Williamsburg Bridge, Rutgers Street Tunnel, Manhattan Bridge, Brooklyn Bridge?
Answer: Cranberry Street Tunnel

Question: What name was given to people who believed that James II and his descendants were the rightful rulers of Britain?
Answer: Jacobites

Question: What was the original name of the board game invented by Elliot Rudell, similar to Scrabble, whereby letters can be stacked on top of others to create new words?
Answer: Upwords

Question: What is the name for the masses of lymphoid tissue between the nose and throat that are sometimes removed by an operation in cases where enlargement is having a detrimental effect on health?
Answer: Adenoids

Question: What height should a tennis net be at the posts?
Answer: 3 feet 6 inches (1.07 m)

Question: Who, after making a living painting porcelain and sun blinds, became well known due to such paintings as "Portrait of William Sisley" and "Skaters in the Bois de Boulogne"?
Answer: Renoir

Question: What is the name for an expert on reptiles?
Answer: Herpetologist

Question: Who was the Greek goddess of victory daughter of Pallas represented as a winged figure wreathed or palm bearing sometimes guiding victors' horses?
Answer: Nike

Question: What is the name of the geochemical component that has no known terrestrial counterpart which was discovered in The Genesis Rock retrieved during the Apollo 15 mission?
Answer: Kreep

Question: Which Delta blues musician, according to legend, met the Devil at a crossroad and received mastery of the guitar in return for his soul?
Answer: Robert Johnson

Question: Michelangelo's famous frescoes are on the ceiling of what area of the Vatican?
Answer: Sistine Chapel

Question: The names of how many US states begin with "M"?
Answer: 8

Question: What is the name of the mythical beast that roams the Himalayan Alps?
Answer: Yeti

Question: The United States deployed combat units in 1965 into which war to prevent a communist takeover of Southeast Asia, part of a wider strategy called containment?
Answer: The Vietnam War

Question: Which chemist and physicist established the basis for the magnetic field concept, discovered electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism, laws of electrolysis, and benzene, invented devices that are the basis of electric motor technology, and popularised words such as anode, cathode, electrode, and ion?
Answer: Michael Faraday

Question: Who was the driver of the car in which co-driver Michel Perin broke his arm when they crashed during the Dakar Rally in January 2009?
Answer: Carlos Sainz

Question: Which branch of astronomy studies radiation with wavelengths greater than approximately one millimetre?
Answer: Radio astronomy

Question: Which German-American structural engineer and designer was Chief Engineer for the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco?
Answer: Joseph Strauss

Question: What game involves throwing rings to get them on or near a pin?
Answer: Quoits

Question: The phrase "the father of the nation" is an example of what?
Answer: Metaphor

Question: What aspect of the Japanese surrender that ended World War II occurred on 2 September 1945?
Answer: Surrender document signed in Manila