Question: What is the name for a musical work primarily designed to develop the technique of an instrumentalist?
Answer: Etude

Question: By what name is Marian (or Mary Ann) Evans, who wrote "Adam Bede", "The Mill On The Floss" and "Silas Marner", better known?
Answer: George Eliot

Question: In the English version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?", question 8 is worth how much money?
Answer: 8,000

Question: According to Christian legend, who, as Jesus was bearing the cross to Golgotha, offered him her veil to wipe his brow?
Answer: Veronica

Question: Who first mentioned an "Iron Curtain" when discussing Soviet activities immediately after World War II?
Answer: Winston Churchill

Question: Who, in 1977, was the last British woman to win the singles event at Wimbledon?
Answer: Virginia Wade

Question: The Khedive of Egypt commissioned Giuseppe Verdi to write which opera to commemorate the opening of the Suez Canal?
Answer: Aida

Question: Australian professional golfer Greg Norman is known by which nickname?
Answer: The Shark

Question: What style of commercial vehicle body, incorporating an enclosed box body extended over the cab, takes its name from the town in Bedfordshire where the Bedford commercial vehicle plant was located?
Answer: Luton

Question: In which country is the town of Gorgonzola?
Answer: Italy

Question: Who wrote "The Water Babies"?
Answer: Charles Kingsley

Question: Which American situation comedy TV series that ran for eleven seasons from 1982 to 1993 had a core cast made up at various times of Ted Danson, Shelley Long, Kirstie Alley, Nicholas Colasanto, Rhea Perlman, John Ratzenberger, Woody Harrelson, Kelsey Gramm
Answer: Cheers

Question: Which organisation, with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, was established as an agency of the League of Nations in the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 and became a specialized agency of the United Nations after the demise of the League in 1946?
Answer: Ilo

Question: The trophy for the winner of the Australian Open Tennis Men's Singles is named after which champion?
Answer: Norman Brookes

Question: What is a 1 ounce gold coin minted in South Africa?
Answer: Krugerand

Question: Which movie star was found dead at her home in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California on 5 August 1962?
Answer: Marilyn Monroe

Question: What is the study of fishes?
Answer: Ichthyology

Question: In which city was the Sri Lankan cricket team attacked with a bomb, grenade launcher and rifles in March 2009?
Answer: Lahore

Question: What is the most common colour of a topaz?
Answer: Yellow

Question: Which of Shakepeare's plays was made into a film in 1953 starring Marlon Brando, James Mason, Louis Calhern, John Gielgud, Deborah Kerr and Greer Garson?
Answer: Julius Caesar

Question: After twelve men met in his bedroom in 1844, what was founded by Sir George Williams?
Answer: Ymca

Question: In rugby union, what is the name of the set play whereby eight members of each team pack together and attempt to heel the ball backwards?
Answer: Scrum

Question: The musical "Kiss Me Kate" is based on which Shakespearean play?
Answer: The Taming Of The Shrew

Question: What was notable about the jobs held by Ann Hays and Elizabeth Hoisington at the end of May 1970?
Answer: They were the first women generals in the US Army

Question: What word is used to describe the situation where blood has pooled at the lowest point of a dead body?
Answer: Hypostasis

Question: Where is the Iberian peninsula?
Answer: Western Europe, between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea

Question: In Greece, what is a dish that is mainly cucumber mixed with garlic and yoghurt called?
Answer: Tzatziki

Question: Who discovered that an individual's fingerprints remain the same for their lifetime?
Answer: Sir Francis Galton

Question: How did the fuchsia get its name?
Answer: After a 16th century botanist

Question: By what name is Paul David Hewson (born 10 May 1960 in Glasnevin, Dublin, Ireland) better known?
Answer: Bono

Question: On 4 June 2008 the International Olympic Committee announced that the finalists to host the 2016 Olympics were Chicago, Tokyo, Madrid and which other venue?
Answer: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Question: The opening sequence of the film "Airplane" (also entitled "Flying High") is a parody of which film?
Answer: Jaws

Question: If you asked a question such as "What is that?" and were told "A wigwam for a goose's bridle", what should be your response?
Answer: Not to ask any more questions

Question: For his contribution to the development of what area of transport is US inventor and engineer Robert Fulton known?
Answer: Steam power for ships

Question: How is a Venetian gondola propelled?
Answer: The operator stands and uses an oar

Question: What name was given to a group of painters who first exhibited in Paris in 1906, including Matisse, Bracque, Derain, van Dongen and Dufy, who presented bold forms, brilliant colours and clearly defined patterns?
Answer: Les Fauves

Question: Who was the first English actor to be knighted?
Answer: Henry Irving

Question: How high, including about 20 cm landing mat, should a pommel horse be?
Answer: 115 cm

Question: The repeating decimal of which number equals the real number 1?
Answer: 0.999

Question: In what year did the airship Graf Zeppelin complete the first round-the-world flight in September, and inaugurate the first commercial transatlantic service in October?
Answer: 1929

Question: What is the meaning of the word "micturition"?
Answer: Urinating

Question: Which British music chart television programme was originally broadcast weekly from 1 January 1964 to 30 July 2006?
Answer: Top of the Pops

Question: Which two American track and field athletes, who finished first and third in the 200 metres, were sent home from the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City after they performed the Black Power salute on the victory stand?
Answer: Tommie Smith and John Carlos

Question: Who first stated the three laws of planetary motion?
Answer: Johannes Kepler

Question: Which military academy was established in 1802 on the Hudson River, USA?
Answer: West Point

Question: Which composer of musicals was knighted in 1992 and made a life peer in 1997?
Answer: Andrew Lloyd Webber

Question: What is the name for the unit of work done by a force of 1 dyne moving through a distance of 1 centimetre?
Answer: Erg

Question: What game involving reptiles is based on the Indian game called Vaikuntapaoli or Paramapada Sopanam?
Answer: Snakes and Ladders

Question: Which British organisation, started in 1939 under Basil Dean and disbanded in 1946, represented the mobilisation of the entertainment industry?
Answer: Ensa

Question: What is the acronym developed by the European Union as the geocode standard for referencing the administrative divisions of countries for statistical purposes?
Answer: Nuts

Question: The Gta Canal connects Gteborg, Sweden, with which body of water?
Answer: Baltic Sea

Question: Who started "Poor Richard's Almanac" in 1732, helped draw up the US Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution and invented the lightning conductor?
Answer: Benjamin Franklin

Question: What fictional Cincinnati radio station was the setting for a US TV sitcom starring Gary Sandy, Howard Hesseman, Gordon Jump, Loni Anderson, Tim Reid, Jan Smithers, Richard Sanders and Frank Bonner in 19781982?
Answer: Wkrp

Question: Who emerged as the top Chinese Communist leader during the "Long March" in 1934?
Answer: Mao Zedong

Question: The first international test cricket score to exceed 700 runs was in which year?
Answer: 2009

Question: Who was the English prison reformer from 1817 to 1840 whose husband was a big name in the cocoa business?
Answer: Elizabeth Fry

Question: Henry Ford II's grandfather was Henry Ford. Who was Henry Ford II's father?
Answer: Edsel Ford

Question: What was created by the Lateran Treaty signed by Italy in 1929?
Answer: Vatican City