Question: Who led barons to revolt against Henry III in 1263 established England's first elected parliament and was killed at the Battle of Evesham in 1265?
Answer: Simon de Montfort

Question: The piano piece, Fr Elise, well-known to music students, was written by whom?
Answer: Ludwig van Beethoven

Question: Where was the supposedly golden land of El Dorado?
Answer: South America

Question: Francis Crick and James Watson did their research into DNA at what institution?
Answer: Cambridge, England

Question: What is Spike Milligan's first name?
Answer: Terence

Question: What colour is the copper mineral called "malachite"?
Answer: Green

Question: Which city about 200 km west of Madrid that has a university founded in 1218 (the oldest university in Spain and the 5th oldest western university) was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1988?
Answer: Salamanca

Question: On 15 April 1986, the USA launched a series of air strikes on what country because Ronald Reagan had "irrefutable proof" that it had directed a terrorist bombing in a Berlin discothque.
Answer: Libya

Question: Sunday Rose are the names of the daughter of Nicole Kidman and whom?
Answer: Keith Urban

Question: What is the word for a literary work that imitates another style or artist?
Answer: Pastiche

Question: In Michaelangelo's painting on the Sistine Chapel ceiling, Adam's finger points to whom?
Answer: God

Question: Who died in 1658, was buried at Westminster Abbey, and was disinterred and hanged in 1660?
Answer: Oliver Cromwell

Question: What colour is turmeric, a key ingredient for many Indian, Persian, Thai and Malay dishes, often used in curry?
Answer: Yellow

Question: Who are most likey to perform a "pas de deux"?
Answer: Ballet dancers

Question: The record for which sport was 15.54 metres in 1909 and 21.89 metres at the 2012 Olympics?
Answer: Men's shot put

Question: What became, In July 1959, the first socialist state in the Western Hemisphere?
Answer: Cuba

Question: What American TV serial, first broadcast between April 1990 and June 1991, followed an investigation headed by Special Agent Dale Cooper?
Answer: Twin Peaks

Question: A boar is what type of creature?
Answer: Pig

Question: Stainless steel is a steel alloy with a minimum of 10.5 to 11% content by mass of what element?
Answer: Chromium

Question: The USA established marginal income tax rates of 77% in 1916 to fund the war effort in World War I. What were they reduced to by 1929, shortly before the Wall Street crash?
Answer: 24%

Question: Olympic weightlifters are permitted, in addition to a close-fitting one-piece leotard, to wear what?
Answer: A leather belt

Question: Iran and the United Arab Emirates together with Musandam, an exclave of Oman, are on either side of which stretch of water?
Answer: Strait of Hormuz

Question: The plot of the 1959 film "Some Like It Hot", starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, is triggered by what event?
Answer: The Saint Valentine's Day massacre

Question: Wharton's Jelly is the gelatinous liquid found where?
Answer: In an umbilical cord

Question: Who is credited with the quote, famous in US history: "I have not yet begun to fight"?
Answer: John Paul Jones

Question: What was the occupation of Alex, the character played by Jennifer Beals, in the 1983 film "Flashdance"?
Answer: Welder

Question: What is a synonym for "irritable"?
Answer: Crotchety

Question: In early 2013 French actor Gerard Depardieu took on Russian citizenship and was registered as permanent resident of...?
Answer: Saransk, Russia

Question: What is a half-pipe used for?
Answer: A surface for gravity-based extreme sports

Question: In 1986, which country was found guilty by the International Court of Justice (World Court) of war crimes against Nicaragua?
Answer: Usa

Question: Someone who is miserable is said to be "down in the ... " what?
Answer: Mouth

Question: Which boxers fought in the "Thrilla in Manila" in 1975?
Answer: Muhammed Ali and Joe Frazier

Question: What Greek letter is used to denote the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter?
Answer: Pi

Question: What role was played by Robbie Coltrane in the 2005 film "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"?
Answer: Hagrid

Question: What is looked for in the blue-tinged igneous rock called "kimberlite"?
Answer: Diamonds

Question: Sofia is the capital of which country?
Answer: Bulgaria

Question: In cricket, what is "sledging"?
Answer: Verbally abusing the opposition

Question: What is the name for a Muslim house of prayer?
Answer: Mosque

Question: The islands of Kythera, Antikythera, Crete, Kasos, Karpathos and Rhodes are in which sea?
Answer: Aegean

Question: What song title has been recorded by Mark Ronson and Amy Winehouse, Steve Winwood, Bad Company, Reel Big Fish, and Louisiana Red?
Answer: Valerie

Question: What is the palace and fortress complex of the Moorish rulers of Granada in southern Spain constructed during the mid 14th century that occupies a hilly terrace on the southeastern border of the city of Granada, Spain?
Answer: The Alhambra

Question: What was established by the Maastricht Treaty?
Answer: The European Union

Question: In general what is the maximum time applied to competitive eating contests, where the aim is to eat the most of some food in a set time?
Answer: 15 minutes

Question: Who wrote the books "Stark", "Gridlock", "This Other Eden", "Popcorn", "Blast from the Past", "Inconceivable", "Dead Famous", "High Society", "Past Mortem" and "The First Casualty"?
Answer: Ben Elton

Question: US TV personality Jerry Springer was once mayor of which city?
Answer: Cincinatti

Question: In a curling contest an ice sheet, brooms and a specially shaped "stone" are needed, plus potentially what else?
Answer: Special unmatched shoes

Question: The Cullinan, a 3106.75 carat diamond, was mined where in 1905?
Answer: Pretoria

Question: These are the last lines of which play: "All right. Not guilty." "We're ready." "All right gentlemen. Bring your coats and come along."
Answer: """Twelve Angry Men"" by Reginald Rose"

Question: Which German writer, one of the key figures of the movement of Weimar Classicism in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, produced the two-part drama "Faust", numerous poems and the novel "The Sorrows of Young Werther"?
Answer: Goethe

Question: Who was the men's single sculls world champion at the World Rowing Championships every year it was competed from 2005 to 2009 and again in 2011, and gold medallist in the 2012 Summer Olympics?
Answer: Mah Drysdale

Question: The River Tiber runs through which capital city?
Answer: Rome

Question: What do the interior angles of a triangle add up to?
Answer: 180 degrees

Question: The TV series "Sex and the City" was set where?
Answer: New York

Question: Who played mobster Henry Hill in the 1990 film "Goodfellas"?
Answer: Ray Liotta

Question: According to Greek mythology, Penelope was whose faithful wife?
Answer: Odysseus

Question: Vulgaria is what in the musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?
Answer: Land

Question: in 1853 while working on the synthesis and properties of various acid anhydrides, French chemist Charles Frederic Gerhardt made acetylsalicylic acid by mixing acetyl chloride with a sodium salt of salicylic acid (sodium salicylate). He called the resulting compound "salicylic-acetic anhydride". What was this preparation later marketed as?
Answer: Aspirin

Question: Where do the waters of the Danube rise?
Answer: Martinskapelle, Germany

Question: An archipelago is a collection of what?
Answer: Islands

Question: What Spanish city became famous in the middle ages for swords and fine steel?
Answer: Toledo

Question: Which couple were married on 7 April 1997, had a son named Lennon Francis in September 1999, and divorced a year later?
Answer: Liam Gallagher and Patsy Kensit

Question: Belgian competitor Eddy Merckx, often referred to as the best of all time in his field, was involved in what sport?
Answer: Cycling