Question: What song by Kings of Leon gave them their first number 1 single in the UK, charting at the top-spot on digital downloads alone, before its physical release?
Answer: Sex on Fire

Question: At the 1996 Olympics, what did Carl Lewis become the fourth person to do?
Answer: Win 9 gold medals

Question: What was the name of George Stephenson's first steam engine, which first ran on the Manchester and Liverpool Railway in 1830?
Answer: The Rocket

Question: How did the alcoholic beverage "punch" get its name?
Answer: The Hindu word for "5".

Question: In musical notation, what is the name for the short lines drawn for notes that are too high or too low to fit on the stave?
Answer: Ledger lines

Question: The Irishmen William Burke and William Hare were famous for doing what in the early 19th century?
Answer: Murdering people and selling the bodies

Question: What is Malay for "man of the woods"?
Answer: Orang Utan

Question: What was the nickname of the Chevalier Raoul, a character in a tale by Perrault in 1697, who murdered successive wives?
Answer: Bluebeard

Question: What caused it to snow in New England at least once every month during 1816?
Answer: The eruption of Tambora

Question: What was the title of Gary Barlow's autobiography, released in 2006?
Answer: My Take

Question: In probability theory and statistics, what is a measure of the variability or dispersion of a population, a data set, or a probability distribution?
Answer: Standard deviation

Question: With what sport do you associate sponsor's trade names "Ping" and "Titleist"?
Answer: Golf

Question: What style of architecture is distinguished by extravagant ornamentation, and applies particularly to the decadent style that flourished in Italy in the 16th to 18th centuries?
Answer: Baroque

Question: Which US president was known as "Tricky Dicky"?
Answer: Nixon

Question: Which country was under the influence of the USSR immediately following World War II until 1990, when Wojciech Jaruzelski resigned as president and was succeeded by Lech Wasa?
Answer: Poland

Question: On the Christian calendar, Twelfth Day is also known by what name ?
Answer: Day of the Feast of the Epiphany

Question: Who is associated with the Lotus car manufacturing company?
Answer: Colin Chapman

Question: The highest temperature at which a liquid can have a stable existence is known as what?
Answer: Boiling point

Question: In which TV series did the characters Crockett and Tubbs appear?
Answer: Miami Vice

Question: Radovan Karadzic is associated with genocide between 1992 and 1995 in which country?
Answer: Bosnia

Question: What instrument for measuring radiant heat was devised by Langley, an American physicist, in 1881?
Answer: Bolometer

Question: Coney Island, the pleasure resort off Long Island, is part of which New York borough?
Answer: Brooklyn

Question: Which city was founded in 763, ravaged by the Mongols in 1258, taken by the Turks in 1636, and occupied by the British from 1917 to 1932?
Answer: Baghdad

Question: What are the names of the late Michael Jackson's parents?
Answer: Joseph and Katherine

Question: The winner of the second Formula One World Championship in 1951 also won the title in 1954, 1955, 1956 & 1957, a record of five World Championship titles which stood until 2003. Who was he?
Answer: Juan Manuel Fangio

Question: The first goal in Football World Cup history was scored on 18 July 1930 by Lucien Laurent of France. France won 41. Who were they playing against?
Answer: Mexico

Question: What is the nickname of the flag of the USA?
Answer: Old Glory

Question: Who was rumoured to be reunited with ex-husband Brad Pitt in June 2009?
Answer: Jennifer Aniston

Question: A prune is the dried fruit of which tree?
Answer: Plum

Question: What is the highest point in the 48 contiguous states of the USA?
Answer: Mount Whitney, California

Question: The first women's Olympic competition for gymnastics, at the 1928 Games in Amsterdam, involved only which type of activity?
Answer: Synchronized calisthenics

Question: With what activity is Dame Clara Butt associated?
Answer: Opera singing

Question: The main characters in James Goldman's play "The Lion in Winter" are Henry II, his sons John, Geoffrey & Richard, his mistress Alais Capet, and which other?
Answer: Eleanor of Aquitaine

Question: French aviator Louis Bleriot was the first to do what in an aeroplane on 25 July 1909?
Answer: Cross the English Channel

Question: Antoni Stradivari is associated with the design and building of what instrument?
Answer: Violin

Question: Who assassinated Martin Luther King?
Answer: James Earl Ray

Question: A billion in short scale is 1 followed by 9 zeroes. What is it in long scale?
Answer: 1 followed by 12 zeroes

Question: What was the favourite horse of Alexander the Great?
Answer: Bucephalus

Question: Juan Antonio Samaranch was the head of which organisation from 1980 to 2001?
Answer: International Olympic Committee (IOC)

Question: Which area was ruled by Kamehaha I and Kamehaha II between 1810 and 1824?
Answer: Hawaii

Question: The sun is hot because of the nuclear transformation of hydrogen to which other gas?
Answer: Helium

Question: What changed its name to Iran in 1935?
Answer: Persia

Question: It is believed that which building stands on the site of temples built successively by Micah, Zerubbabel and Herod in Jerusalem?
Answer: The Mosque of Omar

Question: Buster Keaton's film "The Three Ages" included the invention of Stone Age baseball and modern traffic problems in classical Rome. What is this an example of?
Answer: Anachronism

Question: Who was president of the USA during the American Civil War?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln

Question: What is the name of the prehistoric figure, of a man holding a club, that is carved into the chalk near Dorchester, England?
Answer: Cerne Giant

Question: Primogeniture is the method by which, for example, land passes from a farmer who dies intestate to his eldest son. What is the name of the method whereby the land is divided between all of the sons?
Answer: Gavelkind

Question: Mt Rushmore is near which US city?
Answer: Keystone, South Dakota

Question: Cannes is a resort in which country?
Answer: France

Question: Who was Oliver's mentor, appointed by Fagan?
Answer: The Artful Dodger

Question: What name was given to the statues dating from 210 BC, which include warriors, chariots, horses, officials, acrobats, strongmen, and musicians belonging to Qin Shi Huang the First Emperor of China, that were discovered in 1974 by some local farmers near Xi'an, Shaanxi province?
Answer: The Terracotta Army

Question: Who played the title role in "Bram Stoker's Dracula" (1992)?
Answer: Gary Oldman

Question: The southern border of which country is with the continental USA?
Answer: Canada

Question: What name was given to the force raised by the British Government in 1920 from World War I veterans, withdrawn in 1932, to put down disorder in Ireland?
Answer: Black and tans

Question: What is the term given to the tilt of an aeroplane about its longitudinal axis?
Answer: Bank

Question: Which Serbian-Australian female professional tennis player reached a career-high ranking of World No. 4 in 2002, but after several family-related difficulties (mostly involving her father), she slowly slipped down the rankings in 2006?
Answer: Jelena Dokic

Question: Which 1972 film, set in the 1930s, involved American Sally Bowles dreaming of becoming a movie star while working at "The Kit Kat" in Berlin?
Answer: Cabaret

Question: Where is the borough of New York called Richmond?
Answer: Staten Island

Question: What was the motto of the arms of England during the reigns of Elizabeth I and Anne?
Answer: Semper Eadem

Question: What name was first applied to the group "Cream" when they formed in the early sixties?
Answer: Supergroup