Question: What instrument was designed to measure variations in temperature by the expansion or contraction of a liquid or gas?
Answer: Thermometer

Question: What Indian people drove out the Toltecs and were conquered by Spain in the 16th century?
Answer: Aztecs

Question: What is the name for a nutritional disease caused by a lack of vitamin c?
Answer: Scurvy

Question: In which country is the town of Passchendaele?
Answer: Belgium

Question: What were the Penny Black and the Two Pence Blue that first went on sale in England in May 1840?
Answer: Postage stamps

Question: Making a U-turn results in a change of direction of how many degrees?
Answer: 180

Question: What was the title of Stephen Kings first novel, in which a telekinetic woman exacts deadly revenge on her high school classmates?
Answer: Carrie

Question: The group of 48 of the United States that are between Canada and Mexico is referred to as the continental or what United States?
Answer: Contiguous

Question: Who became World Snooker Champion for the third time in 2008?
Answer: Ronnie O'Sullivan

Question: Which scientist allegedly used mirrors to focus the sun's rays to burn Roman ships during the Siege of Syracuse around 214212 BC?
Answer: Archimedes

Question: What British institution has the nickname "The Old Lady Of Threadneedle Street"?
Answer: The Bank Of England

Question: Who married Sir Winston Churchill?
Answer: Clementine Hozier

Question: In Britain, rationing ended, the London gold market reopened, Roger Bannister was first to run a mile in under 4 minutes, and the Queen returned from a tour of the Commonwealth in which year?
Answer: 1954

Question: What infectious disease, occurring commonly in epidemics and caused by a virus, is characterised by blotchy rash preceded by a running nose and eyes, with a rise in temperature and lassitude?
Answer: Measles

Question: Which piece on a chessboard can move only one space in any direction?
Answer: King

Question: What name was applied to legislation regarding the sale of liquor in the U S A between 1919 to 1933?
Answer: Prohibition

Question: A necromancer is a type of what?
Answer: Sorcerer

Question: Which American blues artist died on 21 June 2001?
Answer: John Lee Hooker

Question: What is the inherited condition that causes the body to retain copper, which can lead to brain and liver damage?
Answer: Wilson's disease

Question: Who wrote the opera "The Magic Flute"?
Answer: Mozart

Question: At which Olympic Games were females allowed to compete at track & field athletics for the first time?
Answer: 1928, Amsterdam

Question: What is the name of the area immediately surrounding a golf hole?
Answer: Green

Question: Portree is the principal town on which island?
Answer: Skye

Question: The design specification for the Ford GT40, which won the Le Mans 24 Hour race four years in a row, specified that car be a maximum of ?
Answer: 40 inches high

Question: In the 1960s, who had a hit record with Bob Dylans Blowin in the Wind?
Answer: Peter, Paul and Mary

Question: Which one of these scripts was not written or co-written by Harold Pinter?
Answer: Look Back In Anger

Question: What component of tonic water is used to prevent or alleviate the effects of malaria?
Answer: Quinine

Question: What is the scientific symbol for calcium?
Answer: Ca

Question: The capital of the U S A, Washington, DC, is bordered by Maryland and which other state?
Answer: Virginia

Question: What is the only country not to identify itself on its postage stamps?
Answer: United Kingdom

Question: Which of the Marx Brothers appeared in their vaudeville act, but not in any of their films?
Answer: Gummo

Question: African nations boycotted the Montreal Olympic Games in 1976, as a protest against a recent tour of South Africa by a rugby team from which country?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: What are Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg collectively known as?
Answer: Benelux

Question: Which painting was considered scandalous in 1863 because it showed nude women next to men dressed in contemporary clothing?
Answer: Le Djeuner sur l'Herbe by Edouard Manet

Question: Freckles, brownish yellow spots usually found mostly on the face, neck and hands are also known as . ?
Answer: Lentigo

Question: Where was the battle fought between the Royalist forces under Prince Rupert and Oliver Cromwell's men in June 1645 that was the key to the final downfall of Royalist forces a year later?
Answer: Naseby

Question: Who received a replacement gold medal at the 1996 Olympics for the one he allegedly threw away after being refused service in a whites-only restaurant in his home town?
Answer: Cassius Clay

Question: Who created the sculptures Single Form, in memory of Dag Hammarskjld, at the United Nations building in New York City, and "Construction (Crucifixion): Homage to Mondrian" in the grounds of Winchester Cathedral?
Answer: Dame Barbara Hepworth

Question: What is the name given to the hypotheses, now superseded, that the movement of continents and the appearance of new crustal material at mid-ocean ridges is because the Earth's volume is increasing?
Answer: Expanding Earth

Question: What is the longest and widest single nerve in the human body?
Answer: Sciatic nerve

Question: Alex Turner, Jamie Cook, Matt Helders and Nick OMalley are collectively known as what?
Answer: Arctic Monkeys

Question: Which tennis tournament runs for 14 days from late June to early July, ending with the men's singles final on a Sunday?
Answer: Wimbledon

Question: What ship, less than a month after her maiden voyage in 1907, had the record for crossing the Atlantic eastbound, and in 1909 had a record time for the westbound crossing that stood for 20 years?
Answer: Mauretania

Question: Babe Ruth played for which Major League Baseball team between 1919 and 1935?
Answer: New York Yankees

Question: Who was the president of the Confederate States of America following its formation in 1861?
Answer: Jefferson Davis

Question: In England, Dick Turpin (1706-39), Claude Duval (1643-70) and John Nevison (1639-84) were well known as what?
Answer: Highwaymen

Question: What is the name of the adjustable shutters attached to a stage light to control the area of light it covers?
Answer: Barn doors

Question: In what word game do two to four players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a game board marked with a grid, the words formed across and down in crossword fashion?
Answer: Scrabble

Question: Who was the first Prime Minister of Ceylon when it became independent on 14 October 1947?
Answer: Don Stephen Senanayake

Question: Which ex-European colony in China is at the mouth of the Canton River?
Answer: Macau

Question: Who were the USA fighting a war against in 1812 when the successful American defence of Fort McHenry in September 1814 inspired the lyrics of the U.S. national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner"?
Answer: Great Britain

Question: What are the Christian names of J K Rowling, the creator of Harry Potter?
Answer: Joanne Kathleen

Question: Who, in 1919, achieved the first nuclear disintegrations by bombarding nitrogen with alpha particles?
Answer: Ernest Rutherford

Question: What is the name of a game played with rope rings that are caught and thrown by the players on a court similar to a tennis court?
Answer: Deck quoits

Question: What fate made Spencer Perceval unique among British Prime Ministers?
Answer: He was assassinated

Question: Where were the FIBA (Basketball) World Championships held in 2006?
Answer: Japan

Question: In Greek legend, a woodland deity, half man, half goat, is called a ?
Answer: Satyr

Question: What was the subtitle of "Star Wars - Episode 1", released in 1999?
Answer: The Phantom Menace

Question: The Three Gorges Dam is in which country?
Answer: China

Question: What is the next in the series: Calgary, Canada; Albertville, France; Lillehammer, Norway; Nagano, Japan?
Answer: Salt Lake City, United States