Question: French explorers Pierre and Paul Mallet were the first Europeans to ‘discover’ which range of North American mountains in 1739?
Answer: Rocky Mountains

Question: What type of animal is a duiker?
Answer: Antelope

Question: During which month of the year is the US Open Golf tournament held?
Answer: June

Question: In June 1970, which was the first band to perform rock music at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York?
Answer: The Who

Question: Late US jazz singer, born Eleanora Fagan, was better known by what name?
Answer: Billie Holiday

Question: Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe was the first President of which African country?
Answer: Nigeria

Question: Where in the human body is the ulna?
Answer: Forearm

Question: Established by US President Lyndon B Johnson, ‘The President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy’ was unofficially known by what name?
Answer: The Warren Commission

Question: Mary Bohun and Joan of Navarre were the wives of which English monarch?
Answer: Henry IV

Question: If a person’s birthday falls on 1st November, what is their sign of the Zodiac?
Answer: Scorpio

Question: Which European capital city lies on the River Sava?
Answer: Zagreb

Question: Roquefort cheese is made from the milk of which animal?
Answer: Sheep

Question: Used in mathematics, the US term ‘slipstick’ is better known as what in the UK
Answer: Slide rule

Question: The famous sculpture ‘Le Baiser’ is known by what name in English?
Answer: The Kiss

Question: The historical theme park Puy du Fou is in which European country?
Answer: France

Question: Which former world number one squash player won over 550 consecutive games before losing to Ross Norman in 1986?
Answer: Jahingir Khan

Question: Which neighbourhood in Manhattan, New York is also known as Clinton and Midtown West?
Answer: Hell’s Kitchen

Question: Laparoscopic, or minimally invasive surgery, is more commonly known by what name?
Answer: Keyhole surgery

Question: Tom Verlaine, Billy Ficca, Fred Smith and Jimmy Rip are all members of which US rock band, originally formed in New York in 1973?
Answer: Television

Question: Which item of floor covering is slang for a small wig worn by men to cover a bald spot?
Answer: Rug

Question: Which English football club play their home games at Proact Stadium?
Answer: Chesterfield FC

Question: Lloyd Embley became the editor of which British daily tabloid newspaper in May 2012?
Answer: Daily Mirror

Question: Which mountain overlooks the city of Cape Town in South Africa?
Answer: Table Mountain

Question: What type of lightning appears as a broad illumination of parts of a thundercloud, caused by the reflection of a lightning flash?
Answer: Sheet lightning

Question: In the game of snooker, what is the inside edge of the table called, against which a ball can be played?
Answer: Cushion

Question: What is the name of the main peak of the group of hills which form most of Holyrood Park in Edinburgh, Scotland?
Answer: Arthur’s Seat

Question: What is the name of the unacknowledged, discriminatory barrier that prevents women and minorities from rising to positions of power or responsibility within a corporation?
Answer: Glass ceiling

Question: What is the bottom of a sea or river called?
Answer: Bed

Question: Who is the Greek god of the woods, fields and flocks, and the name of the satellite of Saturn that is closest to the planet?
Answer: Pan

Question: In computing, what is a picture or design displayed on the background of a computer screen known as?
Answer: Wallpaper

Question: What word means to hurl a cricket ball from one end of the pitch toward the batsman at the other, keeping the arm straight during delivery?
Answer: Bowl

Question: Who did boxer Floyd Patterson defeat to regain the Heavyweight Championship in June 1960?
Answer: Ingemar Johansson

Question: Who was President of France from 1981 to 1995?
Answer: Francois Mitterand

Question: What type of creature is an inca?
Answer: Bird

Question: Three Kings Day is celebrated in Latin America during which month of the year?
Answer: January

Question: Wyneb is Welsh for which part of the body?
Answer: Face

Question: Which country hosted the 1936 Summer Olympic Games?
Answer: Germany

Question: IN the UK during World War I female workers at munitions factories formed teams known as ‘Munitionettes’ who played against each other in which sport?
Answer: Football

Question: In 1776, patriots and soldiers in New York pulled down a statue of which British monarch in celebration of the Declaration of Independence?
Answer: King George III

Question: Ninoy Aquino International Airport is in which country?
Answer: The Philippines

Question: Nosemaphobia is the irrational fear of being what?
Answer: Ill

Question: Which French philosopher and novelist wrote the novel ‘Nausea’ in 1938?
Answer: Jean-Paul Satre

Question: Zine El Abidine Ben Ali became President of which African country in November 1987?
Answer: Tunisia

Question: Kate Winslet, Minnie Driver and Robert Carlyle have all played patients in which UK television drama series?
Answer: Casualty

Question: Ghedi and Aviano are towns in which European country?
Answer: Italy

Question: Berengaria of Navarre was the wife of which English monarch?
Answer: King Richard I

Question: Where in the human body is the tibia?
Answer: Lower leg

Question: Late US film and television actor David Harold Meyer was better known by what name?
Answer: David Janssen

Question: What is the title of The Beatles last album, released in May 1970 before they split up?
Answer: Let It Be

Question: During which month of the year is The Masters golf tournament held?
Answer: April

Question: What is the name of the ‘Passage’ which is the body of water between the southern tip of South America at Cape Horn, Chile and the South Shetland Islands in Antarctica?
Answer: Drake Passage

Question: Who was the first presenter of the UK television panel game show ‘Through the Keyhole’?
Answer: David Frost

Question: In Judaism, what is a ‘Kever’?
Answer: A grave

Question: In July 1971, which New York building became the second tallest building in the world?
Answer: The South Tower of the World Trade Centre

Question: Main is French for which part of the body?
Answer: Hand

Question: The 16th Century Battle of Molodi was fought in which country?
Answer: Russia

Question: Who shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with German inventor Karl Ferdinand Braun in recognition of their contribution to the development of wireless telegraphy?
Answer: Guglielmo Marconi

Question: How many ‘Rocky’ films were directed by Sylvester Stallone?
Answer: 4

Question: In astronomy, a spectroheliograph is an instrument used for photographing or recording the image of what?
Answer: The sun

Question: What colour is the tree trunk on the UK Conservative Party logo?
Answer: Blue

Question: Which revolutionary was captured and executed by the Bolivian army in 1967?
Answer: Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara

Question: The Dragon Boat Festival is held in Taiwan during which month of the year?
Answer: May

Question: Polish-born Wislawa Szymborska won the 1996 Nobel Prize in what?
Answer: Literature

Question: Which Asian country is the world’s largest exporter of black pepper?
Answer: Vietnam

Question: Which Rodgers and Hammerstein musical made its television debut when CBS broadcast the 1955 film version as a three-hour Thanksgiving special in 1970?
Answer: Oklahoma

Question: John Hosking was the first Mayor of which Australian city?
Answer: Sydney

Question: Which British singer had a 1997 hit single with ‘Angels’?
Answer: Robbie Williams

Question: In the human body, the buccal cavity is commonly known as what?
Answer: The mouth

Question: The Khamaseen (or Chamsin) is what type of weather condition?
Answer: Wind

Question: In 2012, which British MP apologised to his former French teacher in a letter published in the Radio Times, for misbehaving in class 30 years ago?
Answer: Michael Gove