Question: Historian Richard B. Morris, in his book "Seven Who Shaped Our Destiny" (1973), identified Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton as the key what?
Answer: Founding Fathers

Question: What is the name of Joseph Heller's best known novel?
Answer: Catch 22

Question: For what is Sir Henry Bessemer famous?
Answer: Developing a process for the manufacture of steel

Question: Artists William Harnett, Annibale Carracci, Abraham van Beyeren, Juan Snchez Cotn, Jean-Baptiste-Simon Chardin, Vincent van Gogh, Edouard Manet, Fernand Lger, Georges Braque, Giorgio Morandi, Paul Czanne and Pablo Picasso have all painted what style of painting?
Answer: Still life

Question: Which company, founded in 1950, was the world's first independent credit card company?
Answer: Diners Club

Question: George Heppelwhite is famous for making what in the 18th century?
Answer: Furniture

Question: Which item of clothing was named after an American women's rights and temperance advocate?
Answer: Bloomers

Question: The islands of Skye and Mull are in which island group?
Answer: Hebrides

Question: Which country dominated basketball at the Olympics, winning all the gold medals in the men's competition from 1936 to 1968 and, from when women's competition started in 1976, won the silver medal at the 1976 Olympics, a bronze medal in 1992, and a gold medal in all the other years?
Answer: Usa

Question: With what was Edith Head, who was nominated for 35 Oscars (including every year from 1948 to 1966), associated?
Answer: Costume design

Question: """Bonanza""is the Spanish word for what?"
Answer: Fine weather

Question: Who has been quoted as saying People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish... but that's only if it's done properly?
Answer: Banksy

Question: By what name is 17th century dramatist Jean Baptiste Poquelin better known?
Answer: Molire

Question: What was the life expectancy of someone who contracted the bubonic plague, the most commonly seen form during the Black Death that peaked in Europe between 1348 and 1350, which had a mortality rate of thirty to seventy-five percent?
Answer: 8 days

Question: What is the study of the relation between the motion of a body and the forces acting on it?
Answer: Dynamics

Question: What is the last in the series that begins: St. Louis, Oklahoma City, Amarillo, Gallup (New Mexico), Flagstaff (Arizona)?
Answer: San Bernardino

Question: What 1939 film starred Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara?
Answer: Gone With The Wind

Question: Mount Fujiyama is in what country?
Answer: Japan

Question: According to Jacobus de Voragine's Golden Legend, who, in Silene, Libya, saved a princess from a dragon by capturing it, and led it to the king, promising to kill it if his people converted to Christianity?
Answer: Saint George

Question: Olympic gold medallists Gaetan Boucher, Donovan Bailey and Alex Baumann represented which country?
Answer: Canada

Question: Which 16th century dramatist wrote plays for the Earl of Nottingham's company?
Answer: Christopher Marlowe

Question: Which country entered 129 archers in the first Olympic archery event in 1900, and has competed in archery at the Olympic Games the most times (12 of the 14 possible)?
Answer: France

Question: Complete the title of a book by Doctor Benjamin Spock: "The Common Sense Book of ..."?
Answer: Baby and Child Care

Question: Which pantomime is about the Lord Mayor of London?
Answer: Dick Whittington

Question: """Goggle box"" is a British term for what?"
Answer: Television

Question: Before 1991, Slovenia was part of which country?
Answer: Yugoslavia

Question: Who began directing with "Grand Theft Auto" (1977) and won his first Best Director Oscar for "A Beautiful Mind" (2001)?
Answer: Ron Howard

Question: In August/September 2006, who replaced up to 500 copies of Paris Hilton's debut CD Paris in 48 different UK record stores with his own cover art and remixes by Danger Mouse, with track titles such as "Why am I Famous?", "What Have I Done?" and "What Am I For?"?
Answer: Banksy

Question: What is the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet?
Answer: Epsilon

Question: What important discovery was made in 1964 by radio astronomers Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson?
Answer: Cosmic microwave background radiation

Question: Of the 12 Winter Olympics between 1924 and 1976 inclusive, how many were held outside of Europe?
Answer: 3

Question: Where in London was the first Globe Theatre built in 1599?
Answer: Bankside, Southwark

Question: Cricketer W G Grace, a first-class cricketer from 1865 to 1908, was a member of what profession?
Answer: Doctor

Question: Sir Edwin Henry Landseer's painting "Monarch of the Glen" featured what animal?
Answer: Deer

Question: What tourist facility, occupying more than 85 acres, opened in Anaheim, California, in 1955?
Answer: Disneyland

Question: What retail chain is named after a character from Herman Melville's book Moby Dick?
Answer: Starbucks

Question: What is a frog before it matures?
Answer: Tadpole

Question: Who set a water speed record of 225.6 m.p.h. at Coniston Water in September 1956?
Answer: Donald Campbell

Question: Who released the album "Rockferry" in 2008, that contained the singles "Mercy", "Warwick Avenue" and "Rain on Your Parade"?
Answer: Duffy

Question: Which city, rebuilt in the Art Deco style after being largely razed by an earthquake in 1931, has become recognized as architecturally unique, and in 2007 was nominated for UNESCO World Heritage Site status?
Answer: Napier, New Zealand

Question: What is the name of the celebration held for a man shortly before his wedding?
Answer: Stag night

Question: The London market at Smithfield deals in what?
Answer: Meat

Question: Where was the 2008 Ryder Cup competition held?
Answer: Valhalla Golf Club

Question: In 1979, Lord Louis Mountbatten was killed when a IRA bomb exploded where?
Answer: On his boat

Question: What does the Russian word "Sputnik" mean?
Answer: Fellow traveller

Question: Who recorded the duet "Especially For You" in 1988?
Answer: Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan

Question: Which 1957 film directed by David Lean was the story of the construction and demolition of a civil engineering work in Burma?
Answer: The Bridge On The River Kwai

Question: The religious statue above Rio de Janeiro stands on what mountain?
Answer: Corvocado

Question: What is the name of the reverse image on film, from which a photograph is printed?
Answer: Negative

Question: What was the main form of transport used by the Japanese army in their invasion of Singapore in World War II?
Answer: Bicycles

Question: The oldest woman Olympic gold medalist is Queenie Newall, at London in 1908, when 53 years old. In which sport did she compete?
Answer: Archery

Question: What is the last name of "Ellen"?
Answer: DeGeneres

Question: Which was the first of these four to be an Olympic 100 metres winner?
Answer: Harold Abrahams

Question: Thomas Beckett was murdered in which Cathedral?
Answer: Canterbury

Question: In the "Harry Potter" books, students board the train to Hogwarts at Platform 9+34. Which London railway station has erected a sign at a wall between tracks 9 and 10 to commemorate this?
Answer: King's Cross

Question: What advance in the design of the bicycle was introduced in 1885?
Answer: Wheels of equal size, with a chain-driven rear wheel

Question: France's third longest border, after Spain and Switzerland, is with which country?
Answer: Belgium

Question: In the US presidential election, 2000, in which US state was there a controversy over requests for hand recounts of votes that went as far as the U.S. Supreme Court?
Answer: Florida

Question: What describes a bathroom connected to a bedroom?
Answer: En suite

Question: Which play by John Osborne features a character called Archie Rice, a part written for Laurence Olivier, who played it on stage and in a 1960 film version?
Answer: The Entertainer