Question: Which fictional rock band was previously called "The Originals", "The New Originals", "The Originals" again, and the "The Thamesmen"?
Answer: Spinal Tap

Question: What motto, coined by Thomas J. Watson while managing the sales and advertising departments at the National Cash Register Company became a motto for IBM?
Answer: Think

Question: On the Christian calendar, what name is given to the first Sunday after Easter?
Answer: Low Sunday

Question: Where in London is Nelson's column?
Answer: Trafalgar Square

Question: Who discovered the moons of Saturn called Rhea, Iapetus, Dione and Tethys, between 1671 and 1684?
Answer: Cassini

Question: What is hopping from site to site on the internet called?
Answer: Surfing

Question: Which photographer who emigrated to Canada in 1937 is best known for his photographs of the Ottawa region (his picture of floating logs on the Ottawa River was on the 1969-1979 series Canadian $1 bill), and was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1996?
Answer: Malak Karsh

Question: Where was ex-British Prime Minister Tony Blair born?
Answer: Scotland

Question: In 1588 Francis Drake led the English navy against the Spanish what?
Answer: Armada

Question: Triathlon has been an Olympic sport since the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Which country has won the most medals in the men's event in the first 3 Olympiads to 2008?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: Which musical term means "sweetly"?
Answer: Dolce

Question: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, who played Elvis Presley in the TV series "Elvis", went on to play Henry VIII in what British TV series?
Answer: The Tudors

Question: Except for 1978, which team won every World Lacrosse Championship between 1967 and 2002?
Answer: Usa

Question: What was the nickname of the British army regiment called the "8th King's Royal Irish Hussars"?
Answer: The Crossbelts

Question: Haile Selassie was the ruler of which country?
Answer: Ethiopia

Question: What is a term for an important person?
Answer: Big cheese

Question: In the 20th century, how many Olympic Games were held in Los Angeles?
Answer: 2

Question: What annual event, held on a Monday for children and their parents, that was started in 1814 by First Lady Dolley Madison in the grounds of the Capitol, Washington DC, USA, is now held on the White House lawn?
Answer: The Easter Egg Roll

Question: What branch of mathematics was founded from a paper "On a Characteristic Property of All Real Algebraic Numbers" (1874) by Georg Cantor, who built on the work of Zeno, Bernard Bolzano & Richard Dedekind, which, in turn was followed up by Bertrand Russell, Ernst Zermelo, Abraham Fraenkel & Henri Lebesgue?
Answer: Set theory

Question: Alberta is one of two Canadian provinces that is land-locked. What is the other?
Answer: Saskatchewan

Question: What British TV series, that aired between 1967 and 1972 starred Edward Woodward as a reluctant professional killer for a branch of the British Government's intelligence services known as 'the Section', and Russell Hunter as his unwilling assistant ?
Answer: Callan

Question: According to the fairytale, Cinderella's coach was made from what?
Answer: A pumpkin

Question: The ship "The Beagle" became famous for carrying which scientist on a voyage of discovery?
Answer: Charles Darwin

Question: What is the word for the apparent change in frequency of a vibration due to the relative change in position of the observer?
Answer: Doppler effect

Question: Who was the first Pope to be born in the 20th century?
Answer: John Paul I,  26 August 1978 to 28 September 1978

Question: In 1957 the inaugural Uber Cup, the most important women's badminton team competition in the world, was won by competitors from which country?
Answer: Usa

Question: In which Canadian province is French the only official language?
Answer: Quebec

Question: Which song from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Carousel" was recorded in 1963 by Gerry & The Pacemakers and became the anthem of Liverpool Football Club?
Answer: You'll Never Walk Alone

Question: The name of what product, also known as paraffin, a combustible hydrocarbon liquid, was registered as a trademark by Abraham Gesner in 1854?
Answer: Kerosene

Question: Carl Lewis won 9 Olympic gold medals. He won his first in what year?
Answer: 1984

Question: Where did the car manufacturer Saab originate?
Answer: Sweden

Question: In 2009, Michael Perham, at the age of 17 years and 164 days, became the youngest person to do what?
Answer: Sail solo around the world

Question: The first concrete-steel composite arch bridge in the USA that links the states of Nevada and Arizona by spanning the Colorado River is near which other man-made construction?
Answer: Hoover Dam

Question: According to the song, who loved Puff, the magic dragon?
Answer: Little Jackie Paper

Question: What system, available on the internet, was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes?
Answer: Facebook

Question: Which sisters have been romantically linked to Nick Lachey, John Mayer, Tony Romo and Pete Wentz?
Answer: Jessica and Ashlee Simpson

Question: Since the 1960s there has been guerilla warfare, invasion and political instability in Cyprus because of disputes between people of which two nationalities?
Answer: Greeks and Turks

Question: The first act of organised opposition to British rule after the declaration of independence by the Indian National Congress was The Satyagraha, a campaign of nonviolent protest which began with a March to Dandi in March 1930, to protest about tax on what?
Answer: Salt

Question: What sport is featured in the musical "The Beautiful Game" by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Ben Elton?
Answer: Soccer

Question: """Coronation Street"" is set in what suburb?"
Answer: Weatherfield

Question: What is the dividend of 22 divided by 7?
Answer: 22

Question: In November 1986, US President Ronald Reagan set up the Tower Commission to investigate what?
Answer: The Iran Contra scandal

Question: What is the name of the place where water comes out of the ground?
Answer: Spring

Question: In 2008, who was nicknamed "The King of Clay"?
Answer: Rafael Nadal

Question: In the 1990 film "Dick Tracy", which starred Warren Beatty, Al Pacino, Glenne Headly and Charlie Korsmo, who played the role of "Breathless Mahoney", an entertainer at Club Ritz who tries to steal Tracy from Tess Trueheart?
Answer: Madonna

Question: How did John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr., the elder son of US President John F. Kennedy, die in 1999?
Answer: Plane crash

Question: Begun in 1897 and inspired by the success of the first modern-day marathon at the 1896 Olympics, what is the world's oldest annual marathon?
Answer: The Boston Marathon

Question: The Belgian Blue, British White, Canadian Speckle Park, Galloway, Lincoln Red, South Devon, Welsh Black and White Park are all types of what?
Answer: Cattle

Question: Which 2001 musical film based on the Orphean myth and on Giuseppe Verdi's opera "La Traviata" stars Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman?
Answer: Moulin Rouge!

Question: Niagara Falls is between the state of New York, USA, and which province of Canada?
Answer: Ontario

Question: What is one of the deadliest pandemics in history, believed to have first reached Europe at the trading city of Caffa in the Crimea in 1347 and peaking in Europe between 1348 and 1350?
Answer: The Black Death

Question: The chemical messenger that transports signals from one cell to another, called phytohormones in plants, are called what in animals?
Answer: Hormone

Question: In October 2009 it was reported that what were being burnt as fuel at a 'bioenergy' plant in Karlskoga, in the central Sweden to provide heat for the Vrmland region?
Answer: Rabbits

Question: Where is The Rialto bridge?
Answer: Venice

Question: Who knighted Humphry Davy, chemist & inventor?
Answer: George III