Question: A popular myth which has been debunked by sports historians is that Abner Doubleday, a Union officer in the American Civil War, invented which sport?
Answer: Baseball

Question: Where, apart from Australia, are monotremes found?
Answer: New Guinea

Question: A 1999 film was entitled "Being John " who?
Answer: Malkovich

Question: """Monticello"" was the mansion owned by which US president?"
Answer: Thomas Jefferson

Question: Founded in 914 AD by the Vikings who built on the banks of the River Suir, and with Reginald's Tower as its most recognisable landmark, what is the oldest city in the Republic of Ireland?
Answer: Waterford

Question: Which is recognised as the most massive bacterium so far discovered, reaching up to .75mm in length and large enough to be visible to the naked eye?
Answer: Thiomargarita namibiensis

Question: Who won the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize?
Answer: Desmond Tutu

Question: Sine the mid 1990s the USA has banned what in hunting water fowl?
Answer: The use of lead shot

Question: What was Harry Potter's pet, Hedwig?
Answer: Owl

Question: In 1986, who set a new record for scoring the quickest century in test cricket in terms of balls faced (from 56 balls)?
Answer: Viv Richards

Question: What is Japan's attack on Pearl Harbour on 7 December 1941 reported to have mainly lead to?
Answer: USA entered WW II and was able to attack Japan without being the aggressor

Question: Which is the largest known of these invertebrates?
Answer: Squid

Question: Bushido, developed between the 9th and 20th centuries relates to which culture?
Answer: Japanese

Question: Franklin Roosevelt was fairly fluent in which languages other than English?
Answer: German & French

Question: What is the main unit of currency in Turkey?
Answer: Lira

Question: In Japan they are a symbol of luck, longevity and fidelity, and are white birds with black-tipped wings and throat plus what else?
Answer: Crimson bonnet of bare skin

Question: In April 1996 a shooting and killing spree in Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia, led to 35 deaths, 23 woundings and what else?
Answer: Bans and heavy restriction on self-loading rifles and pump-action shotguns

Question: What was the name of Scrooge's clerk in Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol"?
Answer: Bob Cratchit

Question: Stephen Sondheim's musical "Sunday in the Park With George" was inspired by a painting by whom?
Answer: Seurat

Question: In 1928 Amelia Earhart received the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross for what?
Answer: She was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean

Question: A Star of David can be seen in the stained glass of the cathedral of which Mexican city?
Answer: Mazatlan

Question: After appearing in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", Jennifer Grey starred opposite Patrick Swayze as Frances "Baby" Houseman in what 1987 film?
Answer: Dirty Dancing

Question: Syracuse, New York, USA, banned what game during World War I?
Answer: Pinochle

Question: Movistar, Bharti Airtel, Telenor, TeliaSonera & Etisalat are what?
Answer: Communications companies

Question: Who was the first person to refuse an Academy Award for Best Actor?
Answer: George C. Scott

Question: What replaced the Cyclops computer system, that helps to determine whether a serve is in or out, at the US Open in 2006 and the Wimbledon Championships in 2007?
Answer: Hawk-Eye

Question: A traditional music ensemble from Indonesia, featuring instruments such as xylophones, gongs, bells, bamboo flutes, and strings is known as what?
Answer: Gamelan

Question: What was named "Desire" in the 1947 play by Tennessee Williams?
Answer: A streetcar

Question: Three racing trophies were established in the 20th century by James Gordon Bennett, Jr, for automobiles, aeroplanes and which other?
Answer: Balloons

Question: A social experiment conducted with a hoax film star in a shopping mall in Virginia, USA, in April 2012 and posted online, concerned what?
Answer: Mass suggestibility, particularly as it relates to celebrities

Question: In April 2010 Britain announced that it would create the world's largest marine reserve (650,000 square kilometres) around the Chagos Islands. Where are they?
Answer: Indian Ocean

Question: What performer, a spokeswoman for Autism Speaks and the American Heart Association, named her children Denham and Diesel?
Answer: Toni Braxton

Question: The first uses of what on a large scale in civil engineering were the construction of the Canal du Midi in France (1681), the Erie canal in New York (1825), the Box Tunnel on the railway line between London and Bristol, England (1841), and the Mont Cenis Tunnel between France and Italy (1870)?
Answer: Gunpowder

Question: Life on Mars, the popular UK TV series from BBC Wales 2006-7, with UK sequel and spin-offs in the USA, Spain and Russia, was earlier declined by the BBC for what reason?
Answer: """It's going to be silly"""

Question: How many poles are there related to the planet Earth?
Answer: 10

Question: What type of beer takes its name from the German word for "storage"?
Answer: Lager

Question: Frdric Chopin is best known for his compositions for which instrument?
Answer: Piano

Question: When was the Sret, initially the criminal investigative bureau of the Paris police, founded?
Answer: 1812

Question: Who has the line "Is this a dagger which I see before me" in a Shakespearean play?
Answer: Macbeth

Question: Behourd, quintain, mle, and hastilude are terms relating to what?
Answer: Martial games

Question: When the Chinese Nationalist Party lost the civil war to the Communist Party in 1949, it relocated to which island and established Taipei as the Republic Of China's provisional capital?
Answer: Taiwan

Question: When SARS was discovered in 2003 it was only the third human coronavirus known, but by the end of 2012 a further three have been identified the last now known as MERS; what coronavirus is MERS most closely related to?
Answer: Bat

Question: Which category best describes a piano?
Answer: Strings and percussion

Question: What is the plural of "criteria"?
Answer: None, "criteria" is the plural

Question: A typical harvest from Spain and Greece is thought of as what?
Answer: Olives

Question: When was the football club now known as Manchester United first formed, and what was it called?
Answer: 1878, Newton Heath LYR

Question: What was the US TV series 1992-3 featuring a ninja-trained former Special Forces agent who retires to Hawaii and uses his skills both to help those in need and to search for his long-lost son?
Answer: Raven

Question: Who, when he took on the position, was the second-youngest US president to take office, the first US president born in the 20th century and, at age 43, the youngest elected to the office?
Answer: John F Kennedy

Question: What do the initials in the UK TV show "QI" represent?
Answer: Quite Interesting

Question: Where is the boat "The Maid of the Mist", originally designed to ply between USA and Canada and now a tourist facility for a world attraction?
Answer: Niagara Falls

Question: Which French dramatist, one of the "Big Three" of 17th century France and one of the most important literary figures in the Western tradition wrote the comedy "Les Plaideurs" and the tragedies "Alexandre le Grand", "Andromaque", "Athalie", "Bajazet", "Brnice", "Britannicus", "Esther", "Iphignie", "La Thbade", "Mithridate" and "Phdre"?
Answer: Jean Racine

Question: Ramn Emeterio Betances, Segundo Ruiz Belvis and Francisco Ramrez Medina were revolutionaries who attempted to free Puerto Rico from rule by which country?
Answer: Spain

Question: A petard, a small bomb which was first used in the 16th century to attach to and create a breach in fortifications and similar, gets its name from a word meaning what?
Answer: To break wind, or fart