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[
{
"question": "What kind of an organism is a truffle?",
"answers": [
"fungi"
]
},
{
"question": "\"What \"\"unsinkable\"\" ship sank in April 1912?\"",
"answers": [
"rms titanic"
]
},
{
"question": "What is nicknamed 'The Cathedral of the Railways'?",
"answers": [
"st pancreas"
]
},
{
"question": "\"What country's film industry is called \"\"Nollywood\"\"?\"",
"answers": [
"nigeria"
]
},
{
"question": "What island country lies off the southeast tip of India?",
"answers": [
"ceylon"
]
},
{
"question": "Which designer is famous for his/her red-soled footwear?",
"answers": [
"christian louboutin"
]
},
{
"question": "To ‘Defenestrate’ is to throw something or someone out of what?",
"answers": [
"window"
]
},
{
"question": "What were Pangaea and Gondwana?",
"answers": [
"continent"
]
},
{
"question": "Which bridge connects Detroit, Michigan, USA and Windsor, Ontario, Canada?",
"answers": [
"ambassador bridge"
]
},
{
"question": "In 2006 Orhan Pamuk became the first Nobel Laureate from which country, when he won the literature prize?",
"answers": [
"turkey"
]
},
{
"question": "Whose law states the “Supply creates demand”?",
"answers": [
"law of markets"
]
},
{
"question": "Who released a 2011 album entitled ‘Born This Way’?",
"answers": [
"ladygaga"
]
},
{
"question": "The first ten series of which long running TV drama featured the character Claude Jeremiah Greengrass?",
"answers": [
"heartbeat"
]
},
{
"question": "What name is given to someone who starts fires maliciously?",
"answers": [
"arson"
]
},
{
"question": "Who, after marrying in 1791, and living in Naples, became the mistress of Lord Nelson, having his child, Horatia, in 1803?",
"answers": [
"emma hamilton"
]
},
{
"question": "What did Arthur Wynne invent?",
"answers": [
"crossword puzzle"
]
},
{
"question": "What nationality was the pointillist artist MONDRIAN?",
"answers": [
"dutch"
]
},
{
"question": "Which Charles Dickens novel, his last completed work, features' John Harmon' and the title character 'John Rokesmith'?",
"answers": [
"our mutual friend"
]
},
{
"question": "Deborah Cavendish, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire is the last survivor of which family of siblings?",
"answers": [
"mitford sisters"
]
},
{
"question": "Who did Alan Lake marry in 1968",
"answers": [
"dors"
]
},
{
"question": "Jupiter ; Saturn and Uranus are three of the so-called ' gas giants ' in our Solar System: what is the fourth ?",
"answers": [
"neptune"
]
},
{
"question": "Which cricketer captained England to a record 54 test matches in 2001?",
"answers": [
"michael andrew atherton"
]
},
{
"question": "Aung San Suu Kyi is a controversial leader in which country?",
"answers": [
"myanmar"
]
},
{
"question": "Who was the oldest man to play test cricket for England",
"answers": [
"wilfred rhodes"
]
},
{
"question": "\"Which composer's operas are famously staged in the town of Bayreuth (say \"\"Bye-royt\"\")?\"",
"answers": [
"wagner"
]
},
{
"question": "The marine iguana can only be found on which islands?",
"answers": [
"galápagos"
]
},
{
"question": "What drinking vessel supposedly confers eternal life on those who drink from it?",
"answers": [
"grail"
]
},
{
"question": "English economist and physician Nicholas Barbon helped to pioneer which type of insurance in 1666?",
"answers": [
"fire insurance"
]
},
{
"question": "Which ‘P’ describes the chasing pack in a cycling race?",
"answers": [
"peloton"
]
},
{
"question": "With a motto of Always Ready, Always There, what US military branch had it's founding on Dec 14, 1636?",
"answers": [
"national guard"
]
},
{
"question": "Which lake in the Lake District is separated from Crummock Water by a narrow alluvial flat?",
"answers": [
"buttermere"
]
},
{
"question": "Against which state did Athens fight the 'Peloponnesian Wars'?",
"answers": [
"sparta"
]
},
{
"question": "Kit Kat is manufactured throughout the world by Nestle except in the USA, which company makes it under license there?",
"answers": [
"hershey"
]
},
{
"question": "What country produces the most olive oil?",
"answers": [
"spain"
]
},
{
"question": "Which British king married Mary of Teck?",
"answers": [
"king george v"
]
},
{
"question": "Manchester United's Kevin Moran was the first player to he sent off in an FA Cup final, which Arsenal player was the second?",
"answers": [
"jose antonio reyes"
]
},
{
"question": "Kingsley Amis, John Gardner and Raymond Benson have written novels about which character, after the death of the original author?",
"answers": [
"james bond"
]
},
{
"question": "Colin Firth starred in the film of the famous book, Girl with a Pearl.. (what?)?",
"answers": [
"earrings"
]
},
{
"question": "The naval Battle of Coronel took place during which war?",
"answers": [
"world war i"
]
},
{
"question": "The thoroughfare where fictional Sweeny Todd had his barber shop?",
"answers": [
"fleet street"
]
},
{
"question": "The Sharks face off against what gang in Leonard Bernsteins musical West Side Story?",
"answers": [
"jets"
]
},
{
"question": "A 'Comedo' is the medical name for what?",
"answers": [
"comedones"
]
},
{
"question": "In Greek Mythology who was the princess rescued from the Sea Monster by Perseus?",
"answers": [
"andromeda"
]
},
{
"question": "In which children?s cartoon series have you 'gotta catch em all'?",
"answers": [
"pokemon fans"
]
},
{
"question": "\"What was the sequel to 'Tom Brown's Schooldays\"\"?\"",
"answers": [
"tom brown at oxford"
]
},
{
"question": "What aspect of the folktale Hansel and Gretel has been adapted in user-interface design to help users navigate among various screens?",
"answers": [
"bread crumbs"
]
},
{
"question": "'Signal Failures' written by Dr. B. Ching is the title of a column that has appeared in which magazine?",
"answers": [
"private eye"
]
},
{
"question": "In which modern country is St Nicholas's birthplace and hometown?",
"answers": [
"turkey"
]
},
{
"question": "In climatology, pluvial relates to what?",
"answers": [
"rainy"
]
},
{
"question": "Which major city is situated at the mouth of the Yangtze River in China?",
"answers": [
"shanghai"
]
},
{
"question": "What make of car is Kylie Minogue advertising in 2011?",
"answers": [
"lexus"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the scientific name for the heart's pacemaker?",
"answers": [
"sinoatrial"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the 3rd largest car rental company in the United States?",
"answers": [
"alamo"
]
},
{
"question": "In the novel ‘Watership Down’, Yona is what type of creature?",
"answers": [
"hedgehog"
]
},
{
"question": "A skink is what type of reptile?",
"answers": [
"lizards"
]
},
{
"question": "What was the first name of the Dutch explorer, Tasman, after whom Tasmania is named?",
"answers": [
"abel"
]
},
{
"question": "In which county is Wellington College?",
"answers": [
"berkshire"
]
},
{
"question": "\"Literally, what old French word translates approximately as \"\"white food\"\"?\"",
"answers": [
"blancmange"
]
},
{
"question": "\"Which actor played the lead role of Jay Gatsby in the 1974 film \"\"the Great Gatsby\"\"\"",
"answers": [
"robert redford"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the currency of the middle eastern country of Qatar?",
"answers": [
"riyal"
]
},
{
"question": "Which French writer said “Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time”?",
"answers": [
"victor hugo"
]
},
{
"question": "Whose beagle buddy is 'Snoopy'?",
"answers": [
"woodstock"
]
},
{
"question": "Which U.S. president was born Leslie Lynch King Jr.?",
"answers": [
"leslie lynch king"
]
},
{
"question": "Which invention made Carlton C McGee famous in 1935?",
"answers": [
"parking meter"
]
},
{
"question": "Who had a top album in 1985 with Like A Virgin",
"answers": [
"madonna"
]
},
{
"question": "Which band featured Siobhan Fahey and Marcella Detroit?",
"answers": [
"shakespears sister"
]
},
{
"question": "Which sportsman's autobiography is called Blessed?",
"answers": [
"george best"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the name of Bob Marley's greatest hits album?",
"answers": [
"legend"
]
},
{
"question": "In which city could you travel on the underground from Atlantis to Mall of the Emirates?",
"answers": [
"dubai"
]
},
{
"question": "'Paralympics' is a combination of Olympics and what other word?",
"answers": [
"parallel"
]
},
{
"question": "In which US state are the Catskill Mountains?",
"answers": [
"new york"
]
},
{
"question": "Name the game show, presented by Leslie Grantham and Melinda Messenger, where contestants were set physical and mental challenges?",
"answers": [
"fort boyard"
]
},
{
"question": "What instrument was originally called the trompette-saicueboute?",
"answers": [
"trombones"
]
},
{
"question": "Tala is the basic monetary unit of which country?",
"answers": [
"samoa"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the official summer sport of Canada?",
"answers": [
"lacrosse"
]
},
{
"question": "Which event held in Alberta, Canada, which bills itself as The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth, is a large festival, exhibition, and rodeo held for 10 days every summer in July, attracts more than 1.2 million visitors?",
"answers": [
"calgary stampede"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the common name of the Boeing CH47 Helicopter?",
"answers": [
"chinook"
]
},
{
"question": "Symphony number 104 by Joseph Haydn and symphony number 2 by Ralph Vaughan Williams are both named after which European capital city?",
"answers": [
"london"
]
},
{
"question": "Which Disney character is brought to life by the Blue Fairy ?",
"answers": [
"pinocchio"
]
},
{
"question": "Who was the son of Edward III and father of Henry IV?",
"answers": [
"john of gaunt"
]
},
{
"question": "Who was the third President of the USA?",
"answers": [
"thomas jefferson"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the name for a piece of exercise equipment consisting of a metal bar, one or more sets of weight plates, and a set of collars?",
"answers": [
"barbells"
]
},
{
"question": "What abolitionist raided Harpers Ferry in 1859?",
"answers": [
"john brown"
]
},
{
"question": "In 1746, Scottish naval surgeon James Lind pioneered the treatment of which disease?",
"answers": [
"scurvy"
]
},
{
"question": "What have you lost if you are suffering from anosmia",
"answers": [
"sense of smell"
]
},
{
"question": "Used to describe US citizens who attempted to foment insurrections in Latin America in the mid-19th century, what is the term for someone who engages in an unauthorized military expedition into a foreign country to support a revolution?",
"answers": [
"filibusters"
]
},
{
"question": "Arctic King, Saladin and Tom Thumb are which types of vegetable?",
"answers": [
"lettuces"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the name of the whirlpool in the Hebrides between Scarba and Jura, the third largest in the world?",
"answers": [
"corryvreckan whirlpool"
]
},
{
"question": "How many Enigma Variations did Edward Elgar compose?",
"answers": [
"14"
]
},
{
"question": "The meibomian gland is found in which part of the human body?",
"answers": [
"eyelid"
]
},
{
"question": "In which Scottish border town was seven-a-side rugby first played?",
"answers": [
"melrose"
]
},
{
"question": "Benesh Notation is the written language of which activity?",
"answers": [
"dances"
]
},
{
"question": "Which Asian country was once called Siam?",
"answers": [
"thailand"
]
},
{
"question": "From which Shakespeare play does the phrase 'the green-eyed monster' originate?",
"answers": [
"othello"
]
},
{
"question": "What name is given to a word or phrase in a computer document that can be clicked on In order to move to a related document?",
"answers": [
"hyperlinks"
]
},
{
"question": "The crime drama 'The Killing' shown on BBC 4 earlier this year is set in which European capital city?",
"answers": [
"copenhagen"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the title of the 18th Century novel by Lawrence Sterne, which was published in nine volumes?",
"answers": [
"life and opinions of tristram shandy"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the name of the chain of islands in the southwestern Philippines?",
"answers": [
"sulu archipelago"
]
},
{
"question": "\"The 1902 guitar composition \"\"Gran Vals\"\" by the Spanish composer Francisco Tárrega would have remained obscure but for corporate executive Anssi Vanjoki selecting it for something in 1993. How do millions of people recognize it now?\"",
"answers": [
"gran vals"
]
},
{
"question": "In the novel Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde , what is Dr Jekyll's first name ?",
"answers": [
"henry"
]
},
{
"question": "Martin, Mandy and Mathew were flatmates in which comedy series",
"answers": [
"game on"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the surname of the father and son TV comedy characters with the first names Albert Edward Ladysmith and Harold Albert Kitchener?",
"answers": [
"steptoe"
]
},
{
"question": "What bridge connects the two peninsulas of Michigan?",
"answers": [
"mackinac bridge"
]
},
{
"question": "Sea World is in Mission Bay Park in which US city?",
"answers": [
"city of san diego"
]
},
{
"question": "A quadruped is an animal with how many feet?",
"answers": [
"four"
]
},
{
"question": "In the 1970's , who became the first actor to be raised to the peerage ?",
"answers": [
"sir laurence olivier"
]
},
{
"question": "What language was first to be represented in dictionaries and related language theory?",
"answers": [
"chineſe"
]
},
{
"question": "In which U S state is Arches National Park located just outside the city of Moab?",
"answers": [
"utah"
]
},
{
"question": "In the poem ‘Monday’s Child’, what is Wednesday’s child full of?",
"answers": [
"woe"
]
},
{
"question": "What nationality is singer Vanessa Paradis",
"answers": [
"french"
]
},
{
"question": "In Roman mythology, what was the name of the brother slain by Romulus?",
"answers": [
"romulus and remus"
]
},
{
"question": "Which US author wrote ‘The Naked and the Dead’, based on his military service in World War II?",
"answers": [
"norman mailer"
]
},
{
"question": "Who directed the Death Wish series of films",
"answers": [
"michael winner"
]
},
{
"question": "Who was the owner of Mirror Group newspapers who misused the pension fund",
"answers": [
"robert maxwell"
]
},
{
"question": "In medicine an emetic is administered to induce what?",
"answers": [
"emetics"
]
},
{
"question": "Which famous London events which occurred between April 10th and April 12th 1981 were dealt with in the Scarman report?",
"answers": [
"brixton riots"
]
},
{
"question": "Of which European country did Gro Harlem Bruntland become the first female Prime Minister in 1981, serving three terms between 1981 and 1996?",
"answers": [
"norway"
]
},
{
"question": "Who first identified and isolated nucleic acids, the precursor to identifying DNA?",
"answers": [
"friedrich miescher"
]
},
{
"question": "Which detective, played on TV by Martin Shaw, was created by Alan Hunter?",
"answers": [
"george gently"
]
},
{
"question": "In what month was the attack on Pearl Harbor?",
"answers": [
"december"
]
},
{
"question": "Charles Sands (USA), Margaret Abbot (USA) and George Lyon (Canada) were winners in what Olympic sport at the 1900 and 1904 games?",
"answers": [
"golfer"
]
},
{
"question": "Espiritu Santo is the largest island of which island republic?",
"answers": [
"vanuatu"
]
},
{
"question": "According to the Bible, who was the high priest of Judea at the time of Christ's arrest and execution?",
"answers": [
"joseph caiaphas"
]
},
{
"question": "PIA is the national airline of which country?",
"answers": [
"pakistan"
]
},
{
"question": "Which brand of beer does Homer Simpson drink regularly?",
"answers": [
"duff"
]
},
{
"question": "What was the maiden name of Billie Jean King before she married Lawrence King in Long Beach, California on 17 September 1965?",
"answers": [
"moffit"
]
},
{
"question": "In what National Park would you find Half Dome?",
"answers": [
"yosemite national"
]
},
{
"question": "Which land mammal has the longest tail?",
"answers": [
"giraffes"
]
},
{
"question": "What was the name of the Liverpool nightclub where the Beatles regularly played?",
"answers": [
"cavern"
]
},
{
"question": "Who, more famous for his opera ‘Faust’, wrote the music used for the anthem of the Vatican City?",
"answers": [
"gounod"
]
},
{
"question": "The 2010 Six Nations Championship, the 11th series of an annual rugby union competition contested by the six major Northern Hemisphere rugby union national teams, was won by France. Which nation won it in 2009 and came second in 2010 and 2011?",
"answers": [
"ireland"
]
},
{
"question": "Which US Olympic swimmer is nicknamed the ‘Baltimore Bullet’?",
"answers": [
"michael phelps"
]
},
{
"question": "Lake Neuchatel is in which country?",
"answers": [
"swiss"
]
},
{
"question": "Who wrote ‘The Forsyte Saga’?",
"answers": [
"galsworthy"
]
},
{
"question": "Which club won the Scottish league cup three times in the first eight years of the competition?",
"answers": [
"east fife"
]
},
{
"question": "The stern of a ship is its?",
"answers": [
"back end"
]
},
{
"question": "Oil from oil wells was first used for what?",
"answers": [
"evaporate brine to produce salt"
]
},
{
"question": "\"What 1996 film directed by Danny Boyle, was advertised with the tag line \"\"Choose Life\"\"?\"",
"answers": [
"trainspotting"
]
},
{
"question": "Who scored the most goals in the 2012/13 English Premier League season?",
"answers": [
"robin van persie"
]
},
{
"question": "The meat substitute 'Quorn' is named after a village in which English county?",
"answers": [
"leicestershire"
]
},
{
"question": "At which battle of 2 December 1805 did Napoleon defeat a combined Austrian-Russian army?",
"answers": [
"pratzen heights"
]
},
{
"question": "Opened in 1637, in which city was the first public opera house?",
"answers": [
"venice"
]
},
{
"question": "David John Moore Cornwell is better known as what spy-story writer?",
"answers": [
"le carré"
]
},
{
"question": "Who was shot for spying by the French in 1917?",
"answers": [
"mata hari"
]
},
{
"question": "Which 1983 film starring Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger won 5 Oscars (Academy Awards)?",
"answers": [
"aurora greenway"
]
},
{
"question": "In the nursery rhyme, who put in his thumb and pulled out a plum?",
"answers": [
"jack"
]
},
{
"question": "What is Chandler's surname in Friends",
"answers": [
"bing"
]
},
{
"question": "The Greek goddess Aphrodite loved which beautiful youth, the son of Myrrha?",
"answers": [
"adonis"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the US word for an automotive wheel nut or the brace used to loosen/tighten one?",
"answers": [
"lug"
]
},
{
"question": "\"Which game has been played in England since Tudor Times, with the earliest reference being in 1744 in \"\"A Little Pretty Pocketbook\"\" where it is called Baseball?\"",
"answers": [
"rounders"
]
},
{
"question": "Green plover and peewit are alternative names for which British bird?",
"answers": [
"lapwing"
]
},
{
"question": "What was the name of the 1960’s rock band which comprised Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Steve Winwood and Ric Grech?",
"answers": [
"blind faith"
]
},
{
"question": "What country is Rhodes a part of?",
"answers": [
"greece"
]
},
{
"question": "On the Beaufort scale what is defined as force 11?",
"answers": [
"storm"
]
},
{
"question": "The laburnum tree has what colour flowers?",
"answers": [
"yellow"
]
},
{
"question": "Which British Prime Ministers death is commemorated on 19th April, Primrose Day?",
"answers": [
"benjamin disraeli"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the acronym referring to a scale of readiness in the US military, derived from 'defense readiness condition'?",
"answers": [
"defcon 2"
]
},
{
"question": "According to Greek myth, who built the labyrinth on Crete for King Minos?",
"answers": [
"daedalus"
]
},
{
"question": "How is children's author Mary Pollock better known?",
"answers": [
"mary pollock"
]
},
{
"question": "Rincewind and 'The Luggage' appear in which series of books?",
"answers": [
"discworld"
]
},
{
"question": "What comes next in the sequence kilo, mega, giga?",
"answers": [
"tera"
]
},
{
"question": "Skeletal, Smooth, and Cardiac are all types of what?",
"answers": [
"muscles"
]
},
{
"question": "Who had parts in ‘St. Elmo’s Fire’, ‘About Last Night …’ and ‘Wayne’s World’?",
"answers": [
"rob lowe"
]
},
{
"question": "What was the 42nd state to join the Union on Nov 11, 1889?",
"answers": [
"washington"
]
},
{
"question": "Who took over the leadership of Russia when Boris Yeltsin resigned",
"answers": [
"vladimir putin"
]
},
{
"question": "Cricketer W G Grace, who played first-class cricket from 1865 to 1908, also captained England from 1903 to 1908 in what other sport?",
"answers": [
"lawn bowls"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the name of the mountain pass which lies between Pakistan and Afghanistan?",
"answers": [
"khyber pass"
]
},
{
"question": "What de-facto independent country does China claim ownership of?",
"answers": [
"taiwan"
]
},
{
"question": "What was the most common type of gun used in the Revolutionary War?",
"answers": [
"muskets"
]
},
{
"question": "Who originated the 'Wall of Sound' record production technique?",
"answers": [
"phil spector"
]
},
{
"question": "The Isle of Capri is close to which Italian resort?",
"answers": [
"sorrento"
]
},
{
"question": "In June 2009 American neuroscientist Dr Gary Arendash claimed to have evidence that drinking a few cups of coffee a day could prevent or reverse the effects of what?",
"answers": [
"alzheimer"
]
},
{
"question": "Who wrote the lyrics for 'Sing', written to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee?",
"answers": [
"gary barlow"
]
},
{
"question": "Barney the Owl is a mascot of which English football club?",
"answers": [
"owls"
]
},
{
"question": "\"What is the current name of the islands originally called the \"\"Sandwich Islands\"\"?\"",
"answers": [
"hawaii"
]
},
{
"question": "Which British playwright wrote the screenplay for the 1998 film 'Shakespeare In Love'?",
"answers": [
"stoppardian"
]
},
{
"question": "Brown, American Rainbow and Cutthroat are all types of which fish?",
"answers": [
"trout"
]
},
{
"question": "What are the international registration letters of a vehicle from Iceland?",
"answers": [
"is"
]
},
{
"question": "Which shipping forecast area is directly north of German Bight?",
"answers": [
"fisher"
]
},
{
"question": "What is an alternative name for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints?",
"answers": [
"mormon"
]
},
{
"question": "-Day in 1944 was the greatest sea-bourn invasion in history. What was the code name for the operation?",
"answers": [
"operation overlord"
]
},
{
"question": "For which 1960 film did Billy Wilder become the first person to win three Oscars for the same film?",
"answers": [
"apartment"
]
},
{
"question": "In Greek mythology, how many heads does Cerberus, the dog who guards the entrance to Hades, usually have?",
"answers": [
"three"
]
},
{
"question": "In the TV series 'Friends', what is 'rachel's' surname?",
"answers": [
"green"
]
},
{
"question": "What is Mexico's most commonly used language?",
"answers": [
"spanish"
]
},
{
"question": "Rialto, Scalzi and Constitution are all bridges in which European city?",
"answers": [
"venice"
]
},
{
"question": "\"Damon Runyon's two stories \"\"The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown\"\" and \"\"Blood Pressure\"\" were the basis for which musical?\"",
"answers": [
"sky masterson"
]
},
{
"question": "Marble Arch in London was once the ceremonial entrance to which British palace?",
"answers": [
"buckingham palace"
]
},
{
"question": "Used as an alloy in making high-speed cutting tools, mo is the symbol for what silver-white metallic element?",
"answers": [
"molybdenum"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the spiked stick or prod used for driving cattle called?",
"answers": [
"goad"
]
},
{
"question": "‘Geocentrism’ is the belief that which planet is the centre of the Universe?",
"answers": [
"earth"
]
},
{
"question": "Anthony Wilding, who won the Wimbledon men's singles from 1910 to 1913, was from what country?",
"answers": [
"new zealand"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the name of the neo-Norman fantasy castle situated close to Bangor, between Snowdonia and the Menai strait ? It was built in the early 19th century by a family who made their money from sugar and Welsh slate, and is now in the care of the National Trust.",
"answers": [
"penrhyn"
]
},
{
"question": "Name the Greek equivalent to the Roman goddess, Diana?",
"answers": [
"artemis"
]
},
{
"question": "In physics, 'the rate of change of position' is a basic definition of what term?",
"answers": [
"velocity"
]
},
{
"question": "Which poet wrote ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’?",
"answers": [
"yeats"
]
},
{
"question": "\"How many people made up the English pop rock group \"\"Tears For Fears\"\"?\"",
"answers": [
"two"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the name for the flexible, connective tissue found in the joints between bones?",
"answers": [
"cartilage"
]
},
{
"question": "The painting by Millais entitled 'Bubbles' was used for many years in an advertisement for which product?",
"answers": [
"pears soap"
]
},
{
"question": "What caused a 34 minute suspension of play in the 2013 Superbowl?",
"answers": [
"power outage"
]
},
{
"question": "Which is the most northerly of the islands of Japan? Its capital, Sapporo, has hosted the Winter Olympics.",
"answers": [
"hokkaido"
]
},
{
"question": "What was the name of the American doctor who in 2011 was sentenced to four years in Jail after being convicted of the involuntary manslaughter of pop star Michael Jackson ?",
"answers": [
"conrad murray trial"
]
},
{
"question": "In the electromagnetic spectrum, which type of radiation has the longest wavelength? Its main uses are in communication.",
"answers": [
"radio waves"
]
},
{
"question": "On which side of the road do motorists drive in Australia?",
"answers": [
"left"
]
},
{
"question": "Which war veterna, who died in 2009 had the nickname 'The Last Fighting Tommy'?",
"answers": [
"harry patch"
]
},
{
"question": "First appearing on TV in 1967, which detective solved all of his crimes sitting down?",
"answers": [
"ironside"
]
},
{
"question": "Which Canadian born actor played an Irishman in The Eagle Has Landed",
"answers": [
"sutherland"
]
},
{
"question": "On which Saint's Day in 1572 did a massacre of Huguenots take place?",
"answers": [
"saint bartholomew"
]
},
{
"question": "What Gaelic word which means 'bad ale' is given to an unlicensed Irish drinking house?",
"answers": [
"shebeens"
]
},
{
"question": "Philippa of Hainault was the wife of which English monarch?",
"answers": [
"edward iii"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the name of me political party, led by Alexis Tsipras,which won the general election in Greece in January 2015?",
"answers": [
"syriza"
]
},
{
"question": "Wookey Hole is part of which range of hills?",
"answers": [
"mendip hills"
]
},
{
"question": "Which doctor - an eternal optimist – features in Voltaire’s Candide?",
"answers": [
"candide"
]
},
{
"question": "Who has been announced as the next presenter of QI?",
"answers": [
"sandi toksvig"
]
},
{
"question": "Which, then fictional, award is mentioned in the opening scene of the 1950 film ‘All About Eve’, starring Bette Davis?",
"answers": [
"sarah siddons society"
]
},
{
"question": "What was the surname of the 19th president of the USA who had the first christian name Rutherford ?",
"answers": [
"hayes"
]
},
{
"question": "Name the fantasy movie directed by Terry Gilliam, where 6 dwarves have stolen a map.",
"answers": [
"time bandits"
]
},
{
"question": "Stanislaw August Poniatowski was the last king of which European country?",
"answers": [
"polish state"
]
},
{
"question": "Hong Kong is one of two 'special administrative regions' of China; what is the other?",
"answers": [
"macau"
]
},
{
"question": "Which 18th century stately home is situated one mile south of Woodstock in Oxfordshire?",
"answers": [
"blenheim palace"
]
},
{
"question": "As whom is Paul David Hewson better known?",
"answers": [
"paul david hewson"
]
},
{
"question": "Where do you find the Bridal Veil, American, and Horseshoe Falls?",
"answers": [
"niagara falls"
]
},
{
"question": "King Louie, Akela and Ziggy are all characters in which Disney film?",
"answers": [
"jungle book"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the name of the 2500km long tourism trail on the west coast of Ireland?",
"answers": [
"wild atlantic way"
]
},
{
"question": "Which British Victorian writer lived with George Lewes for 24 years but never married him?",
"answers": [
"marian evans"
]
},
{
"question": "Starting 30 years of conflict, the Eritrean War of Independence broke out on Sept 1, 1961, as Eritrean separatists fought for independence from what country?",
"answers": [
"democratic republic of ethiopia"
]
},
{
"question": "\"\"\"Bye Bye Love\"\" in 1957 was the first hit single for which duo?\"",
"answers": [
"phil everly"
]
},
{
"question": "Name the town in the vicinity of Versailles famous for its hard-paste porcelain.",
"answers": [
"sèvres"
]
},
{
"question": "January 18, 1936 saw the death of what English writer and youngest recipient of the Nobel prize in Literature, responsible for such classics as The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Gunga Din, and If?",
"answers": [
"rudyard kipling"
]
},
{
"question": "The documentary Lousy Little Sixpence (1983) and the feature-film Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) focus on 'Stolen Generations' in which country?",
"answers": [
"australia"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the name of the clarified butter used in Indian cookery?",
"answers": [
"ghee"
]
},
{
"question": "On September 28th, NASA announced that what had been detected on Mars?",
"answers": [
"flowing water"
]
},
{
"question": "According to the Bible, how many stones did David pick up before he faced Goliath?",
"answers": [
"five"
]
},
{
"question": "Which Gilbert and Sullivan operetta is sub-titled The Slave of Duty?",
"answers": [
"pirates of penzance"
]
},
{
"question": "It began life as The Nashville Network, but changed its name to what in 2003 following a lawsuit raised by an asshat director over the new name?",
"answers": [
"national network"
]
},
{
"question": "Which geological period is named after an ancient tribe which once inhabited South Wales?",
"answers": [
"silurian"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the perfect score in ten pin bowling?",
"answers": [
"300"
]
},
{
"question": "Hansen's Disease is better known as what?",
"answers": [
"leprosy"
]
},
{
"question": "What does the Islamic term Hadj signify?",
"answers": [
"hadj"
]
},
{
"question": "Michael Jackson was one of ten children. Who is the youngest, born in 1966?",
"answers": [
"janet"
]
},
{
"question": "Five ninths of three fifths is a?",
"answers": [
"third"
]
},
{
"question": "What does the term 'Halal' literally mean? As in Halal meat eaten by Muslims.",
"answers": [
"permissible"
]
},
{
"question": "Which British paralympian swimmer won 2 gold, a silver and a bronze in the 2012 Para Olympics?",
"answers": [
"ellie simmonds"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the name of the official publication of the Jehova’s Witnesses",
"answers": [
"watchtower"
]
},
{
"question": "What mountain system in the USA stretches over 1500 miles south to Alabama, through which pass the Hudson and Mohawk Valleys?",
"answers": [
"appalachian mountain"
]
},
{
"question": "Precisely where were the Winter Olympics of 1932 and 1980 both held?",
"answers": [
"lake placid"
]
},
{
"question": "Near which village in North Wales were the rowing events held at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games?",
"answers": [
"llanberis"
]
},
{
"question": "\"Dr. Benjamin Spock, the American pediatrician who wrote \"\"Baby and Child Care\"\", published in 1946, won an Olympic gold medal in what type of event?\"",
"answers": [
"rowing"
]
},
{
"question": "In which decade was the English League Cup first contested?",
"answers": [
"1960s"
]
},
{
"question": "Which London underground line provides a regular service to all Heathrow terminals?",
"answers": [
"piccadilly"
]
},
{
"question": "What is removed from natural yogurt to produce Greek yogurt (also called labneh [Arabic] and strained yogurt)?",
"answers": [
"whey"
]
},
{
"question": "\"From which sport do we get the expression \"\"par for the course\"\"?\"",
"answers": [
"golf"
]
},
{
"question": "The Tropic of Capricorn crosses the west coast of South America in which country?",
"answers": [
"chile"
]
},
{
"question": "Which Norwegian explorer was the founder of the Nordic settlement in Greenland in the 10th century?",
"answers": [
"eirik raude"
]
},
{
"question": "Which year saw the assassination of US President James Garfield?",
"answers": [
"1881"
]
},
{
"question": "\"Which US City has the nickname \"\"Beantown\"\" ?\"",
"answers": [
"beantown"
]
},
{
"question": "Which rock star did Cindy Crawford name her first son after?",
"answers": [
"presley"
]
},
{
"question": "Which play is featured in the film The Producers?",
"answers": [
"springtime for hitler"
]
},
{
"question": "\"Which US President was nicknamed \"\"the Gipper\"\"?\"",
"answers": [
"ronald reagan"
]
},
{
"question": "Body on Tap brand shampoo contained what special ingredient?",
"answers": [
"beer"
]
},
{
"question": "In what year did Kurt Waldheim become UN General Secretary; Bloody Sunday happened in Derry, NI; President Nixon visited China.",
"answers": [
"1972"
]
},
{
"question": "In Architecture what are a series of short upright pillars supporting a coping or rail called?",
"answers": [
"balustrade"
]
},
{
"question": "What was the name of the driver of the mail train robbed by the great train robbers",
"answers": [
"jack mills"
]
},
{
"question": "Which famous city has the official website domain www.mcgm.gov.in?",
"answers": [
"greater mumbai"
]
},
{
"question": "Who elects a new Pope?",
"answers": [
"cardinalate"
]
},
{
"question": "Against which nation did Sachin Tendulkar score his 100th international century?",
"answers": [
"bangladesh"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the official march of the Royal Navy?",
"answers": [
"heart of oak"
]
},
{
"question": "One of only two moons in our soar system larger than Mercury, which is the largest satellite of Saturn?",
"answers": [
"titan"
]
},
{
"question": "Who was the only judge on 'X Factor' to return for series eight in 2011?",
"answers": [
"louis walsh"
]
},
{
"question": "The youngest gold medalist for team GB at the 2012 Olympics, Jade Jones, won in which sport?",
"answers": [
"taekwondo"
]
},
{
"question": "\"Who divorced her husband in 1978 after sixteen years of marriage, accusing him of years of severe spousal abuse and rampant drug addiction in her autobiography \"\"I, Tina\"\" (which was later adapted for the film \"\"What's Love Got to Do with It\"\"), and left semi-retirement in 2008 to embark on her \"\"Tina!: 50th Anniversary Tour\"\"?\"",
"answers": [
"tina turner"
]
},
{
"question": "What was first demonstrated by Alexander Graham Bell at the Philadelphia Exhibition in 1876?",
"answers": [
"telephone"
]
},
{
"question": "\"Which Scottish actor, born in Paisley, starred in the movies \"\"300\"\", \"\"Law Abiding Citizen\"\" and \"\"P.S. I love you\"\" ?\"",
"answers": [
"gerard butler"
]
},
{
"question": "With what area of expertise do you associate the name of Annie Leibovitz?",
"answers": [
"photographing"
]
},
{
"question": "The armistice to end World War I was signed in November 1918 in a railway carriage in which French town?",
"answers": [
"compiegne"
]
},
{
"question": "Who was the first Astronomer Royal?",
"answers": [
"flamsteed"
]
},
{
"question": "Which birds collect in a convocation?",
"answers": [
"eagles"
]
},
{
"question": "What does an entomologist study?",
"answers": [
"insect"
]
},
{
"question": "Author J.R.R. Tolkien was born in which country?",
"answers": [
"south africa"
]
},
{
"question": "209 year ago today was the founding of the United States Military Academy at what New York location?",
"answers": [
"west point"
]
},
{
"question": "The Reign Of Terror was a period in the revolution of which country?",
"answers": [
"france"
]
},
{
"question": "The 1812 Fire of Moscow, on 14 September 14 1812, broke out after most residents and Russian troops had abandoned the city, and whose troops had entered it?",
"answers": [
"napoleon bonaparte"
]
},
{
"question": "Which motorway links Coventry to Leicester?",
"answers": [
"m69"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the southernmost city in USA",
"answers": [
"honolulu"
]
},
{
"question": "Which series of books are illustrated by Mary Grand Pre?",
"answers": [
"harry potter"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the name of the bay on the shore of which Rio de Janeiro sits?",
"answers": [
"guanabara bay"
]
},
{
"question": "According to the nursery rhyme, how many blackbirds were baked in a pie?",
"answers": [
"24"
]
},
{
"question": "What are muslin and chenille?",
"answers": [
"fabrics"
]
},
{
"question": "Who was appointed Chief Secretary to the Treasury immediately after the 2010 General Election?",
"answers": [
"david laws"
]
},
{
"question": "Which British university was the first to throw open all degrees to women (in 1878)?",
"answers": [
"london"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the name of the dog in the Punch and Judy shows?",
"answers": [
"toby"
]
},
{
"question": "In 1705, who was the first scientist to be knighted?",
"answers": [
"isaac newton"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the largest country with a single time zone?",
"answers": [
"china"
]
},
{
"question": "Which BBC TV sitcom about a retired security guard was set at 37 Wyngate Drive in the first series then at 19, Riverbank for the final 5 series?",
"answers": [
"meldrew"
]
},
{
"question": "In which year was the Royal British Legion founded?",
"answers": [
"1921"
]
},
{
"question": "Known as The Hoosier State, what was the 19th state to join the Union on december 11, 1816?",
"answers": [
"19th state"
]
},
{
"question": "Who won his third rowing Olympic gold medal with Steve Redgrave in 2000?",
"answers": [
"matthew pinsent"
]
},
{
"question": "Which TV comedy had characters McLaren, Blanco & Warren",
"answers": [
"porridge"
]
},
{
"question": "The cult TV series Lost which began in 2004 features 'Oceanic Flight ...' what?",
"answers": [
"815"
]
},
{
"question": "Which Roxy Music hit single features Robert E Lee?",
"answers": [
"virginia plain"
]
},
{
"question": "On a map of the London Underground, what colour is the Northern Line?",
"answers": [
"black"
]
},
{
"question": "In which Italian city is the newspaper 'La Stampa' published?",
"answers": [
"turin"
]
},
{
"question": "In which North Yorkshire town is the Green Howards Museum?",
"answers": [
"richmond"
]
},
{
"question": "In the 1968 film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang who buys the car from garage owner Mr Coggins and rebuilds it?",
"answers": [
"caractacus potts"
]
},
{
"question": "Which Sheffield United player scored the first ever goal in English Premiership football?",
"answers": [
"brian deane"
]
},
{
"question": "Which hit for 'Wet Wet Wet' was the biggest-selling single in Britain in 1994?",
"answers": [
"love is all around"
]
},
{
"question": "In which Commonwealth country are the Southern Alps?",
"answers": [
"new zealand"
]
},
{
"question": "What famous road began in Chicago, Illinois, ending at Santa Monica, California?",
"answers": [
"route 66"
]
},
{
"question": "In Egyptian myth who was the God of chaos and disorder?",
"answers": [
"seth"
]
},
{
"question": "Which branch of science has four fundamental principles: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.",
"answers": [
"arithmetic operations"
]
},
{
"question": "Which river flows through Cologne?",
"answers": [
"rhine"
]
},
{
"question": "In which country was Rita Ora born",
"answers": [
"kosovo"
]
},
{
"question": "In what country did the Romani ethnic group originate?",
"answers": [
"india"
]
},
{
"question": "Which film, directed by David Lean and starring John Mills, opens with an escaped convict grabbing hold of a boy in a graveyard?",
"answers": [
"great expectations"
]
},
{
"question": "Which vitamin is also known as Niacin or Nicotinic Acid?",
"answers": [
"b3"
]
},
{
"question": "Sindh is a province of which Asian country?",
"answers": [
"pakistan"
]
},
{
"question": "Typically, a male moose sheds its antlers how frequently?",
"answers": [
"every year"
]
},
{
"question": "Uriah Heep is a character in which Dickens novel?",
"answers": [
"david copperfield"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the nationality of Manchester City's £27 million striker Edin Dzeko?",
"answers": [
"bosnian"
]
},
{
"question": "Which perennial herb is also known as milfoil?",
"answers": [
"achillea millefolium"
]
},
{
"question": "‘When Will You Marry?’ became the world’s most expensive work of art when it was sold",
"answers": [
"gauguin"
]
},
{
"question": "Tybalt is a character in which of Shakespeare's plays?",
"answers": [
"romeo and juliet"
]
},
{
"question": "Which famous painter's surname was Harmenzoon van Rijn which translated as son of Harmen, of the Rhine?",
"answers": [
"rembrant"
]
},
{
"question": "If cows are bovine and horses are equine, what type of animals are ursine?",
"answers": [
"bear"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the capital and largest city of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania?",
"answers": [
"nouakchott"
]
},
{
"question": "Which company with a trademark (£, a German 'L') similar to a £ sign released the first nine 'Beatles' albums?",
"answers": [
"parlophone"
]
},
{
"question": "What kind of bean is used to make tempeh?",
"answers": [
"soybeans"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the name of George Galloway's political party?",
"answers": [
"respect"
]
},
{
"question": "To which poet does Il Postino deliver mail?",
"answers": [
"pablo neruda"
]
},
{
"question": "What was singer Jack Jones father Allan's theme song",
"answers": [
"donkey serenade"
]
},
{
"question": "\"Who coined the phrase \"\"the unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism\"\"?\"",
"answers": [
"edward heath"
]
},
{
"question": "\"How many gifts are there in the \"\"Twelve Days of Christmas\"\"?\"",
"answers": [
"364"
]
},
{
"question": "Shining Tor is the highest point in which county?",
"answers": [
"cheshire"
]
},
{
"question": "In the US, where would a busboy work?",
"answers": [
"restuarant"
]
},
{
"question": "Who narrates the spoken verses on Blur’s top 10 hit ‘Parklife’?",
"answers": [
"phil daniels"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the full name of the train robber played by Phil Collins in a 1988 movie?",
"answers": [
"buster edwards"
]
},
{
"question": "When was curling first played as a Winter Olympic sport?",
"answers": [
"1998"
]
},
{
"question": "\"According to the song lyrics where can \"\"you check out any time you like, but you can never leave\"\"?\"",
"answers": [
"hotel california"
]
},
{
"question": "Which island is connected to Brooklyn by the Verrazano Narrows bridge?",
"answers": [
"staten"
]
},
{
"question": "Which nation boasts the world's longest running TV sports show, Hockey Night, first aired 1952?",
"answers": [
"canada"
]
},
{
"question": "Who was named the best player at Euro 2012 by UEFA ?",
"answers": [
"andrés iniesta"
]
},
{
"question": "JP Morgan, Barclays, RBS, Citigroup, Bank of America, and UBS were fined $6bn in 2015 for rigging what market?",
"answers": [
"foreign exchange"
]
},
{
"question": "The undersurface of a person's foot or of a shoe?",
"answers": [
"sole"
]
},
{
"question": "What royal house has ruled Monaco since the Middle Ages?",
"answers": [
"grimaldi"
]
},
{
"question": "Which student of Socrates, and teacher of Aristole, wrote Republic?",
"answers": [
"plato"
]
},
{
"question": "King Charles II nicknamed which US state (then colony) 'Old Dominion' for its loyalty to the Crown during the Commonwealth?",
"answers": [
"mother of presidents"
]
},
{
"question": "Which premiership manager upset Louis Van Gaal in February 2015, when he described his team as long ball united?",
"answers": [
"sam allardyce"
]
},
{
"question": "What name is shared by a former Manchester City FC manager (1965-1971) and a champion flat jockey who used to ride for the Queen?",
"answers": [
"joe mercer"
]
},
{
"question": "Which city is sited on the Absheron Peninsula which juts into the Caspian Sea?",
"answers": [
"baku city"
]
},
{
"question": "\"What diminutive actor stars as Frank Reynolds in \"\"It's Alway Sunny in Philadelphia\"\"?\"",
"answers": [
"danny devito"
]
},
{
"question": "Who on television is the 'Idiot Abroad'?",
"answers": [
"karl pilkington"
]
},
{
"question": "Which private railway line runs between Kidderminster and Bridgnorth?",
"answers": [
"severn valley"
]
},
{
"question": "What was the name of the compere on the TV show 'Take Your Pick'?",
"answers": [
"michael miles"
]
},
{
"question": "Who was US Attorney General from January 1961 until September 1964 and a Senator for New York from January 1965 until June 1968?",
"answers": [
"robert kennedy"
]
},
{
"question": "Of which African country is Niamey the capital?",
"answers": [
"niger"
]
},
{
"question": "Which is the only element, from the group known as the Halogens, which is liquid at room temperature?",
"answers": [
"bromine"
]
},
{
"question": "In Greek mythology which king of Corinth was compelled to eternally roll a large boulder up a hill only to watch it roll down again?",
"answers": [
"sisyphos"
]
},
{
"question": "Which is Britain's oldest cathedral?",
"answers": [
"canterbury"
]
},
{
"question": "The tough fibrous membrane called the dura covers what?",
"answers": [
"brain and spinal cord"
]
},
{
"question": "NASA celebrated another anniversary today. In what year was it founded?",
"answers": [
"1958"
]
},
{
"question": "Napoleon called this the 'Battle of Mont Saint Jean', by what name do we know it?",
"answers": [
"waterloo"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the name of the island formed by volcanic action off the south coast of Iceland in 1963",
"answers": [
"surtsey"
]
},
{
"question": "Fez is an African city which gives its name to a type of hat. In which country is it?",
"answers": [
"morocco"
]
},
{
"question": "In which country was there a secret police force called the Ton Ton Macoutes?",
"answers": [
"haiti"
]
},
{
"question": "\"What was advertised on TV as, \"\"A newspaper, not a snooze paper\"\"?\"",
"answers": [
"mail on sunday"
]
},
{
"question": "Which Indian born author who lived from 1903 to 1950 had the real name Eric Arthur Blair ?",
"answers": [
"eric arthur blair"
]
},
{
"question": "\"Who wrote the 1993 Booker Prize winning novel \"\"Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha\"\"?\"",
"answers": [
"roddy doyle"
]
},
{
"question": "In which Ayrshire village will you find the cottage birthplace of poet Robert Bums which is now a museum?",
"answers": [
"alloway"
]
},
{
"question": "In which street would you find 'Smiffy', 'Wilfred', 'Danny' and 'Plug'?",
"answers": [
"bash street kids"
]
},
{
"question": "A dendogram is a diagram of what shape?",
"answers": [
"tree"
]
},
{
"question": "Who was the Principal Conductor of the Halle Orchestra from 1943 to 1970?",
"answers": [
"barbirolli"
]
},
{
"question": "Peter Parker alias Spiderman worked for which newspaper?",
"answers": [
"dexter bennett"
]
},
{
"question": "What artist famously cut off one of his own ears?",
"answers": [
"van gogh"
]
},
{
"question": "Geoff Keegan was leader at which youth club on TV throughout the 1990s?",
"answers": [
"jellyhead"
]
},
{
"question": "What was the name of John Cabot’s ship which he sailed to North America in 1497?",
"answers": [
"matthew"
]
},
{
"question": "Whose portrait (other than the Queen) is depicted on the current £20 note?",
"answers": [
"smith"
]
},
{
"question": "In Shakespeare's 'Hamlet', what was the name of 'Hamlet's' mother?",
"answers": [
"gertrude"
]
},
{
"question": "Poplin is a type of 18th-century-originating?",
"answers": [
"cotton"
]
},
{
"question": "\"Written and first recorded in 1937, \"\"One O'Clock Jump\"\" became the theme tune of which orchestra?\"",
"answers": [
"count basie orchestra"
]
},
{
"question": "Rickets is caused by a lack of what essential element?",
"answers": [
"calcium"
]
},
{
"question": "Suya, Puff Puff, and Moin Moin (or Moyi-Moyi) are well-known Nigerian?",
"answers": [
"foods"
]
},
{
"question": "In Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, which dragon did Harry have to defeat?",
"answers": [
"pigwidgeon"
]
},
{
"question": "Which film is set on the remote Hebridean island of Summerisle?",
"answers": [
"wicker man"
]
},
{
"question": "Whose horse was called Incitatus?",
"answers": [
"caligula"
]
},
{
"question": "The adjective sagittate means shaped like which object?",
"answers": [
"arrowhead"
]
},
{
"question": "Luzon and Mindanao are the two largest islands in which country?",
"answers": [
"philippines"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the name of Kevin the teenager's friend played by Kathy Burke in a series of sketches with Harry Enfield?",
"answers": [
"perry"
]
},
{
"question": "For which film did Tatum O'Neal receive the Best Supporting Actress 'Oscar'?",
"answers": [
"paper moon"
]
},
{
"question": "In the 1930s, who was the first to win all 4 tennis Grand Slam titles?",
"answers": [
"fred perry"
]
},
{
"question": "Which 1968 album released by George Harrison is notable for being the first official solo album by one of The Beatles?",
"answers": [
"red lady too"
]
},
{
"question": "Complete the title of this 1970's group 'Sutherland Brothers and ….'",
"answers": [
"quiver"
]
},
{
"question": "What red fruit-juice-based drink whose name alludes to energy was first produced by John Noel Nichols in Manchester, 1908?",
"answers": [
"vimto"
]
},
{
"question": "The upper house of the Canadian parliament is known as the Senate; what is the lower house called?",
"answers": [
"house of commons"
]
},
{
"question": "\"\"\"Known to the Danish as Godthab, what is the capital of Greenland?\"",
"answers": [
"godthaab"
]
},
{
"question": "Who was the main female singer with the groups Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship and Starship?",
"answers": [
"grace slick"
]
},
{
"question": "Which fruit is also known as the alligator pear?",
"answers": [
"Alligator pear"
]
},
{
"question": "\"Who says \"\"Is this a dagger that I see before me\"\" in a Shakespearean play?\"",
"answers": [
"macbeth"
]
},
{
"question": "Who was the first man to walk on the Moon?",
"answers": [
"neil armstrong"
]
},
{
"question": "Who scored the winning goal in this year's FA Cup final?",
"answers": [
"ben watson"
]
},
{
"question": "Which son of a famous drummer played drums for The Who at Glastonbury this year ? he has toured with them since 1996?",
"answers": [
"zak starkey"
]
},
{
"question": "Aqua Arnemetiae is the Roman name for which British town?",
"answers": [
"buxton"
]
},
{
"question": "Which artist, a member of the Order of Merit, was born in Bradford in July 1937?",
"answers": [
"hockney"
]
},
{
"question": "Nephritis is a condition, in humans, where which part of the body becomes inflamed?",
"answers": [
"renal"
]
},
{
"question": "What year were all these comedians born: Harry Enfield, Eddie Murphy and Rory Bremner?",
"answers": [
"1961"
]
},
{
"question": "Which Rugby Union Premiership team play home fixtures at Kingston Park?",
"answers": [
"newcastle falcons"
]
},
{
"question": "X-Factor winner Joe McElderry failed to reach no 1 in the Christmas 2009 chart, which group did as a result of a concerted internet download campaign?",
"answers": [
"Rage Against"
]
},
{
"question": "Prince Calef is the male-lead in which Puccini opera?",
"answers": [
"turandot"
]
},
{
"question": "What Carl Sagan television series was resurrected in 2014 with Neil deGrasse Tyson as host?",
"answers": [
"cosmos"
]
},
{
"question": "What was the name of the frog in the children's TV series Hector's House?",
"answers": [
"kiki"
]
},
{
"question": "In the nursery rhyme ‘Oranges and Lemons’, the bells of which church said ‘You owe me five farthings’?",
"answers": [
"st martins"
]
},
{
"question": "Which Internet site was founded by Jimmy Wales in 2001?",
"answers": [
"wikipedia"
]
},
{
"question": "What was the first name of the father of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, a French engineer who moved to England and constructed the Thames Tunnel?",
"answers": [
"marc"
]
},
{
"question": "Which historical 17th century event would you associate with the Monteagle Letter?",
"answers": [
"gunpowder plot of 1605"
]
},
{
"question": "\"Which British singer, born Sandra Ann Goodrich, was known as \"\"the barefoot pop princess of the 1960s\"\"?\"",
"answers": [
"sandie shaw"
]
},
{
"question": "Ford recently announced that they were shutting down production of another of their marques. Active for the last 81 years, what brand is being discontinued?",
"answers": [
"mercury"
]
},
{
"question": "`Sufferin' succotash' is a catchphrase of which cartoon cat?",
"answers": [
"sylvester"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the most common surname in Korea?",
"answers": [
"kim"
]
},
{
"question": "In which book of the Old Testament does the destruction of the walls of Jericho occur?",
"answers": [
"joshua"
]
},
{
"question": "Ridden by jockey Brian Fletcher, which horse won the 1968 Grand National at odds of 100 / 7 ?",
"answers": [
"red alligator"
]
},
{
"question": "What is carnophobia the fear of?",
"answers": [
"meat"
]
},
{
"question": "Who wrote the political treatise ‘The Prince’, published in 1532?",
"answers": [
"niccolò machiavelli"
]
},
{
"question": "In which of Thomas Hardy's novels is Bathsheba Everdene the heroine?",
"answers": [
"bathsheba everdene"
]
},
{
"question": "Who is the current Australian prime minister ?",
"answers": [
"julia gillard"
]
},
{
"question": "Who was the third President of the USA, following on from George Washington and John Adams was also famed for his numerous inventions?",
"answers": [
"thomas jefferson"
]
},
{
"question": "Which ‘A’ is a calculating frame with sliding balls on wires?",
"answers": [
"nepohualtzintzin"
]
},
{
"question": "Of which 1960's London gang was 'Mad Frankie' Fraser a notorious member?",
"answers": [
"richardson gang"
]
},
{
"question": "Which film director visited the deepest point on Earth in 2012 ?",
"answers": [
"james cameron"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the force that opposes the relative motion of two bodies that are in contact?",
"answers": [
"kinetic friction"
]
},
{
"question": "Who was the landlady of the Rovers Return when Coronation Street was first broadcast in 1960?",
"answers": [
"annie walker"
]
},
{
"question": "Whose single I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus sold three million copies in 1952 ?",
"answers": [
"jimmy boyd"
]
},
{
"question": "Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?",
"answers": [
"george w"
]
},
{
"question": "In 1985 the Fayed brothers purchased which London-based department store?",
"answers": [
"harrods"
]
},
{
"question": "Which Spanish artist painted the 'Rokeby Venus', completed in 1651?",
"answers": [
"velazquez"
]
},
{
"question": "What six letter word is used to describe the soft skin that covers a deer's antlers as they develop ?",
"answers": [
"velvet"
]
},
{
"question": "What do the letters GF mean on a menu?",
"answers": [
"gluten free"
]
},
{
"question": "Which British actress played Valerie in the 1997 film ‘Nil By Mouth’?",
"answers": [
"kathy burke"
]
},
{
"question": "What country lies to north of the Republic of Chad?",
"answers": [
"libya"
]
},
{
"question": "What is a popular name for the North American bison?",
"answers": [
"buffalo"
]
},
{
"question": "What was the name of the World War I fighter ace nicknamed the Red Baron?",
"answers": [
"manfred von richthofen"
]
},
{
"question": "From which country did French horns originate?",
"answers": [
"germany"
]
},
{
"question": "The fictional character ‘Disco Stu’ appears in which US cartoon tv Series?",
"answers": [
"simpsons"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the more familiar name for the aromatic gum resin olibanum?",
"answers": [
"olibanum"
]
},
{
"question": "In 1825 which canal was opened, cutting travel time from New York City to the Great Lakes?",
"answers": [
"erie canal"
]
},
{
"question": "In a film who married Princess Fiona, the daughter of King Harold and Queen Lillian of Far, Far Away?",
"answers": [
"shrek 1"
]
},
{
"question": "What was the name of the lion in C S Lewis's book 'The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe'?",
"answers": [
"aslan"
]
},
{
"question": "Of which country was Adrian Nastase Prime Minister from 2000 to 2004?",
"answers": [
"romania"
]
},
{
"question": "In which Falklands engagement did Colonel H Jones win his VC",
"answers": [
"goose green"
]
},
{
"question": "In which decade were ZIP codes introduced in the USA?",
"answers": [
"1960s"
]
},
{
"question": "By what first name is the wife of Tommy Beresford known in the Partners in Crime stories by Agatha Christie, recently adapted by BBC TV?",
"answers": [
"tuppence"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the name of the Sunday before Easter Sunday?",
"answers": [
"palm sunday"
]
},
{
"question": "Fiji Day is celebrated in Fiji during which month of the year?",
"answers": [
"october"
]
},
{
"question": "Yorkshireman William Strickland is believed to have brought the first what to Britain from North America in 1526?",
"answers": [
"turkey"
]
},
{
"question": "The 1965 film ‘The Heroes of Telemark’ is set in which European country?",
"answers": [
"norway"
]
},
{
"question": "Who according to the title of a 1992 novel was 'Count Lazzio de Almasy'?",
"answers": [
"english patient"
]
},
{
"question": "In what Eastern European country did violence arise against Uzbeks during 2010?",
"answers": [
"kyrgyzstan"
]
},
{
"question": "The charity “Crisis” supports who or what?",
"answers": [
"homelessness"
]
},
{
"question": "What name is given to the Middle Eastern dish of deep fried balls of ground chickpeas or Fava Beans, usually served in Pitta Bread?",
"answers": [
"falafel"
]
},
{
"question": "Which year saw the only hijacking of a British commercial flight?",
"answers": [
"1970"
]
},
{
"question": "A mahout is a person who works, tends and rides which animal?",
"answers": [
"elephants"
]
},
{
"question": "Italian brothers Francesco and Edoardo Molinari play what sport?",
"answers": [
"golf"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the county town of Mayo?",
"answers": [
"castlebar"
]
},
{
"question": "Who (at 2008) plays Doctor Gregory House in the TV series House?",
"answers": [
"hugh laurie"
]
},
{
"question": "Which town is the administrative headquarters of Northumberland?",
"answers": [
"morpeth"
]
},
{
"question": "Which Mexican dish is a steamed corn husk filled with meat or vegetables coated in masa dough?",
"answers": [
"tamales"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the name of the A1 Pacific steam locomotive which was completed in 2009 and is the first of its kind built for over 50 years?",
"answers": [
"tornado"
]
},
{
"question": "After a short war with Norway during the Napoleonic wars of 1814, what country remained uninvolved in any conflict ever since and is now the oldest neutral country in the world?",
"answers": [
"sweden"
]
},
{
"question": "The king of what country became Iceland's ruler by treaty in 1262?",
"answers": [
"norway"
]
},
{
"question": "A swanee whistle was used to provide the voices of whom, in an animated tv series?",
"answers": [
"clangers"
]
},
{
"question": "Which act has had more Christmas number one singles than any other?",
"answers": [
"fab four"
]
},
{
"question": "Which country grows the largest number of mangoes?",
"answers": [
"india"
]
},
{
"question": "Dutch Motor Racer Maurice Gatsonides invented which aid to racing that has become a curse to drivers?",
"answers": [
"speed camera"
]
},
{
"question": "\"What purple berry from South America has been promoted as a \"\"superfood\"\"?\"",
"answers": [
"açai berry"
]
},
{
"question": "Ardbeg is whisky distillery on which Scottish island?",
"answers": [
"island of islay"
]
},
{
"question": "The King of Wishful Thinking was a hit song used during the opening credits of the movie Pretty Woman. Who sang it?",
"answers": [
"go west"
]
},
{
"question": "In which English city is the Anglican cathedral dedicated to St. Philip and the Catholic one to St. Chad?",
"answers": [
"birmingham"
]
},
{
"question": "\"Who wrote the sons \"\"I've Got You Under My Skin\"\" and \"\"I Get A Kick Out Of You\"\"?\"",
"answers": [
"cole porter"
]
},
{
"question": "Which other car company owns Seat?",
"answers": [
"volkswagen"
]
},
{
"question": "What is a “Scotch Bonnet”?",
"answers": [
"chili peppers"
]
},
{
"question": "Who is universally accepted to be the first Roman Emperor (27bc)",
"answers": [
"octavian"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the meteorological name of the clouds commonly known as 'Mares Tails'?",
"answers": [
"cirrus"
]
},
{
"question": "Who was the UK Poet Laureate or the longest period?",
"answers": [
"tennyson"
]
},
{
"question": "Bunny Chow, also known as Kota, is a fast-food dish consisting of a hollowed-out loaf filled with curry and is native to which country?",
"answers": [
"south african"
]
},
{
"question": "'Christie Mahon' is the title character in which play?",
"answers": [
"christopher mahon"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the only country in the southern hemisphere to have won a gold medal in the Winter Olympics?",
"answers": [
"australia"
]
},
{
"question": "Which organization claims to have the world's largest collection of public records, unpublished opinions, forms, legal, news, and business information?",
"answers": [
"lexis"
]
},
{
"question": "In the context of UK government, for what does the C stand in the acronym COBRA?",
"answers": [
"cabinet"
]
},
{
"question": "Who wrote The female of the species more deadly than the male?",
"answers": [
"rudyard kipling"
]
},
{
"question": "The left side of the heart pumps blood to all parts of the body, but the right side pumps blood to which organ in particular?",
"answers": [
"lungs"
]
},
{
"question": "The Canary Islands in the Atlantic are named after what?",
"answers": [
"dogs"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the scientific name given to tea?",
"answers": [
"camellia sinensis"
]
},
{
"question": "The Welsh river Elwy burst its banks in November 2012, flooding much of which city?",
"answers": [
"st asaph"
]
},
{
"question": "On what apparatus would a male gymnast traditionally perform moves such as scissors, moores, spindels and flairs?",
"answers": [
"pommel horse"
]
},
{
"question": "In which UK city is Great Victoria Street railway station",
"answers": [
"city of belfast"
]
},
{
"question": "Which cartoon title character has a friend called Captain Haddock?",
"answers": [
"tintin"
]
},
{
"question": "Broxtowe District Council is in which English county?",
"answers": [
"nottinghamshire"
]
},
{
"question": "According to Colossians, Ch 4 v 14, what profession was followed by St Luke?",
"answers": [
"physician"
]
},
{
"question": "In what city would you find Yale University?",
"answers": [
"city of new haven"
]
},
{
"question": "The singer 'Sting' featured on a track of which 1985 Dire Straits album?",
"answers": [
"brothers in arms"
]
},
{
"question": "What was the nickname of tennis player Mark Philippoussis?",
"answers": [
"scud"
]
},
{
"question": "The musical 'Sunday In The Park With George' was inspired by a painting by which artist?",
"answers": [
"seurat"
]
},
{
"question": "Who won the Ladies singles title at Wimbledon in 2004?",
"answers": [
"maria sharapova"
]
},
{
"question": "On which island is President Ulysses S.Grant burled?",
"answers": [
"manhattan"
]
},
{
"question": "The Sandinista National Liberation Front ruled from 1979 to 1990, initially as part of a Junta of National Reconstruction, in which country?",
"answers": [
"nicaragua"
]
},
{
"question": "The songs 'If I Loved You' and 'When The Children Are Asleep' are from which 1956 stage musical?",
"answers": [
"carousel"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the maximum number of raised dots in a cell in Braille?",
"answers": [
"six"
]
},
{
"question": "Who, in 1960, made international news for banging his shoe on a table in the UN?",
"answers": [
"khrushchev"
]
},
{
"question": "A particular song was copyrighted in 1935 by the Summy Company, crediting authors Preston Ware Orem and Mrs. R.R. Forman. The company was purchased in 1990 by Warner Chappell for US$15 million, with the value of the song estimated at US$5 million. What is the song?",
"answers": [
"happy birthday to you"
]
},
{
"question": "In which year was the storming of the Bastille, which started the French Revolution?",
"answers": [
"1789"
]
},
{
"question": "Which Frenchman was the founder of the modern games?",
"answers": [
"coubertin"
]
},
{
"question": "A turophile is a lover of which foodstuff?",
"answers": [
"cheese"
]
},
{
"question": "In Greek mythology which of the Olympian gods was the goddess of fertility, agriculture, horticulture, grain and harvest?",
"answers": [
"demeter"
]
},
{
"question": "In 2015 Edgar Lungu became prime minister of?",
"answers": [
"zambia"
]
},
{
"question": "Who was the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia?",
"answers": [
"amy johnson"
]
},
{
"question": "Albacore, bigeye and longtail are species of what type of fish?",
"answers": [
"tuna"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the least number of shots that a competitor can take to complete 18 holes of golf?",
"answers": [
"18"
]
},
{
"question": "\"Director James Cameron, collected the 'Oscar' for \"\"Best Director\"\" in 1998, for which film?\"",
"answers": [
"titanic"
]
},
{
"question": "In what year was the first in-flight movie shown on an internal flight in the USA.",
"answers": [
"1929"
]
},
{
"question": "What were Scotsmen prohibited from wearing 1746-1782 under the Highland Garb Act, after the rising in Scotland in 1745?",
"answers": [
"clan tartan"
]
},
{
"question": "What does lager literally mean in German?",
"answers": [
"stored"
]
},
{
"question": "Which product is advertised on TV with the slogan 'It does exactly what it says on the tin'?",
"answers": [
"ronseal"
]
},
{
"question": "On this day (4th Aug) in 2002, the schoolgirls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells went missing from which town in Cambridgeshire?",
"answers": [
"soham"
]
},
{
"question": "Which British daily newspaper is published in the Berliner format?",
"answers": [
"guardian"
]
},
{
"question": "Nigel Farage is the leader of which political party?",
"answers": [
"ukip leader"
]
},
{
"question": "The Nobel Peace Prize winner for 2010 lives in which country?",
"answers": [
"china"
]
},
{
"question": "\"Who recorded the 70's disco song \"\"You're My First, My last, My Everything\"\"?\"",
"answers": [
"barry white"
]
},
{
"question": "Which leader of a British coalition Government became the first Earl of Dwfor?",
"answers": [
"david lloyd george"
]
},
{
"question": "Which film of 2005, directed by Sam Mendes, is based on former marine and author Anthony Swafford and his pre Desert Storm experiences in Saudi Arabia and fighting in Kuwait?",
"answers": [
"jarhead"
]
},
{
"question": "Alan Greenspan was the head of which US government department from 1987 to 2006?",
"answers": [
"federal reserve board"
]
},
{
"question": "Cape Verde was formerly a dependency of which European country",
"answers": [
"portugal"
]
},
{
"question": "The painting A Dance to the Music of Time 1634 - 1635 displayed in the Wallace Collection, London is by which artist?",
"answers": [
"nicolas poussin"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the only language that is historically African in origin among the six official working languages of the African Union?",
"answers": [
"swahili"
]
},
{
"question": "Which mountain peak is the highest point in the Western Hemisphere?",
"answers": [
"mount aconcagua"
]
},
{
"question": "What type of creature is a copperhead?",
"answers": [
"snake"
]
},
{
"question": "As at 2012 an Olympic gold medal is mainly made of what metal?",
"answers": [
"silver"
]
},
{
"question": "Which Scottish author who died in 1930 had Ignatius as one of his christian names?",
"answers": [
"arthur ignatius conan doyle"
]
},
{
"question": "What does a tadpole become?",
"answers": [
"frogs"
]
},
{
"question": "If ultimate means last, what word means second-to-last?",
"answers": [
"penultimate"
]
},
{
"question": "Who painted The Judgement of Paris, In around 1636?",
"answers": [
"rubens"
]
},
{
"question": "How was Monday October 19, 1987 known in the world of finance",
"answers": [
"list of black mondays"
]
},
{
"question": "In yachting how many crew are there in the Flying Dutchman class",
"answers": [
"2"
]
},
{
"question": "Hillary Mantel won the 2009 Booker Prize with which novel?",
"answers": [
"wolf hall"
]
},
{
"question": "Which official residence is No.12 Downing Street?",
"answers": [
"chief whip"
]
},
{
"question": "What merchant bank collapsed in 1995 due to unauthorised debts accumulated by trader Nick Leeson?",
"answers": [
"barings bank"
]
},
{
"question": "The ancient Egyptian goddess Serket took the form of which creature?",
"answers": [
"scorpion"
]
},
{
"question": "What company encourages you to \"Think Outside the Bun\"?",
"answers": [
"taco bell"
]
},
{
"question": "Published in 2013 who wrote the novel 'The Kill List'?",
"answers": [
"frederick forsyth"
]
},
{
"question": "Ailurophobia is the abnormal fear of what?",
"answers": [
"cats"
]
},
{
"question": "Washington Irving's classic story Rip Van Winkle is set in which geographic region of New York state?",
"answers": [
"catskills"
]
},
{
"question": "What was the name of Sebastian's teddy bear in Brideshead Revisited",
"answers": [
"aloysius"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the smallest Canadian province",
"answers": [
"prince edward island"
]
},
{
"question": "When did the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the bill of rights entrenched in Canadian law as part of the Constitution Act, come into force?",
"answers": [
"1982"
]
},
{
"question": "Which island in the Mediterranean was the center of the Minoan civilization (ca. 2600-1400 BCE), the oldest civilization in Europe?",
"answers": [
"crete"
]
},
{
"question": "What colour are the berries of the mistletoe plant?",
"answers": [
"white"
]
},
{
"question": "\"Which German was deprived of his nationality in 1938 mainly for writing \"\"All Quiet On The Western Front\"\" and \"\"The Road Back\"\"?\"",
"answers": [
"remarque"
]
},
{
"question": "Henry Blake, Charles Winchester and Father Mulcahy are all characters in which US tv series?",
"answers": [
"4077th mash"
]
},
{
"question": "What are the first names of art duo Proesch and Passmore?",
"answers": [
"gilbert proesch"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the name of the dog in Jerome K Jerome’s ‘Three Men in a Boat’?",
"answers": [
"montmorency"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the more common name for atmospheric vapour frozen in a crystalline form",
"answers": [
"snow"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the name of the strong fibrous tissue that joins one bone to another at a joint?",
"answers": [
"ligaments"
]
},
{
"question": "Bjrn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson wrote most of the songs for which pop group?",
"answers": [
"benny and bjorn"
]
},
{
"question": "LNER Flying Scotsman, built in 1923, became in 1934 the first (What?) to attain 100mph?",
"answers": [
"steam locomotive"
]
},
{
"question": "What is Britain’s bestselling breakfast cereal?",
"answers": [
"weetabix"
]
},
{
"question": "\"What Latin phrase means means to speak under one's breath, literally \"\"under voice\"\"?\"",
"answers": [
"sotto voce"
]
},
{
"question": "The word milieu refers to a person's?",
"answers": [
"social environment"
]
},
{
"question": "Mohenjo-daro and Harappa in present-day Pakistan were the most important city settlements of a Bronze Age civilization that is named after what major geographic feature?",
"answers": [
"indus"
]
},
{
"question": "Which acid has the alternative name ‘spirits of salt’?",
"answers": [
"hydrochloric"
]
},
{
"question": "Which western country was the first to extend the right to vote in national elections to women?",
"answers": [
"new zealand"
]
},
{
"question": "Richard Burton was nominated 7 times for an Oscar. How many did he win?",
"answers": [
"0"
]
},
{
"question": "What controversial phenomenon is measured by Zener cards?",
"answers": [
"esp"
]
},
{
"question": "Nagaland is a constituent state of which SE Asian country?",
"answers": [
"india"
]
},
{
"question": "In which Lake District town would you find the Cumberland Pencil Museum?",
"answers": [
"keswick"
]
},
{
"question": "Who is currently the Supreme Governor of the Church of England?",
"answers": [
"elizabeth ii"
]
},
{
"question": "What was the name of the Prime Minister in the T.V. series Yes Prime Minister",
"answers": [
"jim hacker"
]
},
{
"question": "In motoring terms, what can be an SU, a Weber, or a Zenith?",
"answers": [
"carburetters"
]
},
{
"question": "What is a Flemish Giant?",
"answers": [
"rabbit"
]
},
{
"question": "Published on Feb 21, 1848, which two authors were responsible for the Communist Manifesto?",
"answers": [
"karl marx and friedrich engels"
]
},
{
"question": "Au is the chemical symbol of what element?",
"answers": [
"gold"
]
},
{
"question": "Who won the BDO World Professional Darts Championship in 2009. (his nickname is The Count')?",
"answers": [
"ted hankey"
]
},
{
"question": "\"What latin phrase means \"\"unaccompanied\"\" when applied to music?\"",
"answers": [
"unaccompanied"
]
},
{
"question": "In which country would you find the temple of Angkor Wat?",
"answers": [
"cambodia"
]
},
{
"question": "Where is the human body do you find the hammer, anvil, and stirrup?",
"answers": [
"ear"
]
},
{
"question": "In the human body, the adrenal glands are located near what organ(s)?",
"answers": [
"kidney"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the literal translation of the name Las Vegas?",
"answers": [
"meadows"
]
},
{
"question": "Which tennis player founded the fashion label Aneres?",
"answers": [
"serena williams"
]
},
{
"question": "What word is traditionally applied to clothes and linen collected by a woman before her marriage?",
"answers": [
"trousseau"
]
},
{
"question": "\"Which U.S. state is the \"\"Land of Lincoln\"\"?\"",
"answers": [
"land of lincoln"
]
},
{
"question": "Which half of a comedy duo was born in Lancashire in 1895?",
"answers": [
"stanley laurel"
]
},
{
"question": "'Ol' Blue Eyes' is the nickname of?",
"answers": [
"frank sinatra"
]
},
{
"question": "Matt Busby played for Manchester City from 1928 to 1936. Which club did he play for from 1936 to 1941?",
"answers": [
"liverpool"
]
},
{
"question": "In humans, a hemispherectomy is the removal of half of the what?",
"answers": [
"brain"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the colour of the bull of an archery target?",
"answers": [
"gold"
]
},
{
"question": "How many symphonies did Jean Sibelius complete?",
"answers": [
"seven"
]
},
{
"question": "Which word can be a golf term, a Space vehicle or a one time boy's comic?",
"answers": [
"eagle"
]
},
{
"question": "In what card game do you need the queen of spades to shoot the moon?",
"answers": [
"hearts"
]
},
{
"question": "Benina international airport is in which country?",
"answers": [
"libya"
]
},
{
"question": "What marine mammal's tusks were once thought to be from unicorns?",
"answers": [
"narwhal"
]
},
{
"question": "Anne of Bohemia was the wife of which English king?",
"answers": [
"richard ii"
]
},
{
"question": "In the human body, what is stored in adipose tissue?",
"answers": [
"fat"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the name of the wooden panelled lining applied to a room",
"answers": [
"panelling"
]
},
{
"question": "What was the name of the British nurse who was shot by a German firing squad during the First World War after being court-martialled for helping Allied troops escape from a military hospital in Belgium?",
"answers": [
"edith louisa cavell"
]
},
{
"question": "What story introduced the Cybermen?",
"answers": [
"tenth planet"
]
},
{
"question": "What type of animal is a reedbuck?",
"answers": [
"antelopes"
]
},
{
"question": "In the acronym DEFRA, for what does the A stand?",
"answers": [
"affairs"
]
},
{
"question": "Which teeth are the third molars, and are always the last to0 erupt?",
"answers": [
"3rd molar"
]
},
{
"question": "Which illness is commonly treated with the drugs lisinopril and ramipril?",
"answers": [
"hypertension"
]
},
{
"question": "Referring to the cause of a person's downfall, who is the Greek goddess of punishment?",
"answers": [
"nemesis"
]
},
{
"question": "Which city in Georgia was burned by General Sherman during the American Civil War",
"answers": [
"atlanta"
]
},
{
"question": "Mallard, Mandarin, Red-crested Pochard, Teal, Muscovy and Eider are all types of what?",
"answers": [
"duck"
]
},
{
"question": "Aladdin is a variety of which vegetable?",
"answers": [
"potato"
]
},
{
"question": "In what race do cyclists follow a motorised pacer?",
"answers": [
"keirin"
]
},
{
"question": "Plato and Xenophon were both pupils of which Greek philosopher?",
"answers": [
"socrates"
]
},
{
"question": "Which comedian had the catch phrase 'It's all done in the best possible taste!'?",
"answers": [
"kenny everett"
]
},
{
"question": "What type of scenes was Dame Laura Knight noted for painting",
"answers": [
"circus"
]
},
{
"question": "In a famous and popular series of books, what rests on the back of four giant elephants?",
"answers": [
"discworld"
]
},
{
"question": "The bestselling children’s book “Grandpa’s great escape” is by which writer?",
"answers": [
"david walliams"
]
},
{
"question": "Oct 21, 1797 saw the launching of the frigate known as Old Ironsides. By what official name is she known?",
"answers": [
"usf constitution"
]
},
{
"question": "In language/text a 'tittle' commonly refers to what feature of a letter?",
"answers": [
"dot"
]
},
{
"question": "\"Tom and Ben Cooper play international cricket for which \"\"non-test playing\"\" country?\"",
"answers": [
"netherlands"
]
},
{
"question": "What is Bangladesh's unit of currency?",
"answers": [
"taka"
]
},
{
"question": "What serial killer, arrested on Aug 10, 1977, dubbed himself the \"Son of Sam\"?",
"answers": [
"virginia voskerichian"
]
},
{
"question": "A throw of which number on each of a pair of dice is known as Snake Eyes?",
"answers": [
"1"
]
},
{
"question": "In the children’s tv cartoon series, who is Inspector Gadget’s arch enemy?",
"answers": [
"sanford scolex"
]
},
{
"question": "In Ian Fleming’s novel ‘Moonraker’, Sir Hugo Drax is suspected of cheating at which game in the Mayfair club ‘Blades’?",
"answers": [
"bridge"
]
},
{
"question": "Artiodactyla Suidae is the scientific name for which farm animal?",
"answers": [
"pig"
]
},
{
"question": "Which device, now a plaything, has a lift end, a dingle end and an elbow?",
"answers": [
"boomerang"
]
},
{
"question": "TV host Cat Deeley married which comedian in 2012?",
"answers": [
"patrick kielty"
]
},
{
"question": "Which country was the birthplace of Henry V111’s first wife Catherine Of Aragon ?",
"answers": [
"spain"
]
},
{
"question": "The Earth's Equator is approximately how many millions of metres in length?",
"answers": [
"40"
]
},
{
"question": "Followers of what cult leader committed mass suicide by drinking Flavor-Ade?",
"answers": [
"jim jones"
]
},
{
"question": "More commonly known as the thigh bone, what is the medical name for the longest bone in the human body?",
"answers": [
"femur"
]
},
{
"question": "Which was the first year that the Queen's Christmas speech was televised?",
"answers": [
"1957"
]
},
{
"question": "Which river flows into the North Sea at Hamburg?",
"answers": [
"upper elbe"
]
},
{
"question": "Wayne Rooney signed for Manchester United from which other Premiership Club?",
"answers": [
"everton"
]
},
{
"question": "Which English county is Bletchley Park, the WW II code-breaking centre?",
"answers": [
"buckinghamshire"
]
},
{
"question": "How old were Jimmi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison when they died?",
"answers": [
"27"
]
},
{
"question": "Kim Carnes' nine weeks at No 1 with Bette Davis Eyes was interrupted for one week by which song?",
"answers": [
"stars on 45 medley"
]
},
{
"question": "Which radio broadcaster was known as the Man In Black",
"answers": [
"valentine dyall"
]
},
{
"question": "In which country are the ruins of the ancient city of Carthage?",
"answers": [
"tunisia"
]
},
{
"question": "Of what does the usual base of a Florentine biscuit consist?",
"answers": [
"chocolate"
]
},
{
"question": "In a 1763 swap, what expanse of land did Britain gain from Spain in exchange for Havana?",
"answers": [
"florida"
]
},
{
"question": "Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper were two of the three musicians who died in a plane crash in February 1959. Who was the other one?",
"answers": [
"ritchie valens"
]
},
{
"question": "Its capital is Valverde - which is the smallest of the Canary Islands?",
"answers": [
"hierro"
]
},
{
"question": "\"The song \"\"Good Morning To All\"\", composed by Pattie and Mildred Hill in 1893, is now sung as what?\"",
"answers": [
"happy birthday to you"
]
},
{
"question": "Whose portrait is to appear on the new £10 note due to be issued in 2017?",
"answers": [
"jane austen"
]
},
{
"question": "Whic famous 1814 novel by Jane Austen features a character named Fanny Price, the second eldest of nine children?",
"answers": [
"mansfield park"
]
},
{
"question": "The translation of Persian poems called The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam was the work of which 19th century English writer and poet?",
"answers": [
"edward fitzgerald"
]
},
{
"question": "Who did Jack Ruby shoot in November 1963?",
"answers": [
"lee harvey oswald"
]
},
{
"question": "Richard Joseph Daley was the infamous mayor of which major US City in the 1960's?",
"answers": [
"chicago"
]
},
{
"question": "What widely used symbol is known variously around the world by names such as monkey's tail, snail, little mouse, and asperand?",
"answers": [
"arobas"
]
},
{
"question": "In the Old Testament book of Judges, who is the son of Manoah?",
"answers": [
"samson"
]
},
{
"question": "What celestial object was visited by the New Horizons spacecraft in 2015?",
"answers": [
"pluto"
]
},
{
"question": "What number on the BeauforT Scale equates to a gale?",
"answers": [
"8"
]
},
{
"question": "Aphasia is the medical term for the inability to use or understand what, resulting from damage to the brain?",
"answers": [
"language"
]
},
{
"question": "rtve is the state broadcaster in which country?",
"answers": [
"spain"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the state capital of Alabama",
"answers": [
"montgomery"
]
},
{
"question": "In fashion and dress what is a skinny rib?",
"answers": [
"pullover"
]
},
{
"question": "The rivers Trent and Ouse flow into which estuary?",
"answers": [
"humber"
]
},
{
"question": "Suu Kyi, who was sentenced to home detention for six years in 2003, is the Leader of the Opposition in which country?",
"answers": [
"burma"
]
},
{
"question": "What was advertised with Eva Herzagovia using the slogan hello boys?",
"answers": [
"wonderbra"
]
},
{
"question": "Which element has the atomic number 1?",
"answers": [
"element 1"
]
},
{
"question": "\"Founded in London in 1766, what activity are \"\"Christie, Manson and Woods\"\" involved in?\"",
"answers": [
"auctions"
]
},
{
"question": "How many US states are prefixed by the word New?",
"answers": [
"4"
]
},
{
"question": "In art, what term is given to the technique where paint is mixed and bound with egg yolk?",
"answers": [
"tempera"
]
},
{
"question": "Traditionally with what were the seams of wooden ships caulked?",
"answers": [
"oakum"
]
},
{
"question": "Chesney Allen formed a double act with which famous entertainer?",
"answers": [
"bud flanagan"
]
},
{
"question": "In what year did the five founding members of OPEC hold their first meeting?",
"answers": [
"1960"
]
},
{
"question": "Which renowned explorer was killed while searching for Umberto Nobile and his airship 'Italia' in 1928?",
"answers": [
"roald amundsen"
]
},
{
"question": "'Picket's Charge' occurred in which battle of the American Civil War?",
"answers": [
"gettysburg"
]
},
{
"question": "How many imperial gallons are in a firkin?",
"answers": [
"9"
]
},
{
"question": "Octavian, who became Augustus, and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus were two members of the 'Second Triumvirate' in 43 BC. Who was the third?",
"answers": [
"mark antony"
]
},
{
"question": "Who had chart hits which included Annie`s Song and Rocky Mountain High?",
"answers": [
"john denver"
]
},
{
"question": "Complete the name of the MLB (Baseball) team based in Arlington, Texas - 'The Texas....'?",
"answers": [
"ranger"
]
},
{
"question": "Which British monarch was the first Head of the Commonwealth?",
"answers": [
"george vi"
]
},
{
"question": "In which novel by Alan Sillitoe is 'Arthur Seaton' employed at a bicycle factory?",
"answers": [
"saturday night and sunday morning"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the most popular natural attraction in Alaska?",
"answers": [
"denali"
]
},
{
"question": "Which villain did James Bond play golf against at Royal St. Mark's Golf Club?",
"answers": [
"auric goldfinger"
]
},
{
"question": "In what country is Tiahuanaco?",
"answers": [
"bolivia"
]
},
{
"question": "Which musical features the song 'Second Hand Rose'?",
"answers": [
"funny girl"
]
},
{
"question": "In which film did Bruce Willis play the character 'Harry Stamper'?",
"answers": [
"armageddon"
]
},
{
"question": "Mordant is the general term for a chemical which allows what to work properly?",
"answers": [
"dye"
]
},
{
"question": "What was Groucho Marx's real first name?",
"answers": [
"julius"
]
},
{
"question": "Which pop singer shot himself to death in 1990 whilst suffering from depression?",
"answers": [
"del shannon"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the most populated city in America?",
"answers": [
"new york"
]
},
{
"question": "Dancer and actress Josie Marcus was the third wife of whom?",
"answers": [
"wyatt earp"
]
},
{
"question": "Which 1979 science fiction film was at one time going to be called Star Beast?",
"answers": [
"aliens"
]
},
{
"question": "The islands called the Moluccas were previously known as what?",
"answers": [
"spice islands"
]
},
{
"question": "Which tennis player born in 1969 won 22 Grand Slam singles titles and Olympic Gold in 1988?",
"answers": [
"steffi graf"
]
},
{
"question": "Acmeism relates to poetry from the early 20th Century in which country?",
"answers": [
"russia"
]
},
{
"question": "Who was the first man to swim 100 metres in under a minute?",
"answers": [
"johnny weissmuller"
]
},
{
"question": "With what area of manufacturing are the names 'Audemars Piguet and Cie','Zenith' and 'Ulysse Nardin' associated?",
"answers": [
"watchmakers"
]
},
{
"question": "What U.S. state holds the first presidential primary?",
"answers": [
"new hampshire"
]
},
{
"question": "How many decades are there in a millennium?",
"answers": [
"100"
]
},
{
"question": "Which manager bought Trevor Francis thereby turning him into the first million pound footballer",
"answers": [
"brian clough"
]
},
{
"question": "Which religion was founded by Guru Nanak in the 16th Century?",
"answers": [
"sikhism"
]
},
{
"question": "Which author created the character Moll Flanders?",
"answers": [
"daniel defoe"
]
},
{
"question": "Jenny Shipley was the first female prime minister of which country?",
"answers": [
"new zealand"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the title of the 2009 biopic film directed by Sam Taylor-Wood about the early life of John Lennon",
"answers": [
"nowhere boy"
]
},
{
"question": "In what French region would you find Omaha, Juno, and Gold beaches?",
"answers": [
"normandy"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the largest city in Turkey?",
"answers": [
"istanbul"
]
},
{
"question": "Who got to no. 3 in the UK charts with ‘You’re So Vain’ in 1972?",
"answers": [
"carly simon"
]
},
{
"question": "Which one of the seven member territories is also capital of UAE (United Arab Emirates)?",
"answers": [
"abu dhabi"
]
},
{
"question": "Which children’s playground game is sometimes called ‘Fivestones’, ‘Knucklebones’ or ‘Snobs’?",
"answers": [
"jacks"
]
},
{
"question": "Who, the illegitimate son of a peasant girl, was educated in the studio of a Florentine painter, spent much of his early working life in the service of Ludovico il Moro in Milan, worked in Rome, Bologna and Venice, and spent his final years in France at the home given to him by King Franois I?",
"answers": [
"leonardo da vinci"
]
},
{
"question": "What French word prefixes couture, cuisine and ecole meaning high quality or advanced?",
"answers": [
"haute"
]
},
{
"question": "What was the name of the old Waddington’s game based on newspapers?",
"answers": [
"scoop"
]
},
{
"question": "The national opera company Opera North is based in which English city?",
"answers": [
"leeds"
]
},
{
"question": "In Greek Myth which legendary monster fathered both the Chimera and Cerberus?",
"answers": [
"typhoeus"
]
},
{
"question": "Mrs. Bridges was the cook in which popular TV series?",
"answers": [
"upstairs downstairs"
]
},
{
"question": "To whom did human-rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin become engaged in April 2014?",
"answers": [
"george clooney"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the nickname of the Australian national rugby union team?",
"answers": [
"wallabies"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the lowest level of the Earth's atmosphere?",
"answers": [
"troposphere"
]
},
{
"question": "American Jim Yong Kim was appointed head of which international organization in April 2012?",
"answers": [
"world bank"
]
},
{
"question": "'An Island Parish' is a documentary series on BBC2, in which islands were the first four series set?",
"answers": [
"isles of scilly"
]
},
{
"question": "\"In Charles Dickens' \"\"Great Expectations\"\", who or what was Abel Magwitch?\"",
"answers": [
"convict"
]
},
{
"question": "Used in cooking, agar-agar is a gelatin made from what?",
"answers": [
"seaweed"
]
},
{
"question": "The ancient Greek writer Apollonius of Perga wrote on which subject?",
"answers": [
"mathematics"
]
},
{
"question": "\"Which detective is the protagonist of the novels \"\"Dead Man's Folly\"\", \"\"Cards on the Table\"\" and \"\"Mrs McGinty's Dead\"\"?\"",
"answers": [
"hercule poirot"
]
},
{
"question": "Which town is the home of CBBC presenter Hacker T Dog?",
"answers": [
"wigan"
]
},
{
"question": "In mythology, who was condemned to an eternity of rolling a stone up a hill?",
"answers": [
"sisyphus"
]
},
{
"question": "English royalty who mourned her husband's death for 40 years?",
"answers": [
"queen victoria and prince albert"
]
},
{
"question": "What was the last US state to reintroduce alcohol after prohibition?",
"answers": [
"utah"
]
},
{
"question": "Earth belongs to which galaxy?",
"answers": [
"milky way galaxy"
]
},
{
"question": "For which TV show does the Dave Arch orchestra regularly provide the musical accompaniment?",
"answers": [
"strictly come dancing"
]
},
{
"question": "What name was given to the floating harbours used on D-Day?",
"answers": [
"mulberries"
]
},
{
"question": "The particle physics unit of reactionary particle decay is?",
"answers": [
"strangeness"
]
},
{
"question": "What online travel agency uses The Roaming Gnome as its' TV spokesperson?",
"answers": [
"roaming gnome"
]
},
{
"question": "In literature, whose girlfriend is Becky Thatcher?",
"answers": [
"aunt polly"
]
},
{
"question": "What main category of machines 'produce continuous power from a wheel/rotor, usually with vanes, revolved by fast flowing fluid'?",
"answers": [
"turbines"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the collective noun for Buzzards",
"answers": [
"wake"
]
},
{
"question": "From which country does paella come",
"answers": [
"spain"
]
},
{
"question": "\"What does the Gaelic phrase \"\"Sinn Fein\"\" mean?\"",
"answers": [
"ourselves alone"
]
},
{
"question": "Which artist painted 'The Laughing Cavalier'?",
"answers": [
"frans hals"
]
},
{
"question": "The Halle Orchestra was founded in which British city?",
"answers": [
"manchester"
]
},
{
"question": "The gravesite of what American writer, buried in Baltimore, is mysteriously visited every January 19th, to receive a toast of cognac and 3 roses?",
"answers": [
"poe"
]
},
{
"question": "Which local radio station broadcasts to Wigan and St. Helens on 102.4 FM?",
"answers": [
"wish fm"
]
},
{
"question": "In which Asian city is the 830 metres high Burj Khalifa?",
"answers": [
"dubai"
]
},
{
"question": "\"Which African capital city's name means \"\"New Flower\"\"?\"",
"answers": [
"capital of ethiopia"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the name of the cockerel in the UK television series ‘The Good Life’?",
"answers": [
"lenin"
]
},
{
"question": "Which is Britain's fastest bird of prey?",
"answers": [
"peregrine falcon"
]
},
{
"question": "Who was known as 'The Great One' in North American ice hockey?",
"answers": [
"wayne gretzky"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the next in this series: Conrad Hilton, Michael Wilding, Michael Todd, Eddie Fisher, Richard Burton?",
"answers": [
"richard burton"
]
},
{
"question": "Flourine, Bromine, Iodine and Chlorine are all what type of elements?",
"answers": [
"halogens"
]
},
{
"question": "According to the Bible, who was the only apostle to witness the crucifixion of Jesus?",
"answers": [
"john"
]
},
{
"question": "In which English county is Stonehenge?",
"answers": [
"wiltshire"
]
},
{
"question": "In the nursery rhyme, who could eat no fat, and whose wife could eat no lean?",
"answers": [
"jack sprat"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the name of the Japanese sliding door or partition, made of a latticed screen covered with white paper?",
"answers": [
"shoji"
]
},
{
"question": "Who was the first Republican President of the United States ?",
"answers": [
"lincoln"
]
},
{
"question": "Which fashion designer was suspended by Dior after making anti-semitic remarks in a Paris bar in 2011?",
"answers": [
"john galliano"
]
},
{
"question": "Which rugby league team will play at Langtree Park in 2012?",
"answers": [
"st helens"
]
},
{
"question": "Of which reptile are there only two species, one living in the Mississippi and the other in China?",
"answers": [
"alligators"
]
},
{
"question": "By what more familiar name do we know the 'Angevin Dynasty' of English kings?",
"answers": [
"plantagenet"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the name of the professional body that represents solicitors in England and Wales?",
"answers": [
"law society"
]
},
{
"question": "In which city is George Eliot’s novel ‘Romola’ set?",
"answers": [
"florence"
]
},
{
"question": "Established in 1903, what was Britain's first designated Garden City?",
"answers": [
"letchworth"
]
},
{
"question": "Trumpets and trombones are most commonly pitched at?",
"answers": [
"bb"
]
},
{
"question": "Raphanus Sativus is the Latin name of what vegetable, which has varieties including Cherry Belle, Sicily Giant and Daikon?",
"answers": [
"raphanus sativus"
]
},
{
"question": "A pressure hull is part of which type of vessel?",
"answers": [
"military submarine"
]
},
{
"question": "In which stadium was the 2014 Commonwealth Games Rugby Sevens tournament held?",
"answers": [
"ibrox stadium"
]
},
{
"question": "Which country has parishes including Westmoreland, St Andrew and Manchester?",
"answers": [
"jamaica"
]
},
{
"question": "\"Who duetted with Bryan Adams on the 1985 hit \"\"It's Only Love\"\"?\"",
"answers": [
"tina turner"
]
},
{
"question": "Which is the largest state in the US?",
"answers": [
"alaska"
]
},
{
"question": "Also called The Roodee, which, officially, is Britain’s oldest and shortest racecourse?",
"answers": [
"cestrians"
]
},
{
"question": "The Royal Navy introduced limes to the standard diet for crewmen to prevent what?",
"answers": [
"scorbutic"
]
},
{
"question": "Herb of Grace is the name given to which strong- smelling herb?",
"answers": [
"rue"
]
},
{
"question": "What was the stage name of the British comedian Chaim Reuben Weintrop?",
"answers": [
"bud flanagan"
]
},
{
"question": "In Greek myth, who was the beautiful youth beloved of Aphrodite, who died of a hunting wound inflicted by a wild boar?",
"answers": [
"adonis"
]
},
{
"question": "Who was Poet Laureate from 1850 to 1892?",
"answers": [
"tennyson"
]
},
{
"question": "Which philosopher wrote 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' between 1883 and 1885?",
"answers": [
"nietzsche"
]
},
{
"question": "Center, Offensive guard, Offensive tackle, Tight end, Wide receiver, Fullback, Running back, Quarterback, Defensive end, Defensive tackle, Nose guard, Linebacker, Cornerback, Safety, Nickelback and Dimeback are positions in which sport?",
"answers": [
"american football"
]
},
{
"question": "How did James Dean die?",
"answers": [
"car accident"
]
},
{
"question": "Miami Beach in Florida borders which ocean?",
"answers": [
"atlantic ocean"
]
},
{
"question": "What was the Troggs most famous hit?",
"answers": [
"wild thing"
]
},
{
"question": "\"As whom did Andres Cornelius (\"\"Dries\"\") van Kujik become better known?\"",
"answers": [
"andreas cornelis van kuijk"
]
},
{
"question": "Which pop legend recently topped the album charts with The Next Day ? His first number one since 1993.",
"answers": [
"berlin trilogy"
]
},
{
"question": "Which golfer is nicknamed 'El Niño'?",
"answers": [
"sergio garcía"
]
},
{
"question": "What did Thomas Chippendale design?",
"answers": [
"furniture"
]
},
{
"question": "\"What is another word for a \"\"post mortem\"\"?\"",
"answers": [
"post mortem"
]
},
{
"question": "Sufferers, Locksmen and Dreads are followers of which religion?",
"answers": [
"rastafarians"
]
},
{
"question": "What name is given to the open carts used during the French Revolution to transport the condemned to the guillotine?",
"answers": [
"tumbrel"
]
},
{
"question": "On July 4,1817, construction began on what canal, linking the Great Lakes to the Hudson River, and ultimately, the Atlantic ocean?",
"answers": [
"erie canal"
]
},
{
"question": "For what did Einstien gat Nobel prize in Physics?",
"answers": [
"photoelectric effect"
]
},
{
"question": "Which female country and Western singer died in a plane crash in Tennessee in 1963?",
"answers": [
"patsy cline"
]
},
{
"question": "What name is given to the person in a restaurant responsible for the wine and assisting customers with their choice of wine?",
"answers": [
"sommelier"
]
},
{
"question": "The Kalahari Desert lies chiefly in which country?",
"answers": [
"botswana"
]
},
{
"question": "Who is said to have gained enlightenment sitting under the Bodhi Tree?",
"answers": [
"enlightened one"
]
},
{
"question": "In which London thoroughfare is The Monument?",
"answers": [
"pudding lane"
]
},
{
"question": "Although mostly associated with Manchester in which other part of the UK were the Gibb Brothers born?",
"answers": [
"isle of man"
]
},
{
"question": "From around 2566 B.C. to 1311 A.D. what was the world’s tallest building?",
"answers": [
"great pyramid"
]
},
{
"question": "On which river does Cardiff stand?",
"answers": [
"taff"
]
},
{
"question": "Real Love in 1996 was whose last top 10 hit in the UK?",
"answers": [
"beatles"
]
},
{
"question": "What type of creature is a saiga?",
"answers": [
"antelope"
]
},
{
"question": "A drupe is a type of what?",
"answers": [
"fruit"
]
},
{
"question": "US professional wrestler and actor Terry Gene Bollea is better known by what name?",
"answers": [
"terry gene bollea"
]
},
{
"question": "Who won the most of the first ten tournaments called the Women's Hockey World Cup (the field hockey World Cup competition for women), which was inaugurated in 1974?",
"answers": [
"netherlands"
]
},
{
"question": "What was the name of David Bowie’s final album released two days before his death?",
"answers": [
"blackstar"
]
},
{
"question": "What is a commmon name for the United Nations peacekeeping forces?",
"answers": [
"blue berets"
]
},
{
"question": "Which British athlete won the Men's 400 metre Olympic Gold Medal in 1968?",
"answers": [
"david hemery"
]
},
{
"question": "Skean dhu, kukri, and Bowie are all types of what?",
"answers": [
"knife"
]
},
{
"question": "'We Will Stand Together' is a song to music from which classical work?",
"answers": [
"nimrod"
]
},
{
"question": "\"Which composer wrote \"\"Night and Day\"\", \"\"I Get a Kick out of You\"\", \"\"Well, Did You Evah!\"\" and \"\"I've Got You Under My Skin\"\"?\"",
"answers": [
"cole albert porter"
]
},
{
"question": "In which country was England Rugby Union player Dylan Hartley born?",
"answers": [
"New Zealand"
]
},
{
"question": "'Every good boy deserves favour' is a mnemonic in?",
"answers": [
"music"
]
},
{
"question": "In Greek mythology, what was the name of Apollo's twin sister?",
"answers": [
"artemis"
]
},
{
"question": "In 1951, which European country saw the abdication of King Leopold lll in favour of his son Baudouin?",
"answers": [
"belgium"
]
},
{
"question": "In politics and economics, ‘what’ Wednesday refers to 16th September 1992, when the British government was forced to withdraw the pound sterling from the European Rate Mechanism, after they were unable to keep it above its agreed lower limit?",
"answers": [
"black wednesday"
]
},
{
"question": "What was the name of Winnie the Poohs human friend?",
"answers": [
"christopher robin"
]
},
{
"question": "Buenos Aires is the capital of which South American country?",
"answers": [
"república argentina"
]
},
{
"question": "Who followed Hugh Gaitskell as leader of the labour party?",
"answers": [
"harold wilson"
]
},
{
"question": "Which sauce is made from mayonnaise, chopped capers and onions?",
"answers": [
"steak tartare"
]
},
{
"question": "In which film did Kenneth Williams say infamy infamy they've all got it in for me?",
"answers": [
"carry on cleo"
]
},
{
"question": "Who was the German born private astronomer to George 3rd?",
"answers": [
"sir william herschel"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the name for a set of marks stamped on gold and silver articles to attest to the genuineness of the metal and the year of testing?",
"answers": [
"hallmark"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the second most common gas in the atmosphere?",
"answers": [
"oxygen"
]
},
{
"question": "By congressional resolution, Sam Wilson, of Troy, New York, a meat supplier for the Army during the War of 1812,is recognized as the progenitor of what famous American symbol?",
"answers": [
"uncle sam"
]
},
{
"question": "In Greek mythology, which race of giants had a single eye in the middle of their foreheads?",
"answers": [
"cyclops"
]
},
{
"question": "When did the US TV series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, begin its six years of seasons?",
"answers": [
"1997"
]
},
{
"question": "On which coast of South America would you find the country of Venezuela?",
"answers": [
"north"
]
},
{
"question": "In which TV series would you find an Eagle Transporter",
"answers": [
"space 1999"
]
},
{
"question": "Which Frenchman, who never learned to speak Swedish, became King Charles XIV John of Sweden and Norway?",
"answers": [
"charles xiv"
]
},
{
"question": "\"In the TV version of \"\"The Odd Couple\"\", the part of Felix Ungar was played by Tony Randall. Which actor played the part in the original 1968 film?\"",
"answers": [
"john uhler lemmon iii"
]
},
{
"question": "Which is the most famous painting by Edvard Munch?",
"answers": [
"scream"
]
},
{
"question": "What do Boy Scouts call the anniversary of their founder's birth",
"answers": [
"thinking day"
]
},
{
"question": "What special name is given to Tibetan monks?",
"answers": [
"lamas"
]
},
{
"question": "Flanders is part of what country?",
"answers": [
"belgian"
]
},
{
"question": "What U.S. state is closest to Africa (geographically)?",
"answers": [
"maine"
]
},
{
"question": "The 1810 betrothal of Princess Theresa to Crown Prince Ludwig not only resulted in the meadow where the event took place to be named Theresienwiese but also started what?",
"answers": [
"oktoberfest"
]
},
{
"question": "What common chemical compound type, including many natural fats and essential oils, results from replacing the hydrogen of an acid by an alkyl or other organic group?",
"answers": [
"esterified"
]
},
{
"question": "Which mischievous fairy, also called Robin Goodfellow, appears in Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'?",
"answers": [
"puck"
]
},
{
"question": "George W Bush was given which diminutive herbaceous nickname?",
"answers": [
"bushes"
]
},
{
"question": "In which race did Zola Budd and Mary Decker famously collide at the 1984 Olympics?",
"answers": [
"3000 metres"
]
},
{
"question": "\"The songs \"\"Don't Rain on My Parade\"\" and \"\"People\"\" are from which musical?\"",
"answers": [
"funny girl"
]
},
{
"question": "\"Which company uses the advertising slogan \"\"Every Little Helps\"\"?\"",
"answers": [
"tesco"
]
},
{
"question": "What was the name of the horse in Steptoe and Son?",
"answers": [
"hercules"
]
},
{
"question": "Which racecourse hosts the Midlands Grand National in March each year?",
"answers": [
"uttoxeter"
]
},
{
"question": "In which town did the Co-operative Movement begin?",
"answers": [
"rochdale"
]
},
{
"question": "Comedian, actor and director Melvin Kaminsky is better known by what name?",
"answers": [
"melvin kaminsky"
]
},
{
"question": "Who wrote the 1993 novel “The Joy Luck Club”?",
"answers": [
"amy tan"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the flavour of the liqueur Triple-Sec?",
"answers": [
"orange"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the most common gas in the Earth's atmosphere?",
"answers": [
"molecular nitrogen"
]
},
{
"question": "Who originally provided the voice for TV's 'Basil Brush'?",
"answers": [
"ivan owen"
]
},
{
"question": "What was the name of the family in the 1960s TV series `Upstairs Downstairs'?",
"answers": [
"bellamy"
]
},
{
"question": "In 1337 which English king claimed the throne of France, precipitating the '100 Years War'?",
"answers": [
"edward iii"
]
},
{
"question": "Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, was born on which island?",
"answers": [
"corfu"
]
},
{
"question": "Which wonder of the ancient world was at Ephesus?",
"answers": [
"temple of artemis"
]
},
{
"question": "Who was the author of 'The Overloaded Ark'?",
"answers": [
"gerald m durrell"
]
},
{
"question": "What is prepared in a tannery?",
"answers": [
"leather"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the name of cartoon character Dora the Explorer's monkey?",
"answers": [
"boots"
]
},
{
"question": "Congo, Sensation, President Grevy and Beauty of Moscow are all varieties of which garden plant?",
"answers": [
"lilac"
]
},
{
"question": "According to Samuel Beckett, who are Vladimir and Estragon waiting for?",
"answers": [
"godot"
]
},
{
"question": "Pistol and Boo, who became internationally famous in 2015, were what?",
"answers": [
"yorkshire terriers"
]
},
{
"question": "In which city is 'Armley Prison' located?",
"answers": [
"leeds"
]
},
{
"question": "What was the theme of the designs that appeared on the reverse of £1 coins from 2004 - 2007?",
"answers": [
"bridges"
]
},
{
"question": "Which fire-breathing creature of Greek mythology has the head of a lion, body of a goat and the rear of a dragon?",
"answers": [
"chimaera"
]
},
{
"question": "On Sept 23, 1846 three astronomers Urbain Le Verrier, John Couch Adams, and Johann Galle co-discovered which one of the current planets?",
"answers": [
"neptune"
]
},
{
"question": "Which vegetable is traditionally used in the dish moussaka?",
"answers": [
"aubergines"
]
},
{
"question": "Thomas Edison, who invented the lightbulb, was afraid of the dark?",
"answers": [
"true"
]
},
{
"question": "Which Lancashire football club plays home games at the Globe Arena, moving from Christie Park in 2010?",
"answers": [
"morecambe"
]
},
{
"question": "\"The US TV series \"\"Mad Men\"\" centres around what industry or profession?\"",
"answers": [
"advertising"
]
},
{
"question": "What is either a city in Germany or a type of fragrance?",
"answers": [
"cologne"
]
},
{
"question": "With which sport do you associate the Coventry bees?",
"answers": [
"speedway"
]
},
{
"question": "Who became the new French president in 2007?",
"answers": [
"nicolas sarkozy"
]
},
{
"question": "What character created by Robert Ludlum appeared in a film trilogy released between 2002 to 2007?",
"answers": [
"jason bourne"
]
},
{
"question": "Phobos and Deimos are the only two moons of what planet?",
"answers": [
"mars"
]
},
{
"question": "Which American state, with the capital Salem, is nicknamed the Beaver State?",
"answers": [
"oregon state"
]
},
{
"question": "Which principality was established in 1278 by the Treaty of Joint Suzerainty?",
"answers": [
"andorra"
]
},
{
"question": "What state is known as the Sunflower State?",
"answers": [
"state of kansas"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the name of the heroine in the story of 'Beauty and the Beast'?",
"answers": [
"belle"
]
},
{
"question": "Which group has had hits with the albums 'Hopes and Fears', and `Under the Iron Sea'?",
"answers": [
"keane"
]
},
{
"question": "How are the towns of Hanley, Burslem, Stoke, Longton,Tunstall and Fenton collectively known?",
"answers": [
"potteries"
]
},
{
"question": "My bologna has a first name. What is it?",
"answers": [
"oscar"
]
},
{
"question": "How was Moose the dog better known when he starred in a popular US sitcom?",
"answers": [
"eddie"
]
},
{
"question": "The Asian Tsunami or Boxing day tsunami that hit Thailand, Indonesia and many other countries happened in what year?",
"answers": [
"2004"
]
},
{
"question": "What can be a legislative body, a collective name for type of bird, and a funk band?",
"answers": [
"national parliaments"
]
},
{
"question": "Which jazz saxophonist was nicknamed Bird",
"answers": [
"charlie parker"
]
},
{
"question": "Marie Antoinette, Queen of France and Navarre, was born in which country?",
"answers": [
"austria"
]
},
{
"question": "What food staple is the focus of a 1980 documentary ___ Is as Good as Ten Mothers that was filmed primarily in Gilroy, California?",
"answers": [
"garlic"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the capital of Malta?",
"answers": [
"valletta malta"
]
},
{
"question": "What are the flat treeless plains of Argentina called?",
"answers": [
"pampas"
]
},
{
"question": "In January 1973, who defeated Joe Frazier to win the Heavyweight World Boxing Championship?",
"answers": [
"george foreman"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the name of the strait that lies between Australia and New Guinea that links the Coral Sea to the East with the Arafura Sea to the west?",
"answers": [
"torres strait"
]
},
{
"question": "Which Greek God gave Cassandra the give of prophecy?",
"answers": [
"apollo"
]
},
{
"question": "Which French racecourse hosts the 'Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe?",
"answers": [
"longchamp"
]
},
{
"question": "What are Cohíba, Hoyo de Monterrey, Montecristo, Partagás, Romeo y Julieta and Quintero?",
"answers": [
"cigars"
]
},
{
"question": "\"\"\"Don't be evil\"\" is the motto of which intemet company?\"",
"answers": [
"google"
]
},
{
"question": "Fremantle prison, which was closed in 1991 and is now a heritage site, is in which country?",
"answers": [
"australia"
]
},
{
"question": "Which British politician became Member of Parliament for Epping in October 1924?",
"answers": [
"churchill"
]
},
{
"question": "Alfred Munnings was famous for his paintings of what?",
"answers": [
"horses"
]
},
{
"question": "In the year 2000 Charity Shield match which player was sent off",
"answers": [
"roy keane"
]
},
{
"question": "Which model of Ford is named after the Italian resort which was host to the 1956 Winter Olympics?",
"answers": [
"cortina"
]
},
{
"question": "‘Impossible is nothing’ is the motto of which sportswear company?",
"answers": [
"adidas"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the triangular part of a horse's hoof?",
"answers": [
"frog"
]
},
{
"question": "Nephritis is the inflammation of which organ?",
"answers": [
"kidney"
]
},
{
"question": "What type of natural disaster killed 173 people in Victoria, Australia in 2009?",
"answers": [
"australian bushfires"
]
},
{
"question": "Which country is separated into two parts by the town of Limbang of Malaysia?",
"answers": [
"brunei"
]
},
{
"question": "What wa American composer Hoagy Charmichael’s real full Christian name?",
"answers": [
"hoagland"
]
},
{
"question": "In which country was Earl Spencer's acrimonious divorce settlement heard?",
"answers": [
"south african"
]
},
{
"question": "Which European country hosted the 1956 Winter Olympic Games?",
"answers": [
"italy"
]
},
{
"question": "On which river are the Victoria Falls?",
"answers": [
"zambezi river"
]
},
{
"question": "Where are the police called heddlu?",
"answers": [
"wales"
]
},
{
"question": "Who won Celebrity Big Brother in 2011?",
"answers": [
"paddy doherty"
]
},
{
"question": "The Hindhead Tunnel is in which English county?",
"answers": [
"surrey"
]
},
{
"question": "Which famous English highwayman was hanged for horse-stealing in April 1739?",
"answers": [
"dick turpin"
]
},
{
"question": "Dow Constantine and Susan Hutchinson are currently running for was position?",
"answers": [
"king county executive"
]
},
{
"question": "The last of the three-age system, what age followed the Bronze Age?",
"answers": [
"iron age"
]
},
{
"question": "Which 1974 film about a train hijacking starring Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw was remade in 2009 starring John Travolta and Denzel Washington?",
"answers": [
"taking of pelham one two three"
]
},
{
"question": "What dish, especially popular in parts of Wales and the English Midlands, is traditionally made from pig's heart, liver and fatty belly meat or bacon minced together, with herbs added for flavouring and sometimes bread crumbs",
"answers": [
"faggots"
]
},
{
"question": "By area, what is the biggest country entirely in the Southern Hemisphere?",
"answers": [
"australia"
]
},
{
"question": "The excellent cut of beef known as \"hanger steak\" is taken from what part of the animal?",
"answers": [
"diaphragm"
]
},
{
"question": "The Collegiate Church of St Peter in London is more popularly known by what name?",
"answers": [
"st peter westminster"
]
},
{
"question": "What kind of singing, from the Italian for Manner of the Church, features singers without any musical accompaniment?",
"answers": [
"cappella"
]
},
{
"question": "Which country has the internet domain .de?",
"answers": [
"germany"
]
},
{
"question": "The lahara, used in the liqueur Curacao, is an adaptation of which common fruit?",
"answers": [
"orange"
]
},
{
"question": "What type of animal was Boris, the subject of a song by The Who?",
"answers": [
"spiders"
]
},
{
"question": "Lyrics: Some of them want to abuse you some of them want to be abused",
"answers": [
"sweet dreams"
]
},
{
"question": "Which kind of food can be either ‘blanket’ or ‘honeycomb’?",
"answers": [
"tripes"
]
},
{
"question": "'Professor Cuthbert Calculus' is an associate of which character?",
"answers": [
"tin tin"
]
},
{
"question": "At which Winter Olympic host city would you find the Cresta Run?",
"answers": [
"st moritz"
]
},
{
"question": "Who conceived the effective communication theory 'Three Modes of Persuasion' (comprising Logos, Ethos and Pathos)?",
"answers": [
"aristotle"
]
},
{
"question": "Otis Barton was a pioneer in exploring where?",
"answers": [
"undersea"
]
},
{
"question": "How many ‘Triangles’ are there on the logo of car manufacturer BMW?",
"answers": [
"four"
]
},
{
"question": "\"Where would one find \"\"Bachmann's bundle\"\"?\"",
"answers": [
"heart"
]
},
{
"question": "Which animal has the longest gestation period at around 22 months?",
"answers": [
"elephant"
]
},
{
"question": "Which singer and actress who lived from 1963 - 2012, shares her surname with major city in Texas?",
"answers": [
"whitney houston"
]
},
{
"question": "Which country used to be called Southern Rhodesia?",
"answers": [
"zimbabwe"
]
},
{
"question": "What movie took place on the moon of Pandora?",
"answers": [
"avatar"
]
},
{
"question": "Which European country switched to driving on the right in 1967?",
"answers": [
"sweden"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the old name (Latin, meaning 'strong water') for a solution of nitric acid in water, used in alchemy and other ancient processes?",
"answers": [
"aqua fortis"
]
},
{
"question": "What was the christian name of the daughter of William Dorrit, known as Little Dorrit in the 1857 novel of the same name by Charles Dickens?",
"answers": [
"amy"
]
},
{
"question": "Who is the most famous cartoon creation of Al Capp?",
"answers": [
"lil abner"
]
},
{
"question": "\"Which actor, best known for his role in \"\"The Godfather\"\" series of films, shares his name with a member of TV's \"\"Dragon's Den\"\"?\"",
"answers": [
"sheila marie ryan"
]
},
{
"question": "Which song was a hit for both Guns ‘n’ Roses in 1988 and Sheryl Crow in 1999?",
"answers": [
"sweet child o mine"
]
},
{
"question": "What colour/color is Mr Bump in Hargreaves' Mr Men series of children's cartoon books?",
"answers": [
"bluish"
]
},
{
"question": "Which bass guitarist with the Animals became the manager of Jimi Hendrix?",
"answers": [
"chas chandler"
]
},
{
"question": "For what medical condition would a doctor administer an antipyretic?",
"answers": [
"pyrexia"
]
},
{
"question": "Which stand-up comedian presents 8 Out Of 10 Cats and Distraction?",
"answers": [
"jimmy carr"
]
},
{
"question": "In what year did Pope John Paul II die?",
"answers": [
"2005"
]
},
{
"question": "Which British organisation is known in the U.S.A. as TKC",
"answers": [
"kennel club"
]
},
{
"question": "The term 'campesino' refers in the Spanish-speaking world to a?",
"answers": [
"peasants"
]
},
{
"question": "A jonquil is a type of what?",
"answers": [
"flowers"
]
},
{
"question": "Lloret de Mar lies on which Spanish costa?",
"answers": [
"costa brava"
]
},
{
"question": "Which King of England sold Dunkirk to Louis XIV of France?",
"answers": [
"charles ii"
]
},
{
"question": "The Levant, (deriving from 15th century French, lever, 'rising', relating to the Eastern sunrise) refers to what part of the world?",
"answers": [
"eastern mediterranean"
]
},
{
"question": "The 1958 film ‘Gigi’ was based on the novel by which French author?",
"answers": [
"colette"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the young of a hawk called?",
"answers": [
"falcon"
]
},
{
"question": "Which is the smallest marine mammal?",
"answers": [
"sea otters"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the name of the charity for single parents founded in the 1970s which currently has J K Rowling as its President?",
"answers": [
"gingerbread"
]
},
{
"question": "Which car manufacturer produces a model called the RAV4?",
"answers": [
"toyota"
]
},
{
"question": "Who became the host of the UK television game show Blankety Blank in 1984?",
"answers": [
"les dawson"
]
},
{
"question": "What traditional sport was banned in Britain in 2004?",
"answers": [
"fox hunting"
]
},
{
"question": "Who played 'Jonathan Hart' in the TV series 'Hart to Hart'?",
"answers": [
"robert wagner"
]
},
{
"question": "Which group of around 200 Greek islands in the Aegean Sea includes Andros, Naxos, Paros and Milos?",
"answers": [
"κυκλάδες"
]
},
{
"question": "Which movie was a biopic about the life of David Helfgott?",
"answers": [
"shine"
]
},
{
"question": "Las Vegas is situated in which US State?",
"answers": [
"nevada"
]
},
{
"question": "Which artist was famed for his paintings of the water lilies in his garden?",
"answers": [
"monet"
]
},
{
"question": "What is the name of the one-eyed mutant and important character in ‘Futurama’?",
"answers": [
"leela"
]
},
{
"question": "Who was the last non-American (non-Williams) to win the Ladies \\singles at Wimbledon?",
"answers": [
"mauresmo"
]
},
{
"question": "\"Which horse race meeting, for \"\"The Gold Cup\"\", was first run in 1711 and is held on 7 June each year?\"",
"answers": [
"ascot racecourse"
]
},
{
"question": "What was the name of the alliance of trading cities and their guilds, each with their own law system and with armies for mututal aid, that established and maintained a trade monopoly along the coast of Northern Europe, from the Baltic to the North Sea and inland, from the 13th to 17th centuries?",
"answers": [
"hansa"
]
},
{
"question": "Which World War 2 American general was known as 'Vinegar Joe'?",
"answers": [
"stilwell"
]
},
{
"question": "Which 1976 Nobel laureate popularised Monetarist theory?",
"answers": [
"milton friedman"
]
},
{
"question": "\"Which 16th century Venetian, born Jacopo Robusti, studied under Titian and painted \"\"St George and the Dragon\"\", \"\"Belshazzar's Feast\"\", \"\"The Last Supper\"\" and \"\"Paradise\"\"?\"",
"answers": [
"tintoret"
]
},
{
"question": "Which musical instrument was Jelly Roll Morton associated with",
"answers": [
"piano"
]
},
{
"question": "The Welsh Highland Railway runs between Porthmadog and which town or city?",
"answers": [
"caernarfon"
]
},
{
"question": "If you were in Japan eating edamame, what would you be eating?",
"answers": [
"soybeans"
]
},
{
"question": "In which country is the Sky Train Rail bridge?",
"answers": [
"canada"
]
},
{
"question": "Who founded the TV production company 'David Paradine Productions'?",
"answers": [
"david frost"
]
},
{
"question": "In 1914 a paleontologist suggested that what legend might have originated from Greeks interpreting the nasal cavity in the skull of prehistoric dwarf elephants as a large single eye-socket?",
"answers": [
"cyclops"
]
},
{
"question": "'The Playboy Riots' occurred during and following the opening in 1907 of 'The Playboy Of The Western World' by J.M. Synge, at which Dublin theatre?",
"answers": [
"abbey theatre"
]
},
{
"question": "Having a height of 3,478 metres, Mount Mulhacen is the highest mainland point of which country?",
"answers": [
"spain"
]
},
{
"question": "Which country, a member state of the EC, is noted for the production of the rich dessert wine Commandaria?",
"answers": [
"cyprus"
]
},
{
"question": "Who lived from 1895 to 1973, directing films such as the 1929 version of Stagecoach, The Grapes of Wrath and the Quiet Man?",
"answers": [
"john ford"
]
},
{
"question": "Which amphibian did the ancients believe could live in fire?",
"answers": [
"salamander"
]
},
{
"question": "Who created the Barry McKenzie cartoon strip in the 1960s?",
"answers": [
"barry humphries"
]
},
{
"question": "In medicine, pyrosis is the technical term for which condition?",
"answers": [
"heartburn"
]
},
{
"question": "Who is the father of the twin boys born to Brooke Mueller on 14 March 2009?",
"answers": [
"charlie sheen"
]
},
{
"question": "Edward Oxford and Rodney Maclean, et al, tried to assassinate which British monarch?",
"answers": [
"we are not amused"
]
},
{
"question": "Which 2009 film is a biopic of John Lennon?",
"answers": [
"nowhere boy"
]
},
{
"question": "The cover of which of Pink Floyd’s LP covers features Battersea Power Station?",
"answers": [
"animals"
]
},
{
"question": "The infamous drug cartel run by Pablo Escobar through the 1970s and 1980s takes its name from which Columbian city?",
"answers": [
"medellin"
]
},
{
"question": "Which 2009 Terry Pratchett novel features 'Mustrum Ridcully' setting up a University football team?",
"answers": [
"unseen academicals"
]
},
{
"question": "In October 2003, which cricketer, playing in a Test series against Zimbabwe, scored a record 380 not out?",
"answers": [
"matthew hayden"
]
},
{
"question": "Which South African fast bowler had the nickname White Lightning",
"answers": [
"allan donald"
]
},
{
"question": "The Great Sphinx of Giza in Egypt is a statue of a reclining mythical creature with a lion's body and the head of a what?",
"answers": [
"human"
]
},
{
"question": "In the BBC TV series, how are Antonio Carlucci and Genaro Contaldo better known?",
"answers": [
"two greedy italians"
]
},
{
"question": "How many James Bond films did Pierce Brosnan do?",
"answers": [
"four"
]
},
{
"question": "Whose first appearance as James Bond was in The Living Daylights?",
"answers": [
"timothy dalton"
]
},
{
"question": "Mount Ranier is the highest peak of which North American range?",
"answers": [
"cascades"
]
},
{
"question": "The International Bureau of Weights and Measures is based in which European country?",
"answers": [
"france"
]
},
{
"question": "Who killed Goliath with a sling and a stone?",
"answers": [
"david"
]
},
{
"question": "What word for unthinking patriotism is derived from the name of one of Napoleon's admirers?",
"answers": [
"chauvinism"
]
},
{
"question": "How many hundredweight are in a UK ton?",
"answers": [
"20"
]
},
{
"question": "Which car manufacturer made models called 'Ensign' and 'Vanguard'?",
"answers": [
"standard"
]
},
{
"question": "Every major league baseball team has retired the number 42, in honor of what player who was born on January 31, 1919?",
"answers": [
"jack roosevelt robinson"
]
},
{
"question": "On which island is Mahon situated?",
"answers": [
"menorca"
]
},
{
"question": "How many medals did the United States win at the 2010 Winter Olympics?",
"answers": [
"37"
]
},
{
"question": "Which film starring Will Smith, Bill Pullman and Jeff Goldblum was the world's highest grossing film of 1996?",
"answers": [
"independence day"
]
},
{
"question": "In the nursery rhyme, which was the last creature eaten by the woman who swallowed a fly?",
"answers": [
"horse"
]
},
{
"question": "Who presents the new BBC documentary Science Britannica?",
"answers": [
"professor brian cox"
]
},
{
"question": "In which events did Gert Fredriksson win six Olympic gold medals?",
"answers": [
"canoeing"
]
},
{
"question": "If Monday's child is fair of face what is Friday's child?",
"answers": [
"loving and giving"
]
}
]