- What does `The Cherry Orchard' have in common with old editions of `Startrek'? Answer
- In Australia, how is the date of Mothers' Day calculated? Answer
- Which President of the USSR encouraged the policy of Glassnost? Answer
- What was built by inmates taken from Changi Prison Camp? Answer
- What is the world's largest desert? Answer
- Nino Culotto was his pen-name. What was his REAL name? Answer
- What is the last letter of the Greek alphabet? Answer
- Who wrote `The Entertainer', music made famous by the film,`The Sting'? Answer
- In Greek legend, what was eaten on the island of Jerba? Answer
- What was the name of Ulysses' son, who grew to manhood in his
absence? Answer
- Which Knight caused the death of the Lady of Shallott? Answer
- What monument occupies centre stage in Trafalgar Square? Answer
- Which book catapulted Germaine Greer to fame? Answer
- What was the classical standard language of ancient India? Answer
- Who directed and starred in films such as `The little
Tramp'? Answer
- Name the three types of classical architectural column. Answer
- Who was Doctor Zhivago's great love? Answer
- Name the commoner who ruled England in 1658-59. Answer
- Which ghost ship is the theme of an 1841 opera by Richard
Wagner? Answer
- What career did the Duke of Wellington pursue after the Battle of
Waterloo? Answer
- Which popular hymn was composed by Sir Arthur Sullivan of Opera
Fame? Answer
- What is the literal meaning of `pince-nez'. glasses? Answer
- Beneath which Paris monument is the tomb of France's unknown
soldier? Answer
- What type of puppets are those whose movements are controlled by
strings? Answer
- Which drug is best known for its use in preventing malaria? Answer
- Identify the 15th century British war fought by the Houses of
Lancaster and York. Answer
- Which sea is so named because it is too salty to maintain life? Answer
- What is the most indispensable instrument in astronomy? Answer
- Which literary doctor owns a parrot called `Polynesia'? Answer
- Name the Australian singer whose first hit, in the 1960s, was 'I
Remember You'. Answer
- What is Sydney's equivalent to San Francisco's `Bay To
Breakers' footrace'? Answer
- Which independent island is Australia's nearest neighbour to the
west? Answer
- At the end of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet', which of the
principals are dead? Answer
- Name two fictional or historical characters who fought with
quarterstaffs on a log bridge ? Answer
- What is the name of Greg Norman's business? Answer
- Name a state of U.S.A. beginning with `B'. Answer
- Whom did Yoko Ono marry only to lose to an assassin? Answer
- Wo dubbed Australia `The Lucky Country' in one of his
novels? Answer
- Which biblical event supports the superstition that 13 is an unlucky
number? Answer
- How much was 240 pence in predecimal currency? Answer
- Which comic- strip drake is a multi-billionaire? Answer
- What was the first event decided at the 1896 Olympics? Answer
- Which is the only continent occupied by one nation? Answer
- What inspired the convex golden disc as the Order of Australia ? Answer
- Which 1980 song hit was writen by Joe Dolce, an Italian migrant? Answer
- What is God called by the Islamic or Muslim faith? Answer
- Which radiation belt around the earth was named after an American
physicist? Answer
- What is significant about a score of 4137 points in billiards? Answer
- Who was the famous Nez Perce Indian chief? Answer
- Which Slim Dusty 'hotel' song is Australia's only gold 78
record? Answer
- After Carruthers, Rose and Famechon, who was Australia's fourth
world boxing champion? Answer
- What is an ocarina whose size and shape resembles a goose egg? Answer
- In which American city was the world's first skyscraper built in
1885? Answer
- What is the Christian name of Webster, who published a dictionary
still used today ? Answer
- Outside of the Presidency, what is the highest American political
office? Answer
- Name the only boxer to knock out Mohammed Ali. Answer
- Which Australian state is host to the town of Gundagai? Answer
- On what date to Americans celebrate their Independence Day? Answer
- Who starred in the film version of To Kill A Mockingbird? Answer
- Which modern language gives us the term finito ? Answer
- Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel? Answer
- Which Australian city will host the 2001 Goodwill Games? Answer
- The prefix gastro refers to which bodily organ? Answer
- If you are celebrating your Diamond Anniversary, how many years have
you been married ? Answer
- Boxers often suffer from a condition in which their ears are
misshapen..what is this called? Answer
- Who wrote the famous poem Daffodils? Answer
- In what decade of this century was it decided US Presidents would be
restricted to two terms? Answer
- What was the given name of Stalin's daughter who defected to the US
in 1967? Answer
- Name the South African surgeon who carried out the first heart
transplant operation. Answer
- The revolutionary newspaper, Pravda was first published in
1912...but WHERE? Answer
- What the the first ship to reach Titanic after the
disaster? Answer
- Where in the US did the dance , the Charleston originate? Answer
- Which American author wrote the novel Gentlemen Prefer
Blondes? Answer
- Who piloted the US aircraft shot down byt he USSR in 1960 ? Answer
- Where were the 1960 Summer Olympics held? Answer
- In what year was the Rainbow Warrior sunk in New Zealand
waters? Answer
- Who became the first Overlord Of England and Wales? Answer
- Which animal is likely to suffer from the disease, heaves
? Answer
- Who wrote The Happy Prince? Answer
- For what sport is a harrier bred? Answer
- Where in Australia is Palm Valley ? Answer
- What breed of farm animal is a Polwarth? Answer
- Who named Manly Cove , situated in Sydney Harbour? Answer
- Name the main ore of iron. Answer
- What is the study of heredity called? Answer
- Rose Hill was the original name of Australia's second
settlement ...what is it called now? Answer
- What term is used to describe fertile land being 'rested' for a
season? Answer
- Who is the patron saint of children ? Answer
- Who did Amin overthrow in 1971? Answer
- What ancient unit of measurement is suppposedly the distance from
the elbow to the tip of the index finger? Answer
- Which was the second James Bond novel to be made into a movie? Answer
- Can you name the only two countries to have declared independence
from Britain? Answer
- What is the official language of Egypt? Answer
- On which continent is Vincon Massif the highest peak? Answer
- Do polar bears eat penguins? Answer
- In which country would you find Tabasco? Answer
- What is the more common name for the tympanic membrane ? Answer
- Name the street that is home to British journalism. Answer
- What was H.G. Wells' first novel? Answer
- Which Australian city was host to the nations's first steam
train.and its first electric train? Answer
- What is the best-known university in Paris? Answer
- What is the birthstone for September? Answer
- Where did John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvery Oswald and Jack Ruby all
die? Answer
- What is the last book of the Bible? Answer
- Which movie's last line is " After all, tomorrow is another
day"? Answer
- In Disney comics, who are Daisy Duck's three nieces? Answer
- At which Melbourne hotel did the Beatles stay in 1964 ? Answer
- Who was the first New Australian to become, in 1961, Miss
Australia? Answer
- Which edifice stands on the banks of the River Jumna, at Agra? Answer
- What does one call ornamental work in silver or gold thread? Answer
- Which Norse god had, as handmaidens, the Valkyrie? Answer
- Which British Battleship was sunk, in 1941, by The Bismark? Answer
- What is the alternative name for a beekeeper? Answer
- Which 1975 Dickens drama was planned as a musical but screened
without any songs ? Answer
- Which British novel was the subject of "Sailor"? Answer
- How many books comprise the Old and the New Testaments? Answer
- At what angle above the horizon must the sun be to create a
rainbow? Answer
- Which song is based on California's 1849 gold rush? Answer
- What is the only crime for which church sanctuary is not
available? Answer
- What was the full name of Brutus, one of Caesar's murderers? Answer
- What was the American codename for the development of the atom
bomb? Answer
- Which western law enfromcement agency's motto was , "One riot-One Ranger"? Answer
- What is the Hebrew name of Calvary, where Christ was crucified ? Answer
- Which number on a roulette wheel is coloured green? Answer
- How many cannons are involved in a Royal Salute? Answer
- What type of Moscow institution is GUM? Answer
- Which island is 50 times larger tha its mother country, Denmark? Answer
- Who was the first white man to climb Mt Kosciusko? Answer
- Name Australia's first "Girlie" magazine, launched in 1936. Answer
- What name is given to the Pope's pontificial ring? Answer
- What ingredient did Cap O' Rushes order omitted from the wedding
meats? Answer
- Who are the traditional inhabitants of Dovrafell? Answer
- What was the name of Childe Rowland's sister, whom he rescued ? Answer
- Which witch travelled in a mortar which she drove along with a
pestle? Answer
- Who caught Tommy Grimes? Answer
- What was it that Princess Margaret was changed into by her wicked
stepmother, the Witch-Queen of Bamborough Castle? Answer
- Who fought the Queen of the Fairies for Tamlane, her love..and
won? Answer
- Which fiend terrorized the Hall of Hrothgar? Answer
- And who freed Hrothgar's Hall of this menace? Answer
- What was kept in Iduna's magic casket? Answer
- What was the name of the first patented contraceptive pill ? Answer
- What name is given, collectively, to the first five books of the Old
Testament? Answer
- In what year did Japan bomb Pearl Harbour? Answer
- Ulan Bator is the capital of which nation? Answer
- What unit of heat is required to raise 1 gm of water by one degree
Celsius? Answer
- Which airline owned the jet that exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland,
in 1988? Answer
- What number did Michael Jordan make famous during his career with
the Chicago Bulls? Answer
- Which floor covering is constructed by covering hessian or canvas with linseed oil, powdered cork and rosin? Answer
- In which American state would you find the city of Phoenix? Answer
- How many sides does a RHOMBUS have? Answer
- Which American state has its capital Harrisburg? Answer
- Which six letter word describes the number of members of a body
required to be present to conduct business legally ? Answer
- Which company that developed the pentium processor for
computers? Answer
- What name was given to the rockets used to launch the Apollo space
missions? Answer
- Until the end of the 20th Century, what was the most popular name
adopted by the popes? Answer
- In which year did Pope Benedict XV declare Joan of Arc a saint? Answer
- The mummies of Egyptian Pharaohs were often buried in what type of
transport, believed to assist them to travel to the next world? Answer
- How many films did Charles Chaplin make during his 53-year carer,
from 1914 to 1967? Answer
- Which band had a hit with the song ,California Dreamin'? Answer
- What name is given to the star that appears on the flag of
Israel? Answer
- Which amusement park opened in Anaheim, California, on July 18th.,
1955 ? Answer
- Name the wife of the Phillipines dictator, Ferdinand Marcos. Answer
- K is the chemical symbol for what? Answer
- On what date is Australia Day celebrated? Answer
- Who wrote the play, "The Mousetrap"? Answer
- How old was Boris Becker when he won his first Wimbledon Singles
title? Answer
- How many Spice Girls were there in 1997? Answer
- Who played the title role in the film "Gandhi"? Answer
- In the nursery rhyme, what do we ask Mary, mary, Quite contrary? Answer
- In what country would you find the Grand Prix circuit known as
Silverstone? Answer
- Which American President was assassinated by Leon Czolgosz ? Answer
- Complete the proverb No kitchen is big enough to hold... Answer
- Who developed Meccano? Answer
- To which people did Delilah pass soon the secret of Samson's
strength? Answer
- Who wrote the shortest of the gospels? Answer
- Complete this proverb: The end justifies ......... Answer
- Who said: "A crank is a man with a new idea--until it catches
on"? Answer
- Who wrote the song, Imagine? Answer
- Name the first woman in space. Answer
- Who was convicted of shooting and killing John F Kennedy? Answer
- In which country did the Volkswagon originate? Answer
- "The Sound Of Music" is set in which European country? Answer
- Which planet has the longest year? Answer
- In Earth terms , how long is that year? Answer
- What is the highest mountain in New Zealand? Answer
- What is the 12th letter of the English alphabet? Answer
- Who teamed up with Neil Diamond to perfom the hit song, "You
Don't Send Me Flowers"? Answer
- 1974 saw Portugal involved in a revolution which became known by
which floral name? Answer
- What term is used to describe the wool cut from around a sheep's
eyes? Answer
- What type of creature is a beagle? Answer
- In which Asian nation would you find the state of Punjab? Answer
- What is the wellknown French word for "pen"? Answer
- Ra is the chemical symbol for which element? Answer
- What five-letter word, beginning with q, is used to describe
a lock or curl of hair on the forehead? Answer
- How many metres make a kilometre? Answer
- Who was the great Spanish Painter whose first name was Pablo? Answer
- Who founded the Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant chain? Answer
- Which 1970s band had a hit with "Mama Mia"? Answer
- In which year did Fred Astair die? Answer
- Which river did Johann Strauss describe as "blue"? Answer
- For what crime is Vincent Perrugia best remembered? Answer
- Which Florentine woman was mother to 3 kings of France, and wife to
another? Answer
- Who was the 3rd man on the moon? Answer
- Who designed Queen Elizabeth II's wedding dress? Answer
- What was the name of Homer Simpson's Bowling team? Answer
- Which 1970's hit movie was based on a poem by James Dickey? Answer
- Which famous musician & singer was born McKinley
Morganfield? Answer
- Who was the last person to be executed in the Tower of London? Answer
- In what film would you have seen a sword fight on the Cliffs of
Insanity? Answer
- What is the world's largest bird of prey? Answer
- Sir Mark Oliphant was once Premier of which Australian State? Answer
- Near which Israeli city would you find the Mount Of Olives? Answer
- What colour are the towers of San Francisco's Golden Gate
Bridge? Answer
- What is the sixth letter of hte English alphabet? Answer
- How many years of marraige are celebrated by a Golden Wedding
Anniversary? Answer
- How many dwarves lived in the house discovered by Snow White? Answer
- By what short name were the Secret State Police of Nazi Germany
known? Answer
- Musican Bo Didley is famous for playing which instrument? Answer
- Which acress began life as Doris Kapellhoff? Answer
- What name is given to the punctuation mark with a dot directly above
a comma? Answer
- What country produces Rioja wines? Answer
- Who was the favourite daughter of Shakespeare's King Lear? Answer
- Which Australkian city includes the suburbs of Cottesloe and
Subiaco? Answer
- Who discovered Oxygen in 1774? Answer
- Name the author of A Town Like Alice. Answer
- How many Earth years does it take Pluto to orbit the sun? Answer
- What name is given to the central part of a fleshy fruit, containing
the seeds? Answer
- What letter appears to the right of Y on a keyboard? Answer
- What is it that makes soda water fizz? Answer
- What disease is the Sabin Vaccine used to prevent? Answer
- Name the actor grandfathr of Drew Barrymore. Answer
- Who is the female host of the television show, Better Homes and
Gardens? Answer
- Which comedian once said, "A well-balanced person has a drink in
each hand"? Answer
- Complete this proverb: A growing youth has a ......? Answer
- What are the three given names of author JRR Tolkein? Answer
- Who portrayed Kevin Arnold in the television series, The Wonder
Years? Answer
- With whom did Barbra Streisand team to release the hit song, "You
Don't Bring Me Flowers"? Answer
- Complete this proverb: Facts are .............. Answer
- Who portrayed Melanie Wilks in the film, Gone With The Wind? Answer
- Name the Australian artist who painted "The
Rabbiters". Answer
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