| Which ancient people give their name to Swabia and also established the first independent post-Roman state in Europe, in Iberian Galicia in 410AD? | Suebi |
| What herb is added to Double Gloucester cheese to make Cotswold cheese? | Chive |
| Which large post-Roman state covered southern Portugal, most of Spain and a small part of south-western France? | Visigothic Kingdom |
| A scansorial bird or animal is good at doing what? | Climbing |
| Which fictional scarecrow married Earthy Mangold? | Worzel Gummidge |
| What was the forename of Domenico Scarlatti’s composer father? | Alessandro |
| Couto Misto was an independent micro-nation for many years on the border of which two countries? | Spain and Portugal |
| Which empire lasted from 27 July 1299 to 29 October 1923? | Ottoman |
| Lazistan was an ancient state on the borders of Turkey and which other country? | Georgia |
| What was the potentially confusing name of the territory now covered by Azerbaijan? | (Caucasian) Albania |
| Which man founded an empire in Kandahar in 1747 and is regarded as the founder of the modern nation of Afghanistan? | Ahmad Shah Durrani |
| Which Kurdish state was founded in 1927 in Eastern Turkey but crushed by the Turks in 1930? | Republic of Ararat |
| Rakhine is the westernmost province of what country? | Burma |
| The modern successors to the Huron confederacy share their name with what breed of farm animal? | Wyandotte |
| Also known as the Haudenosaunee or the “People of the Longhouse”, this is an association of several tribes of indigenous people of North America. | Iroquois |
| Monte Alban was the centre of what Mesoamerican civilization? | Zapotec |
| The name of what alcoholic drink comes from the German for ‘mouthful’? | Schnapps |
| In 2008, which comedian said that in England, George W. Bush “wouldn’t be trusted with a pair of scissors”? | Russell Brand |
| Which Czech player did Sue Barket beat in the final of the French Open 1976? | Renáta Tomanová |
| William Walker created the Republic of Sonora on the territory of what present-day country? | Mexico |
| Formerly an independent republic, Acre is a state in what country? | Brazil |
| Which country seceded from Colombia in 1903? | Panama |
| What was Lesotho’s old name? | Basutoland |
| What region of Uganda is home to the capital, Kampala? | Buganda |
| What town, now in Mali, was the capital of the Songhai empire? | Gao |