| 1 | Which writer invented the fictional detective C. Auguste Dupin? | Edgar Allan Poe |
| 2 | What is the name of the short-sleeved midriff-baring bodice worn under a sari? | Choli |
| 3 | What is the name of Earl’s band in the US tv series ‘My Name Is Earl’? | Van Hickey |
| 4 | Which actress married Prince Ranier III of Monaco in 1956? | Grace Kelly |
| 5 | What is the emblem of Canada? | Maple Leaf |
| 6 | Which historical figure called the English ‘A nation of shopkeepers’? | Napoleon I |
| 7 | Which professional golfer is known as ‘The Big Easy’? | Ernie Els |
| 8 | What does a copoclephillist collect? | Key rings |
| 9 | Which poet wrote ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’? | William Butler Yeats |
| 10 | In which two US states does Monument Valley lie? | Arizona and Utah |
| 11 | Which is the largest planet in our solar system? | Jupiter |
| 12 | What type of creature is a nilgai? | Antelope |
| 13 | Who directed the 2002 film ‘Minority Report’, which is set primarily in the year 2054? | Steven Spielberg |
| 14 | In September 2006 the government of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was overthrown in which Asian country? | Thailand |
| 15 | What is the first bird mentioned in the Bible? | Raven |
| 16 | Lake Tuz is in which European country? | Turkey |
| 17 | The Corbillon Cup is played for by women in which sport? | Table tennis |
| 18 | In the UK, ‘The Trial of the …’what’, is the procedure for ensuring that newly minted coins conform to required standards? | Pyx |
| 19 | Peladophobia is the morbid fear of what in people? | Baldness/bald people |
| 20 | English monarch King John, who died in 1216, was the youngest son of which king? | Henry II |
| 21 | John Patrick ‘Jack’ Ryan is a fictional character who appears in many novels by which author? | Tom Clancy |
| 22 | Who wrote the opera ‘The Barber of Seville’? | Gioachino Rossini |
| 23 | Which late actress played Elsie Tanner in the UK tv soap ‘Coronation Street’? | Patricia Phoenix |
| 24 | Digambara and Svetambara are the two major sects in which religion? | Jainism |
| 25 | Illusionist Ehrich Weiss was better known by what name? | Harry Houdini |
| 26 | In which country was the ancient city of Ecbatana? | Iran |
| 27 | What type of creature is a crappie? | Fish |
| 28 | What was the name of the British submarine which collided with a Swedish oil tanker in the Thames estuary in 1950, killing over 60 people? | HMS Truculent |
| 29 | Columbus Day is celebrated in Chile during which month of the year? | October |
| 30 | What is the name of the headquarters of the US Department of Defense, located in Arlington County, Virginia? | The Pentagon |
