The questions and answers within this quiz were verified and updated in July 2020.

Which Australian bushranger became one of his country's greatest folk heroes following the Glenrowan shoot-out?

Ned Kelly

Then known as the voltaic pile, which modern day device was invented by Alessandro Volta in 1800?

Battery

Which sporting icon was awarded the BBC Sports Personality of the Century Award in 1999?

Which English Football League club who play their home games at Gigg Lane are known as the Shakers?

Bury

In which city was Usain Bolt competing when he broke the Mens 100m World Record in August 2009?

a) New York b) Berlin c) Lausanne

b) Berlin

Barry Bonds led a controversial career as an exceptional hitter in which sport?

Baseball

Who, in December 1955, was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man in Mongomery, Alabama?
Rosa Parks

In 1941, The Imperial Japanese Navy made a surprise attack on a harbour in which U.S state?
Hawaii

Militant abolitionist leader John Brown is hanged for his raid on the arsenal at which town in West Virginia? 
Harpers Ferry

Which actress, in one of her early roles, played the title character in the film Amelie?
Audrey Tautou

In North by Northwest starring Cary Grant, the final actions are played out in front of which iconic monument?
Mount Rushmore

Where is the film Das Boot set?
On a submarine

The Prestige was a 2006 film starring Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman, but who directed it?
Christopher Nolan

American Michael 'Jim' Delligatti died this week aged 98. Which fast food staple did he invent?

The Big Mac

Gary Lineker celebrated his 56th birthday on Wednesday. As a Barcelona player, he held the record for the highest scoring British player in Spain's La Liga until he was surpassed by which player?

Gareth Bale

Zara Phillips and Mike Tindall have announced they are expecting a second child. What is Zara's relationship to Queen Elizabeth II?

Granddaughter