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44501. What would you be doing if you were using a 'Glory Hole'?

44502. Does anyone know the name of a diary written in the Second World War about a woman living in Budleigh Salterton in Devon?

44503. Who used to say, "Hello, my darlings"?

44506. Who is William Hung?

44507. How many official languages does South Africa have?

44509. What is the main airport in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan?

44511. What is the official capital of South Africa?

44512. Who was the first person to drive the first car?

44515. In George Orwell's classic "Animal Farm" what was the name of the farm before the animals took over?

44516. Who was the first baseball player to sign a million dollar contract?

44517. Who was the first hockey player to sign a million dollar contract?

44519. Is it possible for a small can of biscuits to explode in the back of your car on a hot summer day?

44520. From where do we get the nasty saying, "There is more than one way to skin a cat"?

44521. What was the very first Mickey Mouse cartoon?

44523. A policeman is fighting a criminal on a roof. They fall off and are transported back in time, where the policeman meets his younger self and teaches him how to be a good copper. Which book?

44524. In terms of area, which is the current largest county in Wales?

44525. Why was the Can-Can canned?

44526. Plasma is the fourth state of matter, what is a fifth?

44527. What is the rarest and most expensive coffee in the world and what is so revolting about it?

44528. I am a group of American Indian earthworks built between 700 AD and 1500 located in Missouri. What is my name?

44530. "To be caught with one's pants down," where did this delightful phrase originate?

44532. Who failed to get into Sarcophagus College?

44533. Who played Baron Hardon in 'Sinderella'?

44534. Who played The Penguin in "Batman" the 1960's TV series?

44535. What was the first meal on the moon?

44536. What were the first Russian and American animals sent into space and what happened to these two noble animals?

44537. The two Voyager spacecraft were sent on deep space missions each with a record containing messages and information for any possible extraterrestrial civilization that might encounter it. What specifically do these records contain?

44538. Who said, "In times of revolution, power passes to the worst people"?

44539. What are the four possible "close encounters" with extraterrestrial beings or vessels as developed by J. Allen Hynek?

44542. Why don't corn kernels digest?

44543. Do any of the Protestant denominations observe Lent?

44548. The Bronte sisters are also known as?

44549. Three of the following are James Bond women: Diana Rigg, Kate Judson, Shirley Eaton, and Sophie Marceau. Who is the odd one?

44550. How much of the human brain is dedicated to vision?

44552. In what city was J.K. Rowling born?

44553. What percent of all body heat escapes from the head?

44555. What is the second law of thermodynamics?

44557. In which year was the Tommy Woodcock trophy first awarded to the strapper of the winning Melbourne Cup horse?

44558. What is the country with the most official languages?

44560. Who on earth was the first person to walk around the world?

44561. What is a scold's bridle and how does it work?

44563. Why does the moon always keep the same face toward the Earth?

44564. Our moon has a proper name like all the other moons in the solar system do, but rarely is it used. What is it?

44565. Does Ken Dodd collect feather dusters or are his tickling sticks custom made?

44566. What model of Peugeot did Lt. Columbo drive and was he right in saying there were only three of that model in the United States?

44567. What was Canada's capital before Ottawa?

44568. What is the title of the Beach Boys' "lost album"?

44569. How many plays did William Shakespeare write?

44570. Who coined the word "psychedelic" and what recently happened to him?

44571. Which is the only Dickens novel with a female narrator?

44573. What was the Tunguska event and what probably caused it?

44575. Who were Beren and Luthien?

44578. When was the Concorde's last flight?

44579. The info with my CD of "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" claims that after the last piano chord of "A Day in the Life" has finished comes "a few seconds of 15 kilocycle tone, put there especially to annoy your dog at the request of John Lennon." My dog didn't respond to it. Has it worked for anyone else, and is it on more recent versions?

44580. Who was the first pontiff to cross the Alps and what was his mission?

44582. What happened to the ancient wonders of the world?

44584. What programs and projects have and still are looking for signs of extraterresterial life by monitoring radio signals from space?

44585. What is the term "quattrocento" in reference to?

44586. Why does popcorn pop?

44587. In which book would you come across the characters Rob Anybody, Daft Wullie and William the Gonnagle?

44588. In which book can you find a character named "Sakunthala"?

44589. Which state in India is called "God's own country"?

44592. The greatest number of pole positions achieved in a CART (Championship Auto Racing Teams) racing career is 67 by whom: Mario Andretti, Cale Yarborough, A.J. Foyt or Colin McRae?

44594. In the 1988 Seoul Olympics, what was the name and home country of the marathon runner whose father ran from the stands to help him across the finish line when it became obvious the runner was not going to make it?

44595. What is the Genesis Rock?

44596. Recently, has a large asteriod come close to hitting the earth?

44597. What was Lady Bird Johnson's first name?

44598. How much carbon does the average human adult convert and breathe out as carbon dioxide in a day? How much carbon is trapped from the air again by the photosynthesis of the average fully green-leafed oak tree in a day?

44599. What Asian country was renamed Thailand?

44600. There are two main claims made for the inventor of baking powder. Which food is one more famous for and who is the famous grandson of the other?

44602. How far can sunlight penetrate into the ocean?

44603. Where does most of the ocean salt come from?

44604. How much did American Airlines pay to buy out TWA?

44605. What is 25,000 miles per hour on Earth?

44606. What is 5,300 miles per hour on the moon?

44607. What is the largest living lizard and where is it found?

44608. In Quantum physics, what is Kirchoff's Law?

44609. What is the highest number of leaves ever found on a clover?

44610. What is trivia?

44611. What is the oldest disease, with cases dating back to 1350 BC?

44612. In the Chinese culture, what does a pair of Mandarin ducks symbolise?

44613. Why is the leek the national symbol of Wales?

44615. Which international cricketer has developed a ball bowled with an offbreak action that acts as a legbreak?

44616. What is the world's highest waterfall?

44617. After the Nile and the Amazon, what is the longest river in the world?

44618. When did the most severe earthquake in American history occur?

44619. What is the circumference of the moon?

44620. In which novel, short story or play does Richard commit suicide having left his trust fund and other properties to Tom?

44622. In hockey, what infraction causes the penalty shot?

44623. I recently read that some celebrity had two tonsillectomies because his tonsils grew back after the first one. Who might this have been and is there any possibility of it being true?

44624. Name two countries where the right to bear arms is written in the constitution?

44625. I hear that the Governor of California wants to become President of the United States. How would this be possible?

44626. In what do barristers carry their robes and wigs?

44628. If a diamond is the hardest substance on Earth, and it takes a diamond to cut a diamond, how was the first diamond cut?

44630. What was the name of James Bond's older brother?

44633. Jimi Hendrix is buried where?

44640. What is the densest substance on Earth?

44641. Can you see aqueous humour?

44645. Who murdered Pope John XIII and why?

44647. How did Alexander the Great come to his demise?

44648. The secondary winding of a transformer has an impedance of 10 ohms and 1500 turns. For the primary winding to have an impedance of 1000 ohms, how many turns must it have?

44649. In the comic strip 'Zits' Jeremy was conceived when his parents were listening to what song?

44652. Whatever happened to the guy who played Ashley in the movie 'Gone With the Wind'?

44653. Where does the meal 'Bubble and Squeak' get its name? Is it Cockney?

44654. What 16th century Spanish explorer conquered the Incan Empire?

44656. What are the world's two largest fresh water lakes?

44657. What figure of speech is represented in the sentence, "The car engine coughed and wheezed"?

44658. From where did the phrase "The world is your oyster" originate?

44659. What was the original name of the game show Jeopardy?

44661. How do you make gum?

44663. Who provided Scarlett's vomiting noises in the film 'Gone With the Wind'?

44664. Apart from mrsoliverwood, what is Abbot's Langley's other claim to fame?

44666. Who did Donald Sutherland name his son after?

44667. Which state capital had the word 'Great' dropped from its original name?

44668. What was the first sport ever to be caught on film?

44669. What colors do dogs really see?

44671. Wal-Mart is responsible for selling 26% of this household product in the United States. What is it?

44672. In minutes, what is the average length of President Bush's State of the Union speeches?

44674. What is the name of the group of people who mostly speak Yiddish?

44675. Which mountain is the highest point of Africa and is located near the equator?

44676. Who were the defendents at the Nuremburg Trials held during 1945 through 1946?

44677. In what specific type of human activity does a conscientious objecter refuse to participate?

44678. Who was the last US president to have fought in a war?

44680. Cassius Clay avoided the Vietnam war. Why and what were the consequences?

44681. Elvis Presley served in the armed forces. What was his unit, rank, and serial number?

44682. Which notorious book on geology was named after the belly button and why?

44683. Were the vitamins discovered in order? If so, what happened to vitamins B3 to B5, B7 to B11 and Vitamins F to J?

44684. Who ruled Britain for only a few days in AD271 and why has he now become famous?

44685. Which incumbent president was a classmate of President Clinton while they both studied at university?

44686. Which country has been named as the world's most disaster prone according to a Belgian think tank, The Centre for Research and Epidemiology of Disasters in 2000?

44687. Which Chinese leader was known as "Little Bottle" and why?

44688. Which saint spent the last forty-five years of his life sitting on top of a pole in Syria?

44689. From where does the English word "poppycock" (meaning nonsense) originate?

44691. I want to obtain five cases of the beer with the world's highest alcoholic content. Two inveterate tipplers from Tasmania are visiting soon, and I am keen to impress them. What is the name of the beer I will be ordering through my local liquor supplier?

44692. Can anyone please tell me who sings "That's Entertainment" at the beginning of the current Six Nations Rugby programme on BBC1?

44693. Who was St. Francesco di Paola?

44694. How many countries have no coastline?

44695. Who or what is the Borsalino hat named for?

44698. What, in particular, differentiates British stamps from those of the rest of the world?

44700. What happens to lactic acid after anaerobic respiration? How is it gotten rid of?

44701. Where in the body does carbon monoxide combine with haemoglobin?

44704. I always thought that Bobby Fischer was considered the greatest chess master, but recently I have heard that a few other people are also so considered. Who might these people be?

44705. In what states were gay marriages made illegal?

44706. Who won a Best Actor Oscar after previously winning one as the producer of a Best Picture winner?

44707. What was the only film released in the 1980's to win Best Actor and Best Actress?

44708. What was the only Best Picture winner during the 1970's which did not win for Best Director?

44710. What is the Merovingian Line, and why is it controversial?

44713. Who killed Charles Bronson's cat?

44718. In what city and state is Morehouse College located?

44723. What is the longest tennis rally ever recorded?

44730. What is a mandala?

44732. What was Shakespeare's greatest contribution to the English language?

44735. Who won a Best Actress Oscar for a role in a foreign language film?

44737. Who said, "Science is mankind's brother"?

44745. What was the first word spoken from the Moon?

44746. Who really was "The Last of the Mohicans" according to J. Fenimore Cooper? Was it the father, Chingachook, who outlived the son Uncas?

44747. In which year were red and yellow cards first used in an International Game?

44749. Who is 'The Third Man' in the Graham Greene novel of the same name?

44750. How common is heterochromia iridium, having two different eye colors, in humans?

44752. I hope this question is not off-key, but who invented the piano?

44753. There was a TV show in the late 70s or early 80s called 'Electra Woman.' What was her sidekick's name?

44755. There's only one thing you can do with a dead man. According to Miracle Max, what is it?

44756. How much more water does Lake Baikal have in it than does Lake Superior?

44757. In which place does Lake Baikal rank in surface area?

44759. For how long did the 1967 six day Middle East war last?

44761. Who are the top 20 oldest English football clubs?

44762. Are Coelacanths from the Family Coelacanthidae or Latimeriidae?

44763. Who premiered the violin concerto by Karl Goldmark?

44764. Who justified their wearing of pink silk underwear by saying, "I have a very delicate and sensitive cuticle which demands the finest covering"?

44772. Electrolysis is the process of what?

44773. In the film where memorable quotes such as "We'll always have Paris" and "hill of beans" are found, what is the type of aircraft that takes off with the leading lady?

44776. Who played the very first piano?

44778. To date, what is the most ever paid for an item on eBay and what was it?

44781. When was sushi invented?

44783. In which ficticious country would you find Ozzer, Wazzer, Tonker and Strappi?

44784. What is a cobber?

44785. What famous piece of writing starts "Ein tad"?

44786. "Life is like a box of chocolates." What was the name of the company that provided the chocolates in the film?

44787. If you were lucky enough to go to that wonderful country North Korea, what would be the first place that you would visit?

44788. What UK village, population of less than two dozen, is the most difficult to find and why?

44789. What causes dandruff?

44790. In the terms of the Acadamy Awards, who was "Oscar"?

44791. We all know what ambrosia is according to Latin drinking terms but what is frambesia?

44792. Who invented the wristwatch?

44793. What does patriotism mean?

44794. We have many disasters in the Philippines. What ferry was sunk not so long ago and what was the cause?

44795. What are the seven heavenly virtues?

44796. What middle aged, wrinkly Olympic gold medallist in swimming is trying to compete in the next one and is taking part in national trials?

44798. Who was the first child born to a mother and a father who had both traveled in space?

44800. What is the significance of the film reel on which "Oscar" stands?

44801. Where is the largest export harbour in the British Commonwealth?

44802. From which language do we get the word 'bandicoot'?

44803. Who caused the anthrax disease in the United States?

44805. Who took the photograph of Queen Elizabeth that appears in a new Canadian postage stamp?

44806. Which scientific term comes from a novel by James Joyce?

44808. Who was the first artist to sing the Christmas song 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer'?

44809. What is the origin of the lines "here comes a candle to light you to bed, and here comes a chopper to chop off your head" from the nursery rhyme 'Oranges and Lemons'?

44810. When and what was the first cell phone?

44814. Exodus 22,18 reads, "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." Was there a tradition of witchcraft in Biblical times?

44815. What was the name of the war and the years it took place that the United States fought between World War II and the Vietnam War?

44818. What are the biggest frogs, salamanders, and toads in the world?

44821. What was the name of the musical instrument which Sting was playing on his duet with Alison Krauss during tonight's Oscar broadcast?

44824. What are the "four sins crying to heaven for vengeance"?

44827. When was the first e-mail system developed and what did the first e-mail say?

44828. You have friends over for the evening for dessert and coffees. One requests 'panna cotta,' another settles for an 'affogato' and another decides on some 'cenci.' What are these sweet temptations?

44830. Is it true that absinthe, which has made a comeback in the last few years, no longer contains wormwood?

44832. From which part of South Africa does Charlize Theron come?

44833. Happy Dewi Sant's. Who was Dewi Sant and what do Welsh people do on this day?

44834. What film was nominated for eleven Oscars and won none?

44835. From where did Mrs. Michael Douglas get her middle name?

44836. Who won the Best Actor Oscar with the shortest performance?

44839. What was the name of the bloodhound on the TV show 'The Beverly Hillbillies'?

44841. What are the names of fictional hero Lara Croft's mother and father?

44964. Who's doing this and why is/are he/she/they doing this?

44967. What is the deepest lake in Britain?

44972. On Brad Paisley's CD 'Mud on the Tires' which song is for Brad's manager's wife, Carolyn?

44973. Why do dogs howl?

44974. What are the largest parts of the heart called?

44982. Does anyone know why they are called the Toronto Maple Leafs instead of the Maple Leaves?

44985. What is the link between cricketer Denis Compton and actress Charlize Theron?

44987. Which cricketer, who captained England when he was 23 years old, died at the age of 26?

44988. What unenviable "first" was "achieved" by William Sawtre?

44989. The 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympics saw an unforgettable performance by two brothers. Who were they and what did they achieve?

44991. What country has the largest production of diamonds?

44992. What is a "dark horse"?

44993. What is the name of the black dickey with a clerical collar attached worn by most clergymen?

44996. How many litres of blood can our heart pump around our body in one minute?

44998. What are the top three richest sports clubs in the world in terms of income?