Australia has many world records, including the world's longest what? It's 5,531 km long.
Fence
What tile-sorting video game, created by Russian software engineer Alexey Pajitnov in 1984, is one of the best-selling games of all time, with over 35 million copies sold for the Game Boy alone?
Tetris
Usually served with a broth or in a sauce, what is a type of pasta comprising a filling enveloped in thin pasta dough?
Ravioli
Off the coast of which archipelago was the Mary Celeste discovered?
The Azores
What type of crab lives in a cast-off mollusc shell?
Hermit crab
Which team has been promoted to and relegated from the Premier League the most?
Birmingham City (12)
Originally called Number Place, what is the logic-based, number-placement puzzle in which the objective is to fill a 9x9 grid with digits?
Sudoku
The eight vertical rows of a chessboard are called files, what name is given to the eight vertical rows?
Ranks
On which date was the Mary Celeste discovered?
04/12/1872 (1872 will do - double points for exact date)
Which queen was a lover of both Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony?
Cleopatra of Egypt
Who's this?
Linford Christie
What is the American English name for the paper-and-pencil game for two players, 'X' and '0', who take turns marking spaces in the 3x3 grid?
Tic-tac-toe
What is the phenomenon called in which light bends when passing through a lens?
Refraction
What type of ship was the Mary Celeste?
A brigantine
What was the series of spoof spy movies starring Mike Myers as a resuscitated 1960s agent in the 1990s?
Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery
How many stomachs does a cow have?
Four
Which game features cells that have three states: A covered cell is blank and clickable, an uncovered cell is exposed, and a flagged cell is marked by the player to indicate a potential 'bomb' location?
Minesweeper
Kigali is the capital of which country?
Rwanda
Who was the final captain of the Mary Celeste?
Gilman C. Parker (Parker accepted)
What is the name of the fourth book in the 'Harry Potter' series?
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
What is hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia the fear of?
(Also known as sesquipedalophobia)
Long words
During WW2, some of the cryptologists who worked for Bletchley Park - famously cracking the Enigma Code - were selected after doing well in a competition solving what?
Crosswords
The heaviest of the naturally occurring Noble gasses, which radioactive gas is emitted by granite rock formations?
Radon
Which revered author was responsible for the misnomer 'Marie Celeste'?
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
In which city is the Doge's Palace?
Venice