No. 242.

The People's Republic of China have had a basketball player serve as their flag bearer in every Olympics since 1984.

(Source: 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony commentary.)

No. 241.

Paraquay have the only flag which has a different design on the front and back.

(Source: 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony commentary.)

No. 239.

As of 2012, London is the only country to host the Summer Olympics thrice.

(Source: 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony.)

No. 210.

Sweden has it's own Twitter account, @sweden. Random citizens get to "curate" it for a week each.

(Source: http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2011/12/16/sweden-lets-citizens-take-over-its-official-twitter-account-this-is-either-genius-or-insanity/)

No. 179.

Jerry Springer was once Mayor of Cincinnati.

(Source: Documentary commemorating twenty years of The Simpsons. Verified via Wikipedia.)

No. 178.

Grover Cleveland is officially both the 22nd and the 24th President of the United States. He served non-consecutive terms, but somehow is counted twice.

(Source: QI.)

No. 114.

The country with the most universities is India.

(Source: Coffee shop quiz. Verified by http://www.aneki.com/universities.)

No. 112.

The only country with an English name to end in H is Bangladesh.

(Source: Coffee shop quiz.)

No. 111.

At least one colour of the Olympic rings can be found on every national flag in the world.

(Source: Coffee shop quiz/told by friend. Verified by http://www.janecky.com/olympics/rings.html.)

No. 110.

Nepal is the only country with a non-rectangular flag.

(Source: Coffee shop quiz/The Big Bang Theory. Verified by Wikipedia.)

No. 102.

New Zealand is named after Zeeland (or Zealand), a province in the Netherlands.

(Source: Friend looked it up. Verified by Wikipedia.)

No. 97.

The episode titles of excellent radio comedy series Cabin Pressure were intended to run in alphabetical order (i.e. the first is Abu Dhabi, the second Boston, the third Cremona, and so on.). However, they have not been broadcast in the order they were intended, so the pattern has been broken.

(Source: Wikipedia.)

No. 36.

Battle in East Sussex is named for the Battle of Hastings, which occured near there.

(Source: Told by friend. Verified by Wikipedia.)

No. 33.

Gatwick literally means 'farm where goats are kept'.

(Source: @qikipeida - the official Twitter feed of the QI elves/researchers.)