Question: Ostler is an old occupational name for someone who looks after?
Answer: Horses

Question: Pyongyang is the capital of which controversial nation?
Answer: North Korea

Question: Englishman Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, (1716-83) is a globally famous?
Answer: Landscape/garden architect

Question: The most common material used in lightning protection is (What?) and its alloys?
Answer: Copper

Question: Dr Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel), author of 'The Cat in the Hat' and 'Green Eggs and Ham', is most famous in what literary genre?
Answer: Children's

Question: From Latin meaning 'small room' what are the 'building blocks of life' and smallest units able to replicate independently?
Answer: Cell

Question: Within body language the physical space/closeness between people is significant and called?
Answer: Proxemics

Question: Within body language, a person's surrounding space, and positioning with objects/others are?
Answer: Very significant

Question: When a person tilts his/her head to one side this generally indicates?
Answer: Submissiveness/trust

Question: What Latin phrase means operational method, or the way a job is done?
Answer: Modus Operandi

Question: Which English cathedral has 'The Clock with no Face'?
Answer: Salisbury

Question: W Somerset Maugham's novel The Moon and Sixpence is based on the life of which painter?
Answer: Paul Gaugin

Question: In which body of water are the Balearic Islands?
Answer: Mediterranean Sea

Question: Who was King of Egypt from 1936-52?
Answer: Farouk

Question: The Cockney rhyming slang 'Bread', meaning money, is fully 'Bread and...' what?
Answer: Honey

Question: Malenkov, Bulganin, Khrushchev, and Kosygin are names of 1950-60s USSR (Soviet Union)?
Answer: National leaders

Question: Large lightweight bricks called 'breeze blocks' (also CMUs - concrete masonry units) were traditionally made/named from?
Answer: Ash/cinders

Question: 'Lorem ipsum' (from Latin delorem ipsum, 'pain itself'') is?
Answer: Jumbled Latin 'placeholder' text in draft documents/graphics

Question: What is the 2015-originating portmanteau term referring to the UK leaving the EU?
Answer: Brexit

Question: The German 'dachshund' means '(What?) dog'?
Answer: Badger

Question: What French word refers to a terracotta dish and a pâté typically made in one?
Answer: Terrine

Question: Mythological Greek nymphs are spirits of nature imagined as beautiful?
Answer: Young women

Question: A pollywog or porwigle in England is more generally known as a?
Answer: Tadpole

Question: The famous relationships/mutual awareness model used in leadership, abbreviated from the inventors' Christian names is called the (What?) Window?
Answer: JoHari

Question: In association football, Bobby Moore, Franz Beckenbauer, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Lionel Messi, are considered among the greatest (What?) besides among the greatest players of all time?
Answer: Captains

Question: Who invented the jet engine?
Answer: Frank Whittle

Question: England cricketer Denis Compton played for which county club?
Answer: Middlesex

Question: The city of Bulawayo is in which African country?
Answer: Zimbabwe

Question: Catherine de Medici was the wife of which French monarch?
Answer: Henri II

Question: Kenneth Kaunda was the first president of which African country?
Answer: Zambia

Question: Who was the president of Yugoslavia, 1953-80?
Answer: Tito

Question: James Mason played Sir Randolph Nettleby which 1984 film?
Answer: The Shooting Party

Question: A Pearmain is what type of fruit?
Answer: Apple

Question: Who was the last King of Iraq?
Answer: Faisal the Second

Question: Who banned Christmas in England between 1647 and 1660?
Answer: Oliver Cromwell

Question: Traditional in Germany at Christmas, what sort of food is stollen?
Answer: Cake

Question: What type of foodtsuff is marscarpone?
Answer: Cheese

Question: What does the accounting acronym FIFO mean?
Answer: First In First Out

Question: What month in 2007 was the smoking ban in England introduced?
Answer: July

Question: What month in 2007 did Tony Blair depart as UK prime minister?
Answer: June

Question: Which country's victory at Wembley in November 2007 put the home nation out of the European Cup?
Answer: Croatia

Question: Which world champion 400m runner successfully overturned her Olympic Games ban for missing drug tests?
Answer: Christine Ohuruogu

Question: Which northern England city was flooded by torrential rain on on 25 June 2007?
Answer: Hull

Question: In what US city did Barack Obama announce his presidential candidacy in February 2007?
Answer: Springfield

Question: Which corporation bought 1.6% of Facebook for $240m?
Answer: Microsoft

Question: The Kate Moss Collection was launched by what store chain?
Answer: Top Shop

Question: Which movie star left the much publicized 'rude pig' phone message for his twelve year old daughter?
Answer: Alec Baldwin

Question: Which major city switched off its lights for an hour on the evening of 31 March 2007 as a political statement about climate change?
Answer: Sydney

Question: Which piano-playing singer's first hit was The Fat Man?
Answer: Fats Domino

Question: American DJ Robert Weston Smith was better known by what stage name?
Answer: Wolfman Jack

Question: What was Hugo Montenegro's instrumental hit, composed by Ennio Morricone for the film of the same name?
Answer: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Question: Who originally fronted Herman's Hermits?
Answer: Peter Noone

Question: Who sang the title song of the film The Girl Can't Help It?
Answer: Little Richard

Question: The Copacabana nightclub was in which city?
Answer: New York

Question: In which year was British Summertime first introduced?
Answer: 1916

Question: What item of apparel is a homburg?
Answer: A hat

Question: What was the original use of the building which now houses the Tate Modern art museum in London?
Answer: Power station

Question: What is the technical term for a solid figure with five plane (flat) faces?
Answer: Pentahedron

Question: In which country was Greenpeace founded?
Answer: Canada

Question: Who succeeded James Callaghan as leader of Britain's Labour Party?
Answer: Michael Foot

Question: In which year was the United Nations founded?
Answer: 1945

Question: What did Colonel Thomas Blood attempt to steal in 1671?
Answer: The Crown Jewels

Question: Which Polish-born naturalised British novelist's real surname was Korzeniowski?
Answer: Joseph Conrad

Question: Which American poet and humanist wrote and continually revised a collection of poems called Leaves of Grass?
Answer: Walt Whitman

Question: Which pioneering American poet and story-teller wrote The Fall of the House of Usher?
Answer: Edgar Allen Poe

Question: What Japanese term (meaning 'fold' and 'book') refers to a book construction made using concertina fold, with writing/printing on one side of the paper?
Answer: Orihon

Question: Around 100AD what type of book construction began to replace scrolls?
Answer: Codex

Question: What influential American philosopher and author wrote the book 'Walden, or Life in the Woods'?
Answer: Henry David Thoreau

Question: Which great thinker collaborated with Sigmund Freud to write the 1933 book Why War?
Answer: Albert Einstein

Question: The word 'book' is suggested by some etymologists to derive from the ancient practice of writing on tablets made of what wood?
Answer: Beech

Question: A bibliophile is a lover of what?
Answer: Books

Question: In which year was Britain's first adhesive postage stamp the Penny Black issued?
Answer: 1840

Question: In 2008 billionaire financier Carl Icahn joined the board of what large internet corporation in a deal which saw him cease his fight to oust its leaders?
Answer: Yahoo

Question: Human Rights Watch announced in October 2008 that what country is the world's most ignored tragedy?
Answer: Somalia

Question: Who wrote the much covered and 2008 hit song Hallelujah?
Answer: Leonard Cohen