Question: Which author admitted that large passages of his best seller were copied from the book The African by Harold Courlander?
Answer: Alex Haley for Roots

Question: """Hey There"" is a song from a Broadway musical in which workers of a factory making what are demanding a raise of seven-and-a-half cents?"
Answer: Pajamas (The Pajama Game)

Question: The musical ensemble arrangement called 'gamelan' which often accompanies wayang puppet performances (among others) is a tradition of what Asian country?
Answer: Indonesia

Question: As its lyrics attest, what 1974 rock classic that celebrates a place was written in response to two songs of Neil Young that were derogatory of the American South?
Answer: """Sweet Home Alabama"""

Question: What song by The Doors that has a strong reference to the Oedipus complex got them fired from the Whisky a Go Go nightclub in West Hollywood?
Answer: """The End"""

Question: What musical instrument that takes its name from a muse was used in riverboats and in circuses because of its loudness?
Answer: Calliope

Question: 'Kling Klang' is the private music studio of which highly influential electronic music band from Germany?
Answer: Kraftwerk

Question: Traditionally believed to be a set of variations from 'I know that my redeemer liveth' from Handel's Messiah, what is the most common name for a melody used by a set of clock bells to strike the hour?
Answer: """Westminster Chimes"""

Question: In the American music industry, what is the term given to the illegal practice of payment by record companies for the broadcast of recordings on music radio, in which the song is presented as being part of the normal day's broadcast?
Answer: Payola

Question: Which much-covered New Orleans song tells of a parade collision between two 'tribes' of Mardi Gras Indians was written under the original title "Jock-A-Mo" in 1954?
Answer: """Iko Iko"""

Question: With respect to Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list, what is specifically common to the songs "Blue Suede Shoes", "Mr. Tambourine Man", and "Walk This Way"?
Answer: Songs that made it to the list twice under different artists

Question: What is the musical technique of 'word painting' (also known as tone painting or text painting)?
Answer: Music mimic the literal meaning of a song

Question: Which British musician who worked on engineering projects as Paul McCartney's 'Wild Life' and Pink Floyd's' The Dark Side of the Moon' also started an eponymous progressive rock band that was active between 1975 and 1987?
Answer: Alan Parsons

Question: Whose posthumous compilation album Legend (1984) is the best-selling reggae album ever, with sales of more than 12 million copies?
Answer: Bob Marley (1945-1981)

Question: The career of chemist Thomas Midgley, Jr. has been summed up by an environmentalist as "... had more (negative) impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth's history." Can you name one of his two most recognized contributions?
Answer: Leaded gasoline (or) Freon

Question: In Astronomy, what is the term for a minor celestial body that shares an orbit with a larger body?
Answer: Trojan

Question: The synthetic drug clomifene that comes in white 50 mg doses is prescribed to overcome what condition?
Answer: Infertility

Question: Which American chemist who discovered covalent bond and coined the term 'photon' among other things is probably the greatest scientist to never win the Nobel Prize?
Answer: Gilbert Lewis

Question: The baryon asymmetry problem in physics deals with the anomaly of why the universe has any matter at all and why it is not filled with photons only. This is because the Big Bang should have produced equal amounts of what?
Answer: Matter and antimatter

Question: To a celestial body, what type of region is its Hill sphere?
Answer: Region in which its satellites can be found

Question: Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo that was established in 1925 as Africa's first national park was created mainly to protect what animal?
Answer: Gorilla

Question: On September 16, 2011, Google paid a tribute to the Hungarian physiologist Albert Szent-Györgyi with a doodle of oranges. What is Szent-Györgyi's best known discovery?
Answer: Vitamin C

Question: When Wolfgang Pauli postulated about this charge-less particle, he called it ___. When James Chadwick discovered a much more massive particle, also charge-less, he too gave it the same name. To clear the confusion, Pauli's discovery was renamed as what, alluding to the Italian word 'bambino'?
Answer: Neutrino (original name - neutron)

Question: What 'v'engeful weapon is the first known human artifact to achieve sub-orbital spaceflight?
Answer: V-2 rocket (V is 'Vergeltungswaffe', German for 'reprisal weapon')

Question: Don't get too close. In astronomy, what does the term Roche limit signify?
Answer: The distance within which a celestial body will disintegrate due to a second body's tidal forces exceeding the first body's gravitational self-attraction.

Question: Used in medical talk (think PET or CAT), what is the name given to a two-dimensional image of a slice through a three-dimensional object?
Answer: Tomogram

Question: In mathematics, what is a statement that appears likely to be true but has not been formally proven to be true under the rules of mathematical logic?
Answer: Conjecture

Question: Which element is added to rubber in the vulcanization process?
Answer: Sulphur

Question: Developed by the Soviet Union in 1961, what was the 'royal' nickname for the largest and most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated?
Answer: Tsar Bomba ('Emperor Bomb')

Question: Which Muslim scholar of the middle ages is referred to as the 'father of chemistry' and is credited with the introduction of the experimental method into alchemy and the invention of processes still used in modern chemistry?
Answer: Abu Musa Jabir ibn Hayyan (721-c.815), best known as Geber

Question: What nutrients required by the human body for metabolic reactions are classified as water-soluble and fat-soluble? Did you take yours today?
Answer: Vitamins

Question: What was discovered by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes in 1911 when he was studying the resistance of solid mercury at cryogenic temperatures?
Answer: Superconductivity

Question: In the world of health, what is an iatrogenic disease? The cure is worse than ...
Answer: Adverse effect associated with a medical practitioner or treatment

Question: Which phrase, also the title of a 2004 Ashton Kutcher movie, encapsulates the notion of 'sensitive dependence on initial conditions' of Chaos theory?
Answer: Butterfly effect

Question: What scale measures cola at 2.5, orange juice at 3.5, beer at 4.5, coffee at 5.0, tea at 5.5, milk at 6.5 and blood at nearly 7.4?
Answer: pH scale

Question: The use of what equipment in cricket which has come to sad attention in Nov, 2014 was pioneered into regular usage by English batsman Dennis Amiss?
Answer: Helmet

Question: Naismith's rule, not connected with basketball, is a rule of thumb that helps plan what popular activity?
Answer: Hiking

Question: Which land-locked European country whose teams have excelled in water polo and fencing holds the record for having won the most medals of any nation to never host the Olympics?
Answer: Hungary

Question: In baseball, what derogatory term in attributed to a player who strikes out four times in a game? It derives from 'hat trick' and the fact that such a feat deserves a bigger hat.
Answer: Golden sombrero

Question: What sports gets its name due to its originally being played using barrels and sticks, with the barrels stimulating horses?
Answer: Water polo

Question: The baseball player Glenn Burke is credited with pioneering what form of now ubiquitous gesture?
Answer: High-five