Question: """Spokoynoy nochi, malyshi!"" (""Good Night, Little Ones"") is a long-running (since 1964) famous children's TV program in?"
Answer: Russia

Question: What multi-award-winning 1990s US children's animated alliterative TV series featured todders called Angelica, Tommy, Chuckle, Lil, and Phil?
Answer: Rugrats

Question: Latin 'Libens Volens Potens' means?
Answer: Ready Willing Able

Question: The female former Hewlett-Packard CEO who vied to be US Rebublican Presidential candidate 2015/16 is Carly?
Answer: Fiorina

Question: Sphenisciformes, whose wings evolved into flippers, are an order of creatures called?
Answer: Penguins

Question: In electronics, what is the basic function of a capacitor in relation to electrical energy?
Answer: Storing

Question: The radioactive chemical element made for the first time in the 1940s, named after the place of its discovery is?
Answer: Americium

Question: Towards which direction (North, East, South or West) is a rainbow normally seen in the afternoon?
Answer: East

Question: Polenta in Italian cuisine is a?
Answer: Flour/dough

Question: What organization was revealed in Sep 2015 to have exposed itself to $billions in fines by cheating tests for nitrogen oxide emissions?
Answer: Vw

Question: What popular 20thC movie franchise predicted life and technology at 21 Oct 2015?
Answer: Back to the Future

Question: Misheard/called 'Pizza Marines' when founded in 1965 and renamed in 1968, what restaurant chain claims most outlets globally (since 2011)?
Answer: Subway

Question: What food means metaphorically typical/ordinary/day-to-day, especially one's work?
Answer: Bread and butter

Question: Kolkata Metro is what nation's famous first metro/underground railway network?
Answer: India

Question: 'Hunt-and-Peck' is a metaphorical reference to single-fingered?
Answer: Typing

Question: Latin/anotomical 'Pes', what part of the body contains the talus and calcaneus bones?
Answer: Foot

Question: Kosher refers to food and food preparation laws for?
Answer: Jews

Question: The average min/max temperature (deg C) and rain (mm) in Goa (India) on New Year's Day are roughly?
Answer: 20/30/0

Question: The human Frenulum Linguae is webbed tissue between?
Answer: Tongue/Mouth-floor

Question: Sage, thyme, rosemary, and marjoram are members of the plant genus?
Answer: Mint

Question: The CAC40 is a main stock market index of?
Answer: France

Question: What is five-eighths divided by five-twelfths?
Answer: One-and-a-half

Question: What affectionate word is a Blackadder TV character and famous English sea rescue heroine?
Answer: Darling

Question: In 2015 Kuala Lumpar Airport advertised unclaimed property (requiring collection in 14 days to avoid disposal) of three?
Answer: Jumbo Jets

Question: Ares, equating to the Roman god Mars, is the Greek god of?
Answer: War

Question: Ford claimed to launch the first 'e-(What?)' at the 2015 Mobile World Congress Show?
Answer: Bike

Question: At auction in 2015, $1.2m was paid for Don McLean's original handrwitten lyrics for which 1971 big hit song?
Answer: American Pie

Question: In 2015 what global contest ruled against the use of swimsuits for its 114 competitors, for the first time since 1951 inception?
Answer: Miss World

Question: Who stepped down as chief of 21st Century Fox in 2015?
Answer: Rupert Murdoch

Question: In 2015 evidence of water was found on?
Answer: Mars

Question: Which leading professional networking tech corporation, whose main revenue is selling user access/details to recruiters, bought the Lynda learning company for $1.5bn in 2015?
Answer: Linkedin

Question: 'Dismaland' was the temporary theme park/exhibition of which famous 'anonymous' artist?
Answer: Banksy

Question: Lars Lokke led his centre-right party to 2015 government election victory in?
Answer: Denmark

Question: Published in 2015, Go Set a Watchman, written before her only prior and enduringly popular book of 1960, was written by whom?
Answer: Harper Lee

Question: Whose 2015 album is 'Purpose'?
Answer: Justin Bieber

Question: Which company suffered a major scandal in 2015 for widescale unethical 'inertia' charging for its 'Prime' service?
Answer: Amazon

Question: What dating app caused problems for itself in 2015 when increasing its charges?
Answer: Tinder

Question: Brazil began to nationalise its (What?) in 2015?
Answer: Rainforest

Question: A rivulet is a miniature?
Answer: Stream/river

Question: From Latin, casein is the main protein in?
Answer: Milk/cheese

Question: The long-standing currency of Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania (at early 2000s) is the?
Answer: Shilling

Question: Dragonflies have the sharpest vision of any insect, each compound eye having how many lenses?
Answer: 30,000

Question: Roughly how many truck drivers are in India?
Answer: Five million

Question: A rock containing a mineral that can be viably extracted for use is called an?
Answer: Ore

Question: What is a ninth divided by a third?
Answer: A third

Question: What was the Russian city of Stalingrad renamed in 1961, after Europe's longest river?
Answer: Volgograd

Question: Chinese Emperor Jing Di's 141BC tomb revealed in 2015 the early use of?
Answer: Tea leaves

Question: What Anglicized-French word referring to prestige derives from the verb to press?
Answer: Cachet

Question: Vaquita porpoise 'maw', an illegally trafficked delicacy in Chinese cuisine, priced upwards of $10,000/kilo, is the creature's?
Answer: Swim bladder

Question: Hex/Allen, Slot, Cross, and Phillips are types of?
Answer: Screw-drives

Question: From Latin 'sapo', saponification is a process of producing?
Answer: Soap

Question: Cryptically, what garden hut bulb means 'reveal a mystery', or 'provide an explanation'?
Answer: Shed light

Question: The fitness corporations Fitbit and Fitbug, subject of legal actions 2013-16, pioneered?
Answer: Wearable technology

Question: Which one of these is not a cloud type?
Answer: Fluphosoftus

Question: Barber, Debussy, Glass and Holst are?
Answer: Composers

Question: Mach 1 refers to the speed of?
Answer: Sound

Question: Common interpretation (UK/US) of a 'duplex' home mostly equates to?
Answer: Maisonette

Question: Chesterfield, Ottoman, Tallboy, and Cheval are?
Answer: Furniture

Question: Martini, Rossini, Mojito, and Sazerac are?
Answer: Cocktails

Question: The character Shylock appears in which Shakespeare play?
Answer: The Merchant Of Venice

Question: Excluding Australia and continental land masses what is the largest island in the world?
Answer: Greenland

Question: What is the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain more popularly known as?
Answer: Eros

Question: Who is the Roman Goddess of the hunt?
Answer: Diana

Question: The Phoenix Park murders of 1882 took place in which city?
Answer: Dublin

Question: Who was Henry VIII's third wife?
Answer: Jane Seymour

Question: In Greek mythology who was Apollo's twin sister?
Answer: Artemis

Question: Assassinated in 1965, who was Malcolm Little better known as?
Answer: Malcolm X

Question: In 1902 the Treaty of Vereeniging brought which war to an end?
Answer: The Second Boer War

Question: Convict Robert Franklin Stroud was better known as whom?
Answer: The Birdman of Alcatraz

Question: What scientist and inventor was responsible for the Decibel unit of measurement?
Answer: Alexander Graham Bell

Question: Which is the lightest element?
Answer: Hydrogen

Question: Abraham Maslow's original 'Hierarchy of Needs' theory comprises how many stages?
Answer: Five

Question: Paraguay, Bolivia, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Nepal, and Lesotho have no?
Answer: Coastlines

Question: Radioactive decay of naturally occurring Uranium eventually concludes as?
Answer: Lead

Question: When an entity/person disposes of significant assets, perhaps unwisely, to raise money, this is called 'Selling off the family (What?)?
Answer: Silver

Question: Butterfly, Trudgen, Back, Side, and Breast are?
Answer: Swimming strokes