Question: The name of what dessert made with sweetened milk and rennet (the digestive enzyme which curdles milk) can also mean a pleasure trip usually taken on others expense?
Answer: Junket

Question: What is the term for the food preparation in which an ingredient, usually in a shallow dish, is topped with a browned crust?
Answer: Gratin

Question: What vegetable that is also called a Swedish turnip is avoided by many older Germans as they consider it 'famine food'?
Answer: Rutabaga

Question: Which hazelnut liqueur comes in a bottle with a knotted white cord around its waist that is meant to mimic the religious garments of a friar?
Answer: Frangelico

Question: The edited photograph of Hungarian tourist Péter Guzli was seen by millions while he was standing where on a noted date of recent times?
Answer: On the top of the World Trade Center (with a plane approaching in the background)

Question: What is the name of the mall in Kenya where terrorists attacked shoppers in 2013 and took 67 lives? (hint: sounds similar to the name of the complex that is associated with Nixon)
Answer: Westgate

Question: A 2012 research study in Australia determined that the most perceived trustworthiness in a particular profession was of someone wearing what instrument as compared to a reflex hammer, surgical scrubs, otoscope, or a pen?
Answer: Stethoscope

Question: The names of the command module and lunar module of Apollo 10 were named for the characters of what story that was told in nearly 18,000 strips?
Answer: Peanuts

Question: What was the subject of French sociologist Émile Durkheim's 1897 work that studied Catholic and Protestant populations and that resulted in sociology getting established on its own?
Answer: Suicide

Question: What type of relationship first explored in Symposium by a famous philosopher was described as 'Christian apology' of Greek love?
Answer: Platonic love

Question: What ubiquitous feature of television sitcoms was invented by sound engineer Charley Douglass who noticed that live audiences were unreliable for providing something?
Answer: Laugh track

Question: The German word ahnentafel is a term for a numbering system used in what particular field? (hint: using it eliminates the need to draw a tree)
Answer: Genealogy

Question: What type of newspaper that usually carries off-beat stories gets its name from what a London pharmaceutical company called its compressed pills?
Answer: Tabloid

Question: Which anthropomorphic cartoon character whose parsimony typifies the stereotype of miserly Scotsmen was possibly modeled after the Scottish industrialist Andrew Carnegie?
Answer: Scrooge McDuck

Question: While recovering from wounds received in World War I, Dewitt Wallace had the idea to gather a sampling of articles from various publications; this resulted in the birth of what popular magazine?
Answer: Reader's Digest

Question: What ubiquitous font created by designer Vincent Connare was said to have been inspired by the graphic novels The Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen?
Answer: Comic Sans

Question: What term that refers to the highest person of a household staff has also come to mean the manager of an email list?
Answer: Majordomo

Question: During the 1970s, what name was given to the illegal immigrants/asylum seekers from Vietnam referring to their mode of transport?
Answer: Boat people

Question: Though the effect on the sales of Halo remains unknown, what did the Mexico City police offer to anyone who turned in a weapon in an attempt to lower crime in 2007?
Answer: Xbox

Question: 'The Amazonian Guard' of 40 African women protected which leader?
Answer: Gaddafi of Libya

Question: Because of their widespread usage on the flags of African countries, the following sets of colors are dubbed the 'Pan African Colors.' What are the two missing colors? 1. Red, green, and ___ 2. Red, green, and ___
Answer: Black; gold

Question: The BAM railway (...-Amur Mainline) in remote Russia is named for the Amur river and what other geographic feature?
Answer: Lake Baikal

Question: In April 2014, which tiny nation became the first East Asian country to adopt Islamic sharia law?
Answer: Brunei

Question: The symbol Taegeuk that means/indicates polarity and which is similar to yin/yang can be prominently seen on what insignia?
Answer: Center of the South Korean flag

Question: St. Pauli in Hamburg, Soi Cowboy in Bangkok, De Wallen in Amsterdam and Sonagachi in Kolkata, all of which I've only read about and never visited, are famous as what?
Answer: Red-light districts

Question: The Semperoper is the opera house of what European city? (hint: Slaughterhouse-Five)
Answer: Dresden

Question: The Semien Mountains whose highest peak is Ras Dashen lie in what African country?
Answer: Ethiopia

Question: What are the only two countries that border both the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea?
Answer: Egypt and Israel

Question: Geographic features called rilles that come in sinuous, arcuate and straight types are a prominent part of the landscape where?
Answer: Moon

Question: A rock called Heel Stone that measures 16 feet above the ground and whose previous names include Friar's Heel and Sun-stone lies outside the main entrance to what monument?
Answer: Stonehenge

Question: Primorsky Stairs, a stairway of 192 steps immortalized in film lore, is a formal entrance from the direction of the Black Sea into which European city?
Answer: Odessa

Question: The novel as well as the movie Girl with a Pearl Earring based on painter Vermeer's work was set in which Dutch city also known for its pottery?
Answer: Delft

Question: If the coastline paradox is ignored, which country in the world has the longest coastline?
Answer: Canada

Question: Which magnificent Tibetan landmark escaped damage during the Cultural Revolution of China in 1966 through the personal intervention of Zhou Enlai?
Answer: Potala Palace

Question: Which prominent mountain has three volcanic cones called Kibo, Mawenzi, and Shira?
Answer: Kilimanjaro

Question: The 19th century civic planner Baron Haussman is associated with the rebuilding of which city?
Answer: Paris

Question: Which major German seaport on the Baltic sea was for several centuries the capital of the Hanseatic League and was also known as 'Queen of the Hanse'?
Answer: Lübeck

Question: What is the name of the famous rock on the bank of the Rhine near St. Goarshausen, Germany that soars 120 meters above the water line and appears in several tales of German folklore?
Answer: Loreley or Lorelei

Question: What is the largest and most populous country in the world situated only on islands?
Answer: Indonesia

Question: The summit of which mountain in Ecuador is generally regarded as the spot that is farthest from the center of the Earth?
Answer: Chimborazo

Question: What is the largest landmass that lies entirely in the Pacific Ocean?
Answer: New Guinea, the second largest island in the world

Question: Which Peruvian city was the historic capital of the sun-worshipping Inca empire?
Answer: Cusco

Question: By political definition, what is the essential difference between Great Britian and United Kingdom?
Answer: Northern Ireland

Question: The Khalistan movement that was active in the later part of the 20th century sought to create an independent state for what religious group in a territory mostly in the North-West region of India?
Answer: Sikhism

Question: Taking a break from tradition, Jimmy Carter decided to make his official portrait a photograph instead of a painting. Which person, to whom he also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1980, did he commission?
Answer: Ansel Adams (1902-1984)

Question: Germany's Operation Rösselsprung during WWII was aimed against which leader of partisans who later became one of the few East European leaders to enjoy good relations with the west?
Answer: Josip Broz Tito (1892-1980)