Question: Which long-standing cartoon characters made their debut in 'Puss Gets The Boot' in February 1940, called originally Jasper and Jinx?
Answer: Tom and Jerry

Question: Cheese is said to combat tooth erosion because it contains what?
Answer: Alkali

Question: Which vegetable, of the species Brassica Oleracea, has the varieties Nevada and Canberra?
Answer: Cauliflower

Question: 18 year-old Fiona Butler, in an unpaid photoshoot, featured in Athena's iconic 1970's bare-bottom poster of what sport?
Answer: Tennis

Question: The British Assured Food Standards scheme for food and farm quality is represented in its branding and website name by a?
Answer: Red tractor

Question: Infrasound - sound lower than 20Hz (Hertz, or cycles per second) and typically undetectable by human hearing - is more commonly termed what?
Answer: Subsonic

Question: Which country has the internet domain .pl?
Answer: Poland

Question: The enzyme pepsin is released by cells in which part of the human body?
Answer: Stomach

Question: Croquembouche is a dessert tower made of what?
Answer: Profiteroles

Question: A muntjac is what type of animal?
Answer: Deer

Question: What (as at 2011) are the 'Next Eleven' (N-11) emerging countries identified by Goldman Sachs as having greatest potential (outside of the previously identied four 'BRIC' nations) of becoming some of the world's largest economies in the 21st Century?
Answer: Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, South Korea, Turkey, Vietnam

Question: Which vast retail corporation blamed a 'cottage industry of profit seekers' for exploiting and causing the effective withdrawal in 2011 of its strongly promoted 'price-check and refund-the-difference' offer to shoppers?
Answer: Tesco

Question: Black, Green and Oolong are types of what?
Answer: Tea

Question: What is the only country in the world not required to have its name on its postage stamps?
Answer: United Kingdom

Question: The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded annually in which European city?
Answer: Oslo

Question: What large media corporation suffered a serious hacking attack on its popular gaming and entertainment websites in May 2011, compromising personal details of over 100 million users?
Answer: Sony

Question: An Athenian legislator from 620BC known for his severity gave rise to what word describing harsh punishment or law?
Answer: Draconian

Question: What animal normally represents the box of low market share and low market growth in the Boston Matrix (or 'BSG Matrix' or 'Growth-Share Matrix') marketing model?
Answer: Dog

Question: What is the Japanese maker of soy sauce whose name means loosely 'ten thousand tortoise shells'?
Answer: Kikkoman

Question: In the context of financial services mis-selling, what product is abbreviated to PPI?
Answer: Payment Protection Insurance

Question: Female vocalist Omara Portuondo became famous in what internationally popular Cuban group of musicians?
Answer: Buena Vista Social Club

Question: Violeta Chamorro, Michelle Bachelet, Laura Chinchilla, and Dilma Rousseff share what achievement? Olympic record-holders; National leadership; Best-selling authors; Film noir stardom; or Diana Ross's Supremes?
Answer: National leadership

Question: Name the Trinidad and Tobago cabinet minister who resigned as vice president of FIFA in 2011 amid ongoing ethics investigations?
Answer: Jack Warner

Question: A dosimeter measures human absorption of what over a time period?
Answer: Ionizing radiation

Question: The human disease dropsy involves the accumulation of what in body cavities and tissue?
Answer: Watery fluid

Question: Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Answer: Amnesty International

Question: Of these sedimentary rocks, which one is not organic, being instead 'clastic'?
Answer: Shale

Question: What international contest awards the famous Claret Jug trophy?
Answer: British Open Golf Championship

Question: What color/colour is a polar bear's skin?
Answer: Black

Question: The stone, flint, is a form of what near-to-pure compound, formula SiO2?
Answer: Silica

Question: What country controversially won the bid to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup?
Answer: Qatar

Question: The 18th Duchess of the House of Alba, Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, holder of arguably more nobility titles than anyone globally, is what nationality?
Answer: Spanish

Question: The geometric shape ◎ (a circle within another) is known by what name, also a four-legged Dickens character?
Answer: Bullseye

Question: Arrange these UK Shipping Forecast areas in order, north to south?
Answer: Faroes; Irish Sea; Wight; Biscay; Trafalgar

Question: What German pharmaceuticals corporation developed the first Aspirin medication in 1897, and retains the trademark in much of the world today?
Answer: Bayer

Question: The port city of Latakia was besieged during 2011 by its own government forces, of what nation?
Answer: Syria

Question: The fixing of what to bridges and street furniture by courting couples became a nuisance craze for authorities in Italy (spreading elsewhere), prompted by Frederico Moccia's 2006 novel I Want You?
Answer: Padlocks

Question: The 'Travel Bookshop' bookstore in North London served as a location for what successful 1999 film?
Answer: Notting Hill

Question: Most commonly what note is the highest pitch open (unfretted) string on a standard/soprano ukulele?
Answer: A

Question: How many dots are on a (standard 1-6) die?
Answer: Twenty-one

Question: What is the traditional name for a women's shoe held in place by a strap behind the ankle above the heel?
Answer: Slingback

Question: In 2011 the US National Research Council suggested a clean-up of what exponentially increasing debris problem, using magnets, nets, and giant umbrellas?
Answer: Junk in space

Question: At what UK university was the country's first academic conference on heavy metal music?
Answer: Wolverhampton

Question: What is the currency of Brazil?
Answer: Real

Question: When bankers and brokers talk of M&A, what normally do they mean?
Answer: Mergers and Acquisitions

Question: In general a horse is distinguished from a pony at/over approximately what height, in hands, to the withers?
Answer: Fourteen

Question: Who Moved My Cheese? ?
Answer: Spencer Johnson

Question: The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care?
Answer: Dr Benjamin Spock

Question: Polly Toynbee is a British writer and journalist mainly on?
Answer: Politics

Question: What country features centrally and ironically in a map of Europe on the reverse face of Euro coins?
Answer: Uk

Question: Name the English 1960s playwright (of Loot and Entertaining Mister Sloane), imprisoned with (and later murdered by) boyfriend Kenneth Halliwell for defacing library books in 1962?
Answer: Joe Orton

Question: The Omega Speedmaster is claimed (at 2011) to be the only watch worn on the?
Answer: Moon

Question: What Canadian technology service suffered a major internet outage in October 2011, angering millions of its customers unable to use its email and popular 'messenger' services, and prompting calls for its owners to sell up and exit?
Answer: BlackBerry

Question: The Reverend Thomas A Dorsey is linked with the origins of what musical singing style?
Answer: Gospel

Question: What is the (full name of the) United Nations' agency for nuclear technology, abbreviated to IAEA?
Answer: International Atomic Energy Agency

Question: What is the colourful nickname of the International Business Machines (IBM) corporation?
Answer: Big Blue

Question: Marketing/technology term for the busiest day each year for online shopping?
Answer: Cyber Monday

Question: Odysseus's faithful hound in Homer's Odyssey?
Answer: Argos

Question: Whom did Forbes Magazine list as the most powerful woman in the Southern Hemisphere in 2011?
Answer: Dilma Rouseff

Question: Unrelated, what is a set of slats and a museum?
Answer: Louvre