Question: How many cubic metres is the space in a room four metres square and three metres high?
Answer: 48

Question: Which Australian city is considered to have the largest Greek population outside of Greece?
Answer: Melbourne

Question: Long wrap-around skirt meaning sheath or quiver - from Malay?
Answer: Sarong

Question: Massacre of an ethnic group - from Russian/Yiddish?
Answer: Pogrom

Question: The French term ligne (equating to 'line' in English) is used by makers of watches, buttons and hats as an expression of?
Answer: Size

Question: Piscine Molitor Patel is better known by what highly abbreviated name, being the central character of an eponymously titled novel?
Answer: Pi

Question: What instrument is the basis of the occupational name for a stringed instrument maker, notably of violins and guitars?
Answer: Lute

Question: How many square feet is a full sized (doubles) regulation tennis court (excluding the space around the marked lines to run about)?
Answer: 2,808sqft

Question: The Turbans, The Five Satins, and The Diamonds helped establish what musical style?
Answer: Doo-wop

Question: What psychological condition was named after Greek legend of a beautiful hunter who fell in love with his own reflection?
Answer: Narcissism

Question: Rosie47, named after a pet dog, is/was?
Answer: Harry Redknapp's secret Monaco bank account

Question: What is the regulation maximum width of the white baseline marking on a tennis court?
Answer: Four inches

Question: The Aquino, Arroyo and Cojuangco families have in recent times ruled what country?
Answer: The Philippines

Question: What car company was set up by Colin Chapman in 1952, subsequently succeeding in F1 racing?
Answer: Lotus

Question: What religious code refers to 'the three poisons' (or 'unwholesome roots') of ignorance, attachment, aversion, as the roots of all suffering? Islam; Buddhism; Christianity; Hinduism?
Answer: Buddhism

Question: The army bugle call meaning get ready/mounted and into line/parade is traditionally called?
Answer: Boots and Saddles

Question: The word membranophone technically refers to a?
Answer: Drum

Question: Carthage is a 3,000 year old urban settlement now part of what North African capital city?
Answer: Tunis

Question: What deceptive old name is given to a pudding of stewed fruit blended with custard/cream/similar?
Answer: Fool

Question: Greek 'skhizo' and 'skhizein' basically mean what?
Answer: Split

Question: Name the passenger vehicle famously lost with 36 fatalities on 6 May 1937 at New Jersey US?
Answer: Hindenburg

Question: Jurisprudence is the theory/philosophy of what?
Answer: Law

Question: Anthropomorphism refers to giving or attributing what qualities to something?
Answer: Human

Question: What is the food-shaped nickname of the London 2012 Olympics velodrome stadium?
Answer: The Pringle

Question: Named after its inventor and significant electricity pioneer, a protective meshed enclosure giving electrical protection is called a 'what' cage?
Answer: Farraday cage

Question: What chemical element is named from the French for charcoal?
Answer: Carbon

Question: What famously amateur world champion sportsman, who died in 2012, is quoted as saying, "I prefer the affection of of eight-million Cubans."?
Answer: Teofilio Stevenson

Question: Name Google's 3D mapping service, launched in the US in 2007?
Answer: Street View

Question: The Latin term meaning 'among other things' is?
Answer: Inter alia

Question: What prestigious learning institution is in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US?
Answer: Harvard University

Question: Tuber aestivum is better known as a type of what foodstuff delicacy?
Answer: Truffle

Question: Nexus is a brandname for a tablet computer belonging to which corporation?
Answer: Google

Question: The original primary and eponymous service of a barber was concerned with?
Answer: Beards

Question: Medically, miosis/myosis normally refers to the narrowing or constriction of the what?
Answer: Pupil

Question: Abloy, dimple, skeleton, Zeiss, master, and DND are types of what?
Answer: Keys

Question: As at July-August 2012 what site boasted the biggest McDonalds outlet in the world with 1500 seats?
Answer: London 2012 Olympics

Question: 'Normal' or Gaussian distribution in a graph is informally called a what shape (two word answer)?
Answer: Bell curve

Question: The Abraj Al-Bait Towers complex in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, at 2012 the 2nd tallest building globally, also boasts what world-beating feature?
Answer: Clocktower/clockface

Question: The acronym POTUS refers to what position?
Answer: President Of The United States

Question: In the musical story Brigadoon, the eponymous Scottish village appears one day every how many years?
Answer: Hundred

Question: The Trucial States became what Arab nation in 1971?
Answer: United Arab Emirates

Question: The 'sub-kingdoms' Blastocladiomycota, Microsporidia and Dikarya belong to the kingdom of organisms commonly called what?
Answer: Fungi

Question: With the symbol H what is the unit of inductance?
Answer: Henry

Question: Particularly related to a controversial foodstuff, the bodily intervention device/process called 'gavage' refers to what?
Answer: Force-feeding

Question: Dom Mintoff was prime minister of which country from 1955-8 and 71-84?
Answer: Malta

Question: The 'Occam's Razor' (or Ockham's Razor) principle asserts that reliable theories and explanations tend to entail minimal?
Answer: Assumptions

Question: A 'supermassive (what?)' is generally believed to be at the centre/center of the (our) Milky Way galaxy?
Answer: Black hole

Question: A study published in 2012 (by the UK National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) found that prolonged use of what tended to produce chronic ongoing tension headaches in sufferers?
Answer: Painkillers

Question: A Podiatrist is traditionally more commonly called a?
Answer: Chiropodist

Question: What is the Anglicized French word for fabric woven or knit from thin ribbons of metallic yarns, much loved by sci-fi costume designers and cabaret divas?
Answer: Lamé

Question: The UK-based multinational media/advertising corporation Hibu plc was previously named and retains branding based on which colour/color?
Answer: Yellow

Question: What French magazine was first to publish naked pictures of the Duchess of Cambridge in 2012?
Answer: Closer

Question: What island nation began modernizing reforms in the early 2000s when leadership passed from brother to brother?
Answer: Cuba

Question: What colour/color is the Swiss cheese Gruyère?
Answer: Yellow

Question: Named after a children's story character, what is the informal astrobiological term for the region around a star within which a planet with surface water could theoretically exist?
Answer: Goldilocks Zone

Question: The expression 'up to scratch', meaning fit for purpose, derives from a technical rule in what discipline?
Answer: Boxing

Question: The process by which cardinals meet to elect a new Pope is called the Papal (what?)?
Answer: Conclave

Question: The famous BBC Greenwich Meantime hourly signal 'pips' are closest to which musical note (according to ISO 16)?
Answer: B

Question: The Ottoman Empire (1299-1922) is otherwise defined as the empire of what modern nationality?
Answer: Turkish

Question: The New Model Army and The Levellers were groups in which war?
Answer: English Civil War

Question: Nintendo's Wii console launched in 2012 is the?
Answer: U

Question: Name the French president who began his term in 2012?
Answer: Francois Hollande

Question: Which famous hairdresser who died in 2012 created the wedge-bob?
Answer: Vidal Sassoon

Question: Who began his speech, "Where is Dave?.." at the 2012 UK Conservative Party Conference?
Answer: Boris Johnson

Question: What nationality is Carlos Slim, the richest person in the world according to Forbes 2012?
Answer: Mexican