Question: The chemical prefix glyco refers to what common desirable commodity?
Answer: Sugar

Question: Millefiore is a highly detailed and colourful decorative art of what material?
Answer: Glass

Question: The Cadbury Report of 1992 established the first major code for what regulatory aspect of business/economics?
Answer: Corporate Governance

Question: In which city are the 11sqkm Nazi party rally grounds and buildings which hosted Hitler's vast gatherings 1933-38?
Answer: Nuremberg

Question: The 1950-60s French-developed 'Séquentiel couleur à mémoire' was the first format for what in Europe?
Answer: Colour/Color Television

Question: Which sea, with ports Venice and Split, is the northernmost part of the Mediterranean Sea?
Answer: Adriatic Sea

Question: The word 'idea' derives from Greek meaning the sense to?
Answer: See

Question: A satisfying, balanced and nutritious meal is said to be what shape?
Answer: Square

Question: A dosimeter measures human absorption of?
Answer: Ionizing Radiation

Question: Who retained a weakness where held and dipped by his mother into the river Styx to make him immortal?
Answer: Achilles

Question: How many full years elapsed between the start of the year 17BC, and the start of the year 17AD?
Answer: 33

Question: In the mechanics of gryoscopes and maritime compasses, etc., the inner/outer rings which form a self-levelling frame is called a?
Answer: Gimbal

Question: The oldest Sanskrit literature and Hindu scriptures are called what, meaning 'knowledge' in Sanskrit?
Answer: Vedas

Question: Prasar Bharati (at 2014) is India's major?
Answer: Public service broadcaster

Question: What historical Indian figure is fondly called Bapu?
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi

Question: Which desert's edge is found at Nigeria's northernmost borderland?
Answer: Sahara

Question: Nigeria's international telephone country code is?
Answer: 234

Question: Nigeria's internet country top level domain is?
Answer: .ng

Question: Indonesia's bad-smelling Rafflesia Arnoldii is the world's largest (what?), and a national emblem?
Answer: Flower

Question: Bandung, Tangerang, Palembang, Semarang and Serang are popular Indonesian?
Answer: Cities

Question: 'Magnificent Century' is among what hugely popular Turkish export to Arab and Balkan regions in the 2000s?
Answer: TV Drama

Question: Kemalism, modern Turkey's foundational six-principled socio-political philosophy, is also called the Six?
Answer: Arrows

Question: What is modern Turkey's capital city?
Answer: Ankara

Question: The turkey bird, named mistakenly after the country Turkey, originated in?
Answer: Mexico

Question: An electronic signal/echo test and a famous golf brand is?
Answer: Ping

Question: Titicaca is the largest lake in?
Answer: South America

Question: The term pannier (e.g., motorbike side-box) derives from what sort of basket?
Answer: Bread

Question: 'The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street' is a nickname for?
Answer: The Bank of England

Question: Chinese technology entrepreneur Jack Ma founded which vast internet corporation, which (in the 2010s) handles c.80% of China's online shopping?
Answer: Alibaba

Question: Baroque (a dramatic heavily detailed style of art form) began in?
Answer: 1600s Rome

Question: The human body's axilla or oxter is more commonly called the Elbow; Armpit; Upper jaw; or Eyelid?
Answer: Armpit

Question: Copacabana district/beach in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro is named after a?
Answer: Bolivian virgin saint

Question: What short word prefixes these words to create five different words?
Answer: I

Question: Aonori, Hijiki, Kombu, Nori, and Wakame are?
Answer: Edible Japanese seaweeds

Question: What common item, which most adults would have in their pocket or bag, has a bow, blade, and bittings?
Answer: A key

Question: A foundry is specifically involved in what metal process?
Answer: Casting

Question: What historical region equating to NE Germany and N Poland, meaning 'by the coast', gave its name to local breeds of modern dog, goose and sheep?
Answer: Pomerania

Question: A soccer goal is what dimensions, yards wide and feet high?
Answer: 8x8

Question: The headquarters of FIFA are in Brussels; London; Zurich, or Oslo?
Answer: Zurich

Question: Soccer has been an Olympic event since?
Answer: 1900

Question: Name the core specialism of notable Anglo-Danish industrialist Sir Ove Nyquist Arup (1895-1988) and the global (Arup Group) corporation he created?
Answer: Structural engineering

Question: Calabria, flanked by the Tyrrhenian and Ionian Seas, is the southern peninsular of which country?
Answer: Italy

Question: The traditional generic name of the 1880s bike design which improved the penny-farthing (high-wheel) and basically endures today is the '(What?) bicycle'?
Answer: Safety

Question: What New York venue gave its name to an Olympic track cycle event, alternatively called the American race?
Answer: Madison Square Garden

Question: The traditional (English translated) award given to the last place rider in the Tour de France is the?
Answer: Red lamp

Question: What is the main organic ingredient of Grappa, the strong Italian alcholic drink?
Answer: Grapes

Question: A longhorned grasshopper or bush cricket is also known as a?
Answer: Katydid

Question: The Berlin S-Bahn is what sort of system?
Answer: Railway

Question: What parts of the human body are surrounded by protective skin called the eponychium and paronychium?
Answer: Nails

Question: Traditional 'western' breadmaking generally requires flour defined as?
Answer: Strong

Question: A payment or loss representing a tiny fraction of the payee's wealth is metaphorically called 'Small (What?)', actually made in medieval times for children and poor folk?
Answer: Beer

Question: The US-originating slang 'wallwart' is used in which connection?
Answer: Electrical

Question: The European supermarket corporation Netto was founded and remains (at 2014) headquartered in?
Answer: Denmark

Question: What is a 3D crystal structure in physics and a criss-cross pastry pie top?
Answer: Lattice

Question: The energy possessed by something due to its motion is called?
Answer: Kinetic

Question: The capacity in megabytes (MB) of a standard Compact Disc is about?
Answer: 737Mb

Question: What traditional American word for an ancient weapon refers to the gravity-based accelerational effect of a celestial object on another, or on a spacecraft?
Answer: Slingshot

Question: Which spice is named from Hungarian for pepper?
Answer: Paprika

Question: Brimstone is an old word for which chemical element?
Answer: Sulphur

Question: A nuclear component which emits radioactivity for an industrial/commercial purpose is called a?
Answer: Source

Question: What term denoting a jointly won race originally meant it was void and required a re-run?
Answer: Dead Heat

Question: The Hawaiian Islands are closest longitudinally to whose territory?
Answer: Usa

Question: Albion is the oldest word for?
Answer: England/Britain

Question: Which big-selling artist 1999-2003 shares her name with the founding Queen of Carthage?
Answer: Dido

Question: What edible weed is named from 'lion's tooth'?
Answer: Dandelion

Question: What is the UK's most senior royal palace and official residence of the monarch?
Answer: St James's Palace

Question: The Gannex brand, popularised by British prime minister Harold Wilson in the 1960s, was a?
Answer: Raincoat

Question: Historically, malmsey wine came from what nation and its surrounding islands?
Answer: Greece

Question: The 1850s 'open-hearth process' was used in producing?
Answer: Steel

Question: Bullace is a thorny shrub with fruit similar to small uncultivated?
Answer: Plum

Question: The Japanese term Ekiden refers to a long race characterized by?
Answer: Relay

Question: The mainly Australian/NZ rugby term 'five-eighth' refers to a player positioned behind his own?
Answer: Scrum-half