Question: Sound reflected back within c.50 milliseconds is technically called what, commonly abbreviated as a sound production effect?
Answer: Reverberation

Question: Canon law is rules/regulations according to the authority of the?
Answer: Church

Question: What old Japanese battle cry and emperor greeting means 'ten thousand years of life (to you)'?
Answer: Banzai

Question: The simplest alcohol (CH3OH), 'wood spirits', first produced by burning pine, is technically known as?
Answer: Methanol

Question: What 'umlauted' German word meaning above/over/across/about is, since the 1990s, a popular English prefix referring to something very big?
Answer: Über

Question: What Italian originating pasta is most popularly consumed in 'elbow' variety in US/Canada?
Answer: Macaroni

Question: The butternut squash/pumpkin grows directly on a?
Answer: Vine

Question: Name Captain Flint's quartermaster in the novel Treasure Island?
Answer: Long John Silver

Question: In which country is the Bay of Pigs?
Answer: Cuba

Question: What iconic Louisiana Creole dish, named from a French Provencal word, is based on Spanish paella, typically of meat and vegetables, stock and rice?
Answer: Jambalaya

Question: What is a continuous low musical note, annoying monotony, and a controversial flying machine?
Answer: Drone

Question: Which regional territory experienced the Umbrella Revolution in autumn 2014, being a protracted protest against electoral constraints?
Answer: Hong Kong

Question: London's Claridge's hotel restaurant attracted pavement demonstrations in 2014 after objecting to a customer's?
Answer: Breastfeeding a baby

Question: What's the only major traditional British pantomime based on a real life person?
Answer: Dick Whittington

Question: Anser is the genus name for which family of creatures whose fat is traditional in cooking?
Answer: Goose

Question: The original meaning of capital (financial/money) referred to 'caput', head, specifically head of?
Answer: Cattle

Question: The Italian term 'Intermezzo' refers to a piece of (What?) between two larger related creations?
Answer: Music

Question: The main filling of a Scotch pie, (or shell pie) is traditionally?
Answer: Mutton

Question: Menchie's is a popular US international chain founded to supply what frozen product?
Answer: Yoghurt

Question: Febrile refers to what human condition?
Answer: Fevered

Question: The Greek word praxis refers to what, contrasting with theory?
Answer: Practice

Question: What internet mechanism is named from a popular US confection, thought originated by Chinese Californians?
Answer: Cookie

Question: What's the cube root of 125,000?
Answer: 50

Question: Mate (or maté, yerba mate, or chimarrão) is a popular South American-originating?
Answer: Drink

Question: What metal, whose symbol is its first and third letters, is loosely called spelter?
Answer: Zinc

Question: Noted for his humilty and rejection of personal wealth/benefits Jose Mujica was the former guerrilla fighter and popular president of which South American country 2010-15?
Answer: Uruguay

Question: Taisho (1st World War), and Heisei (late 1900s/early 2000 - 'the lost decade') are periods of which nation's history?
Answer: Japan

Question: What discipline is practised according to Vaganova/Russian, French, and Cecchetti methods?
Answer: Ballet

Question: The areca nut (often with betel leaf), a popular stimulant in Asia, is traditionally prepared for?
Answer: Chewing

Question: US billionaire publisher and 3-term New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg reportedly targeted which role for 2016?
Answer: London Mayor

Question: What US popular culture magazine title, founded 1967 by Jann Wenner, was inspired by three so-named 1950s/60s musical sources?
Answer: Rolling Stone

Question: A patten was a medieval version of what modern fashionwear?
Answer: Platform shoe

Question: What controversial politician sought to sell AC Milan in 2015 to finance his quest for rehabiliation and power?
Answer: Silvio Berlusconi

Question: The American pika, closely related to rabbits and hares, is commonly called a?
Answer: Coney

Question: In January 2015 economist Yanis Varoufakis became a leading debt-restructuring negotiator for?
Answer: Greece

Question: Italian Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840) was a composer and virtuoso player of the?
Answer: Violin

Question: The Latin 'Tabula Rasa' (a term covering various philosophical concepts, e.g., humans minds are 'empty' at birth) translates literally to mean what?
Answer: Blank Slate

Question: Relevé refers in ballet to standing while raising?
Answer: Heels

Question: What weapon is named from the French word meaning scratch or graze?
Answer: Rifle

Question: Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum and Martin Balsam had cameo roles in the 1991 remake of what 1962 film in which they starred?
Answer: Cape Fear

Question: Swiss investigation and US prosecution mid-2015 for mismanagement/corruption was directed at?
Answer: Fifa

Question: Poets' Corner, which commemorates and contains remains of writers, is in which London building?
Answer: Westminster Abbey

Question: Name the celebrity entrepreneur who sought to be US Republican presidential candidate in 2015?
Answer: Donald Trump

Question: Lorelei is a famous 120 rock, and its mermaid-like water spirit, on/associated with which German river?
Answer: Rhine

Question: A sudden unofficial walkout or industrial action by workers is called informally a (What?) strike?
Answer: Wildcat

Question: Permian, Eocene, Silurian, and Pleistocine are?
Answer: Geological periods

Question: Which nation acquired sovereignty of Carribean archipelago Puerto Rico in 1898, ongoing as its territory to 2010s?
Answer: Usa

Question: The Japanese cartoon character devised in 1974 worth over $5bn as a TV/fashion franchise is 'Hello (What?)'?
Answer: Kitty

Question: The seahorse (Hippocampus) is technically a Fish; Mollusc; Reptile; or Plant?
Answer: Fish

Question: In the iconic 1962 western film, the fictional character Liberty Valance features in the story/title as the man who is?
Answer: Shot

Question: 6,859 is the cube of what number, (less than twenty)?
Answer: 19

Question: In 2015, 21st Century Fox company launched what Simpson's show fictional beer brand in S America?
Answer: Duff

Question: What Native American Apache Indian chief's name became an exclamation of exhilaration?
Answer: Geronimo

Question: The old English tithe, was a tax taken for the church/clergy equating to a?
Answer: Tenth

Question: What is the cube root of an eighth?
Answer: A Half

Question: What chemical element, symbol Cr, is named due its colourful/colorful compound effect?
Answer: Chromium

Question: The technical term 'lean-burn' originally refers to less polluting versions of what energy technology?
Answer: Internal combustion engine

Question: The essential constituent of the Chinese culinary delicacy 'Bird's Nest Soup' is?
Answer: Saliva

Question: Copper takes its name from which country, where it was mined in Roman times?
Answer: Cyprus

Question: In Germany a gessellschaft is a?
Answer: Company

Question: In August 2015 Hamas claimed to have intercepted an Israeli (What?) equipped for spying and armed attack?
Answer: Dolphin

Question: The iconic protected scientifically studied Zimbabwean lion killed by a US recreational hunter in 2015 was?
Answer: Cecil

Question: Ilya (pronounced 'eelya') Kuryakin is a?
Answer: Man from UNCLE

Question: The Anglicized Japanese word futon basically refers to a?
Answer: Mattress

Question: What informal boxing term arose from Muhammad Ali's defeat of George Foreman in 1974, in which Ali covered up against the ropes, causing Foreman's exhaustion from sustained ineffectual punching?
Answer: Rope-a-dope

Question: Which famous corporate logo changed to a flat colour/color sans serif font in its first major change since 1999?
Answer: Google