Question: What religious term originally referring to the the most educated and literate officials and leaders within the church, evolved into a workplace title nowadays positioned at the other end of an organizational hierarchy?
Answer: Clergy

Question: In which city was scientist Marie Curie born, whose residents are known as Varsovians?
Answer: Warsaw

Question: Aviator and explorer, Richard Byrd, is said to have been the first person to reach where by air, in 1929?
Answer: The South Pole

Question: Which planet in our solar system is almost twice as far away from the Sun as Jupiter?
Answer: Saturn

Question: In 2011 a London ice cream parlour was in the news for selling an ice cream at £14.99 a scoop made from what?
Answer: Human breast milk

Question: What is Uganda's staple crop, of which each adult consumes over three-times bodyweight annually?
Answer: Bananas

Question: The mummified ancient man, thought killed by an arrow 5,300 years ago, is known as '(who?).. the Iceman' ?
Answer: Otzi

Question: Which hollywood sex symbol, star of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, died in 2011, aged 89?
Answer: Jane Russell

Question: 100 degrees Celsius is how many degrees Fahrenheit?
Answer: 212

Question: What former president of a European country was charged in 2011 with misusing public funds while mayor of his country's capital city?
Answer: Jacques Chirac

Question: Which online music service announced in March 2011 achieving one million paying subscribers across Europe, of a total exceeding 10 million users?
Answer: Spotify

Question: Which British crime writer helped clean and preserve thousands of 3,000 year-old carved ivory pieces, found in the Assyrian capital of Nimrud, 1949-63, in excavations led by her then husband Sir Max Mallowen?
Answer: Dame Agatha Christie

Question: Mattel Inc closed its vast flagship retail store for what iconic product/brand in Shanghai, China, two years after its launch in 2009?
Answer: Barbie

Question: In which European city are the headquarters of the European Central Bank?
Answer: Frankfurt

Question: Which Jewish holiday is also known as the Day of Atonement?
Answer: Yom Kippur

Question: The Tinikling, a dance using bamboo poles, is the (or a) main national dance of which 7,000-island nation?
Answer: Philippines

Question: The Hallé Orchestra, named after its Anglo-German founder (born Karl Halle) is based in which city?
Answer: Manchester

Question: What 1986 disaster caused pollution across Europe by the radioactive isotope caesium-137, which at least 25 years later still required livestock to be scanned on some UK upland farms?
Answer: Chernobyl

Question: The liqueur sambuca originates from which European country?
Answer: Italy

Question: A stimpmeter measures the speed of a ball over what surface?
Answer: Golf putting green

Question: The Scoville Scale is used to measure the heat of what?
Answer: Chili peppers

Question: Eutrophication is the addition of natural or artificial nutrients to what, causing plant growth?
Answer: Water

Question: Alberto Grando, who died in 2011 aged 88, was whose motorcycle companion in the 1950s?
Answer: Che Guevara

Question: Which is the only Portuguese-speaking country in the Americas?
Answer: Brazil

Question: Strangely derived from Latin meaning ship, relating to maritime/direction, what is the central area of a church called?
Answer: Nave

Question: The 'cardinal points' are the four main points on what?
Answer: Compass

Question: Butoh, a ritualistic emotional dance involving extreme movement and stillness is from which country?
Answer: Japan

Question: The Law of Large Numbers is a principle which seeks to explain what, commonly considered inexplicable?
Answer: Coincidences

Question: What is the substance made from petroleum used for road surfacing, whose name derives from Greek meaning 'of foreign origin'?
Answer: Asphalt

Question: The huge American springtime festival of film, music and technology SXSW is held where?
Answer: Austin, Texas

Question: Name the UK's greatest Paralympic medal winner (as at 2011)?
Answer: Tanni Grey-Thompson

Question: What piece starts at square A1 on a chessboard?
Answer: White Castle

Question: Who wrote the opera Aida?
Answer: Giuseppe Verdi

Question: Name Garry Trudeau's army-related cartoon strip?
Answer: Doonesbury

Question: The word quibble is said (by the OED and other sources) to have originated probably as a term in what type of professional documents?
Answer: Legal/Law

Question: In the 2001 official UK national census what religion did 390,000 people incredibly claim to be?
Answer: Jedi

Question: Name the US soldier arrested and imprisoned in 2010 in relation to Wikileaks' publication of thousands of secret US Defense documents, and subject to humanitarian protests about his treatment?
Answer: Bradley Manning

Question: Printer paper typically graded at 90 or 100 refers to 90 or 100 what?
Answer: Gsm

Question: Mixing blue, red, and green light produces what colour/color?
Answer: White

Question: Nate Dogg who died age 41 in 2011 found fame in what performance genre?
Answer: Rap

Question: What is the main cereal component of UK flapjacks, known as Hudson Bay Bars in the USA?
Answer: Oats

Question: Olympic cycling (as at 2012) is divided into what four sections?
Answer: Road, Track, Mountain Biking, BMX

Question: What nation ended conscription to its Bundeswehr in 2011?
Answer: Germany

Question: Recep Tayyip Erdogan took office in 2003 (2011 serves still) as prime minister of which country, connecting Europe and Asia?
Answer: Turkey

Question: In what 'royal' village was Princess Diana born?
Answer: Sandringham

Question: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was elected president in 2005 of which war-torn African country, bordered by Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Côte d'Ivoire?
Answer: Liberia

Question: What city, named after a month of the year, claims in recent tradition to host the largest street carnival in the world?
Answer: Rio de Janeiro

Question: US traitor Iva Toguri d'Aquino was better known by what name?
Answer: Tokyo Rose

Question: What is the subtitle of Shakespeare's play 'Twelfth Night'?
Answer: What You Will

Question: The Hubbard Medal, whose past winners include Sir Ernest Shackleton, Charles Lindbergh, and the Apollo 11 crew, is awarded by which society?
Answer: National Geographic Society

Question: According to the Bible, how old was Methuselah when he fathered Lamech?
Answer: 187

Question: The World Heritage city of Kandy is on which Asian island, whose name means in Sanskrit 'venerable island', and whose previous colonial name is strongly associated with tea?
Answer: Sri Lanka

Question: What is Ananas Comosus, defined as as 'multiple fruit consisting of coalesced berries'?
Answer: Pineapple

Question: The D H Lawrence novel The Plumed Serpent is set in which country, bordered on the south-east by Guatemala, Belize and the Caribbean Sea?
Answer: Mexico

Question: Which publishing firm did Carmen Callil found in 1973, whose name means a domineering woman?
Answer: Virago

Question: Roman Emperor Claudius was said to have been poisoned by a dish of what?
Answer: Mushrooms

Question: What was the very Greek middle name of Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis?
Answer: Socrates

Question: What Russian word meaning 'restructuring' was a political movement in the 1980s?
Answer: Perestroika

Question: What is an early sacrificial move in chess, usually of a pawn, to gain advantage, which has entered language with similar wider meaning?
Answer: Gambit

Question: In 1901 the artists Wassily Kandinsky, Rolf Niczky, Waldemar Hecker, and Wilhelm Hüsgen founded the progressive Phalanx art group in which country?
Answer: Germany

Question: Gambrius, legendary King of Flanders, is the unofficial patron and mythical inventor of which drink?
Answer: Beer

Question: Which strait, named after a famous Portuguese-Spanish explorer, separates Chile and Tierra del Fuego?
Answer: Strait of Magellan