Question: The term and tactical use of a 'nightwatchman' arises in which sport?
Answer: Cricket

Question: Which 'BRIC' country re-elected female president Dilma Rousseff of the Workers' Party, 2014?
Answer: Brazil

Question: The Anglicized Italian term 'cognoscenti' refers to people who are?
Answer: Informed/expert

Question: Youku Tudou is (early 2000s) China's most popular?
Answer: Video-sharing website

Question: Yildiz Holding, one of the world's largest confectionery corporations and acquirer of United Biscuits in 2014, is what 'MINT' nationality?
Answer: Turkish

Question: Name the largest pre-Columbian/Hispanic city of South America, in Peru, and also the name of a popular song from Cuba?
Answer: Chan Chan

Question: What whole number is the fourth root of 2,401?
Answer: 7

Question: Concentric graduated shading, traditionally used on western stringed instrument soundboards and mid-1900s cartoons, is called?
Answer: Sunburst

Question: Which statesman used the Russian maxim 'doveryai, no proveryai' ('trust, but verify') to ease US/USSR negotiations at the end of the cold war?
Answer: Ronald Reagan

Question: Pāramitā, pāramī, or the Ten Perfections, are an aspirational model of which belief system?
Answer: Buddhism

Question: What vocal musical term means literally 'in the style of the church/chapel'?
Answer: A Cappella

Question: Collagen, elastin, keratin, myosin, and lectin are?
Answer: Proteins

Question: Edema (or oedema, or dropsy) refers to body tissue?
Answer: Swelling

Question: An offence in sport intended to stop a threatening move or gain other advantage is misleadingly and euphemistically called a '(What?) foul'?
Answer: Professional

Question: The ischium, related to 'sciatic', is the lower part of which human bone?
Answer: Pelvis

Question: Glycyrrhizin, from the Glycyrrhiza glabra plant, used in medicine, is more generally known for the distinctive sweet characteristic of what confection, famously produced (among other varieties/sources) in Pontefract, W Yorkshire?
Answer: Liquorice

Question: Name Bette Midler's early-career pianist and co-producer of The Divine Miss M debut album, who became a major star in his own right?
Answer: Barry Manilow

Question: What controversial process uses a 'proppant' with 'slickwater' or gel/foam including additives such as hydrochloric acid, guar gum, radioactive tracers?
Answer: Fracking

Question: Ishmael, the first son of Abraham, based on biblical account refers metaphorically also to a?
Answer: Outcast

Question: The architectural term colonnade refers to a series of what features?
Answer: Columns

Question: The word porous literally refers to what characteristic in a substance?
Answer: Holes

Question: In the longstanding Samsung logo which letter has a missing major part?
Answer: A

Question: Built 1723-25, the famous Spanish Steps are in which capital city?
Answer: Rome

Question: The official European hazard symbol of a bold black X in a yellow/orange square indicates that a substance is harmful and?
Answer: Irritant

Question: What is the number 333 in Roman numerals?
Answer: Cccxxxiii

Question: 'Picaboo' was the 2011 launch name of what popular online application, whose logo is based on Ghostface Killah of the Wu-Tang Clan?
Answer: Snapchat

Question: In South Korea a chaebol is a significant family-owned/operated?
Answer: Corporation

Question: The Soma Cube is a classic 3D puzzle comprising how many angular shapes, being all possible combinations of 3 or 4 wholly-joined cube-parts?
Answer: 7

Question: Neoteny, considered highly significant in human evolution, is the presence of (What?) characteristics in adolescence/adulthood?
Answer: Infant/foetal

Question: The last Russian monarchy, ended by the 1917 revolution, was the House of?
Answer: Romanov

Question: What means throw and vomit, is a term of endearment, and a radial clamp?
Answer: Chuck

Question: Name Finnish writer Tove Jansson's Hippo-like children's character franchise, originally in Swedish books 1945-93, TV/film and the popular '(What?) World' theme park in Naantali, Finland?
Answer: Moomin

Question: Planchets, flans and blanks are synonyms for pieces of metal used to make?
Answer: Coins

Question: Quinoa, an ancient edible seed crop, saw major 21st century productivity and conflict between which two nations of its continent of origin?
Answer: Bolivia and Peru

Question: The Coca Cola corporation launched 'Fairlife' in 2014, a 'premiumized' version of?
Answer: Milk

Question: The traditional English exclamation 'Strewth' is an 1800s abbreviated form of what older expression?
Answer: God's truth

Question: The nomadic Tuareg people are the traditional inhabitants of?
Answer: Saharan North Africa

Question: Who announced in 2014 intention to sue the BBC for privacy breach, in broadcasting a police raid on his home?
Answer: Cliff Richard

Question: The term 'grandee', a high-ranking person, referred originally to noblemen of?
Answer: Iberia

Question: Althaea officinalis, an ancient African medicinal plant and sugar sweet ingredient, is commonly known as (What popular confection)?
Answer: Marshmallow

Question: The old British 'threepenny bit', the Australian 50c (1969-2000s), and the 2017 redesigned British £1 coin each have how many sides (not including the two faces)?
Answer: £3,000

Question: The winner of the World Scrabble Championship in 2014 received prize money of?
Answer: £3,000

Question: Under standard conditions, the lightest and least dense of all metallic elements is?
Answer: Lithium

Question: Granulated sugar is processed into 'icing' sugar basically by?
Answer: Grinding it finer

Question: Roald Dahl's children's novel Esio Trot features which creature?
Answer: Tortoise

Question: What famous Australian product did Cyril Callister devise in Melbourne, in 1922, partly in response to war-related shortages of the British version?
Answer: Vegemite

Question: A cogwheel icon typically represents what on many websites/apps?
Answer: Settings

Question: Leo Tolstoy's book War and Peace concerns the 1812 invasion of Russia by?
Answer: France

Question: What is the general term for the form of physics concerned with sub-atomic particles, atoms, molecules, and their radiation?
Answer: Quantum

Question: Which whole number is the cube root of 2197?
Answer: 13

Question: Which Japanese corporation produced the first compact electronic calculator, released in 1957?
Answer: Casio

Question: Which fictional small people, in a famous 1939 film and prior LF Baum book series, became in 2007 the largest group represented by a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?
Answer: The Munchkins

Question: The medieval profession called a 'bard' equates nowadays to a what?
Answer: Poet

Question: In Italy/Italian a 'Cicisbeo' is a married woman's?
Answer: Male lover/companion

Question: An unconventionally creative idea is called?
Answer: Left-field

Question: """I used to work at a perfume factory but was (what pun meaning 'dismissed')""?"
Answer: Sent packing

Question: The Poinsettia plant has which colour/color flowers?
Answer: Yellow

Question: What was Norwegian Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki raft made from, which he sailed from S America to Polynesia in 1947, to demonstrate early Polynesian immigration?
Answer: Balsa

Question: Name the Sovient Union policy of governmental openness, implemented by Gorbachev from 1985?
Answer: Glasnost

Question: The central blue 'Ashoka Chakra' icon on India's national flag represents a?
Answer: Wheel

Question: According to Scottish Highland tradition a glengarry is a?
Answer: Brimless hat

Question: The two other angles in a right-angled triangle must always add up to how many degrees? 60; 90; 120; or 180?
Answer: 90

Question: Which 'historical nationality' of Spain is directly north of Portugal?
Answer: Galicia

Question: What onomatopoeic term refers to a 'modern jazz' form popularized in the 1940s by Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie and others?
Answer: Bebop