Question: What's the traditional name for a cockerel or rooster that's been castrated, to improve the quality of its meat?
Answer: Capon

Question: What creature is Equus africanus asinus?
Answer: Donkey

Question: The 'Last Adam' is an alternative name for whom or what?
Answer: Jesus Christ

Question: The lowest pitch string on a conventionally tuned violin is?
Answer: G

Question: A pointe shoe is worn in?
Answer: Ballet

Question: Named after a German physicist, what is the international (SI) unit of frequency, defined as one cycle per second?
Answer: Hertz

Question: In maths/logic, the process of using one or more statements/facts to achieve a logical conclusion is known as?
Answer: Deduction

Question: Who wrote The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Das Kapital (1867)?
Answer: Karl Marx

Question: In categorizing workplace skills, Emotional Intelligence (EQ) typically represents (What?) skill?
Answer: Soft

Question: Satin is traditionally/originally made from what fibre?
Answer: Silk

Question: What (at 2015) is the only major nation of the world which charges income tax on its citizens working overseas?
Answer: Usa

Question: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are collectively known as (What?) religions, referring to their founding biblical character?
Answer: Abrahamic

Question: Vande Mataram (I praise thee, Mother) is the national song of which BRIC nation?
Answer: India

Question: Author Malcolm Gladwell popularized the notion (2000s) that to become truly expert at something a minimum of how many hours practice is required?
Answer: 10,000

Question: The surname Sawyer referred to a?
Answer: Wood/stone-worker

Question: What modern word for careless writing derives via its Latin meaning, to write?
Answer: Scribble

Question: Name the only five nations which (to 2012) have participated at every Summer Olympic Games in the modern era (since 1896)?
Answer: Greece, Australia, France, Great Britain, Switzerland

Question: The cylindrical roller in a traditional typewriter is a?
Answer: Platen

Question: The Indian wind instrument, the pungi (also been or bin), is associated with what street activity?
Answer: Snake charming

Question: The emblem of the Rainforest Alliance, which promotes and certifies sustainable rainforest business globally, is a green?
Answer: Frog

Question: Expressed traditionally as N s, what in physics is the product of mass and velocity?
Answer: Momentum

Question: FAST is the very apt acronym for recognizing and reacting to what sort of medical emergency?
Answer: Stroke

Question: The German Imannuel Kant, Englishman Bertrand Russell, and American John Dewey, were notable?
Answer: Philosophers

Question: What is a feature of wood, sand, cereal, and also 0.0648 grams?
Answer: Grain

Question: The popular slogan, originating 1930s, for a persisting leading brand is "Don't say brown, say (What?)'?
Answer: Hovis

Question: What word meaning official procedure derives ultimately from Greek root words for first and glue?
Answer: Protocol

Question: What word, from a US dietary reformist, refers to unsifted wholewheat flour?
Answer: Graham

Question: The British term 'The Gnomes of Zurich' originated in the 1960s to disparage?
Answer: Swiss financiers

Question: The long-standing flag of New Zealand (to 2015) has how many stars, based on Crux, the Southern Cross constellation?
Answer: Four

Question: The 17th century mythical French creature, the Hippogryph/Hippogriff is a hybrid of?
Answer: Horse-Eagle

Question: 12 inches or a foot equates to roughly how many centimetres?
Answer: 30.5

Question: Which 1900s time-travel movie franchise correctly predicted automatic self-tightening shoes for 2015?
Answer: Back to the Future

Question: What did Russian authorities list as an impairment to safe driving in 2014/15?
Answer: Transgender/Transexuality

Question: What US city is originally associated with Dixieland (jazz)?
Answer: New Orleans

Question: 15 June 2015 is the 8th centenary of what seminal governance and human rights instrument?
Answer: Magna Carta

Question: From Greek for wing and lizard, what name was given to a flying reptile of the Jurassic/Cretaceous periods?
Answer: Pterosaur

Question: The mid-1900s western political fear of communism's potential to spread nation-to-nation is called the '(What?) Theory'?
Answer: Domino

Question: The sepals or calyx of a plant initially surround and generally give way to the?
Answer: Petals

Question: The term domicile refers most accurately to a person's country of?
Answer: Permanent home

Question: Alnwick Castle, Northumberland UK, featured in a popular movie franchise as which institution?
Answer: Hogwarts school

Question: What feature of tailored clothing has variations described as bound, plain and keyhole?
Answer: Buttonhole

Question: What's the more common name for a megagram (Mg)?
Answer: Tonne

Question: What fruit is named from medieval Latin meaning seeded apple?
Answer: Pomegranate

Question: Mathematically how easy is it to make a square of exactly the same area as any given circle?
Answer: Absolutely impossible

Question: The French trade 'plongeur' refers to a person whose job is?
Answer: Dish-washing

Question: The price of which metal commodity is traditionally considered an indicator of global economic buoyancy?
Answer: Copper

Question: Protein RBM3, theorized to counter/resist human dementia, normally assists animal brain recovery from?
Answer: Cooling/hibernation

Question: What popular food takes its name from Italian for 'twine'?
Answer: Spaghetti

Question: What's the surname of award-winning movie making brothers Joel and Ethan?
Answer: Coen

Question: German physicist Rudolf Mossbauer ('mossbower'), and the 'Mossbauer effect' named after him, are associated with the science of?
Answer: Radioactivity

Question: Oxbridge General Hospital featured in what famous UK TV medical series, 1957-67, regarded as a seminal soap opera?
Answer: Emergency Ward 10

Question: In corporate finance, 'gearing' refers to an organization's ratio of?
Answer: Debt to Equity

Question: What media technique was first used successfully in a live CBS TV transmission of the 1963 US Army vs Navy football game?
Answer: Instant Replay

Question: Monsieur Rapide (French), Don Ocupado (Spanish), Meneertje Druk (Dutch), Unser Herr Schnell (German), and Bay Hýzlý (Turkish) are international versions of which character, from a children's book series?
Answer: Mr Busy

Question: What food can be a wheel and contain eyes or veins?
Answer: Cheese

Question: How many different ways can six 8-stud Lego bricks be combined?
Answer: Over 900 million

Question: 'Cut-and-Come-Again' is an informal term in?
Answer: Horticulture

Question: Fowler's Vacola, Kilner, Mason, and Weck are brands/designs of what?
Answer: Glass jars

Question: The 'river herring' fish, or genus Alosa, which lives in sea and spawns in rivers, is popularly known as a?
Answer: Shad

Question: ISO 9407 Mondopoint, Brannock, and Paris Point are systems for sizing?
Answer: Shoes

Question: What term derived from French 'on equal terms' is a popular domestic job?
Answer: Au pair

Question: The famous Hallé symphony orchestra was founded and is based in which city?
Answer: Manchester

Question: 'Tam o' Shanter' in Scottish poet Robert Burns' 1790 poem of that name is a?
Answer: Farmer

Question: Name the Soviet Russian orbiting space station, continuously occupied 1989-99 until its replacement by the International Space Station?
Answer: Mir

Question: Pinchbeck, a 1700s alloy of copper and zinc, was a popular alternative for?
Answer: Gold

Question: What is an American orchestra pit, a French criminal prosecution department, and wooden-block flooring?
Answer: Parquet

Question: In geometry a lozenge is alternatively called (What?)-shaped?
Answer: Diamond

Question: Used widely today, Irish Capt William Sankey devised his eponymous flow-(what?), for a steam engine in 1898?
Answer: Diagram