Question: What is the popular Tex-Mex and Mexican dish known in Spanish as 'frijoles refritos'?
Answer: Refried beans

Question: Monophthongs, dyphthongs and triphthongs are types of?
Answer: Vowel sounds

Question: What word makes five new words when prefixing?
Answer: Bin

Question: From the Greek god of love what term refers to a part of the human body that is especially responsive to touch/stimulation?
Answer: Erogenous

Question: Latin deus (god) and Javanese dejos became what Chinese pidgin English word for an incense stick?
Answer: Joss

Question: Machiavellian/Machiavellianism, after Renaisance philosopher/writer/political scientist Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527), refers to?
Answer: Cunning

Question: (Based on the popular 'poundshop' concept) a discount store opened in London's Mayfair, 2016, with everything priced at?
Answer: £1000

Question: Phlebotomy is the medical term for?
Answer: Vein blood injection/withdrawal

Question: What profession historically performed blood-letting?
Answer: Barbers

Question: North America's 'Boeing Apache' is a?
Answer: Military helicopter

Question: By public vote In 2012 Shinzo Abe became Japan's new national?
Answer: Prime Minister

Question: Sandbanks in Dorset has the UK's?
Answer: Most expensive seaside real estate

Question: In 2016 President Justin Trudeau welcomed the introduction of legal euthanasia to his nation?
Answer: Canada

Question: In 2016 where did Winston Churchill replace Elizabeth Fry?
Answer: £5 note

Question: In the original Ebay company logo 1995-2012, which letter was capitalized?
Answer: Y

Question: A scientific study in 2016 found that serious depression was alleviated by consuming?
Answer: Magic mushrooms

Question: Tom Hiddleston, Jamie Bell, and Idris Elba emerged as leading candidates in 2016 for the role of?
Answer: James Bond

Question: The Tahitian/Tongan/Samoan word and tradition 'ta-tau' became what in English?
Answer: Tattoo

Question: The premature same-age deaths of Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse prompted the popular '(What number?) Club' theory?
Answer: 27

Question: Cilantro or Chinese parsley is better known as?
Answer: Coriander

Question: Latin confectum, and the plural of Italian confetto, small sweet, is the word/tradition origin of what celebratory material?
Answer: Confetti

Question: Haiku, traditionally comprising 17 'morae' and a juxta-position, is a short form of Japanese?
Answer: Poetry

Question: Prior to his criminal infamy, OJ Simpson was originally a famous American?
Answer: Footballer

Question: Reflexology therapy primarily involves touching a patient's?
Answer: Feet

Question: Alex, Bonnie, Colin, Danielle, Earl, Fiona.. are at 2016?
Answer: Atlantic hurricanes

Question: The Greek word petro/petros, as in petroleum and petrochemicals, etc, means?
Answer: Rock

Question: Roland Garros is home to the Open (What?) Championships of (Where?) (two answers required)?
Answer: Tennis, France

Question: Which small English Midlands county is home to the eponymous '(What?) Water' (named after the county) - the nation's largest reservoir by area?
Answer: Rutland

Question: Batman's gadget-loaded super-powered road vehicle, appearing in the very first Batman comic story 1937, is called the Bat?
Answer: Mobile

Question: A pantechnicon (from Greek, for 'all' and 'piece of art') is a?
Answer: Furniture removal van

Question: The age of the universe is generally considered to be about how many years?
Answer: 13.8billion

Question: The popular 2002 film about an Indian Sikh girl in London defying her family to achieve great success at soccer is called 'Bend It Like ...' ?
Answer: Beckham

Question: The female equivalent of a Sultan (Arabic/Muslim leader) is a?
Answer: Sultana

Question: John Adair, Hersey & Blanchard, Tannenbaum & Schmidt, and Kurt Lewin are famous theorists in?
Answer: Leadership

Question: In 2004, FIFA's President suggested that women footballers should wear?
Answer: Tighter shorts and low cut shirts

Question: In soccer the playing position of captain is always a midfielder - true or false?
Answer: False

Question: Name the Swiss football administrator who served as the eighth president of FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) from 1998 to 2015 and banned from office after an ethics investigation?
Answer: Sepp Blatter

Question: The famous quantum mechanics thought experiment demonstrating that something can exist in two states (in this case alive or dead) until observed is called Schrödinger's?
Answer: Cat

Question: Leicester City FC won the English Premier League Champions of 2015-16 with a team costing roughly what fraction of rivals Manchester City?
Answer: A tenth

Question: The infinitely powerful 'anyone can do it' form of leadership, requiring absolutely no authority or formal position whatsoever, abbreviated to the acronym ARK, is A Random act of?
Answer: Kindness

Question: Mother Theresa, Florence Nightingale, Gandhi, Mandela, Dalai Lama, Buddha, Martin Luther King, Aung San Suu Kyi, and Jesus Christ are examples of a highly sophisticated modern leadership type, defined in Robert Greenleaf's 1977 book, '(What?) Leadership'?
Answer: Servant

Question: Which horse won the Epsom Derby in 1989?
Answer: Nashwan

Question: What is the medical condition icterus commonly called?
Answer: Jaundice

Question: Who discovered and opened Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922?
Answer: Howard Carter

Question: In which London building was the funeral of Diana Princess of Wales held in 1997?
Answer: Westminster Abbey

Question: Which Argentine leader was deposed in 1982?
Answer: General Galtieri

Question: Marron Glacé is what, preserved and coated in sugar?
Answer: Chestnut

Question: In which year was the Battle of Waterloo?
Answer: 1815

Question: Which actor's real name was William Henry Pratt?
Answer: Boris Karloff

Question: The creation of what famous and anthemic song is officially attributed to Banjo Paterson and Christina Macpherson?
Answer: Waltzing Matilda

Question: Who played Daisy Duke in the 2005 film The Dukes of Hazzard?
Answer: Jessica Simpson

Question: What name is given to the uncut locks of hair worn on the sides of the head by orthodox male Jews?
Answer: Payess

Question: In Greek mythology what is the name of the river whose water when drunk caused complete forgetfulness and made the souls of the dead forget their life on earth?
Answer: Lethe

Question: What are the little discs of waste called that are produced by a paper or card hole-punch?
Answer: Chad

Question: What are the padded high-waisted trousers with shoulder straps worn for skiiing called?
Answer: Salopettes

Question: What type of natural substance is caoutchouc (pronounced kachook)?
Answer: Rubber

Question: The first atomic bomb explosion was carried out in which US state?
Answer: New Mexico

Question: Whose last work entitled The Transfiguration was unfinished when he died in 1520?
Answer: Rafael

Question: Who wrote the Ballad of Reading Gaol in 1898?
Answer: Oscar Wilde

Question: The World Trade Organization was founded in 1995 in which European city?
Answer: Geneva

Question: In numerology a tern is a set of how many?
Answer: Three

Question: Pekoe is a type of which drink?
Answer: Tea

Question: Which station has the longest escalator in London's Tube network?
Answer: Angel

Question: The Welland Ship Canal is in which country?
Answer: Canada

Question: Who played Woody Allen's ex-wife in the 1979 film Manhattan?
Answer: Meryl Streep

Question: The 1957 song Butterfly was (surprisingly) the only UK number one hit achieved by which significant recording artist?
Answer: Andy Williams

Question: On what date is St Martin's Day - or Martinmas - celebrated in Europe?
Answer: 11 November

Question: Where on a woman's body would you see a bindi?
Answer: Forehead

Question: Who made the famous statement, 'I think, therefore I am' ?
Answer: Rene Descartes