Question: In 490BC Pheidippides ran fatally from Athens to Sparta to ask for help in the Battle of 'Where'?
Answer: Marathon

Question: 'Godwin's Law', concerned with a particular factual perspective, refers to the inappropriate comparison of something/someone with?
Answer: Hitler/Nazi Germany

Question: Mathematicians Leonhard Euler and Augustus Mobius pioneered 'geometria situs' ('geometry of place'), later called?
Answer: Topology

Question: What modern term for the avoidance of discriminatory language/action first emerged to describe communist beliefs in the Russian Revolution in 1917?
Answer: Political Correctness

Question: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's famous 1969 personal change concept is called the Five Stages of?
Answer: Grief

Question: What ancient instrument did Orpheus play to charm creatures, rivers, and Hades in the Underworld?
Answer: Lyre

Question: What pluralised food term and allusion to Hansel and Gretel refers to a website navigation feature?
Answer: Breadcrumbs

Question: US mathematician Edward Lorenz's 1963 paper Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow referred to a seagull, which he subsequently changed to (What creature?), representing his chaos theory observation?
Answer: Butterfly

Question: If a charge includes 20% added tax, the original tax-exclusive figure is calculated by multiplying the tax-inclusive total by?
Answer: 0.83333

Question: Which nation has the coastal state of Tabasco?
Answer: Mexico

Question: Maltese physician Edward de Bono is noted for his pioneering work on?
Answer: Lateral Thinking

Question: What takes roughly 23 hours, 56 minutes, 4 seconds?
Answer: Earth's rotation

Question: What's the common technical term for the removal of a president from office, due to wrong-doing?
Answer: Impeachment

Question: Name the live video streaming app bought by Twitter for $100m in 2015?
Answer: Periscope

Question: What process improvement method, pioneered by Motorola Corp in the 1980s, is named after a number and the Greek letter 's'?
Answer: Six Sigma

Question: New York housewife Jean Nidetch (1923-2015) founded which global organization, sold to Heinz in 1978 for $71m?
Answer: Weight Watchers

Question: Which vehicle tyre/tire corporation sold Citroen to Peugeot in 1976?
Answer: Michelin

Question: Which famous political brother became president of the International Rescue Committee in 2013?
Answer: David Miliband

Question: What is note is produced at the 10th fret for both the highest and lowest pitch strings on a conventionally-tuned standard guitar?
Answer: D

Question: At 2015 what is the penalty for failing to pay the toll at the privately owned Dartford Crossing tunnel/bridge over SE England River Thames?
Answer: £105

Question: What's Peppa Pig's teddy bear called?
Answer: Teddy

Question: Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao famously oppose/opposed each other in?
Answer: Boxing

Question: The Leffe beer company was founded and is headquartered in?
Answer: Belgium

Question: What is Australia's national bird?
Answer: Emu

Question: The famously rebuilt Shakespeare's theatre on London's River Thames South Bank is the?
Answer: Globe

Question: Plaid Cymru (roughly pronounced 'plied cumrie') is the nationalist poltitical party of which nation?
Answer: Wales

Question: What does the 'Real' mean in the names of Real Madrid and Real Sociedad Spanish footbal clubs?
Answer: Royal

Question: Sterlet, Ossetra, Sevruga and Beluga are main types of what?
Answer: Caviar

Question: Name the mountains across north-western Africa ranging c.1,600miles through Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia?
Answer: Atlas Mountains

Question: Which iconic 'hippie' fragrance, from the Pogostemon cablin plant, did Mattel use in making the 1985 'Stinkor' Masters of the Universe toy action figure?
Answer: Patchouli

Question: Named after a Scottish village near where it was discovered in 1790, what soft metal element, symbol Sr, was used to make cathode ray TV tubes?
Answer: Strontium

Question: According to legend, the sheltering of a Spanish ship in Dundee, late-1700s, prompted James and Janet Keiller to buy its cargo of (What?), thus founding a major new product/business?
Answer: Oranges

Question: What is a quarter of a third?
Answer: A twelfth

Question: Which 12-15C royal household was named after French Geoffrey d'Anjou's association with the broom shrub, medieval Latin 'planta genista'?
Answer: Plantagenet

Question: What is the biggest country by area in Africa?
Answer: Algeria

Question: The open fourth string (4th highest) note of a conventionally tuned guitar is?
Answer: D

Question: What vast Japanese corporation, with a red initial logo, was founded in Hamamatsu in 1909?
Answer: Suzuki

Question: The informal term for a gangster, especially belonging to the Mafia is?
Answer: Goodfella

Question: A cube which measures 10 inches wide contains how many cubic inches?
Answer: 1,000

Question: What insulting term for disreputable/undesirable/worthless people is from Old French meaning 'one and all, every scrap'?
Answer: Riff-raff

Question: The occupational surname Fuller, referred to a worker (who used 'Fuller's Earth') of?
Answer: Wool

Question: Hardpad disease, affecting dogs and other species, is more commonly known by what other name?
Answer: Distemper

Question: What is a female outer garment, a cut of meat; and a part of a hovercraft and saddle?
Answer: Skirt

Question: What whole two-digit number is the square root of 1,369?
Answer: 37

Question: The highly influential Giardino all'italiana (Italian garden) style of garden features?
Answer: Symmetry and order

Question: Catarrhine and Platyrrhine differentiate respectively 'Old World' (Africa/Asia) and 'New World' (Central/S Americas)?
Answer: Monkeys/Apes

Question: What first name name features prominently among Russian rulers from 1332-1547, ending with '(Who?) the Terrible'?
Answer: Ivan

Question: The high plateau region of SW Brazil, 'Mato Grosso', a watershed between the Amazon and Plate River, means literally?
Answer: Dense Forest

Question: The word 'quixotic', after Cervantes' 1605-15 novel Don Quixote, referring to planning/ideas, means?
Answer: Unrealistic

Question: A car moving at 30 miles per hour will travel how far in 10 minutes?
Answer: 5 miles

Question: 'God be with you' is the full original form of which common word?
Answer: Goodbye

Question: The Virginia Native American, Matoaka, aka Amonute, captured by the English 1613, becoming Rebecca Rolfe (c1595-1617), is better known by what name (also a 1995 Disney film)?
Answer: Pocahontas

Question: Penguins increase their swimming speed by emitting (What?) from their feathers?
Answer: Air bubbles

Question: The Harlem Globetrotters, founded 1920s, perform in which field?
Answer: Basketball

Question: From Sanskrit for a 'drop/dot' what Hindi word is a South Asian forehead decoration?
Answer: Bindi

Question: Winston Churchill referred to what event as the 'Miracle of Deliverance'?
Answer: Dunkirk

Question: The Up! and Eos and CC are models of which car brand?
Answer: Volkswagen

Question: The subtitle of the 2015 Mad Max film is?
Answer: Fury Road

Question: Which automobile brand was officially adopted in 1900 after the Spanish name of racing entrepreneur Emil Jellinek's daughter?
Answer: Mercedes

Question: Mebos is a South African apricot-based?
Answer: Dried preserve

Question: Cannes Film Festival 2015 (Gala Screenings) banned women wearing?
Answer: Flat shoes

Question: The acronym FOBT refers to what, considered a great social harm pervading many depressed UK cities and shopping streets?
Answer: Fixed Odds Betting Terminal

Question: What is a seed-eating songbird family and festive decoration?
Answer: Bunting

Question: Jactitation, from Latin jactare, to throw, refers medically to?
Answer: Limb-twitching

Question: Terroir refers to the complete environment in which what is produced?
Answer: Wine

Question: The Cunard organization's Elizabeth, Victoria, and Mary 2 are?
Answer: Cruise ships