Question: Widely believed but entirely wrong urban legend asserts that Master Bates, Seaman Staines, and Roger the Cabin Boy were characters in which 1950-90s children's cartoon/TV series?
Answer: Captain Pugwash

Question: Originating in art around 500BC, what is the more common modern name for a nimbus, aureole, glory, or gloriole?
Answer: Halo

Question: Which 1949 novel featured the ironically named Ministries of the Peace, Plenty, Love, and Truth?
Answer: Nineteen Eighty-Four

Question: What cocktail, named in Cuban Spanish, comprises white rum, lime/lemon, sugar and mint?
Answer: Mojito

Question: Badinage describes verbal communication which is?
Answer: Witty

Question: What three motorways form the so called 'golden triangle' of central UK logistics real estate?
Answer: M1 M6 M42

Question: Founded in 1769, name the specialist British publisher of guides to aristocracy, etiquette, and correct forms of address?
Answer: Debrett's

Question: What weapon's dangerous part is defined in two sections, namely the forte and the foible?
Answer: Sword

Question: What was a Leviathan in its original biblical references?
Answer: Sea monster

Question: What is the common alternative US term for a (UK) 'estate agent'?
Answer: Realtor

Question: What clothing decoration took its name from Italian 'zecchino' and 'zecca' (= mint), and Arabic 'sikka' (= 'a die for coining')?
Answer: Sequin

Question: Vogue magazine's front cover featured for the first time a model wearing what in November 1988?
Answer: Jeans

Question: A birthstone of March, the mineral heliotrope is commonly called what, due to its red inclusions?
Answer: Bloodstone

Question: Turgescence or tumefaction, affecting parts of the human body, is more commonly called what?
Answer: Swelling

Question: ALMA, in Chile, cost $1.4bn, 10 years to build, became the largest operating what in 2013?
Answer: Telescope

Question: What religion takes its name from the Greek for 'universal', from the root words meaning 'in respect of [the] whole'?
Answer: Catholicism

Question: Argentinian Jorge Mario Bergoglio made the news in 2013 as a?
Answer: Pope

Question: The word 'haram' refers to both a sanctuary and a forbidden act in which religion?
Answer: Islam

Question: Made by Paramount Group of South Africa what are Marauder, Mbombe, Matador and Maverick?
Answer: Military vehicles

Question: Which travel guide publisher was acquired by the BBC's commercial division BBC Worldwide Ltd for £130m in 2007, and sold for £51m in 2013?
Answer: Lonely Planet

Question: What term is given in the science of perception (used for example in road safety distance gauging) for the expansion of size of an image/object indicating speed and movement towards the observer?
Answer: Looming

Question: Where is the coastal village of Pugwash, famous for thought leadership and peace conferences?
Answer: Canada

Question: What volatile metallic element forms the nitrate compound Sr(NO3)2 commonly used in red fireworks?
Answer: Strontium

Question: Where in the human body are glial cells?
Answer: Brain

Question: What reductive metaphor refers to a percentage subtraction from the market value of an asset, which became a description for the EU-imposed tax on Cyprus bank deposits in 2013?
Answer: Haircut

Question: Which US corporation sold its personal computer business including Thinkpad brand to the world-leading Chinese manufactuer Lenovo in 2005?
Answer: Ibm

Question: Opprobrium refers to a deep form of?
Answer: Criticism

Question: What Caribbean dance shares its name with a religious concept of somewhere between heaven and hell?
Answer: Limbo

Question: Orogeny refers to the process by which what are created?
Answer: Mountains

Question: What medical/industrial sterilization equipment is named from the meaning 'self-fastening'?
Answer: Autoclave

Question: What item of apparel metaphorically (with colour prefix, usually black or white) refers informally to an internet hacker?
Answer: Hat

Question: Founded as Thames Ironworks FC in 1895, which football club (later renamed) will occupy the London Olympic Stadium from 2016 (a clue is in club nickname and badge)?
Answer: West Ham United FC

Question: Which famous smoker is associated with the expression 'three pipe problem'?
Answer: Sherlock Holmes

Question: In 1998 who was the first 'First Lady' to appear on the cover of Vogue?
Answer: Hilary Clinton

Question: The unrecognized state of Biafra existed from 1967-1970 in the south-east of which country?
Answer: Nigeria

Question: The Christian Eucharist ceremonial act is based on what event from religious scripture?
Answer: Last Supper

Question: A fire ant colony can join together as a self-transporting?
Answer: Raft

Question: What does the French-English expression "C'est la vie!" mean?
Answer: Such is life!

Question: Wampum refers to decorative/monetary shell-beads in which culture?
Answer: Native American Indian

Question: Named after US economist Arthur Laffer, his eponymous Curve refers graphically to notional/optimal government revenues according to levels of?
Answer: Taxation

Question: Derived from German bucht, in geography a bight refers to a?
Answer: Curved feature or bay

Question: What portmanteau demographics term is the lowest level in the BBC's survey/attempted redefining of social class published in 2013?
Answer: Precariat

Question: The 1940s-50s development names Whirlo-Way and Pluto Platter referred to and became what better known generic/brand name?
Answer: Frisbee

Question: What creature is a slang word in French for a newspaper?
Answer: Canard

Question: What are named after English Dr John Braxton Hicks (1823-97)?
Answer: Contractions in pregnancy

Question: The Destroying Angel is a fatally dangerous?
Answer: Mushroom/Toadstool

Question: Provenance, originally relating to an artwork, now extending widely to other created or collectible works, refers specifically to?
Answer: History

Question: What is the common technical term for the contractive skin of a liquid which resists external force?
Answer: Surface tension

Question: The French word 'derailleur' is also used in English referring to a mechanism on what sort of machine?
Answer: Bicycle

Question: Technically what must be specified in order for a given speed to be termed a velocity?
Answer: Direction

Question: The German Bavarian occupational name Hitler (originally Hüttler) referred to a builder of?
Answer: Huts

Question: What technical financial term, from Latin meaning 'it shall be', and also a major automotive brand, refers to official money/currency of a nation?
Answer: Fiat

Question: What is commonly said in Germany to a person who has just sneezed?
Answer: Gesundheit

Question: What war produced the most fatalities?
Answer: World War Two

Question: Screeno, Keno, and Housey-Housey are name variations of what more commonly known gambling game?
Answer: Bingo

Question: What is an unrealistically optimistic person, after the title-character of Eleanor Porter's famous 1913 novel?
Answer: Pollyanna

Question: What sweet creamy alcoholic drink is named because lawyers/barristers were said to enjoy it?
Answer: Advocaat

Question: What is the common name for the electrically excitable cells of the brain which process data via electrical and chemical signals?
Answer: Neurons

Question: Ashtanga Vinyasa, Bikram, and Hatha Vidya are styles of what?
Answer: Yoga

Question: The American 1893 Nix v Hedden court case determined (and still), for US customs taxation purposes, based on conventional usage, what to be a vegetable and not a fruit?
Answer: Tomato

Question: Traditionally made of paper over a wooden frame what is a Japanese 'shoji'?
Answer: Sliding door

Question: What financial term, especially referring to state/government revenues, derives from Roman/Latin meaning a rush basket or purse?
Answer: Fiscal