Question: Protected Geographical Status (PGS) is a EU legal framework to protect the names of regional?
Answer: Foods/drinks

Question: Chicken Pox is mainly contracted from contact with?
Answer: Children

Question: Which country has (early 2000s) the highest AIDS infection rate in the world?
Answer: Swaziland

Question: Tian Tian and Yang Guang are?
Answer: Pandas

Question: Earl Scruggs (1924-2012) pioneered and was master of the three-fingered technique for playing what?
Answer: Banjo

Question: Introduced in the early 1900s, the internationally used Whyte Notation (representing the number of leading/driving/trailing wheels, via a numbers and dashes system) classifies what?
Answer: Steam locomotives

Question: The Chinese (translated) 'Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists' which once instigated a famous rebellion against colonial and imperial presence in Peking (now Beijing) China, were better known by what name?
Answer: Boxers

Question: The federation of which sport ruled in early 2012 that bikinis would not be compulsory for its competitors at the London Olympics?
Answer: Volleyball

Question: Name Shanghai's financial area and China's commercial hub, literally meaning 'east bank'?
Answer: Pudong

Question: What modern counter-intuitive notion of leading people did author Robert Greenleaf popularize in his so-titled 1977 book?
Answer: Servant Leadership

Question: Name Irvine Welsh's best selling 1993 novel about heroin addiction?
Answer: Trainspotting

Question: Which country's leader, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, announced in 2012 the effective nationalisation of local oil assets owned by Spanish corporation Repsol?
Answer: Argentina

Question: City University London's Cass School specialises in?
Answer: Business

Question: SNCF is the state railway group of which country?
Answer: France

Question: What historic bicycle company introduced the children's Chopper bike in the 1970s?
Answer: Raleigh

Question: Italian for angry, what is the pasta sauce of garlic, tomatoes, and red chili cooked in olive oil?
Answer: Arrabbiata

Question: Which controversial publisher of unauthorised secret information hosted a new Russian TV show in Spring 2012?
Answer: Julian Assange

Question: To which country did Amazon move its European HQ in 2006?
Answer: Luxembourg

Question: A 'silk' is an informal term for what prestigious grade of profession?
Answer: Queen's Counsel

Question: Rib, stretcher, runner, ferrule, crook-handle and tube are parts of which common protective device?
Answer: Umbrella

Question: As at 2012 which newspaper has the most popular website?
Answer: New York Times

Question: What significant territory did President Richard Nixon call by telephone on 20 July 1969?
Answer: The Moon

Question: What spring 2012 Formula 1 Grand Prix was held amongst violent civil unrest?
Answer: Bahrain

Question: What major international leader was in 2010 officially given ranked status as a Hells Angel by his nation's 'high council' of bikers, with the name 'Abaddon'?
Answer: Vladimir Putin

Question: Bratwurst is a greatly varying German food made mainly of?
Answer: Meat

Question: Hyponatremia/hyponatraemia is an unhelpful reduction of what element in human blood serum?
Answer: Sodium

Question: The fastest ever book character and the first sub-three-hour vegetable were notable achievers at which 2012 London event?
Answer: London Marathon

Question: What creature is on the mission insignia or badge of the first moon landing, Apollo 11?
Answer: Eagle

Question: About five-million tonnes of debris from which 2011 event was estimated to wash onto western Canadian and US shores in 2012-13?
Answer: Japan's Tsunami/Earthquake

Question: Canadian psychiatrist Eric Berne (1910-70) founded which psychotherapeutic/psychological methodology?
Answer: Transactional Analysis

Question: What 'anachronistic' word was proposed for removal from titles in official 2012 review of the UK state honours system?
Answer: Empire

Question: Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 classic horror novel about split personality is called what?
Answer: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Question: Erected in 1989, what large geometric glass structure serves as the main entrance to the Louvre Museum in Paris?
Answer: Pyramid

Question: At its nearest the Moon is roughly how many thousands of miles from Earth?
Answer: 222

Question: Up until ceasing posts in March 2012 who had become the most followed active professional footballer (soccer player) on Twitter?
Answer: Joey Barton

Question: Roots of the dandelion plant can be used to make a drink very like?
Answer: Coffee

Question: CV is the international vehicle registration code of which island nation?
Answer: Cape Verde

Question: Chittagong beach in Bangladesh is famous for?
Answer: Shipbreaking

Question: Who was the last English monarch to win the throne on the battlefield?
Answer: Henry VII

Question: In classical painting a putto (plural putti) is a baby what?
Answer: Angel

Question: The Russian Sukhoi Company is famous for making what?
Answer: Aircraft

Question: Actor Tom Conti was found to descend from Napoleon Bonaparte after analysis of?
Answer: Y-Chromosome DNA

Question: What was the previous brand-name of the Nissan automotive corporation?
Answer: Datsun

Question: As at 2012 the European Union comprises how many member states?
Answer: 27

Question: Loss of temper or sudden uncontrollable rage is called metaphorically as 'the (what colour) mist'?
Answer: Red

Question: The mariachi musical style/band belongs to which country?
Answer: Mexico

Question: Name the Bosnian Serb army commander tried at The Hague in 2012 for war crimes against Bosnia 1992-95?
Answer: Ratko Mladic

Question: What Latin term refers (literally) to a writer or composer's 'great work'?
Answer: Magnum Opus

Question: What is the international dialling code for Australia?
Answer: 61

Question: Beyond the number five, prime numbers can only end in one of which four numbers?
Answer: 1, 3, 7, 9

Question: Cape Verde was until independence a territory of which European country?
Answer: Portugal

Question: As at 2012 the official 'authorised version' of the Holy Bible is also known by what monarch's name?
Answer: King James

Question: What is the cube root of 343?
Answer: 7

Question: The Beau Sancy, sold at a Geneva auction in 2012 for £5.3m, is a?
Answer: Diamond

Question: Albedoza or albedo refers to a surface's what?
Answer: Reflectivity

Question: What word, from French and Portuguese etymology meaning 'raised', in different variants refers to various peoples around the world who are born locally, of foreign origin?
Answer: Creole

Question: What royal house immediately followed the reign of England's King Richard III?
Answer: Tudor

Question: What was the previous name of UK-founded communications technology company O2?
Answer: Cellnet

Question: Caputo '00' flour, fior di latte, and San Marzano plum tomatoes are typical authentic ingredients of what traditional food?
Answer: Pizza

Question: Bacteria, fungi, and algae are among a broad classification of life called?
Answer: Microorganisms

Question: What international jewellery/jewelry corporation is headquartered at 727 5th Avenue, Manhattan, New York City, US?
Answer: Tiffany & Co

Question: Online auction of a vial of which deceased US president's blood, lost from a lab after a 1981 assassination attempt, was cancelled after family protest in 2012?
Answer: Ronald Reagan

Question: Which film originated the obsession/jealousy term 'bunny boiler'?
Answer: Fatal Attraction

Question: Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was the ruthless dictator of which African nation for 23 years, before its 2011 uprising?
Answer: Tunisia

Question: What corporation had the catchphrase "Ding-dong (what company) calling.." from its 1950s-60s TV adverts?
Answer: Avon