Question: Which city, mythically founded by a twin saved by a she-wolf, was built on the seven hills, east of the River Tiber called Aventine, Caelian, Capitoline, Esquiline, Palatine, Quirinal and Viminal?
Answer: Rome

Question: What expression meaning 'ok' or 'all well', and a David Bowie album, derives partly from Dutch 'honk' for home or base?
Answer: Hunky-dory

Question: Humus refers to the component in soil (earth) that is?
Answer: Decomposed organic matter

Question: What travels at 299,792,458 metres per second?
Answer: Light

Question: What informal term for a common type of pet derives from the name Margaret?
Answer: Moggie

Question: Ionian, Dorian, Lydian, Mixolydian, and Aeolian are?
Answer: Musical scales

Question: Shi Go Roko ('she go rocko') is 'four five six' in?
Answer: Japanese

Question: What 'Renaissance' concept was the best selling children's toy/TV franchise globally in 1990?
Answer: Teeange Mutant Ninja Turtles

Question: The Canadian 1972-founded global Aldo corporation specialises in?
Answer: Footwear

Question: What French port became an increasingly tense bottleneck/encampment for refugees seeking to reach the UK in the 2010s?
Answer: Calais

Question: A Gaelic sliotar/sliothar features in several field sports as a type of?
Answer: Ball

Question: What Anglicized French term for a comedy and food stuffing (breadcrumbs/herbs, etc), was originally an allusion to jocular material 'stuffed' into serious religious plays?
Answer: Farce

Question: Which nation's Supreme Court legalized same sex marriage in June 2015?
Answer: Usa

Question: What famous ship is also a reward, especially for capturing someone/something dangerous?
Answer: Bounty

Question: The Bodleian, George Peabody, Congress, and Vatican are famous?
Answer: Libraries

Question: Which popular (2015) online brand's logo is three parallel black arcs inside a green disc?
Answer: Spotify

Question: The 1956 fictional movie of the discovery of rock'n'roll featuring Bill Haley and the Comets is Rock Around the (What?)?
Answer: Clock

Question: The 'puri/poori/puree' in the Indian dish 'prawn puri' refers to what aspect?
Answer: Bread

Question: What travels at 270,000mph, is hotter than the sun, and kills over 20,000 people every year?
Answer: Lightning

Question: The North American Gold Rush of 1849 brought vast immigration to?
Answer: California

Question: Tyson Fury, Wladimir Klitschko, and Dereck Chisora are notable 21st Century?
Answer: Heavyweight boxers

Question: In what 1986 Neil Jordan film is Bob Hoskins a driver for Cathy Tyson's prostitute?
Answer: Mona Lisa

Question: Russian billionaire industrialist Roman Abramovich's investment corporation is called '(What?) Capital'?
Answer: Millhouse

Question: The word Eintracht in German soccer/sports club names equates to?
Answer: United

Question: Choppy, Fannings, Golden Flowery, and Tippy are grades of?
Answer: Tea

Question: A cooked lobster changes from?
Answer: Blue to Orange

Question: Built 1406-1420 as a political HQ/palace, The Forbidden City is in?
Answer: Beijing

Question: What human joint, in Latin 'cubitum', has a pit and bony protrusion called olecranon?
Answer: Elbow

Question: Ginger Baker is considered one of the greatest ever virtuoso players of the?
Answer: Drums

Question: The Fiestas de San Firmin, held every July in Spain, is famed for what risky public event?
Answer: Running of the Bulls

Question: The world's most accurate clocks (early 21st century) are precise to one second every approximately how many years?
Answer: 160 million

Question: Abbey Road in North London is the famous metonymic location of what entity?
Answer: Recording studios

Question: Go Set a Watchman is the 55-years-after sequel to what famous work?
Answer: To Kill A Mockingbird

Question: When drawing the musical the treble (G) clef symbol, the line crosses itself how many times?
Answer: Three

Question: 2,000 years ago Nanjing was what in China?
Answer: Capital city

Question: Called the IPK, the standard (What?) is a platinum-iridium cylinder at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Sevres France?
Answer: Kilogram

Question: The Apple watch launched Apr 2015 is called the?
Answer: Apple Watch

Question: The Silfra fissure, in the Pingvallavatn valley, uniquely offering scuba-diving between the N American and Euroasian tectonic plates is in?
Answer: Iceland

Question: Which Czech-born Swiss won two Wimbledon championships in 2015, 17 years after her previous Championship victory?
Answer: Martina Hingis

Question: Coty Inc., is a French-founded German-owned, US-based company specialising in?
Answer: Beauty/fragrances

Question: Funchal is the capital of which Portuguese autonomous island territory?
Answer: Madeira

Question: Name the 2015 Disney animated film about the workings of a child's mind, praised by psychologists/neuroscientists?
Answer: Inside Out

Question: What UK FMCG brand did Sylvester Stallone endorse in a 2015 £muli-million ad campaign?
Answer: Warburtons Bread

Question: The long-standing circular VW (Volkswagen) logo contains the V and W characters and how many gaps between the circular and letter shapes?
Answer: 6

Question: What Eurasian winged-fruit maple tree is named after the Greek words sukon (fig) and moron (mulberry)?
Answer: Sycamore

Question: What note is produced at the 5th fret of the 5th string (ie the 2nd lowest pitched) of a conventionally tuned guitar?
Answer: D

Question: In physics, the motions of particles within matter is understood by (What?) theory?
Answer: Kinetic

Question: Which old English King is associated with having burned cakes?
Answer: Alfred

Question: Strongly scented toilet water is named after which city of its origination?
Answer: Cologne

Question: Le Coq Sportif is a famous French corporation/brand for?
Answer: Sportswear/goods

Question: An opsimath is a person who begins to do what later in life?
Answer: Study

Question: The literary/dramatic description 'redivivus' (emphasis on the 'div') refers to someone who comes back?
Answer: To life

Question: Neolithic refers to which age?
Answer: Stone

Question: Chrysanthemum means originally which two of these?
Answer: Gold Flower

Question: Olibanum is the medieval Latin alternative English word for which Biblical aromatic resin?
Answer: Frankincense

Question: Phylum porifera is the technical name for what organic cleaning device?
Answer: Sponge

Question: Mandrax is a 1963 French-originating trademark for a?
Answer: Sedative drug

Question: A mythical Arctic whirlpool west of Norway, came to be what Anglicized Dutch word, meaning a violent water whirl or metaphorically extreme turmoil?
Answer: Maelstrom

Question: What item of furniture is used metaphorically as a verb for postponing a project?
Answer: Shelf/Shelve/Shelving

Question: Utilitarian and utilitarianism refer primarily to the major quality/effect of something being?
Answer: Useful

Question: The 1920s-originating US expression, hootenanny, is traditionally a gathering of people for?
Answer: Folk music

Question: In 2015 the world speed record for (What?) was broken in 6.88 seconds by Australian Feliks Zemdegs?
Answer: Solving a Rubik's Cube

Question: Apple Inc's 'digital wallet' virtual banking service is called Apple?
Answer: Pay

Question: The founder of Wikipedia is Graham India; Jimmy Wales; Mario Brazil; or Nigel Nigeria?
Answer: Jimmy Wales

Question: Utrecht is a province and provincial capital city in central?
Answer: Netherlands

Question: What communication aid also refers metaphorically to the limits of a concept or set of protocols?
Answer: Envelope

Question: What is the historically Moorish Spanish capital of Andalusia, famous for oranges and flamenco?
Answer: Seville

Question: The Anglicized French word séance, referring to contacting the spirit world, derives from the notion of?
Answer: Sitting

Question: A patisserie is an Anglicized French word for a shop that sells?
Answer: Cakes/pastries