Question: In the 21st century the actual risk of death from flying by plane is roughly one in?
Answer: One in 3 Million

Question: Clarence Darrow (1857-1938), fictionalized by Tracey, Spacey, and Fonda among others, was a famous American libertarian and?
Answer: Lawyer

Question: The earliest known fragment of Earth's crust (at 2014), a Zircon crystal from Western Australia is how many years old?
Answer: 4.4billion years

Question: What famous annual 'Roman numeralled' sporting event is an oronym for an 'impressive night bird'?
Answer: Super Bowl

Question: Badain Jaran, Gobi, Lop, and Taklamakan are major Chinese what?
Answer: Deserts

Question: A Molotov cocktail (homemade petrol bomb) is named after a?
Answer: Russian statesman

Question: Memphis, in Tennessee, USA, was named in 1819 after the ancient capital city of which modern day nation?
Answer: Egypt

Question: The F1 function key produces what in most computer systems?
Answer: Help

Question: A sequin originally (in Arabic, sikka, and later Italian zecca) referred to the production of?
Answer: Coins

Question: The word dessert, a sweet pudding, derives from French (desservir) meaning to?
Answer: Clear the table

Question: The 'Sandman' character in north European folklore, popularized/originated by Hans Christian Andersen, is said to help children?
Answer: Sleep

Question: In botany the tendrils of a plant used mainly for?
Answer: Clinging/support

Question: Gharara and kameez are a common combination of (What?) in the Indian sub-continent?
Answer: Clothing

Question: A Fathometer is an old genericized trademark for an instrument which measures?
Answer: Water depth

Question: The famous 'Tu-whit; Tu-whoo' call of the Eurasian Tawny/Brown Owl of is made by?
Answer: Female (Tu-whit) then Male (Tu-Whoo)

Question: Which world cup winner became father to the 16th in line to the British throne in Jan 2014?
Answer: Mike Tindall

Question: What did Cambridge City Council ban from its street signs in 2014, and subsequently reinstate after mockery/protest?
Answer: Apostrophes

Question: At 2014 how many years ago was the year MDCCXIV?
Answer: 300

Question: According to a 2014 Time Magazine report what 'fingered' chocolate confectionery bar became the first to be sold in every market of the world?
Answer: KitKat

Question: The silk thread of a silkworm cocoon can be up to how many meteres long?
Answer: 900

Question: The Weber and Tesla (standard international) measurement units apply to?
Answer: Magnetism

Question: What alliterative and reduplicative term for cheap ornaments, as in rummage sales and charity shops, is from old French meaning 'at random'?
Answer: Bric a brac

Question: The typical maximum permissable velocity of a paintball pellet is how many feet per second?
Answer: 300

Question: Xmas as an alternative to Christmas derives from?
Answer: Greek X meaning Christ

Question: Which real music-related town has according to legend hosted King Arthur and Guinevere in death, Lancelot in penance, the Holy Grail in hiding?
Answer: Glastonbury

Question: What is the the sum of ten consecutive prime numbers starting with 13?
Answer: 300

Question: Yahrzeit is a (what?) in Jewish culture?
Answer: Anniversary

Question: What religion is represented by the 'Om' symbol (ॐ and bigger below)?
Answer: Hinduism

Question: The highest recorded bird strike by an aircraft is a?
Answer: Vulture

Question: The old English words 'erst' and 'erstwhile' mean?
Answer: Past

Question: Hawaiian, Strombolian, Peléan, Phreatomagmatic and Submarine are types of?
Answer: Volcanic eruptions

Question: According to which religion did the prophets Nephi and Lehi lead people from Jerusalem across the sea to the Americas around 600BC?
Answer: Mormonism

Question: Which US office equipment corporation renamed itself (1961) after its branded photocopying technology, from Greek meaning 'dry'?
Answer: Xerox

Question: A normal human eye can distinguish approximately how many different colours/colors?
Answer: 10 million

Question: Nociceptive, Neuropathic, Phantom, Psychogenic, and Incident are types of what?
Answer: Pain

Question: In psychology the (positive) 'Pygmalion effect' and opposite (negative) 'Golem effect' influence people by?
Answer: Expectation

Question: The Sola plant (Aeschynomene aspera) from India/S Asia is used to make what famous headwear?
Answer: Pith helmet

Question: The informal German military term 'sitzkrieg' refers to what feature of war?
Answer: Pause

Question: What internet vulnerability 'bug' was announced (in April 2014) to have existed in 17% of the world's web servers since end-2011?
Answer: Heartbleed

Question: What are generally regarded to be the four precious stones?
Answer: Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, Diamond

Question: The society-persuasion theory adopted by US and UK governments based on the 2008 Thaler & Sunstein book of the same name is called?
Answer: Nudge

Question: What is the technical genus category of lemons, oranges, limes?
Answer: Citrus

Question: 'Simnel' refers to a traditional Easter (what?), originating in medieval England?
Answer: Cake

Question: A codicil is a supplementary text which alters what sort of legal document?
Answer: Will

Question: Introduced in 1954, a willibecher is a standard what in Germany?
Answer: Beer glass

Question: What word has noun/verb meanings for an island, a promontory, wine, organic soil, thinking, and a fabric used in bookbinding?
Answer: Mull

Question: A fourteen year ban (for mental health reasons) on what was lifted, experimentally, by China in 2014?
Answer: Gaming consoles

Question: Popular in Indian subcontinental cuisine, gram flour is made from?
Answer: Chickpeas

Question: The official logos for organic product certification in the EU, Japan, Australia and Canada all feature a?
Answer: Leaf

Question: German physician Franz Mesmer's (1734-1815) 'animal magnetism' theory is considered foundational in the development of?
Answer: Hypnosis

Question: What original Mrs Beeton sandwich filling did the Royal Society of Chemistry propose in 2014 as the most economically enjoyable?
Answer: Toast

Question: Derived from ecclesiastical Latin, the term genuflexion/genuflection refers to bending which part of the body?
Answer: Knee

Question: What popular East Asian food means 'bean curdled'?
Answer: Tofu

Question: How many 'states' (variations) are possible in a single 7-segment electronic/digital numeral display (as used in calculators, etc)?
Answer: 128

Question: What form of breadcrumbed fried food, often containing mashed potato, is named from French 'to crunch'?
Answer: Croquette

Question: Name the controversial arm-gesture associated with French-Cameroonian comedian Dieudonne M'bala M'bala?
Answer: Quenelle

Question: Which famous British institution's heavily subsidized restaurant received a complaint after cancelling a member's booking (in 2013), that "...we were unable to eat elsewhere because my wife was wearing a tiara...'?
Answer: The House of Lords

Question: Tarja Halonen, Martti Ahtisaari, and Mauno Koivisto have been presidents of Suomi - known in western language as?
Answer: Finland

Question: Where in 2014 became the last European territory to decriminalize sex between men?
Answer: Northern Cyprus

Question: Colombian Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014) and Chilean Pablo Neruda (1904-73) are famous South American?
Answer: Writers

Question: Which vegetable originates from a cross between a cabbage and a turnip?
Answer: Swede/ Rutabaga

Question: DNA analysis of a 7,000 year-old cave-dwelling human skeleton from north Spain revealed what surprising genetic feature?
Answer: Blue eyes

Question: What Terry Nation concept was produced by scientist Davros from the indigenous Kaleds of the planet Skaro?
Answer: Daleks

Question: What's the western name of the least densely populated country in the world, (national language 'Kalaallit Nunaat'), with capital city Nuuk?
Answer: Greenland