Question: Technically 'flash point' refers to the triggering of what aspect of a volatile substance?
Answer: Vaporization

Question: Sitka wood, named after the Alaskan town, is a type of?
Answer: Spruce

Question: A big problem that people avoid discussing is metaphorically called 'The (what?) ...in the room'?
Answer: Elephant

Question: What 2001 Disney movie bockbuster is considered the first to successfully achieve CGI fur?
Answer: Monsters, Inc.

Question: The 1st World War Armistice was signed in 'Compagnie Internationale des Wagons Lits 2419', a?
Answer: Railway carriage

Question: 'Interlocution' refers to a person's involvement in?
Answer: Discussion

Question: Created by marine biologist/animator Stephen Hillenburg, Nickelodeon's $8bn grossing and most distributed media property of MTV networks (at mid-2010s)?
Answer: Spongebob Squarepants

Question: What is the cube root of 216?
Answer: 6

Question: Boulevard Périphérique is the famous Paris?
Answer: Ring Road

Question: The brands Daiwa, Drennan, Hardy, and Berkley famously involve?
Answer: Fishing

Question: Gargoyles on buildings traditionally support?
Answer: Guttering

Question: A gazetteer offers indexed information mainly oriented by?
Answer: Geography

Question: Cockney rhyming slang 'bottle' traditionally means?
Answer: Bravery

Question: What famous French 1970s-designed anti-ship missile means 'flying fish'?
Answer: Exocet

Question: The 'Acts' book of the Bible is fully titled 'Acts of The (What?)'?
Answer: Apostles

Question: Name the capital city - est 1913, designed by Chicago architects W & M Griffin, located 35°18'27"S 149°07'28"E, and home of ACT Brumbies rugby union club?
Answer: Canberra

Question: After international electronic surveillance revelations in 2014, German government officials reportedly reverted to using?
Answer: Typewriters

Question: Generally what metalwork process extracts a metal from its ore?
Answer: Smelting

Question: Which country is markedly the largest producer of garlic globally?
Answer: China

Question: San Francisco banned a phone app in 2014 which enabled people to sell?
Answer: Metered car-parking spaces

Question: Hinnomaki Red, Invicta, Pax and Hairy Amber are types of which Ribes genus fruit?
Answer: Gooseberry

Question: 20th Century Fox lost a delightful international TV/entertainment trademark dispute in 2014 to which UK comedy club chain?
Answer: Glee

Question: Jam, Wing, Acorn, T, and Hex are types of what?
Answer: Nut

Question: The eminent British economist Richard Layard is noted for pioneering work on?
Answer: Happiness

Question: As at the early 2000s (2000-12 official figures) what country is the world's biggest wine producer?
Answer: France

Question: Suchen, Buscar, Rechercher and Zoeken appear commonly on German, Spanish, French and Dutch language websites, all meaning what?
Answer: Search

Question: The speed of sound in a vacuum is?
Answer: Zero

Question: The Ebola disease is named after an African?
Answer: River

Question: A mattock (alternatively called a dibber in some countries) is used mainly for?
Answer: Digging

Question: A negotiating offer that is available for discussion is said to be 'On the (What?)'?
Answer: Table

Question: The adjacent African nations Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, and Benin have coastlines facing?
Answer: South

Question: Turkey's 2014 leadership election was marked by women posting pictures on social media of themselves doing (what?) after the deputy Prime Minister reportedly suggested they should not publicly?
Answer: Laugh

Question: Santander Bank refused to accept 'Circus Uncertainty' as a UK business customer on moral grounds due to use of?
Answer: Burlesque costumes

Question: As at the mid-2010s, which creature reportedly numbered over 5,000 in private USA ownership, compared to about 3,000 surviving in the world elsewhere?
Answer: Tiger

Question: Likud, Yesh Atid, and Shas are political parties of which country?
Answer: Israel

Question: The UK government was criticized in 2014 for promoting the euphemistic term 'Mitochondrial transfer' to avoid controversy about genetic modification of?
Answer: Human babies

Question: What technical term refers to documents/money held by a third party while agreement/conditions are fulfilled between two others?
Answer: Escrow

Question: Bright, Burley, and Oriental are leaves used for what?
Answer: Cigarettes

Question: 'Lager' beer is named from German meaning?
Answer: Storehouse

Question: The faux Latin expression 'Excreta Tauri Astutos Frustrantur' equates to which crude ironic alliterative English maxim?
Answer: Bullshit Baffles Brains

Question: In biochemistry the suffix '-ose' usually denotes what common sort of substance?
Answer: Sugar

Question: A 'night glow' features in which sort of festival?
Answer: Hot air balloons

Question: Which 1947-originated DeBeers slogan is according to Advertising Age magazine the best advertising slogan of the 20th century (perhaps aided by a 1956 Fleming creation)?
Answer: """A Diamond Is Forever"""

Question: In the English language a 'perfect pangram' contains how many letters?
Answer: 26

Question: The word scourge - 'a cause of suffering' - is metaphorically derived from what instrument of punishment?
Answer: Whip

Question: US engineer/industrialist George Pullman (1831-1897) is eponymously associated with travel by?
Answer: Rail

Question: In card gambling games such as poker, an 'ante' refers to a betting stake which is?
Answer: Compulsory

Question: Acetylsalicylic Acid is better known by what Bayer trademark?
Answer: Aspirin

Question: What literally connects Vikramshila Setu, Rajendra Setu, Mahatma Gandhi Setu and Farakka Barrage?
Answer: The Ganges

Question: Ragú refers originally in Italian to a?
Answer: Meat-based sauce

Question: Name Google's search engine for academic publishing?
Answer: Scholar

Question: Built for the 1980 Summer Olympics, which city boasts the The Izmailovo Hotel (at 2014 the world's largest, comprising 7,500 rooms)?
Answer: Moscow

Question: Whose logo features two pulling horses and the words 'original riveted'?
Answer: Levi's

Question: Sauerkraut is a type of German?
Answer: Cabbage

Question: The technical term 'Wearing Course' is used in?
Answer: Road surfacing

Question: The word dinosaur is from Greek 'deinos saurus' meaning?
Answer: Terrible lizard

Question: Which famous archipelago comprises eight major islands including Maui, Oahu, Kauai, and Molokai?
Answer: Hawaiian Islands

Question: Trypanosomiasis technically refers to what sort of sickness?
Answer: Sleeping

Question: What modern globally recognized symbol was created by British designer Gerald Holtom in 1958, based on the flag semaphore signals for N and D?
Answer: Nuclear Disarmament

Question: What is a finch-like bird, a festive decoration, and a baby's hooded sleeping garment?
Answer: Bunting

Question: Bok Choy (US) or Pak Choi (UK) is a Chinese?
Answer: Cabbage

Question: Meissen and Dresden of Germany, and Spode of England made high-quality?
Answer: Porcelain

Question: What French term traditionally seeks to convey a product/service's extra comfort/elegance, ironically from the Latin origin 'excess'?
Answer: De luxe

Question: A 'lustrum' refers to a period of how many years?
Answer: Five

Question: What remarkable world-changing South American engineering project celebrated its centenary in August 2014?
Answer: Panama Canal

Question: Roughly how many different girls' names were registered in the UK for newborn females in 2013?
Answer: 35,000

Question: The Afrikaans word 'pronk' refers to the distinctive arch-backed stiff-legged leap of a?
Answer: Springbok

Question: What is the more common English/Western biblical name of Golgotha, the site of Christ's crucifixion?
Answer: Calvary

Question: The old French term 'eshec mat' is terminology in which game?
Answer: Chess