Question: The New Zealand All Blacks rugby union team badge emblem is a silver?
Answer: Fern

Question: In physics, mass multiplied by velocity equals what, represented by the symbol P?
Answer: Momentum

Question: What is the internet country code top-level domain (www country domain suffix) for Mexico? .me; .mc; .mx; .mi; or .mo?
Answer: .mx

Question: The Latin pectus refers to what part of the human body?
Answer: Chest

Question: What was the population of the world at 31 Oct 2011 according to the United Nations?
Answer: 7 billion

Question: Traditional UK government terminology for the persuasion of ministers to vote according to party policy is called?
Answer: Whip

Question: What French term, meaning 'high dressmaking', refers internationally to expensive designer clothing, typically of leading fashion houses?
Answer: Haute Couture

Question: What national population is projected (as at 2011) to overtake China in 2020 as the largest in the world?
Answer: India

Question: Cristina Kirchner was re-elected president of which country in October 2011?
Answer: Argentina

Question: Horology is the study of the measurement of what?
Answer: Time

Question: What military leader's name is an arm-lock applied from from behind, typically used in wrestling?
Answer: Nelson

Question: Kaun Banega Crorepati is loose Hindi translation and an Indian version of what popular TV gameshow?
Answer: Who Wants to Be A Millionaire?

Question: Patek Philippe, Vacheron Constantin, and Audemars Piguet are all notable what?
Answer: Watchmakers

Question: Lumia is a product brand of which phone company?
Answer: Nokia

Question: What iconic Moscow theatre reopened in 2011 after major refurbishment and earlier decades of neglect?
Answer: Bolshoi

Question: From Greek for gadfly, what is the sex hormonal substance which maintains/develops human female body characteristics?
Answer: Oestrogen

Question: How many grooves are on one side of a standard 33RPM vinyl LP record?
Answer: One

Question: Name the Israeli corporal released in October 2011 by Palestinian Hamas militants, held hostage since June 2006?
Answer: Gilad Shalit

Question: Yulia Tymoshenko, controversially jailed for seven years in 2011 for exceeding her authority in signing a Russian gas deal, was prime minister of which country?
Answer: Ukraine

Question: Actress Marzieh Vafamehr was sentenced to 90 lashes and a year in prison after appearing in an Australian film critical of what country, her homeland?
Answer: Iran

Question: The UK's most senior civil servant has traditionally held what post?
Answer: Cabinet Secretary

Question: Name the Glasgow-born guitar virtuoso and 1960s founder of the band Pentangle who died age 67 in 2011?
Answer: Bert Jansch

Question: What is common name of the clear flammable early anaesthetic liquid with the formula C2H5OC2H5 (or CH3-CH2-O-CH2-CH3)?
Answer: Ether

Question: F = ma is a common simplification of what?
Answer: Newtons second law of motion

Question: The famous geological/geographical feature Chesil Beach in Dorset, England, is a natural coastal barrier made of?
Answer: Pebbles

Question: At the outset of a major demonstration against capitalist greed and recklessness in London in October 2011, what group did the Rev Giles Fraser ask to leave the steps of St Paul's Cathedral?
Answer: Police

Question: Zebra, Panda, Pelican, and Puffin are types of UK what?
Answer: Pedestrian road crossings

Question: Which large automotive and musical corporation has a logo comprising three crossed tuning forks?
Answer: Yamaha

Question: Upon the change to British regal succession law removing gender inequality, the Princess Royal (Anne) advances how many positions closer to the Crown?
Answer: Six

Question: What common scientific suffix (referring to having a productive quality) is from the French/Greek word loosely meaning 'born of a specific kind'?
Answer: Gen

Question: What hugely popular annual celebration takes its name from the Sanskrit for 'row of lamps'?
Answer: Diwali

Question: The Easterlin Paradox concerns the relationship between?
Answer: Wealth and Happiness

Question: What famous UK 304-mile protest march took place in October 1936?
Answer: Jarrow Crusade

Question: On 19-20 October 1917 the largest fleet of what attempted and mostly failed to attack the UK?
Answer: Airships

Question: The Grand Bazaar, said to be the world's largest covered market, is in which city?
Answer: Instanbul

Question: Apple's smartphone launched in Autumn/Fall 2011 to unprecedented demand was the iphone?
Answer: 4S

Question: What is a person called who is unappreciative or hostile towards the arts, derived from an ancient race depicted in the Bible as great enemies of Israel?
Answer: Philistine

Question: The natural basic form of the spice ginger (Zingiber officinale) is a?
Answer: Rhizome

Question: Said to be the most natural unit of time what is typically defined as the period of rotation of the Earth relative to any selected heavenly body?
Answer: Day

Question: What foodstuff, meaning 'fat liver' in French, is made from the liver of a duck or goose fattened traditionally by force-feeding?
Answer: Foie gras

Question: Where on the female body is a snood worn?
Answer: Head/neck

Question: The Head of State in Italy is (at 2011) a?
Answer: President

Question: Conceived in 1999 in Melbourne, Australia, the annual month-long charity effort 'Movember' raises awareness/funds for men's health issues (notably prostate and testicular cancer) involving the wearing of what?
Answer: Moustaches

Question: Born in October 1949, and as at 2011 in prison for life in France, by what nickname is Venezeulan Ilich Ramírez Sánchez known?
Answer: Carlos the Jackal

Question: Canadian professor of management and psychology, Victor Vroom, established '(What?) Theory'?
Answer: Expectancy Theory

Question: What musical instrument has the nickname 'the devil's box'?
Answer: Violin

Question: The Observer is the Sunday edition of which UK daily newspaper?
Answer: The Guardian

Question: Vitreous enamel, used to decorate and protect pottery, metals, etc., is?
Answer: Glass

Question: What German word refers to the highest or premier league of any sport in Germany or Austria?
Answer: Bundesliga

Question: From 2006-11 and ongoing, Giuliano Mignini became infamous for alleged incompetence and recklessness in what role in Italy? Soccer referee; Public prosecutor; Pizza restaurateur; or Formula 1 team manager?
Answer: Public prosecutor

Question: What car/vehicle maker has (at 2011) a logo of two chevrons, one above the other, both pointing upwards?
Answer: Citroën

Question: Rocinha favela in Brazil is said to be the biggest what in Latin America?
Answer: Slum

Question: What is Alexander Pope's (1688-1744) famous line from his poem An Essay on Criticism, written 1709, much used in books, film and music?
Answer: Fools rush in where angels fear to tread

Question: IBM's innovative 'Selectric' typewriter of the 1960s-80s was popularly called a?
Answer: Golfball

Question: What is the Irish handheld single-sided round drum, often played with a double-ended beater?
Answer: Bodhrán

Question: A diaspora is a dispersion of?
Answer: People

Question: Triffis, Rudy (or Rudolph), Porpoise, Cody, and Corkscrew are moves in what sport?
Answer: Trampolining

Question: The Russian word 'naled' (in German, 'aufeis') refers to naturally occurring thicker-than-normal layers of what?
Answer: Ice

Question: A gilet (pronounced loosely 'jee-lay' - it's French) is a jacket or blouse without?
Answer: Sleeves

Question: What notable businessman is known as the Sage of Omaha?
Answer: Warren Buffett

Question: What seasonal name is most commonly given to the uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa, which began in Tunisia, December 2010?
Answer: Arab Spring

Question: In Native American ceremonial custom what is a calumet?
Answer: Peace pipe