Question: What black and white creature exists across Europe, Africa, Asia and N America with variants including the 'Asiatic stink (What?)'?
Answer: Badger

Question: What quick punctuation mark has two versions known technically as 'en rule' and 'em rule'?
Answer: Dash

Question: Deezer, Tidal, Onerpm, and Tunecore operate in what industrial sector?
Answer: Music

Question: A snowflake takes approximately how long to fall fom sky to ground?
Answer: One hour

Question: The word fiscal in a financial sense generally refers to?
Answer: Governmental

Question: What is 3.6297 divided by 1?
Answer: 3.6297

Question: What is the main component of blood besides cells and clotting/glycoprotein factors? Serum; Water; Mucus; or Sweat?
Answer: Serum

Question: Explorers and mountaineers have for many decades eaten high-energy 'Kendal (What?) Cake'?
Answer: Mint

Question: Botanically a banana is a?
Answer: Berry

Question: The medieval-originating 'patten' is a type of (What?) designed for mud? Shoe; Shovel; Bucket; or Pig?
Answer: Shoe

Question: The Anglicized Italian word cognoscenti refers to people in relation to a subject who are?
Answer: Well-informed/aware

Question: The ancient Thracian peltasts and Greek hoplites were large units of infantrymen mainly armed with?
Answer: Spears

Question: In ancient Rome, the 'Culina' was the?
Answer: Kitchen

Question: What colour/color is produced by mixing equal amounts of red and green paint?
Answer: Brown

Question: The Elvis Presley song Hound Dog was originally written about a?
Answer: Gigolo

Question: Which modern nation was home to the Aztec people, notably 14-16th centuries?
Answer: Mexico

Question: The comic book franchise behind Spiderman, Hulk, X-Men, and Fantastic Four is?
Answer: Marvel

Question: London's 'pedicabs', which came under new regulatory controls in 2015, are?
Answer: Cycle-rickshaws

Question: A 2015 study by China's Dalian University found that owls fly silently because their feathers convert a biproduct of mechanical energy into (What?) instead of noise?
Answer: Heat

Question: Renaissance is an Anglicized-French word meaning?
Answer: Rebirth/revival

Question: What is a quarter multiplied by a quarter?
Answer: A sixteenth

Question: The element Silcon is vaguely yet generally categorized as?
Answer: Non-metal/metalloid

Question: The American Mastodon is an ancient long-extinct relative of the?
Answer: Elephant

Question: The Cantonese/Chinese dish 'foo yong' (also 'fu young') is similar to?
Answer: Omelette

Question: The 18C legal term 'Ragman Roll', a record of crimes, originated what modern word for a long complex procedure?
Answer: Rigmarole

Question: What term was popularised by the eponymous 1979 film about a nuclear reactor meltdown hypothetically 'burning' from the US through Earth to other side?
Answer: The China Syndrome

Question: The Virgin space tourism business is branded?
Answer: Galactic

Question: What Anglicized German Italian term for 'circulation of money' became a brand for electronic financial transfer, and UK slang for a state benefits payment?
Answer: Giro

Question: The Anglo-French court term meaning 'this action lies' gave rise to what word which means the essense of a communication/concept?
Answer: Gist

Question: Xinhau is China's official state?
Answer: News agency

Question: A trug is used to hold/carry things when?
Answer: Gardening

Question: What historic UK county part-comprises East Ridings and West Ridings? Northumberland; Yokshire; Kent; or Cork?
Answer: Yorkshire

Question: Monsanto is a globally dominant corporation in the sector of?
Answer: Agriculture

Question: The Australian wombat marsupial has what unusually adapted feature for burrow-digging?
Answer: Backwards-facing pouch

Question: The 'Dames Pipi' are traditional Parisien?
Answer: Public toilet attendants

Question: Smits and Lugs are Viking-originating (still used) painted marks and ear notches for identifying UK?
Answer: Sheep

Question: The chemical element cobalt is a?
Answer: Metal

Question: Developed by Swedish company Mojang, Minecraft is a popular?
Answer: Video game

Question: What icon dominated the 2015 shortlisted designs for a potentially new national flag of New Zealand?
Answer: Fern

Question: A maze of what plants was built to celebrate the opening of the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam, 2015?
Answer: Sunflowers

Question: Tahini paste, for example used in houmous, is made from which seeds?
Answer: Sesame

Question: The Speyside or (locally called Strathspey) area of NE Scotland is famous for its '(What?) Trial' and longstanding traditional production of?
Answer: Whisky

Question: Japan's NTT DoCoMo mobile phone company developed which texting icon 'pictograph' series, Japanese for 'picture' and 'character'?
Answer: Emoji

Question: What element has a symbol which appears commonly in business names?
Answer: Cobalt

Question: In computer gaming what famous and controversial franschise does GTA represent?
Answer: Grand Theft Auto

Question: What two-word term refers in English/UK to a deliberately arranged dramatic/literary/musical section, and to a (typically rehearsed) re-start in a team ball game?
Answer: Set piece

Question: A quarter divided by a half is a?
Answer: Half

Question: The band/sheet of connective tissue under the skin in human anatomy, chiefly of collagen, which stabilizes/supports organs and muscles, is?
Answer: Fascia

Question: The arctic mountain 'ptarmigan' which changes to white in winter, is a?
Answer: Bird

Question: What mobile entertainment takes its name from the ancient Roman rounded arenas?
Answer: Circus

Question: What metallic element has the highest electrical and thermal conductivity, and reflectivity?
Answer: Silver

Question: British Queen Victoria (1819-1901) is what relation to Queen Elizabeth II?
Answer: Great Great Grandmother

Question: What completely non-infectious neurodegenerative disease was misreported as being 'infectious' by most mainstream UK news media in September 2015?
Answer: Alzheimer's

Question: Boron, silicon, germanium, arsenic, antimony and tellurium are commonly considered the six primary chemical element?
Answer: Metalloids

Question: Coccinellidae, whose common name variants suggest a female form, are?
Answer: Beetles

Question: What 1960s-launched children's toy has friends Paul, Patch Vicki and Mitzi?
Answer: Sindy

Question: In modern times a 'life celebrant' typically officiates at a humanist?
Answer: Funeral

Question: Deriving from 'Tagalog' Austronesian language 'bundok' (mountain) the US-English word 'boondocks' (and 'boonies') refers disrespectfully to?
Answer: A remote rural area

Question: Rocna, Spade, Bulwagga, Grapnel and Admiralty/Fisherman are varieties of?
Answer: Anchor

Question: The annual 'Ig Nobel' prize for Literature was awarded in 2015 for serious research/evidence that (What?) is used phonetically internationally to ask a question?
Answer: Huh

Question: Facebook confusingly announced in 2015 the introduction of a '(What?) button'?
Answer: Dislike

Question: Kenkojuku, Shotokan, Chito-ryu, and Wado-ryu are styles/types of Japanese?
Answer: Karate

Question: What model iPhone was the most modern available in 2015?
Answer: 6

Question: SUV and SAV cars are characterized by what additional capability?
Answer: Off-road

Question: The word 'impropriety' refers to actions that are?
Answer: Dishonest

Question: The Vouvray district of the French Loire Valley is famous for its white?
Answer: Wine

Question: Technically known as 'the vernacular', an old term for the day-to-day native language of a people/region is The ?
Answer: Vulgar Tongue

Question: Chitterlings are what sort of food?
Answer: Meat offal

Question: Araneus diadematus is the widely-found European garden?
Answer: Spider

Question: The first major supermarket chain to introduce the UK 'national living wage' (£9.35/2015) was?
Answer: Lidl