Question: What function does a pistil serve?
Answer: It is the female reproductive part of a flower

Question: The first editions of Lewis Carroll's "Alice ..." books were given a special flavour by illustrations by which 19th century graphic humourist and political cartoonist?
Answer: Sir John Tenniel

Question: The Oromo people much of whose area was taken over by Abyssinia, modern Ethiopia, use a calendar based on what?
Answer: The Moon, together with eight star groups or stars outside the solar system

Question: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, served in what service in World War II?
Answer: Navy

Question: Where does the Suriname common toad, or Pipa toad, lay and hatch its eggs?
Answer: In pockets on the female's back

Question: The Everglades are a subtropical wetland in which U.S. state?
Answer: Florida

Question: Oculus Story Studio, formed employing a handful of Pixar Animation Studios veterans released their first interactive Virtual Reality short at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. What was it?
Answer: Lost

Question: Who wrote "Quentins", "Nights of Rain and Stars", "Whitethorn Woods" and "Heart and Soul"?
Answer: Maeve Binchy

Question: """Immersive journalism"", of the kind presented by Nonny de la Peas ""Hunger in Los Angeles"" in 2012 uses what technique?"
Answer: Virtual reality

Question: French sculptor Frdric Bartholdi (1834-1904) is best known for what work?
Answer: Liberty Enlightening the World

Question: What do the Archipelago de Colon (the Galapagos Islands), the city of Quito and Lake Victoria share in common?
Answer: They lie on the equator

Question: Where would the game of ringette be played?
Answer: On ice

Question: In the 20th and 21st century what is the third component in "The Order of Bards, Ovates and ..."?
Answer: Druids

Question: What type of engine did Felix Wankel invent?
Answer: Rotary

Question: The music soundscape of three out of the four "Dirty Harry" films is associated with what Argentine pianist, composer, arranger and conductor?
Answer: Lalo Schifrin

Question: When hair rises in reaction to cold or shock, the appearance of the skin is sometimes described as what?
Answer: Goose flesh

Question: In cooking, what French term is the equivalent of shish kebab, satay, and souvlaki?
Answer: En brochette

Question: The rising young star, lead in the 'Hunger Games" series, is who?
Answer: Jeniifer Lawrence

Question: A World Team Cup first held in 1987 and, since 1991, biennially in (among others) Australia, the USA, Germany, Japan, New Zealand is in what sport?
Answer: Boomerang throwing

Question: The two UK TV series "The Sweeney" (1975-78) and "Inspector Morse" (1987-2000) share which actor?
Answer: John Thaw

Question: Where is the area known as the Pantanal, the world's largest tropical wetland?
Answer: Parts of Brazil, Paraguay, and Bolivia

Question: Who was the first player to be ranked by the Association of Tennis Professionals as the No 1 World player?
Answer: Ilie Nstase

Question: The Saharan mountain range, which includes the highest points in the area, is named after what people ?
Answer: The Toubou

Question: Which actor is a link between the outstanding psychological UK crime series, "Cracker", and the eight Harry Potter films?
Answer: Robbie Coltrane

Question: The film "O21" (2014) is made under the banner of what country?
Answer: Pakistan

Question: According to the saying, something that is better than ideal is the what?
Answer: Bee's knees

Question: Mostar Bridge, completed in 1566, destroyed in 1993 and rebuilt in 2004, stands in which country?
Answer: Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Question: Who was the Lanterne Rouge in the 2015 Tour de France ?
Answer: Sbastien Chavanel, Franc

Question: Which people(s) are believed to have been the first to import metal artefacts and, possibly, use woven fabric in the British Isles?
Answer: Beaker people

Question: What is a point of significance about the summit of Mount Chimborazo in the Ecuadorean Andes?
Answer: It is the point on the Earth's surface most distant from its centre

Question: When Michael Clarke resigned his captaincy of the Australian team in the course of a 2015 competition between Australia and the UK, to take effect when the series was finished, what sport were the teams competing in?
Answer: Cricket

Question: What would munition normally be?
Answer: Defence

Question: Which group from New York City released an eponymous album in 1973 with the personnel of David Johansen, Sylvain Sylvain, Arthur "Killer" Kane, Jerry Nolan and Johnny Thunders?
Answer: The New York Dolls

Question: Who was engaged to two heirs to the British throne, and during her life saw two of her sons become King and her grand-daughter become Queen?
Answer: Mary of Teck

Question: Anaemia is better described by which term?
Answer: Hypochromic

Question: What was the name of Han Solo's spacecraft in the first "Star Wars" film to be released?
Answer: Millenium Falcon

Question: In what TV series was the family butler called Lurch?
Answer: The Addams Family

Question: """Pollywog"" is another name for what?"
Answer: Tadpole

Question: Where did the characters Beavis and Butthead, from the US TV series created by Mike Judge, first appear?
Answer: Frog Baseball (1992)

Question: The caffeine-rich infused drink, mate, is prepared from a species of South American holly called what?
Answer: Yerba

Question: What is the mission of the Kepler Space Observatory launched by NASA in 2009?
Answer: To discover Earth-size or smaller planets orbiting other stars in our region of the Milky Way

Question: Where was Chiang Kai-Shek leader until 1949?
Answer: China

Question: In WCF, an international body formed in 1986 which is associated among other things with the MacRobertson Shield, what does the "C" stand?
Answer: Croquet

Question: Which group, named after its keyboardist, had its first hit record when the members included Mike Hugg, Mike Vickers, Tom McGuinness and Paul Jones?
Answer: Manfred Mann

Question: What links the cities of Quito and Lima?
Answer: They are the capital cities of adjacent countries

Question: Who resigned his army commission in 1858 to write music, such as the opera "Boris Godunov" and "Pictures at an Exhibition"?
Answer: Modest Mussorgsky

Question: What is one of the terms for a type of mediaeval base coin made elsewhere but circulating in England, and made illegal there in 1299 CE?
Answer: Pollard

Question: Which club won the 1992-1993 UEFA Champions League, the first since being rebranded from the European Champion Clubs' Cup?
Answer: Olympique de Marseille

Question: How is present "sea level", the base level for measuring elevation and depth, determined?
Answer: The average of hourly measurements of sea level over a period of 19 years

Question: What did the Festival International du Film become in 2002?
Answer: Festival de Cannes

Question: Cyrus the Great of Persia, for his religious tolerance, power and skill the only non-Jew to be acclaimed as the Messiah, founded the Achaemenid Empire in the 6th century BCE which stretched how far?
Answer: Asia Minor in the west to the northwestern areas of India in the east

Question: Yukio Hatoyama, who became Prime Minister of Japan in September 2009, announced his resignation on 2 June 2010, citing what as the main reason?
Answer: Breaking his promise to remove a US base from Okinawa

Question: What is missing in the sequence: French Guiana, the Republic of Suriname, and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela?
Answer: The Co-operative Republic of Guyana

Question: When and where was the Batavian Republic?
Answer: The Netherlands 1795-1806 AD

Question: The mediaeval wind instrument called a shawm typically had a cover over its keys called what?
Answer: Fontanelle

Question: The character "Mr. T" is from which US TV series?
Answer: The A Team

Question: What was the nickname of the defending champion in the 2014 World Snooker Championship?
Answer: The Rocket