Question: What is a common characteristic of the Titicaca Grebe, the Greater Rhea, the Inaccessible Island Rail, and the Campbell Teal?
Answer: They are flightless birds

Question: What is the word for an itinerant tinsmith who mends household utensils?
Answer: Tinker

Question: Bob Fosse won a "Best Director" Oscar in 1972 for which film?
Answer: Cabaret

Question: Gumboot Day held since 1985, celebrating the gumboot and including gumboot throwing contest, takes place where?
Answer: Taihape, New Zealand

Question: What is most closely linked with the original meanings from which the word "person" is derived?
Answer: Voice or sound

Question: How did Boris Godunov, one of Russia's Tsars in the early 17th century, come to power?
Answer: He was elected

Question: The shallow soda Mono Lake is in what state of the USA?
Answer: California

Question: The "Hyksos" was the name given to a people who assumed rule in which country in the second millennium BCE?
Answer: Egypt

Question: What were the grounds for the debate about whether Russian athletes would be allowed to participate in the 2016 Olympic Games?
Answer: Revelations about longstanding and systematic concealed doping among Russian Olympic athletes

Question: A large part of the vegetation of the Okavango Delta, named one of the Seven Natural Wonders of Africa in 2013, is what?
Answer: Papyrus and reed rafts

Question: Which degenerative disorder is found in professional athletes in the fields of boxing, American football, association football, ice hockey, professional wrestling, stunt performing, bull riding, bicycle motocross and rodeo as a result of their sport?
Answer: Chronic traumatic encephalopathy

Question: A 2015 US TV series centred on high school guidance counsellor Madison Clark, her boyfriend and family is a prequel to what 2010 series?
Answer: The Walking Dead

Question: Which new French wine is released annually on the third Thursday in November?
Answer: Beaujolais

Question: Walt Disney's animated film "Bambi" (1942) drawn from Austrian Felix Salten's 1923 book had been shelved for five years mainly for what reason or reasons?
Answer: The adult and sombre nature of the book, and challenges in animal animation

Question: What was the fist name of Mr. Micawber, who appeared in Charles Dickens's "David Copperfield"?
Answer: Wilkins

Question: What is the aim of the International HapMap Project?
Answer: To catalogue human genetic similarities and differences

Question: Which river flows from the Caspian Sea?
Answer: None

Question: Shi'ite and Sunni are beliefs within what religion?
Answer: Islam

Question: In 2004, who left the band Westlife?
Answer: Brian McFadden

Question: What is the series "yan....giggot" most likely to be?
Answer: A method of counting sheep, one to twenty

Question: Who was the first President of what later became the United States of America?
Answer: Peyton Randolph

Question: Where or what is the Circle of Willis?
Answer: A ring of blood vessels at the base of the brain

Question: What is or are "Stockman's Dogs"?
Answer: A cartoon

Question: What is the international movement, started in 2008, aiming to promote exploring, understanding threats to, and conserving the world's natural wonders?
Answer: Seven Natural Wonders

Question: Which poet, professor and novelist, whose first novel is considered the most widely read in modern African literature, died in Boston, USA, in 2013 at the age of 82?
Answer: Chinua Achebe, from Nigeria

Question: Apart from Africa where is there a Table Mountain?
Answer: Coromandel, New Zealand

Question: What is the source of the company name "Xerox"?
Answer: An adaptation of the Greek word for "dry writing"

Question: The TV series "Broadchurch" (2013 - present) stars Olivia Colman together with what actor famous for his Dr Who persona?
Answer: David Tennant

Question: The coasts of which two countries are farthest apart?
Answer: Libya and Namibia

Question: Over how many holes is The British Open (golfing championship) played?
Answer: 72

Question: Olof Palme was assassinated in 1986 when he was Prime Minister of which country?
Answer: Sweden

Question: The phrase "eyeball to eyeball" uses a figure of speech known as what?
Answer: Synecdoche

Question: Who was the 2014 World Backgammon Champion?
Answer: Akiko Yazawa (Japan)

Question: Michael Douglas starred in what TV series, set in California, which ran on US TV from 1972 and 1980?
Answer: The Streets of San Francisco

Question: What is one of the distinctions of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia?
Answer: The capital city with lowest mean annual daily temperature

Question: A placenta in which the umbilical cord is attached at the placental margin is called what?
Answer: Battledore placenta

Question: Which is the 17th century German mathematician and astronomer (at one time assistant to Tycho Brahe) whose works, including " Epitome of Copernican Astronomy", provided one of the foundations for Isaac Newton's theory of universal gravitation?
Answer: Johannes Kepler

Question: In what country did the Boxer War, or Boxer Rebellion, happen?
Answer: China

Question: In the early 20th century a French chef developed a soup he called Vichyssoise and placed it on the menu of which restaurant ?
Answer: Ritz-Carlton, New York, USA

Question: Who wrote "It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us", a book published in 1996 that focuses on the impact individuals and groups outside the family have on a child's well-being?
Answer: Hillary Rodham Clinton

Question: The film, Tess of the Storm Country (1914), was an early highlight in releases by the company, Famous Players in Famous Plays; this company merged with others to form another company now known as what?
Answer: Paramount Pictures

Question: What was the stage name of Norma Deloris Egstrom, an American jazz and popular music singer and songwriter who won 3 Grammy Awards (including the Lifetime Achievement Award) and who was nominated for an Academy Award as an actress?
Answer: Peggy Lee

Question: In which country are the Angel Falls, or Kerepakupai Ven?
Answer: Venezuela

Question: The last four nations to join the United Nations 193 members are Switzerland (2002), Timor-Leste (2002), Montenegro (2006) and which other nation?
Answer: South Sudan

Question: Who or what did the music hall performer mean when he sang of "my old dutch"?
Answer: His wife

Question: Who, in the 6th century BCE, was the last king of Lydia, Solon, who made war on Cyrus, King of Persia, and was defeated?
Answer: Croesus

Question: Where does the Orange River, one of the longest rivers in Africa, meet the sea?
Answer: Alexander Bay on the west coast of South Africa

Question: Which country held the Rugby League World Cup from 1975 to 2000 (for 6 contests)?
Answer: Australia

Question: Something which is specious can be what?
Answer: Any of these

Question: Where was co-founder of band which became Crowded House, Tim Finn, born and raised?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: What characterises a regular polygon?
Answer: Same length sides and size angles

Question: From the 10th to the 14th centuries Scandinavian and, later, Anglo Saxon warriors formed the guard for Byzantine emperors under what name?
Answer: Varangian Guard

Question: Following the 1948 Olympics FIFA imposed what ban relating to play in the World Cup?
Answer: Playing barefoot

Question: What is one thing which the following cities have in common: New Delhi, Yangon, Caracas, Bengaluru, Darwin, Kolkata, and Tehran?
Answer: They are in time zones offset from Universal Time by half an hour

Question: Neo, Morpheus and the city of Zion feature in what 1999 film?
Answer: The Matrix

Question: Throughout his early years in Indonesia, who was known to his playmates and at school as "Barry Soetoro"?
Answer: Barack Obama

Question: Two of its cones are considered extinct while the third, Kibo, is only dormant and sports gas fumeroles. Which mountain is it?
Answer: Kilimanjaro, Tanzania