Question: Who was the only female character to appear in every series of UK TV's 'Auf Wiedersehn, Pet'?
Answer: Brenda

Question: The word logo is thought ultimately to derive from the Greek word lógos; what does lógos mean?
Answer: Word

Question: The Curzon Line was the demarcation line between which two countries?
Answer: Russia and Poland

Question: What is the Urdu-based western name for the tobacco water-pipe known in Arabic as a shisha and in Turkish as a nargile?
Answer: Hookah

Question: Who became Secretary General of the United Nations in 2007?
Answer: Ban Ki-Moon

Question: In the Roman Catholic church what name is given to the form of prayers said on nine consecutive days?
Answer: Novena

Question: What crowd-pleasing song and album title did British folk act Show of Hands derive from a 'reverse acronym' of the collapsed bank AIG?
Answer: Arrogance Ignorance and Greed

Question: English novelist Mary Anne Evans is better known by what name?
Answer: George Eliot

Question: What job title, aside from a dealer, is given to someone who collects and pays bets at a gaming table?
Answer: Croupier

Question: In what ocean are the Pitcairn Islands, where the Bounty mutineers settled?
Answer: Pacific

Question: The words 'domo arigato' mean 'thank you' in what language?
Answer: Japanese

Question: What year is represented by the Roman numerals MCMXCIX?
Answer: 1999

Question: What stage character is based on a real life medieval merchant, politician and Mayor of London?
Answer: Dick Whittington

Question: What country was previously called Abyssinia?
Answer: Ethiopia

Question: The Evzones (meaning 'well-girded', a word apparently first recorded by Homer) are an elite ceremonial infantry unit in which European country?
Answer: Greece

Question: What ironic term describes the practice of business executives visiting the factory floor or other front-line work, abbreviated to MBWA?
Answer: Management By Walking Around

Question: What is the state capital of Western Australia?
Answer: Perth

Question: A copita is a glass traditionally used for drinking what?
Answer: Sherry

Question: The 1797 Treaty of Campo Formio was signed by Napoleon Bonaparte of France and Count Ludwig von Cobenzl of which country?
Answer: Austria

Question: A square hectare of land would have sides of how many metres each?
Answer: One hundred

Question: In marketing and business, 'Me-too' products are what?
Answer: Copies of successful products

Question: Lazar Ludwick Zamenhof invented which language?
Answer: Esperanto

Question: What is the full name of the leading scientific and technological research university referred to as MIT?
Answer: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Question: On a chess board at the start of play what piece is between the queen and its closest knight?
Answer: Bishop

Question: What term describes computer software or its code which is free to use and adapt, based on a philosophy of improvement through sharing and collaboration?
Answer: Open Source

Question: The work of which artist inspired HR Geiger's design of the monster in the Alien film?
Answer: Francis Bacon

Question: A monorchid has one what?
Answer: Testicle

Question: Winnipeg is the capital city of which Canadian province?
Answer: Manitoba

Question: What is the seven or nine branch candelabrum, of which the Jewish hanukiah (or chanukkiyah) is a type?
Answer: Menorah

Question: In golf what slang refers to a free extra stroke sometimes allowed informally after a poor shot, typically off the first tee?
Answer: Mulligan

Question: A logomachy is a dispute over what?
Answer: Words

Question: Stonehenge is in which UK county?
Answer: Wiltshire

Question: Blenny, damsel, hamlet, goby and grunt are varieties of what living things?
Answer: Fish

Question: What is the Hindi greeting and salutation also used by many Westerners engaging in Indian cultural activities and philosophies?
Answer: Namaste

Question: From what language does the phrase Kia Ora come?
Answer: Maori

Question: What one of these is a metallic chemical element? Brass, Barium, Steel, Sterling Silver, Pewter?
Answer: Barium

Question: The energy of what is measured by the Richter magnitude scale?
Answer: Earthquakes

Question: At a 2010 Cheltenham festival Katie Walsh received a four day ban for excessive use of what?
Answer: The whip

Question: What flower is the national emblem of Wales?
Answer: Daffodil

Question: What is the German equivalent of the British 'Ltd' and the American 'LLC' company designations (meaning Limited Company)?
Answer: GmbH

Question: The Followill brothers and cousin, known by their middle names Nathan, Caleb, Jared and Matthew, are members of which rock band?
Answer: Kings of Leon

Question: What trade union was deplored by Gordon Brown for its actions in the 2010 British Airways cabin staff dispute?
Answer: Unite

Question: In Rugby Union what position does the number 15 play?
Answer: Full-back

Question: The 6th century book attributed to Sun Tzu often appied to leadership is called The Art of... what?
Answer: War

Question: Valentine and Proteus are the central characters in what Shakespeare play?
Answer: Two Gentlemen of Verona

Question: What organization famously distributes bibles to hotel rooms?
Answer: The Gideons

Question: Often called 'The Lost City of the Incas', the 15th century ruins of Machu Picchu are in which country?
Answer: Peru

Question: Where in the human body are the metacarpals?
Answer: Hand

Question: ISO 9000 and its series of international quality management system standards used in industry and commerce, effectively superseded what British Standard number?
Answer: Bs5750

Question: What country comprises the peninsula of Jutland and over 400 islands including Zealand and Funen?
Answer: Denmark

Question: What is the expression of final victory, originally French, referring to the killing of a badly wounded enemy soldier or animal?
Answer: Coup de grace

Question: Sunningdale golf club is in which county of the UK?
Answer: Berkshire

Question: What is the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet, and also a terrorist organization?
Answer: Eta

Question: What is the website address of the United Nations?
Answer: www.un.org

Question: The word piste, referring to a ski-run, means literally what in French?
Answer: Track

Question: What health-related metaphor refers to a form of internet marketing which spreads from user to user on a wide scale?
Answer: Viral

Question: How many modern pence are in a guinea?
Answer: 105

Question: What unusual and distinctive item of apparel does the Bazooka Joe bubblegum character wear?
Answer: Eye patch

Question: What is the longest line of latitude on the Earth?
Answer: Equator

Question: Pisciculture is the breeding and rearing of what?
Answer: Fish

Question: Which artist is famous for painting at the Moulin Rouge?
Answer: Toulouse-Lautrec

Question: Who was the first driver to be knighted for his services to motor sport?
Answer: Jack Brabham

Question: The Davis Strait lies between Baffin Island and which country (also considered a dependency)?
Answer: Greenland

Question: January King, Meteor, and Salarite are varieties of which vegetable?
Answer: Cabbage

Question: The city of Breda is in which European country?
Answer: Netherlands

Question: Sitophobia is the fear of what?
Answer: Food

Question: Mount Elbrus (5,642 metres) is the highest mountain in which continent?
Answer: Europe

Question: Who became president of the USA in 1989?
Answer: George Bush, Senior

Question: Nicholas Rowe's 1703 play The Fair Penitent originated what character, whose name has since referred to a seducer of women?
Answer: Lothario

Question: Dresden china originated in which country?
Answer: Germany

Question: Brothers Harry, Samuel, Albert and Jack established which film company in 1923?
Answer: Warner Brothers

Question: The suffix 'stan' in a country's name such as Afghanistan derives from what early Indo-European meaning?
Answer: Stand