Question: A 2010 study published in the Lancet suggested what medicine, recently found to reduce cancer development, aside from giving protection against strokes and heart attacks, is "...the most amazing drug in the world..."?
Answer: Aspirin

Question: What popular cereal brand has for decades featured a kilted athlete on its box?
Answer: Scott's Porage Oats

Question: Which European country is known as 'The Cockpit of Europe'?
Answer: Belgium

Question: What type of food is Sapsago, also called Sap Sago and Schabziger?
Answer: Cheese

Question: What degree angle are the corners of a regular tetrahedron?
Answer: 60

Question: Name the Google phone and software system which, according to some news reports in 2010, ended Nokia's 10 years' of market dominance?
Answer: Android

Question: The move called 'en passant' features in what board game?
Answer: Chess

Question: Who - UK cabinet minister for culture - had his name unspeakably 'spoonerised' live on air by BBC Radio 4 journalist James Naughtie (pronounced 'Nockty') in December 2010?
Answer: Jeremy Hunt

Question: The largest sex discrimination lawsuit in US history, which began in 2001 and by 2010 involved 1.5m female workers was filed against which employer?
Answer: Walmart

Question: Which Scottish castle did Queen Victoria and husband Prince Albert buy in 1852?
Answer: Balmoral

Question: South-West is how many degrees on a compass?
Answer: 225

Question: 'Cucumber Time' is the quiet season in which trade?
Answer: Tailoring

Question: Which bird, which lays the largest egg in proportion to its body size of all birds, is an apteryx?
Answer: Kiwi

Question: Who is the twin sister of Sebastian in William Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night'?
Answer: Viola

Question: In which South American country is the region and its regional capital city called Arequipa, the nation's second largest city (as at 2010)?
Answer: Peru

Question: What, alluding to a piece of broken glass, became London's tallest building when under construction during 2010?
Answer: The Shard

Question: What was secret police of East Germany?
Answer: Stasi

Question: The Shatt-al-Arab River is formed by the confluence of which two rivers, at Al-Qurnah, Iraq near Basra?
Answer: Tigris and Euphrates

Question: 9.9498744 (to the nearest seven decimal places) is the square root of which whole number?
Answer: 99

Question: What item significantly in the hands of South African-born Matt Prior became suddenly desirable in December 2010, vastly beyond its basic value?
Answer: Cricket ball

Question: What fruity expression refers traditionally to a small nation state which is politically unstable due to dependence on a single commodity controlled by external finances?
Answer: Banana republic

Question: How many minutes are there in a degree of an angle?
Answer: 60

Question: Also a comic book character, what is an orderly assigned to serve a British Military Officer?
Answer: Batman

Question: Who in May 1935 for Boston Braves played his last career baseball game?
Answer: Babe Ruth

Question: What at the end of 2010 was Amazon's biggest ever selling product?
Answer: Kindle

Question: An important Biafran army base in the 1967-70 conflict then known as the Biafran War, in which African country is Lake Oguta?
Answer: Nigeria

Question: Suomi is the local name for which European country?
Answer: Finland

Question: The term Paraskavedekatriaphobia informally refers to an irrational fear of what time-related concern?
Answer: Friday 13th

Question: The Attan, a Pashtun ethnic dance, is the national dance of which country?
Answer: Afghanistan

Question: Diplopia is the medical term for which condition of the human body?
Answer: Double vision

Question: Battement tendu, Grand écart, Entrechat, Hortensia, and Sissonne are terms in what art form?
Answer: Ballet

Question: Who captained England's last Ashes winning cricket team in Australia prior to their 2010 victory?
Answer: Mike Gatting

Question: By which other name (alias) was the American outlaw Robert LeRoy Parker better known?
Answer: Butch Cassidy

Question: On the Mohs' Scale of mineral hardness, what is number one and softest, with the formula Mg3Si4O10(OH)2 and found in many bathrooms?
Answer: Talc

Question: What British coin, whose nickname strangely alludes to the leather industry, ceased to be legal tender in June 1980?
Answer: Sixpence

Question: What term, traditionally relating to trains and slippery rails, and a children's play area, refers in computing to a secure area or function where code can be tested in safe isolation?
Answer: Sandbox

Question: What degrees temperature is the same in Centigrade/Celsius as it is in Fahrenheit?
Answer: -40

Question: In what form does keratin, the substance human fingernails and hair are made from, sell for more than gold, and endanger a species?
Answer: Rhino horn

Question: The nuclear disaster site at Chernobyl, to which tourist visits begin/began in 2011, is in which country?
Answer: Ukraine

Question: What symbol commonly used in print, and titles especially, derives from a combination of the letters E and T?
Answer: Ampersand

Question: What is a filbert nut more commonly called, from the name of the tree bearing it?
Answer: Hazelnut

Question: What French term is used in English when referring to a thought or experience that a person believes he/she has already seen before?
Answer: Deja vu

Question: On a western-style Qwerty keyboard, what number shares the key with the % symbol?
Answer: 5

Question: What important river in south-west France and north-west Spain gives access to Bordeaux, and links the Mediterranean Sea to the Bay of Biscay?
Answer: Garonne

Question: Which US president had the nickname 'King of Camelot'?
Answer: John F Kennedy

Question: What is generally suggested to be the fourth spatial dimension in addition to the first three (of length, area and volume)?
Answer: Time

Question: What German word refers to a 'double' of a living person, often an evil version?
Answer: Doppelganger

Question: UK HM Revenue and Customs reported that how many people had filled in their tax return online on Christmas Day 2010?
Answer: 845

Question: What is iron pyrites (iron disulfide, FeS2) commonly called, because it resembles a precious metal?
Answer: Fool's Gold

Question: Related to the early development and measurement of steam engines what traditional unit of energy equates typically to between 735-746 watts?
Answer: Horsepower

Question: Which famous composer is on the back of the UK £20 banknote withdrawn in 2010?
Answer: Edward Elgar

Question: In the conventional game of pool ('eight-ball', or 'spots and stripes') what colour are the 3 and 11 balls?
Answer: Red

Question: How many zeros are represented by the metric multiple prefix 'tera'?
Answer: Twelve

Question: On a chessboard what square (using modern letter and number reference) would the white king pawn occupy if its first move was two squares forward?
Answer: E4

Question: Abraham Maslow's fundamentally meaningful theory of motivation, popularly shown as a pyramid of motivational factors in a person's life, is known widely as Maslow's what?
Answer: Hierarchy of Needs

Question: What is the upright cylindrical apparatus on a ship around which cables or hawsers are wound for hoisting anchors and lifting sails, etc - and also a UK brand of unfiltered high-tar cigarette?
Answer: Capstan

Question: The Crimean Peninsula is part of which European country?
Answer: Ukraine

Question: What is the vein running along the centre of a leaf called?
Answer: Midrib

Question: The disease beriberi is caused by the deficiency of which vitamin?
Answer: B1

Question: What is measured in Hertz?
Answer: Frequency

Question: 24 Sussex Drive is the official residence of the Prime Minister of which country?
Answer: Canada

Question: Hyperion and Rhea are two moons of which planet in our solar system?
Answer: Saturn