Question: Due to its use by the ruling class to murder one another and for its potency and discreetness, which element has been called the 'Poison of Kings'?
Answer: Arsenic

Question: What 'Z' mineral found in Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia with an age of 4.404 billion years might be the oldest mineral on earth?
Answer: Zircon

Question: What is the largest living sub-species of the tiger?
Answer: Siberian tiger

Question: What is the largest species of the salmon family that also shares its name with an Indian tribe?
Answer: Chinook

Question: In 1949, what process developed by Willard Libby revolutionized archaeology?
Answer: Radiocarbon dating

Question: During WWII, troops stationed in New Guinea were warned to steer clear of what bird that was also listed by the 2007 edition of the Guinness Book as the world's most dangerous?
Answer: Cassowary

Question: Olympus Mons is the tallest known volcano and mountain in our Solar System. Where is it located?
Answer: Mars

Question: Which element gets its name from the Greek for 'acid producer' because the scientist Lavoisier who named it erroneously thought that it was a constituent of all acids?
Answer: Oxygen

Question: What rare form of headache whose name refers to its tendency to occur periodically has been called by some experts as the most painful condition known to medical science?
Answer: Cluster headache

Question: A drogue parachute is designed to be deployed from what type of object?
Answer: Rapidly moving one

Question: The Klein bottle which has no distinction between inside and outside surfaces can be made by gluing two of what similar objects?
Answer: Möbius strips

Question: The Indian astronomer Brahmagupta who lived in the 7th century is credited with introducing what fundamental mathematical concept?
Answer: The number zero

Question: What breed of sheep that is also the most numerous in the world is prized for its wool?
Answer: Merino

Question: In the general theory of relativity, what is the term for a boundary in spacetime beyond which events cannot affect the observer?
Answer: Event horizon

Question: It is common knowledge that hurricanes in the US are rated on a scale of 1 to 5. But what is the name of the scale?
Answer: Saffir-Simpson scale

Question: How many operational space shuttles were built by NASA?
Answer: Five

Question: About which genius did Prof. Hardy of Cambridge say the following words? "The greatest mathematicians made their most significant discoveries when they were very young. Galois who died at 20, Abel at 26, and Riemann at 39, had actually made their mark in history. So the real tragedy of ___ was not his early death at the age of 32, but that in his most formative years, he did not receive proper training, and so a significant part of his work was rediscovery ..."
Answer: """Ramanujan"""

Question: Which dinosaur named for a South American country is possibly the largest and heaviest land animal that ever lived?
Answer: Argentinosaurus, a herbivorous sauropod

Question: In biology, what type of relationship between two living organisms is called as a commensalism?
Answer: Relationship where one organism benefits and the other is unaffected

Question: It is considered to be the first of its kind in the world of computers and has been alternately called 'Lahore', 'Pakistani' and 'UIUC', among others. What is it?
Answer: (c)Brain, considered the first computer virus for the PC

Question: """If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use: Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?"" Who is this 'super' pioneer in the field of computer science who always resisted parallel solutions in favor of high-speed ones?"
Answer: Seymour Cray (1925-1996), the architect of the Supercomputer

Question: The name of which artificial satellite constellation system was taken from the name of the element with atomic number 77?
Answer: Iridium

Question: In the human brain, what is the area that is involved in language processing, speech production and comprehension?
Answer: Broca's area

Question: What neurological syndrome caused by severe mercury poisoning is named after a Japanese city where it was first discovered?
Answer: Minamata disease

Question: What is the term for the time that it takes an object to make one full orbit around the Sun, relative to the stars?
Answer: Sidereal period

Question: What term describes the use of the gravity of a planet to alter the path and speed of an interplanetary spacecraft?
Answer: Gravitational slingshot (or) gravity assist

Question: True versatility! Which actress achieved her biggest success in Samson and Delilah and co-invented the first form of spread spectrum, a key to modern wireless communication?
Answer: Hedy Lamarr

Question: The name of what fearsome pre-historic creature, popularized by Spielberg, literally means 'robber' in Latin?
Answer: Raptor (velociraptor means 'swift robber')

Question: With respect to the Solar System, fill in the missing name in this unique list. Ceres, Eris, Makemake, Haumea, ___
Answer: Pluto (dwarf planets)

Question: What appropriately named spacecraft launched in 1972 has become the first artificial object to leave the Solar System?
Answer: Pioneer 10

Question: What did Edwin Land invent because of his daughters' wish for instant and 'snappy' results?
Answer: Polaroid photography

Question: What type of diet is ophiophagy, notably practiced by the king cobra?
Answer: Snake eating

Question: The state of Texas actually has a state molecule! What is it?
Answer: Buckyball or fullerene

Question: This mathematical problem deals with non-trivial zero of a zeta function (whatever that means!) and has proven to be so intractable that the German mathematician David Hilbert said if he went to sleep for a thousand years, the first question he would ask after waking up is if this has been solved. What are we talking about?
Answer: Riemann hypothesis, formulated by Bernhard Riemann in 1859

Question: Endemic to New Zealand and currently listed as critically endangered, the kakapo is world's only flightless species of which common bird?
Answer: Parrot

Question: Think outside Scandinavia. What is the only country that won a gold medal at every Winter Olympics?
Answer: Usa

Question: What is the name of the Hungarian-born American professor whose rating system was approved at a meeting of the United States Chess Federation in St. Louis in 1960?
Answer: (Arpad) Elo

Question: As if it needed more help, what country saw the adaptation of the clap skate in the 1990s which enables speed skaters to achieve higher speeds by allowing a more natural movement of the leg?
Answer: The Netherlands

Question: Who along with Mel Hausner, Lloyd S. Shapley and Martin Shubik invented a board game called "So Long Sucker" in 1950 which involves game theory strategies?
Answer: John Forbes Nash

Question: In the 2014 Asian Games, the women's basketball team of Qatar withdrew from competition after refusing to make what change to their personal condition?
Answer: Remove hijabs

Question: When legendary Finnish athlete Paavo Nurmi was asked about the reason for his success at the 1924 Olympics despite high-heat conditions, he mentioned what tradition of his country as part of his training?
Answer: Sauna

Question: Nelson Mandela once gave the South African rugby player Francois Pienaar a copy of Theodore Roosevelt's "The Man in the Arena" speech for inspiration. In a 2009 movie adaptation however, what literary work was used instead of Roosevelt's speech?
Answer: The poem Invictus

Question: Mount Trebević, one of the venues during a 1980s sports event saw a turnaround in its fortunes in the subsequent years when it became a snipers' nest owing to its elevation. It is located on the southeast side of what world capital that has seen more than its fair share of strife?
Answer: Sarajevo

Question: In the 2014 Soccer World Cup, which country's players celebrated a victory by dancing to "Hips Don't Lie"?
Answer: Colombia