Question: How many points are on Twitter's 2012-introduced tweeting flying bird logo (wings, tail and beak)?
Answer: Six

Question: Pithy refers to communications, notably spoken words, which are?
Answer: Concise and impactful

Question: Which notable leader won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize?
Answer: Barack Obama

Question: The Chicxulub crater is a prehistoric impact crater buried underneath the Yucatan Peninsula in what country?
Answer: Mexico

Question: What eponymous 1969 theory blames organizations for promoting managers to levels at which they are incompetent?
Answer: The Peter Principle

Question: What Rome-founded fashion house and handbag specialist sponsored a 2m euro restoration of the Trevi Fountain in 2013?
Answer: Fendi

Question: Bardiche, Bill, Glaive, Halberd, and Voulge are types of?
Answer: Weaponry

Question: Scoliosis affects which part of the body?
Answer: Spine

Question: What did the Twitter bird logo lose when updated in 2012 from the original 2010 design?
Answer: Crest and a wing feather

Question: Italian Jacopo Peri (1561-1633) is regarded as the inventor of?
Answer: Opera

Question: What chocolate, biscuit and raisin confection, otherwise known as 'fridge cake', is named after an Indian-English word for a light snack?
Answer: Tiffin

Question: The Manganese Bronze company took over production of what famous vehicle from 1973-2012, first made in 1948?
Answer: Black Taxicab

Question: What is the extremely strong natural glucose-derived polymer of fungi cell walls, crustacean/insect exoskeletons, etc., also used in pharmacy and industry?
Answer: Chitin

Question: Ikebana, English Garden, and High Style are styles of what?
Answer: Flower arranging

Question: What sort of implement has a heel and toe and is characterized by variable features including kerf, gullet, fleam, rake, and points per inch?
Answer: Saw

Question: The term volte-face is alternatively informally called a?
Answer: U-turn

Question: What is the female equivalent of the Oedipus complex in Jungian/Freudian psychosexual theory?
Answer: Electra

Question: Cape, Katanga, Masai, Barbary and Asiatic are generally considered sub-species of what 'apex' predator?
Answer: Lion

Question: A metal ring or grommet in a sail or other nautical attachment, through which a rope passes is a?
Answer: Cringle

Question: A stilb is a measure of?
Answer: Luminance

Question: In ancient Greek mythology the godly personification of the sky, Uranus, had his what cut off?
Answer: Testicles

Question: Charles Stent practised what surgery, for which he invented his eponymous technique?
Answer: Dental

Question: From Greek words meaning 'flesh preserver' what coal-tar oil was widely used in wood treatment and medicine?
Answer: Creosote

Question: London's Wembley Arena (next to Wembley Stadium) was built in 1934 as what sort of sporting facility, reflected in what original name (two answers required)?
Answer: Swimming Pool/Empire Pool

Question: The US company Shubb is famous for making small metal engineered gadgets for?
Answer: Stringed instruments

Question: The nickname of 9th century Islamic mathematician Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Musa ('al-Kwarizmi' - the man of Kwarizm) is the etymological source of what computing term?
Answer: Algorithm

Question: What was the name given in Ancient Greek mythology to the time/situation before the creation of the universe?
Answer: Chaos

Question: Name the fictional suburb in Ira Levin's 1972 novel which became an expression for a wife who submissively obeys her husband?
Answer: Stepford

Question: What logical common name is given to the cells which initiate cardiac contraction and so control heart rate?
Answer: Pacemaker

Question: What cereal breakfast is a humorous metaphor for prison?
Answer: Porridge

Question: What informal rule, named after Intel Corp's co-founder, predicts the doubling of transistors on microchips every two years?
Answer: Moore's Law

Question: What Italian word for 'it follows' refers to a smooth transition between two items, especially musical pieces?
Answer: Segue

Question: The hairstyling device used in creating a bun is commonly called a?
Answer: Donut

Question: A 'rum baba' is a?
Answer: Cake

Question: What political speech/campaign term derives from the tradition of cutting down a tree to make a platform for the speaker?
Answer: Stump

Question: A safe reliable business agreement or position is said to be (what?)-bottomed?
Answer: Copper

Question: Béchamel, Espagnole, Velouté, Hollandaise, Tomate are the five 'mother (what?)' of classical French cuisine?
Answer: Sauces

Question: In chemistry and physics the tendency of a substance to vaporize is termed?
Answer: Volatility

Question: The Italian fashion name Prada refers to?
Answer: The founder

Question: Founded in 1827 by Karl Baedeker and run by his family until 1984, the eponymous German company is famous for?
Answer: Travel guides

Question: The 'steg' in stegosaurus refers to its?
Answer: Covering (of armoured plates)

Question: Weibo is a what in China?
Answer: Microblog

Question: What popular food comes from the Oryza sativa and Oryza glaberrima plants?
Answer: Rice

Question: A 'sinkhole' is a collapse of the ground into a void below caused by?
Answer: Water

Question: Poached eggs on muffins with hollandaise sauce, and ham or bacon are popularly called 'eggs (What?)'?
Answer: Benedict

Question: What metaphorical torture chamber reference derives from George Orwell's 1949 book Nineteen Eighty-Four?
Answer: Room 101

Question: Tritium is a radioactive isotope of?
Answer: Hydrogen

Question: What word was originally a sudden sound, later a flashing point on a radar screen, evolving in the 1970s to mean a trend deviation?
Answer: Blip

Question: Whose famous old Brown Ale (still made) was first brewed in Whitechapel, London, in 1902?
Answer: Mann's

Question: Name the illness caused by a reaction to gliadin, a gluten protein in wheat, barley, rye, etc?
Answer: Coeliac disease

Question: The Innocent smoothie drinks business was wholly acquired by which more famous drinks corporation in 2013?
Answer: Coca Cola

Question: St Elmo's Fire originally referred to?
Answer: Atmospheric ionization

Question: What uniquely specialized profession traditionally uses a Piscatory Ring?
Answer: A Pope

Question: In which human sensory organ is Bruch's membrane?
Answer: Eye

Question: Bort or boart refers to waste/inferior what, used for industrial purposes?
Answer: Diamonds

Question: What 2nd World War US pilot's alliterative expression for an unidentified flying object, from the 'Smoky Stover' cartoon strip, inspired the name of a rock band?
Answer: Foo Fighter

Question: What was the first element discovered in space (actually at the Sun)?
Answer: Helium

Question: What smartphone operating system increased its market share from 4% in 2009 to 70% in 2013?
Answer: Android

Question: Devised in 1920 from Russian research into proximity sensing, what eponymous musical instrument is controlled by the player's proximity to it?
Answer: Theremin

Question: The famously gruelling c.1,100mile (1,800km) Iditarod Trial Dog Sled Race is run annually each March where?
Answer: Alaska

Question: A gimlet tool is traditionally shaped like the letter?
Answer: T

Question: The prefix 'neo' (neocon, Neolithic, neo-Nazi, neonatal, etc) means?
Answer: New

Question: The word psalm derives from meaning a song sung to what instrument?
Answer: Harp

Question: Hydromel is a very old alcoholic drink made with fermented what?
Answer: Honey

Question: In economics the Lorenz Curve is a graphical representation of typically?
Answer: Wealth distribution/inequality

Question: The flammable intoxicating compound Hydroxyethane (C2H6O) is better known as what chemical?
Answer: Ethanol

Question: San Pellegrino is an Italian?
Answer: Water

Question: Worn in medieval times by armed men, a baldric was a?
Answer: Shoulder strap