Question: What derogatory name for the British has its origins in sailors eating something to avoid scurvy?
Answer: Limey

Question: When is a riderless or caparisoned horse with boots reversed in the stirrups most commonly seen?
Answer: Funeral procession

Question: If you plan to use a Bateson's Belfry, what are you trying to prevent?
Answer: Premature burial

Question: What is the name given to ceramic mugs sold in Britain that have caricatures of old sailors?
Answer: Toby mugs

Question: In 1933, which Mexican artist commissioned by the Rockefeller family to create a mural caused controversy by including Lenin in it?
Answer: Diego Rivera

Question: What non-woven cloth that is produced by matting and pressing fibers is the oldest form of fabric known to humankind?
Answer: Felt

Question: The Scarlet Sails celebration is the culmination of what annual festival that takes place during the season of the midnight sun in St. Petersburg?
Answer: White Nights Festival

Question: The most famous symbol of what people of North Africa is the Tagelmust, an indigo blue-colored veil that gives them the name 'People of the Veil'?
Answer: Tuareg

Question: Which legendary king, the stories of whom were popular in Europe in the middle ages was said to have ruled over a Christian nation lost amidst the pagans in the orient?
Answer: Prester John (also Presbyter John)

Question: In Greek mythology, Eos sought the gift of immortality from Zeus for her lover Tithonus but committed what mistake?
Answer: She forgot about eternal youth

Question: If you shop in Netherlands for klompen and wear them, you are likely to make a lot of noise. Why?
Answer: They are clogs

Question: Saint Sarah (also known as 'Sara the black'), whose place of pilgrimage is Camargue in France is the patron saint of whom?
Answer: Roma (gypsy) people

Question: The story goes that England's Edward III, after a victory in the Battle of Crécy, laid siege to Calais and Philip VI of France ordered the city to hold out at all costs. After Philip failed to lift the siege and the city surrendered, Edward offered to spare the people of the city if any six of its top leaders would surrender themselves to him, presumably to be executed. How is this story immortalized in art?
Answer: As Rodin's The Burghers of Calais

Question: What (racist) American expression has its origin in the days of exploration when Native Americans would lend items to the settlers, and the settlers thought that this was a gift and hence were shocked when the Native Americans asked for their items back?
Answer: Indian giver

Question: What unique Paris theater closed down in 1962 with its director saying "We could never equal Buchenwald. Before the war, everyone felt that what was happening onstage was impossible. Now we know that these things, and worse, are possible in reality."?
Answer: Grand Guignol

Question: Legend has it that in medieval times, a knight and his lady were walking along the side of a river. He picked a posy of flowers, but because of the weight of his armour he fell into the river. As he was drowning he threw the posy to his loved one and shouted three words. This is the origin of the common name of what plant/flower whose scientific name is Myosotis?
Answer: Forget-me-not

Question: Which French painter is most closely associated with scenes of Parisian night-life and portraits of popular cabaret entertainers?
Answer: Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901)

Question: Which major 20th century art movement is divided into two parts called Analytical and Synthetic?
Answer: Cubism

Question: What is 'Gehenna' for Jews, 'Naraka' for Hindus, 'Tartarus' for Greeks, 'Jahannam' for Muslims and 'Xibalba' for the Mayans?
Answer: Hell or underworld

Question: What psychological phenomenon states that when two people live in close proximity during the first years in the life of either one, they are desensitized to sexual attraction?
Answer: Westermarck effect

Question: What present-day tradition that is a favorite among the working class originated in the U.S. Navy in the 1920s where it was a slang for a scheduled entertainment period?
Answer: Happy hour

Question: If someone wants to be called a 'hafiz' or 'hafith' by Muslims, they must possess an incredible memory. Why?
Answer: Hafiz is one who has memorized the Quran

Question: What is the term for the fine pattern of cracks formed on old paintings, which is sometimes used to detect forged art as it is a hard-to-forge signature of authenticity?
Answer: Craquelure

Question: The name of what mythical medieval land of plenty where the harshness of peasant life does not exist is commonplace in medieval Goliard verse?
Answer: Cockaigne

Question: What cultural symbol of Mexico is said to represent both the Virgin Mary and the Aztec goddess Tonantzin?
Answer: Our Lady of Guadalupe

Question: A snare is tied near the base of a bird's throat, which allows the bird only to swallow small fish. When the bird tries to swallow a large fish, the fish is caught in the it's throat and when it returns to the fisherman's raft, he helps the bird to remove the fish.Historically in China, Japan and Macedonia, the fishing skills of which bird have been put to good use this way?
Answer: Cormorant

Question: Alluded to by Alexander Pope in his An Essay on Criticism, in Greek mythology it was believed that drinking from what body of water would bring you great inspiration?
Answer: Pierian spring

Question: What is the illustrated manuscript produced by Celtic monks around 800 AD that has been described as the zenith of Western calligraphy and illumination?
Answer: The Book of Kells

Question: What is the Japanese equivalent of the Chinese art of penjing?
Answer: Bonsai

Question: In Irish, Icelandic, and Scottish mythologies, selkies are creatures that are capable of taking what form apart from human?
Answer: The form of a seal

Question: What valuable commodities were called as 'sweat of the sun' and 'tears of the moon' by the Incas?
Answer: Gold and silver

Question: What monument was described by the poet Rabindranath Tagore as "a teardrop on the cheek of time"?
Answer: Taj Mahal

Question: When this great artist was once criticized for creating unrealistic art, he asked his accuser "Can you show me some realistic art?" The man showed him a photograph of his wife. The artist observed: "So your wife is two inches tall, two-dimensional, with no arms and no legs, and no colour but only shades of gray?" Who is this artist who went through a 'Blue Period' and a 'Rose Period'?
Answer: Pablo Picasso

Question: What measures 15 feet × 29 ft and can be found in the back halls of a dining hall at the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy?
Answer: The Last Supper by Da Vinci

Question: What is the name of the ritual practiced by some Bedouin tribes for the purpose of lie detection in which the accused is asked to lick a hot object?
Answer: Bishaa

Question: Western Red Cedar trees are typically used by the indigenous cultures of the Pacific Northwest coast of North America to carve what distinctive artifacts?
Answer: Totem poles

Question: What is the name of the water management system developed in ancient Persia that is used to provide a reliable supply of water in hot and arid climates?
Answer: Qanat

Question: P. T. Barnum once sent an agent to buy this hoping to use it as a circus attraction. When it arrived in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the public was not impressed and Barnum had to keep it hidden while he tried to decide how to recover some of the high cost. What expression for a costly burden originated from this incident?
Answer: White elephant

Question: Tourists beware! What is referred to by the phrases 'Montezuma's revenge', 'Gringo gallop' or 'Aztec two-step'?
Answer: Diarrhea suffered when travelling to foreign parts