Question: What mythical paradise and expression was conceived in James Hilton's 1933 novel Lost Horizon?
Answer: Shangri-La

Question: How many degrees are in a right-angle?
Answer: Ninety

Question: What number is Jamie Oliver's charity restaurant concept?
Answer: Fifteen

Question: The international corporate brands Slacker, Rdio and Spotify deliver primarily what services/product?
Answer: Music

Question: The remains of what late-1800s Australian folk hero were identified by DNA in 2011?
Answer: Ned Kelly

Question: What common internet term is a loose portmanteau of two words broadly meaning internet and diary?
Answer: Blog

Question: In 2011 Ford announced the European launch of programmable options in its cars to protect against increased risks among what group of drivers?
Answer: Teenagers

Question: Yvonne, a runaway cow, evaded capture for three months during 2011 in which country?
Answer: Germany

Question: What iconic French handbags and scarves corporation achieved a remarkable 2011 market valuation of 28billion, equivalent to 3.3million per employee?
Answer: Hermès

Question: What Brazilian originating dance and music in Portuguese means loosely 'new trend'?
Answer: Bossa Nova

Question: Stately home Cliveden, now a hotel, was a pool party venue for characters involved in what famous political scandal, named after the Secretary of State for War at its centre?
Answer: Profumo

Question: In 2011 street thieves were filmed in Chinese cities using what innovative pickpocketing tools?
Answer: Chopsticks

Question: What large corporation's annual conference is called 'f8'?
Answer: Facebook

Question: What sort of bird is a coot?
Answer: Aquatic

Question: The web-based not-for-profit venture which compiles and freely offers vast numbers of documents and literary works is called Project (what?)?
Answer: Gutenberg

Question: The modern internet grew from a non-public US Defense system called?
Answer: Arpanet

Question: What widely referenced cosmetic surgery method contains the Greek word for fat?
Answer: Liposuction

Question: The English word Parliament derives from what foreign word-meaning?
Answer: Speak

Question: As at 2011 how many countries of the world criminalize homosexuality?
Answer: 82

Question: (Supplementary question) As at 2011 how many countries which criminalize homosexuality are in the British Commonwealth?
Answer: 40

Question: (Supplementary question) In what year did the UK decriminalize homosexuality?
Answer: 1967

Question: What in Spanish what does the song-title, 'Que Sera, Sera,' mean (loosely, not grammatically correctly)?
Answer: Whatever Will Be, Will Be

Question: The computer file format .wav ('dot-wav') is conventionally used for?
Answer: Music/audio

Question: Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and General Dynamics are notable corporations in what sector?
Answer: Armaments

Question: Political and economic leaders are often described as being what, according to having aggressive or cautious views?
Answer: Hawks/Doves

Question: The word apogee refers to what sort of point?
Answer: Highest

Question: What country has Baffin Bay to its west coast and Denmark Strait to its south-east?
Answer: Greenland

Question: What recent wine-making country produces varieties from its Maharashtra region?
Answer: India

Question: Australian foreign minister Kevin Rudd complained that what homeland foodstuff was confiscated from his luggage on entering the USA in 2011?
Answer: Vegemite

Question: A backless usually female shoe or slipper is commonly called by what animal name?
Answer: Mule

Question: What popular abbreviated two-word term refers to books particularly oriented towards young female romance?
Answer: Chick Lit

Question: What pressure group, led by Kumi Naidoo, with three million members, celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2011?
Answer: Greenpeace

Question: Greek god Dionysus is also known by what mythical Roman godly name, associated with revelry?
Answer: Bacchus

Question: In 2011 Australia launched passports offering a third-gender option for intersex people (whose anatomy fits neither male/female convention) indicated by what letter symbol?
Answer: X

Question: Kevlar, the high-strength fibre material, used in armour and sports equipment, is a product/brand of which international chemicals corporation?
Answer: DuPont

Question: As at 2011, how big is the audience for the TV show China's Got Talent? 3 million; 17m; 250m; or 600m?
Answer: 600 million

Question: According to conventional chessboard layout, what two squares may the white queen's knight land on with its first move, before any pawns have moved?
Answer: a3 and c3

Question: What compound, KClO3, commonly features in the heads of safety matches?
Answer: Potassium Chlorate

Question: A significant German reaction to the 2011 Fukushima crisis was to phase out what by 2022?
Answer: Nuclear power

Question: Now a stereotypical reference to a powerful Russian businessman, what word originally meaning government/rule by a small number of people is taken from the Greek words for few and rule?
Answer: Oligarch

Question: What self-proclaimed birthplace of surfing announced in 2011 that the activity would become (in 2013) an official college sport?
Answer: Hawaii

Question: The world wide web domain .tv belongs to which Pacific island nation?
Answer: Tuvalu

Question: Berghaus is a popular brand of?
Answer: Outdoor clothing/equipment

Question: According to popular medical opinion (at 2011) how much sleep on average is best per night for optimum adult health?
Answer: 6-8 hours

Question: What family-founded/named corporation owns the brands Snickers, Uncle Ben's and Dolmio (at 2011)?
Answer: Mars

Question: What notorious convicted tax-evader is considered the instigator of milk date stamps in Chicago?
Answer: Al Capone

Question: The venue for the 2012 Olympic archery events is considered the home of what sport?
Answer: Cricket

Question: What stone, still quarried in the Dorset (England) tied island which also bears its name, was used in the construction of St Paul's Cathedral and Buckingham Palace, and widely elsewhere too?
Answer: Portland stone

Question: Brown (for example, paint) is produced by mixing what colour/color combination?
Answer: Red/Blue/Yellow

Question: If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him! ?
Answer: Sheldon B Kopp

Question: La Sombra del Viento (The Shadow of the Wind)?
Answer: Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Question: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe?
Answer: C S Lewis

Question: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
Answer: Douglas Adams

Question: The Catcher in the Rye?
Answer: J D Salinger

Question: Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince)?
Answer: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Question: And Then There Were None?
Answer: Agatha Christie

Question: The Wind in the Willows?
Answer: Kenneth Grahame

Question: What name was given to a legendary substance believed to turn base metals (notably lead) into gold or silver?
Answer: The philosopher's stone

Question: From early Greek meaning 'a living together' what word refers to two organisms interacting together for mutual benefit, usually for long time, for example a bee and a flower, and figuratively also to people?
Answer: Symbiosis

Question: The sweet variety of the plant genus Musa is more commonly known as what?
Answer: Banana

Question: Technically the Earth's moon is a?
Answer: Satellite

Question: Racip Erdogan is a leader (at 2011) of what nation?
Answer: Turkey

Question: What historic capital city is situated where the White Nile and Blue Nile join to form the southern start of the Nile?
Answer: Khartoum

Question: What London landmark became the UK focus of global protests in October 2011 against corporate greed?
Answer: St Paul's Cathedral

Question: What UK newspaper's grossly wrong reporting of the 1989 Hillsborough soccer stadium disaster still causes it to be boycotted in Liverpool over 20 years later?
Answer: The Sun