Question: Alluding to a ridged cloth, a temporary vehicle-track built over bogland on a foundation of perpendicularly laid logs is called a (What?) road?
Answer: Corduroy

Question: Stadium, French's, Händlmaier, and Maille make what, commonly from the Sinapis alba and Brassica juncea plants?
Answer: Mustard

Question: The creamy cherimoya/chirimoya fruit with a soft cactus-like skin is also known as the '(what?) apple'?
Answer: Custard

Question: The ancient Greek portmanteau word 'necropolis' refers to?
Answer: Cemetery

Question: Anaximander (c.600-550BC), Tabula Rogeriana (1154), Waldseemüller (1507) and Mercator (1569) are notable?
Answer: World maps

Question: Which major African institution has the website www.cbn.gov.ng?
Answer: Central Bank of Nigeria

Question: In which competitive activity did the WBF strip its 2013 Bali World Championship from two German doctors for coded coughing?
Answer: Bridge

Question: Everlast, Winning, and Grant are famous equipment brands for?
Answer: Boxing

Question: What medieval defensive feature is named from the French for sliding door?
Answer: Portcullis

Question: Agulhas, Kuroshio, Benguela, Canary and Humboldt are?
Answer: Ocean currents

Question: What word suffixes the following words to make five new words?
Answer: Berry

Question: What is a quarter of three-quarters?
Answer: Three sixteenths

Question: Technically the avocado ('fruit' of the avocado tree) is a?
Answer: Berry

Question: From the Greek root word for a pointed pillar, what is the technical term for the division sign ( ÷ ) ?
Answer: Obelus

Question: Which occupation traditionally used 'walla' (in the US), 'rhubarb' (UK), and 'gaya' (Japan)?
Answer: Actor

Question: The medical vasodilatory compound and recreational drug C5H11ONO is more commonly known as?
Answer: Amyl Nitrite

Question: Crepuscular creatures are mainly active in?
Answer: Twilight

Question: What high quality gravity/capillary-fed implement was traditionally ruby-tipped gold, and is nowadays usually iridium-tipped stainless-steel?
Answer: Fountain pen

Question: The first almanacs, made in Babylon/Iraq c.750BC, originally listed?
Answer: Planetary movements

Question: What common mineral's name (technically silica or SiO2) derives from old Polish-German 'kwardy', meaning 'hard'?
Answer: Quartz

Question: AgustaWestland, Bell, Oboronprom and Sikorsky are notable makers of?
Answer: Helicopters

Question: What invention of the Greenland Inuit is also derogatory slang for an outdoor hobbyist who observes or collects things?
Answer: Anorak

Question: A thin middle section of a wooden chair-back, particularly old and carved, is called a?
Answer: Splat

Question: Danish researchers proved in 2014 that a major cause of reduced sperm-count in modern men is?
Answer: Household chemicals

Question: Since Roman times wine barrels are most commonly made from?
Answer: Oak

Question: The Nazi exclamation 'Sieg heil' means?
Answer: Hail victory

Question: What tree and its resin, whose name derives from Greek meaning 'chew', inspired the development of of chewing gum and various industrial sealants?
Answer: Mastic

Question: What word prefixes the following to make four new words?
Answer: Man

Question: Bush, Standard, Pyramid, Spindlebush, Cordon, Fan, Espalier, and Step-over espalier are technical formats in?
Answer: Fruit farming

Question: In music the relative minor chord to E major is?
Answer: C#minor

Question: What is a fifth of a half?
Answer: A tenth

Question: Pravachol, Lipitor, Mevacor, Altocor, and Zocor are brands of what $multi-billion cholesterol controlling drug, ultimately named after Greek meaning 'causing to stand'?
Answer: Statin

Question: The occupational surname Chamberlain originally referred to a?
Answer: Household manager

Question: Siena/sienna, ochre and umber are shades of?
Answer: Brown

Question: What human liquid is 99.5% water, and 0.5% electrolytes, mucus, glycoproteins, enzymes, and antibacterial compounds such as IgA and lysozyme? Blood; Sweat; Tears; or Saliva?
Answer: Saliva

Question: 'The Four Humours' ancient concept of personality asserted what 'mood' is produced by phlegm in the body?
Answer: Calmness

Question: In the 1800s a spatterdash was a popular?
Answer: Shoe attachment

Question: The 2010s global TV phenomenon 'Game of Thrones' is based on George Martin's novel series called 'A Song of (What?)'?
Answer: Ice and Fire

Question: Tiffi, Easter Bunny, Bubblegum Troll, Mr Toffee, and The Dragon who bathes at the Lemonade Lake are characters in what?
Answer: Candy Crush

Question: What's a half plus a third?
Answer: Five-sixths

Question: What famous newspaper displays the motto "All the News That's Fit to Print", and is known as The Gray Lady because of its traditional dominance of copy (words) compared to graphics?
Answer: The New York Times

Question: The meat substitute product Quorn is made from?
Answer: Fungus

Question: The Italian underworld Omertà concept is (What?) in relation to state authority/police?
Answer: Non-cooperation

Question: In chemistry a hypothetical substance whose molecules occupy negligible space and have no interactions is called a?
Answer: Ideal Gas

Question: Name the five different nations/territories that are within, or partly within, the Iberian peninsular?
Answer: Spain, Portugal, Andorra, France, Gibraltar

Question: A fabled medieval torture instrument is a?
Answer: Iron Maiden

Question: What famous suncream is named after a mountain in Switzerland?
Answer: Piz Buin

Question: The hot condiment wasabi is generally from what part of the plant?
Answer: Root

Question: The Taj Mahal in India was constructed as a?
Answer: Tomb

Question: Which nation has the highest European capital city, (whose names are practically the same)?
Answer: Andorra

Question: Perfidia, Desifinado, Mas Que Nada, and Bim-Bom are famous Latin-American?
Answer: Jazz songs

Question: The most popular 20th-century Indian car and famous taxi, based virtually unchanged from 1958-2014 on a 1950s Morris Oxford, is the?
Answer: Ambassador

Question: Shower, Fountain, Cascade, Columns, and Mills Mess are?
Answer: Juggling moves

Question: Sipe, bead, wear bar and rain groove are found on what billions-selling friction-reducing item, devised in the 1880s?
Answer: Tyre/Tire

Question: Bungo, Mungo, Laura Grubb and Belladonna Took are which leading literary character's ancestors?
Answer: Bilbo Baggins

Question: When testing his sound equipment inventions, including the first ever recording (on phonograph cylinder in 1878), Thomas Edison often recited?
Answer: Mary Had A Little Lamb

Question: What famous alcoholic additive from Trinidad and Tobago, invented by German Dr Johann Siegertin, in Venezuela c.1920, has a characteristic oversized label?
Answer: Angostura Bitters

Question: Narendra Modi achieved what notable title in May 2014?
Answer: Prime Minister of India

Question: What highly stigmatized human disease is alternatively named after Norwegian physicist GH Armauer Hansen, who in 1873 discovered its causal bacterium?
Answer: Leprosy

Question: Spork, Spife, Knork, and Sporf are?
Answer: Cutlery hybrids

Question: The Latin word for pig is?
Answer: Porcus

Question: What is five-eighths of sixteen?
Answer: Ten

Question: 'Anima sana in corpore sano' (Latin for 'a healthy mind in a healthy body') is significant in which 1949-founded Japanese corporation's branding?
Answer: Asics

Question: To which major biblical event did the 'burning bush' direct Moses? The Sermon on the Mount; The Ten Commandments; Jesus' birth; or Noah's Ark?
Answer: The Ten Commandments

Question: A naval orange is named after?
Answer: They have a 'belly-button'

Question: What two-word slang is an open quarry, secondary glassblowing furnace, dam/reservoir spillway, and a small opening in a wall for anonymous sexual cooperation either side?
Answer: Glory hole

Question: In many Asian/Eastern beliefs 'Naraka' is what?
Answer: Hell