Question: According to the noted sociobiologist/zoologist Desmond Morris, the OXO brand chiefly succeeds because it represents?
Answer: The Human Face

Question: Amazon's next-day delivery service censured for breaching UK advertising standards is?
Answer: Prime

Question: What medieval war cry, popularised by Shakespeare with the phrase 'dogs of war', means destruction?
Answer: Havoc

Question: An enemy group within and threatening a larger entity is called a '(What?) Column'?
Answer: Fifth

Question: Which profession (western world) traditionally wears a toque blanche with a hundred folds?
Answer: Chef

Question: What West African Republic, on the river of the same name, is a narrow 200 mile east-west strip within Senegal?
Answer: Gambia

Question: The 2013 Disney animation Frozen is based on what Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, in Danish 'Snedronningen'?
Answer: The Snow Queen

Question: A grassland/lawn scarifier machine controls?
Answer: Moss/thatch

Question: The conventional symbol for electrical current is?
Answer: i

Question: US president Theodore Roosevelt's quote (from which a style of state foreign policy is named), is "Speak softly and carry a big..."?
Answer: Stick

Question: What seed-eating bird, genus fringilla, native to Europe/Asia/N Africa, is named after cereal crop waste from which it forages?
Answer: Chaffinch

Question: Lafarge, Holcim, and Heidelberg are among the world's leading producers of?
Answer: Cement

Question: The longest side of a right-angled triangle whose short sides are both 50cms long is?
Answer: 70.71cms

Question: Jean-Marie and daughter Marine Le Pen are leading figures in French extreme?
Answer: Politics

Question: Sabatier, Victorinox and Füritechnics are leading makers of Kitchen?
Answer: Knives

Question: Cryogenics is the study of materials in extreme?
Answer: Cold

Question: Sugar melted to its hottest confectionery stage naturally produces?
Answer: Caramel

Question: Founded c1940 by art historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, and still expanding, Pevsner Guides are major reference for British?
Answer: Architecture

Question: Which popular BBC children's TV characters ate 'blue string pudding', The... ?
Answer: Clangers

Question: Invented in 1656, what was the most reliable time-keeping technology until the 1930s?
Answer: Pendulum clock

Question: Michael Ibsen, descendent and 2012 DNA match-proof for English King Richard III, was also (What?) at Richard III's reinterment in 2015?
Answer: Casket-maker

Question: Approximately how many litres of water is required to produce a kilo of grain-fed beef?
Answer: 15,000

Question: What is 90% of 90?
Answer: 81

Question: What medieaval English word for 'expensive food' (due to a famine), came to mean 'a scarcity' (of anything)?
Answer: Dearth

Question: A circle with a 12 metre radius has an area of roughly how many square metres?
Answer: 452

Question: What anabolic steroid is the principal male sex hormone?
Answer: Testosterone

Question: South Korea's national dish 'kimchi' (kimchee/gimchi), with variants in nearby countries, is seasoned aged pickled/fermented?
Answer: Cabbage

Question: """I wandered lonely as a cloud"" is William Wordsworth's poem about?"
Answer: Daffodils

Question: What dance/music/style name is thought derived from the Spanish word ('with the colour of flame') for the wading bird Phoenicopterus?
Answer: Flamenco

Question: A cairn, a traditional trail marker for walkers/explorers, of simple or grand design, is basically a?
Answer: Pile of stones

Question: Prince Charles' private letters to government ministers, made public by the UK Supreme Court in 2015, are known as the '(What?) memos', due to his handwriting style?
Answer: Black spider

Question: Contralto refers to a singing voice/range equating to?
Answer: Lowest Female

Question: Name Warren Buffett's investment corporation, which he bought in 1964, ostensibly to sack its boss who had made him angry?
Answer: Berkshire Hathaway

Question: The Italian word 'scuderia' typically referring to a motor racing team, eg Scuderia Ferrari, means?
Answer: Stable

Question: The ball-shaped roots of a more popular salad vegetable, Bergers White Ball, Ibis, Kojak, and Snow White are what?
Answer: Celeriac

Question: The eponymous cannabis brand launched in 2015 by a famous country music singer is?
Answer: Willie's Reserve

Question: Created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger, who first appeared in Detective Comics No27 in May 1939?
Answer: Batman

Question: What is the area of an isosceles right-angled triangle whose short sides are 2 metres each?
Answer: 2 square metres

Question: The Ryman Auditorium (also called the Union Gospel Tabernacle) is the home of what major music institution?
Answer: The Grand Ole Opry

Question: The position of the Arctic Circle was/is determined by?
Answer: Sun visibility

Question: The word marmalade is from Portuguese 'marmelo', meaning?
Answer: Quince

Question: Commonly used in batteries, what is the lightest metal and least dense solid element?
Answer: Lithium

Question: Name the fantasy flat world on which the 2015 posthumously published novel The Shepherd's Crown is set?
Answer: Discworld

Question: What word commonly follows Plastic, Food, Saran, Glad and Cling in its geographical variations?
Answer: Wrap

Question: In 1964, the first commoner featured on a British postage stamp was?
Answer: William Shakepeare

Question: Australia's Liberal National, USA's Democratic, and Israel's Likud political parties are all traditionally branded what colour/color?
Answer: Blue

Question: The 1957 'Synchrocyclotron' near Geneva was the forerunner for what world's biggest machine, 'LHC' built 1998-2008?
Answer: Large Hadron Collider

Question: What is the fourth root of 16?
Answer: 2

Question: Name the artist-owned music streaming service launched in 2015 by rapper Jay-Z?
Answer: Tidal

Question: The traditional Turkish jelick or yelek, the derivation of an Anglicized French garment name is a?
Answer: Waistcoat

Question: 'Badi Bhabhi', meaning ‘eldest brother’s wife’, refers typically to the senior female in family groups common in?
Answer: India

Question: What 'definite article' pluralised term, refers to a sports affliction restricting/interrupting fine movements and ball release/striking, especially in golf putting?
Answer: The Yips

Question: MIPS means what in computing speed?
Answer: Million Instructions Per Second

Question: What sort of sports shoe is the Adidas Stan Smith?
Answer: Tennis

Question: 'String Theory' (simplified to 'M-Theory') to seeks to explain?
Answer: Everything in the Universe

Question: What medieval term, whose venues are now mostly 'town' halls (UK, Netherlands, Belgium) refers to a merchant association?
Answer: Guild

Question: The Biblical 'passover' refers to God giving which concession to certain people?
Answer: Not killing the first-born in the house

Question: What concept, originated by the Duke of Wellington for military study, was named in 1959 in referring to Palo Alto's Center for Behavioral Sciences?
Answer: Think Tank

Question: Pat Pending, Rufus Ruffcut, the Slag Brothers and Sergeant Blast are lesser known characters in what popular 1960s TV franchise?
Answer: Wacky Races

Question: The 1880-founded Northamptonshire UK company Loake Brothers, whose products unusually comprise up to 75 parts, is famed for making high quality?
Answer: Shoes

Question: The PAL warning on offensive recorded music was instigated by the author Tipper (Who?) then wife of a notable US congressman and environmental activist?
Answer: Gore

Question: In 2015 India 'rebranded' what state provision to increase usage?
Answer: Condoms

Question: European Union production quotas, established in 1984, were abolished in 2015 for?
Answer: Milk

Question: In 1516 English King Henry VIII created the position 'Master of the Posts' which effectively founded/regulated the?
Answer: Royal Mail