Question: Which bank in 2010 became UK's first new high-street bank for over 150 years?
Answer: Metro Bank plc

Question: 'Hitting the wall' and 'Bonking' are equivalent terms in which activity?
Answer: Athletics

Question: What English sheep-farming term from the 1400s refers to an influencer or indication of future trends?
Answer: Bellwether

Question: What herb used in alternative medicine as a tonic and aphrodisiac is named from Chinese 'man plant root' because its root resembles a human leg?
Answer: Ginseng

Question: The commune (township/parish) Les Baux-de-Provence in south-central France is associated with what metallic element?
Answer: Aluminium

Question: The effect referring to something becoming massively publicized due to attempts ban/censor it is called the '(What celebrity surname?) Effect'?
Answer: Streisand

Question: What ancient Greek design, a line doubling back forming square shapes, and term meaning 'wander', took its name from the Maiandros river?
Answer: Meander

Question: What/who was Yahweh, (expanded from Hebrew YHWH), in the ancient kingdoms of Israel and Judah?
Answer: God

Question: What medieval architectural feature was typically designed to the disadvantage of right-handed swordsmen?
Answer: Spiral staircase

Question: What is the traditional flavour/flavor additive in cream soda?
Answer: Vanilla

Question: The Continental Divide, also called the Great Divide, refers chiefly to the peaks of which mountain range?
Answer: Rocky Mountans

Question: On which island is the popular Caribbean resort abbreviated to 'Mobay'?
Answer: Jamaica

Question: What highly symbolic term refers to a meteor typically defined as "a meteor brighter than any of the planets"?
Answer: Fireball

Question: Chintu, Chutti, Maa Junior, Kushi and Pogo are Indian what for children?
Answer: TV Channels

Question: Harold Pinter's famous 1957 play The Dumb Waiter is about two?
Answer: Hit-men

Question: What dental term refers to the appearance of new teeth in the mouth?
Answer: Eruption

Question: What is the old common name for Hamamelis or Winterbloom and its extract, used for skin/bruises/acne treatment (and dowsing)?
Answer: Witch Hazel

Question: Which national tea brand, which uses its prior country name, is indicated by a sword-holding lion?
Answer: Ceylon Tea

Question: Who sat in the 'Loose Box' of Edward VII's coronation at Westminster Abbey, his?
Answer: Mistresses

Question: The naming of 'The Ashes' England v Australia cricket trophy/series originally derives from what after their 1882 test match?
Answer: Newspaper metaphor

Question: What term for a sweet tasty liquid derives from Greek 'drink of the gods'?
Answer: Nectar

Question: In African music an mbira is a (what?) piano?
Answer: Thumb

Question: How many of these are flatfish (Pleuronectiformes) - flounder, sole, turbot, plaice, halibut - Two; Three; Four; or All five?
Answer: All five

Question: What letters traditionally occupy the 6 button on a standard 'western' telephone keypad (no cheating)?
Answer: Mno

Question: Name Google's music streaming service?
Answer: Play

Question: What was the approximate total global internet traffic volume per hour in 1997?
Answer: 100gigabytes

Question: 'Sexboxes' are a feature of what in certain European cities?
Answer: Legalized prostitution

Question: The informal term nomophobia refers to anxiety from being without one's?
Answer: Mobile-phone

Question: Name the type of chemical compound which shrinks body tissues, whose properties are associated with the puckering mouth sensation from tannins and bitter berries?
Answer: Astringent

Question: A Russian painting in a St Petersburg gallery was removed in 2013 due to controversially featuring?
Answer: Putin and Medvedev in female underwear

Question: What offensive modern phenomenon - referenced by California US legislation to outlaw it in 2013 - refers to the unauthorised publication of private nude/sexual photographs of a person by his/her jilted lover?
Answer: Revenge Porn

Question: What public service ceased in India in July 2013, having declined from a peak of 45,000 service points in the 1980s?
Answer: Telegram

Question: At 2013 what compensation had UK banks paid/set aside for the misselling of PPI (Payment Protection Insurance)?
Answer: £18.4billion

Question: Coach, Hex cap, Lag, and Machine are types of what?
Answer: Screws

Question: A sous-chef is what sort of chef?
Answer: Deputy

Question: In what modern country substantially were the Hittite people?
Answer: Turkey

Question: A pipistrelle is a type of?
Answer: Bat

Question: What army rank (English/US/etc) equates to the naval Lieutenant Commander?
Answer: Major

Question: The site/name of which Napoleonic victory gave its name to a chicken/veal dish served with tomato, egg and crayfish?
Answer: Marengo

Question: A season in which woodland trees produce extraordinarily big volumes of fruit/nuts/seeds is called a '(What?) Year'?
Answer: Mast

Question: What is the Japanese Abashiri brewery's beer, a portmanteau from its ingredients?
Answer: Bilk

Question: Campylobacter bacteria is commonly associated with?
Answer: Food poisoning

Question: What 'First' was French (1792-1804), Austrian (1919-34), Portuguese (1910-26) and Roman c.508BC?
Answer: Republic

Question: What is the common name of the frottoir percusssion instrument (from Cajun French 'frotter', rub)?
Answer: Washboard

Question: Satellite is a computer notebook/tablet model brand of which corporation?
Answer: Toshiba

Question: Elisabeth Beresford devised what fancifully famous litter recycling franchise in 1968?
Answer: The Wombles

Question: In 2013 Birmingham UK opened Europe's biggest?
Answer: Public library

Question: Meccanica Verghera prefixes which famous motorcycle maker's name?
Answer: Agusta

Question: Tony Abbott became leader of which country in 2013?
Answer: Australia

Question: What is the trade-related pseudonym of the German-Finnish internet entrepreneur and founder of Megaupload, sought early 2000-2010s by US authorities in relation to filesharing and copyright charges?
Answer: Kim Dotcom

Question: Architect Rafael Vinoly gained extra fame in 2010 and 2013 when two of his buildings caused reflected light to?
Answer: Melt cars

Question: In the modern early 2000s Barclays Bank logo which two letters are joined?
Answer: La

Question: Which European city failed in 2013 for the third time in succession to win its bid to host the Olympic Games?
Answer: Madrid

Question: What three-letter word prefixes these words to create four new words?
Answer: Par

Question: What originally and literally is a margherita in the Italian language?
Answer: Daisy

Question: What resin is secreted by India's female Kerria lacca insect, used in old 78rpm records and a cosmetic nail treatment?
Answer: Shellac

Question: Which corporation acquired Nokia in 2013?
Answer: Microsoft

Question: A 'Passion Play' is a dramatic work about whose life?
Answer: Jesus Christ

Question: Gemini Force One is a 21st century extension of what secretive organization?
Answer: Thunderbirds

Question: The Gear is a 2013 smart-wristwatch product innovation of which corporation?
Answer: Samsung

Question: In the early 2010s which country was judged to have the world's biggest oil reserves given the viability of the Orinoco River Belt heavy crude deposits?
Answer: Venezuela

Question: In music the term descant (or discant) normally refers to a melody or instrument in what range?
Answer: High

Question: An oligarchy describes a leadership group comprising people who are?
Answer: Few

Question: What tool has a grind, spine, fuller and ricasso?
Answer: Knife

Question: Obsidian is a form of?
Answer: Rock

Question: The German surname Müller refers to what occupation?
Answer: Miller

Question: What shape is a sea urchin?
Answer: Sphere

Question: What is the traditional English word best describing Gnocchi in Italian cuisine?
Answer: Dumplings