Question: New Year's Day (Gregorian international standard calendar) in the year 2017 is a?
Answer: Sunday

Question: What creatures were first to live on land and fly?
Answer: Insects

Question: The human body's energy chemical is?
Answer: Glucose

Question: A gable or gable wall of a house is usually defined by having a?
Answer: Triangular upper face

Question: Tundra regions of the world are typically defined as having no?
Answer: Trees

Question: Who created the 1970s persona Thin White Duke, and subsequent brands Glass Spider and Tin Machine?
Answer: David Bowie

Question: The Solanum Pseudocapsicum plant, called winter cherry and Jerusalem cherry, is noted for being very?
Answer: Poisonous

Question: The famous Ancient Roman marble statue 'Venus Callipyge' or 'Callipygian Venus' literally and artistically represents "Venus/Aphrodite of the beautiful..."?
Answer: Buttocks

Question: What is three-eighths divided by a half?
Answer: Three-quarters

Question: Best-selling Japanese author Marie Kondo refers to Japanese 'Tokimeku' ('spark joy' - literally palpitate) in the life-changing 'KonMari' method of?
Answer: Decluttering

Question: Besides humans, the most widely distributed mammals on Earth are?
Answer: Whales

Question: Who controversially interviewed the on-the-run Mexican drug lord 'El Chapo' Guzman for Rolling Stone Magazine just before his 2015 capture?
Answer: Sean Penn

Question: What sort of sea creatures are fulmars and petrels?
Answer: Birds

Question: The US Second Amendment (to the US Constitution) protects the rights of US citizens to?
Answer: Keep/bear arms (guns)

Question: At 2015 how many people owned as much as the poorest half of the world's population (ie over 3billion people)?
Answer: 62

Question: The word 'hongi' is Maori for a traditional New Zealand?
Answer: Nose-to-nose greeting

Question: What autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark has the Internet Top-Level Domain of .gl?
Answer: Greenland

Question: What ancient Greek's name is given to the professional/ethical oath of medical doctors?
Answer: Hippocrates

Question: What element (Au) commonly prefixes to the following?
Answer: Gold

Question: The German surname and name-suffix Baum referred to living near or resembling a?
Answer: Tree

Question: Hock is an 19th century originating English term for a?
Answer: German wine

Question: What creature's name is from Greek 'river horse'?
Answer: Hippopotamus

Question: The atomic number of an element refers primarily and additionally to its?
Answer: Protons and electrons

Question: What orange spice/colouring comes from the crocus plant, often associated with rice?
Answer: Saffron

Question: Theseus, Hyppolyta, Nick Bottom, and Oberon the King of the Fairies are in Shakespeare's play?
Answer: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Question: The human gastrocolic reflex typically prompts someone to visit the?
Answer: Toilet

Question: Wikipedia's spherical logo features what symbol for Greek W, also a fatty acid name?
Answer: Omega

Question: What hugely popular cereal crop has varieties including Arborio (Italy), Ambemohar (India), Doongara (Australia), and Uruchimai (Japan)?
Answer: Rice

Question: What word is a flat-bottom boat, a football kick, a glassmaking tool, and a dented base of a wine bottle?
Answer: Punt

Question: Turkish Van, Chartreux, Scottish Fold and Ragdoll are types of?
Answer: Cats

Question: What popular orange-coloured citrus fruit is surprisingly a hybrid of the pomelo (25%) and mandarin (75%)?
Answer: Orange

Question: Undiscovered for 100 years and published 2016, 'The Tale of Kitty-In-Boots' was written by?
Answer: Beatrix Potter

Question: 2015 scientific research 'proved' whose powers would not have been physically/technically possible?
Answer: Spider-Man

Question: At 2015 the biggest cause of death among UK men under 50 is?
Answer: Suicide

Question: Whose 'heroic' performance at the German Reichstag in 1987 is considered a catalyst for the fall of the Berlin Wall 1989/90?
Answer: David Bowie

Question: The UK state-subsidised 'e-Voke' is a hi-tech reduced risk alternative for?
Answer: Cigarettes

Question: The US 1899-founded Gideons International organization is famous for distributing to 200 countries free?
Answer: Bibles

Question: Considered the oldest living land animal at 183yrs in 2016, on St Helena island, Sth Atlantic, Jonathan is a Seychelles Giant?
Answer: Tortoise

Question: Rochambo/Rochambeau is better known as (What?), typically used to decide a tie, or determine an order between competitors?
Answer: Rock paper scissors

Question: Which one of these is not a founding member of the European Union, nor has ever been a member (at 2016)?
Answer: Norway

Question: Parka, Harrington, Crombie, and Anorak are?
Answer: Coats/Jackets

Question: The international 'Duckworth-Lewis method' was introduced 1996 in Zimbabwe for recalibrating (What?) due to effects of weather?
Answer: Cricket scores/targets

Question: A slot/fruit machine was originally known as a One-Armed?
Answer: Bandit

Question: The modern confection originally from Ancient Egypt and the Malva plant which gave the French word mauve is?
Answer: Marshmallow

Question: Name the famous naval base and natural port on Oahu island, Hawaii, which featured in the US entry to World War II?
Answer: Pearl Harbor

Question: The classical composers Bach, Brahms, Handel, Strauss, and Schumann are all?
Answer: German

Question: Quiche Lorraine traditionally contains lardons, which are pieces of?
Answer: Pork fat

Question: Which of one these does not feature in lists of the most common UK pub names in recent times?
Answer: Princess Diana

Question: Philadelphia, Cheddar, Feta, and Paneer are all?
Answer: Cheeses

Question: The Technics SL-1210 ('Tec 12') was industry-standard (What?) from 1970s-2000s?
Answer: Radio/DJ record turntable

Question: Shazam is a globally popular phone app which recognizes and identifies?
Answer: Music/Songs

Question: Zika disease, identified 1947 and epidemic in S America commencing 2015, is mainly transmitted by infected?
Answer: Mosquitoes

Question: Alphabet became in 2015 the holding company of which vast tech corporation?
Answer: Google

Question: IHOP refers to which N American-based fast-food chain?
Answer: International House of Pancakes

Question: What term, originally and still associated with bread, refers to products made in sets and computer files containing several instructions?
Answer: Batch

Question: Which of one of these pairs are Arabic derived/inspired words for a high point and a low point?
Answer: Zenith & Nadir

Question: Barbara Millicent Roberts (1959 - present) from Willows Wisconsin is better known as what iconic figure?
Answer: Barbie

Question: According to DC Comics history, 'Nightwing' when younger was?
Answer: Robin

Question: Panhead, Shovelhead, Knucklehead and Flathead are types of?
Answer: Harley Davidson motorbike engines

Question: What girl's name beginning with A was punningly chosen first when the UK decided in 2015 to 'name' its storms?
Answer: Abigail

Question: Diacritical marks are symbols for guiding/indicating?
Answer: Pronunciation

Question: A quarter multiplied by a third is a?
Answer: Twelfth

Question: Isaac Asimov, Robert A Heinlein, and Arthur C Clarke are famous writers of?
Answer: Science-Fiction

Question: Plankton (including jellyfish, algae, krill) is named from Greek 'planktos', which refers to its defining feature?
Answer: Drifter

Question: Which one of these cheeses is not from and named after a Dutch city/place?
Answer: Emmental

Question: The planet Jupiter has how many known moons?
Answer: Sixty-seven

Question: The area of a right-angled isosceles triangle whose two short sides are 4cms each is how many square cms?
Answer: 8

Question: Marfona, Charlotte, Jersey, and Desiree are?
Answer: Potato varieties