Question: The Royal House of Chakri has (at 2011) ruled which country since 1782?
Answer: Thailand

Question: Sir Reginald Dorman Smith, former British Minister of Agriculture, instigated which campaign during World War II to encourage people to convert land for growing more fruit and vegetables?
Answer: Dig for Victory

Question: Once used as a currency in several parts of the world, what are cowries?
Answer: Sea shells

Question: Name the Ebay-owned online payment processing corporation which sued Google in 2011 for poaching its staff?
Answer: Paypal

Question: 'The Persistence of Memory', featuring images of a melting pocket-watch, is a work by which artist?
Answer: Salvador Dali

Question: Name the head of FIFA re-elected in 2011 amid crisis and calls for his resignation?
Answer: Sepp Blatter

Question: Republic of the Union of Myanmar is better known as what country?
Answer: Burma

Question: Name the American 'godfather of rap' who died in May 2011, noted especially for his 1970 poem-song 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised',?
Answer: Gil Scott-Heron

Question: Which US state is said to be named in honour/honor of British monarch Queen Elizabeth I?
Answer: Virginia

Question: Castries is the capital of which Caribbean island?
Answer: St Lucia

Question: What salad vegetable was initially at the centre of international debate, notably between Spain and Germany, after a fatal E.coli outbreak in May 2011 in the latter nation?
Answer: Cucumber

Question: The mountainous region of what Mediterranean holiday Island suffered severe forest fires in May 2011?
Answer: Ibiza

Question: How many serifs are in the HONDA Motor Company logo?
Answer: 12

Question: In the TV series Thunderbirds, what colour/colour are Brains' spectacle rims?
Answer: Blue

Question: What did Frenchman Dr Pierre Dukan devise which bears his name, and after achieving great popularity in France, began to spread internationally in the early 2000s?
Answer: Dukan Diet

Question: What motor company's badge contains a red cross and a green snake?
Answer: Alfa Romeo

Question: What popular sci-fi creations were described by Dr Who's executive producer in 2011 as "...the most reliably defeatable enemies in the universe..." ?
Answer: The Daleks

Question: In what video game brand does the Lara Croft character most famously feature?
Answer: Tomb Raider

Question: According to Unicef (at 2011) what percentage of Afghan women die in pregnancy or childbirth?
Answer: 12½%

Question: Which UK city hosts the Summer Sundae music festival?
Answer: Leicester

Question: What convicted fraudster's underpants were auctioned in 2011 for $200, with other belongings, to compensate victims of his $65m Ponzi scheme swindle?
Answer: Bernard Madoff

Question: A blue circle with a white centre was introduced in 2006 as the international symbol for what human metabolic disease?
Answer: Diabetes

Question: What woman's name was given to the horrendously abusive laundry asylums for 'fallen women' run by the Catholic Church, starting in 18th century Ireland, spreading to other countries and persisting well into the 1900s?
Answer: Magdalene

Question: On a standard piano what normally is the lowest note?
Answer: A

Question: Who is Britain's longest serving consort?
Answer: Prince Philip

Question: What multinational high street vendor's logo was developed from an old Norse woodcut of a twin-tailed siren or mermaid with flowing hair and crown?
Answer: Starbucks

Question: What is Julia Donaldson's hugely successful character and book, based on a Chinese folk tale of a fox that borrows the terror of a tiger?
Answer: The Gruffalo

Question: What modern system of a very old messaging method entails red and yellow ('Oscar') at sea, and white and blue ('Papa') on land?
Answer: Flag semaphore

Question: What childplay and teaching-aid modelling product did William Harbutt devise and produce in 1900, in an old flour mill near Bath, UK?
Answer: Plasticine

Question: What controlled recreational drug has the chemical formula C20H26N2O?
Answer: Lsd

Question: Light travels at its fastest in what medium?
Answer: Vacuum

Question: What is the traditional primary ingredient of coleslaw (also slaw in the US)?
Answer: Cabbage

Question: In maths (also meaning womb, and a popular movie series) what is a rectangular series of quantities in rows and columns?
Answer: Matrix

Question: Said to originate from the French expression 'tap under chin' what word refers to a nickname or assumed name (of person, or place, etc)?
Answer: Sobriquet

Question: What mainly microscopic life-form takes its name from the Greek word plagktos, meaning wandering?
Answer: Plankton

Question: The nautical term fo'c'sle (pronounced foxel) is a common shortening of what word referring to the forward part of a ship where sailors live?
Answer: Forecastle

Question: What small Scottish border town is famously associated with marriages of English runaway couples?
Answer: Gretna Green

Question: Teutonic/Teutons refers mostly and typically to what ancient race of people?
Answer: Germanic

Question: From the Greek words for empty tomb, what sort of monument exists in many cities to commemorate lives lost, especially in the 1st and 2nd World Wars?
Answer: Cenotaph

Question: Hemostasis/haemostasis is what in relation to bloodflow?
Answer: Stoppage

Question: What is the fastest animal alive?
Answer: Peregrine falcon

Question: The word harem, referring to a women's part of a dwelling, and especially to its female occupants, originated in which ethnic people?
Answer: Muslim

Question: In pathology what is the common term for a displacement and protrusion of part of an organ through its cavity wall?
Answer: Hernia

Question: A limited company (e.g., in the UK 'Ltd', US 'LLC', Germany 'GmbH') has limited what?
Answer: Liabilities

Question: Sinhalese (or Singhalese) is the language and people originating in north India now largely populating which country?
Answer: Sri Lanka

Question: Abbrieviated to PIE, what is the ancient Eurasian reconstructed language and origin of wide-ranging modern languages including English, Spanish, Russian, Greek, Urdu and Farsi?
Answer: Proto-Indo-European

Question: The US military special operations SEALs force is an acronym derived from what three basic words?
Answer: Sea Air Land

Question: For what ethnic group are Misnah and Gemara the two main parts of Talmud law?
Answer: Jews

Question: The organic chemical compound C12H22O11 is better known as what additive?
Answer: Sugar

Question: Dyscalculia is less technically known as (what?)-blindness?
Answer: Number

Question: How many dots make up the BlackBerry symbol logo?
Answer: Seven

Question: A cheap dangerous homemade heroin-substitute drug popular in Russia is nicknamed what, referring to its ruinous affect on users' skins?
Answer: Crocodile

Question: In geology, igneous refers to rock formed by what effect?
Answer: Volcanic

Question: What is the cube root of 1728?
Answer: 12

Question: Refraction is the change of direction of a wave such as light due to change of its what when passing from one medium to another?
Answer: Speed

Question: The becquerel (Bq) is a unit of measurement of what?
Answer: Radioactivity

Question: What is the chess playing robot called in TV's Thunderbirds?
Answer: Braman

Question: It takes roughly how long for the Earth's rotating axis to complete a full circle (precession)?
Answer: 26,000 years

Question: The crossed-ropes acting as ladders to masts on old sailing ships are called?
Answer: Ratlines

Question: In Greek mythology, name the Gorgon monster with snakes for hair, slain by Perseus?
Answer: Medusa

Question: What is a big acoustic guitar, a type of old battleship, and a thick coat cloth, which means 'fear nothing'?
Answer: Dreadnought

Question: What technical term, also slang for street, refers to the forces resisting the forward movement of an aircraft?
Answer: Drag