Question: What is the process by which an insect undergoes distinct physical change from immaturity (typically larva or nymph) to adulthood?
Answer: Metamorphosis

Question: Which castle is sometimes referred to as 'The Key to England'?
Answer: Dover Castle

Question: What is the name of the sister of Blanche DuBois in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire?
Answer: Stella Kowalski

Question: The city of Lisbon in Portugal lies on which river?
Answer: The Tagus

Question: What chemical element's symbol derives from the Latin word aurum, meaning 'shining dawn'?
Answer: Gold

Question: A handwritten transcript of a coroner's inquest in 1881 that was rediscovered in Bisbee, Arizona, USA in 2010, revealed additional notes about what dramatic incident?
Answer: Gunfight at the OK Corral

Question: What Portuguese island suffered severe storm floods in February 2010?
Answer: Madeira

Question: The structural integrity of the Howrah Bridge in Kolkata (Calcutta) India, which daily carries 60,000 vehicles and 50,000 pedestrians, was reported (2010) to be under corrosive attack from what?
Answer: Human spitting

Question: Diastema is the medical term for the gap between what in the human body?
Answer: Two teeth

Question: What placename derives from the twelfth and last of the Eleanor Crosses, erected 1291-1294 by Edward I in memory of his wife Eleanor of Castille?
Answer: Charing Cross

Question: Jibbons and scallions are alternative words for which vegetables?
Answer: Spring onions

Question: Who became Baron of Kington-upon-Hull when joining the House of Lords in July 2010?
Answer: John Prescott

Question: Which instrument was American bandleader Glenn Miller famous for playing?
Answer: Trombone

Question: Name Charles Dickens' first novel, featuring the characters Nathaniel Winkle, Augustus Snodgrass and 'the fat boy' Joe?
Answer: Pickwick Papers

Question: Sir Edmund Barton became the first prime minister of which country in 1901?
Answer: Australia

Question: Photophobia is extreme sensitivity to, or fear of, what?
Answer: Light

Question: Milou is the French name of which cartoon character's dog?
Answer: Tintin

Question: Which major UK racecourse is at Prestbury Park?
Answer: Cheltenham

Question: Ibiza is in which Mediterranean island group?
Answer: Balearic Islands

Question: In medicine, carditis is the inflammation of which organ of the human body?
Answer: Heart

Question: In early UK beer production what is a kiln for drying hops popularly called?
Answer: Oast

Question: What is the capital of Haiti?
Answer: Port-au-Prince

Question: What is the surname of Truman, played by Jim Carrey, in the 1998 film The Truman Show?
Answer: Burbank

Question: The lakes Van, Tuz, Uluabat, and Beysehir are among the largest in which country?
Answer: Turkey

Question: Which region and river in the north of South America, now part of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, gave its name to a sweetener produced from local crops?
Answer: Demerara

Question: In the Bible, who was the sister of Mary and Lazarus?
Answer: Martha

Question: Inferno, Paradiso and Purgatorio are sections of which epic poem by Italian Dante Alighieri?
Answer: The Divine Comedy

Question: What naturally occurring common substance containing lactose may scientifically be described as an emulsion of butterfat globules within a water-based fluid?
Answer: Milk

Question: The 'Conscious Competence' learning model is commonly represented by what four-stage process (upwards, from low to high) based on this word pair combination and its opposites?
Answer: Unconscious Incompetence, Conscious Incompetence, Conscious Competence, Unconscious Competence

Question: Whose unemployment benefits records from 1963-4 referring to "...Mr Woodward's amateur singing interests and flamboyant dress..." were auctioned in 2010?
Answer: Tom Jones

Question: Neat, kine, and beeves are old collective words for what?
Answer: Cattle

Question: Ben Drew achieved a 2010 number one album fronting which band?
Answer: Plan B

Question: Wiki means what in Hawaiian?
Answer: Quick

Question: International telephone dialling codes for Africa generally begin with what number?
Answer: 2

Question: What word for a monstrously large creature or organization derives from the original Egyptian meaning of 'water-ox', and more specifically, probably the hippopotamus?
Answer: Behemoth

Question: Which UK government ex-minister referred to himself as a "cab for hire" when secretly filmed attempting to sell his capability to influence government policy?
Answer: Stephen Byers

Question: Oxford Boat Race squad twins Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss became multi-millionaires after a court battle with what website that they claimed stole their idea?
Answer: Facebook

Question: What is two-thirds of five-eighths?
Answer: Five-twelfths

Question: What traditional leatherworking tools became cockney rhyming slang for testicles?
Answer: Cobblers awls

Question: How many horns does the British minotaur dung beetle have?
Answer: Three

Question: In which country did a military coup overthrow president Juan Peron in 1955?
Answer: Argentina

Question: Whose memoir was re-titled 'A Journey' shortly before its Autumn 2010 publication, because apparently the publishers were concerned that the author's chosen title 'The Journey' might seem too 'messianic' and arrogant?
Answer: Tony Blair

Question: Globo Esporte, which carried the headline 'HAHAHAHAHAHAHA' following Argentina's 4-0 defeat by Germany in the 2010 FIFA World Cup, is a newspaper in which country?
Answer: Brazil

Question: Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (1900-2002) was more commonly known as whom?
Answer: The Queen Mother

Question: What element, whose symbol derives from its Greek name hydrargyrum, meaning watery silver, melts at minus 38.83 °C and yet boils at 356.73 °C ?
Answer: Mercury

Question: Who was the first female presenter on UK TV's Top of The Pops, who made only one appearance in 1982 to celebrate BBC Radio One's 15th birthday?
Answer: Annie Nightingale

Question: The Galapagos Islands lie in which body of water?
Answer: Pacific Ocean

Question: In Scrabble what points value is a letter K tile?
Answer: Five

Question: The Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela is in which country?
Answer: Spain

Question: What is a small lift called which carries food and other goods between floors in a building?
Answer: Dumbwaiter

Question: UK politicians David Owen, Shirley Williams, Roy Jenkins and Bill Rodgers, known as The Gang of Four, defected from the Labour Party in 1981 to form which party?
Answer: Social Democratic Party

Question: What is the main stock market index of Hong Kong?
Answer: Hang Seng Index

Question: What board game name is the Latin word meaning 'I play' ?
Answer: Ludo

Question: Potassium nitrate, charcoal and sulphur (sulfur, US-English) are the traditional ingredients of what substance?
Answer: Gunpowder

Question: A heptad is a group or set of how many?
Answer: Seven

Question: A narthex is part of which type of building?
Answer: Church

Question: What is the corolla of a flower commonly known as?
Answer: Petals

Question: For what is www.letour.fr the official website?
Answer: Tour de France

Question: What make of Wellington boots did Samantha Cameron buy President Obama's children for the 2010 British Prime Ministerial visit to the USA?
Answer: Hunters

Question: Name the refugee camp near Calais close to the French side of the Chanel Tunnel?
Answer: Sangatte

Question: A nanosecond equates to what fraction of a second?
Answer: Billionth

Question: If an atom were the size of a football pitch its nucleus would be approximately the size of a?
Answer: Football

Question: What is the name of the trimmed tree trunk tossed in competition in the Highland Games?
Answer: Caber

Question: Who wrote the poem 'Jabberwocky', which originally featured in one of his novels?
Answer: Lewis Carroll