Question: Which person's bike ride on April 19, 1943 while under the influence of a substance whose usage he pioneered has now come to be called as "Bicycle Day"?
Answer: Albert Hoffman

Question: Since doctors are meant to 'cure-all', the first line of the Hippocratic oath appropriately mentions what other goddess along with Apollo, Aesculapius, and Hygeia?
Answer: Panacea

Question: What is the communication app that saw prominence during the Hong Kong protests of 2014 whose name sounds similar to FDR's radio addresses of the 1930s? (name is a give-away if you don't take a 'side'!)
Answer: FireChat

Question: Travis Tygart was chiefly instrumental in leading the expose of whom, now a fallen hero, in 2012?
Answer: Lance Armstrong

Question: Who created the comic strip called Dykes to Watch Out For which featured in 1985 a character who watches a movie only if it has two women who talk to each other about something besides a man?
Answer: (Alison) Bechdel

Question: A Blue Flag certification is given by the Foundation for Environmental Education as an endorsement of cleanliness to what type of places?
Answer: Beaches

Question: He first became popular when he was banned from Xbox Live; later versions have him reacting to his dog getting killed or about Usain Bolt breaking the 100m sprint record or the resignation of Sarah Palin (and a whole lot more). All these are far removed from the original context in which was first seen in 2004. What are we talking about?
Answer: Hitler Reacts meme

Question: Which person whose last published line was "... the pleasures of the table, and of life, are infinite – toujours bon appétit!" had an apparent last meal of French onion soup?
Answer: Julia Child (1912-2004)

Question: A group of people in Cairo, Egypt who are collectively called the Zabbaleen are known for their association with what material?
Answer: Garbage

Question: What European location, hitherto home to featured violence, has in recent times played host to anti-death penalty activism by having its illumination changed whenever a death sentence is commuted or abolished?
Answer: Colosseum in Rome

Question: Bicycle mechanic Charlie Taylor is best known for his collaboration with which two gentlemen in the early part of the 20th century?
Answer: Wright brothers

Question: According to the 2003 Guinness Book, what dubious and macabre record does Ratu Udre Udre, a tribal chief from Fiji, hold?
Answer: World's most prolific cannibal

Question: In 2000, the co-discoverer of DNA structure James Watson sought to connect skin color and sex-drive and said the following while showing slides of bikini-clad women to an audience. Fill in the missing words with names of ethnicity/race. "That's why you have XXX lovers...you've never heard of an YYY lover. Only an YYY patient."
Answer: Latin; English

Question: The legendary Pera Palace Hotel in Istanbul, also the site where an all-time great mystery novel was conceived, was built in 1892 for passengers who arrived in the city by what specific transport?
Answer: Orient Express

Question: In his 2013 book Serve to Win, a certain European personality wrote about his experiences of watching an F-117 bomber drop laser guided bombs as a child. He also wrote that he looks back on his childhood positively because he could skip school and practice what?
Answer: Tennis (Novak Djokovic)

Question: Writing about the conflicting need of humans for both intimacy and solitude, Schopenhauer in his Studies in Pessimism used the analogy of what animals that may want to huddle but cannot do so without causing harm to themselves?
Answer: Porcupines

Question: What annual observation started in 1889 by members of Second International who wanted to commemorate the Haymarket Riot in Chicago (1886)?
Answer: International Workers' Day (or) May Day

Question: What organization that operates with the slogan "The Opinion and The Other Opinion" started in 1996 with a loan of 500 million Qatari riyals?
Answer: Al Jazeera

Question: What one word connects the following? 1. In a certain comics universe, the dimension in which criminals are held in a state of suspended animation. 2. Lee Falk's popular creation with the nickname The Ghost Who Walks. 3. Erik, who haunts the Paris Opera House.
Answer: Phantom

Question: The Montreal Convention signed by several countries in 1999 concerns rules surrounding the compensation for the victims of what? (hint: likely to be in focus till an object missing since 8th March 2014 is found)
Answer: Air disasters

Question: Labour Party politician Aneurin Bevan is known for his role in establishing what seminal institution in Great Britain?
Answer: National Health Service

Question: The much-hated help icon that used be part of Microsoft's Office Suite was shaped like what workplace product?
Answer: Paperclip

Question: Photographer Walter Iooss who also shoots swimsuit models among others is known for his contributions to which magazine?
Answer: Sports Illustrated

Question: Try your 'fortune' and take a guess. What is the name of the Maltese dog owned by celebrity Wendy Diamond that holds a Guinness record for posing with celebrities?
Answer: Lucky

Question: The words burcad badeed mean "ocean robber" in what African language?
Answer: Somali

Question: Gilbert Ryle's The Concept of Mind (1949) is a critique of the notion propounded by Descartes that the mind is distinct from the body. What phrase did Ryle famously use to describe his concept?
Answer: """Ghost in the machine"""

Question: In 1922, the magazine The American Girl suggested selling what for fund-raising?
Answer: Cookies

Question: A memorable phrase in the annals of American polity, who was called a 'bloviating ignoramus' by columnist George Will in 2012?
Answer: Donald Trump

Question: The Berne Convention of 1886 was an international agreement that established rules governing what?
Answer: Copyright

Question: Who is the icon of linguistics who composed the sentence "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" to demonstrate the difference between structure and meaning?
Answer: Noam Chomsky

Question: Perhaps the most prestigious of all the categories of the Pulitzer Prize is the Gold Medal awarded to an American newspaper. While one side of it shows an unnamed printer, whose image is on the other side?
Answer: Ben Franklin

Question: Anthropologist Lévi-Strauss proposed that two animals achieved mythic status in Native American cultures as they are the mediators between life and death. Can you name one of the two?
Answer: Coyote (or) raven

Question: Can you connect the Dalai Lama with Curious George with a colorful 2-word term?
Answer: 'Yellow Hat'

Question: The writing system of Elder Futhark (that was later simplified to Younger Futhark) is the oldest form of what alphabet?
Answer: Runes

Question: This is the gist of a paradox in management studies. Identify the destination. In a family gathering, a member suggests that they take a trip to a place. Though none/very few of the members want to go, all of them say yes. After returning with miserable memories each person then confides that they did not want to go.
Answer: Abilene

Question: Hibakusha is an Asian language term for the people effected by either of what violent incidents?
Answer: Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Question: In 1962 when minister Pat Robertson decided to prop-up a failing TV channel, he set a membership goal with each member contributing $10 a month to sustain the channel. How many people did Robertson plan on making members?
Answer: Seven hundred

Question: Which entity headquartered in Lyon, France is the second largest intergovernmental organization after the UN by member states count (190)?
Answer: Interpol