Question: What is a form of asexual reproduction found in females, where growth and development of embryos occurs without fertilisation by a male?
Answer: Parthenogenesis

Question: If a device is described as bluetooth capable what would it be expected to have?
Answer: Wireless technology for exchanging data over short distances

Question: Lieutenant General Aman Andom, Crown Prince Asfaw Wossen, Brigadier General Tafari Benti, Major Mengistu Haile Mariam and Major Atnafu Abate were involved in the politics of which country between 1974 and 1987?
Answer: Ethiopia

Question: Shane Lynch, Mikey Graham and Keith Duffy were members of which group?
Answer: Boyzone

Question: What saline basin in Central Asia, once the world's fourth largest lake with an area of 68,000 square kilometres (26,000 sq miles), has been steadily shrinking since the 1960s when the rivers feeding it were diverted by irrigation projects?
Answer: The Aral Sea

Question: The name of the science, mathematics, derives from an ancient Greek word meaning what?
Answer: That which is learnt

Question: Bondi Beach is a suburb of which city?
Answer: Sydney, Australia

Question: Who was instrumental in defeating the Mahdi at Omdurman in 1898, and was British Secretary for War from 1914 until he died on the cruiser "Hampshire" when it struck a mine on 5 June 1916?
Answer: Horatio Herbert Kitchener

Question: What geological formation characterises the coastline of Norway?
Answer: Glacier-created fjords

Question: The name of which cheese describes its method of manufacture, of being "cooked again"?
Answer: Ricotta

Question: Iron Maiden, Saxon, Def Leppard, Van Halen, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath are associated with what style of music?
Answer: Heavy metal

Question: If you are holding a musical instrument with F-holes what are you likely to be holding?
Answer: A bowed string instrument

Question: The Gobi Desert lies in which area?
Answer: Asia

Question: Which sea surrounds the island of Martinique?
Answer: Caribbean

Question: What is the first name of Capt. W E Johns's fictional flying hero, Biggles?
Answer: James

Question: If a Greek person calls "Eureka" what are they saying?
Answer: I have found it

Question: In what continent was freestyle swimming first developed?
Answer: Australia

Question: """Ouchie"", a talking bandaid, appears in whose web Flash cartoon?"
Answer: Mark Fiore

Question: Richard, Duke of York, the father of the English kings Edward IV and Richard II, was killed at the Battle of Wakefield in which ongoing campaign?
Answer: Wars of the Roses

Question: In 1508-9 the British-born Venetian explorer Sebastian Cabot led one of the first European expeditions to the north of North America to find what?
Answer: North-West Passage

Question: Sylvie Simmons, Jann Wenner, Lester Bangs and Jon Landau are all known as what?
Answer: Music journalists

Question: The miners affected by the 2012 strike and massacre in Marikana, South Africa, were workers from what type of mine?
Answer: Platinum

Question: Clint Eastwood played the character of Rowdy Yates in which US TV series of the 1960s?
Answer: Rawhide

Question: What was the Raspberry Pi developed to be?
Answer: A computer children would enjoy, to promote teaching basic computer science

Question: Which French novelist, critic and essayist is best known for his monumental " la recherche du temps perdu" ("In Search of Lost Time"; or "Remembrance of Things Past" that was published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927?
Answer: Marcel Proust

Question: What was the original name of the ship, the Golden Hind, used by Francis Drake to circumnavigate the globe?
Answer: Pelican

Question: The estate of which American writer and poet who died of a heart attack in 1967 was bequeathed to the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Foundation?
Answer: Dorothy Parker

Question: Which country completely surrounds the Kingdom of Lesotho?
Answer: Republic of South Africa

Question: Which infective disease caused by toxins is characterised by the violent and prolonged contraction of skeletal muscle fibres?
Answer: Tetanus

Question: The organisation OPEC is concerned with production of what?
Answer: Oil

Question: In 2014 where is artist Ai Weiwei based?
Answer: China

Question: The Great Famine in Europe, 1315-17 with effects lasting until at least 1322, was marked by what?
Answer: Europe-wide crop failures, and extreme levels of crime, disease, and mass death

Question: What dye used in cooking for crimson tints is made from the body of a female insect inhabiting Peru and Mexico?
Answer: Cochineal

Question: What does Playfair's Theory describe?
Answer: The relationship between a river valley and the size of the stream or river that runs through it

Question: One of the top songs for 2012 featured Gotye and which other artist?
Answer: Kimbra

Question: Who wrote the music for the ballets "The Firebird", "Petrushka", and "The Rite of Spring"?
Answer: Stravinsky

Question: What is the name of a cross between broccoli and cauliflower?
Answer: Broccoflower

Question: About how much of the human body is composed of water?
Answer: 60 per cent

Question: As at 2014 how many sports are contested in the Winter Paralympics?
Answer: 5

Question: She is one of the best-selling female artists of all time in a career spanning over five decades, sings in more than 15 languages, performing jazz, pop, opera, cabaret, and folk. What is her name?
Answer: nana mouskouri

Question: Olympe de Gouges, a French playwright and political activist , is today best known as an early feminist who demanded that French women be given the same rights as French men. How did she die?
Answer: Guillotined

Question: Where in the UK is the Captain Cook Schoolroom Museum, a statue of James Cook as a boy by Nicholas Dimbleby, and a granite obelisk that marks the original site of the Cook family home?
Answer: Great Ayton, North Yorkshire

Question: What is the meaning of the Spanish word "maana"?
Answer: The day after today

Question: Who was the co-winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics, for key discoveries that led to the currently accepted theory on the later evolutionary stages of massive stars, and nephew of the 1930 Nobel Prize winner in Physics?
Answer: Subramanyan Chandrasekhar

Question: What film concerns the life story of 18 year old Jamal Malik, a former street child from the Juhu slums in Mumbai?
Answer: Slumdog Millionaire

Question: Who was the first person to win both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize?
Answer: George Bernard Shaw

Question: Its name means "red hero" and it is the largest, and capital, city of which country?
Answer: The People's Republic of Mongolia

Question: Who is popularly recognised as being the first person to run a mile in under 4 minutes?
Answer: Roger Bannister

Question: A Canadian-American adventure and military scifi TV series which first screened in 1997 was one of the longest lasting. What was it called?
Answer: Stargate SG-1

Question: Who were the majority of the people to feature in the death toll from the violent riots in Gujarat, India, in 2002?
Answer: Muslim

Question: The southern US dish "chitlins" is made from the intestines of what animal?
Answer: Pig

Question: In what present day countries did the federation of Hausa kingdoms flourish in the 14th to 19th centuries?
Answer: Niger and Chad

Question: All major US TV networks carried live coverage of the flight of which well known personality who was trying to avoid arrest for murder?
Answer: O J Simpson

Question: What musical instruments does a luthier work with?
Answer: Stringed

Question: What YouTuber made a song called "Cookie Dance" in 2013 under the name ChipChocolate?
Answer: Jesse Wellens

Question: Which are accepted as being among the immediate reasons for Japan's surrender at the end of World War II?
Answer: The dropping of atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Question: How did competitors dress in early classical Olympic Games?
Answer: Nude