Question: What is two-thirds divided by one-third?
Answer: 2

Question: What Warner Brothers Mexican mouse cartoon character became a term for someone working or moving unusually quickly?
Answer: Speedy Gonzalez

Question: Ashkenazi, Sephardi and Mizrahi are sub-groups of what ethnoreligious people?
Answer: Jews

Question: What 6-hours-per-day activity did researchers in Australia's Queensland University announce (in 2011) reduces life expectancy by five years?
Answer: Watching TV

Question: What airline postponed adverts claiming to '...go the extra mile to make you feel special...' after a photo of (allegedly) a pilot and crew member having sex in an aircraft cockpit became public in Aug 2011?
Answer: Cathay Pacific

Question: What is the English translation of the ironically-named Ratón, a fearsome bull who killed three men in Spanish festivals?
Answer: Mouse

Question: At $12.5bn, what phone corporation became Google's biggest acquisition in Aug 2011?
Answer: Motorola

Question: What weed is named from the French 'lion's tooth'?
Answer: Dandelion

Question: Slate is an example of what sort of rock, whose name loosely means 'change in form'?
Answer: Metamorphic

Question: From Latin meaning border, or edge, what traditional term refers to the brain structures including the hippocampus and amygdala, which support functions of emotion, behaviour, long term memory, and smell?
Answer: Limbic system

Question: What is the fuller name of the road surfacing material, tarmac?
Answer: Tarmacadam

Question: What three instruments are considered the mainstay of American 'Old-Time Music'?
Answer: Banjo/Fiddle/Guitar

Question: What style of cooking is named after a province of south-western China, and is noted for its spicy taste, especially from garlic, chili peppers, peanuts, sesame, and ginger?
Answer: Szechuan

Question: John Stacey Adams' 1963 motivational concept, which suggests people's motivation (and attitude) is strongly influenced by assessing effort and reward in a comparative outward sense, is called Adam's (what) Theory?
Answer: Equity

Question: What species of shark featured as the killer in the book/film Jaws?
Answer: Great White

Question: In a 2011 survey, publicised in national press by a UK 'leading family law firm', what were pronounced often to be 'deal-breakers' in divorce settlements?
Answer: Clubcard points and airmiles

Question: Alfred Pennyworth was whose butler?
Answer: Batman

Question: On what island did tycoon Richard Branson's holiday retreat burn down in August 2011?
Answer: Necker Island

Question: In the mid 1700s Swede Carl Linnaeus devised the modern day taxonomy (category structure) for, and was first to catalogue what?
Answer: Life on Earth

Question: What geological term refers to granular material sized between sand and clay, derived from soil or rock?
Answer: Silt

Question: The opposite to nadir, what word refers to directly overhead, or more generally the highest point?
Answer: Zenith

Question: By about 2010 what more centrally meaningful word (and technology) had replaced 'router' for the internet connection hardware unit typically installed in homes and small businesses?
Answer: Hub

Question: What item of clothing, known as a 'topi', was popularised by Indian leaders Mahatma Gandhi, Jaraharlal Nehru, and later by anti-corruption campaigner Anna Hazare?
Answer: Cap

Question: What six-letter two-word French expression was adopted into English in the mid 1700s referring to a witty remark?
Answer: Bon mot

Question: What is the offspring of a male horse and a female donkey?
Answer: Hinny

Question: Snow, the world's biggest selling beer (at 2011), is based in and dominates the market of which nation?
Answer: China

Question: Fruit Importers of Ireland Limited acquired (in 1986) and later adopted the name of what company, said to be the oldest fruit brand in the world?
Answer: Fyffes

Question: Jerry and Mike are the first names of what famous pairing of 1950s hit songwriters?
Answer: Leiber and Stoller

Question: What is seven-eighths of sixteen?
Answer: Fourteen

Question: What N American slang term, alluding to an item of religious security, referred to an old-style cheap pressed steel bottle/can-opener which commonly carried advertising?
Answer: Churchkey

Question: On a standard English 'qwerty' keyboard, which key is between Z and C?
Answer: X

Question: A pneumatic motor converts potential energy in the form of what into mechanical work?
Answer: Compressed air

Question: What marketing term, a portmanteau word, refers to a news or information article which also carries publicity or promotion for the organization which provided it?
Answer: Advertorial

Question: The formula 4/3pr3 (four-thirds x pi x radius cubed) is used to calculate the volume of a what?
Answer: Sphere

Question: Aside from an extra 385 yards, how many miles is a marathon race?
Answer: 26

Question: If 27 solid cubes are formed into one big 3x3x3 cube how many individual cubes, at most, are visible from any single angle?
Answer: Nineteen

Question: 'Via Dolorosa' is the (how many) Stations of the Cross, the Christian ritual tracing the key stages of the death of Jesus, beginning with his condemnation and ending with his being laid in the tomb?
Answer: Fourteen

Question: The Russian 'Crimea Highway' trunk road from Moscow to the Crimea in Ukraine is the M (what)?
Answer: 2

Question: What number, between two hyphens, is used by journalists, etc., to mark the end of a newspaper or broadcast story?
Answer: 30

Question: How many unique dominoes are in a standard 'double six' set?
Answer: Twenty-eight

Question: What number turned on its side (rotated 90 degrees) is the symbol for infinity?
Answer: 8

Question: The Marvel Comics superhero team led by Mr Fantastic was the Fanstastic (what)?
Answer: Four

Question: What is the larger number of the binary system?
Answer: 1

Question: Japanese haiku poems loosely comprise how many syllables?
Answer: Seventeen

Question: The Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn are respectively (what number)-and-half degrees north and south of the Equator?
Answer: 23

Question: Greek deka, and Latin decem, are what number?
Answer: Ten

Question: Conventionally how many books are in the Bible's New Testament?
Answer: Twenty-seven

Question: How many legs (or arms) are most usually on a starfish?
Answer: Five

Question: A lunar month is an average (how many) days plus 12 hours, 44 minutes and 3 seconds?
Answer: 29

Question: 'Roaring' refers to what pluralised number in describing a 1900s decade of western world prosperity?
Answer: Twenty

Question: Traditionally what number of years anniversary is symbolized by silver?
Answer: 25

Question: What number is the French coded slang 'vingt-deux!', which warns that police are coming?
Answer: 22

Question: What is the only number that equals twice the sum of its digits (digit means numerical symbol)?
Answer: 18

Question: What is the international SPI resin/polymer identification coding system number (typically shown within a recycling triangle symbol) for polystyrene?
Answer: 6

Question: Traditionally the diameter of the 45rpm gramophone record is (how many) inches?
Answer: 7

Question: Pure gold is (how many)-carat?
Answer: 24

Question: The expression 'On cloud (what)' refers to being blissfully happy?
Answer: Nine

Question: Each player begins with (how many) pieces in a game of chess?
Answer: Sixteen

Question: What is the state capital and largest city of Victoria, Australia?
Answer: Melbourne

Question: The Hindi word campo, meaning press, is the origin of what word for a modern consumable product and related verb?
Answer: Shampoo

Question: 'Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation' is better known by what modern word?
Answer: Laser

Question: What is five-twelfths of seventy-two?
Answer: Thirty

Question: In Judaism, loosely and originally what is a mitzvah?
Answer: Commandment