Question: In 2015 Ronda Rousey lost to Holly Holm in what brutal sporting discipline?
Answer: Ufc

Question: In 2015 the first ever colour/color photographs were obtained of which celestial body?
Answer: Pluto

Question: Which country won the 2015 Davis Cup (world team tennis)?
Answer: Great Britain

Question: Oxford University Press/Dictionaries announced what (most popularly used emoji icon) 'word of the year 2015'?
Answer: Face with Tears of Joy

Question: The movie Toy Story was how many years old in 2015?
Answer: 20

Question: What was pulled over in the USA for going too slow on the highway? A hearse; A mayoral procession; An elephant; or Google self-drive car?
Answer: Google self-drive car

Question: Whose family received $7.4m royalties from Pharrell Williams/Robin Thicke after a legal claim in 2015 for illicit use of the song Got to Give it Up?
Answer: Marvin Gaye

Question: Lord Coe ceased working for which brand in 2015 due to conflict of interest?
Answer: Nike

Question: Helmut Schmidt, who died in 2015, once led which nation?
Answer: West Germany

Question: The Schengen Area, in the news 2015, refers to relaxation of what European controls?
Answer: Passports/borders

Question: On what sprung mechanism did Bristolian Jack Sexty break the world record in 2015 achieving 88,047 bounces in 10hrs 21mins?
Answer: Pogo stick

Question: Which country has the shortest coastline?
Answer: Monaco

Question: What Italian term describes the mood of a piece of music as sweet?
Answer: Dolce

Question: What famous saying, representing a deranged and directionless group of people, has been interpreted in creative works by Hieronymus Bosch, Katherine Anne Porter, Erasure, The Grateful Dead, and Bob Seger, among others?
Answer: Ship of Fools

Question: Kim Campbell was the first woman prime minister of which country?
Answer: Canada

Question: What is the French meaning of 'Marmite'?
Answer: Cooking pot

Question: In architecture, cartouche is a decorative feature resembling what?
Answer: A scroll

Question: According to his memoirs, what famous Venetian adventurer was once imprisoned as a magician, a director of the Paris state lotteries, knighted in the Netherlands, a spy for Louis XV, and a librarian in Bohemia?
Answer: Casanova

Question: What is the name of the street in London famous for its tailors shops?
Answer: Savile Row

Question: Who was the 'father of medicine' to whom a code of medical ethics is attributed and which bears his name?
Answer: Hippocrates

Question: What shape is farfalle pasta?
Answer: Bow tie

Question: What city did Charles II of England sell to France in 1662 for £40,000?
Answer: Dunkirk

Question: From which creatures can Newcastle disease transfer to humans, causing mild conjunctivitis and flu symptoms?
Answer: Birds

Question: What household gadget did Melville R Bissell invent 1876?
Answer: Carpet sweeper

Question: British Landrace, Pietrain and Tamworth are what sort of animals?
Answer: Pigs

Question: Lee Kuan Yew became the first officially elected prime minister of which country in 1959?
Answer: Singapore

Question: Who was rumoured to to have had his first wife Amy Robsart poisoned, in the hope of marrying Queen Elizabeth the First?
Answer: Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester

Question: A Salchow (usually pronounced 'salco' or 'salcov') is a jump in which sport?
Answer: Figure skating

Question: Of Albanian descent, by what name is 1979 Nobel Prizewinner Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu better known?
Answer: Mother Teresa

Question: Mjosa (more precisely Mjøsa) is the largest lake of which country?
Answer: Norway

Question: How would 'good day' normally be said in Japanese?
Answer: Konnichi wa

Question: What is the highest volcano in Africa?
Answer: Kilimanjaro

Question: The German Deutschmark was comprised of one hundred what?
Answer: Pfennig

Question: 'Atoms for Peace', formed in 1957, is now known as what?
Answer: The International Atomic Energy Agency

Question: The traditional biathlon most commonly (for example at the Olympics) consists of which two sports?
Answer: Skiing and shooting

Question: The word deltiologist, derived from the Greek 'deltos' meaning writing-tablet, refers to a collector of what?
Answer: Postcards

Question: Which tragic figure of Greek mythology became the King of Thebes after solving the Sphinx's riddle to guess what walks on four legs in the morning, two in the afternoon and three in the evening?
Answer: Oedipus

Question: How many cathedrals are in mainland UK (at early 2000s)?
Answer: 42

Question: What instant messaging service was acquired in 2014 for $16bn by Facebook?
Answer: Whatsapp

Question: The main character in the movie The Nightmare Before Christmas is?
Answer: Jack Skellington

Question: American Linus Pauling, 1954 Nobel Prizewinner, conceived a helical structure fundamental to?
Answer: Dna

Question: What deceptively challenging culinary dish is named from French 'lemele' (knife blade - alluding to shape)?
Answer: Omelette

Question: The anthemic Liverpool Football Club song You'll Never Walk Alone is originally from?
Answer: The Rodgers & Hammerstein's 1945 musical Carousel

Question: What spooky TV series was originally titled 'Too Much', and had a nicknamed character whose fictional 'real name' was Norville Rogers?
Answer: Scooby-Doo

Question: The fictional character Norville Rogers is better known by the nickname?
Answer: Shaggy

Question: What were Victorian English postmen called because of their uniforms?
Answer: Robins

Question: In human childbirth cervical dilation is considered complete at how many centimetres?
Answer: 10cms

Question: Numerology refers to what aspect of numbers?
Answer: Mystical

Question: The popular geeky children's TV series about an anthropomorphic aardvark whose theme song was sung by Ziggy Marley is?
Answer: Arthur

Question: Erlang (after Danish engineer Agner Erlang and/or a portmanteau of 'Ericsson Language') is used for?
Answer: Computer programming

Question: Drug corporation Reckitt Benckiser was found guilty of marketing false 'variations' and inflated pricing of what identical product? Paracetamol; Nurofen; Anadin; or Ibuprofen?
Answer: Nurofen

Question: Human urine passes from each kidney via the ureter to (What?) next?
Answer: Bladder

Question: In the USA a reindeer is also known as a?
Answer: Caribou

Question: A broiler is a chicken raised for?
Answer: Eating

Question: The brunch dish of poached eggs, muffins, bacon/ham and hollandaise sauce, popularized in New York City is 'Eggs...?
Answer: Benedict

Question: The 2015 Star Wars sequel is subtitled 'The Force...' ?
Answer: Awakens

Question: The most common human bloodgroup is?
Answer: O

Question: Roughly how long is the human small intestine?
Answer: 1.5 metres

Question: Roughly how long is the human large intestine?
Answer: 1.5 metres

Question: Fish are typically referred to as being (What?)-blooded?
Answer: Cold

Question: The most poisonous fungi, which usually kills anyone eating it, is the?
Answer: Destroying Angel

Question: In the year 2014 only ten baby boys in England and Wales were registered with the Christian name?
Answer: Nigel

Question: What is the English equivalent/interpretation of the Russian term, commonly abbreviated, 'Rochnoy Protivotankovy Granatomyot'?
Answer: Rocket Propelled Grenade

Question: When moving a cat to a new home, it is popularly and mythically believed that rubbing (What?) on its paws will stop it wandering away?
Answer: Butter

Question: A dessicant is a hygroscopic substance used to produce (What?) in its vicinity?
Answer: Dryness

Question: The Ancient Egyptian mummy/afterlife figure Anubis is typically half-man and half-?
Answer: Dog

Question: A postulant seeks qualification to practice in?
Answer: Religion

Question: Founded in 1966, the US company Vans originally and most famously makes?
Answer: Footwear

Question: A metaphor for a shortlist of candidates is?
Answer: Runners and riders