Question: With what offence was Rebekah Brooks, former editor of The Sun and News of the World newspapers, charged in spring 2012?
Answer: Conspiracy to pervert the course of justice

Question: Who was the last English monarch of the Tudor dynasty?
Answer: Elizabeth I

Question: In chemistry, a 'homogeneous mixture composed of only one phase' (basically a mixed yet uniform substance) is called a?
Answer: Solution

Question: What country first legislated for plain packaging of tobacco products?
Answer: Australia

Question: What economically challenged country's King (Juan Carlos) attracted criticism at home for his 2012 African elephant-hunting Safari holiday?
Answer: Spain

Question: In a circuit diagram what usually is a capital letter M in a circle?
Answer: Motor

Question: Name the the six founding states of the European Union?
Answer: Belgium, France, (West) Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands

Question: A semi-circular protractor used in basic geometry has a scale of how many degrees?
Answer: 180

Question: A manse is a traditional name for a house of what professional person?
Answer: Church minister

Question: Which automotive corporation uses the marketing strapline 'The Power of Dreams'?
Answer: Honda

Question: Name the UK Culture Secretary accused in 2012 of bias and rule-bending in approving News Corp's 2011 takeover of BSkyB?
Answer: Jeremy Hunt

Question: The famous Mesquita Mosque, within a Roman Catholic Cathedral, is in which country?
Answer: Spain

Question: Name the English artist/sculptor famous for large public bronze works including 'Two Large Forms' and many reclining figures and mother and child abstracts?
Answer: Henry Moore

Question: In what sport did Swede Oscar Swahn become the oldest gold medallist at 64 years (1912), and the oldest medallist, at 72 (silver, 1920)?
Answer: Shooting

Question: Which late-1900s significant UK multinational corporation was known as 'The Royal Ratcatcher'?
Answer: Rentokil plc

Question: What is the common medical name for the increasingly popular recreational drug referred to as a 'horse tranquillizer'?
Answer: Ketamine

Question: In which country did the mayor of Taranto, Ippazio Stefano, cause a fuss in 2012 after attending rallies with a pistol tucked in his trousers?
Answer: Italy

Question: In chemistry a solution is a?
Answer: Any

Question: What vast (originally Spanish state monopoly) corporation owns the O2 and Movistar communications brands?
Answer: Telefónica SA

Question: The IPO (Initial Public Offering, or first share issue) of Facebook valued the company at how many million dollars?
Answer: 104,000 million

Question: What common boy's name (English language Christian or first name) is derived from the Latin and Greek words for rock?
Answer: Peter

Question: Name the great old rival company of the Harley-Davidson motorbike corporation, whose models included the Chief and Scout?
Answer: Indian

Question: A tetrapod is an animal with how many what? (two answers required)
Answer: Four Limbs

Question: Magnesium shavings are used by campers and adventurers to?
Answer: Light fires

Question: A compound which reduces liquid surface tension, or tension between two liquids or liquid and solid (as do detergents, foaming agents, and dispersants) is generally called a?
Answer: Surfactant

Question: The Mansion House is the official residence of what London title-holder?
Answer: Lord Mayor

Question: Apitoxin is the scientific name for which sort of venom?
Answer: Bee

Question: American physician Dr Henry Jay Heimlich is famously credited with developing a procedure to counter what threat to life?
Answer: Choking

Question: Northampton is generally regarded to have the largest what in England?
Answer: Market square

Question: What product, invented by accountant Walter Diemer in 1928, was and remains conventionally pink, (it is said) because pink was the only dye available to its inventor at the time?
Answer: Bubblegum

Question: Lightning strikes on airborne commercial aircraft are?
Answer: Very rarely catastrophic

Question: In geometry all regular polygons have 'what' sides?
Answer: Equal

Question: 100000 and 200000 are the postal codes for the two major cities of which nation?
Answer: China

Question: How wide is a regulation basketball hoop?
Answer: 18 inches

Question: Sicilian, Spanish and Ruy Lopez are types of tactical moves in what game?
Answer: Chess

Question: What possession of 'wild west' star Annie Oakley sold at a 2012 auction for $143,000?
Answer: Gun

Question: The old unit of measurement, a league, was originally a distance typically?
Answer: Walked in an hour

Question: At 2012 what was the last manned mission to the moon?
Answer: Apollo 17

Question: The Italian words for 'three roads' provided the name for which famous Rome monument?
Answer: Trevi Fountain

Question: Who wrote the erotic women's rights novel Lace and originated the quote, "Life's too short to stuff a mushroom"?
Answer: Shirley Conran

Question: What is/was the BBC's teletext information service called?
Answer: Ceefax

Question: The (mainly London) backslang 'ewif yenneps' refers to what monetary sum?
Answer: Five pence

Question: Born George Jamieson in Liverpool 1935, name the 1960s model noted for her transgender equality campaigning?
Answer: April Ashley

Question: Storing and processing data on a remote unspecified computer server is known as '(what weather feature) computing'?
Answer: Cloud

Question: In a Japanese restaurant an oshibori is a?
Answer: Hand towel

Question: In geometry, where every point of a shape is moved a constant distance and direction, this is called?
Answer: Translation

Question: Name the chemical process for toughening rubber/polymer typically by adding sulphur (US, sulfur) using heat and pressure?
Answer: Vulcanization

Question: What sport dominated (with 30 of the top 100) the 2012 Forbes list of highest earning athletes?
Answer: American Football

Question: What, from Latin 'to milk', is the technical name for a mixture of two or more liquids that are normally unblendable?
Answer: Emulsion

Question: What three letters did comedy writer Armando Iannucci amusingly tweet back to Tony Blair's ex-spin-doctor Alistair Campbell following Campbell's jibe about Iannucci's acceptance of his OBE award '... your wit a bit tired and blunt already. Three little letters can have more impact than you realise..' ?
Answer: Wmd

Question: The term geocentric places what as central?
Answer: Earth

Question: Andrew McDougall, whose injury decided a serious international sport championship final in 2012, was a?
Answer: Linesman

Question: Bees, Woozles, Jagulars, and the Backson are minor characters in which author's famous stories?
Answer: A A Milne

Question: Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, writer Virginia Woolf, and newspaper mogul Robert Maxwell, shared what fate?
Answer: Drowning

Question: What human hormone causes certain body cells to take up glucose from the blood and store it as glycogen?
Answer: Insulin

Question: What American word, from French meaning lift, refers to an embankment preventing overflow of a river or other body of water?
Answer: Levee

Question: What word traditionally refers to a fictional inhabitant of the planet Mars, which extends loosely to aliens from elsewhere in space?
Answer: Martian

Question: What conifer shrub is known traditionally and offensively as 'bastard killer', because its berries were used to procure abortion?
Answer: Juniper

Question: Traditionally, an Eton Mess is a?
Answer: Meringue and strawberry pudding

Question: The 'mast' of a beech tree refers to its?
Answer: Nuts

Question: The popular TV talkshow Satyamev Jayate (Truth Alone Prevails) achieves viewing figures of 400 million in what country (as at 2012)?
Answer: India

Question: In Spanish languages and culture an abrazo is a?
Answer: Hug

Question: What is Python for Google, Yahoo, Youtube and many major online corporations?
Answer: Programming language