Question: What is an S-shaped roof tile, named after a cooking vessel?
Answer: Pantile

Question: Bir, iki, uc, dort, bes (loosely westernised) are 1-5 in what language?
Answer: Turkish

Question: First named in French, Route du Roi (King's Highway) is the origin of the name of what London parkside track?
Answer: Rotten Row

Question: What is the mythical conjuring trick for which Lord Northbrook failed to find claim or demonstration on offering a £10,000 prize in 1875?
Answer: Indian rope trick

Question: South Korean Ban Ki-moon was reappointed unopposed in June 2011 as head (secretary-general) of what organization?
Answer: Un

Question: Prior to 1968 it was illegal in the UK to impersonate a what on a theatrical stage?
Answer: Living member of the Royal Family

Question: What term for an unorthodox or crazy person is interpreted by some to refer instead to a viper in Lewis Carroll's Alices Adventures in Wonderland?
Answer: Mad as a hatter

Question: The word 'Torchwood' is what in relation to 'Doctor Who'?
Answer: Anagram

Question: How many sides (different straight outer edges, excluding shadow) does each '2' have in the London 2012 Olympics logo?
Answer: Eight

Question: The Grimaldi family has ruled which principality since 1297?
Answer: Monaco

Question: 'Core' is a brand of which computer technology company?
Answer: Intel Corporation

Question: Which pottery company originally developed the designs Kutani Crane, Wild Strawberry and Jasperware?
Answer: Wedgwood

Question: What is the common name of aluminium/aluminum oxide crystals used in grinding?
Answer: Corundum

Question: Lachryma Christi, an old Italian sweet red wine translates to mean 'whose what'?
Answer: Christ's Tear

Question: Sibilance is what sort of sound?
Answer: Hissing

Question: What voltage is the common zinc-carbon or alkaline AAA battery (also coded LR03, E92, AM4 among others)?
Answer: 1.5v

Question: A ploughman's lunch traditionally features what main foodstuff with bread?
Answer: Cheese

Question: Scuppernong, named after a N Carolina USA river, is a variety of what?
Answer: Grape

Question: What is a ghost, related to corrective lenses and the colours/colors of the rainbow?
Answer: Spectre

Question: What legal term equates to 'being caught red-handed' and translates as 'in blazing crime'?
Answer: In flagrante delicto

Question: What does not appear on a Southern Comfort whiskey liqueur label?
Answer: Dog

Question: Erratum is a list of what at the end of a publication?
Answer: Errors

Question: In cooking what is/are dhal?
Answer: Split pulses

Question: What is an inch in centimetres?
Answer: 2.54cms

Question: Laudanum is an old medicine made from which drug?
Answer: Opium

Question: Toledo is a high quality what made in the Spanish town of that name?
Answer: Sword

Question: A turbine is essentially a what, driven by water or gas, etc?
Answer: Wheel

Question: What is the ancient process by which materials such as metal or glass are heated and then cooled slowly to ease forces produced by shaping?
Answer: Annealing

Question: An integer is what sort of number?
Answer: Whole

Question: According to official records what was the first song ever sung in space?
Answer: Happy Birthday

Question: What widely used solvent and compound with the symbol (CH3)2CO smells of pear-drops and is in nail polish remover?
Answer: Acetone

Question: According to a global study of wind power in 2005 what extent of the world's total energy usage could be satisfied if all viable wind power locations were exploited?
Answer: Five times

Question: A photovoltaic module is more commonly known as what?
Answer: Solar panel

Question: Sulphur/sulfur dioxide and (various) nitrogen oxides are the main contributory factors in what unhelpful environmental effect?
Answer: Acid rain

Question: What structural modification of oxygen is an air pollutant in the lower atmosphere but beneficial in the upper atmosphere?
Answer: Ozone

Question: In excess of how many gallons of water are lost each day in the USA to leaks, equating to 14% of all 'withdrawals'?
Answer: Six billion

Question: What colourless/colorless, odourless/odorless, poisonous polluting gas is chiefly emitted by small engines typically used in lawn-mowers and chainsaws, etc?
Answer: Carbon monoxide

Question: What highly toxic element was traditionally used in thermometers, posing a substantial safety and disposal risk?
Answer: Mercury

Question: The 1987 Montreal Protocol concerns specifically, and includes in its full title, substances that deplete what?
Answer: The Ozone Layer

Question: Carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and sulphur/sulfur hexafluoride are widely referred to by what collective metaphorical term?
Answer: Greenhouse Gases

Question: From the Greek root words for 'house' and 'study of' what term refers to the scientific study of the relationship between living things, and their natural environment?
Answer: Ecology

Question: An 'R number' identifies what sort of substance having potentially significant impact on global warming when used in heating/cooling applications?
Answer: Refrigerant

Question: The DuPont trade name Freon has become an alternative name for which abbreviated compound name strongly associated with global warming?
Answer: Cfc

Question: The 'R-value' used in the building and construction industry is a measure of what quality of a materials?
Answer: Thermal resistance

Question: Where do you want to go today?
Answer: Microsoft

Question: Omnia Omnibus Ubique. (All Things, For All People, Everywhere.)
Answer: Harrods

Question: Citius, Altius, Fortius. (Faster, Higher, Stronger.)
Answer: Olympic Games

Question: Nation Shall Speak Peace Unto Nation.
Answer: Bbc

Question: Nullius in verba. (On the word of no one.)
Answer: The Royal Society

Question: Dieu et mon droit. (God and my right.) (Three possible main answers - 1 point for any - a bonus point for each additional)
Answer: England/The British Royal Family/The Times

Question: What term for behaving in a subservient (overly agreeable and unquestioningly obedient) manner, especially to a boss, derives from an ancient Chinese bowing gesture?
Answer: Kowtow

Question: What famous palm-top computer brand suffered major stock-market confidence problems following large-scale product faults in 2011?
Answer: Psion

Question: Ursa Major and Ursa Minor are constellations known respectively more commonly as Great and Little what?
Answer: Bear

Question: What common name is given to medial tibial stress syndrome (MTSS)?
Answer: Shin Splints

Question: Lord Byron being an example, in 18-19th century Italy a 'cicisbeo' was a what?
Answer: Paid companion/lover to a married woman

Question: What ancient name applies to the 'days' of hot summer, derived from belief that the star Sirius caused them?
Answer: Dog Days

Question: On the Beaufort Scale of wind force what wind name is given to number 8, which "...Breaks twigs off trees and impedes progress..."?
Answer: Gale

Question: What notable leader was born in Ranshofen, near Braunau, Austria, in 1889?
Answer: Adolf Hitler

Question: Somalia is in the region known as the what of Africa?
Answer: Horn

Question: A piece of what monument forms part of Ronald Reagan's statue in London's Grosvenor Square?
Answer: Berlin Wall

Question: Derived from French pantomime, what is a clown with a white face, white garments, and pointed hat?
Answer: Pierrot

Question: Teams competing in what famous annual July event include THC, Movistar, Leopard, BMC and Quick-Step?
Answer: Tour de France

Question: Seismic refers to what natural effect?
Answer: Earthquake

Question: What is the organic compound acid, chemical formula CH3COOH, and main component of vinegar?
Answer: Acetic acid

Question: What colour/color (a bright strong green), and also a diamond pattern, takes its name from a famous clown?
Answer: Harlequin