Question: Chile experienced large and violent protests by whom in 2012, invoking comparisons with similar 2006 action called (after the protestors' uniforms) The Penguins' Revolution or The March of the Penguins?
Answer: Students

Question: The British warship HMS Dauntless was controversially deployed where in Jan 2012?
Answer: The Falklands/Islas Malvinas

Question: The lease for which famous state building was sold in 2012 for a luxury hotel development?
Answer: Admiralty Arch, London

Question: The effective discovery of what particle was announced by CERN at the Large Hadron Collider in 2012?
Answer: Higgs boson

Question: Name the TV/movie actor who died in 2012 and starred in 1960s fantasy sitcom I Dream of Jeannie?
Answer: Larry Hagman

Question: Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, and Louis Tomlinson are better known as what 2012 record-breaking unit?
Answer: One Direction

Question: Which famous character from computing tweeted 'This is for everyone' in the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony?
Answer: Tim Berners-Lee

Question: Who wrote the 2012 Man Booker prizewinning novel Bring Up the Bodies?
Answer: Hilary Mantel

Question: In 2012 what laconically-branded sport increased engine capacity from 800 cc to 1,000 cc?
Answer: MotoGP

Question: In 2012 Price Nayef became the second crown prince, after Prince Sultan, to die before ascending to the throne in which country?
Answer: Saudi Arabia

Question: Xi Jinping achieved the top-ranked position in China in 2012 in what field?
Answer: Political leadership

Question: Enrique Pena Nieto became president of which country in 2012?
Answer: Mexico

Question: Which BBC Director General was appointed and resigned in 2012?
Answer: George Entwhistle

Question: 2012 is the 200th anniversary of the what European capital city's status, moved from Turku by Czar Alexander I of Russia?
Answer: Helsinki

Question: In the 2012 Olympics logo, what number contained the word 'London'?
Answer: The first 2

Question: Who wrote the 200 year-old letter auctioned for 150,000 euros in 2012, expressing a wish to destroy the Kremlin?
Answer: Napoleon Bonaparte

Question: Which international sportsman successfully switched to boxing, defeating US heavyweight Richard Dawson in 2012?
Answer: Andrew Flintoff

Question: Who became the youngest F1 triple champion (to date) in Nov 2012?
Answer: Sebastian Vettel

Question: Name the tragic genius 'father of computing', and inventor of the eponymous seminal computer machine, whose 100th birthday would have been 23 Jun 2012?
Answer: Alan Turing

Question: What top-selling UK newspaper was produced on Sundays for the first time in 2012?
Answer: The Sun

Question: Who coached/managed both the England and Russia football teams during 2012?
Answer: Fabio Capello

Question: Name the best-selling educational author of the 'Seven Habits of Highly Effective People' who died in Idaho in 2012?
Answer: Stephen Covey

Question: What internet/computing term derives from Old Norse hlekkr, related to Old German gelenk, meaning joint?
Answer: Link

Question: What medical Latin term, literally means 'stiffness of death'?
Answer: Rigor Mortis

Question: The famous Castilian military leader Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar (1043-99) is better known by what name?
Answer: El Cid

Question: In 2012 Shinzo Abe became which nation's eighth prime ministerial appointment in six years, 2006-12?
Answer: Japan

Question: PSV (Polished Stone Value) is a technical measurement term used by?
Answer: Roadbuilders

Question: What, having extremes of 'thick' and 'thin', is the measure of a fluid's internal friction/resistance under stress?
Answer: Viscosity

Question: Name the famous guitarist whose collaboration with the Gibson company produced their first and eponymous solid electric guitar in 1952?
Answer: Les Paul

Question: What rejection is shared by LS Lowry, John Lennon; Philip Larkin, Benjamin Zephaniah, and Danny Boyle? Chivalric order; US-visa; Blood donation; or Driving licence?
Answer: Chivalric order

Question: Visceral refers to a human response of what sort?
Answer: Internal

Question: Name Facebook's photo-app company which controversially announced it would begin commercially exploiting users' photos/content on a no-fee no-permission basis with effect from 16 Jan 2013?
Answer: Instagram

Question: Cosmetology refers to study/profession in what field?
Answer: Beauty/Hair

Question: What is Mexico's largest state, and also a famously small dog breed?
Answer: Chihuahua

Question: Optics is a branch of physics specifically concerning?
Answer: Light

Question: What expression referring to admitting a mistake, humility and shame, derives from an old English peasant dish made with the offal of a deer?
Answer: Eat humble pie

Question: The globally widely used Wechsler Scale assesses what in children?
Answer: Intelligence

Question: Hyperemesis gravidarum is an extreme form of what commonly named medical condition?
Answer: Morning sickness

Question: Thraex, murmillo, and hoplomachus are types of?
Answer: Roman gladiators

Question: What surname appeared most in the UK Leveson Inquiry Report about media/press privacy and phone hacking?
Answer: Murdoch

Question: What word for 'the end of the world' referred originally to a revelation?
Answer: Apocalypse

Question: From Greek for gadfly/frenzy, what word refers to the recurring period of sexual receptivity in female mammals?
Answer: Oestrus

Question: A440 refers to the international standard (ISO 16) for what?
Answer: Musical tuning pitch

Question: What modern term, alluding to a display place, refers to the consumer buying tactic of assessing products in retail stores, but then buying them online at a lower price?
Answer: Showrooming

Question: Blair Athol, Dalwhinnie, Knockando, Glenmorangie and Tamdhu are types of what?
Answer: Whisky

Question: 'Motion Pictures Experts Group Format I (or II), Audio Layer III' is better known as what three-characters?
Answer: Mp3

Question: Limelight, Hacienda, Studio 54, and Berghain were/are famous brands of what?
Answer: Nighclubs

Question: William the Conqueror (William I of England, 1027/8-87, reigned 1066-87) was also known unflatteringly as 'William the (What)'?
Answer: Bastard

Question: The Italian food/word bruschetta refers originally and specifically to which of its characteristics?
Answer: Toasted

Question: What cosmetic treatment was reported in 2012 to be of rapidly increasing popularity among male visitors to Istanbul in Turkey?
Answer: Facial hair transplants

Question: Wayne LaPierre is known for his 20-plus-years' controversial leadership of what organization?
Answer: Nra

Question: Typically used in law, the Latin term 'Ipso Facto' means?
Answer: By the fact itself

Question: What is the main activity in the traditional 'Post-Office' party game?
Answer: Kissing

Question: What two phone/computer keyboard symbols originally produced the 'fingers crossed' emoticon in texting/emailing/chatrooms/etc?
Answer: X=

Question: The US governmental budget crisis at the end of 2012 was referred to as the 'Fiscal (what geological term?)'?
Answer: Cliff

Question: Antipasto (plural antipasti) refers to what part of an Italian lunch/dinner?
Answer: Before the meal

Question: The term 'ex libris' is traditionally found on a label-plate indicating ownership of a?
Answer: Book

Question: What was the three-letter two-number prefix code in the full name of The Haçienda nightclub in Manchester UK?
Answer: Fac51

Question: The traditional proofreading mark of a wavy line beneath a passage of text gives instruction to change it to?
Answer: Bold

Question: The crossword clue '1= Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich' gave rise to what common puzzle format?
Answer: Ditloid

Question: Roman official Appius Claudius 'the blind' Caecus, c.340-273BC, responsible for Via Appia, the first modern road, famously coined what phrase (in Latin 'Quisque faber suae fortunae')?
Answer: Every man is the architect of his own fortune