Question: 'At the Castle Gate', from Jean Sibelius's incidental music work Pelléas et Mélisande, is the theme music for which TV show, on air from 1957-2013 and the longest running in history featuring the same presenter?
Answer: The Sky at Night

Question: Mariachi is a style of Mexican 'street (what?)'?
Answer: Music

Question: In language the term ellipsis refers to missing/omitted what?
Answer: Words

Question: What portmanteau word refers to a symbol used to convey a mood or feeling in phone/computer communications?
Answer: Emoticon

Question: 'Il Duce' - subject of revivalist support in Italy in the 2000s - is better known by what name?
Answer: Benito Mussolini

Question: What often controversial medical research/treatment term derives from the Latin 'I shall be pleasing'?
Answer: Placebo

Question: Platter, j-bar, bum, button, and Poma are equivalent terms for what apparatus?
Answer: Ski lift

Question: The Métis are a substantial group of aboriginal people of which nation?
Answer: Canada

Question: What seabird is named from Norse 'stinking gull' because of vomiting when disturbed?
Answer: Fulmar

Question: What traditional item of apparel (silk, cotton, or paper), used by hand, is named after an old French word for a head covering?
Answer: Handkerchief

Question: In the study of anthropods, name the 'Three Ps' considered natural controls/suppressors of insect plague?
Answer: Pathogens, Predators, Parasitoids

Question: The word scrutiny derives (early 15th century) from Latin 'scruta', a 'mixed uncertain lot of (what?)'?
Answer: Trash/old things

Question: Glock pistols are made by which country?
Answer: Austria

Question: Name the big inflatable sphere in which thrill-seeking people roll down hills and on water?
Answer: Zorb

Question: Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangio-Pancreatography (ERCP) is used in what field?
Answer: Medicine

Question: What sort of fastener has a crown, legs and teeth?
Answer: Staple

Question: Extraversion/introversion, Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Neuroticism, and Openness to experience and are the 'Big Five' dimensions of what popular acronymically-named personality analysis theory?
Answer: Ocean

Question: In early 2013 where was a cat favourite/favorite to replace the shoe or the wheelbarrow?
Answer: Monopoly

Question: What model number Boeing plane is called the Dreamliner (after being renamed in 2005)?
Answer: 787

Question: Frettabladid is (early 2000s) the leading newspaper of which island nation?
Answer: Iceland

Question: Name the Utah USA salt flats famous for land-speed records and a Triumph motorbike model?
Answer: Bonneville

Question: Name the notable 20thC US poet and short story author who wrote the stirring epigrammatic poem 'Late Fragment'?
Answer: Raymond Carver

Question: Daniel Hooper, a famous British protestor, is better known by what nickname, earned during his (literally) underground resistance to the Newbury bypass in 1996? Muddy; Boggy; Swampy; or Dirty?
Answer: Swampy

Question: Operation Serval refers to France's military intervention in which former colony's civil war?
Answer: Mali

Question: In 2013, 29% of what meat was found in Tesco's value beefburgers?
Answer: Horse

Question: An adult oyster can filter (up to) what volume of water per day?
Answer: Fifty gallons

Question: White chocolate consists of sugar, milk solids, salt, and specifically what other main ingredient?
Answer: Cocoa butter

Question: Name the form of carbon considered (early 2000s) the strongest material ever, which having a thickness of one atom has just two dimensions?
Answer: Graphene

Question: What word referring to an organizational disaster derives from Venetian glass-blowing?
Answer: Fiasco

Question: What is the modern-day name of the once colonial nation French Sudan?
Answer: Mali

Question: A burning truckload of 'brunost' - brown (what?) - caused a 5-day fire in a Norwegian road tunnel in Jan 2013?
Answer: Cheese

Question: Beatrix became queen of which European nation in 1980?
Answer: The Netherlands

Question: The name of which sort of entertainment derives from old French/Picard meaning 'wooden structure'/'little room'?
Answer: Cabaret

Question: The 1923 Great Kanto earthquake was until 2011 which nation's biggest?
Answer: Japan

Question: Jumpy, Deafy, Dizzey, Hickey, Wheezy, Baldy, Gabby, Nifty, Sniffy, Swift, Lazy, Puffy, Stuffy, Tubby, Shorty and Burpy were shortlisted to be what in the early 1930s?
Answer: Dwarfs

Question: The 'Mohorovicic discontinuity' (commonly 'Moho') is a boundary between?
Answer: Earth layers

Question: The statue of which pioneering Baptist cabinet-making travel agent stands outside Leicester UK railway station, his original tour starting point?
Answer: Thomas Cook

Question: In 2013 academics suggested what human feature evolved due to its benefits for prehistorical human life in water?
Answer: Wrinkly fingers and toes

Question: In medicine a macule refers to a?
Answer: Spot of discoloured/discolored skin

Question: Name the social news/entertainment website which saw massive growth and investment interest 2010-13?
Answer: Buzzfeed

Question: What are generally defined as 'the four big cats', and the only ones to roar (one point for three - bonus point for all four)?
Answer: Lion, Tiger, Leopard, Jaguar

Question: Which fish became subject to EU fishing quota arguments in 2013 due to its significant movement into Icelandic waters?
Answer: Mackerel

Question: London's Savoy Hotel entrance roundabout provided the 25ft (8m) basis for a standard UK?
Answer: Black Cab turning-circle

Question: What ingredient causes a can of cola to sink in water, whereas a can of diet cola floats?
Answer: Sugar

Question: (Before Jurassic Park) the word raptor technically refers to what sort of carnivorous creature?
Answer: Bird

Question: What slang word for a sailor derives from old Dutch meaning 'bed companion'?
Answer: Matelot

Question: The Latin term 'per capita' means 'for... The entire population; Each person; Paying customers; or Registered voters?
Answer: Each person

Question: What Anglicized French word for a sort of clothing derives from meaning 'doing the washing'?
Answer: Lingerie

Question: Pandeiro is a popular example of what in Brazil?
Answer: Percussion

Question: The Republic of Upper Volta was renamed what (two-words) in 1984, meaning respectively 'men of integrity' and 'fatherland' in its two native languages?
Answer: Burkina Faso

Question: Who was in 1907 the youngest Nobel Literature Prizewinner, and later declined a knighthood and UK Poet Laurateship?
Answer: Rudyard Kipling

Question: Name the UK seaside town famous for jet stone, and whose St Mary's Church featured in Bram Stoker's Dracula?
Answer: Whitby

Question: Where in the human body is the glottis?
Answer: Larynx

Question: In physics, the elementary exchange particles ('gauge bosons') between quarks are called?
Answer: Gluons

Question: In terms of actions, activities, projects, etc., the word hiatus means a?
Answer: Pause

Question: The Shoemaker-Levy 9 Comet broke up and impacted where, in 1994, to huge astronomical and media interest?
Answer: Jupiter

Question: What is the only 'big cat' found wild in the Americas which roars?
Answer: Jaguar

Question: Peripatetic refers to work which involves?
Answer: Travel

Question: The word nexus refers to a?
Answer: Connection

Question: What does a philogynist like?
Answer: Women

Question: The name of what workwear was derived from the Dongri area in South Mumbai India?
Answer: Dungarees

Question: Which pottery pioneer produced 'creamware' and 'jasperware' in the mid-late 1700s?
Answer: Josiah Wedgwood

Question: What is a saury fish, a captain, and a South African long-sleeved shirt?
Answer: Skipper

Question: The Roman settlement of Arausio in SE France later became what significantly named town and subsequent principality/emblem in Dutch, English, southern African and Irish history?
Answer: Orange