Question: What number features most prevalently internationally in toll-free or 'freefone' telephony?
Answer: 800

Question: Name the CIA employee who famously became a whistleblower in 2013, revealing details of US/UK mass public surveillance?
Answer: Edward Snowden

Question: Botija, udu, and ghatam are types of?
Answer: Musical instruments

Question: E20 and SW19 are codes famously associated with?
Answer: Sport

Question: The Renaissance (from French, 're-birth') was a European cultural movement spanning which centuries?
Answer: 14-17th

Question: US composer/artist John Cage's most famous and controversial 1952 work, called 4'33", requires the musician(s) to play for its entire three-movement 4mins 33secs duration?
Answer: Nothing

Question: The straight-legged high-kicking march used by many military forces, especially ceremonially, is popularly called the what?
Answer: Goosestep

Question: According to legend, the Gordian Knot, cut by Alexander the Great, tethered a what?
Answer: Cart

Question: A plantar wart is more commonly known as a what?
Answer: Verruca

Question: What country was first to experience the Renaissance period in Europe?
Answer: Italy

Question: The Turkish-Arabic word 'kismet' means in English?
Answer: Fate/Destiny

Question: Name the bulbous narrow-necked container of 3-10 gallons, often wicker-covered, which puns French Lady Jane, with half a boy's name?
Answer: Demijohn

Question: What dangerous festive annual event was popularized by Ernest Hemingway's novel The Sun Also Rises?
Answer: Pamplona Bull Run

Question: What weather metaphor is given to the TV/video equivalent of acoustic 'noise' in audio signals?
Answer: Snow

Question: In physics a tachyon is a hypothetical particle which has what characteristic?
Answer: Faster than light

Question: A proliferation of new Catholic saints followed the removal of which metaphorical real job role from Vatican canonization in 1983?
Answer: Devil's Advocate

Question: What is the popular old name for a dog's thumb; the obsolete inner toe on some dogs's legs; also a false hoof of deer?
Answer: Dewclaw

Question: Which nation developed and makes the Uzi sub-machine gun?
Answer: Israel

Question: The US Presidential official state guest house in Washington DC is called '(What?) House'?
Answer: Blair

Question: The 180th meridian (antimeridian), dividing east and west hemispheres, passes through which island nation, named after main isle Viti Levu?
Answer: Fiji

Question: The name Mercator is historically associated with?
Answer: Globes/maps

Question: The Italian bread ciabatta is named literally (actually) after what footwear?
Answer: Slipper

Question: Name the famous maker of soy sauce whose logo/name represent '10,000 tortoises'?
Answer: Kikkoman

Question: The verb word 'proscribe' means to?
Answer: Forbid

Question: What mountain range makes moist winds rise and precipitate causing the monsoon of SW Asia?
Answer: The Himalayas

Question: The lollipop brandname Chupa Chups is based on the Spanish verb to what?
Answer: Suck

Question: The biological term 'postorbital' refers to behind the?
Answer: Eye

Question: Which traditional southern US drink is strongly associated with the Kentucky Derby?
Answer: Mint Julep

Question: What prefix word joins with hearted, house, ship and year to produce four other words?
Answer: Light

Question: What piece initially occupies H8 on a conventional chessboard diagram?
Answer: Castle

Question: What was Italian scientist Aloysius Lilius' globally significant chronological creation of 1582?
Answer: Gregorian Calendar

Question: The bay leaf plant originated what term of glory or repute?
Answer: Laureate

Question: The term Hibernian refers to which nation?
Answer: Ireland

Question: The South American tradename 'chiclero' refers to a worker who collects the raw material for which hugely popular confectionery product?
Answer: Gum

Question: The Patrouille de France is the national?
Answer: Aerial Display Team

Question: The bird group Merops Apiaster is more commonly named after what creature that it eats?
Answer: Bee

Question: The construction term 'soffit' refers to what aspect of an arch or overhang?
Answer: Underside

Question: What old English four-letter word, in use today, means 'to avoid the risk of'?
Answer: Lest

Question: Which living things have phloem and xylem?
Answer: Plants

Question: What reptilian nickname is given to the lowest score in double-dice gambling, said by the superstitious to represent bad luck or treachery?
Answer: Snake-eyes

Question: In music what is the relative major chord of F#m (F sharp minor)?
Answer: A

Question: The mentha plant genus is more commonly called what?
Answer: Mint

Question: An insect of the order Diptera is more commonly called a what?
Answer: Fly

Question: The Fresnel lens (in which concentric steps maximise light focus and minimise lens weight), popular in the 1900s in vehicle lights, was first devised c.1820 for what application?
Answer: Lighthouses

Question: What is the fruit of the Phoenix genus of plants?
Answer: Dates

Question: Drudge Report, TMZ, Gawker and Perez Hilton are websites noted for?
Answer: Exposing scandals

Question: Which one of these refers to a summary rather than a verbatim quote? Abstract, Excerpt, Extract?
Answer: Abstract

Question: What colour/color traditionally are the Smurf cartoon characters?
Answer: Blue

Question: What popular superhero is also the largest land-dwelling member of the Mustelidae (weasel) family?
Answer: Wolverine

Question: What vegetable's thinner lighter variant has an established alternative name 'Tenderstem'?
Answer: Broccoli

Question: Pinophyta trees are characterized by what reproductive fruit?
Answer: Cones

Question: A funicular is what type of transport?
Answer: Railcar

Question: What Lockheed plane model is claimed to be the longest continuously produced military aircraft in history (at 2013)?
Answer: Hercules

Question: What alternative therapy aims to remove poisonous metals/calcium from the body using the same-named chemical process by which ligands (ions or molecules) bond to atoms?
Answer: Chelation

Question: The traditional legal term 'tort' is commonly and technically a?
Answer: Civil wrong

Question: What common term refers to an intentionally controversial or offensive radio presenter?
Answer: Shock Jock

Question: What does the German word 'verboten' mean?
Answer: Forbidden

Question: The Gregorian Calendar, introduced in 1582, is named after Gregory, a?
Answer: Pope

Question: What is the measurement unit for linear mass density of fibres/fibers, commonly used in grading tights/stockings?
Answer: Denier

Question: Whom did London's Russells Solicitors accidentally expose in July 2013 with 'disappointingly' successful consequences for the exposed client?
Answer: J K Rowling

Question: The medical condition Urticaria is more commonly known as?
Answer: Hives

Question: Before 1967 BBC Radio 2 was called the '(What?) Programme'?
Answer: Light

Question: A pilaster is an ornamental architectural feature made to resemble a?
Answer: Column

Question: Alma, Brown Turkey, Desert King, Italian Black, and Kadota are types of what fruit/plant?
Answer: Figs

Question: In which part of the human body do red blood cells develop?
Answer: Bone marrow

Question: What comet is responsible for the Perseid meteor shower, through which Earth passes every July/August?
Answer: Swift-Tuttle

Question: What traditionally provides the flavour/flavor in a frangipane cake filling?
Answer: Almond

Question: Which English surgeon saved King Edward VII and Joseph Merrick?
Answer: Sir Frederick Treves

Question: What business is the Saks Fifth Avenue chain, named after its Manhattan NYC site?
Answer: Department store

Question: The terms/concepts of kaitiaki and kaitiakitanga referring to guardianship of sky, sea and land originated in which indigenous culture?
Answer: Maori