Question: What term refers to a style of fatalistic or menacing cinema, coined first by French critics in describing US thrillers of the 1940s?
Answer: Film Noir

Question: The 1997 BS and 2005 EN No1836 safety standard applies to?
Answer: Sunglasses

Question: Posset is a late-medieval curdled drink of alchocol and which other liquid?
Answer: Milk

Question: Gurning is a (sometimes competitive) activity involving distortion of?
Answer: One's face

Question: A sepulchre is a (what?), usually made/carved from stone?
Answer: Tomb

Question: Hilary Mantel's controversial 2014 fictional story is "The Assassination of (Which controversial leader?)" ?
Answer: Margaret Thatcher

Question: Filibeg is a traditional Scottish word for?
Answer: Kilt

Question: In the binary system of numbers the binary number 10 equates to which conventional number?
Answer: 2

Question: The sulphate/sulfate used as a contrast agent for gastro-intenstinal x-rays contains which metallic element?
Answer: Barium

Question: Native to Indonesia, what spice is a flower bud from a tall evergreen tree 'Syzygium aromaticum'?
Answer: Clove

Question: Shellshock, in Bash, was in 2014 described as the most dangerous (what?) since Heartbleed?
Answer: Computer bug

Question: On a 20cm diameter clockface, the tip of the second-hand travels approximately how many kilometres in a year?
Answer: 330

Question: This historical region (1300s-1800s) of Bessarabia is in?
Answer: Eastern Europe

Question: What portmanteau term created in the 1960s is the science of copying or duplicating documents/graphics?
Answer: Reprographics

Question: Name the multi-billionaire celebrity businessman and aspiring US president tricked in 2014 into 'retweeting' on Twitter a picture of serial killers Fred and Rosemary West as supposedly having been admirers of his?
Answer: Donald Trump

Question: What Swiss psychologist conceived 'extraversion' and 'introversion', and personality tendencies of intuition, sensing, feeling and thinking?
Answer: Carl Jung

Question: Put these countries in order of oldest to youngest population average age?
Answer: Japan; USA; Turkey; Uganda

Question: In what discipline was Alex Jesaulenko's 'Mark of the Century'?
Answer: Australian Rules Football

Question: Name IBM's artificial intelligence computer, which answers 'knowledge' questions with startling effectiveness, named after the company's first CEO/chairman (coincidentally the name of a doctor/narrator noted for asking questions of a famous detective)?
Answer: Watson

Question: What's the full name of Sherlock Holmes' companion/narrator?
Answer: Dr John H Watson

Question: Originating in the fictional 'Game of Thrones' and launched internationally in 2014 as a real training program, 'Dothraki' is a?
Answer: Language

Question: A major share-trading mistake, sometimes worth of $millions, is commonly called a '(What?) Error'?
Answer: Fat Finger

Question: Name the iconic Israeli drink company/brand (especially 1960-80s) associated with the slogan "Get busy with the fizzy"?
Answer: Sodastream

Question: What nation, the most sparsely populated of the EU, has nearly 200,000 lakes?
Answer: Finland

Question: Founded 1938 by Lee Byung-chul, Samsung is which country's biggest business (at 2014)?
Answer: South Korea

Question: The mountainous geographical region called the Caucasus is in?
Answer: SE Europe

Question: What sparking wine from Catalonia is traditionally and incorrectly referred to as Spanish Champagne?
Answer: Cava

Question: A domino was originally a?
Answer: Priest's hood

Question: What famous corporation, having a flying crane logo, is named from Germany's late-medieval defensive commercial federation the Hanseatic League, and word for 'air'?
Answer: Lufthansa

Question: Which famous online brand is a green circle containing three stacked arcs?
Answer: Spotify

Question: A famous four-stage theory of how we learn new things is commonly called?
Answer: Conscious-Competence

Question: What Andalusian city gave its name to a bitter orange used especially in marmalade?
Answer: Seville

Question: What famous headwear and safety harness brand was devised from the original raw materials silk, angora and wool?
Answer: Kangol

Question: Which once war-torn Balkan capital city has a world-leading human DNA analysis laboratory?
Answer: Sarajevo

Question: Georges Bizet devised the word 'toreador' for what opera?
Answer: Carmen

Question: The continent having the highest average elevation is?
Answer: Antartica

Question: What is a remark, act, or chess move seeking advantage, from Italian for trip-up, and leg?
Answer: Gambit

Question: The Dewey Decimal, Universal Decimal, and Bliss Bibliographic classifications are used by?
Answer: Libraries

Question: The Carthage civilization (814-200BC) was based around modern?
Answer: Tunis

Question: Disney's Lion King movie/musical is generally said to be based on what Shakespeare play?
Answer: Hamlet

Question: The Occident (from Latin 'going down') refers generally to which part of the world?
Answer: Europe/US

Question: The traditional Windows/Mac keyboard shortcut to undo the last operation is Ctrl or Cmd and what key?
Answer: Z

Question: Which fictional family lived at 1313 Mockingbird Lane, Mockingbird Heights, California?
Answer: The Munsters

Question: Name the chemical separation process in which electricity passes through a conducting substance between two electrodes?
Answer: Electrolysis

Question: The highest US military award, the Medal of Honor, is what shape?
Answer: Star

Question: The Persian shamsher, 'paw claw', inspired what name/weapon, also a 1970s sports car by the makers of the Robin and Bond Bug?
Answer: Scimitar

Question: The Drachma was which nation's main currency unit before the Euro in 2002?
Answer: Greece

Question: Episcopal refers to what authority?
Answer: Bishop

Question: An old word for a proverb or saying is a?
Answer: Saw

Question: Which popular UK stop-motion animated children's TV character based at Fixham was given a CGI update in 2014?
Answer: Bob the Builder

Question: Pioneering collaborative UK/Poland surgery to repair human spinal cord was demonstrated in 2014 using what uniquely regenerating human nerve cells?
Answer: Olfactory

Question: Equating to Roman goddess Diana, name Apollo's huntress chaste twin sister, also ironically a 600-customer Berlin brothel?
Answer: Artemis

Question: The parts that enable a guitar to be tuned are called?
Answer: Machines

Question: The Union of Myanmar, capital Rangoon, is traditionally (in the 'west') called what country?
Answer: Burma

Question: What slightly eponymously US discount store brand/corporation was founded by Farmer's son Sebastian Kresge c.1900?
Answer: K-Mart

Question: Atomic weight is expressed/measured to a standard based on the common isotope (12) of which element?
Answer: Carbon

Question: 'Anchor escapement' refers to controlled rocking mechanical energy release in?
Answer: Clocks

Question: What type of aperitif is named from German 'wormwood', the additive in the original medicinal form?
Answer: Vermouth

Question: Common in Middle East and North Africa, a souq (also souk, shuk, suk, sooq, suq, etc) is a?
Answer: Marketplace

Question: What popular office product/brand did Bette Nesmith Graham (mother of Monkee Mike Nesmith) invent and later sell to Gillette for nearly $50m in 1979?
Answer: Liquid Paper

Question: Ido is the relatively unpopular improved version of what, first devised by Polish physician Ludwik Lazarus Zamenhof (1859-1917)?
Answer: Esperanto

Question: Food in dented cans is less safe/pure than in undented cans, true or false?
Answer: False

Question: Porro prisms, used commonly in binoculars, have what shape end-faces?
Answer: Right-angle triangle

Question: What genericized brand, registered 1909, refers to a horn alarm, derived from onomatopoeaic Greek for making a loud sound?
Answer: Klaxon