Question: Originally a physician to the gods, conceived by Greek poet Homer, what ancient word is a song of praise or triumph?
Answer: Paean

Question: The metric prefix femto is shown as ten to the power of minus what?
Answer: 15

Question: A missive is an official?
Answer: Letter/document

Question: The local word 'Lei' refers to a garland of flowers or shells, etc., orginating in and associated iconically with which island?
Answer: Hawaii

Question: Spike, Dig, Set, and Block are found in which competitive sport?
Answer: Volleyball

Question: Nuuk, population about 15,000, is the capital city of which country?
Answer: Greenland

Question: From the Greek words loosely meaning 'same' and 'idea' what term refers to an expression which contains unnecessary duplication?
Answer: Tautology

Question: Yellow Fever is generally carried/transmitted by?
Answer: Mosquito bite

Question: What single vowel letter symbol generally refers in science to 'any element'?
Answer: E

Question: The diagram format for showing guitar fretboard fingering positions is commonly known as a?
Answer: Chord window

Question: Boris Godunov, The Cunning Little Vixen, Wozzeck, and The Ballad of Baby Doe are popular?
Answer: Operas

Question: The 1726 novel 'Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts' is better known by what subsequently amended title?
Answer: Gulliver's Travels

Question: Formerly known as the Ellice Islands, in the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and Australia, what nation owns the commercially available internet top-level domain .tv?
Answer: Tuvalu

Question: What creature is a Chinese 'shishi', called a 'foo dog' in some western cultures?
Answer: Lion

Question: A stonemason commonly refers to unmetamorphosed limestone as what, whose name derives from Greek 'shining stone'?
Answer: Marble

Question: On humans what is the medical Latin name for the big toe?
Answer: Hallux

Question: With the symbol Sv what is the unit of ionizing radiation?
Answer: Sievert

Question: What word makes new words as a prefix with the words piece, stroke, switch and mind?
Answer: Master

Question: What sort of sportsman/woman is a pugilist?
Answer: Boxer

Question: Name the NASA Mars mission rover which landed on the planet in 2012?
Answer: Curiosity

Question: Thought to have lived in the 6th century BC, name the first recognised actor, after whom the profession is termed?
Answer: Thespis

Question: Coulomb is a unit of measurement of electrical?
Answer: Charge

Question: The term Ponzi Scheme refers to?
Answer: Financial investing

Question: The strongly featured character Alyson/Alys in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is better known as?
Answer: The Wife of Bath

Question: What popular children's TV/toy character has a Mummy, Daddy, brother George, and cousins Chloé and Alexander?
Answer: Peppa Pig

Question: Which city's metro system has lines including Pinar de Chamartín to Valdecarros and Villaverde Alto to Moncloa?
Answer: Madrid

Question: The medical condition Strabismus affects what part of the human body?
Answer: Eyes

Question: Upton Park Football Club won what notable international award in Paris, 1900?
Answer: Olympic Gold Medal

Question: What country was created in 1949 with the local abbreviated name DDR?
Answer: East Germany

Question: In Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels what is Gulliver's first name?
Answer: Lemuel

Question: The characters 11 in the binary numeral system equate to what number?
Answer: Three

Question: What nation has the country code internet top-level domain (TLD) .se?
Answer: Sweden

Question: The title/position of Swami represents a religious teacher in?
Answer: Hinduism

Question: What name is given to the age of human agricultural and technology revolution, from Greek 'new' and 'stone'?
Answer: Neolithic

Question: What word forms new words when added as a prefix to the words Able, End, Hole, Ion, and Ray?
Answer: Port

Question: With the symbol Wb what is the unit of magnetic flux?
Answer: Weber

Question: What sort of creature is a killdeer?
Answer: Bird

Question: The controversially named nation Myanmar is also called controversially what?
Answer: Burma

Question: International dialling codes beginning with the number 2 are chiefly for which continent?
Answer: Africa

Question: In Baptist religion, baptism is generally?
Answer: Immersion for believers

Question: What member of the Murdoch media family said in 2012, "Profit without purpose is a recipe for disaster"?
Answer: Elisabeth

Question: What is a hole-punch waste dot, and also an African country?
Answer: Chad

Question: Labanotation is a system for coding/recording/analyzing what movement?
Answer: Human

Question: Which country gave diplomatic asylum/refuge to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in 2012?
Answer: Ecuador

Question: A 3-seater tandem bicycle is called a?
Answer: Tandem

Question: Kinesics is more commonly known as what form of communication?
Answer: Body language

Question: Name the vast French multi-national contractor-sponsor of the 2012 Paralympics criticized for its work in assessing claimants of UK state disability benefits?
Answer: Atos

Question: What is the common alternative abbreviated name for a Cannon plug/connector used in professional audio systems?
Answer: Xlr

Question: What prestige car marque has a trident emblem design influenced by the Fountain of Neptune, Bologna?
Answer: Maserati

Question: Nollywood refers informally to the huge cinema industry of which nation?
Answer: Nigeria

Question: Rumtopf is a traditional Danish/German dish comprising rum and?
Answer: Fruit

Question: What thickening agent found in gummy confectionery etc., defined as a food and produced from animal by-products, has the E Number 441?
Answer: Gelatin

Question: What common substance is technically defined as "...an organic natural composite material of cellulose fibers/fibres, strong in tension, embedded in a matrix of lignin which resists compression..."
Answer: Wood

Question: What ubiquitous instrument makes a sound technically called a 'chick' when played closed?
Answer: Hi-hat

Question: Mintonette was the original name of which sport?
Answer: Volleyball

Question: How many years is a megaannum?
Answer: One million

Question: Karanga is a ritual welcome chant of what people?
Answer: Maori

Question: The binary number symbols 100 equate to what conventional number?
Answer: Four

Question: What was the first internet top-level domain?
Answer: .arpa

Question: What word is used on Wikipedia referring to its pages which list and resolve "...conflicts in article titles that occur when a single term can be associated with more than one topic..." (as at 2012)?
Answer: Disambiguation

Question: Micturate is a medical term for expelling what from the human body?
Answer: Urine

Question: What nation has 27 states, most of which exceed the area of an entire moderately-sized country, and include Acre, Minas Gerais, Sergipe, and Amazonas?
Answer: Brazil

Question: The biblical lesson of wise decision-making, entailing halving (that's halving, not having) a baby, is known as the 'Judgement/Judgment of (Who?)' ?
Answer: Solomon

Question: Vuelta is a cycle race of which nation?
Answer: Spain

Question: From Dutch meaning 'foolish gull', the Australian word mollymawk refers to what sort of bird?
Answer: Albatross

Question: The terms ZiL and Chaika, referring to traffic lanes reserved for politicians and important people, derive from?
Answer: Russian limousines

Question: What 20th century musical entertainment machine derived its name from the West African word Gullah, meaning disorderly, or 'zigzag'?
Answer: Jukebox

Question: What originally American familial (that's familial, not familiar) term refers to a small shop or business run by a married couple?
Answer: Mom-and-Pop

Question: Aside from the Netherlands and Belgium what is the only country in which Dutch is an official language?
Answer: Suriname