Question: What sugar substitute, also known as glucitol, is named after the sorb fruit of the sorbus tree?
Answer: Sorbitol

Question: What are the fatty compounds/derivatives which store energy, signal, and provide structure in the cells of living things?
Answer: Lipids

Question: The western part of the US/Mexico border runs through which desert, named after the Mexican state it adjoins?
Answer: Sonoran

Question: From the Latin for 'godlike' what is the traditional word for the academic study of religion and its ministry?
Answer: Divinity

Question: What pleasingly diffracting sodium potassium aluminium silicate gemstone is named after a celestial body of the Solar System?
Answer: Moonstone

Question: The 'degree' symbol ° indicates what variation of a musical chord?
Answer: Diminished

Question: A chalice - as in the expression 'poisoned chalice' - is literally a?
Answer: Goblet

Question: The UK-based ASOS corporation is a leading international online provider in which sector?
Answer: Fashionwear

Question: Apples, plums, cherries, apricots, raspberries and strawberries all belong to which plant family?
Answer: Rose

Question: D'addario, Elixir, Rotosound and Ernie Ball are leading makers of what musical accessory?
Answer: Strings

Question: The AZERTY keyboard layout is standard in?
Answer: France

Question: The expression 'sour grapes', from one of Aesop's Fables, involves which creature?
Answer: Fox

Question: From what fruit is perry traditionally made?
Answer: Pears

Question: The term 'cytoplasm' originated in?
Answer: Biology

Question: In motion-detection and automated lighting sensors what does PIR mean?
Answer: Passive Infrared

Question: What metaphor aptly refers to the marketing of US multinational US corporation Bausch and Lomb?
Answer: Focus

Question: The Japanese food word sushi referred originally to?
Answer: Rice

Question: The words vagary/vagaries refer specifically to unpredictable?
Answer: Change/changes

Question: The diacritical mark resembling a wavy hyphen (here shown above the letter ñ) is called a?
Answer: Tilde

Question: What note is produced at the twelfth fret of the top (highest pitched) string on a conventionally tuned guitar?
Answer: E

Question: What intangible communication aid did Dr Ludwig Zamenhof create c.1880, 'to foster harmony between people of different nations'?
Answer: Esperanto

Question: Static electricity is fundamentally produced by?
Answer: Friction

Question: Which country, the world's fifth-largest, is named after its first export?
Answer: Brazil

Question: Which country's name, existing 1929-2003, meant 'South Slavs'?
Answer: Yugoslavia

Question: The human brain's frontal lobe, chiefly processing cognitive functions relating to reward, attention, short-term memory tasks, planning, motivation, etc., is fully mature at (very) approximately what age?
Answer: Thirty

Question: Muscovite, used in electrical capacitors, is a processed form of what geological mineral?
Answer: Mica

Question: What French word, for 'little bed', refers to a railcar adaptable for sleeping?
Answer: Couchette

Question: Which nation's 'national anthem' is known as 'Qaumi Tarana' and alternatively 'Pak Sarzamin' (sacred land)?
Answer: Pakistan

Question: A sarcophagus traditionally contains a?
Answer: Corpse

Question: What popular Australian bird is named after an ancient stringed instrument?
Answer: Lyrebird

Question: Where is the Barbary Coast?
Answer: North Africa

Question: The common vocal sound produced by blocking exhaled airflow (when voicing a vowel) by suddenly closing the vocal tract is called a '(what?) stop'?
Answer: Glottal stop

Question: Pales, Fesses, Canton, and Saltire are types of designs of what?
Answer: Flags

Question: Carborundum and Corundum are compounds/minerals traditionally used in?
Answer: Abrasives

Question: Langlauf (literally 'long-term' in German) refers to an endurance form of which sport?
Answer: Skiing

Question: Pavilion, girdle, table, and culet are aspects of a what?
Answer: Gemstone

Question: What is the traditional trade surname for a person who made or sold (typically knitted) legwear and socks?
Answer: Hosier

Question: Quark, clabber, twaróg, and viili are international variations of a food made from?
Answer: Milk

Question: What term for a structure in maths, science and human organization is from Latin 'breeding woman'?
Answer: Matrix

Question: The beef cut called brisket comes from where on the animal?
Answer: Chest

Question: What technical process term refers in food preparation to the softening of solids by soaking, and in organic waste handling to the chopping of solids in liquids to form a slurry?
Answer: Maceration

Question: The verb word stymie, meaning to obstruct something, originally referred to a now obsolete rule in which sport?
Answer: Golf

Question: Which famous current Nestlé confectionery brandname, established 1936, was named after J M Barrie's popular London stage comedy, originally unsuccessfully launched on Broadway in 1901?
Answer: Quality Street

Question: In 1908 psychologist Alfred Adler cited which leader in proposing an inferiority complex in short people, which became known as the ('What leader?) Syndrome'?
Answer: Napoleon

Question: What is the South African style of dried meat named originally in Dutch meaning 'rump strip'?
Answer: Biltong

Question: Cadence in music and language technically and originally referred to rhythmic or tonal effect associated with a?
Answer: End

Question: Nephrite, Ca2(Mg, Fe)5Si8O22(OH)2, is one of two minerals more commonly known as what anciently treasured green gemstone, and once considered China's 'imperial gem'?
Answer: Jade

Question: What unusual shape might a rainbow adopt when seen from a plane flying above the clouds?
Answer: Ring

Question: In which country is the most remote (farthest away) place from any sea or ocean?
Answer: China

Question: Which bit of Napoleon Boneparte was famously claimed to have been acquired in the late 1900s for several thousand dollars by US medical scientist and war paraphernalia collector John Lattimer?
Answer: Penis

Question: The biological mating theory that males seek novelty and females seek familiarity is known as the '(What US President?) Effect'?
Answer: Coolidge

Question: Name the vast South Korean conglomerate including car-maker which went bankrupt in 1999?
Answer: Daewoo

Question: What iconic genus of fish (technical name Hippocampus) is considered the slowest swimming of all fish, whose dwarf species achieves no more than about 1.5metres per hour?
Answer: Seahorse

Question: Graminoids are more commonly known as what plant form?
Answer: Grasses

Question: What trade uses a pattress or pattress box?
Answer: Electrician

Question: The recently banned (considered non-pc) official 200 year-old Royal Naval toast to "Our wives and sweethearts.." is traditionally extended?
Answer: """May they never meet.."""

Question: (At 2013) the 230m high Heron Tower is the tallest skyscraper of which historical financial city centre district?
Answer: London

Question: Ingvar Kamprad founded what famous modern-day organization?
Answer: Ikea

Question: What is the main ingredient of the modern breakfast food and energy bar called granola?
Answer: Oats

Question: As at 2013 what country boasted the four most profitable banks in the world?
Answer: China

Question: The Bugatti car logo features which reversed capital letter in a ligature with B, standing for the founder (Bugatti's) first name?
Answer: E

Question: What work-related term popularly refers to loan companies which offer short-term unsecured personal loans at high interest rates?
Answer: Payday

Question: The term forensic refers to investigative technologies and sciences in relation to?
Answer: Law and crime

Question: The 'morna' is the national music and dance style of which central Atlantic archipelago island nation?
Answer: Cape Verde