Question: Which former US presidential First Lady founded a famous drug rehabilitation clinic?
Answer: Betty Ford

Question: The failed Mau Mau uprising of the 1950s preceded eventual independence from British colonial rule of what nation in 1963?
Answer: Kenya

Question: Formed after national revolution in 1917 the NKVD was the public and also ruthless secret police of which country until 1946?
Answer: Russia

Question: Gramophone records are made of, and sometimes called, what popular name for the polymer material in question?
Answer: Vinyl

Question: What originally Venetian word refers to a meeting of boats or yacht races?
Answer: Regatta

Question: Regicide refers to killing a?
Answer: King

Question: What is the compound, NH4NO3, commonly used in fertilizers and improvised bombs?
Answer: Ammonium nitrate

Question: What French IT company is engaged (as at 2011) by the UK government in the controversial assessment of work capability of incapacity benefit claimants?
Answer: Atos

Question: In 2011 what did International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge cite as the biggest threat to sport alongside doping?
Answer: Illegal gambling

Question: What metallic element element is named after an asteroid discovered in 1802, itself named after (an alternate name of) the Greek goddess Athene?
Answer: Palladium

Question: A cruciferous plant has how many petals?
Answer: Four

Question: Name the German tribe which settled in Britain during the 5-6th centuries, whose name persists in a region of Denmark?
Answer: Jutes

Question: What Buddhist term and title of reverence (typically for a spiritual leader) derives from the Sanskrit words for 'great soul'?
Answer: Mahatma

Question: The genocide of Tutsi people by Hutu militia in 1994 was in which country?
Answer: Rwanda

Question: What portmanteau term refers popularly in recent times to holidaying in a luxurious tent or similar outdoors construction?
Answer: Glamping

Question: What Japanese word meaning 'person born before another' refers to a teacher or master of a subject, for example martial arts?
Answer: Sensei

Question: What on a bird has a calamus, rachis and barbs?
Answer: Feather

Question: The name of what baby creature is given to a stilleto heel design of two inches or less?
Answer: Kitten

Question: University of Portsmouth (UK) psychologists researching the quality of juries determined what to be the optimum number of people for effective debate?
Answer: Four

Question: Explorer, Chrome, Safari and Firefox are among the most globally popular what (in early 2000s)?
Answer: Internet browsers

Question: Who led the Muslim army to victory against the Meccans in the Battle of Badr, 624AD?
Answer: Muhammad

Question: Swiss cheese Emmenthal (or Emmental) takes is name from?
Answer: Its town of origin

Question: Arthroscopy refers to surgery performed on what parts of the human body?
Answer: Joints

Question: Chutzpah is Yiddish slang for?
Answer: Audacity

Question: What Italian term, adopted into English, refers to a mixed language enabling communication between different national groups?
Answer: Lingua Franca

Question: What popular soft drink of the mid 1900s took its name from the Jamaican/Spanish word zarza, a bramble from whose root it was flavoured?
Answer: Sarsaparillia

Question: Associated with tailoring and elegance, what long narrow muscle runs across the front of the thigh, from the hip to the leg below the inside of the knee?
Answer: Sartorius

Question: Talaq is a form of what under Islamic (sharia) law?
Answer: Divorce

Question: Founded in 1853 by London tailor John Emary, what famous raincoat/trenchcoat brand was popularised in the mid-1900s by film stars such as Humphrey Bogart and Sophia Loren?
Answer: Aquascutum

Question: What is the Latin term for a reigning queen, often shown after first name as a formal title?
Answer: Regina

Question: What (degrees measurement) is the third (inner) angle of a triangle if the other two are 25 and 18 degrees?
Answer: 137 degrees

Question: What corporation acquired the major UK-based online retailer, The Book Depository, in 2011?
Answer: Amazon

Question: What is the popular technical term for a speech sound or letter 'articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract'?
Answer: Consonant

Question: What old English portmanteau word is formed from two words meaning 'occur' and 'situation'?
Answer: Happenstance

Question: Dame Evelyn Glennie, who is profoundly deaf, is a world-renowned what?
Answer: Percussionist

Question: What folktale runaway slave character removed a thorn from a lion's paw, which subsequently spared him in the arena, resulting in a pardon from the emperor?
Answer: Androcles

Question: On a conventionally tuned guitar, what chord is made by fretting just the fifth (A) string on its 2nd fret?
Answer: Em7

Question: The Al Jazeera broadcasting organization is owned by and headquartered in what country?
Answer: Qatar

Question: To the nearest 1000 metres, how deep is the ocean floor at its deepest?
Answer: 11,000m

Question: The mineral, diamond, is naturally what crystal shape?
Answer: Cubic

Question: From Greek, meaning generation and knowledge, what word commonly refers to the study of family history?
Answer: Genealogy

Question: Medieval history, or the Middle Ages, loosely covers what centuries?
Answer: 5th-15th

Question: What is two-thirds of three-quarters?
Answer: A half

Question: The New Caledonia archipelago in the south Pacific is a 'special collectivity' territory of which nation?
Answer: France

Question: Flipkart was founded and became a major online retailer, notably of books, in which country?
Answer: India

Question: What communications device was cited particularly by UK authorities as a significant factor in organizing the London riots of August 2011?
Answer: BlackBerry

Question: What is the fruit of the tree technically known as Phoenix Dactylifera?
Answer: Dates

Question: What Irish talkshow host became a popular potential presidential candidate in August 2011?
Answer: Gay Byrne

Question: What Greek word gave us a common suffix referring to disease or illness, and a quality in something which prompts pity or sadness?
Answer: Pathos

Question: Angel, Itatinga, Cuquenan, Ormeli, and Tysse are all what?
Answer: Waterfalls

Question: The FischerSaller scale, used in anthropology and medicine, determines the colour/color shades of what?
Answer: Hair

Question: Under the ABO blood group system, what blood type can receive blood transfusions from all other groups?
Answer: Ab

Question: Unlike base metals and silver, gold does not dissolve in what acid, enabling testing of the metal's presence, incidentally originating the expression 'acid test'?
Answer: Nitric acid

Question: What is the medical word, from Greek meaning 'nasal mucus', for inflammation of the mucous membranes lining the nasal cavity, typically a symptom of a head cold or hay fever?
Answer: Coryza

Question: The MartinSchultz scale is commonly used in physical anthropology to determine the colour/color of what in humans?
Answer: Eyes

Question: How many new states were created when the USSR collapsed in 1991?
Answer: Fifteen

Question: The UK concise 'daily briefing' newspaper produced by the Independent is called by what single lower-case letter?
Answer: i

Question: Name the former News of the World royal correspondent whose 2007 letter, published in 2011, (allegedly) seriously implicated NOTW leadership in the phone hacking scandal and cover-up?
Answer: Clive Goodman

Question: The staging of what enormous annual Afro-Caribbean cultural gathering was put in doubt following the London riots of August 2011?
Answer: Notting Hill Carnival

Question: The nautical expression referring to capsizing is 'turning (what creature)'?
Answer: Turtle

Question: Under the ABO blood group system, what blood type can donate for blood transfusions safely to all other groups?
Answer: O