Question: What English uprising ended with the death of one its leaders Wat Tyler in June 1381?
Answer: The Peasants' Revolt

Question: Which corporation operates the $multi-billion two-sided advertising service branded AdSense and AdWords?
Answer: Google

Question: Psychological tests which invite responses to vague stimuli ('random' words, images, etc) and whose answers are analysed expertly are called?
Answer: Projective

Question: Psychological tests which ask standardized questions, whose answers are assessed according to fixed measures are called?
Answer: Objective

Question: In proofreading what amendment does the mark 'NP' instruct?
Answer: New Paragraph

Question: Al Jazeera means 'The (What?)'?
Answer: Island

Question: Chatsworth House gardener, engineer and greenhouse expert, Joseph Paxton, created which iconic 1851 London building?
Answer: Crystal Palace

Question: What was a originally an ancient Greek post-banquet drinking party, and nowadays refers to a researchers/academic conference?
Answer: Symposium

Question: Runway selection for aircraft take-off and landing is generally?
Answer: Into headwind

Question: Brahmanism is an ancient formative religion of?
Answer: Hinduism

Question: Which punningly alliteratively named professor drove the No3 Convert-a-Car in Wacky Races?
Answer: Pat Pending

Question: What Anglicized Italian term from Latin 'not known' refers to a person's having a concealed or false identity?
Answer: Incognito

Question: In 1849 US mechanic Walter Hunt patented what multi-billion-selling and punk rock device?
Answer: Safety pin

Question: Which multi-award-winning 1982s movie is considered to have included the biggest ever crowd of extras?
Answer: Gandhi

Question: What potent plant is called technically Papaver somniferum?
Answer: Opium poppy

Question: Burlap is an old material traditionally used in making?
Answer: Sacks

Question: What community-support focused branch of Christianity grew from the work of brothers John and Charles Wesley and George Whitefield?
Answer: Methodism

Question: In 2014 the EU introduced a maximum 1600watt power rating for?
Answer: Vacuum cleaners

Question: The fin whale, second largest animal after the blue whale, excretes approximately how many litres per day?
Answer: 1,000

Question: The old English profession 'cofferer', typically employed in a royal household, equates nowadays to a?
Answer: Accountant

Question: Viticulture refers to the cultivation of what fruit?
Answer: Grapes

Question: What ancient seminal Palestinian city is 'house of meat' in Arabic, and 'house of bread' in Hebrew?
Answer: Bethlehem

Question: 'Die Adler', nickname of the German national soccer team, means 'The (What)'?
Answer: Eagles

Question: 'Pole', meaning leading contender, in 'pole-position', originally referred to?
Answer: A wooden pole at the start of a horse race

Question: What rum-based cocktail is named from Spanish 'little wet thing'?
Answer: Mojito

Question: In the the expression 'whet your appetite', the old word 'whet' technically means?
Answer: Sharpen

Question: In Australian slang, someone called a 'mollydooker' is a?
Answer: Left-handed

Question: During the 1900s, Olivetti, Olympia, Underwood, Smith Corona, and Remington were famous makers of?
Answer: Typewriters

Question: Bosintang/Boshintang (or Gaejangguk) is a Korean soup of declining popularity made chiefly of what meat?
Answer: Dog

Question: Anopheles and Aedes, which indirectly kill millions of people every year, are what?
Answer: Mosquitos

Question: What central European bread supposedly originated in monasteries and represents praying hands?
Answer: Pretzel

Question: The hull of a seed is its?
Answer: Shell

Question: The Glycaemic Index (GI) refers to?
Answer: Food

Question: Petite Borgeoisie is an Anglicized French term referring to what traditional notion of social demographics class?
Answer: Lower Middle Class

Question: What medieval term for a knights' equestrian tournament is also a fairground ride and an airport mechanism?
Answer: Carousel

Question: Which German rye bread is named, according to many reliable sources, from the original meaning 'Devil's fart'?
Answer: Pumpernickel

Question: What refers to social service focused on an individual's situation/background, and also to certain furniture, especially ornate cabinets?
Answer: Casework

Question: What term refers to a fashion/lifestyle/music genre, and wood that is light and flaky due to rot or fungal attack?
Answer: Punk

Question: What technical Anglicized French word for a rank or level is from French for ladder?
Answer: Echelon

Question: Related to voting/headcount, what technical term refers to the removal of a tree's top branches, usually to encourage new growth?
Answer: Pollard/Pollarding

Question: Dart, mushroom, grain, notions, and piping are terms used in what handicraft?
Answer: Sewing

Question: A nuclear reactor which produces more 'fissile' material (i.e., which sustains a chain reaction) than it consumes in fuel is known by what sexual term?
Answer: Breeder

Question: Haslet is a traditional (mostly UK) inexpensive chopped, pressed and cooked cold loaf of?
Answer: Offal

Question: In rugby union, how many yards position is a team penalized for arguing with a referee's decision?
Answer: 10

Question: In 2014 German coastal authorities reportedly introduced various bans and dimensional limits of max 4m x 0.5m for beach?
Answer: Sand castles

Question: What typically pluralized instrument is named from Spanish 'chestnut'?
Answer: Castanets

Question: Name the vast Telefónica S.A. Spanish/Latin-American mobile phone corporation, whose name alludes to cinematic celebrity?
Answer: Movistar

Question: In 2010 which famous pedestrian 'zebra' crossing was the first to be given UK Heritage listed status, normally only given to buildings and monuments?
Answer: Abbey Road

Question: The latin term 'mutatis mutandis' is used when doing what to two basically similar things?
Answer: Comparing

Question: In a musical work the term 'coda' refers to its?
Answer: Ending

Question: The cobalt salts of aluminium/aluminum oxide produce what colour/color in ceramics, glass, etc., notably ancient Chinese porcelain?
Answer: Blue

Question: A solenoid, featured in electromagnetic valves and switches of that name, is a?
Answer: Helix

Question: The word/brand 'Ritz' was originally a?
Answer: Hotelier

Question: Henry Poor's 1800s railroad manuals and Luther Blake's Standard Statistics Bureau of non-railroad corporate information merged in 1941 to become what famous two-letter US financial services/index brand?
Answer: S&P

Question: Who painted The Starry Night, Sorrowing Old Man and Self-Portrait Without Beard?
Answer: Vincent Van Gogh

Question: A single significant obstacle is figuratively called 'The Fly in the...'?
Answer: Ointment

Question: An oophorectomy is the removal of one or both of a woman's what?
Answer: Ovaries

Question: To what very common consumer items do the IEC codes R6 and R03 and equivalent ANSI codes AA and AAA refer?
Answer: Batteries

Question: The significant Irish minister Ian Paisley, who died in 2014, was a?
Answer: Protestant

Question: Name the record-breaking $0.5bn development-cost computer game launched to massive publicity in 2014?
Answer: Destiny

Question: A full moon which coincides with its closest proximity to Earth is called a '(What?) moon'?
Answer: Harvest

Question: A mollymawk is an Australian/NZ word for what creature, strongly linked with maritime superstition?
Answer: Albatross

Question: What silver-grey/gray metallic element used in high strength steels has the symbol Mo?
Answer: Molybdenum

Question: Macular refers to which sensory organ?
Answer: Eye

Question: The medieval occupation and derived surname Scullion referred to a basic worker in a?
Answer: Kitchen

Question: The prefix 'meso' usually means?
Answer: Middle

Question: 'Forage' refers to crops that are?
Answer: Animal feed