Question: What pop-culture slang expression of impressiveness derives from the military term 'Standard Regimental Concentration' for a focused heavy bombardment?
Answer: Stonking

Question: What word prefixes business, room, case, and down to produce four other words?
Answer: Show

Question: What was salvaged from HMS Lutine after it sank in 1799 and is still used on the main underwriting floor at Lloyd's of London? Compass; Captain's desk; Bell; or Globe?
Answer: Bell

Question: The ancient Roman silver coin called fully/originally 'denarius nummus' meant and equated to a 'Coin containing [worth] ten (what?)'?
Answer: Asses

Question: The French-English word billet-doux refers to a?
Answer: Love letter

Question: The standard international maritime/aeronautical term 'SOB' for the number of people aboard a ship a plane means what in full?
Answer: Souls On Board

Question: What interesting old English word refers typically to a person's pale complexion but in origin and other contexts may also mean dark?
Answer: Wan

Question: What time-related term was given to the American Patriot 'rapid response' militia forces assembled before and active during the American Revolutionary War of 1775-83?
Answer: Minutemen

Question: Bob, bowl, bun, chignon, and tonsure are types of what?
Answer: Hairstyle

Question: Clio, typically holding a scroll, is the ancient Greek muse of?
Answer: History

Question: Which one of these factors enables the superheating of water to more than 100oC?
Answer: The receptacle inner surface is extremely smooth

Question: What, resembling a tomato and pepper hybrid, is the edible fruit produced by Diospyros trees, source of ebony wood?
Answer: Persimmon

Question: What physics term, a metaphor for meaningfulness, is the tendency of something to oscillate (with greater amplitude at some frequencies than at others)?
Answer: Resonance

Question: The moral code, 'Treat others as you like to be treated', is known as the 'Ethic of (What)' - a principle of exchange for mutual effect/benefit, and word used variously in science and mathematics?
Answer: Reciprocity

Question: The pseudo-Latin expression 'hax pax max Deus adimax' used in conjuring from the 1600s developed into what modern term referring to 'kidology' or nonsensical explanation?
Answer: Hocus-pocus

Question: Who famously became leader of the vast and powerful US Teamsters trade union in 1957, imprisoned in 1967, missing in 1975, and declared dead in 1982?
Answer: Jimmy Hoffa

Question: What river in SW Europe rises in the Swiss Alps and flows over 500 miles through Lake Geneva, Lyons, to the Mediterranean west of Marseilles?
Answer: Rhône

Question: Government legislation (EU, US, British 'Commonwealth' nations) is typically introduced via two 'paper' documents for discussion/explanation, respectively?
Answer: Green/White

Question: The 'bacronym' (a reverse acronym) 'Query Newlyn Harbour' is used as a mnemonic in what field?
Answer: Aviation

Question: The main purpose of a bowline knot is to produce a?
Answer: Loop

Question: Who, founder of the Mongol Empire, was the grandfather of the Mongol leader Kublai Khan (1215-94)?
Answer: Ghengis Khan

Question: Which people originated the game lacrosse? Dutch; Scottish; Native Americans; or Chinese?
Answer: Native American

Question: What name for a type of railings/fence originally referred to a defensive line of wooden stakes sharpened and angled into the ground?
Answer: Palisade

Question: The North Atlantic Drift ocean current over NW Europe starts as what at the US Florida Strait?
Answer: Gulf Stream

Question: Cassia refers to variants of which spice?
Answer: Cinnamon

Question: Chordata, Echinodermata, Anthropoda, and Anelida are four phyla (subgroups) of?
Answer: Animals

Question: What gambling game is also a term for a perforating tool/process, e.g., to sheets of postage stamps?
Answer: Roulette

Question: Serpula lacrymans is the technical name for what affliction of wood, notably in buildings?
Answer: Dry rot

Question: Someone whose occupation is a gillie (or ghillie) works where?
Answer: Scottish Highlands

Question: What two-faced Roman god of beginnings and transitions is a name for a word which has two opposite meanings, and the derivation of the first month of the year?
Answer: Janus

Question: What is the common name for the northern hemisphere tree genus Betula, having catkins, winged nuts, and bark that peels in strips?
Answer: Birch

Question: What capital city lies at the coordinates 53 20N 6 15W?
Answer: Dublin

Question: Name the prehistoric 'humanoid species' found near Lewes UK 1912 and shown to be a hoax in 1953?
Answer: Piltdown Man

Question: What South Honshu city in Japan, associated with international climate change agreement, was its nation's capital 794-1192?
Answer: Kyoto

Question: Kingda Ka, Takabisha, X2, Steel Dragon 2000, and Millennium Force are famous what?
Answer: Roller-coasters

Question: What original 1960s surfer's slang expression of thrill or delight was popularized by the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles children's cartoon?
Answer: Cowabunga

Question: Atoms of the same elements with the same number of protons and electrons, but different numbers of neutrons, are called what?
Answer: Isotopes

Question: The Arab food falafal is commonly made from?
Answer: Chickpeas

Question: Whose book reportedly kept eleven translators in high-security for two months before global publication in 2013?
Answer: Dan Brown

Question: Which famous English brewer of ale, established in 1787 next to London's Tower Bridge, has a cockerel as its emblem?
Answer: Courage

Question: What cooking metaphor refers to a low quality novel?
Answer: Potboiler

Question: Which children's TV animated character, named 'Pollux' in the original French version, is based on a 'drop-eared Skye terrier'?
Answer: Dougal

Question: A radionuclide is a radioactive?
Answer: Isotope

Question: ASCII (referring to computer language) means what in full?
Answer: American Standard Code for Information Interchange

Question: Popularized by a 2007 US comedy film what item prefixes a list of things to do before dying?
Answer: Bucket

Question: A traditional light-bulb containing a glowing filament is technically called what, from the Latin 'glow white'?
Answer: Incandescent

Question: What colour/color flag was historically first displayed to indicate sickness aboard a ship?
Answer: Yellow

Question: Central to Norse mythology, Yggdrasil is a huge what, connected to the cosmos?
Answer: Tree

Question: The Indian currency the Rupee takes its name from Hindi and Sanskrit, 'wrought (what metal)'?
Answer: Silver

Question: The significant 18th century Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707-83) is noted for solving the 'Seven (What?) of Königsberg problem'?
Answer: Bridges

Question: What pluralized term refers to a building's roof edge adjoining its wall, usually designed to prevent rainwater ingress?
Answer: Eaves

Question: The green gemstone peridot is known in its mineral form by what edible coloured/colored name?
Answer: Olivine

Question: What term for a fungal mold derives from an old mistaken idea that it distilled from the air?
Answer: Mildew

Question: What word prefixes the words ball, board, code, core and hearted to make five new words/terms?
Answer: Hard

Question: Approximately how many gallons of blood is pumped by the average 'at rest' human heart per day?
Answer: 2,000

Question: In which decade was Mount Everest first climbed?
Answer: 1950s

Question: What is the English translation of the German carmaker's name Volkswagen?
Answer: People's car

Question: Erich Kästner's famous 1929 children's novel set in Berlin is called 'Emil and the (What?')?
Answer: Detectives

Question: Batwing, Corkscrew, Hammerhead turn, Heartline roll, Horseshoe and Immelmann are elements of what form of entertainment?
Answer: Roller-coasters