Question: In needlework, what is the technique in which pieces of fabric are attached to another piece of material for decoration?
Answer: Applique

Question: What is the croup of an animal, such as a horse?
Answer: Rump

Question: A sestercentenary is an anniversary of how many years?
Answer: 250

Question: A caryatid is a supporting column or pillar of a building carved in the shape of what?
Answer: Woman

Question: Name the Italian-born American film producer (of Death Wish, Barbarella, and Hannibal) who died in November 2010 age 91?
Answer: Dino De Laurentis

Question: What island nation suffered a serious cholera outbreak in late 2010, partly as a consequence of a major earthquake in January the same year?
Answer: Haiti

Question: The UK Conservative Party HQ in London, trashed during student protests in November 2010, is known by its address of 30 'what' ?
Answer: Millbank

Question: Greenland is a self-governing territory of which country?
Answer: Denmark

Question: What high-tech manufacturing corporation agreed to buy the security software company McAfee for $7.7bn in summer 2010?
Answer: Intel

Question: In government figures released in 2010, how many terrorism arrests resulted from the 101,248 stop-and-searches under UK counter-terrorism powers in 2009?
Answer: None

Question: What African country, south of Libya, west of Sudan, and east of Niger, has the capital N'Djamena?
Answer: Chad

Question: What ancient World Heritage site in Italy collapsed in November 2010?
Answer: Pompeii's House of The Gladiators

Question: What music and dance style takes its name from an elegant bird and the healthy colour and provocative appearance of the early gypsy artists who popularised it.
Answer: Flamenco

Question: Name the German manufacturer of 2nd World War fighter planes which pioneered the micro car?
Answer: Messerschmitt

Question: Sony announced in 2010 what iconic device would cease to be made after April 2011?
Answer: The Walkman

Question: What musical instrument is financier and mogul Warren Buffett associated with, notably because of his performances to shareholders?
Answer: Ukulele

Question: What is the fruit of the blackthorn tree?
Answer: Sloe

Question: An updated version of what popular game now requires batteries, plays music, uses plastic debit cards instead of paper money, and is round not square?
Answer: Monopoly

Question: The Cathedral of Saint Mary, at one time the largest church in the world, and burial place of Christopher Columbus, is in which city, by whose name it is better known?
Answer: Seville

Question: Name the champion bantamweight English boxer from Merseyside who died in 2010 age 68?
Answer: Alan Rudkin

Question: The UK Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs reported in November 2010 that what was the most dangerous drug (based on a complex study across nine categories of harmful effects)?
Answer: Alcohol

Question: Whose memoir 'Decision Points' was published in late 2010?
Answer: George W Bush

Question: Where the meaning is 'the toys belonging to the children', which is the correct way to write the phrase?
Answer: The children's toys

Question: Name the popular illegal filesharing website found liable for copyright breach by a New York court in October 2010?
Answer: Limewire

Question: Hallus valgus is the medical term for what common condition?
Answer: Bunions

Question: Approximately what was the price of a good quality full-size colour television in the late 1960s, when first available in the UK?
Answer: £300

Question: What is/was the Emperor of Exmoor, subject of much debate and news coverage about being the largest beast living wild in the UK, and whether it had actually been shot dead or not in late 2010?
Answer: Stag

Question: Name the (supposedly) world's most advanced submarine which ran aground off the Isle of Skye in October 2010?
Answer: HMS Astute

Question: In anatomy, the dorsum is better known as which part of the body?
Answer: Back

Question: In 1947, who was the first person to break the sound barrier?
Answer: Chuck Yeager

Question: Meaning 'heavenly woman', from the Greek word after which an element and planet are named, who was the Greek muse of astronomy?
Answer: Urania

Question: What type of creature is a noctule?
Answer: Bat

Question: What colour is the flower of the milk thistle?
Answer: Purple

Question: The twisted tusk of which sea creature is said to protrude from a unicorns head?
Answer: Narwhal

Question: The city of Astrakhan lies on which river?
Answer: River Volga

Question: Which US president, known commonly by his initials, was born in Stonewall, Texas in 1908?
Answer: Lyndon B Johnson

Question: Actor and comedian, and half of a famous double-act, Arthur Stanley Jefferson was better known by which name?
Answer: Stan Laurel

Question: Which European airport has the code name LHR?
Answer: London Heathrow

Question: English novelist Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson was better known by what name?
Answer: Mrs Gaskell

Question: The laxative Gregory's Powder was made from which leafy plant?
Answer: Rhubarb

Question: The bummalo fish is better known by what name?
Answer: Bombay Duck

Question: David Beckham was shown a red card during England's game against which national team during the 1998 FIFA World Cup?
Answer: Argentina

Question: What is the medieval from of chemistry concerned with attempting to change base metals into gold?
Answer: Alchemy

Question: What is the device in a car which mixes petrol with air in correct proportions before it enters the engine?
Answer: Carburettor

Question: Referring to a mountain range, derived from the Spanish word for saw, what word represents the letter 'S' in the NATO phonetic alphabet?
Answer: Sierra

Question: What is the basic monetary unit of Australia?
Answer: Australian Dollar

Question: The Dettifoss Waterfalls are in which country?
Answer: Iceland

Question: Which city, whose name means 'fortification at Eidyn', was the first to host the Commonwealth Games twice?
Answer: Edinburgh

Question: Valletta is the capital of which European country?
Answer: Malta

Question: In the game of Scrabble, how many points is a 'V' tile worth?
Answer: Four

Question: In the Bible's Old Testament Book of Proverbs, what is stated to be more precious than rubies, better than silver and gold, and "...all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her..."?
Answer: Wisdom

Question: What is the process in which hair and small blemishes are removed from the body by the application of heat using electric current?
Answer: Electrolysis

Question: What is the edible sea snail of the genus Haliotis, which has an ear-shaped shell with a pearly interior?
Answer: Abalone

Question: The fundamental philosophical and devotional epic stories Mahabharata and Ramayana originated in Sanskrit in which ancient country?
Answer: India

Question: What was the tribe of ancient Britons of Eastern England whose queen was Boudica (Boadicea)?
Answer: Iceni

Question: What is the capital of Ghana?
Answer: Accra

Question: What is the African antelope whose male of the species have lyre-shaped horns?
Answer: Impala

Question: What is the code of silence which prohibits speaking about, or divulging information about, criminal activities, used by the Mafia?
Answer: Omerta

Question: What is a bottomless pit or chasm, a very deep gorge, or a reference to something unfathomable and usually threatening or chaotic, such as hell?
Answer: Abyss

Question: What is a three-dimensional figure with eight plane faces?
Answer: Octohedron

Question: What is the flat round cake made from flaky pastry and filled with currants, named after a town in Greater Manchester, England?
Answer: Eccles

Question: What is the inner and larger of the two bones in the human forearm?
Answer: Ulna

Question: What food has the varieties Elstar, Almata and Cortland?
Answer: Apple