Question: The major UK, US and Canada organizations abbreviated to NFU represent which industry?
Answer: Farming

Question: What nation borders with the south of Syria and the west of Iraq?
Answer: Jordan

Question: What Mexican Spanish dish means literally 'little strips'?
Answer: Fajitas

Question: The shortest Greenland-to-Iceland sea-crossing is about how many miles?
Answer: 180

Question: What Mr Men character is orange with ridiculously long arms and a blue hat?
Answer: Mr Tickle

Question: What notable ex-politician became the first female member of USA's Augusta golf club in 2012?
Answer: Condoleeza Rice

Question: What, meaning 'gentle way', did Jigoro Kano create in Japan in 1882?
Answer: Judo

Question: What does a lux meter measure?
Answer: Illuminance

Question: Prior to Apple becoming the most valuable company in the world in 2012 (at $619bn) what corporation had held the record since 1999?
Answer: Microsoft

Question: Used in the beauty industry, what is the most abundant protein in mammals, mainly found in flesh and connective tissues of vertebrates?
Answer: Collagen

Question: What weapon was named by Finnish people after the Soviet foreign minister responsible for the partition of Finland during the Winter War between the two nations 1939-40?
Answer: Molotov Cocktail

Question: Heuristic refers to learning or processes entailing?
Answer: Self-discovery/trial and error

Question: What large and complex nation contains varying geographical/ethnic/political regions called 'krais', 'oblasts', 'okrugs' and 'republics'?
Answer: Russia

Question: What famous toy has been produced with special versions including (Hitchcock's) The Birds, Poop Scoop, Pregnant, Wheelchair, Star Trek, and Bald?
Answer: Barbie

Question: The disgraced fraudulent head of failed monster corporation Polly Peck, Asil Nadir, fled to what country in 1993?
Answer: Cyprus

Question: What is the three-horse-abreast sleigh traditionally seen as an icon of Russia, and derived from this a technical term for a three-member panel or leadership?
Answer: Troika

Question: What word, equating to check, is given to the amplified sound system for performers at a concert venue?
Answer: Monitor

Question: What is Europe's largest island?
Answer: Great Britain

Question: What item very commonly worn by people has a hoop, shoulder, mounting and bezel?
Answer: Ring

Question: Name the widely referenced Hindu god and eighth incarnation of Vishnu, from Sankrit meaning 'black'?
Answer: Krishna

Question: Name the Spanish coastal region containing the city of Málaga, and towns including Torremolinos, Benalmádena, Fuengirola, and Marbella?
Answer: Costa del Sol

Question: What musical instrument generally having 17-23 strings derives its name from Persian meaning 'three strings'?
Answer: Sitar

Question: From what country does the word 'chutney' derive?
Answer: India

Question: A cicatrix on the skin is more commonly called a what?
Answer: Scar

Question: Internet corporation Yahoo profited by $4.3bn in 2012 when it sold half its 40% stake in what vast Chinese web company?
Answer: Alibaba

Question: Until London's New College of the Humanities opened in 2012, in what county town, since 1983, was the UK's only private university?
Answer: Buckingham

Question: Swiss Peter Sauber established his eponymous brand in what sport in 1993?
Answer: Formula One

Question: In India a kirana is a what?
Answer: Shop

Question: In old UK/US capacity measures how many pecks are in a bushel?
Answer: Four

Question: The word sentient refers to what characteristic?
Answer: Feeling/perceiving

Question: For which art-form did Roman Vitruvius define the three principles of 'firmitas, utilitas, venustas' in the 1st century AD?
Answer: Architecture

Question: What is the primary language spoken in Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan?
Answer: Russian

Question: In Spain, El Gordo is a?
Answer: National lottery

Question: The term 'art house' most widely refers to a genre of?
Answer: Cinema film

Question: Berlin, Boston, Chicago, London, and New York City have since 2006 hosted five annual championship 'majors' of what sporting event?
Answer: Marathon

Question: A geis (plural geasa) is a curse or taboo in which national mythology/language?
Answer: Irish

Question: Mount Danxia, the World Heritage Site containing spectacular red-striped sandstone landscape, including two bizarrely realistic (male and female) phallic rock formations, is in which country?
Answer: China

Question: George Entwistle became director general of which global corporation in Sept 2012?
Answer: Bbc

Question: The preparation of what entails scoring (or slashing or docking) it with a 'lame' (pronounced 'lahm') before baking?
Answer: Bread

Question: Hyponatremia/hyponatraemia is a problematical reduction of what in human blood serum?
Answer: Sodium

Question: What famous toys and games brand (founded London 1760) did French corporation Groupe Ludendo buy for £60m in 2012?
Answer: Hamleys

Question: What word/symbol appears at the 12 o'clock position on the traditional ipod click wheel?
Answer: Menu

Question: Manolete, Belmonte, Gallito and Tomas are famous names from what discipline?
Answer: Bullfighting

Question: Named from Spanish, 'Land of Fire', what archipelago is the closest land mass to the Antarctic Penninsular?
Answer: Tierra del Fuego

Question: What meat jelly dish is named from a French snakelike association?
Answer: Aspic

Question: Name the Russian feminist rock-protest group, three of whom were jailed for two years in 2012 for performing an anti-state song in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour?
Answer: Pussy Riot

Question: What SI unit (International System of Units) of measurement is defined as "The amount of substance that contains an equal number of elementary entities as there are atoms in 0.012kg of the isotope carbon-12"?
Answer: Mole

Question: New York artist Vincent Castiglia is noted for painting with what unconventional substance?
Answer: Blood

Question: What natural foodstuff in Alsace, France, became unnaturally blue and green in 2012, apparently due to a nearby M&Ms factory?
Answer: Honey

Question: Skip James, Willie Dixon, Robert Johnson and Son House are early exponents of?
Answer: Blues music

Question: Traditionally the number of cuff buttons on a western-style man's jacket/blazer are determined by?
Answer: Formality

Question: What global retailer is associated with the late 1990s slogan "Chuck out your chintz"?
Answer: Ikea

Question: What company/brand has been the most frequent official timekeeper of Olympic games in the 1900s and early 2000s?
Answer: Omega

Question: Scientists announced in 2012 that more than 1,000 of what creatures (formica lugubris) had been fitted with tiny radio transmitters to study the species?
Answer: Ants

Question: In writing or speech the Latin term 'non sequitur' means 'It does not (what?)'?
Answer: Follow

Question: What global brand withdrew ('rested') its old red-jacketed striding man 104 years after its first appearance in 1908?
Answer: Johnnie Walker

Question: What word from French is a small maneuverable warship and iconic Chevrolet sports car?
Answer: Corvette

Question: Hallertauer, Saaz, Cascade, and East Kent Goldings are varieties of what alcoholic drink ingredient?
Answer: Hops

Question: What element did Marie Curie name after her native land?
Answer: Polonium

Question: A phlebotomist historically used what creature as a tool of the trade?
Answer: Leech

Question: A sophomore is typically a student in which year of university?
Answer: Second

Question: The Starbucks coffee corporation took its name from what classic novel?
Answer: Moby Dick

Question: The French commune town Laguiole in south-central Midi-Pyrénées region of France is known for what eponymously named tool?
Answer: Knife

Question: Google's prior name while under development was 'Back(what?)'?
Answer: Rub