Question: 2 inches x 1.5 inches (52x37mm) are the dimensions of which paper size?
Answer: A9

Question: Cinnabar, having the symbol HgS, and being highly toxic, is the common ore of which metal?
Answer: Mercury

Question: Southern Distilleries Ltd, the world's most southern distillery, produces Hokonui Moonshine, named after the mountains where the illicit version of the drink first appeared, in which country?
Answer: New Zealand

Question: Founded in the 1930s, what iconic cigarette-lighter brand diversified into other products (notably cologne and clothes) for the first time over 70 years later?
Answer: Zippo

Question: The game 'Spillikins' is commonly known by which other name?
Answer: Jackstraws

Question: Question 17 of the English version of the UK 2011 National Census is blank because it's a?
Answer: Welsh language question only on the Welsh census

Question: The Narcissus plant is otherwise known by which popular name?
Answer: Daffodil

Question: A 'boxcar' is a term for rolling which number on the dice in a game of craps?
Answer: 12

Question: Ganymede is the largest moon of which planet?
Answer: Jupiter

Question: Europe's largest solar power plant is at Sanlucar la Mayor in which country?
Answer: Spain

Question: What UK-based organisation is (at 2011) the world's largest insurance market?
Answer: Lloyds of London

Question: Podagra is the technical term for which medical condition in humans, often associated with heavy drinking?
Answer: Gout

Question: Thomas Seymour married the widow of which monarch in 1547, previously his brother-in-law?
Answer: Henry VIII

Question: A Novocastrian, is a native of which English and Australian cities?
Answer: Newcastle

Question: The Turbine Hall, which hosts artwork of vast scale, is in which London art gallery?
Answer: The Tate Modern

Question: In the Netherlands in 1932 Adriaan Van Well founded which acronymic international grocery chain business, represented by a fir-tree logo?
Answer: Spar

Question: What type of creature is a Storm-petrel?
Answer: Bird

Question: What is both an ancient twisted metal necklace and a force causing rotation?
Answer: Torque

Question: In the children's stories of Thomas the Tank Engine, what is the name of the Fat Controller?
Answer: Sir Topham Hatt

Question: Ganesh, Murugan and their father Shiva feature in which religion?
Answer: Hindu

Question: Which international statesman was voted 'Left-Hander of the Year' in 2008 by the Left-Handers Club?
Answer: Barack Obama

Question: Dating back to 1801, what is the more common name for a circle graph, said to be the most commonly used graph in business and media?
Answer: Pie Chart

Question: Who wrote the poems If, Gunga Din, Mandalay, and The Female of the Species?
Answer: Rudyard Kipling

Question: Where mega means a million (106) what commonly used prefix means a millionth (10-6)?
Answer: Micro

Question: The Bodleian Library is part of which highly regarded universtity?
Answer: Oxford

Question: The so-called 'spade hacker' - a 75 year-old Georgian woman digging for copper scrap - accidentally cut off the internet connection for five hours in April 2011 for the entire 3.2m population of which bordering nation?
Answer: Armenia

Question: Kebero, tabor, bodhran and cajon (pronounced cahon) are types of which musical instruments?
Answer: Drums

Question: Porifera, meaning 'pore bearer' is a marine life form better known by what name, now strongly associated with its traditional human use?
Answer: Sponge

Question: In which country is the Vatnajokull Glacier, covering 8% of its land, and the largest ice cap by volume in Europe?
Answer: Iceland

Question: Which professional undertaking begins with the words "I swear by Apollo..."?
Answer: Hippocratic Oath

Question: When an orchestra tunes up before playing, what instrument conventionally provides the initial 'A' guide note?
Answer: Oboe

Question: The Roscher System and the Henry Classification System are used by the police for what?
Answer: Fingerprinting

Question: Alt, Bock, Dunkel and Helles are German varieties of what?
Answer: Beer

Question: The Marble Mountains (locally, Ngu Hành Son) are five marble/limestone hills, Kim, Thuy, Moc, Hoa and Tho, in which country?
Answer: Vietnam

Question: The communist government of which country was overthrown during the Velvet Revolution in 1989?
Answer: Czechoslovakia

Question: On what form of transport would you find a pelorus, said to be named after Hannibal's pilot, c.200BC?
Answer: Ship

Question: Which famous movie car was made from the chassis of two 1968 Chevrolet Impalas and a Chevy V8 engine?
Answer: Batmobile

Question: What is a traditional fastener which prevents a wheel from coming off its axle, and refers metaphorically to a crucial person or part?
Answer: Linchpin

Question: Native to Mediterranean countries the ground beans and pod of the carob tree/shrub are used as a substitute for what?
Answer: Chocolate

Question: Which river flows over the Victoria Falls?
Answer: Zambezi

Question: Name the pop star, the football club and its businessman-owner, linked by an unpopular statue unveiled in 2011 at the Craven Cottage stadium in London?
Answer: Michael Jackson, Fulham FC, Mohamed Al Fayed

Question: How tall is the Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai (at Apr 2011 the tallest building in the world)?
Answer: 828m

Question: Dr Harry Coover and Fred Joyner accidentally discovered what popular and generically named adhesive while working for Eastman Kodak on a gunsight project in the mid-1900s?
Answer: Super Glue

Question: The pungent essential oil eugenol comprises about 70-90% of the oil from which spice?
Answer: Cloves

Question: Which Tropic divides Mexico into temperate and tropical zones?
Answer: Tropic of Cancer

Question: Which month was named after the Roman god of war?
Answer: March

Question: Paques is the French term for which religious festival?
Answer: Easter

Question: Traditionally, oysters should be eaten when which letter of the alphabet is in the month?
Answer: R

Question: Cryptozoology is the study of which type of creatures?
Answer: Mythical

Question: Which playing card is known as the 'Beer Card?
Answer: Seven of Diamonds

Question: Which vegetable has the Latin name Allium Cepa?
Answer: Onion

Question: Charmeuse, Noil and Shantung are all types of which fabric?
Answer: Silk

Question: Deriving from, and in part meaning small, what is the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet?
Answer: Omicron

Question: If something is piscivorous, what does it generally feed on?
Answer: Fish

Question: Previously deemed too dangerous, what Winter Olympics event will be open to women for the first time in the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi?
Answer: Ski jumping

Question: Which is the only country in Southeast Asia never to have been colonized by a European power?
Answer: Thailand

Question: Abidjan is the former capital and a major battleground of what civil-war-torn nation in 2011?
Answer: Ivory Coast

Question: In relation to spiritual diety Pachamama, in 2011 Bolivia announced an new unusual Law of what?
Answer: Mother Earth

Question: What UK event did protest group Animal Aid describe in 2011 as 'straightforward animal abuse on a par with Spanish Bullfighting'?
Answer: The Grand National

Question: 2011 is how many years' anniversary of the start of (what is conventionally referred to as) the US Civil War?
Answer: 150

Question: In conventional chessboard layout denotion, where the white castle (rook) starts on square a1, what piece occupies e8?
Answer: Black King

Question: 'Moon starer' is a fitting anagram of what specialised profession?
Answer: Astronomer

Question: (Approximately) how much does a cubic foot of gold weigh?
Answer: 1200lbs

Question: Little Willie and Big Willie were nicknames for the first and second models of what British WWI armament?
Answer: Tank