Question: Which vast UK banking corporation suffered major computer failure during June 2012, impacting the cashflow of millions of customers and businesses, and exposing the company to tens of millions of pounds compensation liabilities?
Answer: Rbs

Question: A dilettante refers to what sort of person in relation to a subject?
Answer: Enthusiastic amateur

Question: Name the three colours of Norway's flag, in order of its background, cross, and cross outline?
Answer: Red, Blue, White

Question: In the Christian Church of England, the title 'The Very Reverend' usually suggests what job title, also called a 'cathedral provost'?
Answer: Dean

Question: The Millau Viaduct over the river Tarn valley near Millau in southern France holds what global bridge record (at 2012) ?
Answer: Tallest

Question: The (commonly Greek/Turkish) foodstuff tzatziki (or tzadziki) comprises chiefly what two ingredients?
Answer: Yoghurt and cucumber

Question: The conium plant genus is better known as what poison?
Answer: Hemlock

Question: The French word 'peloton' usually refers to a bunched group of competitors in what sport?
Answer: Cycling

Question: As at 2012 Nisiyama Onsen Keiunkan, a hot spring hotel in Hayakawa, Yamanashi, Japan, is officially regarded as being what world-record-holding business?
Answer: Oldest

Question: What word in technical statistics refers to a quarterly division, and in business and other disciplines to a quarterly part?
Answer: Quartile

Question: What Shakespeare play features the line, "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers..."?
Answer: Henry V

Question: Racerback, Balconette, Bandeau, and Shelf are types of what?
Answer: Bra

Question: Diverticulitis is a common disease of what human system?
Answer: Digestive

Question: According to Encyclopedia Britannica 2012, a skyscraper is very loosely defined as having at least how many storeys/stories?
Answer: 40

Question: The Latin term 'intra muros' means?
Answer: Not public

Question: The Henri Delaunay trophy is awarded in which sport?
Answer: Association Football

Question: What Latin word for 'straight' gave its name to a part of the human body?
Answer: Rectum

Question: What north-eastern state of India (at 2012) accounts for more than 50% of the nation's tea production, and is said to be the world's biggest tea-growing region?
Answer: Assam

Question: What was the first chartered corporation of the US?
Answer: Harvard University

Question: Where in the human body is the sacrum bone?
Answer: Pelvis

Question: Pangaea, Laurasia and Gondwana are?
Answer: Supercontinents

Question: The metric prefix nano means 10 to the power of?
Answer: -9

Question: In what language do the words 'beminnen', 'ja', and 'zon', mean 'love', 'yes', and 'sun'?
Answer: Dutch

Question: Pinniped refers to a mammal with feet which are what?
Answer: Fins

Question: What country's 1931 flood is considered to be the most fatal of all 1900s natural disasters?
Answer: China

Question: Sociedad Española de Automóviles de Turismo is better known by what brand name?
Answer: Seat

Question: Papules and pustules are types of what on the human skin?
Answer: Spots

Question: The Berber ethnic people come from?
Answer: North Africa

Question: The industrial Wohlwill and Miller processes are different ways to refine what commodity to near-100% purity?
Answer: Gold

Question: What unit of enormous distance has the symbol pc and equates to about 3.26 light-years or 19.2 trillion miles?
Answer: Parsec

Question: From the words well and live, what French term is used in English to mean a high-living socialite?
Answer: Bon vivant

Question: The traditional curly twisted Chinese tea (Camellia sinensis) produced by drying in the sun is called?
Answer: Oolong

Question: What note is played on a guitar at the fifth fret of the first (highest pitch) string (conventional six-string guitar with standard tuning)?
Answer: A

Question: Mydriasis normally is the widening of a what?
Answer: Pupil

Question: 'Traduce' means to do what to someone?
Answer: Damage reputation

Question: The slang (now considered offensive) term Hottentot once referred to people of which region?
Answer: SW Africa

Question: The capital of which US state is named after prospector (and discoverer of local gold in 1880) Joseph Juneau?
Answer: Alaska

Question: Which Frenchman composed Clair de lune, the famous third movement of Suite bergamasque?
Answer: Claude Debussy

Question: A narrative/statement/question used in testing/developing student capability in Zen Buddhism is a?
Answer: Koan

Question: A myringotomy is an incision in what part of the human body?
Answer: Eardrum

Question: Rosneftegaz and Gazprom are vast energy corporations of which nation?
Answer: Russia

Question: Petite Sirah, Tempranillo, Vespolina, and Gamay are varieties of what?
Answer: Grapes

Question: Gatka, Mardani khel, Musti yuddha, and Silambam are?
Answer: Indian martial arts

Question: What Japanese family name (and famous guitar company) means 'high ridge' or 'high peak'?
Answer: Takamine

Question: Extragalactic refers to beyond the?
Answer: Milky Way

Question: What single unit of measurement equates to 1.06×10-13 light-years?
Answer: One Kilometre

Question: In a block and tackle lifting system, what is a sheave? Pulley; Rope; Hook; or Brake?
Answer: Pulley

Question: What creatures are T S Eliot's characters Mr Mistoffelees, Mungojerrie, Rumpelteazer, and Bustopher Jones, and what musical was inspired by the poem book in which they feature?
Answer: Cats

Question: The Kabbalah wristband, in Yiddish 'roite bindele', is normally what colour/color?
Answer: Red

Question: Brad, finish, clout, casing and horseshoe are types of what?
Answer: Nails

Question: What state territory is named in Latin, meaning 'New Scotland'?
Answer: Nova Scotia

Question: What artist uses a cake of rosin?
Answer: Violinist

Question: What is India's national motto, appearing on its emblem and currency?
Answer: Satyameva Jayate

Question: Name the female alter-ego featured in the life and vase artworks of English transvestite artist Grayson Perry?
Answer: Claire

Question: What is the more common name of the incendiary weapon formulated from naphthenic and palmitic acids?
Answer: Napalm

Question: Contrary to popular information there are actually four (not two) Olympic sports containing male vs female contest; what are they?
Answer: Equestrian, Sailing, Tennis, Badminton

Question: What pluralised female receptacle is a British ironic reference to a minor altercation or physical confrontation (usually) between men.
Answer: Handbags

Question: Name the mythological Greek hero King of Salamis, son of Telamon and Periboea, and cleaning product?
Answer: Ajax

Question: With blue, yellow, green and orange lines, which nation's busiest metro has stations including Rosemont, Snowdon, Saint-Michel, Monk, and McGill?
Answer: Canada

Question: Brownian motion is what sort of movement?
Answer: Random

Question: The Austrian metalworking company Kraftfahrzeuge Trunkenpolz Mattighofen founded in 1934 is nowadays better known as a manufacturer of what?
Answer: Motorcycles

Question: When writing 'a millionth' in decimals (using numbers and a decimal point/dot), how many zeros are between the decimal point and the figure 1?
Answer: Five

Question: What emergency service derives its name from Latin meaning 'walking'?
Answer: Ambulance

Question: What colour/color traditionally is the Michelin Guide for hotels/restaurants?
Answer: Red

Question: What is the least densely populated country or dependency in the world?
Answer: Greenland

Question: The term 'brogued' technically refers to a shoe with?
Answer: Perforations

Question: Name the four basic types of human/animal bodily tissue?
Answer: Connective, Muscle, Nervous, Epithelial

Question: Colostrum, informally called beestings/bisnings, is a form of?
Answer: Milk