Good effort from everyone.
1. Bees, Woozles, Jagulars, and the Backson are minor characters in which author's famous stories? A A Milne (Alan Alexander Milne - creator of Winnie-the-Pooh)
2. A falling object which ceases to accelerate due to equal forces of drag and gravity is said most commonly to have reached what rate of descent? Terminal Velocity
3. How did Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, writer Virginia Woolf, and newspaper mogul Robert Maxwell all die? Drowning
4. What American word, from French meaning lift, refers to an embankment preventing overflow of a river or other body of water? Levee (French lever, pronounced 'levay', to lift, hence the English word lever)
5. What conifer shrub is known traditionally and offensively as 'bastard killer', because its berries were used to procure abortion? Juniper
6. What Shakespeare play contains the line "Cry Havoc, and let slip the dogs of war..."? Julius Caesar (Said by Anthony after Caesar's death, predicting war)
7. The transparent crystalline form of corundum (aluminium oxide - Al2O3) is called what if red, and what if blue (two answers required)? Ruby and Sapphire
8. What are the three colours of Norway's flag, in order of its background, cross, and cross outline? Red, Blue, White
9. What, alternatively called milk acid, is produced in the human body in power exercises? Lactic acid (or lactate)
10. What does the word 'salubrious' mean? Healthy (or health-giving, or commonly in referring to a place it means well-kept and in good condition - from Latin salus, health)
11. What prestigious learning institution is in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US? Harvard University
12. The (commonly Greek/Turkish) foodstuff tzatziki (or tzadziki) comprises chiefly what two ingredients? Yoghurt and cucumber
13. The conium plant genus is better known as what poison? Hemlock
14. Tuber aestivum is better known as a type of what foodstuff delicacy? Truffle (specifically the summer or Burgundy truffle)
15. Nexus is a brandname for a tablet computer belonging to which corporation? Google
16. The French word 'peloton' usually refers to a bunched group of competitors in what sport? Cycling (peloton means 'little ball' in French)
17. 'George' is a common nickname for what aviation system? Autopilot (probably named after George DeBeeson, an American inventor/innovator and aviation engineer, who developed and patented a version of the technology)
18. Racerback, Balconette, Bandeau, and Shelf are types of what? Bra (or brassiere)
19. What French phrase refers to the 'left bank' of the river Seine in Paris, and by extension to the artistic/creative/anti-establishment lifestyle which characterized the area and much of its population in the early 1900s? Rive Gauche
20. From what is the J derived in the brand name 'J-cloth'? Johnson and Johnson (the company which first made it)
21. What Latin word for 'straight' gave its name to a part of the human body? Rectum
22. What north-eastern state of India accounts for more than 50% of the nation's tea production, and is said to be the world's biggest tea-growing region? Assam
23. Where in the human body is the sacrum bone? Pelvis (at base of spine)
24. The UK-founded communications technology company O2 started as joint venture between which two large corporations? British Telecom (BT) and Securicor
25. What area of achievement originally linked the US 'Ivy League' universities? Sport (The Ivy League, established in 1954, has since extended in implication to refer to academic excellence, entry exclusivity, and elitism)
Bonus points, one for each - name the eight Ivy League universities? Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania, Yale University
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