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Well done everyone. Just one question missed.
1. What maritime exclamation did Alexander Graham Bell suggest be the standard telephone answering greeting before Edison's 'Hello'? Ahoy (variants are found in many other languages, and it shares the same word origins as hey and hi)
2. What must be no smaller than 1.68 inches (42.67mm), weigh no more than 1.62oz (45.93g) and be symmetrically dimpled? Golf ball
3. What French term traditionally seeks to convey a product/service's extra comfort/elegance, ironically from the Latin origin 'excess'? De luxe (literally 'of comfort')
4. A 'lustrum' refers to a period of how many years? Five (from Ancient Rome, entering English in the 1500s as mainly a historical term)
5. What remarkable world-changing South American engineering project celebrated its centenary in August 2014? Panama Canal
6. What is the more common English/Western biblical name of Golgotha, the site of Christ's crucifixion? Calvary
7. The old French term 'eshec mat' is terminology in which game? Chess (origin/meaning 'checkmate')
8. What is the traditional technical term for a road/paving granite block, alternatively called a Belgian block, and incorrectly a cobble or cobblestone? Sett (also plural, e.g., 'a sett market square' or 'a sett road' - technically a cobble/cobblestone is a large round pebble, which was the earlier form)
9. What English uprising ended with the death of one its leaders Wat Tyler in June 1381? The Peasants' Revolt (also called Wat Tyler's Rebellion or the Great Rising)
10. Which corporation operates the $multi-billion two-sided advertising service branded AdSense and AdWords? Google (AdSense is for selling ad space; Adwords is for buying it)
11. What name is given to human intolerance of gliadin, a gluten protein in wheat, barley and rye? Coeliac disease (or celiac disease or celiac sprue [US] - from Greek koiliakós, abdominal)
12. In music, what term refers to a measure of sound over time? Sustain
13. PDF, Adobe's universal computer document format, stands for what? Portable Document Format
14. Chatsworth House gardener, engineer and greenhouse expert, Joseph Paxton, created which iconic 1851 London building? Crystal Palace
15. What was a originally an ancient Greek post-banquet drinking party, and nowadays refers to a researchers/academic conference? Symposium (from sun, together, and potes, drinker)
16. Which punningly alliteratively named professor drove the No3 Convert-a-Car in Wacky Races? Pat Pending
17. What Anglicized Italian term from Latin 'not known' refers to a person's having a concealed or false identity? Incognito
18. In 1849 US mechanic Walter Hunt patented what multi-billion-selling and punk rock device? Safety pin (reportedly he sold the patent to repay a modest debt, and thereby failed to benefit greatly from his invention)
19. Which multi-award-winning 1982s movie is considered to have included the biggest ever crowd of extras? Gandhi (over 300,000 for the funeral scene)
20. What potent plant is called technically Papaver somniferum? Opium poppy
21. Appearing in many food/drink names, what is produced when cereal grain germination is halted by hot air drying? Malt
22. In 2014 the EU introduced a maximum 1600watt power rating for what? Vacuum cleaners
23. In 2014 Russia closed branches of what global brand amidst East-West sanction? McDonald's
24. Of what is Brahmanism an ancient formative religion? Hinduism
25. Burlap is an old material traditionally used in making what? Sacks (it's rough, made typically of jute or hemp)
What an excellent quiz Mister L