Good answers from Doc and 2BB
1. What name for a crude greedy humanoid species in Jonathan Swift's 1726 Gulliver's Travels came to refer to a rude and violent person, and is also a big modern technology corporation? Yahoo
2. The term pannier (e.g., motorbike side-box) derives from what sort of basket: Picnic; Bread; Waste; or Ball? Bread (Latin panis means bread)
3. What are Hawaiian, Strombolian, Peléan, Phreatomagmatic and Submarine types of? Volcanic eruptions
4. According to which religion did the prophets Nephi and Lehi lead people from Jerusalem across the sea to the Americas around 600BC? Mormonism (or Latter Day Sainthood)
5. Which US office equipment corporation renamed itself (1961) after its branded photocopying technology, from Greek meaning 'dry'? Xerox (the dry copying process, named Xerography - most other copying methods were liquid-based - Greek 'xeros' means dry)
6. What word prefixes the following to make five different words: habit, jury, sect, stance, tense? In
7. Nociceptive, Neuropathic, Phantom, Psychogenic, and Incident are types of what? Pain
8. The Sola plant (Aeschynomene aspera) from India/S Asia is used to make what famous headwear? Pith helmet (or equivalent term, e.g., safari helmet, sun helmet, topee, sola topee, salacot, sola topi, etc)
9. What common Hindu/Indian surname derives from 'a piece of land' and referred to a landowner/tenant farmer? Patel (or Patil)
10. What are generally regarded to be the four precious stones? Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, Diamond
11. In which activity were hickory and persimmon replaced by graphite and titanium? Golf (respectively the shafts and heads of clubs)
12. What is the technical genus category of lemons, oranges, limes? Citrus
13. 'Simnel' refers to a traditional Easter (what?), originating in medieval England? Cake ('simnel' is generally thought to refer to a fine white flour)
14. A codicil is a supplementary text which alters what sort of legal document? Will
15. Introduced in 1954, a willibecher is a standard what in Germany? Beer glass (named after Willy Steinmeier of the Ruhrglas glassworks)
16. What word has noun/verb meanings for an island, a promontory, wine, organic soil, thinking, and a fabric used in bookbinding? Mull
17. Flemington, Greyville, and Longchamp are associated with what, respectively in Australia, South Africa, and France? Horseracing (racecourses in Melbourne, Durban, and Paris)
18. 18. Popular in Indian subcontinental cuisine, what is gram flour made from? Chickpeas
19. Which understated northern European nation grew to become by the early 2000s the fourth richest globally due largely to prudent treatment of oil revenues? Norway
20. What original Mrs Beeton sandwich filling did the Royal Society of Chemistry propose in 2014 as the most economically enjoyable? Toast (yes, that's two slices of bread, with a slice of toast in between)
21. What is a 'frontispiece' traditionally at the beginning of? Book (it's an illustration facing the title page - originally Latin frons, front and specere, look - it also refers to the main facade or decorated entrance to a building)
22. What is a cloche hat shaped like? Bell (cloche means bell in French)
23. What is 'The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street' a nickname for? The Bank of England (In Threadneedle Street, London)
24. What popular East Asian food means 'bean curdled'? Tofu
25. Match these US cities and their 'Big' nicknames: Orange; Easy; Guava; Apple, Tomato; Pineapple? Big Orange - Los Angeles; Big Easy- New Orleans; Big Guava - Tampa; Big Apple - New York; Big Tomato - Sacramento; Big Pineapple - Honolulu.
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