G7. This is a promotional still for a current BBC television series based on stories by which author?

A. P.G. Wodehouse. The series is called 'Blandings'

C8. What's the nominal connection between this Australian plant (scientific name Litsea bindoniana) and the Hindi film industry?

A. It's called the Big-leafed Bollywood :-)

B11. Founded by Lieutenant José Joaquín Moraga as Pueblo de ___ ____ de Guadalupe on November 29, 1777, it was the first civilian city in the Spanish colony of Nueva California. In more recent time, it has been called 'the capital of Silicon Valley'. Name the city, where you would find this complex, the headquarters of Adobe Systems.

A. San Jose

D5. This sport called pato, which combines the skills of polo and basketball, is surprisingly the national sport of which country, that's generally mad about another game altogether?

A. Argentina

F8. This variety of crab, Ovalipes ocellatus, gets its colloquial name from a type of cheap printed fabric that its patterned shell resembles. The textile originated in India and was quite the bone of contention between British importers of the cloth and the English manufacturers of similar fabric from the early 18th century till well over a century afterwards. What textile?

A. Calico

A6. General Electric is the largest manufacturer of aircraft engines in the world. With more than 50,000 engines in service with 500 airlines, 2,400 corporate and utility operators and more than 100 armed forces, which company is the second largest?

A. Rolls-Royce

E4. In 1573, the Italian painter Paolo Veronese delivered this painting to the Dominicans of Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice for their refectory. The subject of the painting caused Veronese to be called before the Inquisition to explain why the work contained "buffoons, drunken Germans, dwarfs and other such scurrilities" as well as extravagant costumes and settings. He was asked to change the painting appropriately within three months. His solution was to rename the painting, calling it 'The Feast in the House of Levi', which is how it continues to be known. What was the original subject and title of the painting?

A. The Last Supper

G6. What Mervyn Bunter was to Lord Peter Wimsey, Figaro to the Count of Almaviva, Georges to Hercule Poirot and Passepartout to Phileas Fogg.

A. Valet. That was an easy one. And seriously, there's no way you can't get this theme now!

C7. This deity, whose temple dates back to 1675, gets her name from the Sanskrit for 'great mother'. She was in particular a patron of the Agri and Koli peoples. Name her.

A. Mumba Devi, whose name purportedly comes from 'maha amba'.

B10. So, what was the happy bridegroom's name? Please read the question carefully and answer appropriately. 

A. That's Yousuf Youhana, one of the few cricketers from the religious minorities that Pakistan could boast of. Now, of course, he's joined the majority, calls himself Mohammad Yousuf and looks like this: