General Knowledge Quiz 256

Questions

1. Which month is named in English after Latin for door?

2. What religious word makes five new words when suffixed (added last) to: Repel, Condo, Si, Re, and Ta?

3. Mongolia and Ivory Coast were the first countries to adopt a radical postal address system using (How many?) random words for every (How many?) square yards of Earth?

   1. (two answers required) 3
   2. 9
   3. 20
   4. 50
   5. 400

4. In popular culture and literature Utopia (an ideal beautiful world) is opposite to?

   1. Dystopia
   2. Sinopia
   3. Subtopia
   4. Myopia

5. Match these birds with their metaphorical/fabled associations: Albatross, Dove, Stork, Magpie, Ostrich - Curse, Peace, Birth/baby, Denial, Theft?

6. Whose best-selling 2016 autobiography is called Born to Run?

   1. Usain Bolt
   2. Sebastian Coe
   3. Mo Farah
   4. Bruce Sprinsteen

7. The dye henna is made from a?

   1. Beetle
   2. Tree
   3. Clay
   4. Fish

8. The magazine of the Jehovah's Witness religion is The?

   1. Spotlight
   2. Watchtower
   3. Lighthouse
   4. Microscope

9. 2017 Eurovision controversy entailed which host nation's ban of which nation's contestant?

10. Match the Roman and modern names: Hafnia, Lutetia, Eblana, Ezelinga - Dublin, Zurich, Copenhagen, Paris?

11. In US-English a sports knockout tournament is called a?

    1. Dash
    2. Bracket
    3. Guillemet
    4. Colon

12. From c.4000BC, 'Proto-Indo-European' is a fundamental?

    1. Bronze
    2. Language
    3. Vegetable
    4. Horse

13. A popular childlike metaphor for being punished or excluded is being on the?

    1. Bad bench
    2. Naughty step
    3. Culpable couch
    4. Silly stool

14. Beg or Bey and Begum refer to a chief or high official and female equivalent originating from/in which culture?

    1. Mexican
    2. Turkish
    3. Maori
    4. Russian

15. Axiomatic means?

    1. Breathless
    2. Self-evident
    3. Inflated
    4. Confusingly angry

16. Diazepam was first marketed as?

    1. Amphetamine
    2. Valium
    3. Anadin
    4. Lucozade

17. What 'greenhouse gas' is increasing most significantly in the 21st century?

    1. Methane
    2. CO2
    3. Ozone
    4. Nitrous Oxide

18. Beginning 2018, the first direct UK-Australia flights are roughly what miles/hours?

    1. 5000m/5hrs
    2. 9000/17
    3. 14,000/36
    4. 20,000/20

19. 'Stuttgart pitch', standard musical tuning/calibration, is 440Hz frequency at the note?

    1. A
    2. B
    3. C
    4. D

20. The likely extinct Thylacine, largest ever carnivorous marsupial, is commonly called the?

    1. Tasmanian Tiger
    2. African Kangaroo
    3. Brazilian Wombat
    4. Piccadily Lion

21. Oliver Mellors is better known as what DH Lawrence creation?

    1. Biggles
    2. Batman
    3. Winnie the Pooh
    4. Lady Chatterley's Lover

22. 'Sky peer-to-peer' is the origin of what famous revolutionary Estonian/Danish development?