General Knowledge Quiz 104

Questions

1. Apitoxin is the scientific name for which sort of venom?

2. Piperazine (BZP is a?

   1. Recreational drug
   2. Russian oil company
   3. Gold colour food additive
   4. Mexican political party

3. What product, invented by accountant Walter Diemer in 1928, was and remains conventionally pink, (it is said because pink was the only dye available to its inventor at the time?

4. What common boy's name (English language Christian or first name is derived from the Latin and Greek words for rock?

5. The medical acronym RICE, referring to treatment of soft tissue injuries such as muscle strains, stands for what?

6. In geometry all regular polygons have 'what' sides?

   1. Four
   2. Equal
   3. Five
   4. More than five

7. Piperazine (BZP) is a?

   1. Recreational drug
   2. Russian oil company
   3. Gold colour food additive
   4. Mexican political party

8. Lightning strikes on airborne commercial aircraft are?

   1. Impossible
   2. Always catastrophic
   3. Very rarely catastrophic

9. What product, invented by accountant Walter Diemer in 1928, was and remains conventionally pink, (it is said) because pink was the only dye available to its inventor at the time?

10. Northampton is generally regarded to have the largest what in England?

    1. Church
    2. Market square
    3. Scottish population
    4. Railway station

11. American physician Dr Henry Jay Heimlich is famously credited with developing a procedure to counter what threat to life?

12. A baby's traditional cloth nappy or diaper is generally folded into what shape directly before fitting to a baby?

    1. Square
    2. Oblong
    3. Circle
    4. Triangle

13. What common boy's name (English language Christian or first name) is derived from the Latin and Greek words for rock?

14. The Mansion House is the official residence of what London title-holder?

15. A compound which reduces liquid surface tension, or tension between two liquids or liquid and solid (as do detergents, foaming agents, and dispersants) is generally called a?

    1. Colloid
    2. Triglyceride
    3. Surfactant
    4. Fatty acid

16. What name besides glove is given commonly to a baseball player's handwear?

17. Who was the last English monarch of the House of York?

18. Spell Mozzarella; Mozarrella; Mozzarrella; Mozarella; or Mozarrela?

19. Magnesium shavings are used by campers and adventurers to?

    1. Light fires
    2. Eat for energy
    3. Dress wounds
    4. Make a rudimentary compass

20. What is the capital of Azerbaijan?

21. A tetrapod is an animal with how many what?

22. An analgesic drug is commonly called a?

    1. Painkiller
    2. Cough medicine
    3. Antibiotic
    4. Vaccine

23. Name the great old rival company of the Harley-Davidson motorbike corporation, whose models included the Chief and Scout?