General Knowledge Quiz 107

Questions

1. What Shakespeare play contains the line "Cry Havoc, and let slip the dogs of war..."?

2. The transparent crystalline form of corundum (aluminium oxide - Al2O3 is called what if red, and what if blue (two answers required?

3. The popular TV talkshow Satyamev Jayate (Truth Alone Prevails achieves viewing figures of 400 million in what country (as at 2012?

4. A dilettante refers to what sort of person in relation to a subject?

   1. Leading authority
   2. Enthusiastic amateur
   3. Antagonistic detractor
   4. Complete ignoramus

5. The transparent crystalline form of corundum (aluminium oxide - Al2O3) is called what if red, and what if blue (two answers required)?

6. Which vast UK banking corporation suffered major computer failure during June 2012, impacting the cashflow of millions of customers and businesses, and exposing the company to tens of millions of pounds compensation liabilities?

7. What is Python for Google, Yahoo, Youtube and many major online corporations?

8. The controversial 2011-12 US extradition action, supported by the UK government, against UK student Richard O'Dwyer, resulted from US criminal charges for what alleged offence?

   1. Murder
   2. Terrorism
   3. Computer hacking
   4. Copyright infringement

9. In Spanish languages and culture an abrazo is a?

   1. Hug
   2. Kiss
   3. Rejection
   4. Joke

10. The popular TV talkshow Satyamev Jayate (Truth Alone Prevails) achieves viewing figures of 400 million in what country (as at 2012)?

11. The 'mast' of a beech tree refers to its?

    1. Nuts
    2. Sap
    3. Leaves
    4. Bark

12. Bees, Woozles, Jagulars, and the Backson are minor characters in which author's famous stories?

13. Traditionally, an Eton Mess is a?

    1. Meringue and strawberry pudding
    2. Country dance
    3. Cheese selection
    4. Small horse-drawn carriage

14. Name Google's 3D mapping service, launched in the US in 2007?

15. What famously amateur world champion sportsman, who died in 2012, is quoted as saying, "I prefer the affection of of eight-million Cubans."?

16. What conifer shrub is known traditionally and offensively as 'bastard killer', because its berries were used to procure abortion?

17. What word traditionally refers to a fictional inhabitant of the planet Mars, which extends loosely to aliens from elsewhere in space?

18. What American word, from French meaning lift, refers to an embankment preventing overflow of a river or other body of water?

19. An Olympic Bronze medal is made in modern times mainly of what metal?

20. What human hormone causes certain body cells to take up glucose from the blood and store it as glycogen?

21. Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, writer Virginia Woolf, and newspaper mogul Robert Maxwell, shared what fate?

    1. Drowning
    2. Hanging
    3. Motorbike crash
    4. Poisoning

22. A falling object which ceases to accelerate due to equal forces of drag and gravity is said most commonly to have reached what rate of descent?