General Knowledge Quiz 110

Questions

1. What unit of enormous distance has the symbol pc and equates to about 3.26 light-years or 19.2 trillion miles?

2. How fast is 614 miles per hour in kilometres per hour?

3. What unit of enormous distance has the symbol pc and equates to about 26 light-years or 2 trillion miles?

4. The original primary and eponymous service of a barber was concerned with?

   1. Teeth
   2. Beards
   3. Blood
   4. Baptism

5. Whale Belly, Tippler, Schnabel, Modalohr, Gondola and Flat are types of what vehicle?

6. Mydriasis normally is the widening of a what?

7. How fast is 62.14 miles per hour in kilometres per hour?

8. What note is played on a guitar at the fifth fret of the first (highest pitch) string (conventional six-string guitar with standard tuning)?

9. Spell the legal term?

   1. Subpoena
   2. Suppoena
   3. Supaena
   4. Supena

10. The traditional curly twisted Chinese tea (Camellia sinensis) produced by drying in the sun is called?

    1. Uulung
    2. Oolong
    3. Aalang
    4. Eeleng or Iiling

11. From the words well and live, what French term is used in English to mean a high-living socialite?

12. In what language do the words 'beminnen', 'ja', and 'zon', mean 'love', 'yes', and 'sun'?

13. The industrial Wohlwill and Miller processes are different ways to refine what commodity to near-100% purity?

14. The Berber ethnic people come from?

    1. Egypt
    2. North Africa
    3. Spain
    4. India

15. What science is sometimes called 'the central science' because it connects maths and physics with other main branches of science such as astronomy, engineering, biology, etc?

16. Where was/is Bohemia?

    1. Western Czech Republic
    2. Morrocco
    3. India
    4. in a Tolkien novel

17. Papules and pustules are types of what on the human skin?

18. Sociedad Española de Automóviles de Turismo is better known by what brand name?

19. What country's 1931 flood is considered to be the most fatal of all 1900s natural disasters?

20. The Japanese word 'shonen' refers to what age group?

    1. Babies
    2. Children up to 15 yrs
    3. Twenty-somethings
    4. Pensioners

21. Pinniped refers to a mammal with feet which are what?

22. Sodium hypochlorite is more commonly known by what name, being one of its main purposes?