General Knowledge Quiz 111

Questions

1. Rosneftegaz and Gazprom are vast energy corporations of which nation?

2. What single unit of measurement equates to 06×10-13 light-years?

3. From Greek words for 'similar' and 'standing still' what term refers scientifically to self-balancing in chemical/biological systems, and generally to life where people/societies tend to adjust risk/consumption according to consequences, driven by avoidance of change?

4. What single unit of measurement equates to 1.06×10-13 light-years?

5. Ptosis refers medically normally to a drooping what?

6. Extragalactic refers to beyond the?

   1. Speed of light
   2. Year one-million
   3. Observable universe
   4. Milky Way

7. What Japanese family name (and famous guitar company) means 'high ridge' or 'high peak'?

8. Bead, Ball, Ribbon, Staccato and Sheet are types of what?

9. Gatka, Mardani khel, Musti yuddha, and Silambam are?

   1. Indian martial arts
   2. Brazilian dances
   3. Moroccan ports
   4. Pacific islands

10. Which of these countries was not in the region known as Prussia: Germany, Russia, Denmark, Italy, or Switzerland?

11. Petite Sirah, Tempranillo, Vespolina, and Gamay are varieties of what?

12. What external human feature is commonly described as having three parts: cuticle, cortex and medula?

13. A myringotomy is an incision in what part of the human body?

14. A narrative/statement/question used in testing/developing student capability in Zen Buddhism is a?

    1. Yoan
    2. Doan
    3. Koan
    4. Shoan
    5. Moan

15. Which Frenchman composed Clair de lune, the famous third movement of Suite bergamasque?

16. The capital of which US state is named after prospector (and discoverer of local gold in 1880) Joseph Juneau?

17. The slang (now considered offensive) term Hottentot once referred to people of which region?

    1. SW Africa
    2. Scandinavia
    3. Germany
    4. Arabia

18. A shibboleth is a?

    1. Belief or custom
    2. Prehistoric elephant
    3. Biblical vagrant
    4. Roman catapult

19. Which politician, in his previous work, set a world record in Florence in 1981 which endured for 16 years?

20. Where during the Iron Age and Roman era was Gaul?

21. 'Traduce' means to do what to someone?

    1. Enhance reputation
    2. Damage reputation
    3. Trick/deceive
    4. Blackmail