General Knowledge Quiz 113

Questions

1. What two letters do not appear in any symbols of the official list of chemical elements?

2. 'Normal' or Gaussian distribution in a graph is informally called a what shape (two word answer)?

3. Name the four basic types of human/animal bodily tissue?

4. The term 'brogued' technically refers to a shoe with?

   1. Perforations
   2. Leather soles
   3. Layered uppers
   4. Between 8-12 lace-holes

5. As at July-August 2012 what site boasted the biggest McDonalds outlet in the world with 1500 seats?

6. What is the least densely populated country or dependency in the world?

7. What colour/color traditionally is the Michelin Guide for hotels/restaurants?

8. What single word does the French 'Clair de lune' mean in English?

9. Toothpaste, turtle, oxblood, oilie/oily, ade, and swirly are types of what?

10. What emergency service derives its name from Latin meaning 'walking'?

11. The word bucolic refers to pleasant/positive aspects of?

    1. Human mood
    2. Religious authority/duty
    3. Food digestion
    4. Countryside/life

12. When writing 'a millionth' in decimals (using numbers and a decimal point/dot), how many zeros are between the decimal point and the figure 1?

13. The Austrian metalworking company Kraftfahrzeuge Trunkenpolz Mattighofen founded in 1934 is nowadays better known as a manufacturer of what?

14. Abloy, dimple, skeleton, Zeiss, master, and DND are types of what?

15. Which, if any, of these words is/are spelled incorrectly?

    1. Seize
    2. Caffeine
    3. Receive
    4. Deceit
    5. Receipt

16. The tunica intima, or intima, is the inner layer of what in the human body?

    1. Arteries/veins
    2. Bones
    3. Muscles
    4. Hair

17. Which of these is not an 'Ivy League' university: Columbia, Cornell, Stanford, Dartmouth College, Harvard, Yale?

18. Brownian motion is what sort of movement?

    1. Random
    2. Infinitely straight
    3. Ever-decreasing circles
    4. Spiraling

19. With blue, yellow, green and orange lines, which nation's busiest metro has stations including Rosemont, Snowdon, Saint-Michel, Monk, and McGill?

20. Name the mythological Greek hero King of Salamis, son of Telamon and Periboea, and cleaning product?