General Knowledge Quiz 115

Questions

1. With the symbol Sv what is the unit of ionizing radiation?

2. Coulomb is a unit of measurement of electrical?

   1. Charge
   2. Resistance
   3. Current
   4. Potential

3. Thought to have lived in the 6th century BC, name the first recognised actor, after whom the profession is termed?

4. What metric prefix, denoting ten to the power of minus twelve, is named from Spanish meaning 'little bit'?

5. Name the NASA Mars mission rover which landed on the planet in 2012?

6. What sort of sportsman/woman is a pugilist?

7. Derived from the use of naval artillery what is the nautical term for the top edge of the side of a boat?

8. What does the W stand for in the official grading of motor engine oils, for example 5W, 10W, etc?

9. What entertainment originates from ancient Greek spiritualism, literally 'speaking from the stomach'?

10. What word makes new words as a prefix with the words piece, stroke, switch and mind?

11. Boris Godunov, The Cunning Little Vixen, Wozzeck, and The Ballad of Baby Doe are popular?

    1. Impressionist paintings
    2. Operas
    3. Rock Albums
    4. 1960s London Carnaby Street shops

12. A harquebus/arquebus is an early form of?

    1. Transport
    2. Hearing-aid
    3. Gun
    4. Corset

13. On humans what is the medical Latin name for the big toe?

14. A stonemason commonly refers to unmetamorphosed limestone as what, whose name derives from Greek 'shining stone'?

15. What creature is a Chinese 'shishi', called a 'foo dog' in some western cultures?

16. The Trucial States became what Arab nation in 1971?

17. Formerly known as the Ellice Islands, in the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and Australia, what nation owns the commercially available internet top-level domain .tv?

18. The 1726 novel 'Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts' is better known by what subsequently amended title?

19. The aviation group known as IAG (International Airlines Group) was formed by merger of which two corporations in 2011?

20. In the musical story Brigadoon, the eponymous Scottish village appears one day every how many years?

    1. One
    2. Ten
    3. Hundred
    4. Thousand