General Knowledge Quiz 116

Questions

1. What country was created in 1949 with the local abbreviated name DDR?

2. The characters 11 in the binary numeral system equate to what number?

3. Name the ancient Greek dramatist who innovated concepts such as realism and female psychology in works including Hippolytus, Electra, and Trojan Women?

   1. Euripides
   2. Sophocles
   3. Homer
   4. Aristotle

4. The Periodic Table is a system for presenting what?

5. The abbreviated bicycle term BMX stands for what?

6. Spell the widely used thermoplastic polymer?

   1. Polypropolene
   2. Polypropylline
   3. Polypropeline
   4. Polypropylene

7. Phonology refers to?

   1. Music recording
   2. Human hearing
   3. Telecommunications
   4. Linguistics

8. The terms digitigrade, plantigrade, unguligrade, refer to a detail of what animal function?

   1. Walking
   2. Eating
   3. Sleeping, or Temperature regulation

9. What word makes new words as a prefix with the words cover, line, code and ship?

10. In Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels what is Gulliver's first name?

    1. Lemuel
    2. Teneile
    3. Makepeace
    4. Gary

11. The term Ponzi Scheme refers to?

    1. Financial investing
    2. Landscape gardening
    3. Computer coding
    4. Military tactics

12. With the symbol H what is the unit of inductance?

13. Upton Park Football Club won what notable international award in Paris, 1900?

14. The medical condition Strabismus affects what part of the human body?

15. Which city's metro system has lines including Pinar de Chamartín to Valdecarros and Villaverde Alto to Moncloa?

16. What popular children's TV/toy character has a Mummy, Daddy, brother George, and cousins Chloé and Alexander?

17. No longer in use, the internet top level domain .gb was originally allocated to what nation/state?

18. The 'sub-kingdoms' Blastocladiomycota, Microsporidia and Dikarya belong to the kingdom of organisms commonly called what?

19. The strongly featured character Alyson/Alys in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is better known as?

20. Parsimonious means?

    1. God-fearing
    2. Dishonest
    3. Slow
    4. Sparing