General Knowledge Quiz 119

Questions

1. What 20th century musical entertainment machine derived its name from the West African word Gullah, meaning disorderly, or 'zigzag'?

2. The shortest Greenland-to-Iceland sea-crossing is about how many miles?

   1. 180
   2. 800
   3. 1,800
   4. 8,000

3. Where in the world did 700million people suffer a serious electrical power cut on 31 July 2012?

   1. India
   2. China
   3. South America
   4. Africa

4. What Mexican Spanish dish means literally 'little strips'?

5. What nation borders with the south of Syria and the west of Iraq?

6. Spell the word?

   1. Innappropriate
   2. Inapropriate
   3. Innapropriate
   4. Inappropriate

7. World renowned Danish chef René Redzepi served which of these two dishes at his re-created Noma restaurant at London's Claridges in 2012?

   1. Lamb on Hay with Live Ants
   2. Salmon on Grass with Live Snails
   3. Chicken on Sand with Live Tadpoles
   4. Cheese on Sawdust with Live Locusts

8. The major UK, US and Canada organizations abbreviated to NFU represent which industry?

9. Aside from the Netherlands and Belgium what is the only country in which Dutch is an official language?

10. What originally American familial (that's familial, not familiar) term refers to a small shop or business run by a married couple?

11. Particularly related to a controversial foodstuff, the bodily intervention device/process called 'gavage' refers to what?

12. Dom Mintoff was prime minister of which country from 1955-8 and 71-84?

13. According to Latin grammatical rules what is the singular of candelabra?

14. The terms ZiL and Chaika, referring to traffic lanes reserved for politicians and important people, derive from?

    1. Russian limousines
    2. Japanese motorbike-police
    3. German road-markings
    4. Chinese traffic cones

15. From Dutch meaning 'foolish gull', the Australian word mollymawk refers to what sort of bird?

16. Vuelta is a cycle race of which nation?

17. The amplified sound system for a concert venue audience, abbreviated to FOH, stands for what?

18. The biblical lesson of wise decision-making, entailing halving (that's halving, not having) a baby, is known as the 'Judgement/Judgment of (Who?)' ?

19. What nation has 27 states, most of which exceed the area of an entire moderately-sized country, and include Acre, Minas Gerais, Sergipe, and Amazonas?

20. The word ephemeral means?

    1. Imaginative
    2. Short-lived
    3. Detached
    4. Ecstatic