General Knowledge Quiz 120

Questions

1. What corporation pioneered the use of coupons in consumer marketing, beginning in 1887, so that by 1913 over eight million Americans had sampled its product for free?

2. What is Europe's largest island?

3. What word, equating to check, is given to the amplified sound system for performers at a concert venue?

4. Moletronics is a portmanteau word combining electronics and what?

5. Name the e-book reader product brand launched in 2012 by Barnes and Noble/Microsoft?

6. What is the three-horse-abreast sleigh traditionally seen as an icon of Russia, and derived from this a technical term for a three-member panel or leadership?

7. The 'Occam's Razor' (or Ockham's Razor) principle asserts that reliable theories and explanations tend to entail minimal?

   1. Words
   2. Rules and Laws
   3. Assumptions
   4. Complexity

8. The disgraced fraudulent head of failed monster corporation Polly Peck, Asil Nadir, fled to what country in 1993?

9. What famous toy has been produced with special versions including (Hitchcock's) The Birds, Poop Scoop, Pregnant, Wheelchair, Star Trek, and Bald?

10. What large and complex nation contains varying geographical/ethnic/political regions called 'krais', 'oblasts', 'okrugs' and 'republics'?

11. What Mr Men character is orange with ridiculously long arms and a blue hat?

12. Heuristic refers to learning or processes entailing?

    1. Self-discovery/trial and error
    2. Trainer intervention
    3. Strict theory
    4. Indoctrination/brainwashing

13. What word prefix makes new words when added to: sale, food, meal and some?

14. What weapon was named by Finnish people after the Soviet foreign minister responsible for the partition of Finland during the Winter War between the two nations 1939-40?

15. Used in the beauty industry, what is the most abundant protein in mammals, mainly found in flesh and connective tissues of vertebrates?

16. Spell the Russian composer's name?

    1. Tzchaikovsky;Tchaikovski
    2. Tchaikowski
    3. Tchaikovsky

17. Prior to Apple becoming the most valuable company in the world in 2012 (at $619bn) what corporation had held the record since 1999?

18. What does a lux meter measure?

19. What, meaning 'gentle way', did Jigoro Kano create in Japan in 1882?

20. What notable ex-politician became the first female member of USA's Augusta golf club in 2012?