General Knowledge Quiz 128

Questions

1. A panopticon is a?

   1. Powerful telescope
   2. Building
   3. Fire-engine
   4. Fairground-ride

2. 'The Law of the Instrument' referring to having just one 'tool' (i.e., approach or method) and so treating every situation the same is known popularly as 'Maslow's (what)'?

3. What term refers to the (typically prehistoric) method of attaching a sharp stone or bone, etc., to a stick or strap to make a tool or weapon?

   1. Hafting
   2. Shafting
   3. Grafting
   4. Crafting
   5. Rafting

4. Kraton, Salvia and 4-MEC are?

   1. Computer viruses
   2. Star Trek planets
   3. Russian cars
   4. Recreational drugs

5. Scottish physicist James Dewar (1842-1923) lost a legal case to which German company for the rights to his invention of what, (named eponymously and alternatively after both claimants) - two answer required, the German company and the product?

6. The doing of what sort of puzzles does the term cruciverbalism refer to?

7. The meteorological terms 'veering' and 'backing' refer to winds changing direction in what ways (two answers required)?

8. Who is the famous husband of the also famous Chinese singer Peng Liyuan?

9. What country has the internet top level domain (TLD) suffix .za?

10. Name the earliest (post-gamete) developmental stage of the human embryo?

    1. Zygote
    2. Sperm
    3. Ovum
    4. Gametocyte

11. Clawhammer is a playing style most often associated with which instrument?

12. 'The Continental Army' became what in 1784?

13. What famous French film production/newsreel brand, established in 1896, was the first major movie corporation?

14. Who suggested the metaphor that, "When you sit with a pretty girl for two hours it seems a minute, but sit on a hot stove for a minute and it seems two hours..." and to explain what?

15. Broadly when was the Industrial Revolution?

    1. 1650-1750
    2. 1700-1800
    3. 1750-1850
    4. 1800-1900

16. What isotope does radiocarbon dating use (element-isotope number)?

17. The process by which cardinals meet to elect a new Pope is called the Papal (what?)?

    1. Enclave
    2. Conclave
    3. Exclave
    4. Autoclave

18. Giacomo Casanova (1725-98) is reported to have used what fruit as a contraceptive?

19. What make of aircraft is considered the first jet to fly?

    1. Heinkel
    2. Nakajima
    3. Lockheed
    4. English Electric Canberra

20. Accounting for c.30% of total global tax revenues, what form of tax did France introduce in 1954, W Germany 1968, UK 1973 and China 1984?