General Knowledge Quiz #133

General Knowledge Quiz #133

Questions

1. Japan's legislative/governmental two-house assembly is called the National: Diet; Eat; Fit; or Food?
2. What modern term, alluding to a display place, refers to the consumer buying tactic of assessing products in retail stores, but then buying them online at a lower price?
3. The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) was founded in 1991 as a 'successor entity' to what?
4. C&W traditionally refers to what sort of music/lifeftyle/image?
5. What abbreviation, loosely equating to Ltd in the UK, and LLC in the US, denotes a private corporation in Australia and South Africa?
6. A440 refers to the international standard (ISO 16) for what: Musical tuning pitch; Food/drink sweetness; Safety match striking friction; or Pneumatic tyre pressure?
7. From Greek for gadfly/frenzy, what word refers to the recurring period of sexual receptivity in female mammals?
8. Spell: Viscicitude; Vicicitude; Vicissitude; or Vicisitude?
9. What two countries have the longest motorway/interstate highway networks in the world?
10. Rheology is the science/study of: Substance flow; Body waste; Kidney disease; or Electrical current?
11. What event caused Twitter's servers to crash on 25 June 2009?
12. What word for 'the end of the world' referred originally to a revelation?
13. A gastrolith is a: Restaurant menu; Food critic; Dinosaur; or Stone swalled by a bird/fish to aid digestion?
14. In China the terms 'fragrant', 'earth lamb', and '3-6' refer to the meat of which creature?
15. The word callow means: Sickly; Weak; Pale; or Immature?
16. The historical Zaibunnisa Street, is in what heavily commercialised and populated city, made capital at national independence in 1947, until 1958?
17. What surname appeared most in the UK Leveson Inquiry Report about media/press privacy and phone hacking?
18. Thraex, murmillo, and hoplomachus are types of: Greek salads; Carnivorous dinosaurs; Snails; or Roman gladiators?
19. In hairdressing what generally is the final stage of a hair perming process: Toning; Post-damping; Neutralizing; or Crimping?
20. Hyperemesis gravidarum is an extreme form of what commonly named medical condition?

1. Japan's legislative/governmental two-house assembly is called the National: Diet; Eat; Fit; or Food?

   Diet 
2. What modern term, alluding to a display place, refers to the consumer buying tactic of assessing products in retail stores, but then buying them online at a lower price?

   Showrooming 
3. The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) was founded in 1991 as a 'successor entity' to what?

   The USSR 
4. C&W traditionally refers to what sort of music/lifeftyle/image?

   Country and Western
5. What abbreviation, loosely equating to Ltd in the UK, and LLC in the US, denotes a private corporation in Australia and South Africa?

   Pty 
6. A440 refers to the international standard (ISO 16) for what: Musical tuning pitch; Food/drink sweetness; Safety match striking friction; or Pneumatic tyre pressure?

   Musical tuning pitch 
7. From Greek for gadfly/frenzy, what word refers to the recurring period of sexual receptivity in female mammals?

   Oestrus 
8. Spell: Viscicitude; Vicicitude; Vicissitude; or Vicisitude?

   , and it means a change of: Weather/Climate; Fortune/Circumstances; Purpose/Aim; or Fashion/Trend
9. What two countries have the longest motorway/interstate highway networks in the world?

   USA and China 
10. Rheology is the science/study of: Substance flow; Body waste; Kidney disease; or Electrical current?

    Substance flow 
11. What event caused Twitter's servers to crash on 25 June 2009?

    Michael Jackson's death
12. What word for 'the end of the world' referred originally to a revelation?

    Apocalypse 
13. A gastrolith is a: Restaurant menu; Food critic; Dinosaur; or Stone swalled by a bird/fish to aid digestion?

    Stone swalled by a bird/fish to aid digestion
14. In China the terms 'fragrant', 'earth lamb', and '3-6' refer to the meat of which creature?

    Dog 
15. The word callow means: Sickly; Weak; Pale; or Immature?

    Immature 
16. The historical Zaibunnisa Street, is in what heavily commercialised and populated city, made capital at national independence in 1947, until 1958?

    Karachi 
17. What surname appeared most in the UK Leveson Inquiry Report about media/press privacy and phone hacking?

    Murdoch
18. Thraex, murmillo, and hoplomachus are types of: Greek salads; Carnivorous dinosaurs; Snails; or Roman gladiators?

    Roman gladiators
19. In hairdressing what generally is the final stage of a hair perming process: Toning; Post-damping; Neutralizing; or Crimping?

    Neutralizing
20. Hyperemesis gravidarum is an extreme form of what commonly named medical condition?

    Morning sickness