General Knowledge Quiz 133

Questions

1. Japan's legislative/governmental two-house assembly is called the National?

   1. Diet
   2. Eat
   3. Fit
   4. 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?

   1. Musical tuning pitch
   2. Food/drink sweetness
   3. Safety match striking friction
   4. Pneumatic tyre pressure

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

8. Spell?

   1. Viscicitude
   2. Vicicitude
   3. Vicissitude
   4. Vicisitude

9. What two countries have the longest motorway/interstate highway networks in the world?

10. Rheology is the science/study of?

    1. Substance flow
    2. Body waste
    3. Kidney disease
    4. 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?

    1. Restaurant menu
    2. Food critic
    3. Dinosaur
    4. 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?

    1. Sickly
    2. Weak
    3. Pale
    4. 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?

    1. Greek salads
    2. Carnivorous dinosaurs
    3. Snails
    4. Roman gladiators

19. In hairdressing what generally is the final stage of a hair perming process?

    1. Toning
    2. Post-damping
    3. Neutralizing
    4. Crimping

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