General Knowledge Quiz 136

Questions

1. Glock pistols are made by which country?

2. Extraversion/introversion, Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Neuroticism, and Openness to experience and are the 'Big Five' dimensions of what popular acronymically-named personality analysis theory?

3. What language was first to be represented in dictionaries and related language theory?

   1. Chinese
   2. Latin
   3. Hebrew
   4. Greek

4. What modern digital display term is an abbreviated portmanteau word from picture and element?

5. The historic (at 2012, three-branch-line) San Francisco cable car system comprises how many actual cables in total?

   1. Four
   2. Forty
   3. Four hundred
   4. Four thousand

6. What sort of fastener has a crown, legs and teeth?

7. The term 'chamois' (informally 'shammy'), soft leather for cleaning/wiping/gloves/etc, is named after, and originally made from what sort of creature?

   1. Pig/boar
   2. Mountain goat/antelope
   3. River eel
   4. Cow

8. Spell the word?

   1. Catarrh
   2. Catahrr
   3. Catargh
   4. Catarrgh

9. Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangio-Pancreatography (ERCP) is used in what field?

   1. Medicine
   2. Geology
   3. Engineering
   4. Archaeology

10. Name the big inflatable sphere in which thrill-seeking people roll down hills and on water?

    1. Zorb
    2. Zall
    3. Borb
    4. Rolb

11. Il Duce' - subject of revivalist support in Italy in the 2000s - is better known by what name?

12. What was reported stolen from Microsoft's R&D offices in Silicone Valley in Dec 2012?

    1. MS Smartphones
    2. MS Tablets
    3. MS Code
    4. Apple iPads

13. The word scrutiny derives (early 15th century) from Latin 'scruta', a 'mixed uncertain lot of (what?)'?

    1. Trash/old things
    2. Legal papers
    3. Gold/jewels
    4. People

14. In the study of anthropods, name the 'Three Ps' considered natural controls/suppressors of insect plague?

15. What traditional item of apparel (silk, cotton, or paper), used by hand, is named after an old French word for a head covering?

16. What seabird is named from Norse 'stinking gull' because of vomiting when disturbed?

17. The Métis are a substantial group of aboriginal people of which nation?

18. Platter, j-bar, bum, button, and Poma are equivalent terms for what apparatus?

19. What's the world's oldest amateur rowing club (now at Henley-on Thames, UK) named after the Greek mythological lover of the priestess Hero, who drowned swimming the Hellespont to visit her?

20. What often controversial medical research/treatment term derives from the Latin 'I shall be pleasing'?