General Knowledge Quiz 137

Questions

1. Operation Serval refers to France's military intervention in which former colony's civil war?

2. What word referring to an organizational disaster derives from Venetian glass-blowing?

3. Eddy, vortex and gyre refer to what specific characteristic of fluid flow?

   1. Dangerous, Random
   2. Rotating
   3. Sucking

4. Name the form of carbon considered (early 2000s) the strongest material ever, which having a thickness of one atom has just two dimensions?

5. How many countries border the Sargasso Sea?

   1. None
   2. One
   3. Two
   4. Three

6. White chocolate consists of sugar, milk solids, salt, and specifically what other main ingredient?

7. An adult oyster can filter (up to) what volume of water per day?

   1. Two pints
   2. Ten pints
   3. Ten litres
   4. Fifty gallons

8. ECHR refers to which internationally significant legal institution?

9. In 2013, 29% of what meat was found in Tesco's value beefburgers?

   1. Goat
   2. Wild boar
   3. Dog
   4. Horse

10. What is a serval?

    1. Cat
    2. Dog
    3. Monkey
    4. Snake

11. In early 2013 where was a cat favourite/favorite to replace the shoe or the wheelbarrow?

12. Daniel Hooper, a famous British protestor, is better known by what nickname, earned during his (literally) underground resistance to the Newbury bypass in 1996?

13. Spell?

    1. Pestillance
    2. Pestilence
    3. Pestillence
    4. Pestilance

14. Name the notable 20thC US poet and short story author who wrote the stirring epigrammatic poem 'Late Fragment'?

15. Which two of these are not among the six flavours/flavors of the elementary quark particle: up, down, strange, queer, charm, chance, bottom, top?

16. Name the Utah USA salt flats famous for land-speed records and a Triumph motorbike model?

17. From the Greek words for inside and look at, what is the medical instrument which enables examination via a narrow tube inserted into the body?

18. ENSA referred to what type of support (bonus point, name the organization?) for British armed forces during the 2nd World War?

19. Frettabladid is (early 2000s) the leading newspaper of which island nation?

20. What model number Boeing plane is called the Dreamliner (after being renamed in 2005)?