General Knowledge Quiz 139

Questions

1. Name the UK seaside town famous for jet stone, and whose St Mary's Church featured in Bram Stoker's Dracula?

2. Peripatetic refers to work which involves?

   1. Teaching
   2. Travel
   3. Medicine
   4. Writing

3. What is the only 'big cat' found wild in the Americas which roars?

4. What capital city is phonetically (sounds) the same as a traditional open-roofed Moroccan house and means 'the gardens/garden'?

5. The Shoemaker-Levy 9 Comet broke up and impacted where, in 1994, to huge astronomical and media interest?

   1. Jupiter
   2. Mars
   3. The Sun
   4. Mexico

6. In terms of actions, activities, projects, etc., the word hiatus means a?

   1. Conflict
   2. Pause
   3. Climax
   4. Crisis

7. Roughly what is the distance in miles (or km) from the Earth's surface to its centre/center?

8. The six soft alkali metals (lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, caesium, and francium) react with water to produce what gas?

9. In physics, the elementary exchange particles ('gauge bosons') between quarks are called?

   1. Gluons
   2. Addons
   3. Stickons
   4. Clingons

10. Where in the human body is the glottis?

11. London's Savoy Hotel entrance roundabout provided the 25ft (8m) basis for a standard UK?

    1. Mini-roundabout
    2. Black Cab turning-circle
    3. Bus length
    4. Helipad

12. Who was in 1907 the youngest Nobel Literature Prizewinner, and later declined a knighthood and UK Poet Laurateship?

13. The Republic of Upper Volta was renamed what (two-words) in 1984, meaning respectively 'men of integrity' and 'fatherland' in its two native languages?

14. Pandeiro is a popular example of what in Brazil?

    1. Percussion
    2. Dance
    3. Food
    4. Horse

15. Hircine refers to being like or related to what creature?

16. What Anglicized French word for a sort of clothing derives from meaning 'doing the washing'?

17. The Latin term 'per capita' means 'for... The entire population; Each person; Paying customers; or Registered voters?

18. What slang word for a sailor derives from old Dutch meaning 'bed companion'?

19. (Before Jurassic Park) the word raptor technically refers to what sort of carnivorous creature?

    1. Lion
    2. Dragon
    3. Snake
    4. Bird

20. What ingredient causes a can of cola to sink in water, whereas a can of diet cola floats?