General Knowledge Quiz 145

Questions

1. What smartphone operating system increased its market share from 4% in 2009 to 70% in 2013?

2. The flammable intoxicating compound Hydroxyethane (C2H6O) is better known as what chemical?

3. In economics the Lorenz Curve is a graphical representation of typically?

   1. Wealth distribution/inequality
   2. Inflation
   3. Gold price
   4. Pet ownership

4. Hydromel is a very old alcoholic drink made with fermented what?

5. Przewalski's (what?) is the once extinct (in the wild, Mongolia) now reintroduced and only true wild?

   1. Horse
   2. Cow
   3. Pig
   4. Turkey

6. The word psalm derives from meaning a song sung to what instrument?

   1. Guitar
   2. Harp
   3. Piano
   4. Organ

7. The prefix 'neo' (neocon, Neolithic, neo-Nazi, neonatal, etc) means?

   1. New
   2. Old
   3. Nearly
   4. Extreme

8. A gimlet tool is traditionally shaped like the letter?

   1. T
   2. S
   3. V
   4. D

9. The famously gruelling c.1,100mile (1,800km) Iditarod Trial Dog Sled Race is run annually each March where?

   1. North/South Poles
   2. Chile
   3. Finland
   4. Alaska

10. Devised in 1920 from Russian research into proximity sensing, what eponymous musical instrument is controlled by the player's proximity to it?

11. What uniquely specialized profession traditionally uses a Piscatory Ring?

12. What was the first element discovered in space (actually at the Sun)?

13. What 2nd World War US pilot's alliterative expression for an unidentified flying object, from the 'Smoky Stover' cartoon strip, inspired the name of a rock band?

14. The term phylum generally refers to a classification of?

    1. Living things
    2. Medicine
    3. Facial expressions
    4. Photography

15. Bort or boart refers to waste/inferior what, used for industrial purposes?

16. What does HALO stand for in military/paratrooper terminology?

17. Which country is famous for its Blue Lagoon hot springs bathing lake?

18. A 2012-13 UK Competition Commission found basic failings of innovation, quality and integrity among the four globally dominant providers of what B2B service?

    1. Auditing
    2. Banking
    3. Insurance
    4. Real Estate/Property

19. The French-English word 'tronc' refers to what, shared by a number of people?

    1. Bicycles
    2. Staff tips/gratuities
    3. Guns
    4. Parenting duties

20. In which human sensory organ is Bruch's membrane?