General Knowledge Quiz 148

Questions

1. What term refers to an edge-strike in both drumming and basketball?

2. Which long-standing anthropomorphic ursine creature did Dennis the Menace replace on the Beano comic's front cover in 1974?

3. The unrecognized state of Biafra existed from 1967-1970 in the south-east of which country?

4. In 1998 who was the first 'First Lady' to appear on the cover of Vogue?

5. Which famous smoker is associated with the expression 'three pipe problem'?

6. Founded as Thames Ironworks FC in 1895, which football club (later renamed) will occupy the London Olympic Stadium from 2016 (a clue is in club nickname and badge)?

7. Cosa Nostra refers to what organization?

   1. Catholicism
   2. Ferrari
   3. Guggi
   4. The Mafia

8. What is the project/brand name for Google's computerized spectacles?

   1. Lens
   2. Glass
   3. Spec
   4. 4i

9. What fruit is a metaphorical business term for a sub-standard product, especially a faulty car?

   1. Lemon
   2. Berry
   3. Plum
   4. Banana

10. What item of apparel metaphorically (with colour prefix, usually black or white) refers informally to an internet hacker?

    1. Hat
    2. Coat
    3. Cape
    4. Cap

11. How long (kilometres/miles) was the Berlin Wall?

    1. 4/2½
    2. 8/5
    3. 28/17½
    4. 140/87

12. If you were a mounted soldier in medieval times what would two men called Sperrin and Homer each make for you (two answers required - the words sound a little like what they refer to)?

13. What medical/industrial sterilization equipment is named from the meaning 'self-fastening'?

14. Orogeny refers to the process by which what are created?

    1. Quicksands
    2. Wormcasts
    3. Molehills
    4. Mountains

15. What Caribbean dance shares its name with a religious concept of somewhere between heaven and hell?

16. Opprobrium refers to a deep form of?

    1. Wisdom
    2. Respect
    3. Criticism
    4. Denial

17. Which US corporation sold its personal computer business including Thinkpad brand to the world-leading Chinese manufactuer Lenovo in 2005?

18. What reductive metaphor refers to a percentage subtraction from the market value of an asset, which became a description for the EU-imposed tax on Cyprus bank deposits in 2013?

    1. Trim
    2. Shave
    3. Crop
    4. Haircut

19. Name the smartphone app devised by a London teenager bought by Yahoo for reportedly £18m in 2013?

20. Where in the human body are glial cells?