General Knowledge Quiz 153

Questions

1. The North Atlantic Drift ocean current over NW Europe starts as what at the US Florida Strait?

2. What two-faced Roman god of beginnings and transitions is a name for a word which has two opposite meanings, and the derivation of the first month of the year?

3. Someone whose occupation is a gillie (or ghillie) works where?

   1. Slaughterhouse
   2. Airport
   3. Post-office
   4. Scottish Highlands

4. Serpula lacrymans is the technical name for what affliction of wood, notably in buildings?

5. What gambling game is also a term for a perforating tool/process, e.g., to sheets of postage stamps?

6. Lentils grow on?

   1. Trees
   2. Bushes
   3. Grasses
   4. Water

7. Which country since the late 1900s has governed/overseen the increasing independence of the New Caledonia archipelago, east of Australia?

8. What hero from Greek mythology was killed by a discus thrown by Apollo, who then named a flower after him, made from his spilled blood?

9. Chordata, Echinodermata, Anthropoda, and Anelida are four phyla (subgroups) of?

   1. Animals
   2. Worms
   3. Birds
   4. Plants

10. Cassia refers to variants of which spice?

11. A long-term experiment to demonstrate the viscosity of pitch (bitumen) at Australia's University of Queensland saw how many drops fall from a funnel of pitch between 1930-2012: 8,000, 800, 80, or 8?

12. What is the traditional Italian name for the text of an opera or musical?

13. Which two creatures support the shield on Australia's official Coat of Arms (symbol)?

14. What name for a type of railings/fence originally referred to a defensive line of wooden stakes sharpened and angled into the ground?

15. Previously called Ezo/Yezo/Yeso/Yesso, what is Japan's north and second-largest island?

16. Which people originated the game lacrosse?

17. Meaning 'quiet loud' what is the full modern Italian name for the piano?

18. Who, founder of the Mongol Empire, was the grandfather of the Mongol leader Kublai Khan (1215-94)?

19. The main purpose of a bowline knot is to produce a?

    1. Loop (at a rope-end)
    2. Join (to another rope)
    3. Join (to a ring or post)
    4. Stop (in roller/retaining devices)

20. What British army bugle call used at funerals originally signalled the end of the military day after final inspection?