General Knowledge Quiz 155

Questions

1. Eurhythmics is an educational approach for teaching what via what (two answers required)?

2. Name the four performance industries to which these awards respectively apply: Emmy, Grammy, Academy (Oscar), Tony?

3. Name the four performance industries to which these awards respectively apply: 1. Emmy, 2. Grammy, 3. Academy (Oscar), 4. Tony?

4. What air mattress genericized trademark is a portmanteau of its two-word description?

5. What term for a fungal mold derives from an old mistaken idea that it distilled from the air?

6. The green gemstone peridot is known in its mineral form by what edible coloured/colored name?

7. What pluralized term refers to a building's roof edge adjoining its wall, usually designed to prevent rainwater ingress?

8. The significant 18th century Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707-83) is noted for solving the 'Seven (What?) of Königsberg problem'?

   1. Churches
   2. Bridges
   3. Towers
   4. Arches

9. The Indian currency the Rupee takes its name from Hindi and Sanskrit, 'wrought (what metal)'?

10. Central to Norse mythology, Yggdrasil is a huge what, connected to the cosmos?

    1. Tree
    2. Rainbow
    3. Mountain
    4. Ladder

11. What colour/color flag was historically first displayed to indicate sickness aboard a ship?

12. A radionuclide is a radioactive?

    1. Mineral
    2. Gas
    3. Isotope
    4. Electron

13. Approximately how many years old is the living part of Australia's Great Barrier Reef?

    1. 200
    2. 2,000
    3. 20,000
    4. 2 million

14. A traditional light-bulb containing a glowing filament is technically called what, from the Latin 'glow white'?

15. The 3D geometric shape called a torus is illustrated by what sort of cake?

    1. Cupcake
    2. Battenberg
    3. Swiss roll
    4. Ring doughnut

16. What highly durable footwear is used to name a species of bat and crab, alluding respectively to nose and body shapes?

17. Popularized by a 2007 US comedy film what item prefixes a list of things to do before dying?

18. ASCII (referring to computer language) means what in full?

19. Proposed by German physician Johann Becher in 1667, the now obsolete 'Phlogiston theory' explained what phenomenon?

20. What name is given to a puzzle or word construction which hides a word within single letters of other words?

    1. Metapuzzle
    2. Acrostic
    3. Tangram
    4. Anagram

21. Which animal provided the etymological and scientific derivation of a 'vaccine'?