General Knowledge Quiz 157

Questions

1. From what fruit is perry traditionally made?

2. What homonymic word refers both to a pit and a hunted animal?

3. What is the hardest working muscle (i.e., total power output) in the lifetime of the human body?

4. The diacritical mark resembling a wavy hyphen (here shown above the letter ñ) is called a?

   1. Streg
   2. Bolle
   3. Tilde
   4. Cedilla

5. The words vagary/vagaries refer specifically to unpredictable?

   1. Vagueness
   2. Change/changes
   3. Unhappiness
   4. Problems

6. The Japanese food word sushi referred originally to?

   1. Raw
   2. Rice
   3. Cold
   4. Conveyor-belt

7. What metaphor aptly refers to the marketing of US multinational US corporation Bausch and Lomb?

   1. Focus
   2. Target
   3. Concentrate
   4. Penetrate

8. In motion-detection and automated lighting sensors what does PIR mean?

9. What creatures were trained by Croatia's Zagreb university in 2013 to detect landmines?

   1. Pigs
   2. Bees
   3. Cats
   4. Rats, or Bats

10. The term 'cytoplasm' originated in?

    1. Star Wars
    2. Dr Who
    3. Batman
    4. Biology

11. What highly influential movement of artwork is considered established by Picasso, Braque, Metzinger and others in Paris, 1911?

12. The expression 'sour grapes', from one of Aesop's Fables, involves which creature?

13. The AZERTY keyboard layout is standard in?

    1. France
    2. Germany
    3. Denmark
    4. Wales

14. The term 'mondegreen' refers to?

    1. Gardening
    2. Climate change
    3. Cooking
    4. Misheard lyrics

15. The terms crutching, wigging and ringing refer to elements of which animal process, prevalent in Australia and New Zealand?

16. D'addario, Elixir, Rotosound and Ernie Ball are leading makers of what musical accessory?

17. Apples, plums, cherries, apricots, raspberries and strawberries all belong to which plant family?

    1. Honeysuckle
    2. Lily
    3. Magnolia
    4. Rose

18. In which modern nation was the city-state called in Hebrew: Babel?

19. The UK-based ASOS corporation is a leading international online provider in which sector?

    1. Education
    2. Fashionwear
    3. Holidays
    4. Mapping

20. Nuclear 'What?