General Knowledge Quiz 160

Questions

1. What famously large and successful partnership uses motto: 'Never knowingly undersold'?

2. Ingvar Kamprad founded what famous modern-day organization?

3. (At 2013) the 230m high Heron Tower is the tallest skyscraper of which historical financial city centre district?

4. In June 2013 US Texas State Senator Wendy Davis filibustered for 10 hours to obstruct Texas state laws concerning?

   1. GM Crops
   2. Abortion
   3. Guns
   4. Gay Marriage

5. What is the Intel Corporation's famous and strangely apple-related processor brandname?

6. In 2013 the (UK) Girl Guides and Boy Scouts Associations said they would no longer demand an oath of duty to what?

   1. Parents
   2. Country
   3. Animals
   4. God

7. The recently banned (considered non-pc) official 200 year-old Royal Naval toast to "Our wives and sweethearts.." is traditionally extended?

   1. "NORWICH"
   2. "We'll meet again"
   3. "Meet me in St Louis"
   4. "May they never meet"

8. What trade uses a pattress or pattress box?

   1. Carpenter
   2. Electrician
   3. Bricklayer
   4. Roofer

9. Graminoids are more commonly known as what plant form?

10. What iconic genus of fish (technical name Hippocampus) is considered the slowest swimming of all fish, whose dwarf species achieves no more than about 1.5metres per hour?

11. What does the 'D' in the comic book corporation 'DC Comics Inc.' originally stand for?

12. Name the vast South Korean conglomerate including car-maker which went bankrupt in 1999?

13. The 'naut' in the words 'astronaut' and 'aeronaut' meant originally what?

14. Name the Australian Prime Ministers who replaced each other in 2010 and in 2013?

15. What joint in the body leverages the fastest human motion?

    1. Hip
    2. Knee
    3. Shoulder
    4. Wrist

16. The biological mating theory that males seek novelty and females seek familiarity is known as the '(What US President?) Effect'?

    1. Kennedy
    2. Coolidge
    3. Clinton
    4. Bush

17. Which bit of Napoleon Boneparte was famously claimed to have been acquired in the late 1900s for several thousand dollars by US medical scientist and war paraphernalia collector John Lattimer?

    1. Little finger
    2. Big toe
    3. Glass-Eye
    4. Penis

18. In which country is the most remote (farthest away) place from any sea or ocean?

19. Which one of these is not (at 2013) among the top ten currencies traded globally: US Dollar, Swiss Franc, Japanese Yen, Australian Dollar, or Russian Ruble?

20. What unusual shape might a rainbow adopt when seen from a plane flying above the clouds?

    1. Ring
    2. Triangle
    3. Square
    4. Straight line