General Knowledge Quiz 162

Questions

1. What weather metaphor is given to the TV/video equivalent of acoustic 'noise' in audio signals?

   1. Fog
   2. Snow
   3. Mist
   4. Drizzle

2. A thermochrome is a substance which changes (what?) according to a change in (what?) - (two answers required)?

3. The name Mercator is historically associated with?

   1. Cooking/baking
   2. Globes/maps
   3. Circus/acrobatics
   4. Ballooning

4. The 180th meridian (antimeridian), dividing east and west hemispheres, passes through which island nation, named after main isle Viti Levu?

5. The US Presidential official state guest house in Washington DC is called '(What?) House'?

   1. Blair
   2. Churchill
   3. Washington
   4. Lincoln

6. Which nation developed and makes the Uzi sub-machine gun?

7. The UK political Labour Party's famously controversial 1995 constitutional 'Clause IV' amendment mainly removed a commitment to?

   1. Communism
   2. The Free Market
   3. Nationalization
   4. Trade-Unionization

8. What is the popular old name for a dog's thumb; the obsolete inner toe on some dogs's legs; also a false hoof of deer?

9. A proliferation of new Catholic saints followed the removal of which metaphorical real job role from Vatican canonization in 1983?

10. In physics a tachyon is a hypothetical particle which has what characteristic?

11. The 'telectroscope' was a theoretical device of the late 1800s which predicted which actual invention?

12. Spell the word?

    1. Obsolescance
    2. Obsolecence
    3. Obsolescence
    4. Obsolesense

13. Generally the standard steps per minute for a military 'quick march' pace is?

    1. 60
    2. 90
    3. 120
    4. 180

14. What dangerous festive annual event was popularized by Ernest Hemingway's novel The Sun Also Rises?

15. Name the bulbous narrow-necked container of 3-10 gallons, often wicker-covered, which puns French Lady Jane, with half a boy's name?

16. The Turkish-Arabic word 'kismet' means in English?

    1. The Devil
    2. Death
    3. Heaven
    4. Fate/Destiny

17. What country was first to experience the Renaissance period in Europe?

18. Spell the word Dilerious; Delirious; Delirius; Dellirious?

19. The 'Bechdel Test' is an informal measure of what in films and other fictional entertainment?

    1. Humour/Humor
    2. Sex and violence
    3. Product placement
    4. Gender bias

20. A plantar wart is more commonly known as a what?