General Knowledge Quiz 163
Questions
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What does the 'tele' in television, telescope, telephone, etc., mean originally in Greek?
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What prefix word joins with hearted, house, ship and year to produce four other words?
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Which traditional southern US drink is strongly associated with the Kentucky Derby?
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The biological term 'postorbital' refers to behind the?
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The traditional abbreviation AB for a seaman actually means what?
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Which corporation developed the Encarta encyclopedia?
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What is the famous weaponry invention of Israeli army officer Uziel Gal (1923-2002)?
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What geographical feature refers metaphorically to a turning point in history, or a division between two periods?
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In physics which two of these are the basic characteristics of a vector quantity: Immobility, Magnitude, Weight, Direction?
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A natural bee honeycomb is made of what material?
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The Italian bread ciabatta is named literally (actually) after what footwear?
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The lollipop brandname Chupa Chups is based on the Spanish verb to what?
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The word Tet in the Tet Offensive (N Vietnam/Viet Cong against S Vietnam/US forces on 30 Jan 1968) referred to the national?
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What mountain range makes moist winds rise and precipitate causing the monsoon of SW Asia?
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The verb word 'proscribe' means to?
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Which one of these is not among the four main human blood groups: A, B, AB, AO, O?
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The massively popular Chinese website Taobao.com (10th busiest globally at 2013) operates in which sector?
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Name the famous maker of soy sauce whose logo/name represent '10,000 tortoises'?
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What poker expression is a bold empty bluff or bad hand, and generally a brazen deceit?
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The technical term abecedarian refers to what form of organization?
Answers
- Far
- Light
- Mint Julep
- Eye
- Able-Bodied
- Microsoft
- Uzi submachine gun
- Watershed
- Magnitude and Direction
- Wax
- Slipper
- Suck
- New Year
- The Himalayas
- Forbid
- AO
- C2C shopping
- Kikkoman
- Four Flush
- Alphabetical