General Knowledge Quiz 164

Questions

1. What old English four-letter word, in use today, means 'to avoid the risk of'?

2. The early 2000s brands Heat, Fantasy, Pink Friday, Fame, and Lovely, are examples of celebrity product diversification into?

   1. Perfumes
   2. Nightclubs
   3. Diets
   4. Underwear

3. What anciently devised method of moving a liquid with minimal effort up and then down makes use of hydrostatic and atmospheric pressures and gravity?

4. The mentha plant genus is more commonly called what?

5. In music what is the relative major chord of F#m (F sharp minor)?

6. What US term is a cocktail of spirit and fizzy mixer/water and ice, and slang verb for travel fast?

7. What reptilian nickname is given to the lowest score in double-dice gambling, said by the superstitious to represent bad luck or treachery?

8. The Mitsubishi name means literally what in Japanese, as in its logo?

9. Spell the vegetable?

   1. Broccoli
   2. Brocoli
   3. Broccolli
   4. Brocolli

10. Which living things have phloem and xylem?

    1. Birds
    2. Plants
    3. Fish
    4. People

11. What piece initially occupies H8 on a conventional chessboard diagram?

12. The construction term 'soffit' refers to what aspect of an arch or overhang?

    1. Shadow
    2. Angle
    3. Underside
    4. Base

13. The bird group Merops Apiaster is more commonly named after what creature that it eats?

14. The Patrouille de France is the national?

    1. Wine
    2. Sandwich
    3. Mountain
    4. Aerial Display Team

15. US poet Henry Longfellow's epic 1855 poem 'The Song of (Who?)' also popularized which famous fictional Native American Indian woman, the central character's lover (two answers required)?

16. The South American tradename 'chiclero' refers to a worker who collects the raw material for which hugely popular confectionery product?

17. The Latin 'cochleare majus' was the common 1700s term for what kitchen/chemist measurement?

18. The term Hibernian refers to which nation?

    1. England
    2. Scotland
    3. Ireland
    4. Wales

19. The bay leaf plant originated what term of glory or repute?

20. What was Italian scientist Aloysius Lilius' globally significant chronological creation of 1582?

    1. Pocket Watch
    2. Pocket Diary
    3. Gregorian Calendar
    4. Sundial