General Knowledge Quiz #165

General Knowledge Quiz #165

Questions

1. Which one of these refers to a summary rather than a verbatim quote?
2. What chord is said punningly to be produced when dropping a piano down a mine-shaft?
3. What vegetable's thinner lighter variant has an established alternative name 'Tenderstem'?
4. What gambling game takes its name from French for toad, supposedly from players' hunched positions?
5. To whom is this quote famously misattributed: "If I'd asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." ?
6. What popular superhero is also the largest land-dwelling member of the Mustelidae (weasel) family?
7. Which vastly shrunken, once ubiquitous brand urged users to 'Let your fingers do the walking'?
8. Which car manufacturer produced the models Giulietta, Berlina, Brera and Spider?
9. What colour/color traditionally are the Smurf cartoon characters?
10. What red fruit-juice-based drink whose name alludes to energy was first produced by John Noel Nichols in Manchester, 1908?
11. An insect of the order Diptera is more commonly called a what?
12. Name the payday loan company brand which the UK Church of England both denounced and funded in 2013?
13. Drudge Report, TMZ, Gawker and Perez Hilton are websites noted for: Sport; Environmental campaigning; Holiday bargains; or Exposing scandals?
14. What is the fruit of the Phoenix genus of plants?
15. The words ephemera/ephemeral refer to things of a: Wild imagination; Vast scale; Tiny scale; or Brief duration?
16. Anaphylaxis is what sort of life-threatening illness: Allergic reaction; Virus; Heart attack; or Sexually transmitted disease?
17. What legal term refers to the increasing of guilt or seriousness of a crime due to attendant circumstances such as intent, use of a weapon, severity of injury, etc?
18. Babel Fish is an icon/metaphor/brand for instantaneous what?
19. The Fresnel lens (in which concentric steps maximise light focus and minimise lens weight), popular in the 1900s in vehicle lights, was first devised c.1820 for what application?
20. The Duke of Wellington's suggestion of "Sparrowhawks" to Queen Victoria was made in connection with the control of birds at which London building?

1. Which one of these refers to a summary rather than a verbatim quote?

   Abstract, Excerpt, Extract? Abstract
2. What chord is said punningly to be produced when dropping a piano down a mine-shaft?

   A Flat Minor 
3. What vegetable's thinner lighter variant has an established alternative name 'Tenderstem'?

   Broccoli 
4. What gambling game takes its name from French for toad, supposedly from players' hunched positions?

   Craps 
5. To whom is this quote famously misattributed: "If I'd asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." ?

   Henry Ford 
6. What popular superhero is also the largest land-dwelling member of the Mustelidae (weasel) family?

   Wolverine
7. Which vastly shrunken, once ubiquitous brand urged users to 'Let your fingers do the walking'?

   Yellow Pages 
8. Which car manufacturer produced the models Giulietta, Berlina, Brera and Spider?

   Alfa Romeo
9. What colour/color traditionally are the Smurf cartoon characters?

   Blue
10. What red fruit-juice-based drink whose name alludes to energy was first produced by John Noel Nichols in Manchester, 1908?

    Vimto 
11. An insect of the order Diptera is more commonly called a what?

    Fly 
12. Name the payday loan company brand which the UK Church of England both denounced and funded in 2013?

    Wonga 
13. Drudge Report, TMZ, Gawker and Perez Hilton are websites noted for: Sport; Environmental campaigning; Holiday bargains; or Exposing scandals?

    Exposing scandals 
14. What is the fruit of the Phoenix genus of plants?

    Dates 
15. The words ephemera/ephemeral refer to things of a: Wild imagination; Vast scale; Tiny scale; or Brief duration?

    Brief duration 
16. Anaphylaxis is what sort of life-threatening illness: Allergic reaction; Virus; Heart attack; or Sexually transmitted disease?

    Allergic reaction 
17. What legal term refers to the increasing of guilt or seriousness of a crime due to attendant circumstances such as intent, use of a weapon, severity of injury, etc?

    Aggravation 
18. Babel Fish is an icon/metaphor/brand for instantaneous what?

    Translation 
19. The Fresnel lens (in which concentric steps maximise light focus and minimise lens weight), popular in the 1900s in vehicle lights, was first devised c.1820 for what application?

    Lighthouses 
20. The Duke of Wellington's suggestion of "Sparrowhawks" to Queen Victoria was made in connection with the control of birds at which London building?

    Crystal Palace