General Knowledge Quiz 174

Questions

1. What legendary man-trapping creature is actually the world's the largest living bivalve mollusk?

2. What term refers to a traditional alternative to electronic or digital technology, and separately to something which corresponds to another?

3. What does the internet top level domain '.cat' represent?

4. Copra is the dried white meat or flesh of what?

5. The Malayalam language is from, and still used by over 30 million people in?

   1. China
   2. Malaysia
   3. India
   4. Australia

6. What characteristic of Borneo ranks it among the largest five globally?

   1. Island
   2. Mountain
   3. Lake
   4. Population

7. What does the pencil grade HB stand for?

8. What swirly pattern is named after the administrative central town of Renfrewshire in Scotland?

9. The roadrunner (Geococcyx, or chaparral bird) is a member of which bird family?

   1. Loon
   2. Cuckoo
   3. Stork
   4. Ostrich

10. Musk, a common basic fragrance, takes its name from Sanskrit 'muska' meaning?

    1. Flower
    2. Deer
    3. Lemon
    4. Scrotum

11. What word makes five new words when prefixed with: Form, Fume, Jury, Son, and Verse?

12. What part of the human body contains bone-forms called Phalange, Cuneiform, Talus and Calcaneus?

13. The mythological Phoenix bird originally and essentially symbolized?

    1. Fire
    2. Ashes/Remains
    3. Flight
    4. Rebirth

14. Superannuation is an alternative (and Australian/NZ) term for what sort financial payment scheme?

15. How many curves characterize a Cupid's Bow?

    1. One
    2. Two
    3. Three
    4. Four

16. What does the Greek prefix 'iso' mean?

    1. Many
    2. Long
    3. Equal
    4. Two

17. What traditional strong ceramic material is named ultimately from a pig?

18. From Latin meaning 'stake', what is the hinged or pivoted catch preventing reverse motion of a ratchet wheel?

    1. Pawl
    2. Stawl
    3. Rawl
    4. Yawl

19. Named onomatopoeically, a sistrum is an ancient Egyptian instrument of?

    1. Musical percussion
    2. Torture
    3. Water-dowsing
    4. Navigation

20. What term, originally German, refers to the imprint in snow made when falling backwards?

    1. Fallenbach
    2. Schnodent
    3. Gappeneitz
    4. Sitzmark