General Knowledge Quiz 178

Questions

1. The hawse is a hole in the side of a ship for the?

   1. Toilet waste
   2. Anchor cable/chain
   3. Foglight
   4. Harpoon/Gun-barrel

2. Sprachgefühl is a German term for the (and possessing the) natural?

   1. Eye for a ball
   2. Feeling of language
   3. Poise of a ballerina
   4. Cunning of a fox

3. Name the late 1800s eponymous and genericized trademark cutting tool with replacement blade, whose founding organization merged with Black & Decker in 2010?

4. German organic chemist Baron Justus von Liebig (1803-73), a 'founding father of the fertilizers', also founded which meaty three-letter brand?

5. Pele is which nation's goddess of volcanoes?

   1. Brazil
   2. Hawaii
   3. Iceland
   4. Italy

6. What is the approximate total coastline of Australia, excluding its islands?

   1. 4,000miles
   2. 7,500miles
   3. 15,000miles, or 22,000miles

7. Which one of these is not in the conventional western violin string tuning: E A B D G?

8. Who retained a weakness where held and dipped by his mother into the river Styx to make him immortal?

9. Staphylococcus and Streptococcus are types of?

   1. Protozoa
   2. Bacteria
   3. Virus
   4. Fungus

10. What plant provides the raw material for linen?

11. Stannic and stannous refer to variations of which metallic element?

12. Originating in India, paneer (or panir/chhena/chhana) is a type of?

    1. Cake
    2. Wine
    3. Omelette
    4. Cheese

13. What word prefixes the following to produce five different words: Pet, Diddle, Site, Graph, Meter?

14. From ancient Greek 'all gods' what word refers to (a temple for) the collective dieties of a religion, and metaphorically to the leaders of a field?

15. The softest known mineral, magnesium silicate, is commonly called what in its loose form?

16. Hank is a unit of measurement of?

    1. Yarn/twine
    2. Livestock
    3. Diver's compression
    4. Musical echo

17. The legume plant Glycyrrhiza glabra is commonly called what (also a confectionery derived from its boiled root)?

18. The medical term sclerosis refers to the abnormal (what?) of body tissue?

    1. Multiplying
    2. Softening
    3. Hardening
    4. Wasting

19. What 1500s tradename for a harnesses maker, later a slaughterer of old horses, and dialectal term for castanets, became slang for testes and verb terms for various states of uselessness?

20. The Coca-Cola corporation launched its Sprite drink in 1961 to compete with which similarly famous earlier product?