General Knowledge Quiz 202

Questions

1. The word pyjamas (US pajamas) originated from?

   1. JM Barrie's Peter Pan
   2. Bengali/Persian 'leg garment'
   3. Slang for 'prison jacket'
   4. Biblical clothes worn by desciples of Jesus

2. When an entity/person disposes of significant assets, perhaps unwisely, to raise money, this is called 'Selling off the family (What?)?

   1. Treasure
   2. Silver
   3. Jewells
   4. Children

3. The 13th century legend of Lady Godiva, riding naked on horseback in Coventry to save townsfolk from her husband's taxes, featured/originated the notion of a voyeur called 'Peeping (Who?)'?

   1. Paul
   2. Tom
   3. Dick
   4. Kevin

4. The saying which alludes to a character in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and to the intoxicating effects of a trade glue is 'Mad as a (What?)'?

   1. Carpenter
   2. Hatter
   3. Tailor
   4. Dentist

5. The internationally significant UK organizations PRS and PPL which merged in 2016 operate in which sector?

   1. Renewable energy
   2. Music
   3. Travel
   4. Espionage and security intelligence

6. What single digit whole number is the cube root of 64?

7. Jana Gana Mana is, since 1950, the national anthem of?

   1. China
   2. India
   3. Russia
   4. France

8. Religious Christian instruction - typically spoken fixed questions and answers - is called?

   1. Cataclysm
   2. Catechism
   3. Catatonia
   4. Catamaran

9. Gleeking is the popular technical term for: Cracking knuckles?

   1. Scrunching knees
   2. Stomach gurgling
   3. Spurting saliva out of the mouth from glands under the tongue

10. Radioactive decay of naturally occurring Uranium eventually concludes as?

    1. Gold
    2. Oxygen
    3. Lead
    4. Sugar

11. On a standard English QWERTY keyboard the % (percent) sign is above the number?

    1. 2
    2. 5
    3. 7
    4. 0

12. Swedish amateur jockey Helena Stahl controversially did what to her horse after it was put down due to injury in 2015?

    1. Stuffed/mounted it
    2. Sent its ashes to Mars
    3. Made jewellery from its bones
    4. Ate it

13. An anaesthetist (US anesthesiologist) is a type of?

    1. Atomic scientist
    2. Astronomer
    3. Medical doctor
    4. Sheet metal-worker

14. A 'short corner' or 'penalty corner' features in?

    1. Ice hockey
    2. Field hockey
    3. Australian Rules Football
    4. Table tennis

15. Which country occupying 47% of South America has states including Amazonas, Sao Paulo, Bahia and Para?

16. The English-Greek prefix 'peri' means?

    1. Up/over
    2. Round/about
    3. Vision
    4. Hidden

17. Rolls Royce famously makes (What?) for the aircraft industry?

    1. Fuselages
    2. Engines
    3. Electronics
    4. Leather seats

18. Pranayama refers generally to what aspect of yoga?

    1. Praying
    2. Breathing
    3. Singing
    4. Pyjamas/Pajamas

19. What once world-leading social networking website was bought by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation for $580m in 2005, and sold to Specific Media Group and Justin Timberlake for $35m in 2011?

20. What is a pullover, a New US state, a UK channel island and knitted fabric first produced there?