General Knowledge Quiz 208

Questions

1. The popular informal term for a circus is The Big?

   1. Hat
   2. Ring
   3. Top
   4. Bottom

2. Insert the missing term in this reducing metric prefix sequence: Centi, Milli, Micro, (What?), Pico, Femto?

   1. Nano
   2. Mega
   3. Kilo
   4. Giga

3. Martha's Vinyard, south of Cape Cod, is a famous?

   1. Racetrack
   2. Mountain range
   3. Vacation island
   4. School for Popes

4. The Gaelic-originating surname prefix Mac or Mc meant originally?

   1. Elder
   2. Son
   3. Daughter
   4. Red-haired

5. The central financial City of London is known as the (What?) Mile?

   1. Money
   2. Murder
   3. Square
   4. Crooked

6. What bodily substance containing electrolytes, glycoproteins, and enzymes performs main functions in: Taste, Digestion, and Lubrication?

7. Match these equating French/English word pairs: Aussi, Bientot, Jamais, Toujours, Soon, Never, Always, Also?

8. Ptolemy (AD100-170), Roman/Egyptian, was a famous?

   1. Writer
   2. Battle
   3. City
   4. Flood

9. From Latin meaning 'small room' what are the 'building blocks of life' and smallest units able to replicate independently?

10. What is the diameter of the world in kilometres?

    1. 12,742 19,008
    2. 27,783
    3. 652,500

11. What in the world is at Zero Degrees Latitude and Zero Degrees Longitude?

    1. North Pole, South Pole
    2. NATO HQ
    3. A weather observation buoy

12. The name of which famous island borough, also a cocktail and Woody Allen film, derives from Lenape Native American Indian, land owners until Dutch settler acquisition, 1626?

13. Roughly what is the volume of a ball 10 inches wide (in cubic inches)?

    1. 105
    2. 162
    3. 524
    4. 2,500

14. Dr Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel), author of 'The Cat in the Hat' and 'Green Eggs and Ham', is most famous in what literary genre?

    1. Crime/thrillers
    2. Chick lit
    3. Horror
    4. Children's

15. A spoken error, considered perhaps more truthful than the intended word(s), is called a '(What?) slip'?

    1. Jungian
    2. Freudian
    3. Dickensian
    4. Shakespearian

16. Spell the word for a type of neck pendant?

    1. Medalian
    2. Medallian
    3. Medalion
    4. Medallion

17. Kangchenjunga, Nanda Devi, and Kamet are the three (What?

18. The term 'histrionics', referring to excessive emotion, is Latin 'histrion', meaning?

    1. Historian
    2. Politician
    3. Acrobat
    4. Actor

19. Under normal Earth sea-level conditions water boils at how many degrees centigrade?

    1. Zero
    2. 32
    3. 100
    4. 212

20. The first most popular book of seven from CS Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia (1950-56) is The Lion, The Witch and the?

    1. Table
    2. Armchair
    3. Bed
    4. Wardrobe