General Knowledge Quiz 210

Questions

1. Vibrato in music is small rapid changes in?

   1. Tone
   2. Pitch
   3. Volume
   4. All three

2. 2 Which modern city bridging Asia and Europe was called Byzantium?

3. 2 What three-letter word is Greek god of shepherds and meanings in cooking, film-making and gold propecting?

4. 2 Russia borders with 14 nations; Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Belarus,Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, North Korea and which four others?

5. The Republic of Turkey, formed 1923, gave its transformational leader Mustafa Kemal what surname in 1934, meaning Father of the Turks?

6. Praxis is the practical application of?

   1. Force
   2. Learning
   3. Maths
   4. Warfare

7. The Japanese concept 'ikigai' ('life use') is a way to understand?

   1. Climate change
   2. Personal happiness
   3. Darwinian evolution
   4. Lithium batteries

8. What sort of roof window is named from French 'sleep'?

9. What brand and problem-solving verb is named from ten to the power of one hundred?

10. What bird prefixes flesh, grass, berry and step?

11. Self-Actualization is the top level of (Whose?) 5-stage Hierarchy of Needs motivation theory?

    1. Maslow
    2. Freud
    3. Erikson
    4. Einstein

12. Pasteurization (of milk, beer, etc) controls micro-organisms/fermentation using?

    1. Salt
    2. Heat
    3. Ultra-violet
    4. Atomic radiation

13. Potassium Nitrate, historically used in gunpowder, is better known as?

    1. TNT
    2. Sugar
    3. Saltpetre
    4. Salt

14. Which two Biblical cities were destroyed by 'fire and brimstone'?

15. TEFL is a popular abbreviation in?

    1. Cookware
    2. Hi-Fi
    3. Wi-Fi
    4. Education

16. 2 In birdwatching parlance, what is an LBJ, referring to an indistinguishable small brown bird?

17. Anglicized French 'nom de guerre' equating to 'pseudonym' literally translates as 'name for (What?)'?

    1. Paper
    2. Pen
    3. Peace
    4. War

18. Traditional analogue tape-recording uses?

    1. Heat
    2. Light
    3. Magnetism
    4. Grooves

19. In accounting an allowance for lost asset value due to age or wear is?

    1. Projection
    2. Depreciation
    3. Appreciation
    4. Congratulation

20. A historic royal castle, and the Scottish Highland Games are in?

    1. Edinburgh
    2. Glasgow
    3. Braemar
    4. Inverness

21. Which one of these is not a basic ingredient of fudge confection?

    1. Sugar
    2. Milk
    3. Butter
    4. Eggs

22. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales launched a news website in 2017 called Wiki?

    1. News
    2. Views
    3. Tribune
    4. Rag

23. Lobo refers (Spanish originating) to which creature?

24. The old English verb 'betide' ('woe betide you') means?

    1. Force
    2. Save
    3. Leave
    4. Happen to

25. The herb liqueur drink Chartreuse and eponymous colour is similar to?

    1. Purple
    2. Lime
    3. Orange
    4. Cream

26. 2 Orchestral instruments are tuned 'concert pitch' so that which note above middle C is 440Hz?

    1. A
    2. B
    3. C
    4. D

27. 2 What temperature is the same in Celcius and Fahrenheit?

    1. Zero
    2. 100
    3. 32
    4. Minus 40

28. 2 A Lucarne is a type of?

    1. Chimney
    2. Window
    3. Toilet
    4. Staircase

29. 2 Which traditional stringed folk instrument is named from Latin 'sweet song'?

    1. Zither
    2. Ukulele
    3. Dulcimer
    4. Fiddle

30. Myriapoda is a group of creatures with?

    1. One pouch
    2. Two skins
    3. Three eyes
    4. Many legs

31. Which newspaper remains shunned in Liverpool UK due to its grossly false reporting of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster?

32. 'Lorem ipsum' (from Latin delorem ipsum, 'pain itself'') is?

    1. Red cabbage
    2. Legal term for theft
    3. The period/full stop
    4. Jumbled Latin 'placeholder' text in draft documents/graphics

33. A troubadour (11-13thC France) was originally a?

    1. Bullfighter
    2. Swordsman
    3. Horseman
    4. Singing poet

34. Czech Emil Zatopek (1922-2000) is a famously brilliant?

    1. Financier
    2. Distance runner
    3. Architect
    4. Psychiatrist

35. What is the 2015-originating portmanteau term referring to the UK leaving the EU?

36. The German 'dachshund' means '(What?) dog'?

    1. Fox
    2. Rabbit
    3. Horse
    4. Badger

37. The human hormone Ghrelin (also called Lenomorelin) is known as the '(What?) hormone'?

    1. Love
    2. Hunger
    3. Intelligence
    4. Laughing

38. Acid rain is generally caused by which two of these emissions?

    1. Carbon dioxide
    2. Sulphur dioxide
    3. Nitrogen oxide
    4. Hydrogen cyanide

39. Panama disease destroys what crop?

    1. Beetroot
    2. Bananas
    3. Strawberries
    4. Peas

40. The UK billionaire called for Parliamentary questioning (2016) about his governance of the collapsed BHS company is Sir Philip?

    1. Green
    2. Brown
    3. Black
    4. Pink

41. Professor Pat Pending, the Arkansas Chuggabug, and the Ant Hill Mob feature in which popular 1968-69 17-episode TV cartoon series?

42. Spell the typographical 'star' symbol?

    1. Asterix
    2. Astorix
    3. Asterisk
    4. Asterics

43. The logo on the famous Victorinox Swiss Army pocket knife is a (What?) in a shield?

    1. Cross
    2. Mountain
    3. Knife
    4. Star

44. The large 14-35inch elastic plastic exercise ball developed in 1963 by Aquilino Cosani, is called a (What?) ball?

    1. Swiss
    2. Dutch
    3. French
    4. Spanish

45. The salad condiment comprising oil and vinegar, often reddened with parika and tomato, popularized/produced first in the 1950s is '(What?) dressing'?

    1. German
    2. French
    3. Power
    4. Croix

46. Which famous London railway station is located on a bridge over the River Thames?

    1. Blackfriars
    2. London Bridge
    3. Kings Cross
    4. Waterloo

47. Which two of these countries are not in Africa?

    1. Libya
    2. Colombia
    3. Sudan
    4. Paraguay
    5. Chad
    6. Angola

48. What 1940s-originating word meaning 'take a quick look around' derives from British military slang from Arabic 'safa', 'try to see'?

    1. Shifty
    2. Shufti
    3. Shafty
    4. Shanty

49. An increasing human/animal health hazard in Europe is the 'Oak Processionary (What?)'?

    1. Caterpillar
    2. Mouse
    3. Squirrel
    4. Woodpecker

50. The 'Tex-Mex' dish fajita is a essentially (What?) in a (What?) (two answers required)?

    1. Grilled meat
    2. Boiled fish
    3. Tomato
    4. Rice pudding
    5. Tortilla flatbread
    6. Potato omelette

51. 2American political activist Noam Chomsky was also a leading academic in?

    1. Chemistry
    2. Farming
    3. Linguistics
    4. Hairdressing

52. 2On a sailing vessel a mizzen is a?

    1. Flag
    2. Bell
    3. Mast
    4. Kitchen

53. 2 UK 4th Lent Sunday and US/Canada/Australia 2nd Sunday of May is what day?

    1. Mother’s
    2. Father’s
    3. Thanksgiving
    4. Christmas

54. 2What country was once called Nueva Espana?

55. 2What is the tree-trunk called in the Highland Games tossing event?

56. What is a fifth divided by a tenth?

57. UK Oxford's Morris Garages originated what iconic car marque c.1920?

58. What is a quarter divided by three-quarters?

59. 2 A bianca pizza is not?

    1. Leavened
    2. Topped
    3. Cooked
    4. Round