General Knowledge Quiz 218

Questions

1. The Kindle electronic book product is designed/launched (2007)/owned by?

   1. Microsoft
   2. Amazon
   3. Google
   4. Apple

2. What highly popular Chinese duality concept, represented by the Taijitu black and white round symbol, is based on complex complementary ideas including female/hidden/moon, contrasted with male/open/sun?

3. The cube root of an eighth (1/8) is a?

   1. Half
   2. Quarter
   3. One
   4. Sixty-fourth

4. An attempt to stop (What?) in June 2016 became the most signed petition (4m+) on the UK government website?

   1. Trident nuclear deterrent
   2. Donald Trump's UK visit
   3. Brexit (Britain leaving the EU)
   4. A new Harry Potter film

5. What exercise device takes its name from Italian for 'stilts' and uses potential energy of springs?

6. Yellow fever, resurging in parts of the world in the 2010s, is spread by?

   1. Rats
   2. Mosquitoes
   3. Sneezing
   4. Chickens

7. In a classic 'colour wheel' (based on primary colours and blends), orange is opposite?

   1. Blue
   2. Green
   3. Brown
   4. Purple

8. Shakespeare's famous opening line: "When shall we three meet again?

9. "When shall we three meet again?

10. Which one of these is a real phone payments app, launched 2015?

    1. Microsoft Sents
    2. Google Tip
    3. Apple Pay
    4. Ebay Dosh

11. The famous high Alpine mountain The Matterhorn (or Monte Cervino) is on the border of which two of these?

    1. France
    2. Italy
    3. Switzerland
    4. Holland

12. David Hockney is a famous English?

    1. Poet
    2. Artist
    3. Playwright
    4. Chef

13. Paleontology (or palaeontology), the study of earliest life up to c.11,700 years ago, essentially combines which two of?

    1. Biology
    2. Astrology
    3. Geology
    4. Psychology

14. Which one of these has not been subject to controversial EU regulation?

    1. Fishing quotas
    2. Vacuum cleaner power
    3. Size of army
    4. Banana shape

15. Jovian and Jovial refer to and derive from which Greek god and planet in our solar system?

16. Australian 1930s slang based on French for 'white' is considered the origin of what informal term for cheap wine?

17. Match these metals to their chemical symbols: Gold, Silver, Mercury, Lead - Hg, Au, Pb, Ag?

18. The two Mediterranean islands of France and Italy separated by the 11km Strait of Bonifacio are?

    1. Corsica
    2. Sicily
    3. Sardinia
    4. Cyprus

19. What word for a pouch prefixes the following: Battleship, Book, Knife, Money?

20. Ancient Greek for "a square tablet strewn with dust" is probably the origin of the word?

    1. Calculator
    2. Abacus
    3. Slide-rule
    4. Protractor