General Knowledge Quiz 219

Questions

1. A Sirocco wind generally carries (What?) to the south coasts of Europe?

   1. Snow
   2. Sahara dust
   3. Locusts
   4. Acid rain

2. Match these into pairs of equivalent UK/US-English words: Grill, Hash, Tap, Nappy, Skip, Bumper, Diaper, Dumpster, Broil, Pound, Faucet, Fender?

3. Who wrote the famous philosophical book 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' ('Also sprach Zarathustra' - pub 1883-91) which included the controversial phrase "God is dead"?

4. In Greek mythology the 'Gigantomachy' was a fundamental battle between which two of these?

   1. Elements
   2. Gods
   3. Giants
   4. Machines
   5. Flowers
   6. Bees

5. Ingeniously conceived by Greek inventor Philo of Byzantium (280-220BC) a gimbal keeps an instrument (What?), originally on a ship?

   1. Dry
   2. Level
   3. Safe/locked
   4. Oiled

6. What word derived from feeble, refers to a sword blade from middle to point, and an eccentric weakness of a person?

7. What is the common 'portmanteau' computing term created from 'binary' and 'digit'?

8. What popular Westernized word is Italian for a baby boy?

9. Runner, String, French, Broad, Navy and Great Northern are types of?

   1. Railway gauges
   2. Vests
   3. Beans
   4. Polar lights night sky displays

10. The 'interrobang' (or interabang) is a punctuation mark combining which two marks/meanings?

    1. Ampersand &
    2. Question mark

11. Originally Buddhist/Hindu tradition, something once desired but now more trouble than it is worth, is called a?

    1. Black dog
    2. White elephant
    3. Brown cow
    4. Purple jellyfish

12. Dr Christian Barnard achieved the first successful what in 1967?

    1. Colour TV broadcast
    2. English channel swim
    3. Human heart transplant
    4. Quadruple trampoline somersault

13. One stalk of celery contains roughly how many calories?

    1. 6
    2. 60
    3. 160
    4. 600

14. Name the two famous Shakespearean lovers in the NATO phonetic alphabet?

15. The Aleutian Islands in the Pacific Ocean are owned by and connect which two nations?

    1. Russia
    2. China
    3. Japan
    4. USA

16. The term peripatetic, associated with ancient Greek teacher Aristotle, refers to a professional person who?

    1. Shouts
    2. Travels
    3. Works for free
    4. Gets depressed

17. The common Anglicized name for God in Judaism is?

    1. Shiva
    2. Jehovah
    3. Kevala jnana
    4. Siddhartha Gautama

18. Which three of these are the essential ingredients of pastry?

    1. Egg
    2. Flour
    3. Sugar
    4. Fat
    5. Water
    6. Salt

19. Spell the German philosopher's name Friedrich?

    1. Neitzche
    2. Neitsche
    3. Nietche
    4. Nietzsche

20. Kata and Kumite ('cum-ittay') are events in which new Olympic sport (added appropriately) for Tokyo 2020?