General Knowledge Quiz 221

Questions

1. Devised by Alan Turing in 1950, the Turing test is a test of (What?) in a computer?

   1. Speed
   2. Reliability
   3. Capacity
   4. Artificial Intelligence

2. The Latin positive-thinking maxim "Aut Viam Invenium Aut Facium" means?

   1. No gain without pain
   2. Necessity is the mother of invention
   3. Where there's a will there's a way
   4. Oops upside your head

3. 'Kerb drill' refers to a traditional British?

   1. Underwear fabric
   2. Stonemason's tool
   3. Road safety precautions
   4. Acid rain

4. The metaphorical expression meaning self-promotion is "Blow your own (What?)"?

   1. Balloon
   2. Trumpet
   3. Bugle
   4. Kiss

5. Bulgaria, Orinoco, Tomsk, Tobermory, and Bungo are?

   1. Olympic Games venues
   2. Dangerously volcanic regions
   3. Chrysler truck models
   4. Characters from The Wombles novels/TV series

6. The most common compound of the element chlorine is?

   1. Salt
   2. Vinegar
   3. Sugar
   4. Water

7. Kept as pets and native to Thailand/Indonesia, the Kissing Gourami, is a?

   1. Parrot
   2. Rodent
   3. Aquarium fish
   4. Miniature goat

8. Kondike, the Yukon river tributory and area famous for a gold-rush 1897-98, is in north-west?

   1. Canada
   2. Australia
   3. USA
   4. Russia

9. New South Wales Australia announced in 2016 it would ban (What?) due to abuses being 'beyond reform'?

   1. Greyhound racing
   2. Slot machines
   3. Lager
   4. Facebook

10. Meaning enthusiasm, what 8-letter word beginning with 'K' contains three sets of double-letters?

11. The cube root of 1 (one) is?

    1. A third
    2. Three (3)
    3. 1 (one)
    4. 100

12. Named after its camera vehicles, the 2016 video-mapping of the Faroe Islands is '(What?) View'?

    1. Bike
    2. Tractor
    3. Trawler
    4. Sheep

13. A kleptoparasite is a creature which does (What?) to other animals?

    1. Eats them
    2. Buries them
    3. Traps them in a web
    4. Steals and eats their food

14. In the expression 'a poisoned chalice', (a prestigious difficult responsibility with high personal risk), a chalice is a ceremonial?

    1. Robe
    2. Goblet
    3. Crown
    4. Sandwich

15. Developed in 1922 by Japanese Buddhist Mikao Usui, Reiki (pronounced 'ray-kee') is a method of?

    1. Fish cookery
    2. Algebra
    3. Alternative medicine
    4. Poetry

16. Hiball, Tulip, Flute, and Tumbler are?

    1. Dancer's dresses
    2. Drinking glasses
    3. Poker variants
    4. New York Metro stations

17. Penultimate means what in a series?

    1. First
    2. Last
    3. Second
    4. Second-to-last

18. The Minor Arcana comprising swords, cups, batons (or wands/rods/staves), and coins (or pentacles/disks) is a popular form of what game/divination system?

19. Which president is on the US Purple Heart military medal?

20. The stone (from gypsum or calcite) used for indoor carvings/statues/ornaments, also called 'onyx-marble', is?

    1. Granite
    2. Alabaster
    3. Limestone
    4. Chalk