General Knowledge Quiz 224

Questions

1. The unusual verb requiring no object and correlating to abundance/abundant is?

   1. About
   2. Abound
   3. Abut
   4. Abuse

2. Which great English writer (1819-1900) wrote the famous maxim for life and business: "There is hardly anything in the world that some man can’t make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man’s lawful prey."?

   1. Charles Dickens
   2. William Shakespeare
   3. John Ruskin
   4. John Cleese

3. A small star may be called a red, yellow, orange, white, brown or black?

   1. Goblin
   2. Dwarf
   3. Elf
   4. Pixie

4. A caldera is a (What?) submerged under the sea or ocean?

   1. Lost city
   2. Habitable cave system
   3. Volcano crater
   4. Seaweed farm

5. In snooker, after all the reds are potted, what ball must be potted after the Brown ball?

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

6. The peculiar phrase: "Was it a car or a cat I saw?

7. A 'petabyte' is how many terabytes?

   1. 1000
   2. 1m
   3. 10m
   4. 100m

8. An angry talk by a sports coach to an under-performing team is metaphorically called a?

   1. Microwave
   2. Hair-dryer
   3. Chest-freezer
   4. Eye-level grill

9. In Greek mythology, Styx is a miraculously empowering/theatening?

   1. Volcano
   2. River
   3. Goat or Bread

10. What characteristic enables an amulet to give protection to its owner/wearer?

    1. Leather
    2. Bamboo
    3. Steel wire
    4. Superstitious belief

11. A forward slash, is also named after the UK shilling sign and gold Roman coin?

    1. Ditto
    2. Percent
    3. Solidus
    4. Apostrophe

12. Ganesha (also Ganapati/Vinayaka) the highly revered Hindu god of beginnings, wisdom, arts, writing, etc., is typically shown as the head of a?

    1. Lion
    2. Tiger
    3. Elephant
    4. Rabbit

13. Best selling 'Manga' called One Piece, Golgo 13, and Dragon Ball are?

    1. 'Legal high' drugs
    2. Japanese comics
    3. Tattoo designs
    4. Italian glass lamps

14. The recently troubled historically iconic music/entertainment brand HMV abbreviates which three of?

    1. His
    2. Her
    3. Home
    4. Majesty's
    5. Master's
    6. Movie
    7. Voice
    8. Vibrations
    9. Volume

15. What popular drink is graded according to terminology including dust, fannings and orange pekoe?

    1. Tea
    2. Coffee
    3. Fruit cordial
    4. Gin

16. What are normally electrically heated, can be waveless, free-flow, hard/soft-sided, and may increase home insurance premiums?

    1. Tropical aquariums
    2. Lava-lamps
    3. Waterbeds
    4. Home-cinema plasma screens

17. What global organization open to anyone above a certain IQ score is named after Latin for 'table'?

18. The tree and large single-seed berry fruit, native to Mexico, called the Alligator Pear, is commonly known as?

    1. Avocado
    2. Nectarine
    3. Pineapple
    4. Coconut

19. Soporific refers to a tendency in something to induce?

    1. Alertness
    2. Sleep
    3. Anger
    4. Love

20. First produced in China 5000BC, Copper and Zinc make the alloy?

    1. Pewter
    2. Bronze
    3. Brass, or Magnox