General Knowledge Quiz 231

Questions

1. The Americanized word 'skillet' refers to a?

   1. Training course
   2. Frying pan
   3. Ice-skating trick
   4. Filleted flatfish

2. A demonym is a term for a (What?) from a particular (What?)?

   1. Food
   2. Person
   3. Movement
   4. Dance
   5. Place
   6. Time (two answers required)

3. Vitis is better known as the fruit-drink plant genus?

   1. Orange
   2. Grape
   3. Blackcurrant
   4. Apple

4. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (author of Lord of the Rings, etc) was?

   1. English
   2. Romanian
   3. Russian
   4. Hobbit

5. From the early 21st century (What ferral pests?) were eradicated from (Where?) whose 4th plinth hosts large temporary sculptures: (two answers required)?

   1. Rabbits
   2. Cats
   3. Pigeons
   4. Bears
   5. (eradicated from) The Coloseum
   6. Trafalgar Square
   7. St Peter's Square
   8. The Kremlin

6. Which sport features a playing surface of a 'chain' (22 yards) long and 10 feet wide?

   1. Cricket
   2. Netball
   3. Bowls
   4. Crazy Golf

7. A theodolite is traditionally used by a?

   1. Fireman
   2. Policeman
   3. Surveyor
   4. Dance teacher

8. Spell the modern common word meaning 'to bleed'?

   1. Hemmorage
   2. Hemorage
   3. Hemhorage
   4. Hemorrhage

9. Which of these are now registered Internet Top Level Domain extensions (alternatives to .com)?

   1. .dad
   2. .boo
   3. .wtf
   4. .shoes - None of them
   5. Just .shoes
   6. All except .wtf
   7. All of them

10. Symbiosis, referring to mutual dependence/cooperation of two organisims or creatures, means in Greek?

    1. Living together
    2. Cannibalism
    3. Debit-Credit
    4. Back-scratching

11. What two-letter word prefixes these to make five new words?

    1. Devil
    2. Fore
    3. Calm
    4. Cause
    5. Gin

12. Chicano (or Chicana/Xicano/Xicana) refers to mixed American and (What?) ethnicity?

    1. Mexican
    2. Chinese
    3. Irish
    4. Canadian

13. The Jewish festival 'menorah' candelabrum typically holds how many candles?

    1. 8
    2. 10
    3. 12
    4. 37

14. The German words for 'double-goer' give what Anglicized German word for a person's double, living or unreal, and typically misbehaving?

15. Roughly the Sun is what % of the Solar System's total mass?

    1. 10%
    2. 25%
    3. 50%
    4. 100%

16. Cyclamen is a group term referring to small?

    1. Greek islanders
    2. Animated monsters
    3. Flowering plants
    4. Tour de France breakaways

17. Tao (and Taoism/Daoism) the Chinese metaphysical/Buddhist philosophy of living in harmony with the natural order of the universe, means literally?

    1. Path
    2. God
    3. Bread
    4. Gold

18. The Alsatian dog name refers to a region of which modern country?

    1. France
    2. Germany
    3. Italy
    4. Brazil

19. Which of these is completely enclosed by the other three; Brazil; Argentina; Paraguay; Bolivia?

20. A trug is a basket-like receptacle used by a?

    1. Cyclist
    2. Gardener
    3. Jeweller
    4. Dentist