General Knowledge Quiz 232

Questions

1. Snatch, Clean, and Jerk feature in?

   1. Basketball
   2. Weightlifting
   3. Ten-pin bowling
   4. Morris dancing

2. The demonym of what iconic US city punningly suggests abstinence from animal products?

   1. Los Angeles
   2. Las Vegas
   3. Nashville
   4. San Francisco

3. Hemostasis/haemostasis is a biological process which causes (What?) to stop?

   1. Breathing
   2. Bleeding
   3. Eating
   4. Living

4. A gigolo is a?

   1. Ventriloquist
   2. Ice-cream salesman
   3. Male escort
   4. Bicycle bell

5. The markings on a cricket pitch are called?

   1. Creases
   2. Folds
   3. Cuts
   4. Strokes

6. Chinese scholarly writer/translator Guo Pu (AD276-324) is considered the father of what popular ancient concept, literally 'wind-water'?

   1. Yin-Yang
   2. Kung-Fu
   3. Fengshui
   4. Acupuncture

7. The Pangaea (or Pangea) refers to (What?) Continental singularity development?

   1. Language
   2. Government
   3. Race
   4. Landmass

8. Sirius (the Dog Star) is the (What?) star in the Earth's night sky?

   1. Oldest
   2. Brightest
   3. Fastest
   4. Biggest

9. A small group of marine animals is called a?

   1. Dod
   2. Hod
   3. Mod
   4. Pod
   5. Nod
   6. Rod
   7. Tod
   8. Cod
   9. Yod
   10. Wod
   11. Zod

10. Which one of these is not typically part of the popular Chinese 'Qigong' life system?

    1. Posture
    2. Movement
    3. Singing
    4. Breathing
    5. Meditation

11. An addiction treatment combining discomfort with addiction stimulus is called (What?) therapy?

    1. Abstention
    2. Attraction
    3. Aversion
    4. Perversion

12. Which of these elements has a single letter symbol not found in its name?

    1. Carbon
    2. Potassium
    3. Hydrogen
    4. Oxygen

13. The first famously cloned sheep of 1996, named after a country singer was?

    1. Hank
    2. Dolly
    3. Patsy
    4. Tammy

14. The Bay of Biscay is formed by the North and West coasts respectively of which two of?

    1. Morocco
    2. Spain
    3. Algeria
    4. France
    5. Italy

15. The Pietà refers to an artwork, typically a sculpture, featuring (Who?) in the lap of (Who?)?

    1. Cleopatra
    2. Jesus
    3. Mary
    4. Caesar
    5. Joseph

16. Yggdrasil (or Yggdrasill) is a vast mythical tree that connects the nine worlds in (What?) ancient belief system?

    1. Norse
    2. Hinduism
    3. Catholicism
    4. Jehovah's Witnesses

17. Based on fact, a penguin was introduced to the 2016 sequel celebrating 90 years of?

    1. Peter Pan
    2. Winnie-the-Pooh
    3. The Simpsons
    4. Tarzan

18. 'Heavy Water' (deuterium oxide) contains a high percentage of Deuterium, an isotope of?

    1. Hydrogen
    2. Carbon
    3. Gold
    4. Lead

19. A cloven foot (of cows, sheep, goats, etc) has how many toes or grounded hoof parts?

    1. One
    2. Two
    3. Three
    4. Four

20. Four-part harmony unaccompanied singing is called?

    1. Bus stop
    2. Chip shop
    3. Sweetshop
    4. Barbershop