General Knowledge Quiz 236

Questions

1. What changed shape in 2016, having remained the same since its inception in 1908?

   1. The human DNA model
   2. The official rugby ball
   3. UK £5 note
   4. Toblerone

2. Deism is belief in a?

   1. Political doctrine
   2. Flat Earth
   3. Heaven
   4. Supreme being

3. Spell the temperature measurement unit?

   1. Farenheit
   2. Fahrenheit
   3. Farhenheit
   4. Farenheight

4. Taphonomy is the study within palaeontology of?

   1. Plants
   2. Fossilization
   3. Gas
   4. Water

5. The famous eponymous quantum physics conundrum is Schrodinger's?

   1. Cat
   2. Dog
   3. Mouse
   4. Shrew

6. Burlap (USA) and Crocus (Jamaica) equate in UK English to?

   1. Hessian
   2. Tweed
   3. Tartan
   4. Vinyl

7. Much the Miller's Son, Will Scarlet, and Alan-a-Dale are characters from?

   1. Treasure Island
   2. Robin Hood: The Canterbury Tales
   3. A Midsummer Night's Dream

8. Haruki Murakami is a world-renowned Franz Kafka Prize-winning Japanese?

   1. Mountain trail
   2. Tokyo Restaurant
   3. Acrobat
   4. Novelist

9. What is a million divided by 40: 16,000, 72,000, 25,000, or 250,000?

10. The African evergreen Rooibos (red bush) plant is used for making?

    1. Rum
    2. Tea
    3. Canoes
    4. Horses jump better

11. Dowsing rods are used for?

    1. Parliamentary ceremonies
    2. Drain clearance
    3. Divination
    4. Making little glass ornaments and animals

12. Trudeau is a leading political and business family name in?

    1. France
    2. Canada
    3. Morocco
    4. Brazil

13. The letter D turns what fruit into something wearable?

    1. Kiwi
    2. Plum
    3. Grape
    4. Banana

14. Township Jazz is a major musical style from?

    1. Mexico
    2. South Africa
    3. Poland
    4. Belgium

15. Dukakis, Bush, Dole, and Kerry are all?

    1. African teas
    2. Irish counties
    3. Australia's highest mountains
    4. US Presidential election losers

16. A cantilever is a horizontally extending construction that is supported?

    1. From above
    2. At one end only
    3. At the middle
    4. By air pressure

17. British poet Lord Byron famously had a deformity of the?

    1. Spine
    2. Left hand
    3. Right foot
    4. Nose

18. Considered a healthy 'superfood', edamame (pronounced 'ed-er-marmi'), are immature?

    1. Chickens
    2. Coconuts
    3. Soya beans
    4. Ants

19. The letter W is unique in the periodic table, for (What metal element?) from the mineral Wolfram, whose name is 'heavy stone' in Swedish?

    1. Ytterbium
    2. Krypton
    3. Tungsten
    4. Bismuth

20. The hugely popular Chinese website Taobao.com equates to a western combination of?

    1. Wikipedia/Craigslist
    2. Ebay/Amazon
    3. Twitter/Facebook
    4. Youtube/Snapchat

21. A modern term for marketing that is probably too good to be true (e.g., many 'get rich quick' schemes) is?

    1. Pretty twinkling stars
    2. Bright shiny objects
    3. Brilliant sparkly things
    4. Super furry animals

22. The famous Russian 3-stringed triangular bodied musical instrument is a?

    1. Bouzouki
    2. Saz
    3. Balalaika
    4. Ukulele

23. The four pieces that start on a chessboard at A1, A8, H1 and H8 are all?

    1. Pawns
    2. Castles
    3. Knights
    4. Queens

24. A geometric two-dimensional shape with straight sides connecting as a continuous edge is a?

    1. Paragon
    2. Tarragon
    3. Polygon
    4. Flagon

25. The popular Spanish native black wine-grape variety Tempranillo typically makes?

    1. Valpolicella
    2. Rioja
    3. Burgundy
    4. Beaujolais