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General Knowledge Quiz 239

20 questions · source

Questions

  1. Cuban nationalist leader Fidel Castro (1926-2016) was a?

    1. Social-Democrat
    2. Conservative-Capitalist
    3. Marxist-Leninist
    4. Buddhist-Environmentalist

  2. A griffin or gryphon is a mythical hybrid 'king of the beasts' respectively of (top and bottom, two answers required)?

    1. Eagle
    2. Dragon
    3. Man
    4. Lion
    5. Elephant

  3. A poker hand of all cards in the same suit is called a?

    1. Flush
    2. Straight
    3. Full house
    4. Fold

  4. A Mafia chief, a university lecturer, and Spanish gentleman is a?

    1. Dom
    2. Don
    3. Ron
    4. Rod

  5. The surnames Roberts, Evans, Jones, Williams, Davies and Thomas tend to indicate ancestry from?

    1. Australia
    2. Wales
    3. Scandinavia
    4. Bohemia

  6. Pater Noster is commonly translated to mean?

    1. Life imprisonment
    2. Pizza dough
    3. The Lord's Prayer
    4. The common cold

  7. What sort of bow has a frog, heel, and screw?

    1. Archery
    2. Log-saw
    3. Necktie
    4. Violin

  8. Trinidad is how far from where (two answers required)?

    1. 11km
    2. 110km
    3. 1100km
    4. Egypt
    5. Venezuela
    6. Florida

  9. Who dominated 300-200BC Europe, and much longer Galicia, Brittany, Ireland, Wales, and Scotland?

    1. Tatars
    2. Celts
    3. Romans
    4. Cossacks

  10. What sort of cells have a synapse, axon terminal, and dendrites?

    1. Lithium battery
    2. Human nerve
    3. Medieval dungeon
    4. Mobile phone communications

  11. A sudden void into which roads/buildlings can disappear due to water erosion beneath is called a?

    1. Craterfall
    2. Sinkhole
    3. Tarmacavity
    4. Moneypit

  12. Lapis Lazuli is a vivid (What?) (What?) (two answers required)?

    1. Blue
    2. Red
    3. Yellow
    4. Butterfly
    5. Gemstone
    6. Sunset

  13. Stableford, wedge, albatross, apron, and borrow are terms in?

    1. Commodity trading
    2. Golf
    3. Steam engines
    4. Printing

  14. From 1967 what global standard was based on the natural oscillations of an atom of Caesium?

    1. Time
    2. Distance
    3. Motion
    4. Light

  15. (What?) emerged in 2016 from (What?) with massive success, as a flagship for Amazon Prime (two answers required)?

    1. Sex in the City
    2. Cheers
    3. Grand Tour
    4. Big Brother
    5. Top Gear
    6. Fox News
    7. MASH

  16. Chutzpah is a Jewish-originating word meaning?

    1. Stress
    2. Audacity
    3. Talent
    4. Jewellery

  17. Fillet of lamb and chump chops come from a sheep's?

    1. Breast
    2. Back leg
    3. Neck
    4. Back

  18. Sir Edward Landseer's famous 1851 painting 'The Monarch of the Glen' is a?

    1. Butterfly
    2. Stag
    3. Lion
    4. Bagpiper

  19. The German term 'Struw-Welpeter' (Shock-Headed Peter) refers to?

    1. Surprise
    2. Headache
    3. ECT (Electro-Convulsive Therapy)
    4. Uncombable frizzy hair

  20. In November 2016 at Bray Lake, UK, Simon Berry set a world record of 240'10" (73.4m) for the highest?

    1. Water-ski jump
    2. Pebble skim bounce
    3. Fishing rod line cast
    4. Bungee biscuit-tea dunk

Answers

  1. Marxist-Leninist
  2. Eagle and Lion
  3. Flush
  4. Don
  5. Wales
  6. The Lord's Prayer
  7. Violin
  8. 11km from Venezuela
  9. Celts
  10. Human nerve
  11. Sinkhole
  12. Blue Gemstone
  13. Golf
  14. Time
  15. Grand Tour emerged from Top Gear
  16. Audacity
  17. Back leg
  18. Stag
  19. Uncombable frizzy hair
  20. Bungee biscuit-tea dunk