General Knowledge Quiz 241

Questions

1. What dish meant originally a white food?

   1. Custard
   2. Blancmange
   3. Trifle
   4. Yoghurt

2. The brand Reebok is Afrikaans for the grey rhebok, which is an African?

   1. Waterfall
   2. Wind
   3. Antelope
   4. Jumping ant

3. Emesis refers to expulsion from a?

   1. Bar
   2. Church
   3. School
   4. Stomach

4. The post-Roman, German settlers of England are called?

   1. Angles
   2. Norse
   3. Gauls
   4. Normans

5. The famous website ranking and analytics company noted for its toolbar, bought by Amazon in 1999, is called?

   1. Snopes
   2. Alexa
   3. Yell
   4. Go

6. Cape Dutch, originating 1700s, is a traditional term for the?

   1. Port of Amsterdam
   2. Judge's robe
   3. Afrikaans language
   4. Granny Smith apple

7. Called 'wash' by Victorians, a common laundry/cleaning solution for 2,000 years before detergents, was matured?

   1. Beer
   2. Cheese
   3. Human urine
   4. Coal dust

8. A doppelganger is someone's?

   1. Double
   2. Role-model
   3. Stage persona
   4. Arch enemy

9. Standardized pieces of text inserted into contracts/computer code are called?

   1. Ticker-tape
   2. Copy-type
   3. Boilerplate
   4. Sticky label

10. Baron Hardup is whose pantomime father?

    1. Sleeping Beauty
    2. Snow White
    3. Cinderella
    4. Widow Twanky

11. The Nordic appetizer gravlax is raw?

    1. Bacon
    2. Salmon
    3. Reindeer
    4. Seagull

12. Caulking, originally in boat/shipbuilding, extending to boilermaking and construction, is?

    1. Bribery of officials
    2. Paying workers in cash
    3. Filling joints and cracks
    4. Holiday for brass band duty

13. Sonar (originally an acronym) commonly refers to detection using?

    1. Light
    2. Sound
    3. X-Ray
    4. Nuclear fission

14. When we hear an explosion three miles away, it happened roughly how long ago?

    1. 1 second
    2. 3 seconds
    3. 5 seconds or 14 seconds

15. In Victorian England a 'pure finder' was a street collector of (What?) for the leather tanning industry?

    1. Rain water
    2. Rotten vegetables
    3. Broken glass
    4. Dog poo

16. Who married his co-star Lauren Bacall in 1945 after the films To Have and Have Not and The Big Sleep?

    1. Frank Sinatra
    2. Humphrey Bogart
    3. John Wayne
    4. Wayne Sleep

17. A Conestoga is a heavy 1700-1800s (What?) used by Eastern US pioneers?

    1. Shotgun
    2. Wagon
    3. Building sand
    4. Flour

18. Guan is Chinese pottery whose glazing is?

    1. Gold
    2. Blue and white
    3. Fish-themed
    4. Cracked

19. The currencies: Korean Won, Japanese Yen, and Chinese Yuan all mean literally?

    1. Gold
    2. Paper
    3. Rice
    4. Round shape

20. Which one of these was not among the first search engines?

    1. AltaVista
    2. Infoseek
    3. TopBanana
    4. Yahoo
    5. WebCrawler, or Lycos