General Knowledge Quiz 254

Questions

1. The famous Italian song title 'Volare', and its other main chorus word 'Cantare' mean respectively?

   1. Love
   2. Dream
   3. Fly
   4. Sing
   5. Eat

2. The Ambassador car make, adopted from the 1950s British Morris Oxford, became common and an iconic taxi since 1958-2000s in?

   1. Russia
   2. China
   3. India
   4. Cuba

3. The demographic acronym popularised (UK 2016) referring to families living at subsistence level is?

   1. RELISH
   2. SAUCE
   3. JAM
   4. GRAVY

4. In psychology, actions/thoughts made acceptable afterwards by imagined reasons is called?

   1. Past-projection
   2. Post-rationalization
   3. Retrospective-analysis
   4. Left-justification

5. What, worn by skiiers, motorcyclists, stage-performers, artillerymen, etc., has standards for NRR, SNR and dB(A)?

   1. Helmets
   2. Earplugs
   3. Barrier-cream
   4. Underwear

6. Dr Adolphe Pinard's eponymous horn, is used for?

   1. Orchestral bass
   2. Fox hunting
   3. Fetal heartbeat measurement
   4. Alpine goat-herding

7. Campus, referring to university/college grounds and buildings, derives from Latin meaning?

   1. Book
   2. Field
   3. Prison
   4. Holiday camp

8. Which one of these attacks a group from the outside, rather than from within?

   1. Fifth Columnist
   2. Agent Provocateur
   3. Stool Pigeon
   4. Guerrilla

9. Kimberlite (named after Kimberley SA) is an igneous rock mined because it contains?

   1. Potassium
   2. Gold
   3. Diamonds
   4. Salt

10. The Easterlin Paradox (after US economist Richard Easterlin) argues that (What?) does not increase with wealth?

    1. Health
    2. Happiness
    3. Life expectancy
    4. Intelligence

11. The term on Wikipedia for a short article in need of expansion is a?

    1. Nub
    2. Hub
    3. Stub
    4. Shrub

12. In the movie industry the jobs Gaffer, Best boy, and Key grip share responsibilities for?

    1. Sound, Lighting
    2. Costumes
    3. Canteen and refreshments

13. When an employer instructs a departing employee to serve his/her paid notice period not working this is called "(What?) Leave"?

    1. Decorating
    2. Gardening
    3. Golfing
    4. Car-washing

14. A popular traditional name for a clothes airer or drying stand is a clothes?

    1. Cow
    2. Mule
    3. Horse
    4. Chicken

15. Lava Lamp, Bubblewrap, Perspex and Velcro are all?

    1. Eponyms
    2. Genericized trademarks
    3. NASA space inventions
    4. Children's inventions

16. Myocardial infarction is better known as?

    1. Headache
    2. Sunburn
    3. Breathlessness/panting
    4. Heart attack

17. Amazon Japan's 'Obo-san Bin' service delivers?

    1. Koi carp
    2. Willow trees
    3. Sushi
    4. Buddhist priests

18. Emerging in the early 1900s, 'Eugenics' is the study/theory of?

    1. Dance
    2. Genetically modified crops
    3. Political deception
    4. Selective human breeding

19. Which two of these wrote to each other in 1873 agreeing that their respective works both sought to improve mankind's happiness?

    1. Charles Darwin
    2. William Shakespeare
    3. Karl Marx
    4. Queen Victoria

20. The German word Reich means?

    1. Age
    2. Empire
    3. Way
    4. Rock