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General Knowledge Quiz 265

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Questions

  1. Slazenger, Donnay, Lonsdale and Dunlop are part of controversial retail employer 'Sports (What?'?

    1. Strip
    2. Rip
    3. Direct
    4. Zero

  2. The internet abbreviation TLD (eg .com and .net and .de stands for what?

  3. A Boston USA medical study found in 2017 regular consumption of (What? markedly eased rheumatoid arthritis?

    1. Pasta
    2. Red wine
    3. Oily fish
    4. Blue cheese

  4. Having a high value-to-weight ratio and now mostly virtual, what fundamental concept reputedly first emerged in Lydia (now Asian Turkey in the 7th century BC?

  5. What is the traditional religious/Greek name (meaning 'thanksgiving' for the Christian Holy Communion or Lord's Supper?

  6. The Renaissance (French for rebirth movement began in the 1500s, in?

    1. Germany
    2. Italy
    3. France: or Sweden

  7. Illacme (illacme plenipes has the most legs of all millipede species, numbering?

    1. 6
    2. 20
    3. 48
    4. 750

  8. What corporation became (by 21st C the world's largest manufacturer of internal combustion engines, and motorbikes?

  9. Self-proclaimed mystic/holy man Grigori Rasputin (1869-1916 significantly influenced the rule of which nation?

  10. What sort of weapon is named after Russian leader Vyacheslav Molotov (1890-1986?

  11. Name the 'Six Flags' (six 'nations' that historically have had sovereignty over some/all of the state of Texas, USA?

  12. (What creatures? wear (What? in their courtship displays?

    1. Elephants
    2. Monkeys
    3. Fig leaves
    4. Dolphins
    5. Sea sponges
    6. Prawns

  13. Name the Qatar-based/founded TV station (literally in Arabic 'The Island' launched 1996, following/assisted by the closure/redundancies of BBC Arabic Language TV?

  14. In dictionaries words/names beginning with 'St.' (short for saint are generally listed after?

    1. Saint
    2. SS
    3. Ry
    4. Sz

  15. Shakudo (from 'red' and 'gold' is a copper-gold alloy originating in?

    1. Japan
    2. Mexico
    3. Ireland
    4. Sweden

  16. Match these countries to their internet top-level-domains: Switzerland, China, Canada, Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire - .ci .ca. ch .cn ?

  17. Short-term/freelance work is popularly called the '(What? Economy'?

    1. Big
    2. Wig
    3. Gig
    4. Fig

  18. Whetting refers to doing (What? to a (What?

    1. Sharpening
    2. Cleaning
    3. Building
    4. Blade
    5. Pipe
    6. Corner

  19. What has a calyx (stem/leaf, and achenes (seeds on the outside?

  20. On 1st July 2017 Canada celebrated its (What? anniversary (of when Canadian Confederation was proclaimed?

    1. 100th
    2. 150th
    3. 200th
    4. 300th

  21. What sort of giant (5m erect creature is the extinct megatherium?

    1. Giraffe
    2. Elephant
    3. Sloth
    4. Penguin

  22. The epic 'Beowulf' (c1000AD, a vast language record, is the oldest surviving poem manuscript in Old?

    1. Dutch
    2. English
    3. French
    4. German

  23. Which element (Sr named after a Scottish town was discovered by Sir Humphry Davy in 1808?

  24. Mechanical arm railway signals are termed (What? communication system, also used by ships at sea?

  25. What compound (C7H5NO3S is 500 times sweeter than sugar, for which it substitutes?

  26. The iconic 1968 Small Faces album Ogden's Nut Gone Flake was the first LP with an appropriately (What-shape? cover, originally produced as a lidded tin container?

    1. Hexagonal
    2. Triangular
    3. Pentagonal
    4. Circular

  27. Sir Ken Robinson (born 1950 and 'most-viewed TED talker' is a famous?

    1. Newsreader
    2. Educationalist
    3. Architect
    4. Footballer

  28. What does the J stand for in the household cleaning 'J-cloth' (now genericized) brand?

  29. What portmanteau word (for a video diary) is a form of publishing, done by millions of children (e.g., on YouTube), often unknown to teachers and parents?

  30. The time spent by people viewing YouTube videos each day (i.e., in a single day - as at 2017) collectively equates to roughly how many years?

    1. Ten
    2. A hundred
    3. A thousand
    4. 100,000

  31. 'Watergate' - the scandal causing US president Nixon's resignation in 1974 - is actually a?

    1. Book
    2. Journalist
    3. Building complex
    4. Legal term for impeachment

  32. Greek mythology asserts that the first woman on Earth was?

    1. Venus
    2. Hera
    3. Eve
    4. Pandora

  33. Which one of these is the more general name within which the other two are types?

    1. Sultana
    2. Raisin
    3. Currant

  34. Launched 2016/17, Apple Homepod, Amazon Echo, and Google Home mainly provide?

    1. Music
    2. Gaming
    3. Education
    4. Robot baby-sitting and parenting

  35. Donald Trump's May 2017 Twitter typo that became a viral conundrum was?

    1. Boobebe
    2. Kwififi
    3. Covfefe
    4. Impeecci

  36. The Maris Piper is a popular famous?

    1. Light aircraft
    2. Potato
    3. Scottish folk dance
    4. Plumbing manual

  37. Breteche, Machiolation, Murder-holes, Merlons and Hoarding are features of?

    1. Golf courses
    2. Medieval castles
    3. Cheese
    4. Wedding cakes

  38. What does the J stand for in the household cleaning 'J-cloth' (now genericized brand?

  39. What portmanteau word (for a video diary is a form of publishing, done by millions of children (e.g., on YouTube, often unknown to teachers and parents?

  40. Panettone is a popular Italian?

    1. Motorcycle
    2. Lake
    3. Bread
    4. Martial art

  41. What creature is a 'fashion' (style of repeated recitation often used in learning?

  42. What Latin for beak is a speaking platform, from Ancient Rome's speaker Forum, decorated with the beaks of captured galleys?

  43. Siddhārtha Gautama is simply and eponymously known as what founding religious teacher?

  44. The pastry used in eclairs and similar cakes is?

    1. Shoo
    2. Shew, Shoe
    3. Choux

  45. What did Willie Walsh reveal as the actual cause of BA's catastrophic IT systems outage, stranding 75,000 passengers and grounding flights at 170 airports over a May holiday weekend 2017?

    1. Cyber-attack
    2. Psychic phenomenon
    3. Rats
    4. Someone pulled the plug out

  46. The farmer in Beatrix Potter's The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies is Mr?

    1. McDougall
    2. McGregor
    3. Macdonald
    4. MacHinery

  47. Tabs, Knobs, Whimsies, and Innies and Outies feature in what table-top amusement?

  48. Named after its German bacteriologist inventor, what is a flat circular transparent dish used for cultivating micro-organisms?

  49. What BBC TV children's story show (1965-96 is named from a nursery rhyme, and became Cockney Rhyming slang for 'story', especially alluding to fabrications and lies?

  50. 'Machine Learning' and 'Decision Trees' are terms in?

    1. Dr Who
    2. Star Trek
    3. Landscape gardening
    4. Artificial Intelligence

  51. The time spent by people viewing YouTube videos each day (i.e., in a single day - as at 2017 collectively equates to roughly how many years?

    1. Ten
    2. A hundred
    3. A thousand
    4. 100,000

  52. Spraint is the dung of the?

    1. Cat
    2. Dog
    3. Otter
    4. Rabbit

  53. Someone who shunts trains in the USA, derived from older English for an inn's groom for horses or innkeeper is a?

    1. Rustler
    2. Whistler
    3. Hostler
    4. Wrestler

  54. The Westermarck effect, which opposes Freudian theory, seeks to explain?

    1. War
    2. Dreams
    3. Playground games
    4. Genetic Sexual Attraction

  55. What is the modern equivalent of Royal Navy's 1914-18 code: Apples, Butter, Charlie, Duff, Edward, Freddy, George, Harry, Ink, Johnnie, King, London, Monkey, Nuts, Orange, Pudding?

  56. The personal development appraisal method which includes views of co-workers about the worker concerned is popularly called "(How many degrees? Feedback"?

    1. 50
    2. 90
    3. 100
    4. 360

  57. Schroeder and Marcy are among the perpetual children in (What? famous creation by (Who? from 1950-2000?

  58. Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Shakepeare's Romeo and Juliet refer to a (What? as an 'iron crow'?

    1. White witch
    2. Prussian general
    3. Red wine cocktail
    4. Wrecking bar

  59. Italian Maria Montessori (1870-1952 developed her famous eponymous method for (What? at her La Casa Dei Bambini?

    1. Education
    2. Childbirth
    3. Cooking
    4. Tattooing

Answers

  1. Direct
  2. Top Level Domain
  3. Oily fish
  4. Money
  5. Eucharist
  6. Italy
  7. 750
  8. Honda
  9. Russia
  10. Petrol bomb or
  11. —
  12. —
  13. Al Jazeera
  14. Saint
  15. Japan
  16. Switzerland = .ch , China = .cn , Canada = .ca , Ivory Coast
  17. Gig
  18. —
  19. Strawberry
  20. 150th
  21. Sloth
  22. English
  23. Strontium
  24. Semaphore
  25. Saccharin
  26. Circular
  27. Educationalist
  28. Johnson
  29. Vlogging
  30. 100,000
  31. Building complex
  32. Pandora
  33. Raisin
  34. Music
  35. Covfefe
  36. Potato
  37. Medieval castles
  38. Johnson
  39. Vlogging
  40. Bread
  41. Parrot
  42. Rostrum
  43. Buddha
  44. Choux
  45. Someone pulled the plug out
  46. McGregor
  47. Jigsaw puzzles
  48. Petri
  49. Jackanory
  50. Artificial Intelligence
  51. 100,000
  52. Otter
  53. Hostler
  54. Genetic Sexual Attraction
  55. Alfa, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Golf, Hotel, India, Juliett, Kilo, Lima, Mike, November, Oscar, Papa
  56. 360
  57. —
  58. Wrecking bar
  59. Education