General Knowledge Quiz 266

Questions

1. What US company founded eponymously by a German immigrant in 1853 became famous for its organs, jukeboxes and vending machines?

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

3. The abbreviation SWOT analysis stands for what?

4. What is the grammatical term for a short phrase contradiction in terms?

   1. Oxymoron
   2. Palindrome
   3. Pilcrow
   4. Plagiarism

5. What Jewellery firm founded 1842 in St Petersburg famous for its eggs was nationalised by the Bolsheviks in 1918?

6. Folder paper named after the Philippines city where local hemp was first used to make it is?

   1. White
   2. Pink
   3. Buff
   4. Green

7. Associated with French philosophical enlightenment 17-18thC, a hosted gathering of people for discussion and learning was/is a?

   1. Kitchen
   2. Salon
   3. Studio
   4. Study

8. 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

9. 'Commensurate' means?

   1. Early
   2. Proportionate
   3. Opinionated
   4. Working class

10. 'Sayonara' is an Americanized Japanese word for what?

11. What remedial word refers to the hardening of resins and cements, and the preserving of meat, etc., by salting or drying etc?

12. From 1935 to 1986 the Canadian silver dollar featured a?

    1. Lion
    2. Eagle
    3. Canoe
    4. Harp

13. What ancient Indian practice with Hatha and Raja versions has Sanskrit word origins combining union and concentration?

14. 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

15. A yurt, originating/popular with central Asia nomads from c.600BC is a type of?

    1. Tent
    2. Cart
    3. Horse
    4. Sour cream drink

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

17. What London street is a metonym for UK central government administration?

18. What traditional amusement forms Wikipedia's spherical logo?

19. In 2017 Fraser Corsan achieved what record-breaking speed for a non-mechanized free-falling human, in a wingsuit?

    1. 93mph
    2. 119mph
    3. 249mph
    4. 23,000mph

20. 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

21. The Turkish words 'ask' and 'sevgi' mean?

    1. Sun
    2. God
    3. Love
    4. Milk

22. The 2017-elected French President's newly and dramatically emerged party is abbreviated to?

    1. REM
    2. ABBA
    3. U2
    4. 10CC

23. Greenland and the Faroe Islands are two autonomous constituent countries of?

    1. Norway
    2. Denmark
    3. Canada
    4. USA

24. The Brazilian Real is the national?

    1. Dance
    2. Currency
    3. Parliament
    4. Dish