General Knowledge Quiz 271

Questions

1. Roughly the volume in cubic metres of a squash court is?

   1. 30
   2. 100
   3. 352
   4. 12,000

2. Which surnamed eponymous supergroup abbreviated to CSNY drew members from The Byrds, Hollies and Buffalo Springfield?

3. Match these words and meanings: Pagoda, Palermo, Palmyra, Pangolin - Indian tree, Scaly ant-eater, Buddhist shrine, Capital of Sicily?

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

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

5. Birkdale, Troon, Muirfield, and Sandwich are famous venues for what?

6. 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

7. What delicacy comes from the creature Husso husso?

8. Charon is the single main moon/satellite of?

   1. Pluto
   2. Mars
   3. Neptune
   4. The Sun

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

10. Colophony, rubbed on violin bows, is better known as a yellow turpentine resin called?

    1. Raisin
    2. Rosin
    3. Risin
    4. Rison

11. What precious stone is a corundum with chromium traces, historically called carbuncle?

12. Introduced legally in 1876, what vehicular float marking originally included abbreviations for 'Lloyd's Register', 'Salt Water in Summer', and 'Fresh Water'?

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

14. Egyptian Queen Cleopatra is said to have died from the bite of a?

    1. Lion
    2. Spider
    3. Asp
    4. Horse

15. Strabismus is an imbalance of the?

    1. Heart
    2. Hearing
    3. Eyes
    4. Beard

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

17. Which one of these is not among the four main gases of Earth's atmosphere?

    1. Nitrogen
    2. Oxygen
    3. Argon
    4. Carbon dioxide
    5. Hydrogen

18. Binomial Nomenclature is a two-part Latin naming and hierarchy system for?

    1. Roman roads
    2. Musical instruments
    3. Plants and animals
    4. Space rockets and satellites

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

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

20. The common word/suffix 'berg' in Swedish and German means?

    1. Lake
    2. Mountain
    3. Forest
    4. Ice

21. Assisi, birthplace of St Francis, founder of the Catholic Franciscan Order, is in?

    1. Spain
    2. Italy
    3. France
    4. Mexico

22. Dendrochronology refers to which three of?

    1. Bell
    2. Tree
    3. Hair
    4. Ring
    5. Speed
    6. Pull
    7. Dating

23. Name the famous winged horse from Greek mythology?

24. What is distilled from molasses?

    1. Rum
    2. Gin
    3. Vodka
    4. Tequila

25. What is the fluid component of blood, the '4th state of matter', and ionized gas/electric lamps?