General Knowledge Quiz 274

Questions

1. Bimalleolar and Triplane fractures are types of broken?

   1. Ankle
   2. Crockery
   3. Promise
   4. Heart

2. Match the main ingredient each for?

   1. Taramasalata
   2. Dolmades
   3. Houmous - Vine leaves
   4. Chick peas
   5. Cod roe

3. The Greek goddess of love (meaning 'foam risen') who grew from the castrated genitals of Uranus thrown into the sea, is?

   1. Aphrodite
   2. Eros
   3. Venus
   4. Diana

4. A tonearm is found on a?

   1. Sitar
   2. Archer
   3. Record-player
   4. Yacht

5. Battle of the Little Bighorn, known to Lakota/other Plains American Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass is commonly called 'Whose What'?

6. Snell's Law (after 1600s Dutch astronomer/mathematician Willebrord Snellius) concerns?

   1. Light
   2. Gas
   3. Electricity
   4. Personality

7. Where now is the ancient civilisation region of Lydia?

   1. Mediterranean Europe
   2. Siberian Russia
   3. Asian Turkey
   4. Central America

8. Helmut Kohl and Erich Honecker led which divided nation(s) in the 1980s?

   1. Yugoslavia
   2. Germany
   3. Cyprus
   4. Russia

9. What famous toxic oily addictive liquid (C10H14N2) turns brown on exposure to air?

10. What is a popular suffix for a scandal or cover-up, originating in 1974 USA?

11. Drapery, columns, straw, and flowstone are natural mineral features of?

    1. Volcanoes
    2. Caves
    3. Mountains
    4. Glaciers

12. The disease diptheria affects the?

    1. Nose and throat
    2. Stomach
    3. Nervous system
    4. Skin

13. A skink is a?

    1. Bird
    2. Lizard
    3. Insect
    4. All-black skunk

14. Floccinauccinihilipilification means 'estimating something as (What?)'?

    1. Very big
    2. Very old
    3. Worthless
    4. Indescernable gender

15. Removing the husk/pod/calyx from a fruit is called?

    1. Hulling
    2. Skulling
    3. Pulling
    4. Bulling

16. What word means complex administration and systemic governance, from French 'office'?

17. Krill is/are?

    1. Fish
    2. Crustaceans
    3. Seaweed
    4. Eggs

18. The global non-profit organization founded by lawyer Clive Stafford Smith that fights extreme human rights abuse and the death penalty is called?

    1. Release
    2. Review
    3. Relieve
    4. Reprieve

19. Name the Cypriot mythological sculptor (and famous George Bernard Shaw play) who fell in love with a statue he carved?

20. The New Model Army was led by?

    1. Oliver Cromwell
    2. Adolf Hitler
    3. Naomi Campbell
    4. Elvis Costello

21. The Lux is the SI Unit of intensity of?

    1. Air-pressure
    2. Sterility
    3. Illumination
    4. Softness

22. Our hepatic portal vein connects which two of?

    1. Legs
    2. Intestines
    3. Liver
    4. Brain
    5. Eyes

23. The gravitational effect of (What?) determines Earth's maritime high/low/neap tides?

    1. Sun
    2. Moon
    3. Mars
    4. Clouds

24. Phloem, rays, and cork cambrian are features of a tree's?

    1. Leaves
    2. Fruit
    3. Trunk
    4. Roots