General Knowledge Quiz 275

Questions

1. The expression 'Step up to the plate', meaning accept a challenge, derives from?

   1. Catering
   2. Baseball
   3. Railway
   4. Seismology

2. An 'Ozalid' version is used for checking/approval pre-production of?

   1. Ready-meals
   2. Books
   3. Coins
   4. Passenger jets

3. In the book publishing industry, unsolicited manuscripts from hopeful writers are informally called the?

   1. Cabbage leaves
   2. Slushpile
   3. Haystack
   4. Bin-tray

4. Metaphorical encouragement to take as much as you want, typically from a surprising plentiful availability, is "Fill your (What?)"?

   1. Suitcase
   2. Bags
   3. Boots
   4. Trousers

5. An olfactometer measures intensity of or sensitivity to?

   1. Taste
   2. Light
   3. Smell
   4. Sound

6. What yellow-green gas element is most commonly/historically used in water disinfection?

7. Attempting to make a person believe he/she is going insane by secretly moving/changing things is called (What?) after an Oscar-winning 1944 film?

8. Harvard and Yale Universities are respectively in?

   1. Massachusetts and Connecticut
   2. Washington and New York
   3. California and Arizona
   4. Texas and Alabama

9. Capo and Gitano are terminology in which sort of music?

   1. Country
   2. Flamenco
   3. Opera
   4. Military marching

10. The mixed food of Near East/Balkans/Central Asia (Persian for 'taste or snack') is?

    1. Thali
    2. Tapas
    3. Meze
    4. Smorgasbord

11. Which vast online non-profit organization was launched in January 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger?

12. Murres, guillemots, auklets, and puffins are?

    1. Jewellery fastenings
    2. Sea birds
    3. Punctuation
    4. Cloud formations

13. A pachyderm refers to an animal of which two characteristics?

    1. Wings
    2. Large size
    3. Thick skin
    4. Several Eyes

14. What is the cube root of a million?

15. What universal building construction/repair system derives its name from catafalque, Old French, a coffin support?

16. Neapolitan ice-cream is traditionally which three of?

    1. Chocolate
    2. Banana
    3. Strawberry
    4. Coffee
    5. Vanilla

17. Russian/Bulgarian okrug/okrag, and German bezirk refer to an area of?

    1. Red brickwork
    2. Nudist beach
    3. Territorial administration
    4. Uncertainty

18. The world's largest arts festival, each August, founded 1947, is called/abbreviated the Edinburgh Festival?

    1. Border
    2. Edge
    3. Fray
    4. Fringe

19. What Indian-English word for a light lunch or afternoon tea is also a traditional confection of bisuits, syrup, cocoa, raisins and chocolate?

20. Potable refers to (What?) that is safe to consume?

    1. Meat
    2. Water
    3. Bread
    4. Drugs

21. The ocelot, caracal, oncilla, and margay are wild?

    1. Cats
    2. Dogs
    3. Pigs
    4. Horses

22. What is arguably the first globally popular rock musical, 1970/71?

    1. Starlight Express
    2. Jesus Christ Superstar
    3. Miss Saigon
    4. Cats

23. 'Dailies', raw footage shot/reviewed daily to check quality in film production, is also called?

    1. Fasts
    2. Quicks
    3. Rushes
    4. Hurries

24. A trattoria is an informal Italian?

    1. Dance
    2. Opera
    3. Restaurant
    4. Wedding

25. The first Hilton Hotel, built by founder Conrad Hilton in 1925, is in?

    1. New York
    2. Dallas
    3. London
    4. Milton Keynes