General Knowledge Quiz 276

Questions

1. The artist Giovanni Antonio Canal (Canaletto) is famous for his technically precise paintings of?

   1. Venice
   2. Amsterdam
   3. Bruges
   4. Bangkok

2. In 2011 a Bitcoin was worth between $0.30 and $3 Roughly what is a Bitcoin worth in Aug 2017?

   1. $0.04
   2. $0.40
   3. $00 or $4000.00

3. Susan Bennett, Karen Jacobsen, and John Briggs are primary voices of?

   1. Toy Story
   2. Siri
   3. BBC News
   4. Otis lifts

4. Teak is what sort of wood/tree?

   1. Hardwood
   2. Softwood
   3. Food
   4. Ornamental

5. The Hang Seng Index is the main indicator of stock market performance in?

   1. China
   2. Japan
   3. Hong Kong
   4. Russia

6. What scarring infectious disease historically treated with a vaccine from cows was declared eradicated in 1980?

7. What is a food fish (Osmerus) and metal process?

   1. Forge
   2. Smelt
   3. Cast
   4. Electroplate

8. How many nanometres, a measurement unit used in microchip technology etc., make one metre?

   1. 1 million
   2. 10 million, 100 million
   3. 1 billion

9. As at 2017, in what decade was the last officially recorded infantry bayonet charge?

   1. 1940s
   2. 1960s
   3. 1980s or 2010s

10. Name the Swiss psychoanalyst and Freud's collaborator whose theory, inc. extraversion vs introversion, underpins Myers-Briggs (MBTI) and other personality testing systems?

11. Chile con carne means chile with?

    1. Beans
    2. Tomatoes
    3. Meat
    4. Heat

12. The 1960s cult TV series filmed at Sir Clough Williams-Ellis's famous Italianesque village Portmeirion in N Wales is The?

    1. Fugitive
    2. Saint
    3. Prisoner
    4. Virginian

13. What city, Roman name 'Ratae Corieltauvorum', became globally famous due to Italian influence 2015/16, and the burial of a lost King, found in a car park?

14. Medieval European 'miracle plays' were based on the lives of?

    1. Saints
    2. Animals
    3. Ordinary people
    4. Plants

15. A sand dollar or sea biscuit informally refers to a?

    1. Marine creature
    2. Whirlpool
    3. Oil-drum cap
    4. Arabian stud horse

16. American Stephen Foster's famous 1948 song 'Oh Susanna' refers to coming from?

    1. Arizona
    2. Arkansas
    3. Alabama
    4. Alaska

17. What is the fourth root of 6561?

    1. 7
    2. 9
    3. 19
    4. 39

18. Renault's popular electric supermini car launched 2012 is the?

    1. Chloe
    2. Zoe
    3. Joe
    4. Canoe

19. The South European heatwave of 2017 was named?

    1. Lucifer
    2. Beelzebub
    3. Satan
    4. Old Nick

20. In 2011 a Bitcoin was worth between $0.30 and $32. Roughly what is a Bitcoin worth in Aug 2017?

    1. $0.04
    2. $0.40
    3. $4.00 or $4000.00

21. The world's first communist state (1917) was?

    1. China
    2. Russia
    3. Cuba
    4. France

22. First published 1886, Hobson-Jobson is a classic reference dictionary of Anglo-(What?)?

    1. American
    2. Chinese
    3. Indian
    4. French

23. Whose (Mandela quote) tweet became the most liked in history Aug 2017 (3m+) about the US Charlotteville race protests?

    1. The Pope
    2. Barack Obama
    3. Donald Trump
    4. Kim Kardashian

24. The Italian metaphor 'Cavoli Riscaldati' ('reheated cabbage') refers to an unsavable?

    1. Cooked meal
    2. Broken-down car
    3. Love affair
    4. Collapsed government

25. The word bamboo (Dravidian 'bambu') is from the Kannada people in?

    1. China
    2. Brazil
    3. India
    4. Canada

26. Baloney, slang for nonsense, is primarily?

    1. German beetroot
    2. Bologna pork sausage
    3. Swiss cheese
    4. Mexican turkey jerky