General Knowledge Quiz 277

Questions

1. The enzyme pepsin enables human?

   1. 'Fight of flight'
   2. Protein digestion
   3. Sneezing
   4. Libido

2. Noddy's hat is?

   1. Red
   2. Yellow
   3. Green
   4. Blue

3. Omsk, Krakow and Hyderabad, are respectively past capitals of which three nations?

4. Phlebitis is inflammation of human?

   1. Fingers
   2. Feet
   3. Veins
   4. Ears

5. The first Memphis was in ancient?

   1. Mexico
   2. Egypt
   3. Spain
   4. Norway

6. Rubbery, red, c.14cms, and under the lower-left ribcage describes the human?

   1. Heart
   2. Spleen
   3. Bladder
   4. Appendix

7. An indecisive 1950-53 war saw China/USSR and the UN/US respectively support North vs South?

   1. Vietnam
   2. Korea
   3. Africa
   4. Germany

8. The protein constituent of hair, fingernails, horns and beaks is?

   1. Keratin
   2. Ketamine
   3. Kerosene
   4. Kettering

9. The country whose first president and president son, subject to electoral victory challenge in 2017, share names in part is?

   1. Kenya
   2. Uganda
   3. Zambia
   4. Nigeria

10. The fearsome 1940s Chindits British colonial infantry brigade was raised in?

    1. Australia
    2. Burma
    3. Ireland
    4. Canada

11. In 1865 William Booth founded what Army organization?

    1. French Foreign Legion
    2. KGB
    3. SAS
    4. Salvation

12. The Otto Cycle is the basic four-stroke theory for?

    1. Internal combustion engines
    2. Cricket batting
    3. Water-colour painting
    4. White water rafting

13. In geometry, a surfance with no edges and a single side is a Klein?

    1. Bottle
    2. Glass
    3. Sheet
    4. Tube

14. Kepler's Laws of the 1600s extended Copernicus's heliocentric theory of humankind's?

    1. Evolution
    2. Agriculture
    3. Languages
    4. Solar System

15. What iconic Japanese warrior class rose to power in the 12th century, whose customs survive in martial arts?

16. The white soluble salt called soda ash and cleaning soda used in glass, paper, cleansing, etc., is Sodium?

    1. Chloride
    2. Carbonate
    3. Nitrite
    4. Hydroxide

17. The 1920s-30s Vienna Circle that devised 'logical positivism' was a group of scientific?

    1. Musicians
    2. Philosophers
    3. Ice-skaters
    4. Bakers

18. Which golf club has the highest loft and face angle (c58%)?

    1. Driver
    2. Sand wedge
    3. No7 iron
    4. Putter

19. What ancient sport now has a 300yard field and up to eight seven-minute 'chukkas'?

20. Pomegranates originated in?

    1. Alaska
    2. Australia
    3. West Asia
    4. a Swiss laboratory

21. Britain gave the North Sea island of Heligoland to Germany in 1890 in exchange for?

    1. Gibraltar
    2. Zanzibar
    3. One pound
    4. Bayern Munich FC

22. One knot of maritime/aviation speed equates to?

    1. 0.5mph
    2. 0.9mph
    3. 1.15mph
    4. 2.5mph

23. What Anglo-French project was abandoned in 1883 due to English public outcry about security?

24. The Latin family 'Apoidea' has over 12,000 species of?

    1. Birds
    2. Bees
    3. Bears
    4. Bananas

25. Kerela is a beautiful densely populated well-developed southern state of?

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