General Knowledge Quiz 279

Questions

1. Jackson Pollock is a famous American Action?

   1. Hero
   2. Figure
   3. Movie
   4. Painter

2. Which one of these did not solve the Deoxyribonucleic Acid mystery?

   1. Holmes
   2. Watson
   3. Crick

3. Christian 'Adventist' refers to a founding belief in?

   1. Purgatory
   2. Christ's 2nd coming
   3. Forgiveness
   4. Abstinence

4. 19thC British land agent in Ireland, Charles Boycott originated a concept simiilar to?

   1. Football
   2. Pinball
   3. Blackball
   4. Cricket

5. Antebellum means before the?

   1. Flood
   2. War
   3. Storm or Fall

6. What early blogging system became during the early 2000s the leading software for website design?

7. A sommelier particularly correlates (What?) with food?

   1. Health
   2. Personality
   3. Wine
   4. Kitchen design

8. Fitbit is a famous technology (What?) brand?

   1. Dating
   2. Fitness
   3. Equine
   4. DIY

9. Epinephrine and Takamine are alternative names for what hormone/neurotransmitter/medication?

   1. Oxytocin
   2. Adrenaline
   3. Cortisol
   4. Seratonin

10. What is the amusing translation of the mock Latin "Quantum ille canis est in fenestra"?

11. The reigns of Emperors of France (1814 and 1815), Russia (1917), and Germany (1918) ended by?

    1. Assassination
    2. Abdication
    3. Madness
    4. Divorce

12. Which one of these acids is body-systemically lethal besides corrosive?

    1. Hydrochloric
    2. Nitric
    3. Sulphuric
    4. Hydrofluoric

13. Which two of these are types of acid rain?

    1. Hydrochloric
    2. Nitric
    3. Sulphuric
    4. Hydrofluoric

14. What bird is named after an Atlantic island group, where it originated?

15. What food additive prevents fats becoming rancid?

    1. Emulsifier
    2. Anti-oxidant
    3. Acidulent
    4. Humectant

16. What term is the direct opposite of atheist?

17. Kevin Systrom posted the first photo in July 2010 (a dog in Mexico and his girlfriend's foot) on what portmanteau-named technology platform?

18. Members of Alcoholics Anonymous traditionally use only what names?

    1. First name
    2. Surname
    3. Nickname
    4. Number

19. What broad creative compilation concept is named from French meaning 'mount'?

20. Which German scientist established in 1905 'special relativity', on which basis nothing is faster than light?

21. John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) defined an eponymous major theory of?

    1. Architecture
    2. Cooking
    3. Astronomy
    4. Economics

22. From Latin 'alive' and 'cutting', what is the dissection of live animals for experiments?

23. Thiamin and Riboflavin are types 1 and 2 of what?

24. Nuclear fission means/refers to atoms being?

    1. Collided
    2. Mixed
    3. Split
    4. Heated

25. Russian author Ivan Turenev, from Latin 'nothing', first named what zero-morality belief system?