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General Knowledge Quiz 288

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Questions

  1. 2 A sophomore traditionally refers to a US further education student in year?

    1. 1
    2. 2
    3. 3
    4. 4

  2. What does ZANU-PF stand for?

  3. A glengarry, with a toorie and cockade, is a traditional Scottish?

    1. Soup
    2. Hat
    3. Dance
    4. Goalkeeper

  4. 'Glavenoye Upravleniye Lagarej' (1923-61) is the acronymic origin of what word for a prison?

  5. A subject that would be challengingly complex if discussed is metaphorically a (What?) of (What?)?

    1. Box
    2. Can
    3. Bag
    4. of Frogs
    5. Worms
    6. Spanners

  6. What hard metal element symbol Mo is named from Greek for lead?

  7. Humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen 2017 was largely caused by proxy war between (which two of)?

    1. Russia
    2. Iran
    3. China
    4. Saudi Arabia

  8. What pasta means 'little worms'?

    1. Spaghetti
    2. Vermicelli
    3. Tagliatelle
    4. Lasagne

  9. What vintage/handmade online business is named loosely phonetically from Italian 'oh yes' and French 'what if'?

  10. The Mohs scale measures mineral?

    1. Acidity
    2. Luminosity
    3. Hardness
    4. Weight

  11. Epinephrine, an emergency treatment for cardiac arrest is better known as?

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

  12. 'Spanish bayonet' informally refers to the plant family?

    1. Tomato
    2. Aloe Vera
    3. Yucca or Bamboo

  13. Besides forage and grain, sorghum grass was grown for?

    1. Smoking
    2. Syrup
    3. Thatching
    4. Linen

  14. Meaning sequins, what was the 1950-80s fruit sweet version of throat lozenge Tunes?

  15. What word prefixes fever, hammer, metal, pages, and river?

  16. Traditional use of amalgam mercury alloy was?

    1. Bullets
    2. Thermometers
    3. Church bells
    4. Dental fillings

  17. 2 'Clear seeing' in French gave what Anglicized term for a psychic or extrasensory perception (ESP) practitioner?

  18. 2 Whose adaptable eponymous law proposes that work expands to fill time available?

  19. 2 In 2017 Venice announced a ban of what increasingly super-sized pollutants?

    1. Takeaway meals
    2. Cruise ships
    3. Seagulls
    4. Stag and Hen parties

  20. 2 Match the pre-Euro currencies and nations: Escudo, Tolar, Lats, Drachma – Greece, Slovenia, Portugal, Latvia?

  21. What Italian wine translates as 'grape of the wild vine'?

  22. Natural sponges cannot be which one of?

    1. Seawater
    2. Freshwater
    3. Animal
    4. Vegetable

  23. 2 Mythical Greek creatures centaur, pegasus, unicorn and hippocampus share what element?

    1. Eagle
    2. Horse
    3. Goat
    4. Rhinoceros

  24. 2 A lodestone or loadstone is another word for a?

    1. Paperweight
    2. Plumbline
    3. Paving slab or Magnet

  25. 2 “A quantity representing the power to which a fixed number must be raised to produce a given number” is a?

    1. Tangent
    2. Digit
    3. Logarithm
    4. Fraction

  26. 2 The Goths (comprising Visigoths and Ostragoths) triumphed in?

    1. Harry Potter
    2. Star Wars
    3. Waterloo
    4. The Roman Empire

  27. 2What is the major US agency missing from this list: Roscosmos (Russia), JAXA (Japan), ESA (Europe), CSA (Canada), and CNSA (China)?

  28. Character speaking sci-fi who?

  29. The word Xmas originates from?

    1. Atheism
    2. Medieval illiteracy
    3. Walt Disney
    4. Greek for Christ

  30. What anxiety disorder is named from Greek meaning fear of the public/market square?

  31. What African nation and old coin prefixes hen, pig, fowl and worm?

  32. Dyspnoea refers to difficulty?

    1. Speaking
    2. Breathing
    3. Sleeping
    4. Waking

  33. Stovies, Kedgeree, Neeps and Tatties are cuisine of?

    1. Canada
    2. Australia
    3. Scotland
    4. Italy

  34. Besides gold, white gold mainly contains (c.17%) what metal, also a famous London theatre?

  35. What country's beer company trademark causes American Budweiser to be 'Bud' in most of Europe?

    1. Belgium
    2. Germany
    3. Czech Republic
    4. Russia

  36. November is named from Latin 'novem' meaning which number?

  37. What soft fabric is named from French 'gloves of Sweden'?

  38. Greek derived 'tetra' denotes?

    1. Four
    2. Milk
    3. Head
    4. Giant

  39. From Latin, a tyro is what sort of young person: Bossy, Inexperienced, Noisy, or Cyclist?

  40. Kampuchea was previously?

    1. Cambodia
    2. Ukriane
    3. Iceland
    4. Starbucks

  41. What African nation is geographically closest to Italy?

  42. The 'Limbal ring' thought subliminally attractive in human mating, is part of the?

    1. Eye
    2. Mouth
    3. Ear
    4. Naval

  43. The world's highest value shopping day, significantly 11 Nov, created by Chinese corp Alibaba is themed (What?) Day?

    1. Children's, Lover's
    2. Pet's
    3. Single's

  44. The main ingredient of vinegar besides water is what acid?

    1. Acetic
    2. Citric
    3. Hydrochloric
    4. Lactic

  45. Sammarinese is the demonym (name) for people of which tiny nation (known as the Most Serene Republic of..)?

  46. What popular 1960s laminate refers to Latin for ant?

  47. What pomelo/orange hybrid which can seriously alter drug digestion/reaction originated in Barbados?

  48. What inexpensive highly useful long crystal silicate mineral mined for over 4,000 years is generally now outlawed due to fatal health risks?

  49. Upon threatening republican declaration in 2017, Catalonia became subject to direct rule by which national government?

  50. An octave higher than open string on a standard guitar is made at fret?

    1. 6
    2. 8
    3. 12
    4. 15

  51. 2 What dark yellow earthy-tasting rhizome ginger family spice is thought especially helpful for joint ailments?

  52. 2 The Biblical allusion in psychotherapy exploring human frailty is commonly expressed as (What?) of (What?)?

    1. Head
    2. Hands
    3. Feet
    4. (of) Lead
    5. Sand
    6. Clay

  53. 2 Which African nation, famous for its extraordinary long-isolated wildlife, has the longest coastline?

  54. 2 What word prefixes Flap, Flat, Guard, Lark and Stone?

  55. 2What replaced the Escudo, Koruna, Tolar, Kroon, and Lats?

  56. 5% equates to what fraction?

  57. Ante Meridiem and Post Meridiem mean before and after?

    1. Dark
    2. Birth
    3. Midday
    4. Prayers

  58. The Stubhub and Viagogo corporations, raided/investigated in 2017, controversially sell?

    1. Parliamentary seats
    2. Human organs
    3. Concert tickets
    4. Parking spaces

  59. James Hilton's 1933 novel Lost Horizon originated 'Shangri-La' as a synonym for?

    1. Utopia
    2. Dystopia
    3. Myopia
    4. Ethiopia

  60. The term 'Scaramouche' originated in Italian?

    1. Football
    2. Winemaking
    3. Pantomime
    4. Mafia

Answers

  1. 2
  2. Zimbabwe African National Union
  3. Hat
  4. Gulag
  5. Can of Worms
  6. Molybdenum
  7. Iran and Saudi Arabia
  8. Vermicelli
  9. Etsy
  10. Hardness
  11. Adrenalin
  12. Yucca
  13. Syrup
  14. Spangles
  15. Yellow
  16. Dental fillings
  17. Clairvoyant
  18. Parkinson
  19. Cruise ships
  20. Escudo=Portugal, Tolar=Slovenia, Lats=Latvia, Drachma=Greece
  21. Frascati; Pino Grigio; Chianti; or Lambrusco?
  22. Vegetable
  23. Horse
  24. Magnet
  25. Logarithm
  26. The Roman Empire
  27. NASA
  28. Yoda
  29. Greek for Christ
  30. Agoraphobia
  31. Guinea
  32. Breathing
  33. Scotland
  34. Palladium
  35. Czech Republic
  36. Nine
  37. Suede
  38. Four
  39. Inexperienced
  40. Cambodia
  41. Tunisia
  42. Eye
  43. Single's
  44. Acetic
  45. San Marino
  46. Formica
  47. Grapefruit
  48. Asbestos
  49. Spain
  50. 12
  51. Turmeric
  52. Feet of Clay
  53. Madagasgar
  54. Mud
  55. Euro
  56. 1/8
  57. Midday
  58. Concert tickets
  59. Utopia
  60. Pantomime