General Knowledge Quiz 289

Questions

1. 13. What pasta means 'little worms'?

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

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

3. 24. 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

4. 23. Whose adaptable eponymous law proposes that work expands to fill time available?

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

6. 21. A sophomore traditionally refers to a US further education student in year?

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

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

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

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

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

10. 17. 'Spanish bayonet' informally refers to the plant family?

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

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

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

12. 15. The Mohs scale measures mineral?

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

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

14. 1. 12.5% equates to what fraction?

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

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

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

17. 10. 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

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

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

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

20. 7. What does ZANU-PF stand for?

21. 6. Traditional use of amalgam mercury alloy was?

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

22. 5. The term 'Scaramouche' originated in Italian?

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

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

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

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

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

25. 2. Ante Meridiem and Post Meridiem mean before and after?

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