General Knowledge Quiz 293

Questions

1. Occipital, sphenoid, ethmoid, parietal and temporal are among 14 bones of a human?

   1. Foot
   2. Hand
   3. Skull
   4. Ear

2. 2 What are the three missing nations from this list of 2017 USAN membership (Union of South American Nations): Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela, Chile, Guyana, Suriname?

3. 2 Carles Puigdemont fled to Brussels after failing to achieve independence for where?

4. 2 Ernest Hemingway originated the Absinthe/Champagne cocktail “(What?) in the Afternoon”?

   1. Love
   2. Sleep
   3. Death
   4. Drunk

5. 2 A pescatarian is a?

   1. Gladiator armed with a heavy net
   2. Someone in their 90s
   3. A fish-eater who does not eat meat
   4. a Library worker responsible for the children's section

6. 2 Homo sapiens bones found in Morocco in 2017 altered understanding of the emergence of modern humans to how many years ago?

   1. 10,000
   2. 50,000
   3. 75,000
   4. 350;000

7. 2 Tofu is made from?

   1. Rice flour
   2. Soybean milk
   3. Fish eggs
   4. Bananas

8. Yeast is a?

   1. Mineral
   2. Fruit
   3. Fungus
   4. Animal

9. Emmerson Mnangagwa replaced which leader of 37 years in 2017?

10. In Judaism, bar mitzvah refers to a boy of (and ceremonially becoming)?

    1. 7
    2. 10
    3. 13
    4. 16

11. What UK measure in World War Two improved health and life expectancy?

    1. Conscription
    2. Food rationing
    3. Blackout curtains
    4. Evacuation

12. What Scandinavian-style buffet is named from Swedish 'sandwich table'?

13. Speed or fast versions of which game are called Rapid, Blitz, Bullet and Armageddon?

14. Nigeria borders to its south mostly?

    1. Sea
    2. Desert
    3. Uganda
    4. Madagascar

15. Obsidian is a natural glass from?

    1. Volcanoes
    2. Oceans
    3. Meteors
    4. Coal

16. 'Old Long Since' is the literal title meaning of what famous Scottish poem and song?

17. The notion that the simplest theory is most reliable among more complex options is called Ockham's?

    1. Knife
    2. Razor
    3. Hammer
    4. Mangle

18. Formerly Burma, what nation's policies and army caused the Rohingya people's refugee crisis in 2017?

19. In 2017 ex-soccer player George Weah became president of?

    1. FIFA
    2. NATO
    3. Liberia
    4. Siberia

20. It was announced in 2017 that UK passports would revert to being what after Brexit?

21. Which nation's economy was forecast to overtake UK and France to become globally fifth largest in 2018 (behind US, China; Japan, Germany): India; Saudi Arabia; Turkey; or Mexico?

22. Italian for 'as the chapel' translates to refer to what singing style?

23. The acceleration of free fall, 8m/s/s, has what scientific symbol, referring to the force responsible?

24. Latin 'acetum' means what common fundamental liquid?

25. The German placenames Bad and Baden refer to what?

26. Cybernetics refers to?

    1. Space travel
    2. Robots
    3. Monsters
    4. Control processes and communications in electronic, mechanical and biological systems