General Knowledge Quiz 295

Questions

1. Deriving from, and in part meaning small, what is the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet?

2. In conventional chessboard layout denotion, where the white castle (rook) starts on square a1, what piece occupies e8?

3. Spell the name of the WWII Nazi concentration camp Ausvitcz/Auschwitz/Awsvitch/Auscwicz?

4. At what fret are found the same notes as the open strings, but an octave higher, on a standard guitar?

   1. 8th
   2. 10th
   3. 12th
   4. 14th

5. What is the originally north African dish made of coursely ground wheat whose Arabic name, kaskasa, means 'to pound'?

6. 2011 is how many years' anniversary of the start of (what is conventionally referred to as) the US Civil War?

7. What UK event did protest group Animal Aid describe in 2011 as 'straightforward animal abuse on a par with Spanish Bullfighting'?

8. In relation to spiritual diety Pachamama, in 2011 Bolivia announced an new unusual Law of what?

9. Abidjan is the former capital and a major battleground of what civil-war-torn nation in 2011?

10. Bourse is a European word for what financial mechanism?

11. Which is the only country in Southeast Asia never to have been colonized by a European power?

12. Croquembouche is a dessert tower made of what?

    1. Fruit
    2. Ice-cream
    3. Profiteroles
    4. Meringue

13. What is the name for mammals born incompletely developed and carried and suckled in a pouch on the mother's belly?

14. Previously deemed too dangerous, what Winter Olympics event will be open to women for the first time in the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi?

15. If something is piscivorous, what does it generally feed on?

16. Infrasound - sound lower than 20Hz (Hertz, or cycles per second) and typically undetectable by human hearing - is more commonly termed what?

17. Which US president popularised the term 'muckraking' (meaning investigative reporting, notably of politics and business) in a 1906 speech?

18. The enzyme pepsin is released by cells in which part of the human body?

19. Charmeuse, Noil and Shantung are all types of which fabric?

20. The moons of which planet are named after Shakespearian characters?

21. Which vegetable has the Latin name Allium Cepa?

22. Which canal is known as the 'Highway to India'?

23. Which playing card is known as the 'Beer Card?

24. Cryptozoology is the study of which type of creatures?

    1. Burrowing
    2. Corpse-feeding
    3. Mythical
    4. Church-dwelling

25. Traditionally, oysters should be eaten when which letter of the alphabet is in the month?

26. What does the 'S' stand for in UNESCO?

27. Which country has the internet domain .pl?

28. Paques is the French term for which religious festival?

29. Which month was named after the Roman god of war?

30. Which Tropic divides Mexico into temperate and tropical zones?