General Knowledge Quiz 301

Questions

1. Nociceptive, Neuropathic, Phantom, Psychogenic, and Incident are types of what?

2. The society-persuasion theory adopted by US and UK governments based on the 2008 Thaler & Sunstein book of the same name is called?

   1. Shift
   2. Nudge
   3. Wink
   4. Elbow

3. What are generally regarded to be the four precious stones?

4. What common Hindu/Indian surname derives from 'a piece of land' and referred to a landowner/tenant farmer?

5. 360 Varial, Ollie, Nollie, and Frontside Air are terms in?

   1. Bartending
   2. Aviation
   3. Skateboarding
   4. Radio broadcasting

6. What internet vulnerability 'bug' was announced (in April 2014) to have existed in 17% of the world's web servers since end-2011?

   1. Heartbleed
   2. Braindrain
   3. Mindleak
   4. Plughole

7. The informal German military term 'sitzkrieg' refers to what feature of war?

   1. Aerial bombardment
   2. Pause
   3. Siege
   4. Retreat

8. The Sola plant (Aeschynomene aspera) from India/S Asia is used to make what famous headwear?

9. In psychology the (positive) 'Pygmalion effect' and opposite (negative) 'Golem effect' influence people by?

   1. Criticism
   2. Money
   3. Expectation
   4. Food

10. Pandalus borealis is more commonly called (and officially named by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization)?

    1. Northern prawn
    2. Giant panda
    3. Edible snail
    4. Bombay duck

11. The highest recorded bird strike by an aircraft is a?

    1. Swallow
    2. Vulture
    3. Crane
    4. Tit

12. A normal human eye can distinguish approximately how many different colours/colors?

    1. 10,000
    2. 100,000, 1 million, or 10 million

13. What word prefixes the following to make five different words: habit, jury, sect, stance, tense?

14. The medical term 'thrombo' refers to a?

    1. Leg
    2. Heart
    3. Blood clot
    4. Valve

15. Which US office equipment corporation renamed itself (1961) after its branded photocopying technology, from Greek meaning 'dry'?

16. According to which religion did the prophets Nephi and Lehi lead people from Jerusalem across the sea to the Americas around 600BC?

17. Hawaiian, Strombolian, Peléan, Phreatomagmatic and Submarine are types of?

    1. Massages
    2. Volcanic eruptions
    3. Salads
    4. Gymnastic floor moves

18. The term pannier (e.g., motorbike side-box) derives from what sort of basket?

    1. Picnic
    2. Bread
    3. Waste
    4. Ball

19. What name for a crude greedy humanoid species in Jonathan Swift's 1726 Gulliver's Travels came to refer to a rude and violent person, and is also a big modern technology corporation?

20. The old English words 'erst' and 'erstwhile' mean?

    1. Past
    2. Present
    3. Supposed
    4. Certain