General Knowledge Quiz 303

Questions

1. Katsuma, Poppet, Furi, Luvli, Diavlo and Zommer are central characters in which 2010s children's website/merchandise/media phenomenon?

2. Alluding to a ridged cloth, a temporary vehicle-track built over bogland on a foundation of perpendicularly laid logs is called a (What?) road?

3. What's the western name of the least densely populated country in the world, (national language 'Kalaallit Nunaat'), with capital city Nuuk?

4. What Terry Nation concept was produced by scientist Davros from the indigenous Kaleds of the planet Skaro?

5. What Cantonese mixed bite-size food means literally 'touch the heart'?

6. DNA analysis of a 7,000 year-old cave-dwelling human skeleton from north Spain revealed what surprising genetic feature?

   1. Chin dimple
   2. Blue eyes
   3. Webbed feet
   4. an 'Outie' belly-button

7. Which vegetable originates from a cross between a cabbage and a turnip?

   1. Artichoke
   2. Swede/ Rutabaga
   3. Broccolli
   4. Cauliflower

8. Colombian Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014) and Chilean Pablo Neruda (1904-73) are famous South American?

   1. Military leaders
   2. Painters
   3. Writers
   4. Boxers

9. Chinese technology entrepreneur Jack Ma founded which vast internet corporation, which (in the 2010s) handles c.80% of China's online shopping?

   1. Aladdin
   2. Sinbad
   3. Alibaba
   4. King Kong

10. The Spanish 'Copa del Rey' is a?

    1. Windy weather system
    2. Cathedral
    3. Mafia organization
    4. Seafood curry
    5. Soccer competition

11. Dashi is a popular Japanese?

    1. Stock/soup
    2. Martial art
    3. Taxi-company
    4. Pebbled wall-rendering

12. Where in 2014 became the last European territory to decriminalize sex between men?

    1. Monaco
    2. Isle of Man
    3. Northern Cyprus
    4. Vatican City State

13. Tarja Halonen, Martti Ahtisaari, and Mauno Koivisto have been presidents of Suomi - known in western language as?

    1. Peru
    2. Fiji
    3. Finland
    4. Kuwait

14. Which famous British institution's heavily subsidized restaurant received a complaint after cancelling a member's booking (in 2013), that "...we were unable to eat elsewhere because my wife was wearing a tiara...'?

    1. The London Palladium
    2. The House of Lords
    3. St Andrews Golf Club
    4. Queens Tennis Club

15. Selecting or extracting only a few prime items from a wide range, especially where less discrimination is appropriate, is called (What?)-picking?

    1. Strawberry
    2. Cherry
    3. Cotton
    4. Nose

16. Name the controversial arm-gesture associated with French-Cameroonian comedian Dieudonne M'bala M'bala?

    1. Quarante
    2. Quenelle
    3. Quinine
    4. Quiche

17. What form of breadcrumbed fried food, often containing mashed potato, is named from French 'to crunch'?

18. Which country hosted a special edition of UK TV's 'Double Your Money' prize game show, broadcast in 1966, in which points rather than money were awarded, leading to a top prize of a television set?

19. How many 'states' (variations) are possible in a single 7-segment electronic/digital numeral display (as used in calculators, etc)?

    1. 10
    2. 12
    3. 64
    4. 128

20. The Berghof, Wolfsschanze, and Adlerhorst were notable headquarters of?

    1. Napoleon Bonaparte
    2. Adolf Hitler
    3. Joseph Stalin
    4. Dwight D Eisenhower