General Knowledge Quiz 309

Questions

1. In 2014, Illinois University research found higher casualty rates from female-named (what?) due to victims' complacency, compared to having higher perceived fear of male names?

   1. Volcanoes
   2. Mountains
   3. Hurricanes
   4. Pet snakes

2. Re-arrange these five legally established national sports to the correct nations?

   1. Ice hockey - Sri Lanka
   2. Tejo - Canada
   3. Volleyball - Colombia
   4. Sloop sailing - Iran
   5. Wrestling - Bahamas

3. Who wrote 'This be the Verse', starting famously "They f\*\*\* you up, your Mum and Dad, They may not mean to, but they do..."?

   1. Philip Larkin
   2. Lord Byron
   3. Mark Twain
   4. Jane Austen

4. The convincing diamond substitute Zircon (zirconium silicate) is?

   1. From sea shell
   2. Naturally occurring in rock
   3. Made in a laboratory
   4. Waste from the double-glazing industry

5. Egg corn, Oronym, Mondegreen, Dogberryism, and Malapropism are types of?

   1. Cattle diseases
   2. Political ideologies
   3. Language puns
   4. North Atlantic weather effects

6. Cumulus humilis is commonly described as?

   1. Fair weather cloud
   2. Storm cloud
   3. Sandstorm
   4. Fog

7. Phobos and Deimos, the two moons of Mars, mean (and represent in Greek mythology)?

   1. Light and Dark
   2. Sound and Vision
   3. Fear and Terror
   4. Guns and Roses

8. What historical region equating to NE Germany and N Poland, meaning 'by the coast', gave its name to local breeds of modern dog, goose and sheep?

9. Originating in Turkish cuisine terminology the 'shish' in a shish kebab refers to?

10. Unusually for a whale, the Arctic Ocean narwhal (or narwhale) possesses?

    1. Fur
    2. One long straight spiral tusk
    3. An extra brain in its tail
    4. Eyebrows

11. The Latin word for pig is?

    1. Swinus
    2. Boarus
    3. Porcus
    4. Oincus

12. The obsequious "ever so 'umble" money-lender in Charles Dickens' novel David Copperfield, is?

    1. Wishbone Ash
    2. Uriah Heep
    3. Pink Floyd
    4. Axl Rose

13. In many Asian/Eastern beliefs 'Naraka' is what?

14. What two-word slang is an open quarry, secondary glassblowing furnace, dam/reservoir spillway, and a small opening in a wall for anonymous sexual cooperation either side?

15. A naval orange is named after?

    1. Harvest festivals in church naves
    2. Sailors ate them to combat scurvy
    3. Navajo native American Indians grew them
    4. They have a 'belly-button'

16. To which major biblical event did the 'burning bush' direct Moses?

17. 'Anima sana in corpore sano' (Latin for 'a healthy mind in a healthy body') is significant in which 1949-founded Japanese corporation's branding?

18. What modern popular pet population originated entirely from single female found in Syria in 1930?

19. A miasma is a?

    1. Deafening noise
    2. Big crowd
    3. Nasty smell
    4. Tiny fish-hook for catching prawns

20. What is five-eighths of sixteen?