General Knowledge Quiz 312

Questions

1. What punning word is an animal's mother, a barrier, and a biblical expletive?

2. Which inspirational genius created the landmark film 'Modern Times' and its theme song, 'Smile', released in 1936?

3. Derived from Latin for 'place', what anglicized French word commonly means 'instead' in formal communications?

4. Avian refers to?

   1. Birds
   2. Bees
   3. Apes
   4. Vikings

5. What herb is traditionally associated, besides garlic, with the pickling of a gherkin (US pickle)?

6. What mathematical term originated from Arabic 'awar', meaning 'damage to goods', evolving through French terminology for an apportionment of shipping liabilities between owners of vessel and cargo?

7. Ogilvy & Mather, WWP and James Walter Thompson famously operate in?

   1. Law
   2. Advertising
   3. Auditing
   4. Architectural design

8. What word, derived from Latin meaning to 'pay against the evil of something' refers to expressing disapproval?

9. Comprising 100 centavos, what is the currency of Brazil?

10. The artists Monet, Manet, Degas and Cezanne are mainly noted for what style of art?

11. What does the workplace flexi-hours acronym TOIL stand for?

12. If a fifth of the charges in a £60 bill are discounted by 25%, what is the total cost?

13. What popular Spanish word has various meanings including go, hurry up, come on, let's go, up, upstairs, and above?

14. What boom caused gross exploitation of native people of Brazil and adjacent nations by European industrialists c.1879-1912?

    1. Rubber
    2. Cotton
    3. Gold
    4. Silk

15. In the 1920s Japanese and Austrian physicians Kyusaku Ogino and Hermann Knaus devised the contraceptive method called popularly?

    1. Coil
    2. Rhythm
    3. Pill
    4. Condom

16. Calabria, flanked by the Tyrrhenian and Ionian Seas, is the southern peninsular of which country?

17. The famous guitar maker founded in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in 1902 is?

    1. Gibson
    2. Fender
    3. Rickenbacker
    4. Gretsch

18. Name the core specialism of notable Anglo-Danish industrialist Sir Ove Nyquist Arup (1895-1988) and the global (Arup Group) corporation he created?

    1. Pharmacy
    2. Structural engineering
    3. Shipbuilding
    4. Food canning

19. G-BOAG, G-BOAC, and F-BVFC and the tragic F-BTSC designated what iconic 20thC invention?

20. Waterloo, the location of Napoleon's 1815 defeat, is in modern-day?

    1. France
    2. Belgium
    3. Spain
    4. Russia