General Knowledge Quiz 315

Questions

1. Gargoyles on buildings traditionally support?

   1. Flags
   2. Clocks
   3. Guttering
   4. Flying buttresses

2. Name the capital city - est 1913, designed by Chicago architects W & M Griffin, located 35°18'27"S 149°07'28"E, and home of ACT Brumbies rugby union club?

3. The 'Acts' book of the Bible is fully titled 'Acts of The (What?)'?

4. The varying effects within which 0-12 scale refer to movement of twigs, smoke, dust and telegraph wires?

5. What famous French 1970s-designed anti-ship missile means 'flying fish'?

6. Cockney rhyming slang 'bottle' traditionally means?

   1. Beer
   2. Bravery
   3. Medicine
   4. Blue

7. What is a: cleaning brand, Dutch soccer club, web programming language, and greater and lesser mythological Greek hero?

8. A gazetteer offers indexed information mainly oriented by?

   1. Biography
   2. Geography
   3. History
   4. Auction values

9. PCB refers to what component of most electrical items?

10. A longhorned grasshopper or bush cricket is also known as a?

    1. Marymay
    2. Suzywill
    3. Lizzycan
    4. Katydid

11. A big problem that people avoid discussing is metaphorically called 'The (what?) ...in the room'?

    1. Dinosaur
    2. Elephant
    3. Gorilla
    4. Ostrich

12. The brands Daiwa, Drennan, Hardy, and Berkley famously involve?

    1. Formula 1 racing
    2. Horse-riding
    3. Ski-ing
    4. Fishing

13. Boulevard Périphérique is the famous Paris?

    1. Park
    2. Ring Road
    3. Shopping Mall
    4. Mono-Rail

14. What is the cube root of 216?

15. Match these jazz players to their main intruments: Herbie Hancock, Chet Baker, Gene Krupa, and Courtney Pine - Sax/Clarinet, Drums, Keyboards, Trumpet?

16. Created by marine biologist/animator Stephen Hillenburg, Nickelodeon's $8bn grossing and most distributed media property of MTV networks (at mid-2010s)?

17. Who conceived the effective communication theory 'Three Modes of Persuasion' (comprising Logos, Ethos and Pathos)?

    1. Aristotle
    2. Hitler
    3. Jesus
    4. Napoleon

18. 'Interlocution' refers to a person's involvement in?

    1. Crossword puzzles
    2. Discussion
    3. Electrical engineering
    4. Diesel railway engines

19. The 1st World War Armistice was signed in 'Compagnie Internationale des Wagons Lits 2419', a?

    1. Hotel room
    2. Bunker
    3. Railway carriage
    4. Shipping container

20. What 2001 Disney movie bockbuster is considered the first to successfully achieve CGI fur?