General Knowledge Quiz 319

Questions

1. Which famous archipelago comprises eight major islands including Maui, Oahu, Kauai, and Molokai?

2. Bok Choy (US) or Pak Choi (UK) is a Chinese?

   1. Martial art
   2. Writing style
   3. Poetry
   4. Cabbage

3. What is a finch-like bird, a festive decoration, and a baby's hooded sleeping garment?

4. What term, derived from Italian/French theatrical farce, nowadays fashionably refers to mildly erotic entertainment and striptease?

5. American Callan Pinckney's eponymously named system became a best-selling (1980s-2000s) book/video franchise in what genre?

   1. Cooking
   2. DIY
   3. Fitness
   4. Childcare

6. Computer programming students commonly begin by writing a program named from its display output - "Hello (What?)"?

   1. Everyone!
   2. World!
   3. Mum!
   4. Goodbye!

7. What modern globally recognized symbol was created by British designer Gerald Holtom in 1958, based on the flag semaphore signals for N and D?

8. Trypanosomiasis technically refers to what sort of sickness?

   1. Travel
   2. Sleeping
   3. Sea
   4. Love

9. What traditional American word for an ancient weapon refers to the gravity-based accelerational effect of a celestial object on another, or on a spacecraft?

10. The capacity in megabytes (MB) of a standard Compact Disc is about?

    1. 0.7
    2. 7.3
    3. 73.7
    4. 737

11. Name Google's search engine for academic publishing?

12. The energy possessed by something due to its motion is called?

    1. Potential
    2. Kinetic
    3. Elastic
    4. Gravitational

13. What is a 3D crystal structure in physics and a criss-cross pastry pie top?

14. The word dinosaur is from Greek 'deinos saurus' meaning?

    1. Eat Plenty
    2. Terrible Lizard
    3. Angry Bird
    4. Saw Tooth

15. Warp and weft (USA, warp and fill) refer to the main elements in making?

    1. Beer
    2. Bread
    3. Cloth
    4. Shoes

16. The technical term 'Wearing Course' is used in?

    1. Fashion shows
    2. Golf
    3. Road surfacing
    4. Catering

17. Sauerkraut is a type of German?

    1. Sausage
    2. Bread
    3. Cabbage
    4. Yoghurt

18. Whose logo features two pulling horses and the words 'original riveted'?

19. The European supermarket corporation Netto was founded and remains (at 2014) headquartered in?

    1. Denmark
    2. Germany
    3. France
    4. Italy

20. Built for the 1980 Summer Olympics, which city boasts the The Izmailovo Hotel (at 2014 the world's largest, comprising 7,500 rooms)?