General Knowledge Quiz 322

Questions

1. Bosintang/Boshintang (or Gaejangguk) is a Korean soup of declining popularity made chiefly of what meat?

2. Petite Borgeoisie is an Anglicized French term referring to what traditional notion of social demographics class?

   1. Nobility
   2. Upper Class
   3. Lower Middle Class
   4. Working Class

3. In business/work/politics/etc, 'Guanxi' (China), 'Blat' (Russia), and 'Wasta' (Middle East) refer to the significance of?

   1. Education
   2. Finance
   3. Personal relationships
   4. Tea-breaks

4. The Glycaemic Index (GI) refers to?

   1. EU stock exchanges
   2. Food
   3. Optical lenses
   4. Rainfall

5. The hull of a seed is its?

   1. Core
   2. Shoot
   3. Shell
   4. Oil

6. What word meaning 'misbehaved' evolved through 'wicked' from originally 'possessing nothing'?

7. The 2014 Ice Bucket Challenge internet phenomenon originally promoted awareness and fundraising for which disease?

8. What central European bread supposedly originated in monasteries and represents praying hands?

9. Anopheles and Aedes, which indirectly kill millions of people every year, are what?

10. Name the Lebanese writer Kahlil Gibran's famous 1923 philosophical collection of verses, with sales of over 100m copies?

11. Viticulture refers to the cultivation of what fruit?

12. The famous 'Kitemark' quality symbol, registered in England in 1903, one of the world's oldest trademarks still in use, contains which two letters (besides the 'V' shape)?

13. During the 1900s, Olivetti, Olympia, Underwood, Smith Corona, and Remington were famous makers of?

    1. Glassware
    2. Typewriters
    3. Snack foods
    4. Motorbikes

14. In Australian slang, someone called a 'mollydooker' is a?

    1. Policeman
    2. Convict
    3. Priest
    4. Left-handed

15. Petroliam Nasional Berhad, the huge Malaysian gas/oil corporation gave its abbreviated name to what world-leading Kuala Lumpa landmark?

16. In the the expression 'whet your appetite', the old word 'whet' technically means?

    1. Loosen
    2. Sharpen
    3. Lubricate
    4. Tempt

17. What rum-based cocktail is named from Spanish 'little wet thing'?

18. 'Pole', meaning leading contender, in 'pole-position', originally referred to?

    1. The North Pole
    2. Poland
    3. Pole-vaulting
    4. A wooden pole at the start of a horse race

19. 'Die Adler', nickname of the German national soccer team, means 'The (What)'?

20. What ancient seminal Palestinian city is 'house of meat' in Arabic, and 'house of bread' in Hebrew?