General Knowledge Quiz 326

Questions

1. Name the multi-billionaire celebrity businessman and aspiring US president tricked in 2014 into 'retweeting' on Twitter a picture of serial killers Fred and Rosemary West as supposedly having been admirers of his?

2. In which discipline would you see the abbreviations: P C 1B 2B SS 3B LF CF and RF?

3. What, unrelatedly, refers to ancient Israel/Hebrew Bible Law, and to a pattern created by small pieces of ceramic/glass/stone?

4. In what discipline was Alex Jesaulenko's 'Mark of the Century'?

5. In India a gharrry-wallah?

   1. Drives a horse and carriage
   2. Bakes bread
   3. Massages people
   4. Gives financial advice

6. Put these countries in order of oldest to youngest population average age?

   1. Turkey
   2. Japan
   3. Uganda
   4. USA

7. What Swiss psychologist conceived 'extraversion' and 'introversion', and personality tendencies of intuition, sensing, feeling and thinking?

8. Who apologized to whom for indiscreetly revealing to the world's media that the latter had 'purred' in delight when Scotland rejected independence in 2014?

9. The Hajj refers to Islamic?

   1. Pilgrimage
   2. Fasting
   3. Marriage
   4. Meditation

10. The 2014 'Bendgate' controversy/publicity concerned version 6 of which famous product?

11. The sulphate/sulfate used as a contrast agent for gastro-intenstinal x-rays contains which metallic element?

12. The Harrington jacket is named after a?

    1. Scottish sheep
    2. Australian town
    3. English WWII bomber aircraft
    4. 1960s American TV soap character

13. What portmanteau term created in the 1960s is the science of copying or duplicating documents/graphics?

14. This historical region (1300s-1800s) of Bessarabia is in?

    1. Eastern Europe
    2. Western Europe
    3. North Africa
    4. South America

15. On a 20cm diameter clockface, the tip of the second-hand travels approximately how many kilometres in a year?

    1. 3
    2. 33
    3. 330
    4. 3,300

16. Which country in the UK is not represented in the Union Jack flag?

17. Shellshock, in Bash, was in 2014 described as the most dangerous (what?) since Heartbleed?

18. Zebu cattle are famously distinguished by?

    1. Long hair
    2. Long horns
    3. A hump
    4. Antlers

19. Native to Indonesia, what spice is a flower bud from a tall evergreen tree 'Syzygium aromaticum'?

20. The Hawaiian Islands are closest longitudinally to whose territory?

    1. USA
    2. New Zealand
    3. Russia
    4. Japan