General Knowledge Quiz 327

Questions

1. What sparking wine from Catalonia is traditionally and incorrectly referred to as Spanish Champagne?

2. A famous four-stage theory of how we learn new things is commonly called?

   1. Unknown-Known
   2. Conscious-Competence
   3. Inexpert-Expert
   4. Clever-Trevor

3. Popular in the mid-1900s, what consumer product derives from the Smilax ornata plant and is named from Spanish for bramble and little trailing vine?

4. The Izmit Bay Bridge, said to be the largest bridge construction project in history (at 2014), is in which 'MINT' nation?

5. In the saying 'Grist to the Mill', the word 'grist' is/was originally?

   1. Oil
   2. Water
   3. Corn/wheat
   4. Wind

6. Cuore, kardhya, kalp, serce, corazon, and herz refer to what in Italian, Greek, Turkish, Polish, Spanish and German?

7. Which famous online brand is a green circle containing three stacked arcs?

8. What famous corporation, having a flying crane logo, is named from Germany's late-medieval defensive commercial federation the Hanseatic League, and word for 'air'?

9. What formal menswear, often abbreviated to three letters, is named after a New York park where it was first worn in the 1880s?

10. A domino was originally a?

    1. Priest's hood
    2. Spotted dog
    3. Butterfly
    4. Instrument of torture

11. The 'impossible' Penrose Stairs and Devil's Pitchfork are famous?

    1. Canadian mountains
    2. St Paul's Cathedral entrances
    3. Custard puddings
    4. Optical illusions

12. The mountainous geographical region called the Caucasus is in?

    1. N Africa
    2. SE Europe
    3. NE Asia
    4. S America

13. What whole single number is the cube root of 729?

14. Founded 1938 by Lee Byung-chul, Samsung is which country's biggest business (at 2014)?

    1. China
    2. India
    3. South Korea
    4. Japan

15. What nation, the most sparsely populated of the EU, has nearly 200,000 lakes?

16. Name the iconic Israeli drink company/brand (especially 1960-80s) associated with the slogan "Get busy with the fizzy"?

17. A major share-trading mistake, sometimes worth of $millions, is commonly called a '(What?) Error'?

    1. Blind Eye
    2. Deaf Ear
    3. Fat Finger
    4. Dead Leg

18. Originating in the fictional 'Game of Thrones' and launched internationally in 2014 as a real training program, 'Dothraki' is a?

    1. Martial Art
    2. Language
    3. Child-rearing system
    4. Vegetable-based Origami

19. What's the full name of Sherlock Holmes' companion/narrator?

20. Name IBM's artificial intelligence computer, which answers 'knowledge' questions with startling effectiveness, named after the company's first CEO/chairman (coincidentally the name of a doctor/narrator noted for asking questions of a famous detective)?