General Knowledge Quiz 335

Questions

1. Which Japanese corporation produced the first compact electronic calculator, released in 1957?

2. "I used to work at a perfume factory but was (what pun meaning 'dismissed')"?

3. In which country is the Bay of Pigs?

4. An unconventionally creative idea is called?

   1. Bottom-up
   2. Top-down
   3. Left-field
   4. Right-angle

5. In Italy/Italian a 'Cicisbeo' is a married woman's?

   1. Husband
   2. First-born
   3. Lapdog
   4. Male lover/companion

6. Name Captain Flint's quartermaster in the novel Treasure Island?

7. The medieval profession called a 'bard' equates nowadays to a what?

8. The butternut squash/pumpkin grows directly on a?

   1. Vine
   2. Bush
   3. Root
   4. Tree

9. Ethanol (drinking alcohol) is a byproduct of the metabolic process of which two naturally occurring substances?

10. Which fictional small people, in a famous 1939 film and prior LF Baum book series, became in 2007 the largest group represented by a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?

11. Granulated sugar is processed into 'icing' sugar basically by?

    1. Baking it
    2. Grinding it finer
    3. Adding more sugar
    4. Adding salt

12. Which whole number is the cube root of 2197?

13. What is the general term for the form of physics concerned with sub-atomic particles, atoms, molecules, and their radiation?

14. Leo Tolstoy's book War and Peace concerns the 1812 invasion of Russia by?

    1. France
    2. Germany
    3. China
    4. USA

15. A cogwheel icon typically represents what on many websites/apps?

    1. Settings
    2. Wi-fi
    3. Print
    4. Save

16. Lebkuchen is a German?

    1. Soup
    2. Gingerbread
    3. Sausage
    4. Cabbage

17. From the Latin meaning of clip/cut, what hairstyle symbolizes religious devotion?

18. Spell the Russian writer and Soviet dissident, Aleksandr?

    1. Soljornitson
    2. Soldiernitsan
    3. Solziarnitsen
    4. Solzhenitsyn

19. What famous Australian product did Cyril Callister devise in Melbourne, in 1922, partly in response to war-related shortages of the British version?

20. Roald Dahl's children's novel Esio Trot features which creature?