General Knowledge Quiz 337

Questions

1. The coffin of which famous assassin, buried in 1963 and exhumed in 1981, was sold at auction for $87,500 in 2010?

2. Name the controversial 'extreme' global taxi-hailing smartphone app, banned by several territories in 2014?

3. The largest ever white (What?) weighing 4.16lbs was sold at NYC Sotheby's for $61,250 in 2014?

4. The expression 'to shirtfront' someone (confront head-on), adopted by certain politicians in 2014, originated in?

   1. Ice-Hockey
   2. Rugby Leage
   3. Australian Rules Football
   4. Ten-pin bowling

5. Dr Dre became the highest earning musician in 2014 by selling his headphones company (What?) to Apple for c.$600m?

6. Which UK entertainment franchise claimed its use of car registration H982 FKL in Argentina as a purely coincidental reference to the 1982 Falklands War?

7. Whose December 2014 official photographs, wearing a guardsman-design knitted pullover, prompted huge sales interest in the product?

8. Which of these is not a usual brass instrument pitch, transposed/equating to middle C?

   1. Bb
   2. Eb
   3. F
   4. D

9. What disease causes the human immune system to attack healthy tissue, named/believed originally from the bite of a wolf?

10. What is the main currency of Bali, Java, Sulawesi, and several thousand other islands of the same nation?

11. Geographically, Guantanamo Bay is located in?

    1. USA
    2. Cuba
    3. Mexico
    4. Canada

12. London's Claridge's hotel restaurant attracted pavement demonstrations in 2014 after objecting to a customer's?

    1. Weight
    2. Height
    3. E-cigar
    4. Breastfeeding a baby

13. If five baskets contain respectively 7, 6, 5, 4 and 3 apples, what is the average number of apples in two baskets?

14. Warren Buffett coined (What?) key investment term to symbolize 'competitive immunity' of a corporation?

    1. Moat
    2. Boat
    3. Float
    4. Stoat

15. The dinosaur Archaeopteryx or (German) 'Urvogel' is considered a main ancestor of modern?

    1. Fish
    2. Birds
    3. Cattle
    4. Mice

16. Toot, Percy, Charlie, ching and chang all refer informally to what?

17. What commodity value is benchmarked in the USA and elsewhere according to (among more technical terms) 'Texas Light Sweet'?

18. The Golden Spurtle is an annual world championship, held at Scotland's Cairngorms National Park, for?

    1. Rock climbing
    2. Salmon fishing
    3. Monster impressions
    4. Porridge making

19. Which sugar confectionery adopted the slogan 'Taste the Rainbow' in 1994?

20. What kitchen-related term refers to a major music publishing/retailing street, notably Manhattan's West 28th Street and London's Denmark Street?