General Knowledge Quiz 341

Questions

1. From Greek for wing and lizard, what name was given to a flying reptile of the Jurassic/Cretaceous periods?

2. 12 inches or a foot equates to roughly how many centimetres?

   1. 16
   2. 25
   3. 30.5
   4. 40

3. What's the more common name for a megagram (Mg)?

   1. Tonne
   2. Kilogram
   3. Stone
   4. Pound

4. What feature of tailored clothing has variations described as bound, plain and keyhole?

5. What unoffically reintroduced UK species generated demands for culling in the 2010s due to damage/control problems?

   1. Reindeer
   2. Wolf
   3. Wild boar
   4. Meerkat

6. Before closing in 2017, the Whitechapel Foundry, established in 1570 was the UK's oldest still operating manufacturing company. What did they make?

7. What is the intense culinary characteristic of the piri piri?

   1. Heat
   2. Sweet
   3. Salt
   4. Sour

8. Alnwick Castle, Northumberland UK, featured in a popular movie franchise as which institution?

9. The term domicile refers most accurately to a person's country of?

   1. Birth
   2. Ancestry
   3. Current presence
   4. Permanent home

10. The sepals or calyx of a plant initially surround and generally give way to the?

    1. Petals
    2. Leaves
    3. Stem
    4. Roots

11. The mid-1900s western political fear of communism's potential to spread nation-to-nation is called the '(What?) Theory'?

    1. Lego
    2. Jenga
    3. Domino
    4. Chinese Chequers

12. 12 inches or a foot equates to roughly how many centimetres?

    1. 16
    2. 23.5
    3. 30.5
    4. 40

13. 15 June 2015 is the 8th centenary of what seminal governance and human rights instrument?

14. What 'seasonal-mood' name was given to the western social phenomenon of mid-1967, sparked by the vast gathering of young people in Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco?

15. What word makes five new words when prefixing: man, post, nail, bell, and stop?

16. Sugar, cotton, corn, coffee, and other grown produce are known in commodity trading as?

    1. Organics
    2. Softs
    3. Hards
    4. Foods

17. What US city is originally associated with Dixieland (jazz)?

18. A calorimeter measures?

    1. Gas
    2. Light
    3. Heat
    4. Fat

19. What did Russian authorities list as an impairment to safe driving in 2015?

    1. Spectacles/contact lenses
    2. Chewing gum, Vaping (e-cigarettes)
    3. Transgender

20. Which 1900s time-travel movie franchise correctly predicted automatic self-tightening shoes for 2015?

21. What drink takes its name from 'uisce/uisge', and is also called uisge beatha (water of life)?