General Knowledge Quiz 351

Questions

1. Occipital, sphenoid, ethmoid, parietal and temporal are among 14 bones of a human?

   1. Foot
   2. Hand
   3. Skull
   4. Ear

2. Which Roman emperor moved the capital from Rome to the city previously known as Byzantium?

3. Nigeria borders to its south mostly?

   1. Sea
   2. Desert
   3. Uganda
   4. Madagascar

4. Cybernetics refers to?

   1. Space travel
   2. Robots
   3. Monsters
   4. Control processes and communications in electronic, mechanical and biological systems

5. The German placenames Bad and Baden refer to what?

6. Latin 'acetum' means what common fundamental liquid?

7. The acceleration of free fall, 8m/s/s, has what scientific symbol, referring to the force responsible?

8. Italian for 'as the chapel' translates to refer to what singing style?

9. Which nation's economy was forecast to overtake UK and France to become globally fifth largest in 2018 (behind US, China; Japan, Germany): India; Saudi Arabia; Turkey; or Mexico?

10. It was announced in 2017 that UK passports would revert to being what after Brexit?

11. In 2017 ex-soccer player George Weah became president of?

    1. FIFA
    2. NATO
    3. Liberia
    4. Siberia

12. Formerly Burma, what nation's policies and army caused the Rohingya people's refugee crisis in 2017?

13. The notion that the simplest theory is most reliable among more complex options is called Ockham's?

    1. Knife
    2. Razor
    3. Hammer
    4. Mangle

14. 'Old Long Since' is the literal title meaning of what famous Scottish poem and song?

15. Obsidian is a natural glass from?

    1. Volcanoes
    2. Oceans
    3. Meteors
    4. Coal

16. After Spanish, Portuguese, French and Italian, which is the 5th most spoken Romance language worldwide?

17. Speed or fast versions of which game are called Rapid, Blitz, Bullet and Armageddon?

18. What Scandinavian-style buffet is named from Swedish 'sandwich table'?

19. What UK measure in World War Two improved health and life expectancy?

    1. Conscription
    2. Food rationing
    3. Blackout curtains
    4. Evacuation

20. In Judaism, bar mitzvah refers to a boy of (and ceremonially becoming)?

    1. 7
    2. 10
    3. 13
    4. 16

21. Emmerson Mnangagwa replaced which leader of 37 years in 2017?

22. 2 Tofu is made from?

    1. Rice flour
    2. Soybean milk
    3. Fish eggs
    4. Bananas

23. 2 Homo sapiens bones found in Morocco in 2017 altered understanding of the emergence of modern humans to how many years ago?

    1. 10,000
    2. 50,000
    3. 75,000
    4. 350;000

24. 2 A pescatarian is a?

    1. Gladiator armed with a heavy net
    2. Someone in their 90s
    3. A fish-eater who does not eat meat
    4. a Library worker responsible for the children's section

25. 2 Ernest Hemingway originated the Absinthe/Champagne cocktail “(What?) in the Afternoon”?

    1. Love
    2. Sleep
    3. Death
    4. Drunk

26. 2 Carles Puigdemont fled to Brussels after failing to achieve independence for where?

27. 2 What are the three missing nations from this list of 2017 USAN membership (Union of South American Nations): Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela, Chile, Guyana, Suriname?

28. What Italian wine translates as 'grape of the wild vine'?

29. 2 The NATO flag/emblem is what icon?

30. The Greek city Lacedaemon, (hence 'laconic' = minimal yet efficient language), also produced a word for frugality, from its more common name of what?

31. Which two of these works were written by writers who died within a day of each other on 22/23 April 1616?

    1. Don Quixote
    2. Treasure Island
    3. Lord of the Rings
    4. Measure for Measure

32. Taisho (1st World War), and Heisei (late 1900s/early 2000 - 'the lost decade') are periods of which nation's history?

33. Founded c1940 by art historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, and still expanding, Pevsner Guides are major reference for British?

    1. Porcelain
    2. Architecture
    3. Fashionwear
    4. Used Cars

34. Which popular BBC children's TV characters ate 'blue string pudding', The...?

    1. Wombles
    2. Clangers
    3. Flower Pot Men
    4. Krankies

35. (At early 2000s) the only nation in the world with effectively no shortage of donated human organs, due to a free market in their trade is?

    1. India
    2. Japan
    3. USA
    4. Iran

36. Invented in 1656, what was the most reliable time-keeping technology until the 1930s?

    1. Water clock
    2. Sundial
    3. Quartz oscillator
    4. Pendulum clock

37. Michael Ibsen, descendent and 2012 DNA match-proof for English King Richard III, was also (What?) at Richard III's reinterment in 2015?

    1. Choirmaster
    2. Casket-maker
    3. Priest
    4. Police chief

38. Approximately how many litres of water is required to produce a kilo of grain-fed beef?

    1. 50
    2. 300
    3. 1,000
    4. 15,000

39. Proposed in 1776, 'E pluribus unum' ('One from many'), is on the national seal and banknotes of which nation?

40. What is 90% of 90?

41. What medieaval English word for 'expensive food' (due to a famine), came to mean 'a scarcity' (of anything)?

42. What discipline is practised according to Vaganova/Russian, French, and Cecchetti methods?

43. A circle with a 12 metre radius has an area of roughly how many square metres?

    1. 27
    2. 68
    3. 179
    4. 452

44. What occasionally Anglicised German word instructs that something is not permitted?

45. Sugar melted to its hottest confectionery stage naturally produces?

    1. Fudge
    2. Butterscotch
    3. Caramel
    4. Licorice

46. What anabolic steroid is the principal male sex hormone?

47. Lawyer Marvin Mitchelson coined what portmanteau term in 1977 when representing actor Lee Marvin's ex-partner?

48. South Korea's national dish 'kimchi' (kimchee/gimchi), with variants in nearby countries, is seasoned aged pickled/fermented?

    1. Cabbage
    2. Crocodile
    3. Crab
    4. Chocolate

49. "I wandered lonely as a cloud" is William Wordsworth's poem about?

    1. Bluebells
    2. Daffodils
    3. Buttercups
    4. Pansies

50. Tyrion Lannister and Ned Stark are characters from which blockbusting HBO fantasy drama series?

51. A Frankfurter is a type of sausage, and a Hamburger is kind of sandwich - what is a Berliner?

52. Which man - the founder of Amazon - leapfrogged Bill Gates to top Forbes 2018 Billionaires List?

53. Which large, semi-aquatic rodent has been the national animal of Canada since 1975?

54. Which South American mammal, weighing up to 65kg, is the largest member of the rodent order?

55. In which 1997 film, starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones as agents J and K, respectively, did an extra-terrestrial policing agency fight to save the Earth from bug-like aliens?

56. Which award-winning actor has played Birdman, Batman, but also The Vulture, an enemy of Spiderman?

57. What is the American equivalent of the Argentinian gauchos of the Pampas?

58. The animals referred to as Caribou are most well-known by which common English name?