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General Knowledge Quiz 354

20 questions · source

Questions

  1. In 2015 India 'rebranded' what state provision to increase usage?

    1. Canals
    2. Libraries
    3. Playing fields
    4. Condoms

  2. Mathematicians Leonhard Euler and Augustus Mobius pioneered 'geometria situs' ('geometry of place'), later called?

    1. Topology
    2. Astronomy
    3. General Relativity
    4. Geography

  3. In 2015 on Tahiti, 4,750 people broke the world record for the biggest ensemble playing of?

    1. Harmonicas
    2. Ukuleles
    3. Violins
    4. Pianos

  4. The TSX, which includes the S&P/TSX 60, is the (What?) of (Which nation?) in (Which city?) - three answers required?

  5. Primavera Verano Otono Invierno are what time-related elements in Spanish?

  6. 'Godwin's Law', concerned with a particular factual perspective, refers to the inappropriate comparison of something/someone with?

    1. The Middle Ages
    2. Hitler/Nazi Germany
    3. Dinosaurs
    4. Falling off a Log

  7. US billionaire publisher and 3-term New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg reportedly targeted which role for 2016?

    1. Host of BBC Top Gear
    2. FIFA President
    3. UN Secretary General
    4. London Mayor

  8. In 490BC Pheidippides ran fatally from Athens to Sparta to ask for help in the Battle of 'Where'?

  9. In 1516 English King Henry VIII created the position 'Master of the Posts' which effectively founded/regulated the?

    1. Football Association
    2. Royal Mail
    3. Civil Service
    4. Blogging profession

  10. European Union production quotas, established in 1984, were abolished in 2015 for?

    1. Milk
    2. Eggs
    3. Wine
    4. Condoms

  11. String Theory' (simplified to 'M-Theory') to seeks to explain?

    1. Music
    2. DNA and Genetics
    3. Fraud and Cheating
    4. Everything in the Universe

  12. The PAL warning on offensive recorded music was instigated by the author Tipper (Who?) then wife of a notable US congressman and environmental activist?

  13. The 'PAL' warning on offensive music recordings, introduced in 1990, stands for '(What?) Advisory Label'?

    1. Profanity
    2. Performance
    3. Pornography
    4. Parental

  14. The 1880-founded Northamptonshire UK company Loake Brothers, whose products unusually comprise up to 75 parts, is famed for making high quality?

    1. Guitars
    2. Shoes
    3. Shotguns
    4. Breakfast cereal

  15. Pat Pending, Rufus Ruffcut, the Slag Brothers and Sergeant Blast are lesser known characters in what popular 1960s TV franchise?

  16. What concept, originated by the Duke of Wellington for military study, was named in 1959 in referring to Palo Alto's Center for Behavioral Sciences?

    1. Brainstorm
    2. Think Tank
    3. Mind Set
    4. Moral Maze

  17. The words 'dystopia' and 'dystopian' refer to an imagined life/world of extreme?

    1. Perfection
    2. Awfulness
    3. Weather
    4. Vegetables

  18. Hydropower is the harnessing of water's (What?) energy?

    1. Thermal
    2. Kinetic
    3. Mechanical wave
    4. Nuclear

  19. The Biblical 'passover' refers to God giving which concession to certain people?

    1. Answering prayers
    2. Making it rain
    3. Allowing bread to rise
    4. Not killing the first-born in the house

  20. What medieval term, whose venues are now mostly 'town' halls (UK, Netherlands, Belgium) refers to a merchant association?

Answers

  1. Condoms
  2. Topology
  3. Ukuleles
  4. Stock Exchange of Canada in Toronto
  5. Spring Summer Autumn Winter
  6. Hitler/Nazi Germany
  7. London Mayor
  8. Marathon
  9. Royal Mail
  10. Milk
  11. Everything in the Universe
  12. Gore
  13. Parental
  14. Shoes
  15. Wacky Races
  16. Think Tank
  17. Awfulness
  18. Kinetic
  19. Not killing the first-born in the house
  20. Guild