General Knowledge Quiz 355

Questions

1. Maltese physician Edward de Bono is noted for his pioneering work on?

   1. Childbirth
   2. Heart Transplants
   3. Lateral Thinking
   4. Escapology

2. What process improvement method, pioneered by Motorola Corp in the 1980s, is named after a number and the Greek letter 's'?

3. In the 1970s Kevin Donovan, aka Afrika Bambaataa, pioneered the development of?

   1. Hang-gliding
   2. Volleyball
   3. The Frisbee
   4. Hip-hop and Breakdancing

4. Name the live video streaming app bought by Twitter for $100m in 2015?

5. What's the common technical term for the removal of a president from office, due to wrong-doing?

6. Sergio Leone, Otto Preminger, Fritz Lang and Fred Zinnemann are famous 20thC?

   1. Chefs
   2. Film directors
   3. Racing drivers
   4. National leaders

7. The first independent credit payment card, inspired in 1949 by a particular service, was called '(What?) Club International'?

   1. Diners
   2. Flyers
   3. Golfers
   4. Barbers

8. A patten was a medieval version of what modern fashionwear?

9. What takes roughly 23 hours, 56 minutes, 4 seconds?

   1. The Moon's rotation
   2. The Moon's orbit
   3. The Sun's rotation
   4. Earth's rotation

10. The Latin zoological name 'Chaos chaos' is a?

    1. Monkey
    2. Elephant
    3. Bull
    4. Amoeba

11. What modern term for the avoidance of discriminatory language/action first emerged to describe communist beliefs in the Russian Revolution in 1917?

12. Which nation has the coastal state of Tabasco?

13. If a charge includes 20% added tax, the original tax-exclusive figure is calculated by multiplying the tax-inclusive total by?

    1. 0.6666
    2. 0.75
    3. 0.83333
    4. 80%

14. What US popular culture magazine title, founded 1967 by Jann Wenner, was inspired by three so-named 1950s/60s musical sources?

15. US mathematician Edward Lorenz's 1963 paper Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow referred to a seagull, which he subsequently changed to (What creature?), representing his chaos theory observation?

16. What pluralised food term and allusion to Hansel and Gretel refers to a website navigation feature?

17. What ancient instrument did Orpheus play to charm creatures, rivers, and Hades in the Underworld?

    1. Harp
    2. Zither
    3. Lyre
    4. Banjo

18. What Swahili word became the South African humanist philosophy popularised by Desmond Tutu in SA's post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and adopted widely elsewhere?

19. 'bir iki üç dört beş altı yedi sekiz dokuz on' means (What?) in (Which major language?)?

20. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's famous 1969 personal change concept is called the Five Stages of?

    1. Man
    2. Life
    3. Joy
    4. Grief