General Knowledge Quiz 357

Questions

1. Which nation boasts the world's longest running TV sports show, Hockey Night, first aired 1952?

2. The main asteroid belt in the Solar System lies directly between which two of these planets?

   1. Mercury
   2. Jupiter
   3. Mars
   4. Neptune

3. The Latin 'Tabula Rasa' (a term covering various philosophical concepts, e.g., humans minds are 'empty' at birth) translates literally to mean what?

4. What is the biggest country by area in Africa?

   1. Kenya
   2. Algeria
   3. Ethiopia
   4. South Africa

5. Which 12-15C royal household was named after French Geoffrey d'Anjou's association with the broom shrub, medieval Latin 'planta genista'?

6. What is a quarter of a third?

7. According to legend, the sheltering of a Spanish ship in Dundee, late-1700s, prompted James and Janet Keiller to buy its cargo of (What?), thus founding a major new product/business?

8. Named after a Scottish village near where it was discovered in 1790, what soft metal element, symbol Sr, was used to make cathode ray TV tubes?

9. The international network for banking communications is known by its acronym?

   1. SWAN
   2. SWIFT
   3. SWALLOW
   4. SPARROW

10. To what does the portmanteau word Grexit refer?

11. What is Australia's national bird?

    1. Kiwi
    2. Emu
    3. Ostrich
    4. Kookaburra

12. Which iconic 'hippie' fragrance, from the Pogostemon cablin plant, did Mattel use in making the 1985 'Stinkor' Masters of the Universe toy action figure?

13. Name the mountains across north-western Africa ranging c.1,600miles through Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia?

14. Sterlet, Ossetra, Sevruga and Beluga are main types of what?

15. Italian Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840) was a composer and virtuoso player of the?

    1. Tuba
    2. Guitar
    3. Violin
    4. Harp

16. What does the 'Real' mean in the names of Real Madrid and Real Sociedad Spanish footbal clubs?

17. What instrument was originally called the trompette-saicueboute?

18. At 1900 the largest fishing port in the world was?

    1. Oslo
    2. Hamburg
    3. Cadiz
    4. Grimsby

19. Plaid Cymru (roughly pronounced 'plied cumrie') is the nationalist poltitical party of which nation?

20. The famously rebuilt Shakespeare's theatre on London's River Thames South Bank is the?

    1. Crucible
    2. Globe
    3. Palladium
    4. Haymarket