General Knowledge Quiz 359

Questions

1. Which automobile brand was officially adopted in 1900 after the Spanish name of racing entrepreneur Emil Jellinek's daughter?

2. Which famous TV personality ended a 33 year run of 6,082 shows in 2015?

3. JP Morgan, Barclays, RBS, Citigroup, Bank of America, and UBS were fined $6bn in 2015 for rigging what market?

4. Champagne bubbles contain?

   1. Oxygen
   2. Hydrogen
   3. Nitrogen
   4. Carbon dioxide

5. Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum and Martin Balsam had cameo roles in the 1991 remake of what 1962 film in which they starred?

6. Introduced in 1894 and one of the world's oldest trademarks, Bibendum is better known as what?

7. The acronym FOBT refers to what, considered a great social harm pervading many depressed UK cities and shopping streets?

8. Cannes Film Festival 2015 (Gala Screenings) banned women wearing?

   1. Tattoos
   2. Fur
   3. Strong perfume
   4. Flat shoes

9. Mebos is a South African apricot-based?

   1. Shoe polish
   2. Hand-cleanser
   3. Dried preserve
   4. Liqueur

10. Aberdeen in Scotland is known as the (Which rock?) City?

11. What is Methylenedioxymethamphetamine better known as?

12. In the 1970s British practitioner John McTimoney founded his eponymous type of (What?) treatment?

    1. Herbal
    2. Radiotherapy
    3. Chiropractic
    4. Exorcism

13. The subtitle of the 2015 Mad Max film is?

    1. Angry Street
    2. Wild Path
    3. Fury Road
    4. Irritable Motorway

14. The Up! and Eos and CC are models of which car brand?

15. Winston Churchill referred to what event as the 'Miracle of Deliverance'?

16. From Sanskrit for a 'drop/dot' what Hindi word is a South Asian forehead decoration?

17. The Harlem Globetrotters, founded 1920s, perform in which field?

    1. Acrobatics
    2. Stunt-flying
    3. Basketball
    4. Magic/Illusion

18. Spell the word?

    1. Idiosyncrasy
    2. Idiocincracy
    3. Idiosyncracy
    4. Idiocyncrasy

19. Penguins increase their swimming speed by emitting (What?) from their feathers?

    1. Oil
    2. Salt
    3. Heat
    4. Air bubbles

20. The Virginia Native American, Matoaka, aka Amonute, captured by the English 1613, becoming Rebecca Rolfe (c1595-1617), is better known by what name (also a 1995 Disney film)?