General Knowledge Quiz 369

Questions

1. What's the Anglicized-Spanish plural noun referring to a particular male facial hair style?

2. Phylum porifera is the technical name for what organic cleaning device?

   1. Soap
   2. Sponge
   3. Tea towel
   4. Feather duster

3. Poplin is a type of 18th-century-originating?

   1. Drug
   2. Cotton fabric
   3. Alcoholic drink
   4. Skin disease

4. Spell the word?

   1. Spontenaity
   2. Spontinaity
   3. Spontoneity
   4. Spontaneity

5. Germination refers technically to?

   1. Contamination
   2. Relevance/connection
   3. Prussian empire building
   4. Seed/spore growth after dormancy

6. Olibanum is the medieval Latin alternative English word for which Biblical aromatic resin?

7. Chrysanthemum means originally which two of these?

   1. Red
   2. Blue
   3. Gold
   4. Flower
   5. Star
   6. Sun

8. Neolithic refers to which age?

   1. Stone
   2. Agricultural
   3. Renaissance
   4. Industrial

9. The literary/dramatic description 'redivivus' (emphasis on the 'div') refers to someone who comes back?

   1. Home
   2. To life
   3. To haunt
   4. Drunk

10. An opsimath is a person who begins to do what later in life?

    1. Have children
    2. Study
    3. Go bald
    4. Understand arithmetic

11. What Eurasian winged-fruit maple tree is named after the Greek words sukon (fig) and moron (mulberry)?

12. What word makes new words when prefixing: Rule, Projection, Guitar, Valve and Fastener?

13. Le Coq Sportif is a famous French corporation/brand for?

    1. Fried chicken takeaway
    2. Healthfoods
    3. Sportswear/goods
    4. Erectile dysfunction

14. Strongly scented toilet water is named after which city of its origination?

15. IPO - referring to the flotation of a company - stands for what?

16. The old English tithe, was a tax taken for the church/clergy equating to a?

    1. Quarter
    2. Tenth
    3. Twentieth
    4. Three-Nineteenths

17. Which old English King is associated with having burned cakes?

    1. William
    2. Harold
    3. Alfred
    4. Kevin

18. In physics, the motions of particles within matter is understood by (What?) theory?

    1. Kinetic
    2. Atomic
    3. Existential
    4. Chaos

19. What note is produced at the 5th fret of the 5th string (ie the 2nd lowest pitched) of a conventionally tuned guitar?

    1. A
    2. B
    3. C
    4. D

20. What Native American Apache Indian chief's name became an exclamation of exhilaration?