General Knowledge Quiz 378

Questions

1. Spell the word meaning fizzy/bubbly?

   1. Effervescent
   2. Everfescent
   3. Evervessant
   4. Effervecent

2. What anthropomorphic term refers to a small lift for food/dishes/etc between a kitchen with a dining area?

3. What contradictory word-pair refers to a person's hostility manifesting as resistance?

4. The word eviscerate means to?

   1. Thrill
   2. Embarrass
   3. Flatter
   4. Disembowel

5. What's the state capital of Mississippi USA, originally Le Fleur's Bluff, later named after a US president?

6. What girl's name originated in Greek legend of a beautiful woman, whose capture by the Trojan prince Paris began the Trojan War?

7. The fatty rump-end of a cooked fowl is called the 'Parson's (What?)'?

   1. Thumb
   2. Nose
   3. Knob
   4. Knocker

8. What is the traditional/modern language of Iran and old Persia, named from the latter?

9. What is the uncrystalized syrup produced in the refining of sugar?

10. What prefix makes respectively a place, a cheese, a cement, a part; and a case or set with the following: Said; Salut; Land; Ion, Folio?

11. Hieroglyphs are a very important language of symbols in what ancient civilization?

    1. Greek
    2. Roman
    3. Egyptian
    4. Middle-Earth

12. What old English coin took its name from being a quarter of a penny?

13. The Austrian Nazi/SS member and engineer whose creations included the VW Beetle, Tiger/Panzer tanks, V1 flying bomb, and a car company which bears his name is Ferdinand (Who?)?

    1. Mercedes
    2. Benz
    3. Porsche
    4. Audi

14. The cube root of a third is (roughly/exactly)?

    1. A half
    2. A quarter
    3. 9
    4. 0.69336127435

15. What creature associated with crying is named from Greek 'worm of the stones'?

16. The significant ancient Egyptian diety Horus (a man with a falcon's head) features the related '(What?) of Horus' symbol of protection/good health?

    1. Eye
    2. Claw
    3. Wing
    4. Beak

17. What handicraft takes its name from the French word for hook?

18. The radioactive chemical element made for the first time in the 1940s, named after the place of its discovery is?

    1. Francium
    2. Americium
    3. Sovietium
    4. Britannium

19. What late-1700s US horse-drawn transport inspired modern vehicle names prefixed by: Space, Swamp, Kite, Dune, Remote-control and Shopping?

20. The French word for morning came oddly to refer to (What?) afternoon event in English?