General Knowledge Quiz 379

Questions

1. US Republican candidate Mike Huckabee criticized the Frito-Lay corp in 2015 for its?

   1. Mexican Fries
   2. Rainbow Doritos
   3. Gorilla Chips
   4. Chinese Crackers

2. In 2015, to reduce road traffic accidents, Dartmoor Cornwall UK authorities tested reflective paint on?

   1. Tractors
   2. Badgers
   3. Ponies
   4. Children's rucksacks

3. What very old word, derived from Old English 'cwethan' (say) refers to leaving something in a will?

4. Latin 'Juglans' refers to what tree used in cabinet-making, with large two-sided nuts inside green fruit?

5. In popular music a bass line played on every beat of a 4/4 timing song is called a '(What?) bass'?

   1. Walking
   2. Running
   3. Jumping
   4. Crawling

6. Narendra Modi is a 21stC Prime Minister of?

   1. Somalia
   2. Spain
   3. India
   4. Wales

7. Polenta in Italian cuisine is a?

   1. Flour/dough
   2. Bitter salt
   3. Melted sugar
   4. Ostrich egg

8. What word makes six new words as a suffix for: Clutch, Hand, Shopping, Tea, Bin, Ball?

9. In Scotland a bothy/bothie is a?

   1. Drink
   2. Baby's pacifier/dummy
   3. House
   4. Dog massage

10. The fictional station in BBC's flagship Eastenders soap serial is?

    1. Brookside West
    2. Walford East
    3. Papworth South
    4. Dangleberry Farm

11. What is a French street that means regret In English?

12. Anne Hathaway was the girlfriend of?

    1. Shakespeare
    2. Wordsworth
    3. Byron
    4. King Henry VIII

13. Berry Gordy founded?

    1. Coca-Cola
    2. Motown Records
    3. Washington state
    4. Ford

14. Spell the surgical birth procedure?

    1. Caesareon
    2. Ceasarian
    3. Caesarian
    4. Caesarean

15. Walloons are ethnic regional people of which two of these nations: South Africa, China, France, Belgium, India?

16. The mountain town of Berchtesgaden is the location of whose fortified retreat?

17. Name the two famously married lawyers who contested in 2015 the legality of The Maldives' imprisonment of former leader Mohammed Nasheed?

18. In 2015 Brighton became the first UK city to introduce a voluntary tax for food/drink outlets on?

    1. Smoking areas
    2. Polystyrene cups
    3. Sugar
    4. TV screens showing sport

19. In 2014, age 17, Malala Yousafzai became the youngest winner of?

    1. Eurovision
    2. A Nobel Prize
    3. The London Marathon
    4. A Tennis Grand Slam event

20. In 2015 Prague city regulated what increasing risk to pedestrians/traffic?

    1. Skateboards
    2. Segways
    3. Push-chairs
    4. Llamas