General Knowledge Quiz 382

Questions

1. Braeburn, Jazz, Gala, and Fuji are varieties of what?

2. London's black taxi-cab training is called 'The (What?)'?

   1. Streets of London
   2. Fair Fare
   3. Knowledge
   4. Crash Course

3. Kolkata Metro is what nation's famous first metro/underground railway network?

4. What was subsequently added to a publicity photo of UK Prime Minister David Cameron by his team in Nov 2015?

   1. Blue sky
   2. A lapel poppy
   3. Shoes
   4. Chest hair

5. The 1927 animated character Oswald the Lucky Rabbit is considered the precurser to which more famous icon?

6. The size of the International Space Station orbiting Earth is similar to a?

   1. Landrover
   2. Shipping container
   3. Combine harvester
   4. Football Pitch

7. Brahmanism, or Vedism, is a religion emerging around 900BC in?

   1. India
   2. France
   3. Canada
   4. China

8. What restored Rome feature appeared in movie La Docle Vita and receives c.3,000 Euro coins every day?

9. What element was removed from soft solders used to join metal parts/electrical connections, since c.2006?

10. In 2015 a joint Turkish/Greek Cyrpiot campaign sought PDO (Protected Designation of Origin) for what national cheese?

11. Spelter is an old/industrial term for what metal element, and alloys containing it, notably brass?

12. "Como se llama usted?

13. Activist/writer Elizabeth Magie conceived and patented what popular game concept in 1903 as a demonstration of the evils of corporate greed?

14. What is a flat-bottomed East-Asian boat and collectively objects considered old, useless, broken, etc?

15. The terms boobook, morepork and mopoke all refer onomatopoeically to a small Australasian?

    1. Flute
    2. Owl
    3. Fish
    4. Omelette

16. What food means metaphorically typical/ordinary/day-to-day, especially one's work?

    1. Pie and mash
    2. Bread and butter
    3. Peaches and cream
    4. Corn on the cob

17. Chlorophyll/chlorophyl, critical for photosynthesis enabling plants to absorb energy from light, is a pigment of?

    1. Green
    2. Red
    3. White
    4. Blue

18. Bolas - the South American hunting weapon - comprises rope and?

    1. Spear/arrow
    2. Poison
    3. Balls/weights
    4. Honey

19. The Khyber Pass connects which two of these nations?

    1. China
    2. Afghanistan
    3. Russia
    4. Pakistan
    5. Turkey

20. Stapedius, Trapezius, Gluteus Maximus, Sartorius, and Subclavius are?

    1. Stellar constellations
    2. Edible cacti
    3. Roman gladiators
    4. Human muscles