General Knowledge Quiz 386

Questions

1. Amethyst is a variety of?

   1. Chalk
   2. Quartz
   3. Sapphire
   4. Glass

2. The Cuban/Puerto Rican music/dance 'Salsa' means what in Spanish?

   1. Feet
   2. Step
   3. Sauce
   4. Sex

3. Research (Newcastle University 2015) suggests that Type-2 diabetes is reversible by a very small reduction of fat in the human?

   1. Pancreas
   2. Heart
   3. Liver
   4. Brain

4. What word features in stonemasonry, cabinet-making and carpentry; and strategies to combat stress?

5. What often poisonous compound, CN, found in fruit seeds and stones, named from Greek for dark blue, comprises Carbon and Nitrogen?

   1. Hemlock
   2. Strychnine
   3. Cyanide
   4. Mustard gas

6. A neologism is a new?

   1. Political doctrine
   2. Word/expression
   3. Plant mutation
   4. Galaxy

7. The Han ethnic people constitute c.90% of mainland?

   1. Australia
   2. China
   3. India
   4. USA

8. What word for fearful wonderment oddly loses its 'e' when prefixing 'ful' but keeps it when prefixing 'some' and 'struck'?

9. Bammy (Jamaica), Bannock (Scotland), Blaa (Ireland), Bublik (Poland), and Boule (France) are types of?

   1. Cheese
   2. Bread
   3. Bacon
   4. Rum

10. A little appreciated, very common human characteristic is the spilt or separated (technically 'accessory')?

    1. Kidney
    2. Earlobe
    3. Kneecap
    4. Fifth toenail

11. What asset in London UK was valued at £6billion in 2015?

    1. Buckingham Palace
    2. Wimbledon Tennis Club
    3. Underground Railway
    4. Trees

12. What is five-eighths divided by five-twelfths?

    1. 0.0325
    2. 3/4
    3. 12
    4. One-and-a-half

13. The 'twi' in the word twilight meant originally?

    1. Cat
    2. Badger
    3. Two
    4. Kiss

14. What word for sadness referred historically to human black bile in the ancient medical theory of the Four Humours or Four Temperaments?

15. A term for a dark shape against a brighter background is named after 18th century French author/politician Etienne de (Who?) ?

16. The primary ingredients of butterscotch confectionery are which two of?

    1. Cream
    2. Salt
    3. Brown sugar
    4. Coffee
    5. Butter
    6. Cocoa

17. Horace Walpole created a popular term for unexpected lucky events/discovery in his 1754 fairy story 'The Three Princes of (Where?)'?

    1. Bonanza
    2. Bonus
    3. Serendip
    4. Luckydip

18. What famous French endurance motor racing track/city is named after the early inhabiting Cenomani Celtic people?

19. Thermae and Balneae are Ancient Roman large and small facilities for?

    1. Gladiatorial training
    2. Bathing
    3. Horse stabling/breeding
    4. Cooking and eating

20. Alalia, Anarthria, Aphasia, Aphonia, and Dysarthria are forms of impaired human?

    1. Hearing
    2. Speech
    3. Sight
    4. Taste