General Knowledge Quiz 391

Questions

1. The famous Ancient Roman marble statue 'Venus Callipyge' or 'Callipygian Venus' literally and artistically represents "Venus/Aphrodite of the beautiful..."?

   1. Hair
   2. Face
   3. Eyes
   4. Buttocks

2. Which three of these characteristics do not feature in a 'mullet' hairstyle?

   1. Long fringe
   2. Short sides
   3. Short Front
   4. Long back
   5. Greased and slicked back
   6. Combed-over a bald patch

3. Vaquita porpoise 'maw', an illegally trafficked delicacy in Chinese cuisine, priced upwards of $10,000/kilo, is the creature's?

   1. Eyes
   2. Tongue
   3. Heart
   4. Swim bladder

4. The US Second Amendment (to the US Constitution) protects the rights of US citizens to?

   1. Decline to answer questions that could incriminate onself in a criminal case
   2. Keep/bear arms (guns)
   3. Drink alcohol
   4. Drive a car/carriage on a highway

5. What sort of sea creatures are fulmars and petrels?

   1. Snails
   2. Birds
   3. Otters
   4. Fish

6. Who controversially interviewed the on-the-run Mexican drug lord 'El Chapo' Guzman for Rolling Stone Magazine just before his 2015 capture?

   1. Sean Penn
   2. Madonna
   3. Oprah Winfrey
   4. Judi Dench

7. Besides humans, the most widely distributed mammals on Earth are?

   1. Dogs
   2. Cats
   3. Whales
   4. Hamsters

8. Best-selling Japanese author Marie Kondo refers to Japanese 'Tokimeku' ('spark joy' - literally palpitate) in the life-changing 'KonMari' method of?

   1. Hill-running
   2. Cat-training
   3. Decluttering
   4. Hedge-trimming

9. The motor theft crime abbreviated in the UK to TWOC (hence the slang verb 'twocking') stands for what?

10. What is three-eighths divided by a half?

    1. Three-quarters
    2. Five-eighths
    3. Five-sixteenths
    4. One-and-a-half

11. What Anglicized-French word referring to prestige derives from the verb to press?

12. What creatures were first to live on land and fly?

    1. Insects
    2. Birds
    3. Bats
    4. Fish

13. Who wrote/directed the movies The Hateful Eight and Inglourious Basterds?

14. Chinese Emperor Jing Di's 141BC tomb revealed in 2015 the early use of?

    1. Tea leaves
    2. Whisky
    3. Cigars
    4. Magic mushrooms

15. What was the Russian city of Stalingrad renamed in 1961, after Europe's longest river?

16. The Solanum Pseudocapsicum plant, called winter cherry and Jerusalem cherry, is noted for being very?

    1. Poisonous
    2. Tasty
    3. Prickly
    4. Luminous

17. Grissini are Italian?

    1. Breadsticks
    2. Baked beans
    3. Beetroots
    4. Bananas

18. Who created the 1970s persona Thin White Duke, and subsequent brands Glass Spider and Tin Machine?

19. Tundra regions of the world are typically defined as having no?

    1. Animals
    2. Trees
    3. Water
    4. Shops

20. A gable or gable wall of a house is usually defined by having a?

    1. Front door
    2. Triangular upper face
    3. Bay window
    4. No windows or doors

21. The human body's energy chemical is?

    1. Cortisone
    2. Serotonin
    3. Glucose
    4. Blood