General Knowledge Quiz 396

Questions

1. Comb, Spiral, Ring and Perfect are types of?

   1. Hair perming
   2. Ice-skating moves
   3. Book-bindings
   4. Solar flares
   5. Wedding cake decorations

2. Bloodhound, Bluebird, Koenigsegg, and Thrust are?

   1. Fast cars
   2. Space probes
   3. Superman villians
   4. Twitter apps

3. Common interpretation (UK/US) of a 'duplex' home mostly equates to?

   1. Maisonette
   2. Basement
   3. Loft
   4. Full of gadgets

4. The hook symbol joined under a letter (e.g., to the letter C, to soften the sound) is a?

   1. Streg
   2. Circumflex
   3. Cedilla
   4. Umlaut

5. Which one of these is not among the three most common gases of the Earth's atmosphere, instead being the most abundant chemical in the Universe?

   1. Nitrogen
   2. Oxygen
   3. Argon
   4. Hydrogen

6. A subaltern is an old word for an?

   1. Arranged marriage
   2. Bank holiday
   3. Army officer
   4. Curry starter dish

7. According to the punning joke, the difference between a buffalo and a (What synonym?) is that you cannot wash your hands in a (What?) - (two punning answers required)?

8. Which two of these are not 'open' (unfretted) strings of a conventionally tuned guitar: E, B, G, D, C, H?

9. Which one of these is not a popular curry dish?

   1. Jalfrezi
   2. Tikka Masala
   3. Bhuna
   4. Wonton

10. Mach 1 refers to the speed of?

    1. Gravity
    2. Light
    3. Sound
    4. the Starship Enterprise

11. A quarter multiplied by a third is a?

    1. Half
    2. Quarter
    3. Third
    4. Twelfth

12. According to the iconic 1958 song, popularized futuristically again in 1985, 'Deep down in Louisiana close to New Orleans, Way back up in the woods among the (What sort of trees?) ?

13. Marfona, Charlotte, Jersey, and Desiree are?

    1. Atlantic islands
    2. Potato varieties
    3. Canadian state capitals
    4. Medieval German queens

14. The major UK/European mobile network corp EE was originally branded?

    1. Eccentric Egg
    2. Everything Everywhere
    3. Excellent Elephant or Electric Earhole

15. The area of a right-angled isosceles triangle whose two short sides are 4cms each is how many square cms?

    1. 8
    2. 10
    3. 12
    4. 16

16. Barber, Debussy, Glass and Holst are?

    1. Occupational surnames
    2. Composers
    3. Diamond cuts
    4. Google brands

17. The planet Jupiter has how many known moons?

    1. None
    2. One
    3. Two
    4. Sixty-seven

18. Which one of these cheeses is not from and named after a Dutch city/place?

    1. Edam
    2. Gouda
    3. Emmental
    4. Leerdammer

19. Plankton (including jellyfish, algae, krill) is named from Greek 'planktos', which refers to its defining feature?

    1. Drifter
    2. Hunter
    3. Poisonous
    4. Tasty

20. Isaac Asimov, Robert A Heinlein, and Arthur C Clarke are famous writers of?

    1. Crime-thrillers
    2. Science-Fiction
    3. Children's Stories
    4. 1900s Broadway Musicals