General Knowledge Quiz 407

Questions

1. What Greek word gave us a common suffix referring to disease or illness, and a quality in something which prompts pity or sadness?

2. Iridology, Rolfing, Alexander technique, and macrobiotics are types of what?

3. Name the market-leading discount buying website with a portmanteau name, which rejected a $6bn takeover bid from Google?

4. What German pharmaceuticals corporation developed the first Aspirin medication in 1897, and retains the trademark in much of the world today?

5. What is the medical word, from Greek meaning 'nasal mucus', for inflammation of the mucous membranes lining the nasal cavity, typically a symptom of a head cold or hay fever?

6. Unlike base metals and silver, gold does not dissolve in what acid, enabling testing of the metal's presence, incidentally originating the expression 'acid test'?

7. Under the ABO blood group system, what blood type can receive blood transfusions from all other groups?

8. The Fischer–Saller scale, used in anthropology and medicine, determines the colour/color shades of what?

9. Arrange these UK Shipping Forecast areas in order, north to south?

   1. Irish Sea
   2. Trafalgar
   3. Wight
   4. Biscay
   5. Faroes

10. In geology, Greywacke is classed as what form of sedimentary rock?

    1. Deep Ocean
    2. Glacial
    3. Volcanic
    4. Seaside

11. Angel, Itatinga, Cuquenan, Ormeli, and Tysse are all what?

12. An economic recession that repeats soon, prior to recovery, is called a 'Double (what?) Recession'?

13. Alan Greenspan is a former chairman of what organization?

    1. The United Nations
    2. Greenpeace
    3. The US Federal Reserve
    4. Amstrad corporation

14. The substances isoflurane, desflurane, nitrous oxide, and sevoflurane are used as what in medicine?

15. The Al Jazeera broadcasting organization is owned by and headquartered in what country?

16. What Irish talkshow host became a popular potential presidential candidate in August 2011?

17. The geometric shape ◎ (a circle within another) is known by what name, also a four-legged Dickens character?

18. The 18th Duchess of the House of Alba, Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, holder of arguably more nobility titles than anyone globally, is what nationality?

19. What is the fruit of the tree technically known as Phoenix Dactylifera?

20. What communications device was cited particularly by UK authorities as a significant factor in organizing the London riots of August 2011?

21. Flipkart was founded and became a major online retailer, notably of books, in which country?

22. The New Caledonia archipelago in the south Pacific is a 'special collectivity' territory of which nation?

23. Spell the word?

    1. Ocurence
    2. Occurrence
    3. Occurrance, or Ocurrance

24. Medieval history, or the Middle Ages, loosely covers what centuries?

    1. 4th-8th
    2. 5th-10th
    3. 8th-12th
    4. 5th-15th

25. From Greek, meaning generation and knowledge, what word commonly refers to the study of family history?

26. The mineral, diamond, is naturally what crystal shape?

    1. Trigonal
    2. Hexagonal
    3. Cubic, or Dodecahedronal

27. What car make (and bonus point, model) is associated with the 'Va Va Voom' advertising slogan?

28. To the nearest 1000 metres, how deep is the ocean floor at its deepest?