General Knowledge Quiz 433

Questions

1. Earl Scruggs (1924-2012) pioneered and was master of the three-fingered technique for playing what?

2. What modern counter-intuitive notion of leading people did author Robert Greenleaf popularize in his so-titled 1977 book?

3. Name Shanghai's financial area and China's commercial hub, literally meaning 'east bank'?

4. The UK further education system abbreviation UCAS stands for what?

5. The federation of which sport ruled in early 2012 that bikinis would not be compulsory for its competitors at the London Olympics?

6. The Chinese (translated) 'Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists' which once instigated a famous rebellion against colonial and imperial presence in Peking (now Beijing) China, were better known by what name?

7. In 2012 Harvard professor Jonathan Tilley announced research apparently proving (contrary to all previous medical thinking) what human feature can be enabled to be replenished in the host body?

   1. Teeth
   2. Brain tissue
   3. Eggs
   4. Heart

8. Perfunctory means?

   1. Smelly
   2. Faultless
   3. Careless
   4. Structured

9. Introduced in the early 1900s, the internationally used Whyte Notation (representing the number of leading/driving/trailing wheels, via a numbers and dashes system) classifies what?

10. Facebook announced the acquisition of what major photo app company in April 2012?

11. What is the only internal human organ capable of natural regeneration of lost tissue?

12. Tian Tian and Yang Guang are?

    1. Pandas
    2. Perfumes
    3. Triad gangsters
    4. Beijing subway stations
    5. Korean search engines

13. Which country has (early 2000s) the highest AIDS infection rate in the world?

14. Chicken Pox is mainly contracted from contact with?

    1. Children
    2. Adults
    3. Water
    4. Birds

15. Protected Geographical Status (PGS) is a EU legal framework to protect the names of regional?

    1. Foods/drinks
    2. Songs
    3. Dances
    4. Festivals

16. What instrument most commonly features in the logos of national postal services?

17. Belgian surgeon Jacques Rogge headed what organization (at 2012)?

18. Spell the city name?

    1. Pnom Penh
    2. Phnom Penh
    3. Phnom Penn
    4. Pnhom Pehn

19. Name the passenger vehicle famously lost with 36 fatalities on 6 May 1937 at New Jersey US?

20. What model pioneered personal computing in the 1980s, selling over 20 million of its (then huge) 64k memory machines?