General Knowledge Quiz 435

Questions

1. Bratwurst is a greatly varying German food made mainly of?

   1. Meat
   2. Cabbage
   3. Potato
   4. Fish

2. Canadian psychiatrist Eric Berne (1910-70) founded which psychotherapeutic/psychological methodology?

3. In which city was English King Richard III's body displayed after his defeat in 1485?

4. About five-million tonnes of debris from which 2011 event was estimated to wash onto western Canadian and US shores in 2012-13?

5. The mountainous and partly lawless province of Nuristan lies in the north-east of which country?

6. RIM's 2012-launched smartphone is called the BlackBerry?

   1. 5
   2. 7
   3. 10
   4. 17

7. What creature is on the mission insignia or badge of the first moon landing, Apollo 11?

8. The fastest ever book character and the first sub-three-hour vegetable were notable achievers at which 2012 London event?

9. Hyponatremia/hyponatraemia is an unhelpful reduction of what element in human blood serum?

10. Jurisprudence is the theory/philosophy of what?

11. Rib, stretcher, runner, ferrule, crook-handle and tube are parts of which common protective device?

12. What sovereign state's English-language website was revealed in 2012 by a New York student to have been built using an American $15 website design template?

    1. Malta
    2. Monaco
    3. Vatican City
    4. North Korea

13. What major international leader was in 2010 officially given ranked status as a Hells Angel by his nation's 'high council' of bikers, with the name 'Abaddon'?

14. Static occlusion, dynamic occlusion, and centric occlusion refer to misalignment of what?

15. What spring 2012 Formula 1 Grand Prix was held amongst violent civil unrest?

16. Expropriate means?

    1. Dispossess
    2. Unacceptable
    3. Old-fashioned
    4. Allocate

17. In 2012 what Aintree obstacle did the UK RSPCA describe as a 'killer fence' in calling for its removal from the Grand National steeplechase course?

18. What significant territory did President Richard Nixon call by telephone on 20 July 1969?

19. Spell?

    1. Prestigeous
    2. Prestigous
    3. Prestidgous
    4. Prestigious

20. As at 2012 which newspaper has the most popular website?

    1. Bild
    2. New York Times
    3. Daily Mail
    4. China Daily