General Knowledge Quiz 454

Questions

1. Batavia was the former, colonial name of which major city on the island of Java?

2. The HTML (HyperText Markup Language webpage codes: '<' and '>' produce the maths symbols?

   1. Right/Left chevrons
   2. Plus/Minus
   3. Multiply/Divide
   4. Square/Cube root

3. US athletes/performers controversially 'took the.. (What?' in 2017 human rights protests?

4. The Tango was originally danced by two?

   1. Women
   2. Men
   3. Warriors
   4. Grandparents

5. Named from a vegetable, what chemical substance causes flamingoes to be pink?

6. 2 Spumante, frizzante, and tranquillo refer to different types of what?

7. 2 Cerberus in Greek mythology is a multi-(What? (What? guarding (What?

   1. Eyed
   2. Armed
   3. Headed
   4. Legged
   5. Dog
   6. Lion
   7. Bull
   8. Frog
   9. Heaven
   10. Hades (Hell
   11. Olympus
   12. Heaven

8. 2 Chinese people increasingly give (What? called 'pingguo' at (When? called 'pinganye'?

   1. Soap
   2. Apples
   3. Rice
   4. Weddings
   5. Christenings
   6. Christmas Eve

9. 2 What are the three missing nations from this list of 2017 USAN membership (Union of South American Nations: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela, Chile, Guyana, Suriname?

10. 2 Ernest Hemingway originated the Absinthe/Champagne cocktail “(What? in the Afternoon”?

    1. Love
    2. Sleep
    3. Death
    4. Drunk

11. In Judaism, bar mitzvah refers to a boy of (and ceremonially becoming?

    1. 7
    2. 10
    3. 13
    4. 16

12. Which nation's economy was forecast to overtake UK and France to become globally fifth largest in 2018 (behind US, China; Japan, Germany: India; Saudi Arabia; Turkey; or Mexico?

13. Which north-African country was historically divided into Tripolitania, Cyrenaica, and Fezzan?

14. Which "wise" animals are groups of referred to as "parliaments"?

15. Who is the only man - to date - to become Vice President, and subsequently President, without winning an election to either?

16. Which city, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, finally fell to the Ottoman Empire in 1453, gaining its modern name in the process?

17. Which Spanish artist had phases referred to as his Blue Period, Rose Period and African-influenced Period?

18. The Mesozoic Era, from 252-66 million years ago, is often known as the Age of \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_?

19. 1927's The Jazz Singer changed Hollywood forever as the first of which type of movie?

20. Which "luxury" French pate, produced by force-feeding of ducks or geese, literally translates into English as "fat liver"?

21. Which sitcom, a spin-off of Cheers, focussed on the life of psychiatrist Dr. Crane as he returns to his hometown of Seattle?

22. The 18th Amendment to the US Constitution, ratified in 1919, banned the production and sale of which substance?

23. Quentin Blake is well-known as an illustrator for which famous children's author?

24. The city of Jerez in Andalusia, Spain, is closely associated with the production of which type of fortified wine?

25. The sinking of which ocean liner by a German U-Boat in 1915 was a major factor in changing US attitudes towards intervention in WWI?

26. Which 1968 Jimi Hendrix hit originally appeared a year earlier on the album John Wesley Harding by Bob Dylan?

27. Which book was first published by L. Frank Baum in 1900, before being turned into a popular 1939 film starring Judy Garland?

28. There is only one letter worth 5 points in the game of Scrabble - to which chemical element's symbol does this letter correspond?

29. Canadian James Naismith designed the first ever rule book for which sport whilst working as a teacher in Massachusetts?