General Knowledge Quiz 87

Questions

1. What number is neutral on the pH acid/alkali scale?

2. Used especially in marketing and consumer profiling, what is the study of size, structure, development and dispersement of human populations?

3. What animals does a mahout work with?

4. What term, common in fantasy games, also refers to the three wise men in the Bible?

5. In which city is the new 27-storey $1bn residential property 'Antilla', home to the 4th richest person in the world, and (as at 2010) reportedly the most expensive home anywhere?

6. 'Five-finger discount' is US slang for what crime?

7. In what Cumbrian village did Poet William Wordsworth live, in Dove Cottage from about 1799, and which was central to the Lake Poets?

8. What colour is puce?

   1. dark red
   2. pale yellow
   3. pale green
   4. beige

9. At what fret on a standard six-string guitar is half the string length and therefore also the octave note and octave harmonic?

10. David John Moore Cornwell is better known as what spy-story writer?

11. How many microns are in a metre?

12. What four words appear on the rectangual logo molded into most plastic CD cases?

13. What do these words have in common: moped, chortle, smog and brunch?

14. What name (in English was given to the capsule which brought the 33 Chilean miners to the surface in the San Jose rescue on 13 October 2010?

15. Meaning literally 'make like' what is the full Latin word from which 'fax' derives (as in fax machine?

16. What type of wartime field gun took its name originally from the old Czech word (loosely 'houfnice' meaning catapault?

17. Sometimes called Echo Boomers, people born between around 1980 to the mid-1990s (or later depending on interpretation, are more commonly referred to as Generation what?

18. In which city is the new 27-storey $1bn residential property 'Antilla', home to the 4th richest person in the world, and (as at 2010 reportedly the most expensive home anywhere?

19. Sir Thomas Sopwith designed what famous British biplane fighter aircraft, whose name combined his own name with an animal?

20. What characterised the Neolithic age?

    1. Dinosaurs
    2. Stone tools
    3. The Ancient Greeks
    4. The Renaissance

21. What British institution, originating in the 12th century, is to be turned into a mutual or cooperative, according to government plans announced in 2010?

22. What name (in English) was given to the capsule which brought the 33 Chilean miners to the surface in the San Jose rescue on 13 October 2010?

23. According to Forbes magazine's 2010 listings, who was the highest earning dead celebrity?

24. What is harvested from Hevea brasiliensis, whose other plant names separately feature the words Para and India?

25. Meaning literally 'make like' what is the full Latin word from which 'fax' derives (as in fax machine)?

26. According to Greek legend, the labyrinth built by architect Daedalus housed which monster?

27. What 'z' is the activity where person is rolled down a hill inside a large plastic transparent ball?

28. What element, with zirconium, forms the compound zirconia, which is used to make synthetic diamonds?

29. In the Mousetrap board game a swinging what overturns a bucket, releasing a marble down a zig-zag slope?

30. What type of wartime field gun took its name originally from the old Czech word (loosely 'houfnice') meaning catapault?

31. What is a brief period of time and a turning effect produced by a force?

32. Permanent software programmed into a read-only memory is generally called what ' ...ware'?

33. What colour/color normally follows orange moving up the scale, low to high, in judo belts?

34. What gas, symbol F, is the most reactive of all chemical elements?

35. Sometimes called Echo Boomers, people born between around 1980 to the mid-1990s (or later depending on interpretation), are more commonly referred to as Generation what?