General Knowledge Quiz #122

General Knowledge Quiz #122

Questions

1. What famous toys and games brand (founded London 1760) did French corporation Groupe Ludendo buy for £60m in 2012?
2. An actuary specialises in assessing: Insurance risks; Real estate value; Cause of death; or Divorce settlements?
3. What SI unit (International System of Units) of measurement is defined as "The amount of substance that contains an equal number of elementary entities as there are atoms in 0.012kg of the isotope carbon-12": Mole; Mare; Man; or Mule?
4. What commonly used English Latin expression means literally 'so' or 'thus' or 'in this manner', and generally refers to a quoted error?
5. Name the Russian feminist rock-protest group, three of whom were jailed for two years in 2012 for performing an anti-state song in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour?
6. What meat jelly dish is named from a French snakelike association?
7. Named from Spanish, 'Land of Fire', what archipelago is the closest land mass to the Antarctic Penninsular?
8. Put these concepts in order (strict historical founding), earliest first: Christianity, Shamanism, Islam, Buddhism?
9. Manolete, Belmonte, Gallito and Tomas are famous names from what discipline?
10. What word/symbol appears at the 12 o'clock position on the traditional ipod click wheel?
11. The term 'art house' most widely refers to a genre of: Cinema film; Pottery; Sculpture; or Mime?
12. Hyponatremia/hyponatraemia is a problematical reduction of what in human blood serum: Sodium; Water; Glucose; or Oxygen?
13. The preparation of what entails scoring (or slashing or docking) it with a 'lame' (pronounced 'lahm') before baking?
14. George Entwistle became director general of which global corporation in Sept 2012?
15. A Podiatrist is traditionally more commonly called a: Ventriloquist; Ophthalmologist; Chiropodist; or Brain surgeon?
16. Mount Danxia, the World Heritage Site containing spectacular red-striped sandstone landscape, including two bizarrely realistic (male and female) phallic rock formations, is in which country?
17. A study published in 2012 (by the UK National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) found that prolonged use of what tended to produce chronic ongoing tension headaches in sufferers: Earphones; Electric toothbrushes; Mobile phones; or Painkillers?
18. A geis (plural geasa) is a curse or taboo in which national mythology/language?
19. A 'supermassive (what?)' is generally believed to be at the centre/center of the (our) Milky Way galaxy: Black Hole; Red Giant, White Dwarf; or Blue Planet?
20. Berlin, Boston, Chicago, London, and New York City have since 2006 hosted five annual championship 'majors' of what sporting event?

1. What famous toys and games brand (founded London 1760) did French corporation Groupe Ludendo buy for £60m in 2012?

   Hamleys
2. An actuary specialises in assessing: Insurance risks; Real estate value; Cause of death; or Divorce settlements?

   Insurance risks 
3. What SI unit (International System of Units) of measurement is defined as "The amount of substance that contains an equal number of elementary entities as there are atoms in 0.012kg of the isotope carbon-12": Mole; Mare; Man; or Mule?

   Mole 
4. What commonly used English Latin expression means literally 'so' or 'thus' or 'in this manner', and generally refers to a quoted error?

   Sic 
5. Name the Russian feminist rock-protest group, three of whom were jailed for two years in 2012 for performing an anti-state song in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour?

   Pussy Riot
6. What meat jelly dish is named from a French snakelike association?

   Aspic
7. Named from Spanish, 'Land of Fire', what archipelago is the closest land mass to the Antarctic Penninsular?

   Tierra del Fuego
8. Put these concepts in order (strict historical founding), earliest first: Christianity, Shamanism, Islam, Buddhism?

   Shamanism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam
9. Manolete, Belmonte, Gallito and Tomas are famous names from what discipline?

   Bullfighting 
10. What word/symbol appears at the 12 o'clock position on the traditional ipod click wheel?

    MENU
11. The term 'art house' most widely refers to a genre of: Cinema film; Pottery; Sculpture; or Mime?

    Cinema film 
12. Hyponatremia/hyponatraemia is a problematical reduction of what in human blood serum: Sodium; Water; Glucose; or Oxygen?

    Sodium 
13. The preparation of what entails scoring (or slashing or docking) it with a 'lame' (pronounced 'lahm') before baking?

    Bread 
14. George Entwistle became director general of which global corporation in Sept 2012?

    BBC
15. A Podiatrist is traditionally more commonly called a: Ventriloquist; Ophthalmologist; Chiropodist; or Brain surgeon?

    Chiropodist 
16. Mount Danxia, the World Heritage Site containing spectacular red-striped sandstone landscape, including two bizarrely realistic (male and female) phallic rock formations, is in which country?

    China 
17. A study published in 2012 (by the UK National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) found that prolonged use of what tended to produce chronic ongoing tension headaches in sufferers: Earphones; Electric toothbrushes; Mobile phones; or Painkillers?

    Painkillers 
18. A geis (plural geasa) is a curse or taboo in which national mythology/language?

    Irish 
19. A 'supermassive (what?)' is generally believed to be at the centre/center of the (our) Milky Way galaxy: Black Hole; Red Giant, White Dwarf; or Blue Planet?

    Black hole
20. Berlin, Boston, Chicago, London, and New York City have since 2006 hosted five annual championship 'majors' of what sporting event?

    Marathon