General Knowledge Quiz No. 333

[Carl]

• 1. Phonology refers to: Music recording; Human hearing; Telecommunications; or Linguistics ?

• 2. The terms digitigrade, plantigrade, unguligrade, refer to a detail of what animal function: Walking; Eating; Sleeping; or Temperature regulation ?

• 3. What word makes new words as a prefix with the words cover, line, code and ship ?

• 4. In Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels what is Gulliver's first name: Lemuel; Teneile; Makepeace; or Gary ?

• 5. The term Ponzi Scheme refers to: Financial investing; Landscape gardening; Computer coding; or Military tactics ?

• 6. With the symbol H what is the unit of inductance ?

• 7. The medical condition Strabismus affects what part of the human body ?

• 8. Which city's metro system has lines including Pinar de Chamartín to Valdecarros and Villaverde Alto to Moncloa ?

• 9. What popular children's TV/toy character has a Mummy, Daddy, brother George, and cousins Chloé and Alexander ?

• 10. No longer in use, the internet top level domain .gb was originally allocated to what nation/state ?

• 11. The 'sub-kingdoms' Blastocladiomycota, Microsporidia and Dikarya belong to the kingdom of organisms commonly called what ?

• 12. The strongly featured character Alyson/Alys in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is better known as ?

• 13. Parsimonious means: God-fearing; Dishonest; Slow; or Sparing ?

• 14. The controversially named nation Myanmar is also called controversially what ?

• 15. Kinesics is more commonly known as what form of communication ?

Answers will be provided next Thursday evening after 21:00.

[Carl]

ANSWERS

• 1. Phonology refers to: Music recording; Human hearing; Telecommunications; or Linguistics ? Linguistics

• 2. The terms digitigrade, plantigrade, unguligrade, refer to a detail of what animal function: Walking; Eating; Sleeping; or Temperature regulation ? Walking

• 3. What word makes new words as a prefix with the words cover, line, code and ship ? Hard

• 4. In Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels what is Gulliver's first name: Lemuel; Teneile; Makepeace; or Gary ? Lemuel

• 5. The term Ponzi Scheme refers to: Financial investing; Landscape gardening; Computer coding; or Military tactics ? Financial investing

• 6. With the symbol H what is the unit of inductance ? Henry

• 7. The medical condition Strabismus affects what part of the human body ? Eyes

• 8. Which city's metro system has lines including Pinar de Chamartín to Valdecarros and Villaverde Alto to Moncloa ? Madrid

• 9. What popular children's TV/toy character has a Mummy, Daddy, brother George, and cousins Chloé and Alexander ? Peppa Pig

• 10. No longer in use, the internet top level domain .gb was originally allocated to what nation/state ? United Kingdom

• 11. The 'sub-kingdoms' Blastocladiomycota, Microsporidia and Dikarya belong to the kingdom of organisms commonly called what ? Fungi

• 12. The strongly featured character Alyson/Alys in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is better known as ? The Wife of Bath

• 13. Parsimonious means: God-fearing; Dishonest; Slow; or Sparing ? Sparing

• 14. The controversially named nation Myanmar is also called controversially what ? Burma

• 15. Kinesics is more commonly known as what form of communication ? Body language