General Knowledge Quiz No. 333

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General Knowledge Quiz No. 333

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  • 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.

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