General Knowledge Quiz - 2
A Celtic language originally spoken in Cornwall.
Last speaker died in the early 19th century.
2. Quiz:
What is the official language of China?
Mandarin
3. Quiz:
Which newspaper claims to carry "all the news that is fit to print"?
The New York Times
4. Quiz:
What is the peninsula containing Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, the European part
of Turkey and most of Yugoslavia called?
The Balkan peninsula
5. Quiz:
What are auroras?
Luminous phenomena of the upper atmosphere that
occur in high latitudes of both hemispheres.
6. Quiz:
A group of islands in the Atlantic used to be called the Eternal Islands. Give
their present name.
Canary Islands
7. Quiz:
Name the political scientist who suggested in 1992 that now that the conflict
between Communism and Capitalism was over the only problems mankind would have
to solve were technological ones and, hence, "history has ended".
Francis Fukuyama
8. Quiz:
Who were called "the philosophers of the garden"?
The followers of Epicurus, who taught in a garden.
9. Quiz:
Who developed the Theory of Aggregate Demand?
J M Keynes
10. Quiz:
Name the thinker who said that men's minds are beset with 'Idols' which prevent
clear thinking and that the four classes of idols were ldols of the Cave, ldols
of the Tribe, ldols of the Market Place and idols of the Theatre.
Francis Bacon
11. Quiz:
By what name are the followers of Zeno, the Greek philosopher known?
Stoics
12. Quiz:
What did Carl Jung call his system of psychology, to distinguish it from
Freud's methods?
Analytic psychology
13. Quiz:
What does BP mean with reference to time?
Before Present
14. Quiz:
Who are the Inuit?
Eskimos. (The self-governing Eskimo territory in
north western Canada is also called Inuit).
15. Quiz:
What do Tupolov, Antonov and Illuyshin have in common?
Russian aircraft designers
16. Quiz:
What is Lysenkoism?
The unscientific idea, propagated by Tromfin
Lysenko, Stalin's favourite biologist, that acquired characteristics are
inherited.
17. Quiz:
Which organization has the motto 'Be prepared'?
The Boy Scouts.
18. Quiz:
What is a Zeppelin?
A motor driven airship with a rigid frame
19. Quiz:
What was the name of the mission that first landed men on the moon?
Apollo 11
20. Quiz:
A Republican senator gave his name to a phenomenan. What phenomenon?
Virulent anti-communism.
21.
Quiz: Who coined the term 'glasnost?
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Russian
novelist
22. Quiz:
Of which city state was Marco Polo a native?
Venice
23. Quiz:
Name the two places linked by the Silk Route.
Rome and China
24. Quiz:
What is an amphora?
One of the principal vessel shapes in Greek
pottery, a two side handled pot with a neck narrower than the body
25. Quiz:
Name the game played on a 'diamond'.
Baseball
26. Quiz:
What is the gammadion cross?
The swastika (used widely in early Christian and
Byzantine art)
27. Quiz:
Name the rivers that flow into the Shatt-al-Arab waterway.
Tigris and Euphrates
28. Quiz:
What in agriculture is the three-field system?
Method of agricultural organisation whereby only
1/3rd of a field was left fallow; an improvement on the two field
system of the Middle Ages
29. Quiz:
Name the man who first organised conducted tours.
Thomas Cook
30. Quiz:
What are the official languages of Singapore?
Chinese, English, Malay and Tamil.
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