General Knowledge Quiz No. 212

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General Knowledge Quiz No. 212

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  • 1. Meaning literally 'make like' what is the full Latin word from which 'fax' derives (as in fax machine) ?
  • 2. According to Greek legend, the labyrinth built by architect Daedalus housed which monster ?
  • 3. What 'z' is the activity where person is rolled down a hill inside a large plastic transparent ball ?
  • 4. Sir Thomas Sopwith designed what famous British biplane fighter aircraft, whose name combined his own name with an animal ?
  • 5. In the Mousetrap board game a swinging what overturns a bucket, releasing a marble down a zig-zag slope ?
  • 6. What type of wartime field gun took its name originally from the old Czech word (loosely 'houfnice') meaning catapault ?
  • 7. What is a brief period of time and a turning effect produced by a force ?
  • 8. Permanent software programmed into a read-only memory is generally called what ' ...ware' ?
  • 9. What colour/color normally follows orange moving up the scale, low to high, in judo belts ?
  • 10. What gas, symbol F, is the most reactive of all chemical elements ?
  • 11. 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 ?
  • 12. David John Moore Cornwell is better known as what spy-story writer ?
  • 13. Used especially in marketing and consumer profiling, what is the study of size, structure, development and dispersement of human populations ?
  • 14. What animals does a mahout work with ?
  • 15. What term, common in fantasy games, also refers to the three wise men in the Bible ?

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1 Facsimile
2 Minotaur
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4. Sopwith Camel
13. Demographics
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5 Boot
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ANSWERS
  • 1. Meaning literally 'make like' what is the full Latin word from which 'fax' derives (as in fax machine) ? Facsimile
  • 2. According to Greek legend, the labyrinth built by architect Daedalus housed which monster ? The Minotaur
  • 3. What 'z' is the activity where person is rolled down a hill inside a large plastic transparent ball ? Zorbing
  • 4. Sir Thomas Sopwith designed what famous British biplane fighter aircraft, whose name combined his own name with an animal ? Sopwith Camel
  • 5. In the Mousetrap board game a swinging what overturns a bucket, releasing a marble down a zig-zag slope ? Boot
  • 6. What type of wartime field gun took its name originally from the old Czech word (loosely 'houfnice') meaning catapault ? Howitzer
  • 7. What is a brief period of time and a turning effect produced by a force ? Moment
  • 8. Permanent software programmed into a read-only memory is generally called what ' ...ware' ? Firmware
  • 9. What colour/color normally follows orange moving up the scale, low to high, in judo belts ? Green
  • 10. What gas, symbol F, is the most reactive of all chemical elements ? Fluorine
  • 11. 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 ? Y
  • 12. David John Moore Cornwell is better known as what spy-story writer ? John Le Carré
  • 13. Used especially in marketing and consumer profiling, what is the study of size, structure, development and dispersement of human populations ? Demography
  • 14. What animals does a mahout work with ? Elephants
  • 15. What term, common in fantasy games, also refers to the three wise men in the Bible ? Magi

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