Random Trivia Quiz No. 270

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Carl
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Random Trivia Quiz No. 270

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  • 1. What modern digital display term is an abbreviated portmanteau word from picture and element ?
  • 2. What sort of fastener has a crown, legs and teeth ?
  • 3. Name the big inflatable sphere in which thrill-seeking people roll down hills and on water: Zorb; Zall; Borb; or Rolb ?
  • 4. The Métis are a substantial group of aboriginal people of which nation ?
  • 5. Platter, j-bar, bum, button, and Poma are equivalent terms for what apparatus ?
  • 6. What often controversial medical research/treatment term derives from the Latin 'I shall be pleasing' ?
  • 7. What word referring to an organizational disaster derives from Venetian glass-blowing ?
  • 8. Eddy, vortex and gyre refer to what specific characteristic of fluid flow: Dangerous, Random; Rotating; or Sucking ?
  • 9. White chocolate consists of sugar, milk solids, salt, and specifically what other main ingredient ?
  • 10. ECHR refers to which internationally significant legal institution ?
  • 11. In 2013, 29% of what meat was found in Tesco's value beefburgers: Goat; Wild boar; Dog; or Horse ?
  • 12. What is a serval: Cat; Dog; Monkey; or Snake ?
  • 13. Name the Utah USA salt flats famous for land-speed records and a Triumph motorbike model ?
  • 14. From the Greek words for inside and look at, what is the medical instrument which enables examination via a narrow tube inserted into the body ?
  • 15. What term, for a standard section of pre-used text or clause in a contract, or an existing pre-used section of standard code in computing, derives from industrial sheet metal fabrication and labelling ?

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gail
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Re: Random Trivia Quiz No. 270

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1. Pixel
3. Zorb
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2 Zip
8. Rotating
gail
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10. European convention on human rights
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9 Cocoa butter
12 Cat

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