Random Questions

  1. The German Imannuel Kant, Englishman Bertrand Russell, and American John Dewey, were notable:
    1. Opera Singers
    2. Philosophers
    3. Generals
    4. Footballers
  2. The Indian wind instrument, the pungi (also been or bin), is associated with what street activity?
    1. Basket Weaving
    2. Firecracker
    3. Pottery Maker
    4. Snake charming
  3. Expressed traditionally as N s, what in physics is the product of mass and velocity?
    1. Form
    2. Velosity
    3. Momentum
    4. Friction
  4. Name the UK businessman who ruined his eponymous empire overnight by calling one of his products 'total crap'?
    1. Ken Rathers
    2. Sam Devlin
    3. Bob Hope
    4. Gerald Ratner
  5. What word, from a US dietary reformist, refers to unsifted wholewheat flour?
    1. Sam
    2. Kyle
    3. Eric
    4. Graham
  6. The 17th century mythical French creature, the Hippogryph/Hippogriff is a hybrid of?
    1. Horse-Eagle
    2. Cat-Dog
    3. Turtle-Dove
    4. Man-Horse
  7. What does the military abbreviation 'Gy Sgt' stand for?
    1. Gunnery Sergeant
    2. Gallop Sergeant
    3. Gun Sergeant
    4. Grip Sergeant
  8. The British term 'The Gnomes of Zurich' originated in the 1960s to disparage?
    1. FIFA
    2. NATO
    3. Swiss financiers
    4. UN
  9. What's the food 'head cheese' alternatively called, which separately refers to a man's physical strength?
    1. Strong Man
    2. Jacked
    3. Brawn
    4. Manly
  10. The cylindrical roller in a traditional typewriter is a:
    1. Platen
    2. Carriage
    3. Typebar
    4. Shift

Answer Key

  1. B) Philosophers
  2. D) Snake charming
  3. C) Momentum
  4. D) Gerald Ratner
  5. D) Graham
  6. A) Horse-Eagle
  7. A) Gunnery Sergeant
  8. C) Swiss financiers
  9. C) Brawn
  10. A) Platen