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General Knowledge Quiz 849 (20 MCQs)

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1. In 1964, what did University of Oregon grad. student Carolyn Davidson design for $ 35?
2. What is the largest planet in our solar system?
3. What game is played in 4 quarters between two teams of 18 outdoors on a large oval grass field with two goal posts and two behind posts at each end, where the primary aim of the game is to score by kicking a ball between the posts of the opposing goal?
4. The lyric "Jeremiah was a bullfrog" is from which song?
5. What is added to water to make brine?
6. The modern Olympic Games are named after games held originally in what country?
7. What is a transient psychological disorder encountered by some people visiting or vacationing in Paris, to which Japanese visitors are observed to be especially susceptible?
8. The faces of which of these shapes are not triangles?
9. Which country does not currently have a sultan as its political and/or religious head of state?
10. Which Australian playwright's work "Up for Grabs" starred Madonna in its London première in 2002?
11. In 2004, Christopher Bailey was appointed creative director of which British luxury fashion house that manufactures clothing, fragrances and fashion accessories?
12. Which astronomer, born in West Yorkshire, England in 1915 and dying in 2001 in Bournemouth, England, was a science fiction writer, whose output includes the novel "The Black Cloud", a TV series "A for Andromeda" and a play "Rockets in Ursa Major" ?
13. What shape are the 12 faces of a regular dodecahedron?
14. Who was the subject of a 4 week inquiry by the US Atomic Energy Commission in 1954 into his background, actions and associations, due to suspicions that he was a member of the Communist Party and might have spied for the Soviet Union, which resulted in his top secret security clearance being revoked?
15. The most renowned oracles were Zeus (at Dodona) and Apollo. Where was Apollo based?
16. Which of these requires the largest area?
17. With what profession was Vidal Sassoon most associated?
18. Which is known as the only primate which defends itself with venom?
19. Seven countries did not attend the 1988 Summer Olympics in South Korea. What did Nicaragua and Madagascar, two of the countries, give as a reason?
20. In 1828 Casparus van Houten Sr. patented a hydraulic press that revolutionised the production of what?
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