Wildcard Quiz #82
Wildcard General Knowledge Quiz for 14 August 2010
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Q1.
What word is used in the UK for chicken less than 28 days old at slaughter and usually weighing 400-450 grammes and in the USA for the Rock Cornish game hen, which is twice as old and twice as large?
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A
A second for Muhammed Ali
C
Large excavating machine
D
Double-edged broad sword
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Q3.
Which company bought the Daimler, Lanchester, Jaguar and Land Rover brand names in March 2008?
B
Hyundai Motor Company, South Korea
C
Toyota Motor Corporation, Japan
D
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW), Germany
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Q4.
Which biblical personality was called Jekuthiel, Heber, Jered, Avi Zanoah, Avi Gedor, Avi Soco, Shemaiah ben Nethanel, Toviah, Levi, Heman, Mechoqeiq and Ehl Gav Ish?
Note: This question was updated in February 2024
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Q5.
Rapidly boiling a liquid to make it thicker and more concentrated is called what?
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Q6.
According to the proverb, the way to hell is paved with what?
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Q7.
Sid Baker, in his book "The Australian Language", suggests that a derogatory word used in Australasia to refer to a young person who engages in loutish, anti-social behaviour was a contraction of the name of which fictional race which appears in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift?
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