Wildcard Quiz #346
Wildcard General Knowledge Quiz for 5 September 2015
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1
Q1.
What word is used to describe an aircraft moving along an airport runway?
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2
Q2.
This was used first as a spice by the Chinese, throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in Europe, and was still popular in the 18th century as an ingredient in hot chocolate; what was it?
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3
Q3.
What is the name given to the hypotheses, now superseded, that the movement of continents and the appearance of new crustal material at mid-ocean ridges is because the Earth's volume is increasing?
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4
Q4.
First appearing in English about the time of Shakespeare, what word means foppish, or, later, fabricated or tricked out?
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5
Q5.
The term, "soccer", coined first in the 1880s in the UK to distinguish types of football comes from what?
A
An abbreviation of "association football"
B
The method of kicking the ball
C
Type of material used for the ball's inner inflatable bladder
D
The players wore socks instead of puttees
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6
A
A mediaeval German musical instrument
B
A discrete part of a composite flower
C
A coin used in various countries in Europe and some of their colonies
D
A young citizen of Florence, Italy
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7
Q7.
What purpose would groats NOT serve or have served?
B
Laying between kitchen or bathroom tiles
D
Part of the name of a northern tip of Scotland
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