Wildcard Quiz #386
Wildcard General Knowledge Quiz for 11 June 2016
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Q1.
What word had as one of its early meanings "to shoot an arrow short or wide"?
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Q2.
A two-wheeled self-powered and self-balancing vehilce unveiled in 2001 is called what?
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Q3.
Why could a missing "ha'porth of tar", in the phrase "to spoil the ship for a ha'porth of tar", cause a problem?
A
Leave the sheep open to destructive flystrike
B
Fail to stop a leak which would sink the ship
C
Fail to provide the last touch to cement a friendship
D
Put a drop of something toxic in a relationship
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Q4.
What are the structures known in Lindisfarne in the UK as St Cuthbert's beads, or in Germany as St Boniface's pennies?
A
Pancake-shaped limestone rocks
B
Interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption
C
Fossilised disc-shaped parts of the stems of a type of marine echinoderm
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Q5.
What phrase is frequently heard in London Underground stations?
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Q6.
What is the word for the minimum number of people necessary to formally constitute a meeting?
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Q7.
What type of instrument can be played "pizzicato"?
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