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Wildcard Quiz #346

Wildcard General Knowledge Quiz for 5 September 2015

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Q1. What word is used to describe an aircraft moving along an airport runway?

A
Bus
B
Taxi
C
Train
D
Automobile
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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?

A
Nard
B
Bell pepper
C
Asafoetida
D
Ambergris
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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 What is the name given to the hypotheses, now superseded, that the movement of continents and the appearance of new crustal material at mid-ocean ridges is because the Earth's volume is increasing?

A
Continental drift
B
Rip-zones expansion
C
Expanding Earth
D
Careyism
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Q4. First appearing in English about the time of Shakespeare, what word means foppish, or, later, fabricated or tricked out?

A
Arrant
B
Affected
C
Fangled
D
Capricious
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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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Q6. What is a florin?

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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Q7. What purpose would groats NOT serve or have served?

A
Making wholemeal bread
B
Laying between kitchen or bathroom tiles
C
To buy something
D
Part of the name of a northern tip of Scotland
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