So How Broad is Your Generel Knowledge?

Test yourself on these 12 questions to find out. Maximum score: 20 points

Q1. What is the collective word for a group of frogs?

Q2. What was the origin of the expression "rule of thumb"?

Q3. Academy Award winner Halle Barry stars in the Catwoman. Who played the same character in the 1992 flick Batman Returns?

Q4. A chance laboratory occurrence led to the invention of the microwave oven. What was it?

Q5. How many balls are required for a game of snooker?

Q6. What two countries are bordered by the greatest number of nations?

Q7. Who was chasing the great white whale in Moby Dick?

Q8. The Bullet Train, which travels at up to 300km/h, was introduced in 1964. What is the Japanese name for the Bullet Train?

Q9. What does an archer keep his arrows in?

Q10. A change in an organism's genetic code that causes offspring to have different characteristics called a what?

Q11. How many legs do lobster and crabs have?

Q12. What do you call the tree trunk tosses by competitors in Scottish games?

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Anwers:

1. An army.
2. An old English law banned husbands from beating their wives with anything thicker than a thumb.
3. Michelle Pfeiffer.
4. A researcher walked past a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
5. 22.
6. China and Russia each share borders with 14 other countries.
7. Captain Ahab.
8. Shinkansen.
9. A quiver.
10. A mutation.
11. Ten.
12. The caber.