General Knowledge Quiz 368

Questions

1. Evel (EVEL) is an acronymic word for the controversial 21stC UK parliamentary proposition 'English (What?) for English (What?)', following devolution of self-governing powers to Scotland and Wales?

2. The long-standing circular VW (Volkswagen) logo contains the V and W characters and how many gaps between the circular and letter shapes?

   1. 5
   2. 6
   3. 7 or 8

3. The French 'petanque' is a?

   1. Fruit omelette
   2. Balls game
   3. Triangular Parisien haircut
   4. Dogs-and-owners national dance

4. What UK FMCG brand did Sylvester Stallone endorse in a 2015 £muli-million ad campaign?

   1. Warburtons Bread
   2. Marmite
   3. Durex
   4. Brylcreem

5. Name the 2015 Disney animated film about the workings of a child's mind, praised by psychologists/neuroscientists?

6. Funchal is the capital of which Portuguese autonomous island territory?

7. Coty Inc., is a French-founded German-owned, US-based company specialising in?

   1. Sports cars
   2. Shotguns
   3. Beauty/fragrances
   4. Writing instruments

8. Which Czech-born Swiss won two Wimbledon championships in 2015, 17 years after her previous Championship victory?

9. The Silfra fissure, in the Pingvallavatn valley, uniquely offering scuba-diving between the N American and Euroasian tectonic plates is in?

   1. Iceland
   2. Tenerife
   3. Russia
   4. Ascension Island

10. The Apple watch launched Apr 2015 is called the?

    1. isecs
    2. iface
    3. itic
    4. Apple Watch

11. Abbey Road in North London is the famous metonymic location of what entity?

    1. Fountains
    2. Maze
    3. Recording studios
    4. Railway museum

12. Called the IPK, the standard (What?) is a platinum-iridium cylinder at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Sevres France?

13. What dog breed has Queen Elizabeth II traditionally had as pets?

14. In 2015, 21st Century Fox company launched what Simpson's show fictional beer brand in S America?

15. 2,000 years ago Nanjing was what in China?

    1. Fever/Plague
    2. Tree soup
    3. Capital city
    4. God of tea

16. When drawing the musical the treble (G) clef symbol, the line crosses itself how many times?

17. Dageurreotype/dageurrotype is a mid-1800s form of?

    1. Sword
    2. Written insult
    3. Photograph
    4. Sandwich

18. Go Set a Watchman is the 55-years-after sequel to what famous work?

19. Spell the word?

    1. Diligant
    2. Dilegent
    3. Diligent
    4. Dilligent

20. 6,859 is the cube of what number, (less than twenty)?