General Knowledge Quiz 411

Questions

1. The international corporate brands Slacker, Rdio and Spotify deliver primarily what services/product?

   1. Dating
   2. Music
   3. Financial
   4. Sportswear

2. What iconic French handbags and scarves corporation achieved a remarkable 2011 market valuation of €28billion, equivalent to €3million per employee?

3. What English expression for a long complex procedure derived from a old legal document called a ragman roll?

4. What large corporation's annual conference is called 'f8'?

5. In 2011 street thieves were filmed in Chinese cities using what innovative pickpocketing tools?

   1. Fishing rods
   2. Barbecue tongs
   3. Portable vacuum cleaners, or Chopsticks

6. Stately home Cliveden, now a hotel, was a pool party venue for characters involved in what famous political scandal, named after the Secretary of State for War at its centre?

7. What Brazilian originating dance and music in Portuguese means loosely 'new trend'?

8. What iconic French handbags and scarves corporation achieved a remarkable 2011 market valuation of €28billion, equivalent to €3.3million per employee?

9. Yvonne, a runaway cow, evaded capture for three months during 2011 in which country?

10. The Cromwell Road murders refer to what serial killer couple?

11. In 2011 Ford announced the European launch of programmable options in its cars to protect against increased risks among what group of drivers?

    1. Drunks
    2. Teenagers
    3. Men
    4. Women

12. What is said to be the UK's loudest bird?

    1. Bittern
    2. Magpie
    3. Peacock
    4. Skylark

13. At what UK university was the country's first academic conference on heavy metal music?

    1. Cambridge
    2. Oxford
    3. Bath
    4. Wolverhampton

14. What common internet term is a loose portmanteau of two words broadly meaning internet and diary?

15. What country connected the ironically named Bushehr plant, the first nuclear power station in the Middle East, to its national grid in Sep 2011?

16. The remains of what late-1800s Australian folk hero were identified by DNA in 2011?

17. What is the state capital and largest city of Victoria, Australia?

18. What number is Jamie Oliver's charity restaurant concept?

19. How many degrees are in a right-angle?

20. What mythical paradise and expression was conceived in James Hilton's 1933 novel Lost Horizon?

21. In Judaism, loosely and originally what is a mitzvah?

    1. Commandment
    2. Wedding
    3. Celebration
    4. Drink

22. Which one of these is not a commonly described stroke/stage of a piston in a four-stroke internal combustion engine: Intake, Compression, Spin, Power, Exhaust?

23. What Latin expression, meaning 'great work', described the search for the secret of alchemy?

24. In 2011 the US National Research Council suggested a clean-up of what exponentially increasing debris problem, using magnets, nets, and giant umbrellas?

    1. Coins in sewers
    2. Litter in oceans
    3. Junk in space
    4. Cans in countryside

25. What is five-twelfths of seventy-two?

26. What US city is called in Spanish 'The Meadows'?

27. 'Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation' is better known by what modern word?

28. Name the successful travel and 'e-tailer' website founded Martha Lane Fox and Brent Hoberman in 1998?

29. The Hindi word campo, meaning press, is the origin of what word for a modern consumable product and related verb?

30. What is the traditional name for a women's shoe held in place by a strap behind the ankle above the heel?

31. Spell the expression?

    1. Slieght of hand
    2. Slyte of hand
    3. Sleight of hand
    4. Slight of hand