General Knowledge Quiz 423

Questions

1. Piscine Molitor Patel is better known by what highly abbreviated name, being the central character of an eponymously titled novel?

2. The printing/publishing term 'vox nihili' referring to a useles or redundant word, especially from an error, literally means what?

3. What instrument is the basis of the occupational name for a stringed instrument maker, notably of violins and guitars?

4. What mixed drink takes its name from the Spanish for 'bleeding'?

5. 'Data Pool 3' refers to millions of documents provided to police investigators by what organization?

6. The fashionable Belstaff clothing label was founded in Staffordshire UK in 1924 initially to produce protective waterprooof clothing for?

   1. Fishermen
   2. Motorcyclists
   3. Policemen
   4. Deep-sea divers

7. 'Guerilla' street art attributed to 'Banski' became a notable feature of what capital city in 2012?

8. The Venetian island of Murano is noted for its centuries-old traditional manufacture of what material in decorative form?

9. Name the UK government minister in the news in 2012 for his initiatives for schools bible distribution and a new royal yacht?

10. SOPA, the 2011/12 USA bill addressing internet copyright infringement stands for what?

11. What capital city of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh became famous for the 1984 gas poisoning disaster at Dow Chemicals' Union Carbide plant?

12. Spell the surname of the notable German writer and philosopher?

    1. Nietzch
    2. Neitsche
    3. Nietzsche
    4. Nietzche
    5. Neitzche

13. The European/Asian slow worm (Anguis) is what sort of animal?

    1. Snake
    2. Lizard
    3. Eel
    4. Earthworm

14. Cymraeg refers to what nation's language, in its own language?

15. Name the controversial guest character, subject to European extradition proceedings, appearing in the 500th edition of The Simpsons TV animation series?

16. Who wrote The Stepford Wives, Rosemary's Baby, and The Boys from Brazil?

17. The word husband is derived from the ancient Old Norse meanings of 'house' and what activity?

    1. Farming
    2. Hunting
    3. Fighting
    4. Child-rearing

18. The international SOLAS treaty, passed two years after after the 1912 Titanic sinking, stands for what?

19. The French term ligne (equating to 'line' in English) is used by makers of watches, buttons and hats as an expression of?

    1. Size
    2. Hardness
    3. Quality
    4. Circular perfection

20. What, according to Forbes magazine in 2011 "...achieved in 7 years what the CIA could not in 60, i.e., knowing what 800million people think, read and listen to..." ?