Wildcard Quiz #289
Wildcard General Knowledge Quiz for 2 August 2014
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1
Q1.
When was the Sûreté, initially the criminal investigative bureau of the Paris police, founded?
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2
Q2.
What type of beer takes its name from the German word for "storage"?
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3
Q3.
Which of these is a portmanteau word?
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4
Q4.
A social experiment conducted with a hoax film star in a shopping mall in Virginia, USA, in April 2012 and posted online, concerned what?
A
Speed and reach of social media contacts
B
People apply different standards of behaviour to film stars
C
Mass suggestibility, particularly as it relates to celebrities
D
Techniques of crowd control
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5
Q5.
A traditional music ensemble from Indonesia, featuring instruments such as xylophones, gongs, bells, bamboo flutes, and strings is known as what?
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6
Q6.
In April 1996 a shooting and killing spree in Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia, led to 35 deaths, 23 woundings and what else?
A
Obliteration of the site to serve as a memorial
B
Intense public pressure to resurrect the death penalty
C
A law change concerning definition of mental stability
D
Bans and heavy restriction on self-loading rifles and pump-action shotguns
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Q7.
Movistar, Bharti Airtel, Telenor, TeliaSonera & Etisalat are what?
C
Communications companies
D
Film production companies
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