Q 01/05

In which French city is Interpol headquartered?

A) Marseille

B) Paris

C) Strasbourg

D) Lyon

Answer · why

D) Lyon

Lyon has housed the General Secretariat since 1989, in a purpose-built complex. Its previous building, near Paris, had been attacked three years earli...

Q 02/05

How many member countries does Interpol have?

A) 150

B) 172

C) 210

D) 196

Answer · why

D) 196

That includes three dependent territories of the Netherlands: Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten.

Q 03/05

In which city was the forerunner of Interpol founded in 1923?

A) Berlin

B) Paris

C) Vienna

D) Geneva

Answer · why

C) Vienna

Vienna remained its home for fifteen years, which proved its undoing: when Germany annexed Austria in 1938, the Nazi authorities deposed the organisat...

Q 04/05

Which car-industry boss, wanted through Interpol since 2020, fled Japan hidden in a box aboard a private jet?

A) Carlos Tavares

B) Sergio Marchionne

C) Carlos Ghosn

D) Martin Winterkorn

Answer · why

C) Carlos Ghosn

Carlos Ghosn surfaced in Lebanon, which has no extradition agreement with Japan. An Interpol alert could not change that: each country decides for its...

Q 05/05

Where does the name 'Interpol' come from?

A) The name of its first computer system

B) A contraction chosen by the UN

C) Its telegraphic address, used since 1946

D) A 1923 newspaper headline

Answer · why

C) Its telegraphic address, used since 1946

Its telegraphic address, used since 1946, was only a short handle for cables, a contraction of 'international police'. The nickname stuck, and ten yea...