1) Of which Central American country is ‘The Merengue’ the national dance?
Dominican Republic
2) What is the name given to planets that are located outside our solar system?
Exoplanets
3) In business parlance, what does the term ‘Chinese Walls’ refer to?
Separation of investment banking and brokerage operations to avoid conflict of interest
4) Many cargo ships are designed to suit the dimensions of the lock chambers of the Panama Canal. What is this special classification of ships called?
Panamax Ships
5) Having provided 4 out of first 5 presidents and 8 in all, which state is considered as the birthplace of American Presidents?
Virginia
6) What term did the astronomer Fritz Zwicky coin to describe stars that explode violently with their luminosity suddenly increasing several million times their normal level?
Supernova
7) In October 1986, a series of far-reaching reforms opened up the London Stock Exchange and is believed to be responsible for catapulting London to the status of the Business Capital of the World. What is the popular term given to the revolution ushered in by these reforms?
Big Bang
8) Name the geologists who in 1980 proposed that the mass extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago was caused by the impact of an asteroid on earth.
Luis and Walter Alvarez
9) Which word, meaning stone snake in the Aztec language, describes the stone canals that form part of an extensive network of aqueduct in the Tehuacan Valley in Mexico, believed to be longest prehistoric water management system in the New World?
Tecoatl
Sunday, October 29, 2006
Thursday, October 26, 2006
QUIZ - 8
1) Of which Central American country is ‘The Merengue’ the national dance?
2) What is the name given to planets that are located outside our solar system?
3) In business parlance, what does the term ‘Chinese Walls’ refer to?
4) Many cargo ships are designed to suit the dimensions of the lock chambers of the Panama Canal. What is this special classification of ships called?
5) Having provided 4 out of first 5 presidents and 8 in all, which state is considered as the birthplace of American Presidents?
6) What term did the astronomer Fritz Zwicky coin to describe stars that explode violently with their luminosity suddenly increasing several million times their normal level?
7) In October 1986, a series of far-reaching reforms opened up the London Stock Exchange and is believed to be responsible for catapulting London to the status of the Business Capital of the World. What is the popular term given to the revolution ushered in by these reforms?
8) Name the geologists who in 1980 proposed that the mass extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago was caused by the impact of an asteroid on earth.
9) Which word, meaning stone snake in the Aztec language, describes the stone canals that form part of an extensive network of aqueduct in the Tehuacan Valley in Mexico, believed to be longest prehistoric water management system in the New World?
2) What is the name given to planets that are located outside our solar system?
3) In business parlance, what does the term ‘Chinese Walls’ refer to?
4) Many cargo ships are designed to suit the dimensions of the lock chambers of the Panama Canal. What is this special classification of ships called?
5) Having provided 4 out of first 5 presidents and 8 in all, which state is considered as the birthplace of American Presidents?
6) What term did the astronomer Fritz Zwicky coin to describe stars that explode violently with their luminosity suddenly increasing several million times their normal level?
7) In October 1986, a series of far-reaching reforms opened up the London Stock Exchange and is believed to be responsible for catapulting London to the status of the Business Capital of the World. What is the popular term given to the revolution ushered in by these reforms?
8) Name the geologists who in 1980 proposed that the mass extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago was caused by the impact of an asteroid on earth.
9) Which word, meaning stone snake in the Aztec language, describes the stone canals that form part of an extensive network of aqueduct in the Tehuacan Valley in Mexico, believed to be longest prehistoric water management system in the New World?
Sunday, October 22, 2006
Answers to Quiz - 7
1) To mark the 70th anniversary of the popular board game, Monopoly has recently introduced a new edition that carries brand names like Toyota, Starbucks, Motorola and McDonalds on its tokens. What is this edition called?
Monopoly Here and Now
2) What is the name of the recently released memoirs written by Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett Packard?
Tough Choices
3) Which country has the world’s tallest people?
Netherlands
4) Which is the earliest known civilization in the Americas?
The Olmec Civilization
5) Which company will manufacture Microsoft’s digital music player Zune?
Toshiba
6) Name the author who has been nominated a record six times for the Booker Prize
Iris Murdoch
7) Name the young actress known as ‘The Black Dahlia’, whose gruesome murder in 1947, has resulted in several books, TV serials, songs, bands, internet sites and now a film.
Elizabeth Short
8) What unusual experiment is US jazz composer David Baker trying at this month’s Chicago Sinfonietta classical music festival?
During the 15-minute composition, members of the audience and the orchestra will be asked to use their cell phones at various points throughout the piece with red and green lights telling them when to turn their phones on and off
9) Who has created Vertu Constellation, Nokia’s diamond encrusted, platinum shelled premium range cell phones?
Frank Nuovo
10) With which country would you associate the cocktail Pisco Sour?
Peru
Monopoly Here and Now
2) What is the name of the recently released memoirs written by Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett Packard?
Tough Choices
3) Which country has the world’s tallest people?
Netherlands
4) Which is the earliest known civilization in the Americas?
The Olmec Civilization
5) Which company will manufacture Microsoft’s digital music player Zune?
Toshiba
6) Name the author who has been nominated a record six times for the Booker Prize
Iris Murdoch
7) Name the young actress known as ‘The Black Dahlia’, whose gruesome murder in 1947, has resulted in several books, TV serials, songs, bands, internet sites and now a film.
Elizabeth Short
8) What unusual experiment is US jazz composer David Baker trying at this month’s Chicago Sinfonietta classical music festival?
During the 15-minute composition, members of the audience and the orchestra will be asked to use their cell phones at various points throughout the piece with red and green lights telling them when to turn their phones on and off
9) Who has created Vertu Constellation, Nokia’s diamond encrusted, platinum shelled premium range cell phones?
Frank Nuovo
10) With which country would you associate the cocktail Pisco Sour?
Peru
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
QUIZ - 7
Quizzing is staying current like a newspaper.
1) To mark the 70th anniversary of the popular board game, Monopoly has recently introduced a new edition that carries brand names like Toyota, Starbucks, Motorola and McDonalds on its tokens. What is this edition called?
2) What is the name of the recently released memoirs written by Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett Packard?
3) Which country has the world’s tallest people?
4) Which is the earliest known civilization in the Americas?
5) Which company will manufacture Microsoft’s digital music player Zune?
6) Name the author who has been nominated a record six times for the Booker Prize.
7) Name the young actress known as ‘The Black Dahlia’, whose gruesome murder in 1947, has resulted in several books, TV serials, songs, bands, internet sites and now a film.
8) What unusual experiment is US jazz composer David Baker trying at this month’s Chicago Sinfonietta classical music festival?
9) Who has created Vertu Constellation, Nokia’s diamond encrusted, platinum shelled premium range cell phones?
10) With which country would you associate the cocktail Pisco Sour?
1) To mark the 70th anniversary of the popular board game, Monopoly has recently introduced a new edition that carries brand names like Toyota, Starbucks, Motorola and McDonalds on its tokens. What is this edition called?
2) What is the name of the recently released memoirs written by Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett Packard?
3) Which country has the world’s tallest people?
4) Which is the earliest known civilization in the Americas?
5) Which company will manufacture Microsoft’s digital music player Zune?
6) Name the author who has been nominated a record six times for the Booker Prize.
7) Name the young actress known as ‘The Black Dahlia’, whose gruesome murder in 1947, has resulted in several books, TV serials, songs, bands, internet sites and now a film.
8) What unusual experiment is US jazz composer David Baker trying at this month’s Chicago Sinfonietta classical music festival?
9) Who has created Vertu Constellation, Nokia’s diamond encrusted, platinum shelled premium range cell phones?
10) With which country would you associate the cocktail Pisco Sour?
Sunday, October 15, 2006
Answers to Quiz - 6
1) In the history of Nobel Prize, only four persons have received the prize twice. Three of them are Marie Curie, Linus Pauling and John Bardeen. Who is the fourth?
Frederick Sanger in 1958 and 1980 both times for chemistry
2) What important rule change on Nobel Prize happened in 1974?
Before 1974, someone who had been nominated but later died could get a prize. The rules were changed so a prize can only go to a deceased person who had won the prize, but died before receiving it
3) What is the Abel Prize?
The prize started by the Norwegian Government in 2001
with the intention of being a substitute for the missing Nobel Prize in Mathematics
4) What is the contribution of Norwegian sculptor Gustav Vigeland towards Nobel Prize?
He designed the medal for the Nobel Peace Prize
5) What happened while awarding the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1975 to the Russian Leonid Kantorovich and the American Tjalling Koopmans?
The name of the Winner for the Economics Prize is engraved on the edge of the medal, which is less obvious. Their medals were mixed up during the presentation in Stockholm and the winners went back to their respective countries with the wrong medals. As this happened during the Cold War, it took four years of diplomatic efforts to have the medals exchanged to their rightful owners
6) Which Nobel Prize medal carries no quotation on the reverse side?
Economics
7) Who declined to accept the Nobel Prize for literature in 1964?
Jean-Paul Sartre
8) Which organization has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 3 times?
International Committee of the Red Cross in 1917, 1944 and 1963
9) Who are the only siblings ever to have won the Nobel Prize?
Jan Tinbergen (1969 Economics) and Nikolaas Tinbergen (1973 Medicine)
Frederick Sanger in 1958 and 1980 both times for chemistry
2) What important rule change on Nobel Prize happened in 1974?
Before 1974, someone who had been nominated but later died could get a prize. The rules were changed so a prize can only go to a deceased person who had won the prize, but died before receiving it
3) What is the Abel Prize?
The prize started by the Norwegian Government in 2001
with the intention of being a substitute for the missing Nobel Prize in Mathematics
4) What is the contribution of Norwegian sculptor Gustav Vigeland towards Nobel Prize?
He designed the medal for the Nobel Peace Prize
5) What happened while awarding the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1975 to the Russian Leonid Kantorovich and the American Tjalling Koopmans?
The name of the Winner for the Economics Prize is engraved on the edge of the medal, which is less obvious. Their medals were mixed up during the presentation in Stockholm and the winners went back to their respective countries with the wrong medals. As this happened during the Cold War, it took four years of diplomatic efforts to have the medals exchanged to their rightful owners
6) Which Nobel Prize medal carries no quotation on the reverse side?
Economics
7) Who declined to accept the Nobel Prize for literature in 1964?
Jean-Paul Sartre
8) Which organization has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 3 times?
International Committee of the Red Cross in 1917, 1944 and 1963
9) Who are the only siblings ever to have won the Nobel Prize?
Jan Tinbergen (1969 Economics) and Nikolaas Tinbergen (1973 Medicine)
Monday, October 09, 2006
QUIZ - 6
Quizzing is aiming for the pinnacle of Nobel
Here are ten questions related to the Nobel Prize
1) In the history of Nobel Prize, only four persons have received the prize twice. Three of them are Marie Curie, Linus Pauling and John Bardeen. Who is the fourth?
2) What important rule change on Nobel Prize happened in 1974?
3) What is the Abel Prize?
4) What is the contribution of Norwegian sculptor Gustav Vigeland towards Nobel Prize?
5) What happened while awarding the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1975 to the Russian Leonid Kantorovich and the American Tjalling Koopmans ?
6) Which Nobel Prize medal carries no quotation on the reverse side?
7) Who declined to accept the Nobel Prize for literature in 1964?
8) Which organization has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 3 times?
9) Who are the only siblings ever to have won the Nobel Prize?
10)
Here are ten questions related to the Nobel Prize
1) In the history of Nobel Prize, only four persons have received the prize twice. Three of them are Marie Curie, Linus Pauling and John Bardeen. Who is the fourth?
2) What important rule change on Nobel Prize happened in 1974?
3) What is the Abel Prize?
4) What is the contribution of Norwegian sculptor Gustav Vigeland towards Nobel Prize?
5) What happened while awarding the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1975 to the Russian Leonid Kantorovich and the American Tjalling Koopmans ?
6) Which Nobel Prize medal carries no quotation on the reverse side?
7) Who declined to accept the Nobel Prize for literature in 1964?
8) Which organization has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 3 times?
9) Who are the only siblings ever to have won the Nobel Prize?
10)
Sunday, October 08, 2006
Answers to Quiz - 5
1) Where would people buy and sell using Linden Dollars?
In ‘Second Life’ the virtual community
2) If a bit is the smallest unit of information in conventional computing, what is a qubit?
The smallest unit of information in Quantum Computing, which relies on quantum physics and takes advantage of certain quantum physics properties of atoms or nuclei that allow them to work together as quantum bits, or qubits, to be the computer's processor and memory.
3) Name the freely available Linux based operating system developed by the South African entrepreneur.
Ubuntu
4) After which legendary rock guitarist has a premium vodka label been launched recently?
Hendrix Electric after Jimi Hendrix
5) Which word meaning ‘that which folds up’ in the Makonde language spoken in the Tanzania – Mozambique border describes a rare viral fever spread by mosquito bites?
Chikungunya
6) Who in 2004 coined the phrase web 2.0 to refer to the second generation of Internet based services like social networking sites?
O’Reilly Media
7) The concept of slugging is popular in many American cities, especially Washington. What is it?
Unofficial car-pooling to increase the occupancy level of a car so as to specially designated less congested traffic lanes.
8) Bluetooth technology provides wireless connectivity between various devices and takes its name from King Harald Bluetooth who made the warring parties to talk to each other. Which country did this king rule?
Denmark
9) Google recently launched its search engine in Quechua, the official language of an ancient empire. Which empire?
Inca Empire. It is spoken by more than 10 million people today in South America.
10) In the 1960’s following the discovery of natural gas in Holland, the country’s manufacturing sector went into a decline. This led economists to coin a term to explain the de-industrialisation of a country’s economy in the wake of a large inflow of foreign currency. What is this term called?
Dutch Disease
In ‘Second Life’ the virtual community
2) If a bit is the smallest unit of information in conventional computing, what is a qubit?
The smallest unit of information in Quantum Computing, which relies on quantum physics and takes advantage of certain quantum physics properties of atoms or nuclei that allow them to work together as quantum bits, or qubits, to be the computer's processor and memory.
3) Name the freely available Linux based operating system developed by the South African entrepreneur.
Ubuntu
4) After which legendary rock guitarist has a premium vodka label been launched recently?
Hendrix Electric after Jimi Hendrix
5) Which word meaning ‘that which folds up’ in the Makonde language spoken in the Tanzania – Mozambique border describes a rare viral fever spread by mosquito bites?
Chikungunya
6) Who in 2004 coined the phrase web 2.0 to refer to the second generation of Internet based services like social networking sites?
O’Reilly Media
7) The concept of slugging is popular in many American cities, especially Washington. What is it?
Unofficial car-pooling to increase the occupancy level of a car so as to specially designated less congested traffic lanes.
8) Bluetooth technology provides wireless connectivity between various devices and takes its name from King Harald Bluetooth who made the warring parties to talk to each other. Which country did this king rule?
Denmark
9) Google recently launched its search engine in Quechua, the official language of an ancient empire. Which empire?
Inca Empire. It is spoken by more than 10 million people today in South America.
10) In the 1960’s following the discovery of natural gas in Holland, the country’s manufacturing sector went into a decline. This led economists to coin a term to explain the de-industrialisation of a country’s economy in the wake of a large inflow of foreign currency. What is this term called?
Dutch Disease
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
QUIZ - 5
Quizzing is staying on the cutting edge
1) Where would people buy and sell using Linden Dollars?
2) If a bit is the smallest unit of information in conventional computing, what is a qubit?
3) Name the freely available Linux based operating system developed by the South African entrepreneur.
4) After which legendary rock guitarist has a premium vodka label been launched recently?
5) Which word meaning ‘that which folds up’ in the Makonde language spoken in the Tanzania – Mozambique border describes a rare viral fever spread by mosquito bites?
6) Who in 2004 coined the phrase web 2.0 to refer to the second generation of Internet based services like social networking sites?
7) The concept of slugging is popular in many American cities, especially Washington. What is it?
8) Bluetooth technology provides wireless connectivity between various devices and takes its name from King Harald Bluetooth who made the warring parties to talk to each other. Which country did this king rule?
9) Google recently launched its search engine in Quechua, the official language of an ancient empire. Which empire?
10) In the 1960’s following the discovery of natural gas in Holland, the country’s manufacturing sector went into a decline. This led economists to coin a term to explain the de-industrialisation of a country’s economy in the wake of a large inflow of foreign currency. What is this term called?
1) Where would people buy and sell using Linden Dollars?
2) If a bit is the smallest unit of information in conventional computing, what is a qubit?
3) Name the freely available Linux based operating system developed by the South African entrepreneur.
4) After which legendary rock guitarist has a premium vodka label been launched recently?
5) Which word meaning ‘that which folds up’ in the Makonde language spoken in the Tanzania – Mozambique border describes a rare viral fever spread by mosquito bites?
6) Who in 2004 coined the phrase web 2.0 to refer to the second generation of Internet based services like social networking sites?
7) The concept of slugging is popular in many American cities, especially Washington. What is it?
8) Bluetooth technology provides wireless connectivity between various devices and takes its name from King Harald Bluetooth who made the warring parties to talk to each other. Which country did this king rule?
9) Google recently launched its search engine in Quechua, the official language of an ancient empire. Which empire?
10) In the 1960’s following the discovery of natural gas in Holland, the country’s manufacturing sector went into a decline. This led economists to coin a term to explain the de-industrialisation of a country’s economy in the wake of a large inflow of foreign currency. What is this term called?
Sunday, October 01, 2006
Answers to Quiz - 4
1) What is the name of a new International Money proposed by Joseph Stiglitz, winner of Nobel Prize in economics and former chief economist at the World Bank?
Global Greenback
2) Which is the first country to issue currency notes in plastic?
Australia in January 1988
3) What symbol did Arthur Eisenmenger create?
The Euro Symbol - €
4) What is the study of paper money or banknotes called?
Notaphily
5) What is the origin of Buck, the slang term for Dollar?
From the practice of using buckskins as medium of trading by Indians
6) What is the name given to a specially struck coin, which is much thicker and heavier than normal, often exactly twice the normal weight?
Piedfort
7) An incident in a famous New York restaurant led Frank McNamara to invent the credit card. Name the restaurant
Major’s Cabin Grill
8)What is the term to define the profit that results from the difference in the cost of printing money and the face value of that money?
seigniorage
9) Which country’s currency is Balboa, named after the Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa?
Panama
10) Name the silver mine in former Bohemia (now Czech Republic) from which the Dollar is widely believed to have derived its name.
Joachimsthal
Global Greenback
2) Which is the first country to issue currency notes in plastic?
Australia in January 1988
3) What symbol did Arthur Eisenmenger create?
The Euro Symbol - €
4) What is the study of paper money or banknotes called?
Notaphily
5) What is the origin of Buck, the slang term for Dollar?
From the practice of using buckskins as medium of trading by Indians
6) What is the name given to a specially struck coin, which is much thicker and heavier than normal, often exactly twice the normal weight?
Piedfort
7) An incident in a famous New York restaurant led Frank McNamara to invent the credit card. Name the restaurant
Major’s Cabin Grill
8)What is the term to define the profit that results from the difference in the cost of printing money and the face value of that money?
seigniorage
9) Which country’s currency is Balboa, named after the Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa?
Panama
10) Name the silver mine in former Bohemia (now Czech Republic) from which the Dollar is widely believed to have derived its name.
Joachimsthal
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