Sunday, May 13, 2007

Answers to Quiz - 19

1) Vorticism was a short lived British art movement of the early 20th century, which grew out of Cubism. Which famous American poet gave this name to the movement?

Ezra Pound

2) Name the founder of Parkour, also known as free running, a physical art of French origin, the aim of which is to move from point A to point B as efficiently and quickly as possible, using principally the possibilities of the human body.

David Belle

3) 6th May is observed every year as International No Diet Day. Who started this movement in 1992?

Mary Evans Young

4) Name the late 19th Century Dutch writer and psychiatrist who coined the term ‘Lucid Dreams’ to describe dreams in which the dreamer is aware that he is having a dream

Frederik van Eeden

5) Who is considered to be the inventor of the mobile phone?

Dr. Martin Cooper

6) Name the 18th Century German musician and physicist who demonstrated that sound can affect physical matter and has the ability to produce geometrical patterns

Ernst Chladni

Monday, May 07, 2007

QUIZ - 19

1) Vorticism was a short lived British art movement of the early 20th century, which grew out of Cubism. Which famous American poet gave this name to the movement?

2) Name the founder of Parkour, also known as free running, a physical art of French origin, the aim of which is to move from point A to point B as efficiently and quickly as possible, using principally the possibilities of the human body.

3) 6th May is observed every year as International No Diet Day. Who started this movement in 1992?

4) Name the late 19th Century Dutch writer and psychiatrist who coined the term ‘Lucid Dreams’ to describe dreams in which the dreamer is aware that he is having a dream

5) Who is considered to be the inventor of the mobile phone?

6) Name the 18th Century German musician and physicist who demonstrated that sound can affect physical matter and has the ability to produce geometrical patterns