QUIZ - 31

1. Reposado and Añejo are two types of which liquor?

2. Name the bitter orange grown in the island of Curacao, whose dried peels are used to flavour the liquor Curacao?

3. What is the name of the syrup derived from Pomegranate which is added to cocktails and martinis as a flavoring agent and to give the drink a reddish tinge?

4. Which herb gives vermouth its distinctive flavour?

5. Name the liquor whose every bottle carries the initials D.O.M of the Latin dedication Deo Optimo Maximo (to God most good, most great)

6. Name the famous Norwegian liquor that is believed to acquire its special flavour as it ages in sherry casks stowed in the holds of a ship during its voyage across the equator and back.

7. Which spirit uses the term Napoleon on the label to specify the highest quality because of maximum ageing?

8. Which town on the banks of the Orinoco river in Venezuela has given its name to a flavouring agent that is used in many cocktails?

9. Name the traditional glass used to drink Sherry, the fortified wine produced in and around the Spanish town of Jerez?

10. What is the connection between wine and biblical names such as Jeroboam, Rehoboam, Methuselah, Salmanazar, Balthazar and Nebuchadnezzar?
    

Answers to Quiz -30

1. Why is the 19^th August observed as World Photography Day?

The first public announcement of photography was made on August 19, 1839 by Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre who invented the practical process of photography.

2. Who is credited with having taken the first photograph in 1826?

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce

3. Name the famous mathematician and theoretical physicist who is credited with having taken the first colour photograph in 1861?

James Clerk Maxwell. He discovered that colour photographs could be formed using red, green, and blue filters and had the photographer Thomas Sutton photograph a tartan ribbon three times, each time with a different colour filter over the lens.

4. Which famous astronomer coined the word photography (from the Greek photos = light and graphein = to draw) and the terms negative and positive?

Sir John Herschel

5. Who in 1841 patented the Calotype process that made it possible to print many copies of a photograph?

William Henry Fox Talbot

6. What process introduced in 1851 by Frederick Scott Archer marks a watershed in photography?

The Collodion Process. It reduced the exposure times drastically - to as little as two or three seconds.

7. Under what catchy slogan did George Eastman market his Kodak cameras in 1888?

You press the button, we do the rest

8. Name the famous American photographer who in 1902 founded ‘Photo Secession’ a group of Avant-Garde photographers, to increase the awareness of photography as an art form.

Alfred Stieglitz

9. Who invented the Digital Camera in 1975?

Steven Sasson, employed with Eastman Kodak

10. The Ihagee Kine-Exakta produced in 1935 by Ihagee Kamerawerk in Dresden, Germany represents a landmark in camera design. What first of its kind camera is it widely believed to be?

The first 35mm SLR camera

QUIZ - 30

Today is World Photographic Day and here are ten questions on the history of photography.

1. Why is the 19^th August observed as World Photography Day?

2. Who is credited with having taken the first photograph in 1826?
   

3. Name the famous mathematician and theoretical physicist who is credited with having taken the first colour photograph in 1861?

4. Which famous astronomer coined the word photography (from the Greek photos = light and graphein = to draw) and the terms negative and positive?

5. Who in 1841 patented the Calotype process that made it possible to print many copies of a photograph?

6. What process introduced in 1851 by Frederick Scott Archer marks a watershed in photography?

7. Under what catchy slogan did George Eastman market his Kodak cameras in 1888?

8. Name the famous American photographer who in 1902 founded ‘Photo Secession’ a group of Avant-Garde photographers, to increase the awareness of photography as an art form.

9. Who invented the Digital Camera in 1975?

10. The Ihagee Kine-Exakta produced in 1935 by Ihagee Kamerawerk in Dresden, Germany represents a landmark in camera design. What first of its kind camera is it widely believed to be?

Answers to Quiz - 29

1. The world’s first patent was arguably given in 1421 to Filippo Brunelleschi of Florence for an invention that was nicknamed ‘Il Badalone’ (‘The Monster’). What was this monstrous invention?

A Cargo Boat. A flat-keeled boat with paddle wheels, designed to be towed by smaller boats, used for transporting goods up and down the river Arno in Florence.

2. The first fully-fledged copyright law was enacted in England in the year 1709. By what name is it popularly known?

The Statute of Anne, after Queen Anne, during whose reign it was enacted

3. Where is the headquarters of The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a specialized agency of the United Nations dedicated to developing a balanced and accessible international intellectual property system?

Geneva

4. The concept of Intellectual Property is based on the idea of ‘Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself’. Which famous philosopher’s words are these?

John Locke

5. What is the international agreement for copyright protection popularly known as?

Berne Convention

6. What system of licensing gives every person who receives a copy of a work permission to reproduce, adapt or distribute the work as long as any resulting copies or adaptations are also bound by the same licensing scheme?

Copyleft

7. What Intellectual Property is internationally protected by the Madrid System?

Trademarks

8. What kind of Intellectual Property is embodied in words like ‘Champagne’, ‘Tequila’ or ‘Roquefort’?

Geographical Indications - place names used to identify the origin and quality, reputation or other characteristics of products

9. What act of US Congress, disparagingly known as the Mickey Mouse Protection Act increased the term of protection enjoyed by copyright by 20 years in 1998?

Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act

10. When and where was the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Right (TRIPS) Agreement concluded?

1994, Marrakech (Morocco)

QUIZ - 29

1. The world’s first patent was arguably given in 1421 to Filippo Brunelleschi of Florence for an invention that was nicknamed ‘Il Badalone’ (‘The Monster’). What was this monstrous invention?

2. The first fully-fledged copyright law was enacted in England in the year 1709. By what name is it popularly known?

3. Where is the headquarters of The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a specialized agency of the United Nations dedicated to developing a balanced and accessible international intellectual property system?

4. The concept of Intellectual Property is based on the idea of ‘Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself’. Which famous philosopher’s words are these?

5. What is the international agreement for copyright protection popularly known as?

6. What system of licensing gives every person who receives a copy of a work permission to reproduce, adapt or distribute the work as long as any resulting copies or adaptations are also bound by the same licensing scheme?

7. What Intellectual Property is internationally protected by the Madrid System?

8. What kind of Intellectual Property is embodied in words like ‘Champagne’, ‘Tequila’ or ‘Roquefort’?

9. What act of US Congress, disparagingly known as the Mickey Mouse Protection Act increased the term of protection enjoyed by copyright by 20 years in 1998?

10. When and where was the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Right (TRIPS) Agreement concluded?

Answers to Quiz - 28

1. What is Obsolagnium?

The lack of sexual desire that accompanies old age.

2. What is the literary term used to describe a genre of novel that traces the growth of its protagonist from childhood to maturity?

Bildungsroman

3. What word describes an abnormal fear of crowds?

Ochlophobia

4. What term coined by anthropologist Edward Hall describes the set measurable distances between people as they interact?

Proxemics

5. Which word commonly defined as ‘code of silence’ typifies a way of life in parts of Southern Italy that prohibits divulging information about the activities of certain criminal organizations?

Omerta

6. What is the name given to the biological process that maintains an internal equilibrium in the living organism?

Homeostatic Process

7. It has no official universal name, but is known in several languages by different words – klammeraffe, grisehale, kissanhnta, dalphaengi, apenstaartje – each of them associated with an animal. What is it?

The symbol @

8. What is dactylonomy?

Counting using one’s fingers

9. What is the term for the portion of wine or any other spirit that is lost by evaporation during the process of aging in barrels?

Angel’s Share

10. By what tradition of inheritance is the entire estate of the parents handed down to the first born son?

Primogeniture

QUIZ - 28

1. What is Obsolagnium?

2. What is the literary term used to describe a genre of novel that traces the growth of its protagonist from childhood to maturity?

3. What word describes an abnormal fear of crowds?

4. What term coined by anthropologist Edward Hall describes the set measurable distances between people as they interact?

5. Which word commonly defined as ‘code of silence’ typifies a way of life in parts of Southern Italy that prohibits divulging information about the activities of certain criminal organizations?

6. What is the name given to the biological process that maintains an internal equilibrium in the living organism?

7. It has no official universal name, but is known in several languages by different words – klammeraffe, grisehale, kissanhnta, dalphaengi, apenstaartje – each of them associated with an animal. What is it?

8. What is dactylonomy?

9. What is the term for the portion of wine or any other spirit that is lost by evaporation during the process of aging in barrels?

10. By what tradition of inheritance is the entire estate of the parents handed down to the first born son?

Answers to Quiz - 27

1. One of the toughest golf courses in the world has lent its name to a phrase that describes the trauma and shock experienced when a person encounters a harsh reality. What is this term?

Carnoustie Effect after the golf course at Carnoustie in Scotland

2. What system of medical treatment popularized by three times Tour de France champion Louison Bobet relies on the beneficial effect of the marine environment, sea water, sea weeds etc?

Thalassotherapy

3. Name the almond sized and shaped structure of the brain that is responsible for the emotional state of a person

The Amygdala

4. What are Arborio, Carnaroli, Vialone nano and Baldo?

Four famous varieties of Risotto rice

5. What is the name for the inherited neurological disorder most often associated with the exclamation of obscene words?

Tourette's syndrome

6. Name the creator of ‘The Simpsons’ who named the main characters after members of his own family.

Matthew Abram Groening

7. Which Italian film has given us the word paparazzi to describe photographers who chase celebrities to get candid photographs?

From Signor Paparazzo in Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita

8. What Latin legal term elucidates the principle that past decisions of the court must be recognized as precedents?

Stare decisis

9. Which year is referred to as the ‘year of three Popes’?

1978

10. Who is the Bering Strait, between Russia and North America, named after?

Vitus Bering, a Danish explorer for the Russian czar in the 18^th Century