QUIZ - 36

1. Discovered in China, but widely known by its Japanese name, name this high-protein, low-fat food that is popularly called ‘The Cheese of Asia’

2. Name the most influential restaurant rating system in Europe.

3. What in 2001 was hailed as ‘true British national dish’ by the then foreign secretary, Robin Cook?

4. Tempura is deep fried vegetable or sea food commonly eaten in Japan. Who introduced Tempura in Japan in the mid 16^th Century?

5. What Italian word is used to denote a person who has acquired expertise in the preparation of espresso coffee?

6. Name the Swiss entrepreneur who in 1882 invented the instant soup.

7. In 2007 Bhut Jolokia was certified as the world’s hottest chili displacing the Red Savina. Where is Bhut Jolokia grown?

8. What word describes a cheese lover?

9. Name the Italian food and wine journalist who founded the Slow Food movement in 1986 to preserve the local culinary traditions

10. Name the highest form of Japanese culinary tradition that uses only fresh and local ingredients and makes food into an art form by balancing its taste, texture, appearance, and colours

Answers to Quiz - 35

1. With nominations in ten categories for what are the COTY awards given out every year?

Coins

2. Developed by the Italian statistician Corrado Gini, what does the Gini coefficient measure?

Inequality of income (or wealth) distribution

3. In what activity would the terms Beauregard, Jepson and Markush be used?

Patenting. They are types of Patent Claims

4. Founded in 1985 by Stewart Brand Larry Brilliant, name the first virtual or online community.

The WELL

5. Which Italian island in the Bay of Naples has lent its name to a popular item of apparel for ladies?

Capri from which comes Capri Pants, a tight fitting calf length pants for women.

6. What controversial book written in 1968 by Paul Ehrlich predicted that ‘in the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve’?

The Population Bomb

7. Which organization founded in 1996 with an attempt to encourage long term thinking promotes the concept of writing years in 5 digits instead of 4, for example - 02007 instead of 2007?

The Long Now Foundation

8. In USA what name is given to male corpses or emergency room patients whose identity is not known?
   

John Doe

9. What slang term coined by environmentalists refers to gas guzzling sports utility vehicles?

Chelsea Tractor

10. Name the famous Scottish mountain, where because of its unique triangular shape, the Royal Astronomer Nevil Maskelyne carried out experiments in 1774 to determine the density of the earth.

Schiehallion

QUIZ - 35

1. With nominations in ten categories for what are the COTY awards given out every year?

2. Developed by the Italian statistician Corrado Gini, what does the Gini coefficient measure?

3. In what activity would the terms Beauregard, Jepson and Markush be used?

4. Founded in 1985 by Stewart Brand and Larry Brilliant, name the first virtual or online community.

5. Which Italian island in the Bay of Naples has lent its name to a popular item of apparel for ladies?

6. What controversial book written in 1968 by Paul Ehrlich predicted that ‘in the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve’?

7. Which organization founded in 1996 with an attempt to encourage long term thinking promotes the concept of writing years in 5 digits instead of 4, for example - 02007 instead of 2007?

8. In USA what name is given to male corpses or emergency room patients whose identity is not known?
   

9. What slang term coined by environmentalists refers to gas guzzling sports utility vehicles?

10. Name the famous Scottish mountain, where because of its unique triangular shape, the Royal Astronomer Nevil Maskelyne carried out experiments in 1774 to determine the density of the earth.

Answers to Quiz - 34

1. Name the mythical animal which according to legend could only be captured by a virgin woman.

The Unicorn

2. Which famous businesswoman known for her ethical and environmental practices was known as ‘The Queen of Green’

Anita Roddick

3. Name the American billionaire who made his fortunes by investing in bankrupt companies and then turning them around, thereby earning the epithet ‘King of Bankruptcy’.

Wilbur Ross

4. Inspired by the social networking website Facebook, what have the father – son duo Geoffrey and Alex Roche created?

Dogbook and Catbook for the pet owners

5. What widely popular and copied television programme format did Simon Fuller create?

The idol series as in American Idol

6. Pisco, the famous liquor of Peru is made from a grape that was originally imported from Spain in the 16^th Century. Name this grape.

Quebranta

7. What global think-tank was founded in April 1968 by Aurelio Peccei, an Italian industrialist, and Alexander King, a Scottish scientist?

The Club of Rome

8. The Federal National Mortgage Association was originally founded as a government agency in 1938 as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal to provide home loans to the American people. By what adopted name is it popularly known?

Fanny Mae

9. By what convenient but incorrect term are the French speaking Belgians known as?

The Walloons

10. What widely used term today was first coined by the critic and writer Howard Rheingold?

Virtual Community

QUIZ - 34

1. Name the mythical animal which according to legend could only be captured by a virgin woman.

2. Which famous businesswoman known for her ethical and environmental practices was known as ‘The Queen of Green’

3. Name the American billionaire who made his fortunes by investing in bankrupt companies and then turning them around, thereby earning the epithet ‘King of Bankruptcy’.

4. Inspired by the social networking website Facebook, what have the father – son duo Geoffrey and Alex Roche created?

5. What widely popular and copied television programme format did Simon Fuller create?

6. Pisco, the famous liquor of Peru is made from a grape that was originally imported from Spain in the 16^th Century. Name this grape.

7. What global think-tank was founded in April 1968 by Aurelio Peccei, an Italian industrialist, and Alexander King, a Scottish scientist?

8. The Federal National Mortgage Association was originally founded as a government agency in 1938 as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal to provide home loans to the American people. By what adopted name is it popularly known?

9. By what convenient but incorrect term are the French speaking Belgians known as?

10. What widely used term today was first coined by the critic and writer Howard Rheingold?

Answers to Quiz - 33

1. Who is a steel collar worker?

Robots working on a production line

2. Whom did the Financial Times once describe as the ‘world's most famous futurologist’?

Alvin Toffler

3. Name the anthropologist who founded kinesics, the study of nonverbal communication

Ray Birdwhistell

4. What does a plethysmograph measure?

Change in volume of an organ resulting from fluctuations in the amount of blood or air it contains

5. What term attributed to US Senator Lloyd Bentsen represents false public propaganda by drumming up fake support to the cause at the grassroots level?

Astroturfing

6. At the Academy Awards what award is infrequently presented to "creative producers whose bodies of work reflect a consistently high quality of motion picture production”? Among its winners are Alfred Hitchcock, Ingmar Bergman and Steven Spielberg.

The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

7. Which company claims to produce ‘The #1 Ball in Golf’?

Titleist

8. Which legendary war photographer famously stated - “If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough"?

Robert Capa

9. Name the Harvard Business School professor who conducted ‘The Hawthorne Studies’ from 1927 to 1932 at the Western Electric Hawthorne Works in Chicago, to examine the relationship between productivity and work conditions

Elton Mayo

10. What product Invented by the French chemist Eugene Schueller in 1907 was called ‘Aureole’?

The first synthetic hair dye

QUIZ - 33

1. Who is a steel collar worker?
   

2. Whom did the Financial Times once describe as the ‘world's most famous futurologist’?
   

3. Name the anthropologist who founded kinesics, the study of nonverbal communication
   

4. What does a plethysmograph measure?
   

5. What term attributed to US Senator Lloyd Bentsen represents false public propaganda by drumming up fake support to the cause at the grassroots level?

6. At the Academy Awards what award is infrequently presented to "creative producers whose bodies of work reflect a consistently high quality of motion picture production”? Among its winners are Alfred Hitchcock, Ingmar Bergman and Steven Spielberg.

7. Which company claims to produce ‘The #1 Ball in Golf’?
   

8. Which legendary war photographer famously stated - “If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough"?

9. Name the Harvard Business School professor who conducted ‘The Hawthorne Studies’ from 1927 to 1932 at the Western Electric Hawthorne Works in Chicago, to examine the relationship between productivity and work conditions

10. What product Invented by the French chemist Eugene Schueller in 1907 was called ‘Aureole’?

Answer to Quiz - 32

1. Name the small town in Southern Spain, which hosts on the last Wednesday of August each year, the unique ‘La Tomatina’ when people pelt each other with ripe tomatoes.

Buñol

2. Which 20^th Century French philosopher coined the term ‘Biopower’ to describe the way in which capitalist states exerted control over people to promote life better?

Michel Foucault

3. In which European capital city would you find the Ferihegy airport?

Budapest

4. What is Zolotnik?

A traditional Russian standard for measuring the purity of silver. Pure silver has a Zolotnik value of 96.

5. What are Nyingma, Kagyu, Sakya, and Gelug?

The four main denominations of Tibetan Buddhism

6. What is the unique record of the actor Desmond Llewelyn in the history of cinema?

The most times a single actor has played the same role, that of Q in 17 James Bond films.

7. If meteorology is the study of weather phenomena, what is metrology?

Study of measurement

8. A computer program called ‘Elk Cloner’ written in 1982 was the first of its kind. What is its dubious claim to fame?

The first virus to infect personal computers

9. What are Sidamo, Harar and Yirgacheffe?

Reputed coffees from the birth place of coffee, Ethiopia

10. What was Henry Ford’s first prototype of the automobile called?

Quadricycle

QUIZ - 32

1. Name the small town in Southern Spain, which hosts on the last Wednesday of August each year, the unique ‘La Tomatina’ when people pelt each other with ripe tomatoes.

2. Which 20^th Century French philosopher coined the term ‘Biopower’ to describe the way in which capitalist states exerted control over people to promote life better?

3. In which European capital city would you find the Ferihegy airport?

4. What is Zolotnik?

5. What are Nyingma, Kagyu, Sakya, and Gelug?

6. What is the unique record of the actor Desmond Llewelyn in the history of cinema?

7. If meteorology is the study of weather phenomena, what is metrology?

8. A computer program called ‘Elk Cloner’ written in 1982 was the first of its kind. What is its dubious claim to fame?

9. What are Sidamo, Harar and Yirgacheffe?

10. What was Henry Ford’s first prototype of the automobile called?

Answers to Quiz - 31

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

Tequila

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

Larahas

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?

Grenadine

4. Which herb gives vermouth its distinctive flavour?

Wormwood

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)

Benedictine

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.

Linie Aquavit

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

Cognac

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?

Angostura

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

Copita

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

These are the names of large sized wine bottles. Balthazar is the name for a 12-litre bottle