Answers to Quiz - 37

1. What is widely believed to be the first rock'n'roll record?

1951's Rocket 88, written by Ike Turner, sung by Jackie Brenston and recorded by Sam Phillips, who later went on to found Sun records and discover Elvis Presley.

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/fridayreview/story/0,,1192358,00.html

2. Florence Nightingale regarded as the Mother of Modern Nursing also made an important contribution in the field of statistics. After witnessing deplorable sanitary conditions in the Crimea, in 1858 she wrote Notes on Matters Affecting the Health, Efficiency and Hospital Administration of the British Army, an influential text that included graphical methods to convey complex statistical information dramatically to a broad audience. What term did she use for these graphs?

Coxcombs. These graphs are now widely known as Nightingale’s Rose or Nightingale’s Coxcomb. Florence Nightingale was the first woman to be elected as Fellow of Royal Statistical Society.

http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1712.htm

3. Who in 1830 founded the Mormon Church, also known as Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the fourth largest religious denomination in USA today?

Joseph Smith

http://www.josephsmith.com/

4. Invented by Carl Boenish in 1978, the extremely risky sport of BASE Jumping derives its name from the four objects that jumpers usually ca leap from. What are these four objects?

Buildings, Antennas, Spans of bridges and Earth formations like cliffs.

http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/base-jumping.htm

5. Opened in 1956, this fully enclosed shopping center, with a constant climate-controlled temperature is regarded as the world’s first shopping mall. What is it called and where is it located?

Southdale Center in Minnesotta

6. Name the largest lava flow in recorded history that was generated by a fissure eruption in south central Iceland in 1783.

Known as the Laki flow, it erupted from a 25-kilometer-long fissure to produce 12 cubic kilometers of lava, filling two deep river valleys and covering an area greater than 500 square kilometers.

http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1121-nasa.html

7. Hawaiian, Srombolian, Vulcanian and Plinian are the four basic types of what natural activity?

Volcanic Eruptions

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vesuvius/deatype.html

8. Quinine, the principal remedy against malaria is extracted from the bark of the cinchona tree that grows in the Andes. By what popular name was this bark known in the 17^th Century?
   

Jesuit’s Bark or Jesuit’s Powder, after the Jesuit missionaries working in Peru popularized it having learnt about it from the native people.

http://www.companysj.com/v144/powder.html

9. What is the term used by the IT industry to describe the proportion of fresh recruits in their employment?

Bulge Mix. Bulge mix is usually calculated as a percentage of employees in the 0-3 years experience over the total population of professionals who are billable.

10. What does ‘Promise Index’ developed by the British advertising agency Promise, measure?

The divergence between consumers’ perceptions of brands and their actual experience of them

QUIZ - 37

1. What is widely believed to be the first rock'n'roll record?

2. Florence Nightingale regarded as the Mother of Modern Nursing also made an important contribution in the field of statistics. After witnessing deplorable sanitary conditions in the Crimea, in 1858 she wrote Notes on Matters Affecting the Health, Efficiency and Hospital Administration of the British Army, an influential text that included graphical methods to convey complex statistical information dramatically to a broad audience. What term did she use for these graphs?

3. Who in 1830 founded the Mormon Church, also known as Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the fourth largest religious denomination in USA today?

4. Invented by Carl Boenish in 1978, the extremely risky sport of BASE Jumping derives its name from the four objects that jumpers usually ca leap from. What are these four objects?

5. Opened in 1956, this fully enclosed shopping center, with a constant climate-controlled temperature is regarded as the world’s first shopping mall. What is it called and where is it located?

6. Name the largest lava flow in recorded history that was generated by a fissure eruption in south central Iceland in 1783.

7. Hawaiian, Srombolian, Vulcanian and Plinian are the four basic types of what natural activity?

8. Quinine, the principal remedy against malaria is extracted from the bark of the cinchona tree that grows in the Andes. By what popular name was this bark known in the 17^th Century?
   

9. What is the term used by the IT industry to describe the proportion of fresh recruits in their employment?

10. What does ‘Promise Index’ developed by the British advertising agency Promise, measure?