Answers to Quiz - 93

1) How many different types of flags are used by the race marshals to convey different messages?

Ten

2) Name the highly flame retardant material used for the overalls of drivers and pit crew that has revolutionized safety in Formula One racing.

Nomex

3) When and where was the first Formula One race held?

1950, Silverstone Circuit, England

4) Name the infamous corner on the Imola Circuit where on 1st May 1994, Ayrton Senna died in a horrific crash, an event which became a major turning point of Formula One sport.

Tamburello

5) What is the name given to the warm up lap before the start of the race?

Formation Lap

6) The tightest and the slowest corner in Formula One racing is a hairpin bend on the Monaco Circuit and is named after a hotel located nearby. What is its name?

The Loews Hairpin

7) What is the name given to the contract between Formula One teams and FIA, the governing body of the sport?

Concorde Agreement

8) Name the British engineer and founder of Lotus Engineering Company who revolutionized the design of Formula One car in 1950’s and 1960’s and whose influence can be felt even today.

Colin Chapman

9) What is common to the Formula One circuits in Istanbul, Sao Paolo, Singapore and Abu Dhabi?

They are the only ones to run in anticlockwise direction

10) Name the World War – I ace Italian fighter pilot from whose plane the prancing horse logo of Ferrari has been derived.

Francesco Baracca

QUIZ - 93

1) How many different types of flags are used by the race marshals to convey different messages?


2) Name the highly flame retardant material used for the overalls of drivers and pit crew that has revolutionized safety in Formula One racing.


3) When and where was the first Formula One race held?


4) Name the infamous corner on the Imola Circuit where on 1st May 1994, Ayrton Senna died in a horrific crash, an event which became a major turning point of Formula One sport.

5) What is the name given to the warm up lap before the start of the race?


6) The tightest and the slowest corner in Formula One racing is a hairpin bend on the Monaco Circuit and is named after a hotel located nearby. What is its name?


7) What is the name given to the contract between Formula One teams and FIA, the governing body of the sport?

8) Name the British engineer and founder of Lotus Engineering Company who revolutionized the design of Formula One car in 1950’s and 1960’s and whose influence can be felt even today.


9) What is common to the Formula One circuits in Istanbul, Sao Paolo, Singapore and Abu Dhabi?


10) Name the World War – I ace Italian fighter pilot from whose plane the prancing horse logo of Ferrari has been derived.

Answers to Quiz - 92

1) What is the Davie Brown Index used to measure?

A celebrity’s ability to influence brand

2) What does the Drake Equation calculate?

Potential number of extraterrestrial civilizations in our galaxy

3) What term describes the certification of a spacecraft as worthy of transporting human beings?

Man-Rating or Human-Rating

4) Name the Swedish American meteorologist who first explained large scale motions in the atmosphere in 1940’s

Carl-Gustaf Rossby

5) The Dead Sea Scrolls discovered between 1947 and 1956 are widely believed to be the library of which Jewish religious group?

Essenes

6) Established in 1930 with it’s headquarter in Basel, Switzerland name the international organization of central banks.

Bank for International Settlements

7) Named after a Swiss agricultural chemist, what law states that an animal’s metabolic rate is proportional to ¾ power of its mass?

Kleiber’s Law

8) What did the French men Émile Gagnan and Jacques-Yves Cousteau invent in 1943?

Aqua-Lung

9) The only silent film to win a ‘Best Picture’ Oscar is also the first Oscar winning film for the year 1927-28. Name the film.

Wings

10) Name the German women’s rights activist who conceived the first International Women’s day on 8th March 1911.

Clara Zetkin

QUIZ - 92

1) What is the Davie Brown Index used to measure?


2) What does the Drake Equation calculate?


3) What term describes the certification of a spacecraft as worthy of transporting human beings?


4) Name the Swedish American meteorologist who first explained large scale motions in the atmosphere in 1940’s


5) The Dead Sea Scrolls discovered between 1947 and 1956 are widely believed to be the library of which Jewish religious group?


6) Established in 1930 with it’s headquarter in Basel, Switzerland name the international organization of central banks.


7) Named after a Swiss agricultural chemist, what law states that an animal’s metabolic rate is proportional to ¾ power of its mass?


8) What did the French men Émile Gagnan and Jacques-Yves Cousteau invent in 1943?


9) The only silent film to win a ‘Best Picture’ Oscar is also the first Oscar winning film for the year 1927-28. Name the film.


10) Name the German women’s rights activist who conceived the first International Women’s day on 8th March 1911.

Answers to Quiz - 91

1) What do we call a person who repairs stringed musical instruments?

Luthier

2) Name the town in Northern Italy which has a distinguished history of manufacturing musical instruments, specially violins

Cremona

3) What is the name for the scientific method of dating past events through study of tree ring growth?

Dendrochronology

4) Atonal Music describes music that does not conform to the system of tonal hierarchies that characterizes classical European music between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. Who is regarded as the father of Atonal Music?

Arnold Schoenberg

5) What is philematology the study of?

Kissing

6) What cuisine would use ‘gomasio’, a dry condiment made from sesame seeds?

Japanese

7) The Aztecs did not have a written language. But what language did they speak?

Nahuatl

8) Homo floresiensis is a small brained primate that was discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003. By what more popular name do we know this species?

Hobbit

9) The Jewish scriptures were translated into Greek in Alexandria, Egypt between 300 – 200 BC. By what famous abbreviation do we know this translation?

LXX, after the 70 scholars who were commissioned for the translation

10) Derived from the Japanese word for cleverness, name the logical puzzle invented in 2004 by the Japanese math teacher Tetsuya Miyamoto

KenKen

QUIZ - 91

1) What do we call a person who repairs stringed musical instruments?

2) Name the town in Northern Italy which has a distinguished history of manufacturing musical instruments, specially violins

3) What is the name for the scientific method of dating past events through study of tree ring growth?

4) Atonal Music describes music that does not conform to the system of tonal hierarchies that characterizes classical European music between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. Who is regarded as the father of Atonal Music?

5) What is philematology the study of?

6) What cuisine would use ‘gomasio’, a dry condiment made from sesame seeds?

7) The Aztecs did not have a written language. But what language did they speak?

8) Homo floresiensis is a small brained primate that was discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003. By what more popular name do we know this species?

9) The Jewish scriptures were translated into Greek in Alexandria, Egypt between 300 – 200 BC. By what famous abbreviation do we know this translation?

10) Derived from the Japanese word for cleverness, name the logical puzzle invented in 2004 by the Japanese math teacher Tetsuya Miyamoto