Answers to Quiz - 7

1) To mark the 70th anniversary of the popular board game, Monopoly has recently introduced a new edition that carries brand names like Toyota, Starbucks, Motorola and McDonalds on its tokens. What is this edition called?

Monopoly Here and Now

2) What is the name of the recently released memoirs written by Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett Packard?

Tough Choices

3) Which country has the world’s tallest people?

Netherlands

4) Which is the earliest known civilization in the Americas?

The Olmec Civilization

5) Which company will manufacture Microsoft’s digital music player Zune?

Toshiba

6) Name the author who has been nominated a record six times for the Booker Prize

Iris Murdoch

7) Name the young actress known as ‘The Black Dahlia’, whose gruesome murder in 1947, has resulted in several books, TV serials, songs, bands, internet sites and now a film.

Elizabeth Short

8) What unusual experiment is US jazz composer David Baker trying at this month’s Chicago Sinfonietta classical music festival?

During the 15-minute composition, members of the audience and the orchestra will be asked to use their cell phones at various points throughout the piece with red and green lights telling them when to turn their phones on and off

9) Who has created Vertu Constellation, Nokia’s diamond encrusted, platinum shelled premium range cell phones?

Frank Nuovo

10) With which country would you associate the cocktail Pisco Sour?

Peru