Tuesday, October 17, 2006

QUIZ - 7

Quizzing is staying current like a newspaper.

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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