Answers to Quiz - 10

1) What is Machinima?

Machinima is a way of making films using the technology of video games.


2) A portmanteau is a word derived by combining portions of two or more separate words, for example – advertorial (advertisement + editorial) or blog (web + log). Who coined the word portmanteau?

Lewis Carroll in Though the Looking Glass

3) A clandestine subversive organisation working within a country to further an invading enemy's military and political aims is known as ‘Fifth Column’. Who coined this phrase?

Emilio Mola Vidal, a Nationalist general during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), originally coined the term. As four of his army columns moved on Madrid, the general referred to his militant supporters within the capital as his "fifth column," intent on undermining the loyalist government from within.

4) Developed in 1912 by Wilbur Scoville, what is the Scoville scale used to measure?

Scoville Scale measures the hotness of chillies

5) In September 2006, which city became the first fully wireless city in the world offering access to the Internet from anywhere?

Taipei

6) XBRL is poised to revolutionize business accounting throughout the world. What does XBRL stand for?

XBRL stands for eXtensible Business Reporting Language

7) What acronym coined by University of Colorado professors George Pring and Penelope Canaan describes a form of litigation usually filed by a large organisation to intimidate and silence a less powerful critic by so severely burdening them with the cost of a legal defence that they abandon their criticism.

SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation)

8) Called ‘The Last Great Race on Earth’ the Idiatrod is a dogsled race run over 1150 miles in Alaska and takes 9-12 days. Between which two points is this race run?

Idiatrod is run between Anchorage and Nome

9) The largest single span arch bridge in the world is in South Africa and is also recognised as the highest commercial bungee jump in the world at 216m. Name this bridge.

Bloukrans Bridge

10) The Black Museum, now referred to as the Crime Museum is not open to members of the public but is used as a lecture theatre for the curator to lecture police and like bodies in subjects such as Forensic Science, Pathology, Law and Investigative Techniques. Where is it located?

Black Museum is in London

QUIZ - 10

1) What is Machinima?

2) A portmanteau is a word derived by combining portions of two or more separate words, for example – advertorial (advertisement + editorial) or blog (web + log). Who coined the word portmanteau?

3) A clandestine subversive organisation working within a country to further an invading enemy's military and political aims is known as ‘Fifth Column’. Who coined this phrase?

4) Developed in 1912 by Wilbur Scoville, what is the Scoville scale used to measure?

5) In September 2006, which city became the first fully wireless city in the world offering access to the Internet from anywhere?

6) XBRL is poised to revolutionize business accounting throughout the world. What does XBRL stand for?

7) What acronym coined by University of Colorado professors George Pring and Penelope Canaan describes a form of litigation usually filed by a large organisation to intimidate and silence a less powerful critic by so severely burdening them with the cost of a legal defence that they abandon their criticism.

8) Called ‘The Last Great Race on Earth’ the Idiatrod is a dogsled race run over 1150 miles in Alaska and takes 9-12 days. Between which two points is this race run?

9) The largest single span arch bridge in the world is in South Africa and is also recognised as the highest commercial bungee jump in the world at 216m. Name this bridge.

10) The Black Museum, now referred to as the Crime Museum is not open to members of the public but is used as a lecture theatre for the curator to lecture police and like bodies in subjects such as Forensic Science, Pathology, Law and Investigative Techniques. Where is it located?

Answers to Quiz - 9

1) An important element of Bond films is the beautiful women. Who is the only actress to have played the role of a Bond Girl twice?

Maud Adams. She plays the role of Andrea Anders, the villain's girlfriend in ‘The Man With The Golden Gun’ and later played the title role in "Octopussy’

2) Another important element is the theme music. Which singer has the distinction of providing the theme song in more than one Bond movie?

Shirley Bassey,the Welsh crooner is the only artist to provide the theme for more than one Bond film. She has sung the themes for ‘Goldfinger’ ‘Diamonds Are Forever’ and ‘Moonraker’

3) Which was the first Bond film to win an Academy Award?

‘Goldfinger’ for Best Sound Effects and it was won by Norman Wanstall

4) Ian Fleming named James Bond, after an author because his name was "brief, unromantic, Anglo-Saxon, and yet very masculine - just what I needed.” Name this book, which is a collector’s item among Bond fans?

Birds of the West Indies








5) Which is the only Bond theme song to have reached No.1 on the US charts?





The theme to ‘A View To A Kill’ by Duran Duran

6) "Orbis non sufficit" is the motto of James Bond’s family. Its English translation is also the title of a Bond film. Which film?

The World Is Not Enough (1999)

7) Who is the only singer to have made a personal appearance during the opening credits of a Bond film?

Sheena Easton is the only performer to appear in the opening credits of a bond movie ‘For Your Eyes Only’

8) Universal Exports is the fictional trading company that Bond represents in Ian Fleming’s novels. In the later novels this name was changed by Fleming, since the cover was discovered by the opponents. What is the new cover name?

Transworld Consortium. The films however continued to use the older name

9) In the novels and the movies Bond's boss is known as M. How was the head of the real Secret Service known by?

The designation C after the original director general of MI6, Sir Mansfield Cumming. There is a theory that Fleming chose M since this is what he called his mother. In the novels, M is named as Sir Miles Messervy, which may explain the use of the letter