Answers to Quiz - 15

1) What is Gelotolgy the study of?

Gelotology is the study of humour and laughter and its effect on the body.

2) Where is he headquarters of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a specalised agency of United Nations dedicated to developing a balanced and accessible international intellectual property system?

Geneva

3) What is the science of simulating pressure, texture, vibration and other sensations related to touch?

Haptics

4) Name the Berlin-based non-profit, non-partisan organization founded in 1993 to curb corruption in international transactions.

Transparency International

5) What is the name given to positions in space where gravitational forces and the orbital motion of a body balance each other?

Lagrange Point

6) After which French engineer was the unit to measure the speed of telegraphic transmission named?

Baud after Jean-Maurice-Emile Baudot

7) Name the American inventor who is credited with having built the first solar cell in 1880’s.

Charles Fritts

8) Name the world's first commercially available general-purpose computer

The Ferranti Mark 1

9) In which historic Copenhagen building, recently in news for its demolition, was March 8 proclaimed as International Women’s Day in 1910?

Ungdomshuset (Youth House)

10) In medicine what is the name given to delivery agents that enhance the effectiveness of the active drug?

Adjuvants