Saturday, June 23, 2007

Answers to Quiz - 21

1) In which sport is the Stimpmeter used?

Golf. It is used to measure the speed of a putting green

2) Name the poisonous herb made famous in an Harry Potter novel and which was also linked to the mysterious death of Bob Woolmer, the coach of Pakistan cricket team

Aconite

3) What trophy is awarded to the world mixed team badminton championships that are played every alternate year?

Sudirman Cup

4) In retailing business what are Category Killers?

A large retail chain store that is dominant in its product category. This type of store generally offers an extensive selection of merchandise at prices so low that smaller stores cannot compete

5) What type of geographical formation is a Tomobolo?

A bar of sand connecting one island with another

6) What is aischrolatreia?

The love of obscene words

7) What is the name of the model developed by economists John Hick and Alvin Hansen in 1937 that has been widely adopted as the universal framework for studying macroeconomics?

The IS-LM Model

8) Who invented the electronic music synthesizer?

Robert Moog

9) Which famous photographer was given the epithet ‘eye of the century’?

Henri Cartier-Bresson

10) Name the term coined by Stanley B Prusiner in 1982 to describe infectious agents solely comprising proteins that cause fatal diseases in animals and humans by affecting the structure of the brain or other neural tissue.

Prion

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