Sunday, July 15, 2007

QUIZ - 25

1. What board game did an out of work architect Alfred Mosher Butts invent in 1938?

2. The motto of which sect or society is “Brotherly Love, Relief and Truth”?

3. If Thermogenesis is the process by which body generates heat, what are Thermogenics?

4. Which German town is popularly associated with the almond based confectionery Marzipan?

5. Which English surgeon in the 1860’s wrote the first medical description of Cerebral Palsy, but wrongly attributed it to a lack of oxygen during child birth?

6. The world championships of what strange sport has been taking place for the last 12 years in the Finnish town of Sonkajärvi?

7. Name the first female Pharaoh of Egypt?

8. Which 600 year old University has a tradition in which fresh students fight each other with shaving foam?

9. Name the giant sloth like mythical monster that is believed to inhabit the Amazon rainforest.

10. What is the language used by kids who don’t want their parents to know what they are talking about?


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