Answers to Quiz - 33

1. Who is a steel collar worker?

Robots working on a production line

2. Whom did the Financial Times once describe as the ‘world's most famous futurologist’?

Alvin Toffler

3. Name the anthropologist who founded kinesics, the study of nonverbal communication

Ray Birdwhistell

4. What does a plethysmograph measure?

Change in volume of an organ resulting from fluctuations in the amount of blood or air it contains

5. What term attributed to US Senator Lloyd Bentsen represents false public propaganda by drumming up fake support to the cause at the grassroots level?

Astroturfing

6. At the Academy Awards what award is infrequently presented to "creative producers whose bodies of work reflect a consistently high quality of motion picture production”? Among its winners are Alfred Hitchcock, Ingmar Bergman and Steven Spielberg.

The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

7. Which company claims to produce ‘The #1 Ball in Golf’?

Titleist

8. Which legendary war photographer famously stated - “If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough"?

Robert Capa

9. Name the Harvard Business School professor who conducted ‘The Hawthorne Studies’ from 1927 to 1932 at the Western Electric Hawthorne Works in Chicago, to examine the relationship between productivity and work conditions

Elton Mayo

10. What product Invented by the French chemist Eugene Schueller in 1907 was called ‘Aureole’?

The first synthetic hair dye