Answers to Quiz - 35

1. With nominations in ten categories for what are the COTY awards given out every year?

Coins

2. Developed by the Italian statistician Corrado Gini, what does the Gini coefficient measure?

Inequality of income (or wealth) distribution

3. In what activity would the terms Beauregard, Jepson and Markush be used?

Patenting. They are types of Patent Claims

4. Founded in 1985 by Stewart Brand Larry Brilliant, name the first virtual or online community.

The WELL

5. Which Italian island in the Bay of Naples has lent its name to a popular item of apparel for ladies?

Capri from which comes Capri Pants, a tight fitting calf length pants for women.

6. What controversial book written in 1968 by Paul Ehrlich predicted that ‘in the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve’?

The Population Bomb

7. Which organization founded in 1996 with an attempt to encourage long term thinking promotes the concept of writing years in 5 digits instead of 4, for example - 02007 instead of 2007?

The Long Now Foundation

8. In USA what name is given to male corpses or emergency room patients whose identity is not known?
   

John Doe

9. What slang term coined by environmentalists refers to gas guzzling sports utility vehicles?

Chelsea Tractor

10. Name the famous Scottish mountain, where because of its unique triangular shape, the Royal Astronomer Nevil Maskelyne carried out experiments in 1774 to determine the density of the earth.

Schiehallion