QUIZ - 37

1. What is widely believed to be the first rock'n'roll record?

2. Florence Nightingale regarded as the Mother of Modern Nursing also made an important contribution in the field of statistics. After witnessing deplorable sanitary conditions in the Crimea, in 1858 she wrote Notes on Matters Affecting the Health, Efficiency and Hospital Administration of the British Army, an influential text that included graphical methods to convey complex statistical information dramatically to a broad audience. What term did she use for these graphs?

3. Who in 1830 founded the Mormon Church, also known as Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the fourth largest religious denomination in USA today?

4. Invented by Carl Boenish in 1978, the extremely risky sport of BASE Jumping derives its name from the four objects that jumpers usually ca leap from. What are these four objects?

5. Opened in 1956, this fully enclosed shopping center, with a constant climate-controlled temperature is regarded as the world’s first shopping mall. What is it called and where is it located?

6. Name the largest lava flow in recorded history that was generated by a fissure eruption in south central Iceland in 1783.

7. Hawaiian, Srombolian, Vulcanian and Plinian are the four basic types of what natural activity?

8. Quinine, the principal remedy against malaria is extracted from the bark of the cinchona tree that grows in the Andes. By what popular name was this bark known in the 17^th Century?
   

9. What is the term used by the IT industry to describe the proportion of fresh recruits in their employment?

10. What does ‘Promise Index’ developed by the British advertising agency Promise, measure?