Answers to Quiz - 38

1. Name the American novelist, essayist and sci-fi writer who invented the fictional religion of Bokononism. He passed away in April 2007

Kurt Vonnegut

2. Born Vickie Lynn Hogan and known as Nikki Hart in school, by what name does the world remember this buxom playboy model and TV star? She died in February 2007 at the age of 39

Anna Nicole Smith

3. What did Momofuku Ando who passed away in January 2007 at the age of 96 invent?

Instant Noodles

4. Paul MacCready, who died in August 2007 at the age of 81, designed the first human powered aircraft that flew in 1977. What was it called?

The Gossamer Condor

5. Name the anti-apartheid Reggae icon who was the first black musician in South Africa to have his songs like ‘Together as One’ aired on a white radio station. He was murdered on the streets of a Johannesburg suburb in October 2007.

Lucky Dube

6. Name the weekly newspaper co-founded by Norman Mailer, the two times Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, journalist and playwright. Mailer passed away in November 2007.

Village Voice

7. Nobel Laureate Paul Lauterbur who passed away in March 2007 developed a new imaging technique that he termed as ‘Zeugmatography’. However this name did not catch on. By what name is it popularly known today?

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

8. Name the legendary editor of Forbes magazine who passed away in October 2007. He edited the magazine for 38 years from 1961 and would often say that he could cut at least 15% out of any story, no matter how tightly written.

Jim Michaels

9. Regarded almost as a saint in France on account of his foundation of the Emmaus organization, which brought relief to the homeless and dispossessed, he passed away in January 2007. Born Henri Antoine Grouès, by which popular pseudonym that he acquired during his work with the French Resistance during the Second World War was he known?

Abbé Pierre

10. Name the American historian and critic who wrote a detailed account of the Kennedy Administration in ‘A Thousand Days’. He passed away in February 2007 at the age of 89.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr