Answers to Quiz - 48

1. She published her first novel Delphine in 1802. Napoleon had her exiled in 1804. Name her.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

2. Name the grape known as Spain’s Noble Grape used for making red wines, so named because it ripens earlier than the other traditional varieties.

Tempranilo (Spanish word Temprano for early)

3. Name Spain’s best known cheese that is produced from sheep’s milk from a specified region on the La Mancha plateau.

Manchego

4. Worn by those taking part in outdoor winter sports and also race drivers, it covers the whole head exposing only the upper part of the face. It derives its name from a Crimean town, where it was used by the British troops during the Crimean war. What is it?

Balaclava

5. Coined by the newspaper Sunday Telegraph, YAWN is an acronym for people who are rich but who live frugally below their means and are socially committed. Expand YAWN.

Young And Wealthy but Normal

6. What is the name of the infamous medical experiment conducted between 1932 and 1972 by the US Government on 399 black men suffering from advanced stage of syphilis?

Tuskegee Experiment

7. What style of Italian opera, realistically depicting contemporary everyday life, which was started in the late 19^th Century, is also the brand name of Starbucks espresso machine?

Verismo

8. What literary device, widely used in children’s books, attributes human like qualities to animals and other inanimate objects?

Anthromorphism

9. What is the Case-Shiller index a measure of?

The housing market in USA

10. What pear-shaped stringed instrument commonly used in Arabic music is often considered as the predecessor of the western Lute?

Oud