Answers to Quiz - 54

1. Believed to be extinct until it was rediscovered in 1986, Rhinoptilus bitorquatus is a rare nocturnal bird found in the south-eastern part of India. What is its popular name after its original discoverer in 1868?

Jerdon’s Courser

2. What is name given to the portable wooden or metal board used in monasteries to summon the faithful to prayer?

Talanton

3. What are words derived from names of places called?

Toponym

4. What term coined by Robert Fuller describes the discriminatory and exploitative practice towards people who rank lower in a hierarchy?

Rankism

5. Produced in the gut, which hormone stimulates our appetite?

Ghrelin

6. What is a tuxedo designed for a woman called?

Tuxeda

7. In which sport, would you use the phrase Charity Stripe?

Basketball, The Free-Throw line

8. What language uses the Katakana script?

Japanese

9. Literally meaning white liquor, what popular Chinese spirit distilled from grains is classified according to its fragrance?

Baijiu

10. What is the name of the carpets, often used as prayer rugs, produced in many parts of Central Asia by tightly interweaving the warp and weft strands of the weave to produce a flat surface?

Kilims