QUIZ - 51

1. What is the name of the membranous sac that surrounds and protects the embryo in mammals?

2. In which city would you find the hotel Mr. President, with each room designed and named after a current or past world leader?

3. Who is believed to be the originator of the term ‘Epiphenomenalism’, which holds the view that mental events are caused by physical events in the brain.

4. In what field are the Whitley Awards given out?

5. What device invented by Abraham-Louis Breguet and patented in 1801 is used in expensive mechanical watches to maintain accurate time?

6. What famous incident took place in the British House of Commons on May 7 and 8 of 1940, which ultimately led to the resignation of the then Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain?

7. What term coined by C.H.Waddington in 1942 describes the idea that environmental factors can cause an organism’s genes to behave differently?

8. He died in a plane crash in 1998 and in 1999 an annual award for Global Health and Human Rights was instituted in his name. Name this former director of World Health Organisation’s special programme on AIDS.

9. What are microbes that thrive in extreme physical conditions called?

10. What diagram was popularized by the American Libertarian party to illustrate their view that libertarianism stands for both economic freedom and personal freedom?