QUIZ - 59

1. What American political action group composed of conservative, fundamentalist Christians was founded in 1979 by evangelist Rev. Jerry Falwell?

2. What famous German youth movement was started in 1901 in the town of Steglitz?

3. What is the name given to the biological process of a living organism approaching an advanced age?

4. Name the term coined by Dr. Bruce McEwan of Rockefeller University to describe the damage suffered by the human body as it fights and adapts to a stressful environment.

5. What are Habstars?

6. What did Alfred Winslow Jones, a sociologist and financial journalist pioneer in 1949?

7. In which sport would you encounter the term En passant?

8. Name the 15th Century king of Hungary, known often as the ‘raven king’, who is most famous for having built one of the finest libraries

9. After what fictional character is the famous coffee chain Starbucks named?

10. Name the largest crater of earth’s moon, which until recently was also believed to be the largest of our solar system

Answers to Quiz - 58

1. What term describes a snatch of song or music that keeps playing itself in one’s mind?

Earworm

2. Established in 2000 and referred to as African Booker, what is the annual award for African writing?

The Caine Prize

3. What are aerological days?

Days agreed upon internationally to carry out intensive observation of the earth’s atmsosphere.

4. What parasitic fungus that grows on caterpillars found in certain parts of Nepal is highly prized as an ingredient in traditional Chinese medicine?

Yarchagumba

5. What style of novel writing actually describes a real-life story thinly disguised as fiction?

Roman à clef

6. What medical term describes the condition of excessive body hair?

Hypertrichosis or Werewolf Syndrome

7. What or who is the Tasmanian Devil

The largest carnivorous marsupial which is found in the wild only in the Australian island state of Tasmania

8. What substance is responsible for the yellow colour of turmeric?

Curcumin

9. What kind of commercial fishing technique uses hundreds of baited hooks strung out on a single line?

Longlining

10. What term in linguistics describes a word or phrase that is borrowed from another language by literal word to word translation?

Calque

QUIZ - 58

1. What term describes a snatch of song or music that keeps playing itself in one’s mind?

2. Established in 2000 and referred to as African Booker, what is the annual award for African writing?

3. What are aerological days?

4. What parasitic fungus that grows on caterpillars found in certain parts of Nepal is highly prized as an ingredient in traditional Chinese medicine?

5. What style of novel writing actually describes a real-life story thinly disguised as fiction?

6. What medical term describes the condition of excessive body hair?

7. What or who is the Tasmanian Devil

8. What substance is responsible for the yellow colour of turmeric?

9. What kind of commercial fishing technique uses hundreds of baited hooks strung out on a single line?

10. What term in linguistics describes a word or phrase that is borrowed from another language by literal word to word translation?

Answers to Quiz - 57

1. What is the name of the stretch of sea that separates mainland England from the Isle of Wright?

The Solent

2. What term in archaeology and anthropology is used to describe the transition from a nomadic way of life to a permanent settlement?

Sedentism

3. What is the name of the vast depression covering as much as 40% of the surface of Mars, believed to be the largest asteroid impact crater known anywhere in the solar system?

Borealis Basin

4. Who is a pescatarian?

A person who is a vegetarian with the exception of eating fish

5. Which civilization is credited with having created the first known pottery in the world?

Jomon people in Japan, dating back to 14th Century BC

6. What is the name of the new theory developed in 2004 to explain the origin of the planets in our solar system?

Nice Model, after the city of Nice in France, where the scientists met to put forward the theory

7. In honour of whose martyrdom is the bull running ceremony observed in the streets of the Spanish town of Pamplona every July?

Saint Fermin

8. What are Imbrium, Serenitatis, Crisium and Nectaris?

Prominent craters on the moon

9. Name the English intellectual, pamphleteer and inventor who had a great influence on American and French revolutions through such powerful works like Common Sense and Rights of Man.

Thomas Paine

10. What is the name of the former landmass in the North Sea that connected Great Britain and mainland Europe?

Doggerland

QUIZ - 57

1. What is the name of the stretch of sea that separates mainland England from the Isle of Wright?

2. What term in archaeology and anthropology is used to describe the transition from a nomadic way of life to a permanent settlement?

3. What is the name of the vast depression covering as much as 40% of the surface of Mars, believed to be the largest asteroid impact crater known anywhere in the solar system?

4. Who is a pescatarian?

5. Which civilization is credited with having created the first known pottery in the world?

6. What is the name of the new theory developed in 2004 to explain the origin of the planets in our solar system?

7. In honour of whose martyrdom is the bull running ceremony observed in the streets of the Spanish town of Pamplona every July?

8. What are Imbrium, Serenitatis, Crisium and Nectaris?

9. Name the English intellectual, pamphleteer and inventor who had a great influence on American and French revolutions through such powerful works like Common Sense and Rights of Man.

10. What is the name of the former landmass in the North Sea that connected Great Britain and mainland Europe?

Answers to Quiz - 56

1. What term named after a famous American singer-actress describes the phenomenon on the internet when an attempt to remove or block a piece of information backfires and actually increases its popularity?

The Streisand effect

2. What branch of applied chemistry deals with the production of industrial chemicals from agricultural feedstock?

Chemurgy

3. Name the social psychologist who conducted a series of famous experiments on ‘obedience to authority’ at Yale University in 1961-1962, in which ordinary people were found willing to give apparently harmful electric shocks to protesting victims, simply because a scientific authority commanded them to.

Stanley Milgram

4. What endangered animal of New Zealand, resembling a lizard, is often termed as ‘living fossil’?

Tuatara

5. What hallucinogenic substance is derived from certain types of mushrooms called magic mushrooms or shrooms grown in parts of South America and Mexico?

Psilocybin

6. What is the popular name of the 1984 US Law that stimulated the generic drugs industry and gave it considerable clout in patent litigation?

Hatch Waxman Act

7. Name the American tailor who in 1924 invented and patented the necktie as we know it today.

Jesse Langsdorf

8. In which part of Europe is the language Euskara widely spoken?

The Basque province in North-East Spain

9. Name the Hungarian writer who in 1929 proposed in his short story ‘Chains’ the concept of ‘Six Degrees of Separation’, according to which everyone in this world is separated from everyone else by six links.

Frigyes Karinthy

10. What are metabolomes?

The complete set of intermediates and products of the process of metabolism in a living cell.

QUIZ - 56

1. What term named after a famous American singer-actress describes the phenomenon on the internet when an attempt to remove or block a piece of information backfires and actually increases its popularity?

2. What branch of applied chemistry deals with the production of industrial chemicals from agricultural feedstock?

3. Name the social psychologist who conducted a series of famous experiments on ‘obedience to authority’ at Yale University in 1961-1962, in which ordinary people were found willing to give apparently harmful electric shocks to protesting victims, simply because a scientific authority commanded them to.

4. What endangered animal of New Zealand, resembling a lizard, is often termed as ‘living fossil’?

5. What hallucinogenic substance is derived from certain types of mushrooms called magic mushrooms or shrooms grown in parts of South America and Mexico?

6. What is the popular name of the 1984 US Law that stimulated the generic drugs industry and gave it considerable clout in patent litigation?

7. Name the American tailor who in 1924 invented and patented the necktie as we know it today.

8. In which part of Europe is the language Euskara widely spoken?

9. Name the Hungarian writer who in 1929 proposed in his short story ‘Chains’ the concept of ‘Six Degrees of Separation’, according to which everyone in this world is separated from everyone else by six links.

10. What are metabolomes?

Answers to Quiz - 55

1. What term originating from London’s Savile Row, usually applied to a suit is used to describe something that is made exactly to a customer’s specification?

Bespoke

2. Name the behavioural economist who suggested ‘The Endowment Effect’, according to which people place a higher value on objects they own than objects that they do not.

Richard Thaler

3. Robot, introduced and popularized by Karel Čapek’s play R.U.R, is derived from the Czech word robota. What does robota mean in the Czech language?

Labour

4. It is referred to as Contraterrene in Science Fiction. By what name do physicists call it?

Antimatter

5. The site of what cataclysmic event that took place on June 30, 1908 is marked by a totem pole dedicated to Agdy, the God of Thunder?

Tunguska Explosion

6. A sequel continues a story begun in a previous film. A prequel narrates the story prior to that of a previous film. But what is a requel?

A movie with the same subject matter as an earlier film, but not a remake of that film

7. What kind of fear is Scolionophobia?

Fear of schools

8. In what field do you use the term Jansen’s Alpha?

Finance, specifically portfolio management

9. What is the practice of people consuming insects for food known as?

Entomophagy

10. Name the pioneering Rock and Roll musician whose trademark instrument was the rectangular guitar?

Bo Diddley