Quiz - 61

1. 100 years ago this month, on August 17, 1908, the first animated film was premiered. Name the film and its maker.

2. What commodity does the index Live-ex 100 track?

3. Name the hormone responsible for stimulation of milk secretion during lactation and uterine contraction during birth, and which is also released during orgasm

4. What term describes the method of purchasing wine 12 – 18 months before it is actually bottled, while still in a barrel?

5. Standing next to the grave of the poet John Keats in Rome is that of his painter friend who nursed him during his final months. Name this painter, whose letters are the definitive account of Keats’ final months.

6. What movement did Marc Kelly Smith, a construction worker turned poet, create during November 1984 in Chicago?

7. If the hormone Ghrelin increases the appetite, name the hormone that suppresses it

8. Name the dining society in London, that took its name after Christopher Cat, the owner of the inn where the diners met, that flourished for a couple of decades beginning 1690, with a strong leaning towards Whig policies.

9. Its original name in Arabic is Jabal Tāriq meaning "mountain of Tariq". By what name do we know this place today?

10. The Orange Revolution happened in Ukraine. Where did the Rose Revolution take place?

Answers to Quiz - 60

1. Name the French monk of the Dominican order and a close friend of Pierre de Coubertin who coined the slogan of the modern Olympics - Citius, Altius, Fortius (Faster, Higher, Stronger).

Henri Didon

2. The distance over which the Marathon was run at the first Olympics in Athens in 1896 was 24.85 miles (40kms). In which Olympics was an extra 2 kms added and why?

1908 London

3. Name the Russian gymnast who holds the record of having won the most number of Olympic medals (18)

Larissa Latynina

4. Where is the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee?

Lausanne, Switzerland

5. What dubious distinction is held by the Swedish modern pentathlete Hans-Gunnar Liljenwal?

The first athlete to be disqualified at the Olympics for drug - 1968 Mexico City

6. What is the ‘Antwerp Ceremony’ held during the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games?

The ceremonial handing over of the Olympic flags by the mayor of the city that organized the games to the IOC president who then passes it on to the mayor of the next city that will host the games

QUIZ - 60

1. Name the French monk of the Dominican order and a close friend of Pierre de Coubertin who coined the slogan of the modern Olympics - Citius, Altius, Fortius (Faster, Higher, Stronger).

2. The distance over which the Marathon was run at the first Olympics in Athens in 1896 was 24.85 miles (40kms). In which Olympics was an extra 2 kms added and why?

3. Name the Russian gymnast who holds the record of having won the most number of Olympic medals (18)

4. Where is the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee?

5. What dubious distinction is held by the Swedish modern pentathlete Hans-Gunnar Liljenwal?

6. What is the ‘Antwerp Ceremony’ held during the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games?

Answers to Quiz - 59

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

Moral Majority

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

Wandervogel

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

Senescence

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.

Allostatic Load

5. What are Habstars?

Stars that could set up favorable conditions for life as we know it on Earth

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

The world’s first modern Hedge Fund

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

It is a special capture mode by pawn in the game of chess

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

Matthias Corvinus

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

Captain Ahab’s first mate in Hermann Melville’s book Moby-Dick

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

South pole Aitken