1. Our heart is normally located in the left side of the chest. What term describes the abnormal condition in which the heart is on the right side of the chest?
Dextrocardia
2. What is Pognology the study of?
Beards
3. What structure built on a rock in the Atlantic Ocean is popularly known as The Teardrop of Ireland, because it was the last piece of the country the emigrants saw as they sailed for a better life in America?
The Fastnet Lighthouse
4. What is the name of the tool used for drilling a hole in the skull in a surgery?
Craniotome
5. What sphere of human activity does the Washington Accord signed in 1989 cover?
Engineering Education
6. In which sport would you come across horns, antlers, ears and winglets?
Formula One Racing. They are appendages on the car for improving its aerodynamics.
7. What is meant by Elvis Year?
The year in which the popularity of a product, service, or individual is at its peak
8. What fatal disease, named after a Japanese doctor, is predominantly found among young children, and results in the inflammation of blood vessels?
Kawasaki Syndrome
9. The maximum theoretical efficiency of a solar cell is named after two physicists who first calculated this value in 1961. What is the name of this term?
Shockley-Queisser Limit after William Shockley and Hans Queisser.
10. In 1926 a Russian economist proposed a business cycle lasting 50-60 years in capitalist economies consisting of four phases – beneficial inflation, stagflation, beneficial deflation and deflation. What is the name of this business cycle?
Kondratieff Cycle
Dextrocardia
2. What is Pognology the study of?
Beards
3. What structure built on a rock in the Atlantic Ocean is popularly known as The Teardrop of Ireland, because it was the last piece of the country the emigrants saw as they sailed for a better life in America?
The Fastnet Lighthouse
4. What is the name of the tool used for drilling a hole in the skull in a surgery?
Craniotome
5. What sphere of human activity does the Washington Accord signed in 1989 cover?
Engineering Education
6. In which sport would you come across horns, antlers, ears and winglets?
Formula One Racing. They are appendages on the car for improving its aerodynamics.
7. What is meant by Elvis Year?
The year in which the popularity of a product, service, or individual is at its peak
8. What fatal disease, named after a Japanese doctor, is predominantly found among young children, and results in the inflammation of blood vessels?
Kawasaki Syndrome
9. The maximum theoretical efficiency of a solar cell is named after two physicists who first calculated this value in 1961. What is the name of this term?
Shockley-Queisser Limit after William Shockley and Hans Queisser.
10. In 1926 a Russian economist proposed a business cycle lasting 50-60 years in capitalist economies consisting of four phases – beneficial inflation, stagflation, beneficial deflation and deflation. What is the name of this business cycle?
Kondratieff Cycle
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