Sunday, January 18, 2009

QUIZ - 67

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?

2. What is Pognology the study of?

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?

4. What is the name of the tool used for drilling a hole in the skull in a surgery?

5. What sphere of human activity does the Washington Accord signed in 1989 cover?

6. In which sport would you come across horns, antlers, ears and winglets?

7. What is meant by Elvis Year?

8. What fatal disease, named after a Japanese doctor, is predominantly found among young children, and results in the inflammation of blood vessels?

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?

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?

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