Saturday, August 08, 2009

Answers to Quiz - 74

1. What international convention seeks to protect biodiversity against the potential risk of being contaminated by genetically modified organisms resulting from modern biotechnology?

Cartagena Protocol

2. Who in 1896 developed the Swiss Army Knife and went on to name his company Victoria in memory of his mother?

Karl Elsener

3. Name the American company that introduced the Reclining Chair in 1928 and whose name is today synonymous with that product.

La-z-boy

4. What communication medium did Jack Dorsey create in 2006?

Twitter

5. With students such as Paul Newman, Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, who popularized the Method School of acting?

Lee Strasberg

6. What game uses terms like Flop, Fish and Fold?

Poker

7. Which is world’s most active volcano?

Kilauea volcano on Hawaii

8. What is the only country in the world with a solid, single-coloured flag?

Libya. Green colour

9. What are drumlins and eskers formed by?

Glaciers

10. What are the followers of the Unification Church called?

Moonies

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