Saturday, August 07, 2010

Answers to Quiz - 107

1) Who lives in “The Lodge”?

Prime Minister of Australia

2) Who is the God of thunder in Celtic mythology?

Taranis

3) What famous organization has recently changed its name to “The Y”?

YMCA

4) What term describes the 19th century American belief that their country was destined to expand across the North American continent, from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific Ocean?

Manifest Destiny

5) What public transportation concept was pioneered by the French town of La Rochelle in 1974?

Bicycle Sharing System

6) Which country rules Galapagos Islands made famous by Charles Darwin?

Ecuador

7) Which country’s borders were dramatically redefined by the Treaty of Trianon signed in 1920 at the end of World War I?

Hungary

8) What organs of the human body are affected by the Zollinger – Ellison Syndrome?

Pancreas and / or Duodenum

9) What is JCVI-syn1.0?

World’s first artificial living organism created with a synthetic genome on 20th May 2010

10) Which country’s woman Prime Minister is referred to as “Tatra Tigress”?

Slovakia

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