1)
What term was coined by Horace
Walpole in a letter dated 28th January 1754?
Serendipity
2) Who was referred to by the epithet “Boadicea in pearls”?
Margaret
Thatcher
3)
What are people suffering from
EHS allergic to?
Electromagnetic
Radiation
4)
What term named after a country
describes irregular practices among a group of workers to gain increased allowances,
reduced working hours etc?
Spanish Practices
5)
Name the part of our brain that
plays the central role in managing rewards and pleasures.
Nucleus accumbens
6)
Name the annual ceremony
performed in London by British regiments on a Saturday in June to mark the
official birthday of the British sovereign.
Trooping the Colour
7)
Dating back to 1897 and always
run on the third Monday of April, which is the world’s oldest annual marathon?
Boston Marathon
8)
Uguisu no fun is used in
traditional Japanese beauty treatment and is also referred to as “Geisha
Facial”. What is it made of?
Excreta of Japanese Bush Warbler
9)
A book published in 1631 by
Robert Barker and Martin Lucas, the royal printers in London had such a serious
typographic mistake, that almost all the copies were cancelled and burned. By
what name do we know this book today and what was the typo?
The Wicked Bible. Thou
shalt commit adultery
10) What commodity is bought and sold through the En primeur system?
Wine
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