Answers to Quiz - 128

1)      What service is provided by a doula?

A trained professional who provides continuous physical, emotional and informational support to the mother before, during and just after childbirth

2)      Which country celebrates the festival of Thingyan?

Myanmar. It is their New Year water festival

3)      What countries were formed as a result of the Velvet Divorce?  

Czech Republic and Slovakia

4)      Who is fondly known as Madiba?

Nelson Mandela

5)      Who started Marathon of Hope in 1980 as a cross-country run to raise money for cancer research?

Terrance Stanley (Terry) Fox

6)      What is the Goodman-Martinez-Thompson correlation used for?

For correlating the dates in Christian and Mayan calendars

7)      What are Iron Bridge and True Blue code names for?

Margaret Thatcher’s funeral

8)      Watermelon is the richest edible source of which amino acid?

L - Citruline

9)      Name the English match referee, whose controversial decisions led to ICC withdrawing the test status for the match between India and South Africa at Centurion Park in November 2001.

Mike Denness

10)  What fictional Russian influenced English dialect is spoken by the hoodlums in Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange?

Nadsat