Wednesday, May 08, 2013

Answers to Quiz - 129



1)      What term coined by Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu captures the diversity of races, tribes, creeds, languages and landscape of South Africa?
Rainbow Nation

2)      In which country would you hear the dialect Monégasque spoken?
Monaco

3)      What is the name of the process in which cotton yarn is treated with caustic soda to make it stronger and lustrous?
Mercerisation

4)      Who slayed Chimera?
Bellerophon

5)      Name the 19th Century German chemist who invented Marmite?
Justus von Liebig

6)      Where is the headquarters of International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) located?
Gland, Switzerland

7)      What is the practice of “Elimination Communication” related to?
Diaper-free training of infants to answer the call of nature

8)      What term coined by Brickman and Campbell describes the tendency of people to quickly return to a relatively stable level of happiness despite major positive or negative events?
Hedonic Treadmill

9)      Name the neurological scale published in 1974 by Graham Teasdale and Bryan J. Jennett professors of neurosurgery at the University of Glasgow to objectively assess the conscious state of a person.
Glasgow Coma Scale

10)  Name the concept of modulation and movement applied in a wide variety of traditional Japanese arts.
Jo-ha-kyū

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