Answers to Quiz - 133

1)      Why do people stand in The Queue?

To buy daily tickets for Wimbledon

2)      What historic event did Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organize on 19^th and 20^th July 1848?

The Seneca Falls Convention on women’s rights

3)      For the use of what specific steroid was Ben Johnson stripped of his medals and titles?

Stanozolol 

4)      What was known as  “The Bitter Invention of Satan” in early 17^th Century

Coffee

5)      Name the Nobel Laureate neuropsychologist who hypothesized that when the brain commands the eyes to move, it also sends a “corollary discharge”, or internal copy, of that command to the visual system.

Roger Sperry

6)      What name derived from a fairytale is given to a planet that falls within the habitable zone of its star?

Goldilocks Planet

7)      What does the Hipparcos Catalogue list?

Stars

8)      What is the popular name of the species Homo floresiensis?

Hobbit

9)      What French term is used to describe cooking food in airtight plastic bags for longer than normal times at strictly regulated temperatures?

Sous-vide

10)  Name the dairy farmer who founded Glastonbury Festival that is held every year on his farm.

Michael Eavis