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?

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

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

4)      Who slayed Chimera?

5)      Name the 19^th Century German chemist who invented Marmite?

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

7)      What is the practice of “Elimination Communication” related to?

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?

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.

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

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

QUIZ - 128

1)      What service is provided by a doula?

2)      Which country celebrates the festival of Thingyan?

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

4)      Who is fondly known as Madiba?

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Answers to Quiz - 127

1)      What term was coined by Horace Walpole in a letter dated 28^th 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

QUIZ - 127

1)      What term was coined by Horace Walpole in a letter dated 28^th January 1754?

2)      Who was referred to by the epithet “Boadicea in pearls”?

3)      What are people suffering from EHS allergic to?  

4)      What term named after a country describes irregular practices among a group of workers to gain increased allowances, reduced working hours etc?

5)      Name the part of our brain that plays the central role in managing rewards and pleasures.

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.

7)      Dating back to 1897 and always run on the third Monday of April, which is the world’s oldest annual 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?

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?

10)  What commodity is bought and sold through the En primeur system?