QUIZ - 130

1)      In whose honour is the International Dance Day celebrated every year on 29^th April?

2)      What does Quacquarelli Symonds famously rank?

3)      What does the Cartagena Protocol seek to protect?

4)      Whom did Alex Ferguson replace as the manager of Manchester United in 1986?

5)      What was the only painting that Vincent van Gogh managed to sell during his lifetime?

6)      What did Dr John Pemberton invent in May 1886?

7)      What is Simian Army?

8)      What is Tategaki?

9)      What is the name given to the 40 ft tall perpendicular rock that is the last obstacle before reaching Mount Everest?

10)  What is the name of the very famous tea blend that is flavoured by the oil extracted from the rind of the Bergamot orange?

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 19^th 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

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?