Answers to Quiz - 131

1)      What kind of liquor are Colheita and Garrafeira?

Port wine

2)      Only one cricket match has been played as part of Olympic Games. Which two countries played and at which games?

Great Britain and France at the 1900 games in Paris

3)      What is the currency of Macau?

Pataca

4)      Parkour involves moving efficiently around obstacles by running, climbing, leaping, rolling etc. What is its practitioner called?

Traceur

5)      What does the Fujita-Pearson scale measure?

Intensity of Tornado

6)      What unusual “instrument” does the American composer Joseph Bertolozzi famously use to play his music?

Suspension Bridges

7)      Chapulling is the latest buzzword to enter the global dictionary. What is the meaning of this Turkish origin word?

Fighting for your rights

8)      What Islamic apparel was designed by Aheda Zanetti?

Burqini

9)      What is the Chatham House Rule?

When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed.

10)  Who is known as the Father of Bacteriology?

Robert Koch

QUIZ - 131

1)      What kind of liquor are Colheita and Garrafeira?

2)      Only one cricket match has been played as part of Olympic Games. Which two countries played and at which games?

3)      What is the currency of Macau?

4)      Parkour involves moving efficiently around obstacles by running, climbing, leaping, rolling etc. What is its practitioner called?

5)      What does the Fujita-Pearson scale measure?

6)      What unusual “instrument” does the American composer Joseph Bertolozzi famously use to play his music?

7)      Chapulling is the latest buzzword to enter the global dictionary. What is the meaning of this Turkish origin word?

8)      What Islamic apparel was designed by Aheda Zanetti?

9)      What is the Chatham House Rule?

10)  Who is known as the Father of Bacteriology?

Answers to Quiz - 130

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

Jean-Georges Noverre (1727-1810), the creator of modern ballet

2)      What does Quacquarelli Symonds famously rank?

Universities of the World

3)      What does the Cartagena Protocol seek to protect?

Biological Diversity

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

Ron Atkinson

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

The Red Vineyard

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

Coca Cola

7)      What is Simian Army?

Tools used for IT disaster recovery testing

8)      What is Tategaki?

Japanese script of writing from top to bottom

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

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?

Earl Grey

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