tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65887231433602741152024-03-14T09:49:25.825+05:30Quizard Of OZWeekly Quiz on a flabbergasted topicAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05926303657820940789noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588723143360274115.post-53223559274338978632016-11-20T19:00:00.000+05:302016-11-20T19:00:11.932+05:30Quiz 31- 10 Questions on Answer.- Answers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
1. International A.N.S.W.E.R, (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) or ANSWER Coalition, is a United States-based protest umbrella group consisting of many antiwar and civil rights organizations. ANSWER has helped to organize many of the largest anti-war demonstrations in the United States, like those against the Iraq War. The group has also organized activities around a variety of other issues, ranging from the Israel/Palestine debate to immigrant rights to Social Security. The group was formed after which infamous historic event?<br />
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Ans: Sept. 11 attacks.<br />
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2. In January 2007, Yahoo! India launched 'Yahoo! Answers' -an online community where anyone can ask and answer questions on any topic. The forum was launched by a well known India, with the question "What should we do to free our planet from terrorism?" The question was answered by many including Leander Paes, Kiran Bedi and Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. Whose questions was it?<br />
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Ans: A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.<br />
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3. Suppose you want to send to a person in another country a letter, along with the cost of postage for a reply then you can use an international reply coupon (IRC). It is a coupon that can be exchanged for one or more postage stamps representing the minimum postage for an unregistered priority airmail letter. So the person receiving the IRC you sent, has to just go to a post office and exchange the coupon for postage stamp- Thus he can answer your mail without spending on postage. IRC was introduced in 1906 at a Universal Postal Union congress in Rome. IRC however was soon used to for a notorious fraud scheme that has gone down in history and even become a part of daily lexicon. What scheme ?<br />
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Ans: Ponzi Scheme. In 1920, Charles Ponzi made use of the idea that profit could be made by taking advantage of the differing postal rates in different countries to buy IRCs cheaply in one country and exchange them for stamps of a higher value in another country. This subsequently became the fraudulent Ponzi scheme.<br />
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4. An email storm is a sudden spike of Reply All messages on an email distribution list, usually caused by a controversial or misdirected message when multiple members of the distribution list reply to the entire list at the same time. On August 2016, the New York Times internal email system experienced such an email storm, so on September 2nd the NYT published an article titled "When I’m Mistakenly Put on an Email Chain, Should I Hit ‘Reply All’ Asking to Be Removed?"<br />
All you have to write is the content of the article - verbatim.<br />
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Ans: No.<br />
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5. The 'Leonidas monument' is a modern monument at Thermopylae (Greece) built in honor of the Spartan king, who lead the Spartans in the Battle of Thermopylae. It features a bronze statue of Leonidas and a sign under the statue says something in Greek. These words (molon labé) were the answer of Leonidas to Xerxes' demand that the Greeks give up their weapons. What do they translate in English?<br />
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Ans: "Come and take them!"<br />
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6. The following are some clues that appeared in a few crosswords and their answers<br />
17 across, "One of the U.S." : Utah<br />
3 down, "Red Indian on the Missouri" : Omaha<br />
11 across, "[common]... but some bigwig like this has stolen some of it at times.": Overlord<br />
11 across, "This bush is a centre of nursery revolutions." : Mulberry<br />
15 down, "Britannia and he hold to the same thing." : Neptune<br />
Unlike many other crossword clues, these however have gone down in the annals of history and perhaps in many quizzes too. Why?<br />
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Ans: The crosswords appeared in 1944 and the answers to a few of these clues were codenames related to the D-Day plans. Leonard Dawe, Telegraph crossword compiler, created these puzzles and was arrested by MI5 at the school where he was a headmaster. He was interrogated intensively, but it was decided that he was innocent and it was all a mere coincidence. (There is a much interesting story to the coincidence, but that would make the answer just too long)<br />
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7. It was the 'Battle of Bulge', an important battle of the 2nd World war. Anthony McAuliffe, commander of the 101st Airborne Division was besieged by a far larger force of Germans at the crucial town of Bastogne. on 22nd December 1944 the German commander sent a surrender demand typewritten in English (below photograph is of the long letter). What was the reply of Anthony McAuliffe, that made him one of the most memorable commanders of WWII ?<br />
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Ans: "Nuts!"<br />
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The reply was typed up, centered on a full sheet of paper. It read:<br />
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"December 22, 1944<br />
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To the German Commander,<br />
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N U T S !<br />
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The American Commander"<br />
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8. '42 Puzzle' is a game devised by a well known author in 1994 for the United States series of his books. The puzzle is an illustration consisting of 42 multi-coloured balls, in 7 columns and 6 rows. In the puzzle the question is unknown, but the answer is already known to be 42. The puzzle was later incorporated into the covers of all of his reprinted novels in the United States. Which Author?<br />
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Ans: Douglas Adams for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books. The number 42 in the book is the "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything", calculated by an enormous supercomputer named Deep Thought over a period of 7.5 million years. Unfortunately, no one knows what the question is. Thus, to calculate the Ultimate Question, a special computer the size of a small planet was built from organic components and named "Earth"...<br />
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9. "Southern Man" is a song by Neil Young , whose lyrics describe the racism towards blacks in the American South. In the song, Young tells the story of a white man (symbolically the entire white South) and how he mistreated his slaves. In the song Young asks when the South will make amends for the fortunes built through slavery. As an answer to this song, this southern rock bank composed a song for their second album and the song went on to become the bands second hit single. It reached number 8 on the US chart in 1974 and far surpassed "Southern Man". The song is even played today in many FM stations across the world. Which song ?<br />
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Ans: Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynyrd .<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lynyrd_Skynyrd_Sweet_Home_Alabama.ogg" target="_blank">Click to hear the song</a><br />
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10. If some one asked you a 'polar question' (a linguistics terminology), what are the possible answers that you can give ?<br />
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Ans: It is a question whose expected answer is either "yes" or "no".<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05926303657820940789noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588723143360274115.post-48281273903327611782016-11-13T19:51:00.001+05:302016-11-13T19:52:21.519+05:30Quiz 31- 10 Questions on Answer.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Last week- we had 10 questions on questions- I thought it was logical to follow that topic with this !<br />
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1. International A.N.S.W.E.R, (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) or ANSWER Coalition, is a United States-based protest umbrella group consisting of many antiwar and civil rights organizations. ANSWER has helped to organize many of the largest anti-war demonstrations in the United States, like those against the Iraq War. The group has also organized activities around a variety of other issues, ranging from the Israel/Palestine debate to immigrant rights to Social Security. The group was formed after which infamous historic event?<br />
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2. In January 2007, Yahoo! India launched 'Yahoo! Answers' -an online community where anyone can ask and answer questions on any topic. The forum was launched by a well known India, with the question "What should we do to free our planet from terrorism?" The question was answered by many including Leander Paes, Kiran Bedi and Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. Whose questions was it?<br />
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3. Suppose you want to send to a person in another country a letter, along with the cost of postage for a reply then you can use an international reply coupon (IRC). It is a coupon that can be exchanged for one or more postage stamps representing the minimum postage for an unregistered priority airmail letter. So the person receiving the IRC you sent, has to just go to a post office and exchange the coupon for postage stamp- Thus he can answer your mail without spending on postage. IRC was introduced in 1906 at a Universal Postal Union congress in Rome. IRC however was soon used to for a notorious fraud scheme that has gone down in history and even become a part of daily lexicon. What scheme ?<br />
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4. An email storm is a sudden spike of 'Reply All' messages on an email distribution list. It is usually caused by a controversial or misdirected message, when multiple members of the distribution list reply to the entire list at the same time. On August 2016, the New York Times internal email system experienced such an email storm, so on September 2nd the NYT published an article titled "When I’m Mistakenly Put on an Email Chain, Should I Hit ‘Reply All’ Asking to Be Removed?"<br />
All you have to write is the content of the article - verbatim.<br />
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5. The 'Leonidas monument' is a modern monument at Thermopylae (Greece) built in honor of the Spartan king, who lead the Spartans in the Battle of Thermopylae. It features a bronze statue of Leonidas and a sign under the statue says something in Greek. These words (molon labé) were the answer of Leonidas to Xerxes' demand that the Greeks give up their weapons. What do they translate in English?<br />
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6. The following are some clues that appeared in a few crosswords in the Daily Telegraph.<br />
17 across, "One of the U.S."<br />
3 down, "Red Indian on the Missouri"<br />
11 across, "[common]... but some bigwig like this has stolen some of it at times."<br />
11 across, "This bush is a centre of nursery revolutions."<br />
15 down, "Britannia and he hold to the same thing."<br />
Unlike many other crossword clues, these however (because of their answer) have gone down in the annals of history and perhaps in many quizzes too. Why?<br />
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7. It was the 'Battle of Bulge', an important battle of the 2nd World War. Anthony McAuliffe, commander of the 101st Airborne Division was besieged by a far larger force of Germans at the crucial town of Bastogne. on 22nd December 1944 the German commander sent a surrender demand typewritten in English (below photograph is of the long letter). What was the reply of Anthony McAuliffe, that made him one of the most memorable commanders of WWII ?<br />
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8. '42 Puzzle' is a game devised by a well known author in 1994 for the United States series of his books. The puzzle is an illustration consisting of 42 multi-coloured balls, in 7 columns and 6 rows. In the puzzle the question is unknown, but the answer is already known to be 42. The puzzle was later incorporated into the covers of all of his reprinted novels in the United States. Which Author?<br />
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9. "Southern Man" is a song by Neil Young , whose lyrics describe the racism towards blacks in the American South. In the song, Young tells the story of a white man (symbolically the entire white South) and how he mistreated his slaves. In the song Young asks when the South will make amends for the fortunes built through slavery. As an answer to this song, this southern rock bank composed a song for their second album and the song went on to become the bands second hit single. It reached number 8 on the US chart in 1974 and far surpassed "Southern Man". The song is even played today in many FM stations across the world. Which song ?<br />
excerpt from the lyrics of the song- if it helps.<br />
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"Well, I heard Mister Young sing about her<br />
Well, I heard ol' Neil put her down<br />
Well, I hope Neil Young will remember<br />
A Southern man don't need him around anyhow"<br />
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10. If some one asked you a 'polar question' (a linguistics terminology), what are the possible answers that you can give ?<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05926303657820940789noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588723143360274115.post-1603418551351376202016-11-13T09:00:00.000+05:302016-11-13T09:00:23.778+05:30Quiz 30 - 10 Questions on Questions - Answer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
1. "?"- this was the entire content of a telegram sent by Victor Hugo, to his publishers, asking how 'Les Miserables' was selling. What was the publishers reply ?<br />
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Ans: "!"<br />
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2. The so called " Roman Question" was settled by the signing the Lateran Treaty in 1929. What was the result of the treaty?<br />
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Ans: The state of Vatican City was created and full and independent sovereignty was guaranteed to the Holy pope. The treaty was signed for King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy by Prime Minister Benito Mussolini and for Pope Pius XI by Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, papal secretary of state. The term "The Roman Question" was from the title of an article headed "The Roman Question" in the Westminster Review . It expressed the opinion that the Papal States should be deprived of the Adriatic provinces and be restricted to the territory around Rome.<br />
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3. Groups of officers called 'legati', were assigned to carry out a survey. They visited each county of their country and conducted public inquiries. The set of questions that these officers asked with the town and county representatives constituted the 'Inquisitio Eliensis'. The answers to these questions provided the basis for which famous manuscript?<br />
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Ans: The Domesday Book, which was a written record of a statistical survey of England ordered by William the Conqueror. The survey, made in 1086, was an attempt to register the landed wealth of the country in a systematic fashion, to determine the revenues due to the king. Domesday is a corruption of Doomsday (the day of the final judgment); the work was so named because its judgments in terms of levies and assessments were irrevocable.<br />
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4. The Modified Mercalli scale does not use any instruments to measure this natural phenomenon, but relies on the opinions of human observers. Scientist who use the Modified Mercalli scale, gather information by means of letter questionnaires sent to people who experienced the phenomenon or reports from the local population and then assign Mercalli numbers to points in the affected areas. Which phenomenon is thus measured in this way?<br />
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Ans: Earthquake. The scale has 12 levels of intensity. Each level is defined by a group of observable earthquake effects, such as shaking of the ground and damage to structures such as buildings, roads, and bridges. The levels are designated by the Roman numerals I to XII. Levels I through VI are used to describe what people see and feel during a small to moderate earthquake. Levels VII through XII are used to describe damage to structures during a moderate to catastrophic earthquake.<br />
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5. King Menander was a Greek ruler of a large Indo-Greek empire in the late 2nd century BC. The questions and dilemmas posed by the king were answered by the Buddhist philosopher and senior monk Nagasena. These question and answer dialogues, between the two, form the basis for which Buddhist doctrine?<br />
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Ans: Milinda Panha, in Pali means “Questions of Milinda”. Menander, was known to Indian sources as Milinda .This work forms a important part in Theravada Buddhism, in which certain key Buddhist teachings are explored.<br />
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6. This disease is caused by the bacterium Coxiella burnetii and was first described by Edward Holbrook Derrick of Queensland, Australia. The name for the disease is derived from the word 'Query' because when it was initially identified it posed many unanswered questions to Edward. Which disease?<br />
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Ans: Q fever.In which Q stands for query<br />
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7. During the religious meal of Seder, four to five cups of wine are poured. After the second cup is poured, the youngest child asks four standard questions about the unusual ceremonies:<br />
“Why does this night differ from all other nights? For on all other nights we eat either leavened or unleavened bread; why on this night only unleavened bread?<br />
On all other nights we eat all kinds of herbs; why on this night only bitter herbs?<br />
On all other nights we need not dip our herbs even once; why on this night must we dip them twice? On all other nights we eat either sitting up or reclining; why on this night do we all recline?”<br />
Which festival is thus commenced with the partake of Seder?<br />
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Ans: The Jewish festival of Passover. The prepared answers to the questions are recited by all in unison.The fifth cup of wine is not drunk and is poured in honour of prophet Elijah.<br />
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8. Philosophers have attempted to answer this question for thousands of years. Today the four main theories they have proposed to answer this question are the correspondence, pragmatic, coherence, and deflationary theories. Which question?<br />
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Ans: “What is truth?”</div>
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9. The "Question Hour" in the 'Lok Sabha' (India's lower house of parliament) has two main types of question—Starred and non-starred. What is the difference between the two?</div>
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Ans: Starred Questions are those for which an oral answer is expected. The member is allowed to ask a supplementary question, with the permission of the Speaker, after the reply is obtained from the Minister concerned. Non-starred questions are those for which a written reply is expected. After the reply has been provided, no supplementary question can be asked.</div>
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10. Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass Se Tez Hain? was a game show on Indian Television channel STAR Plus and was based on the American game show, Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? Which Indian star hosted the show?<br />
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Ans: Shahrukh Khan</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05926303657820940789noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588723143360274115.post-35655552616131456392016-11-06T06:00:00.000+05:302016-11-06T06:00:01.192+05:30Quiz 30 - 10 Questions on Questions<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
"The Answer to the Great Question Of…Life, the Universe and Everything…[is] Forty-two."<br />
-The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy<br />
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1. "?"- this was the entire content of a telegram sent by Victor Hugo, to his publishers, asking how 'Les Miserables' was selling. What was the publishers reply ?<br />
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2. The so called " Roman Question" was settled by the signing the Lateran Treaty in 1929. What was the result of the treaty?<br />
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3. Groups of officers called 'legati', were assigned to carry out a survey. They visited each county of their country and conducted public inquiries. The set of questions that these officers asked with the town and county representatives constituted the 'Inquisitio Eliensis'. The answers to these questions provided the basis for which famous manuscript?<br />
<br />
4. The Modified Mercalli scale does not use any instruments to measure this natural phenomenon, but relies on the opinions of human observers. Scientist who use the Modified Mercalli scale, gather information by means of letter questionnaires sent to people who experienced the phenomenon or reports from the local population and then assign Mercalli numbers to points in the affected areas. Which phenomenon is thus measured in this way?<br />
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5. King Menander was a Greek ruler of a large Indo-Greek empire in the late 2nd century BC. The questions and dilemmas posed by the king were answered by the Buddhist philosopher and senior monk Nagasena. These question and answer dialogues, between the two, form the basis for which Buddhist doctrine?<br />
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6. This disease is caused by the bacterium Coxiella burnetii and was first described by Edward Holbrook Derrick of Queensland, Australia. The name for the disease is derived from the word 'Query' because when it was initially identified it posed many unanswered questions to Edward. Which disease?<br />
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7. During the religious meal of Seder, four to five cups of wine are poured. After the second cup is poured, the youngest child asks four standard questions about the unusual ceremonies:<br />
“Why does this night differ from all other nights? For on all other nights we eat either leavened or unleavened bread; why on this night only unleavened bread?<br />
On all other nights we eat all kinds of herbs; why on this night only bitter herbs?<br />
On all other nights we need not dip our herbs even once; why on this night must we dip them twice? On all other nights we eat either sitting up or reclining; why on this night do we all recline?”<br />
Which festival is thus commenced with the partake of Seder?<br />
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8. Philosophers have attempted to answer this question for thousands of years. Today the four main theories they have proposed to answer this question are the correspondence, pragmatic, coherence, and deflationary theories. Which question?<br />
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9. The "Question Hour" in the 'Lok Sabha' (India's lower house of parliament) has two main types of question—Starred and non-starred. What is the difference between the two?</div>
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10. Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass Se Tez Hain? was a game show on Indian Television channel STAR Plus and was based on the American game show, "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader"? Which Indian star hosted the show? </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05926303657820940789noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588723143360274115.post-33338720308843111642016-10-30T09:00:00.000+05:302016-10-31T09:25:49.888+05:30Quiz 29- 10 question on Shepherd's - Answer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
1.What important discovery was made by the shepherd Jum’a, of the Taamireh tribe of the nomadic Bedouins in 1947?<br />
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Ans: The dead sea scrolls<br />
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2.In Greek mythology she was goddess of the Moon. She fell in love with Edymion, a shepherd on Mount Latmos in Caria, where she lulled Edymion into an eternal sleep so that he could never leave her. She visited him every night as he lay asleep in a cave and bore him 50 daughters. Which element in the periodic table is named after this goddess?<br />
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Ans: Selenium, after godess Selene. She was usually represented as a woman with the moon (often in crescent form) on her head and driving a two-horse chariot. As Luna, she had temples at Rome on the Aventine and Palatine hills.<br />
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3. Girolamo Fracastoro, a physician from Verona, wrote a poem, in which he described new disease,and its treatment.The hero of this poem is a Shepherd, whose name literally means ' friend of swine ' The poem is about a shepherd boy who insulted the Greek god Apollo and was punished by that god with a horrible disease. Today, this disease, caused by the bacteria <i>Treponema pallidum,</i> is named after this character. Which disease?<br />
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Ans: Syphilis, The poem was called 'Syphilis sive morbus Gallicus'(Syphilis or the French Disease)<br />
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4.Which place in Telangana, well known for a fort, among other precious items, gets its name because it was built on a shepherd's hill. The fort was was first built by the Kakatiya dynasty and the place later became the capital of the medieval sultanate of the Qutb Shahi dynasty?<br />
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Ans: Golconda.from Golla Konda. There us an alternate etymology for Golconda, Gol konda ("Round shaped hill"). The precious items being the Koh-i-Noor, the Hope Diamond and the Nassak Diamond, which were mined here.<br />
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5. The discovery of what is attributed to 'Magnes the shepherd boy' by encyclopedist Pliny the Elder?<br />
P.S. 'Etymologiae' by Isidore of Seville tells the same story as Pliny, but places Magnes in India and so does Vincent of Beauvais in ' Miroir du Monde and Thomas Nicols' in Lapidary, where Magnes is called as "shepherd of India"<br />
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Ans: Magnet. he describes “the nails of whose shoes and the tip of whose staff stuck fast in a magnetic field while he pastured his flocks.”<br />
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6 . Some planets of our Solar system have a natural satellite, which are called 'Shepard Moons'. What characteristic feature in these planets is caused by these 'Shepard moons' ?<br />
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Ans: The gaps in the ring system of the planets, the most well known such gap being the Cassini Division. The name is a result of the fact they limit the "herd" of the ring particles as a shepherd.<br />
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7 Which flower is called the 'shepherd's barometer' or "shepherd's weather glass", because the flowers close at the approach of rain and opens in bright sunshine? A famous novel on which numerous movies and TV shows are based is named after this flower.<br />
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Ans: The Scarlet Pimpernel.<br />
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8. Two well known Indian kingdoms were founded by people belonging to the shepherd cast. One was founded by Malhar Rao, belonging to the Dhangar shepherds clan and other founded by Hukka (Harihara I) and Bukka (Bukka Raya), belonging to the Kuruba shepherd community - Identify any one of the kingdom.<br />
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Ans: Holkar and Vijayanagar kingdoms.<br />
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9. In Homer's Odyssey, these shepherds living in Sicily were a lawless, savage, and cannibalistic race fearing neither gods nor humans. The Greek hero Odysseus was once trapped with his men in the cave of one of these shepherds called Polyphemus. Several of Odysseus's men were devoured by this giant shepherd but Odysseus managed to escape from the cave by cunningly blinding him. Which mythological race of giants ?<br />
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Ans: The Cyclops. They were giants with one enormous eye in the middle of the forehead.<br />
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10. Sea Shepherd Conservation Society was founded in 1977 by Paul Watson, a former member of Greenpeace, after a dispute with that organization over what Watson saw as its lack of more aggressive intervention. Supported by some and called eco-terrorist by others, the groups controversial tactics are directed for prevention of what illegal practice at sea?<br />
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Ans: Whaling and Seal hunting. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05926303657820940789noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588723143360274115.post-47672137911392155562016-10-23T15:03:00.001+05:302016-10-23T15:03:09.287+05:30Quiz 29- 10 question on Shepherd's<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
There was no quiz last week- Reason: time management failure.<br />
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1.What important discovery was made by the shepherd Jum’a, of the Taamireh tribe of the nomadic Bedouins in 1947?<br />
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2.In Greek mythology she was goddess of the Moon. She fell in love with Edymion, a shepherd on Mount Latmos in Caria, where she lulled Edymion into an eternal sleep so that he could never leave her. She visited him every night as he lay asleep in a cave and bore him 50 daughters. Which element in the periodic table is named after this goddess?<br />
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3. Girolamo Fracastoro, a physician from Verona, wrote a poem, in which he described new disease,and its treatment.The hero of this poem is a Shepherd, whose name literally means ' friend of swine ' The poem is about a shepherd boy who insulted the Greek god Apollo and was punished by that god with a horrible disease. Today, this disease, caused by the bacteria <i>Treponema pallidum,</i> is named after this character. Which disease?<br />
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4.Which place in Telangana, well known for a fort, among other precious items, gets its name because it was built on a shepherd's hill. The fort was was first built by the Kakatiya dynasty and the place later became the capital of the medieval sultanate of the Qutb Shahi dynasty?<br />
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5. The discovery of what is attributed to 'Magnes the shepherd boy' by encyclopedist Pliny the Elder?<br />
P.S. 'Etymologiae' by Isidore of Seville tells the same story as Pliny, but places Magnes in India and so does Vincent of Beauvais in ' Miroir du Monde and Thomas Nicols' in Lapidary, where Magnes is called as "shepherd of India"<br />
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6.Some planets of our Solar system have a natural satellite, which are called 'Shepherd Moons'. What characteristic feature in these planets is caused by these 'Shepherd moons' ?<br />
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7 .Which flower is called the 'shepherd's barometer' or "shepherd's weather glass" because the flowers close at the approach of rain and open in bright sunshine? A famous novel on which numerous movies and TV shows are based is named after this flower.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Cover of 1908 Edition of the book.</span></td></tr>
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8. Two well known Indian kingdoms were founded by people belonging to the shepherd cast. One was founded by Malhar Rao, belonging to the Dhangar shepherds clan and other founded by Hukka (Harihara I) and Bukka (Bukka Raya), belonging to the Kuruba shepherd community - Identify any one of the kingdoms.<br />
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9. In Homer's Odyssey, these shepherds living in Sicily were a lawless, savage, and cannibalistic race fearing neither gods nor humans. The Greek hero Odysseus was once trapped with his men in the cave of one of these shepherds called Polyphemus. Several of Odysseus's men were devoured by this giant shepherd but Odysseus managed to escape from the cave by cunningly blinding him. Which mythological race of giants ?<br />
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10. Sea Shepherd Conservation Society was founded in 1977 by Paul Watson, a former member of Greenpeace, after a dispute with that organization over what Watson saw as its lack of more aggressive intervention. Supported by some and called eco-terrorist by others, the groups controversial tactics are directed for prevention of what illegal practice at sea?<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05926303657820940789noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588723143360274115.post-25315917091409932122016-10-16T09:00:00.000+05:302016-10-16T09:00:19.560+05:3028- 10 Questions on Carpets - Answers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
1. "The dropping of large numbers of bombs, so as to cause uniform devastation over a given area" and "to conduct an intensive campaign, especially in the media, to sway public opinion or to destroy somebody’s reputation". These are two definitions of a single phrase. Which phrase?<br />
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Ans: Carpet Bombing<br />
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2. In one of the stories of One Thousand and One Nights, the Sultan of the Indies has three sons who want to marry their cousin Princess Nouronnihar. So the Sultan says he will give her to the prince who brings back the most extraordinary rare object. Prince Husain, the eldest son of the Sultan buys a magic carpet. From which Indian city, the capital of a well known empire, does he buy the carpet from?<br />
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Ans: Vijayanagar.<br />
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3.Connect Sehna, Spanish and Ghiordes in relation to carpets ?<br />
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Ans: These are the three most commonly used knots in carpet weaving. Ex: Ferahan carpet is made with the Sehna knot on a cotton foundation; while the admiral carpet uses the Spanish knot, on a single warp, and bijar carpet is Woven on a woolen foundation, in the Ghiordes knot.<br />
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4.Indo-isfahan, were handmade carpets manufactured in India during the 17th century. These carpets were imitations of the Herat carpet and were exported in quantity to Europe, especially to Portugal and the Low Countries, by the various East India companies. Today these carpets are frequently seen in 17th-century Dutch paintings. Although the carpet was made in India why was the name Esfahan suffixed with Indo?<br />
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Ans: The name Esfahan was applied in the belief that Persian carpets sold better than Indian. (Esfahan or Hispahan, is the capital of Isfahan Province in Iran, located about 340 kilometres (211 miles) south of Tehran)<br />
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5.It was one of the most unusual way to meet anyone. But she was bought in front of him concealed in a carpet. The dramatic introduction then happened when she stepped out of the unrolled carpet. Who met whom in this fashion?<br />
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Ans: Cleopatra met Julius Caesar<br />
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6. Erastus Brigham Bigelow,had to forego formal education at the age of 10. At the age of 23 he invented his first loom for lace manufacture. Bigelow followed this with other power looms for weaving a variety of figured fabrics, tapestry carpeting, and ingrain carpeting. Several years later, he founded the Bigelow carpet mills and from 1845 to 1851 Bigelow developed his greatest invention, a power loom for the manufacture of Brussels and Wilton carpets. His inventions provided a large impetus to carpet manufacture in Europe as well as in the United States. Bigelow later became the co-founder of one of Americas greatest institute. Which Institute ?<br />
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Ans: MIT<br />
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7. GoodWeave International, formerly known as Rugmark, is a network of non-profit organizations dedicated to ending illegal child labour in the rug and carpet making industry. Who was its founder?<br />
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Ans: Kailash Satyarthi<br />
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8. During the Middle Ages, when manuscript painting was considered a high art, illuminators frequently decorated their codices with a carpet page. What was a carpet page?<br />
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Ans: It was the opening page, containing abstract designs and so called because its abstract designs resemble an Oriental carpet.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">A carpet page from the Lindisfarne Gospels</span></td></tr>
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9. This Indian city is also known as the "Carpet City," as it is home to the largest hand-knotted carpet weaving industry hub in South Asia. The city also has a Geographical Indication (GI) tag for the carpets manufactured here. Which city?<br />
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Ans: Bhadohi<br />
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10.Which company first introduced the astro-turf?<br />
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Ans. Monsanto.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05926303657820940789noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588723143360274115.post-82283424725863198462016-10-09T10:00:00.000+05:302016-10-09T10:00:11.386+05:3028- 10 Questions on Carpets<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
1. "The dropping of large numbers of bombs, so as to cause uniform devastation over a given area" and "to conduct an intensive campaign, especially in the media, to sway public opinion or to destroy somebody’s reputation". These are two definitions of a single phrase. Which phrase?<br />
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2. In one of the stories of One Thousand and One Nights, the Sultan of the Indies has three sons who want to marry their cousin Princess Nouronnihar. So the Sultan says he will give her to the prince who brings back the most extraordinary rare object. Prince Husain, the eldest son of the Sultan buys a magic carpet. From which Indian city, the capital of a well known empire, does he buy the carpet from?<br />
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3.Connect Sehna, Spanish and Ghiordes in relation to carpets ?<br />
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4.Indo-isfahan, were handmade carpets manufactured in India during the 17th century. These carpets were imitations of the Herat carpet and were exported in quantity to Europe, especially to Portugal and the Low Countries, by the various East India companies. Today these carpets are frequently seen in 17th-century Dutch paintings. Although the carpet was made in India why was the name Esfahan suffixed with Indo?<br />
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5.It was one of the most unusual way to meet anyone. But she was bought in front of him concealed in a carpet. The dramatic introduction then happened when she stepped out of the unrolled carpet. Who met whom in this fashion?<br />
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6. Erastus Brigham Bigelow,had to forego formal education at the age of 10. At the age of 23 he invented his first loom for lace manufacture. Bigelow followed this with other power looms for weaving a variety of figured fabrics, tapestry carpeting, and ingrain carpeting. Several years later, he founded the Bigelow carpet mills and from 1845 to 1851 Bigelow developed his greatest invention, a power loom for the manufacture of Brussels and Wilton carpets. His inventions provided a large impetus to carpet manufacture in Europe as well as in the United States. Bigelow later became the co-founder of one of Americas greatest institute. Which Institute ?<br />
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7. GoodWeave International, formerly known as Rugmark, is a network of non-profit organizations dedicated to ending illegal child labour in the rug and carpet making industry. Who was its founder?<br />
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8. During the Middle Ages, when manuscript painting was considered a high art, illuminators frequently decorated their codices with a carpet page. What was a carpet page?<br />
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9.This Indian city is also known as the "Carpet City," as it is home to the largest hand-knotted carpet weaving industry hub in South Asia. The city also has a Geographical Indication (GI) tag for the carpets manufactured here. Which city?<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05926303657820940789noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588723143360274115.post-29548273683289246972016-10-09T09:00:00.000+05:302016-10-09T22:24:07.238+05:30Quiz 27- 10 Questions on Dogs that bite the Most and least- Answers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The first 5 questions are on dogs that bite the most and the next 5 on least biting dogs.<br />
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1. This dog differs from all other dogs in having a blue-black tongue. The breed originating from China, where it is referred to as ' Songshi Quan ', which means "puffy-lion dog", it has also been called the Tang Quan, "Dog of the Tang Empire"and is one of the oldest recognisable breeds. The present name for this breed is derived from an English term used in the 19th century to refer to cargo from the Orient.Which breed of dog?<br />
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Ans: Chow Chow<br />
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2. This breed originated in Germany but it grew so popular in France, that it became the national dog of that country. The breed was developed as a water retriever, and the distinctive clipping of its heavy coat was initiated to increase the animal's efficiency in the water. The name of this breed derives from the German word for 'To Splash'. Which breed?<br />
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Ans: Poodle. In German the word Pudel was the short for Pudelhund, Which derives from pudeln to splash and Hund meaning dog<br />
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3. This breed of dog was established to assist in fox hunting, the dogs had to have the stamina to run with the Foxhounds and had to be small enough to follow a fox down its lair.The first dog of this breed was called a ‘Old Foiler’, and was registered by the Kennel Club in 1876. Which breed?<br />
Ans: Fox Terrier<br />
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4. This breed of dog gets its name from a town in Germany. The butchers of this town used these dogs to herd livestock and pull carts laden with butchered meat to market. Though this breed is good-natured, placid in basic disposition, very devoted, obedient, biddable and eager to work, bad ownership makes them potentially dangerous. Today nearly half the fatal dog bites in US are from this breed. Which breed?<br />
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Ans: Rottweiler, The dogs were known in German as Rottweiler Metzgerhund, meaning Rottweil butchers'<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rottweiler memorial in Rottweil</td></tr>
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5. This stubborn and jealous breed of toy dog was developed in ancient China, where it was held sacred and was kept as a palace dog by members of the Imperial family. It was introduced to the West by English forces that looted the Imperial Palace at Peking in 1860, during the second Opium war. The breed has been known, both in the Orient and in the West, as the “lion dog” because of its appearance. Which breed of ,one of the five 'bitingest' dogs?<br />
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Ans: Pekingese. The most famous of the many stories for the origin of Pekingese is The Lion and the Marmoset: A lion and a marmoset fell in love. But the lion was too large. The lion went to the Buddha and told him of his woes. The Buddha allowed the lion to shrink down to the size of the marmoset. And the Pekingese was the result.<br />
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6. This breed was originally developed in Scotland, in the estate of Sir Dudley Majoribanks (pronounced Marchbanks). The original breed was a cross of a yellow-coloured dog, Nous, with a now extinct Tweed Water Spaniel bitch, Belle. In 1868, this cross produced a litter that included four bitch pups which became the basis of a breeding program which included Red Setter, sandy-coloured Bloodhound, St Johns Water Dog of Newfoundland, Springer Spaniel, and wavy-coated black Retrievers. Thus a vigorous and powerful dog that was exceptionally good with people gentle and trainable was born. Which breed which boasts of an all sporting dogs ancestry and today popular as a disability assistance dog, hunting dog, a detection dog, and a search and rescue participant was thus created?<br />
Ans: Golden Retriever<br />
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7. Today it is considered the most popular breed in the world. This dog breed originated in Newfoundland and were brought to England by fishermen in about 1800. The most famous dog of this breed in India was 'Zanjeer'. Working with the Mumbai police, he help avert three explosions and during his service, he helped recover a massive cache of arms and ammunition. On his death, he was given a state funeral. Which dog breed ?<br />
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Ans: Labrador Retriever / Labrador<br />
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8. The name of this breed is derived from the French word for noisy person. The breed was used for hare hunting in England and Edward III, had a pack of up to 120 of this breeds ancestors with him on the battlefield during the Hundred Years' War and the first mention of the breed in English literature by name dates from 1475. The "most famous dog" of this breed is 'Snoopy' from the comic strip Peanuts. Which well known breed of dog?<br />
Ans: Beagle<br />
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9.This breed is named after the Adriatic coastal region and were originally used for many tasks like herding sheep, hunting in a pack, working as a retriever and as a bird dog. In the US the breed is associated with Budweiser beer since the Anheuser-Busch company's iconic beer wagon, drawn by a team of Clydesdale horses, is always accompanied by a dog of this breed. The breed was historically used by brewers to guard the wagon while the driver was making deliveries. The breed experienced a massive surge in popularity after a novel by Dodie Smith in 1956. Which breed of dogs?<br />
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Ans: Dalmatian. The novel being 101 Dalmatians.<br />
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10. This highly regarded breed of sporting dog of hound, spaniel, and setter ancestry derives its name from its assumption of a rigid posture in the direction of the quarry it has located. The breed was first recorded about 1650, in England, and was originally used to point out hares for greyhounds to track down and was trained as a bird dog in the 18th century. Other than being one of the five least 'bitingest' dog, it is also a well known "couch potato" Which breed of dog?<br />
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Ans: Pointer<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05926303657820940789noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588723143360274115.post-31536931605393659652016-10-02T10:00:00.000+05:302016-10-02T10:00:02.872+05:30Quiz 27- 10 Questions on Dogs that bite the Most and least<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This quiz is dedicated to Anjali, the most inspiring 'dog lover' I have come across. Many Happy returns of the day to you Anjali.<br />
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Various books and publications I referred to gave different list of dogs that bite the most or least. So I finally decided to choose a list from a book that has nothing to do with dogs. The below selection is from the 1977 book "Book of list" written by David Wallechinsky, his father Irving Wallace and sister Amy Wallace. The book that has been an inspiration for this blog.<br />
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The first 5 questions are on dogs that bite the most and the next 5 on least biting dogs.<br />
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1. This dog differs from all other dogs in having a blue-black tongue. The breed originating from China, where it is referred to as ' Songshi Quan ', which means "puffy-lion dog", it has also been called the Tang Quan, "Dog of the Tang Empire"and is one of the oldest recognisable breeds. The present name for this breed is derived from an English term used in the 19th century to refer to cargo from the Orient.Which breed of dog?<br />
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2. This breed originated in Germany but it grew so popular in France, that it became the national dog of that country. The breed was developed as awater retriever, and the distinctive clipping of its heavy coat was initiated to increase the animal's efficiency in the water. The name of this breed derives from the German word for 'To Splash'. Which breed?<br />
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3. This breed of dog was established to assist in fox hunting, the dogs had to have the stamina to run with the Foxhounds and had to be small enough to follow a fox down its lair.The first dog of this breed was called a ‘Old Foiler’, and was registered by the Kennel Club in 1876. Which breed?<br />
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4. This breed of dog gets its name from a town in Germany. The butchers of this town used these dogs to herd livestock and pull carts laden with butchered meat to market. Though this breed is good-natured, placid in basic disposition, very devoted, obedient, biddable and eager to work, bad ownership makes them potentially dangerous. Today nearly half the fatal dog bites in US are from this breed. Which breed?<br />
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5. This stubborn and jealous breed of toy dog was developed in ancient China, where it was held sacred and was kept as a palace dog by members of the Imperial family. It was introduced to the West by English forces that looted the Imperial Palace at Peking in 1860, during the second Opium war. The breed has been known, both in the Orient and in the West, as the “lion dog” because of its appearance. Which breed of ,one of the five bitingest dogs?<br />
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6. This breed was originally developed in Scotland, in the estate of Sir Dudley Majoribanks (pronounced Marchbanks). The original breed was a cross of a yellow-coloured dog, Nous, with a now extinct Tweed Water Spaniel bitch, Belle. In 1868, this cross produced a litter that included four bitch pups which became the basis of a breeding program which included Red Setter, sandy-coloured Bloodhound, St Johns Water Dog of Newfoundland, Springer Spaniel, and wavy-coated black Retrievers. Thus a vigorous and powerful dog that was exceptionally good with people gentle and trainable was born. Which breed which boasts of an all sporting dogs ancestry and today popular as a disability assistance dog, hunting dog, a detection dog, and a search and rescue participant was thus created?<br />
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7. Today it is considered the most popular breed in the world. This dog breed originated in Newfoundland and were brought to England by fishermen in about 1800. The most famous dog of this breed in India was 'Zanjeer'. Working with the Mumbai police, he help avert three explosions and during his service, he helped recover a massive cache of arms and ammunition. On his death, he was given a state funeral. Which dog breed ?<br />
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8. The name of this breed is derived from the French word for noisy person. The breed was used for hare hunting in England and Edward III, had a pack of up to 120 of this breeds ancestors with him on the battlefield during the Hundred Years' War and the first mention of the breed in English literature by name dates from 1475. The "most famous dog" of this breed is 'Snoopy' from the comic strip Peanuts. Which well known breed of dog?<br />
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9.This breed is named after the Adriatic coastal region and were originally used for many tasks like herding sheep, hunting in a pack, working as a retriever and as a bird dog. In the US the breed is associated with Budweiser beer since the Anheuser-Busch company's iconic beer wagon, drawn by a team of Clydesdale horses, is always accompanied by a dog of this breed. The breed was historically used by brewers to guard the wagon while the driver was making deliveries. The breed experienced a massive surge in popularity after a novel by Dodie Smith in 1956. Which breed of dogs?<br />
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10. This highly regarded breed of sporting dog of hound, spaniel, and setter ancestry derives its name from its assumption of a rigid posture in the direction of the quarry it has located. The breed was first recorded about 1650, in England, and was originally used to point out hares for greyhounds to track down and was trained as a bird dog in the 18th century. Other than being one of the five least 'bitingest' dog, it is also a well known "couch potato" Which breed of dog?</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05926303657820940789noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588723143360274115.post-42473596055907361462016-10-02T09:00:00.000+05:302016-10-02T09:00:29.689+05:30Quiz 26- 10 Questions on Physical Exercise : Answer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
" Thomas Jefferson…said, not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise…If the man who wrote the Declaration of Independence, was Secretary of State, and twice President, could give it two hours, our children can give it ten or fifteen minutes." - John Fitzgerald Kennedy<br />
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1.This term is derived from a Greek word meaning “to exercise naked,” and was applied in ancient Greece to all exercises practiced in a place where male athletes exercised unclothed. Many of these exercises came to be included in the ancient Olympic Games. Which word?<br />
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Ans: Gymnasium from the Greek word gymnazein.<br />
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2.This term was coined by American physician Kenneth Cooper in his exercise book . He used the term to describe exercises that use oxygen to keep large muscle groups moving continuously for at least 20 minutes. Based on this definition, the term came to refer to calisthenics taught to music. Judi Sheppard Missett and Jacki Sorensen were two early pioneers of this exercise . Jane Fonda and Richard Simmons helped popularize this exercise during the 1980s through instructional videotapes and television programs. What type of fitness exercise ?<br />
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Ans: Aerobics<br />
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3. This is probably the world's most popular martial art because tens of millions of people in China practice it as daily exercise. It is characterized by deliberately slow, rhythmic movements that are circular and continuous. These movements are based on stylized renditions of ancient kung fu arm and foot blows. As per legend this martial art and exercise was started by Zhang San-feng a monk who had studied martial arts for many years. He observed a fight between a snake and a crane in which the snake won through relaxed, evasive movements and quick counterstrikes. Inspired by the snake’s loose but controlled movements, Zhang San-feng devised a fighting form that emphasized strength, balance, flexibility, and speed. Over the centuries, it has evolved into a system of exercise that utilizes soft, slow, relaxed movements.Which martial art or exercise?<br />
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Ans: Tai chi chuan (Chinese for "great ultimate fist"), or simply Tai chi,<br />
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4. Although he is traditionally believed to be the founder of yoga and the author of the four volume Yoga-sutra, many scholars believe that the name is a pseudonym and credit more than one author for writing yoga-sutra under this name.One of the reasons for this conclusion being that the first three volumes were apparently written in the 2nd century BC and the last book in the 5th century AD. Which Indian scholar or scholars are we talking of?<br />
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Ans: Patanjali<br />
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5. In Sanskrit it is called Vinyasa Yoga, and is practiced by people looking for the benefits of yoga without the methodical pace. In this Yoga a person moves quickly through the asanas, not holding them as long as in other styles of yoga. Under what name is this yoga known in the west?<br />
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Ans: Power Yoga<br />
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6. It was developed by Per Henrik Ling, founder of the teacher-training centre, the Royal Gymnastics Central Institute, in Stockholm. Ling devised and taught a system of gymnastic exercises designed to produce medical benefits for the athlete. From these exercise evolved free calisthenics; that is, exercises without the use of hand apparatus such as clubs, wands, and dumbbells. Although Ling did not promote competition, free calisthenics evolved into a competitive sport . By what name do we know the sport?<br />
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Ans: Floor Exercise, in gymnastics<br />
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7. Pole dancing which is generally associated with strip clubs and night clubs is today gaining popularity as a form of fitness, practiced by many enthusiasts in gyms and in dedicated dance studios. Pole dancing which can be used as both an aerobic and anaerobic workout was used as an exercise more than 800 years ago in India, especially by the wrestlers. Today however it is practiced as a sport here. What is this exercise/ sport called ?<br />
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Ans: Mallakhamba. <br />
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8. In the mid 1990s Alberto "Beto" Perez, a Colombian dancer and choreographer forgot his tape of aerobics music for a class he was teaching. He went to his car, which had some music – consisting of non-traditional salsa and merengue music – he improvised his class using this non-traditional aerobics music and a trend caught on. After finding initial success in Columbia, he moved to the United States where he teamed up with Alberto Perlman and a childhood friend, Alberto Aghion and the trio built a company based on Alberto Perez's fitness philosophy. (Imagine three Alberto's as the head of a company!) Which well known brand was thus created?<br />
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Ans: Zumba fitness. <br />
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9.The build up of which chemical is responsible for the burning sensation and acute soreness in the muscle during and after a heavy exercise?<br />
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Ans: Lactic acid<br />
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10. This year the Indian Postal department released a set of stamps on some exercises, what were they collectively known as? (blanked out in the stamp)<br />
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Ans: Surya Namaskara<br />
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"Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick, you shouldn't take it."- Henry Ford.<br />
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1.This term is derived from a Greek word meaning “to exercise naked,” and was applied in ancient Greece to all exercises practiced in a place where male athletes exercised unclothed. Many of these exercises came to be included in the ancient Olympic Games. Which word?<br />
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2.This term was coined by American physician Kenneth Cooper in his exercise book . He used the term to describe exercises that use oxygen to keep large muscle groups moving continuously for at least 20 minutes. Based on this definition, the term came to refer to calisthenics taught to music. Judi Sheppard Missett and Jacki Sorensen were two early pioneers of this exercise . Jane Fonda and Richard Simmons helped popularize this exercise during the 1980s through instructional videotapes and television programs. What type of fitness exercise ?<br />
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3. This is probably the world's most popular martial art because tens of millions of people in China practice it as daily exercise. It is characterized by deliberately slow, rhythmic movements that are circular and continuous. These movements are based on stylized renditions of ancient kung fu arm and foot blows. As per legend this martial art and exercise was started by Zhang San-feng a monk who had studied martial arts for many years. He observed a fight between a snake and a crane in which the snake won through relaxed, evasive movements and quick counterstrikes. Inspired by the snake’s loose but controlled movements, Zhang San-feng devised a fighting form that emphasized strength, balance, flexibility, and speed. Over the centuries, it has evolved into a system of exercise that utilizes soft, slow, relaxed movements.Which martial art or exercise?<br />
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4.Although he is traditionally believed to be the founder of yoga and the author of the four volume Yoga-sutra, many scholars believe that the name is a pseudonym and credit more than one author for writing yoga-sutra under this name.One of the reasons for this conclusion being that the first three volumes were apparently written in the 2nd century BC and the last book in the 5th century AD. Which Indian scholar or scholars are we talking of?<br />
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5.In Sanskrit it is called Vinyasa Yoga, and is practicesd by people looking for the benefits of yoga without the methodical pace. In this Yoga a person moves quickly through the asanas, not holding them as long as in other styles of yoga. Under what name is this yoga known in the west?<br />
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6. It was developed by Per Henrik Ling, founder of the teacher-training centre, the Royal Gymnastics Central Institute, in Stockholm. Ling devised and taught a system of gymnastic exercises designed to produce medical benefits for the athlete. From these exercise evolved free calisthenics; that is, exercises without the use of hand apparatus such as clubs, wands, and dumbbells. Although Ling did not promote competition, free calisthenics evolved into a competitive sport . By what name do we know the sport?<br />
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7. Pole dancing which is generally associated with strip clubs and night clubs is today gaining popularity as a form of fitness, practiced by many enthusiasts in gyms and in dedicated dance studios. Pole dancing which can be used as both an aerobic and anaerobic workout was used as an exercise more than 800 years ago in India, especially by the wrestlers. Today however it is practiced as a sport here. What is this exercise/ sport called ?<br />
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8.' In the mid 1990s Alberto "Beto" Perez, a Colombian dancer and choreographer forgot his tape of aerobics music for a class he was teaching. He went to his car, which had some music – consisting of non-traditional salsa and merengue music – he improvised his class using this non-traditional aerobics music and a trend caught on. After finding initial success in Columbia, he moved to the United States where he teamed up with Alberto Perlman and a childhood friend, Alberto Aghion and the trio built a company based on Alberto Perez's fitness philosophy. (Imagine three Alberto's as the head of a company!) Which well known brand was thus created?<br />
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9.The build up of which chemical is responsible for the burning sensation and acute soreness in the muscle during and after a heavy exercise?<br />
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10. This year the Indian Postal department released a set of stamps on some exercises, what were they collectively known as? (blanked out in the stamp)<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05926303657820940789noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588723143360274115.post-72390610969390544142016-09-25T09:00:00.000+05:302016-09-25T09:00:00.894+05:30Quiz 25- 10 Questions on places that have been the cradle to a genre of music -Answer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
1. This city has the distinction of being the birth place for the most number of genre's of music. Some of them being Punk rock, Modern salsa, Tin Pan Alley, hip hop, disco, New Wave,No Wave, jazz, bop, free jazz, acid jazz, swing music, electroclash etc. Which city?<br />
Ans: New York<br />
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2. . Between the late 16th and the 18th centuries, this term was a common, coarse synonym for prostitute and was first used in relation to this genre of music by some American critics in the early 1970's. The genre began as a movement of disaffected youth of the late 1970's, in New York and London and stressed aggressive and fast performance, often within a three-chord, three-minute format and often contained political, anti-establishment lyrics. The music was influenced by Reggae and rockabilly. Which Genre of music?<br />
Ans: Punk (Punk rock)<br />
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3.With which country would you associate c-pop genre of music ?<br />
Ans: Mainland China. C-pop is an abbreviation for Chinese popular music.<br />
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4. Though Bhangra music is commonly associated with Punjab, it originated in United Kingdom, when the Punjabi diaspora there, experimented with western music and Punjabi folk songs. Which British city has the distinction of recording the first Bhangra album ?<br />
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Ans: Birmingham in 1967 by Bhujhangy Group<br />
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5. Fela Kuti was a multi-instrumentalist, musician, composer, human rights activist and is credited with the invention of the Afrobeat music genre. Afrobeat is a combination of traditional music of two African nations and was founded in one of these nations. It is the most popular music genre in these countries today. Which two countries? (correctly name any one country for full points)<br />
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Ans: Nigeria and Ghana.<br />
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6. It has been called the first original art form to develop in the United States of America and originated in New Orleans. The root of this category of music is the blues, the folk music of former African slaves in the U.S. South and their descendants. Heavily influenced by West African cultural and musical traditions that evolved as black musicians migrated to the cities. The origin of the term is also not clear and one of the many colourful theories in extant is that it came from the nickname of Jasbo Brown, an travelling musician along the banks of the Mississippi. Identify this syncopated popular music genre?<br />
Ans: Jazz<br />
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7. Tracing its origin to Los Angeles the first use of this word in a rock music is thought to have been by the New York-based folk group The Holy Modal Rounders on their version of Lead Belly's "Hesitation Blues" in 1964. The '13th Floor Elevators' became the first to advertise themselves as making music of this genre . In Britain the genre was made popular by Eric Burdon, The Who and The Beatles especially in their album 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band '. Which genre of music?<br />
Ans: Psychedelic Rock<br />
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8. This music is indigenous to the southern Caribbean and popular in Trinidad, Guyana and Suriname. It's a mixture of Bhojpuri, Western and local music and gaining increasing popularity in Canada and UK. The genre was created by Indo-Caribbean people whose ancestors were from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh and were taken as indentured servants by the British as laborers on sugar plantations. Despite the source of the music, the name of this Genre is reminiscent of something associated with south Indian breakfast. What genre?<br />
Ans: Chutney Music.<br />
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9. This music type originated in Kingston and was closely linked to the religion Rastafarianism. The music originated In 1963 when a young Jamaican boy named Jackie Mittoo was asked by a man named Coxsone Dodd to run sessions and compose original music at a studio on Brentford Rd. called Studio One. Which genre was thus created by Jackie Mittoo using the traditional ska beat at Studio One ?<br />
Ans: Reggae<br />
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10. The classical music of this country is called 'Klasik'. The genre is heavily influenced by Hindustani music in terms of terminology and structure. The music however is less concerned with the ragas and more with rhythm, which is played with the tabla imported from India. Which country?<br />
Ans: Afghanistan<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05926303657820940789noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588723143360274115.post-22715762268803374152016-09-18T10:00:00.001+05:302016-09-18T10:00:39.442+05:30Quiz 25- 10 Questions on places that have been the cradle to a genre of music <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
1. This city has the distinction of being the birth place for the most number of genre's of music. Some of them being Punk rock, Modern salsa, Tin Pan Alley, hip hop, disco, New Wave,No Wave, jazz, bop, free jazz, acid jazz, swing music, electroclash etc. Which city?<br />
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2. Between the late 16th and the 18th centuries, this term was a common, coarse synonym for prostitute and was first used in relation to this genre of music by some American critics in the early 1970's. The genre began as a movement of disaffected youth of the late 1970's, in New York and London and stressed aggressive and fast performance, often within a three-chord, three-minute format and often contained political, anti-establishment lyrics. The music was influenced by Reggae and rockabilly. Which Genre of music?<br />
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3. With which country would you associate a genre of music called C-pop ?<br />
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4. Though Bhangra music is commonly associated with Punjab, it originated in United Kingdom, when the Punjabi diaspora there experimented with western music and Punjabi folk songs. Which British city has the distinction of recording the first Bhangra album ?<br />
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5. Fela Kuti was a multi-instrumentalist, musician, composer, human rights activist and is credited with the invention of the Afrobeat music genre. Afrobeat is a combination of traditional music of two African nations and was founded in one of these nations. It is the most popular music genre in these countries today. Which two countries? (correctly name any one country for full points)<br />
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6. It has been called the first original art form to develop in the United States of America and originated in New Orleans. The root of this category of music is the blues, the folk music of former African slaves in the U.S. South and their descendants. Heavily influenced by West African cultural and musical traditions that evolved as black musicians migrated to the cities. The origin of the term is also not clear and one of the many colourful theories in extant is that it came from the nickname of Jasbo Brown, an travelling musician along the banks of the Mississippi. Identify this syncopated popular music genre?<br />
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7.Tracing its origin to Los Angeles the first use of this word in a rock music is thought to have been by the New York-based folk group The Holy Modal Rounders on their version of Lead Belly's "Hesitation Blues" in 1964. The '13th Floor Elevators' became the first to advertise themselves as making music of this genre . In Britain the genre was made popular by Eric Burdon, The Who and The Beatles especially in their album 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band '. Which genre of music?<br />
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8. This music is indigenous to the southern Caribbean and popular in Trinidad, Guyana and Suriname. It's a mixture of Bhojpuri, Western and local music and gaining increasing popularity in Canada and UK. The genre was created by Indo-Caribbean people whose ancestors were from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh and were taken as indentured servants by the British as laborers on sugar plantations. Despite the source of the music, the name of this Genre is reminiscent of something associated with south Indian breakfast. What genre?<br />
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9. This music type originated in Kingston and was closely linked to the religion Rastafarianism. The music originated In 1963 when a young Jamaican boy named Jackie Mittoo was asked by a man named Coxsone Dodd to run sessions and compose original music at a studio on Brentford Rd. called Studio One. Which genre was thus created by Jackie Mittoo using the traditional ska beat at Studio One ?<br />
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10. The classical music of this country is called 'Klasik'. The genre is heavily influenced by Hindustani music in terms of terminology and structure. The music however is less concerned with the ragas and more with rhythm, which is played with the tabla imported from India. Which country?<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05926303657820940789noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588723143360274115.post-72380889095883744842016-09-18T10:00:00.000+05:302016-09-18T10:00:00.169+05:30Quiz 24- 10 Questions on commercially caught fish. Answer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
1.Considered to be the most healthiest among fish, this fish belonging to the Herring family got it's name from an island in the Mediterranean, where they were once abundant and also canned for the first time. Which fish ?<br />
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Ans: Sardines. Canned herring was dubbed "sardines" because the canning process was first developed in Sardinia, Italy.<br />
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2.The very first 'Calvin and Hobbes' strip. What bait does Calvin use in his trap ?<br />
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3. This is a Vincent Van Gogh painting, titled "Still Life with X, lemon and tomato". X is the name of the fish in the painting. Identify it.<br />
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Ans: Still Life with mackerel, lemon and tomato. Fish is Mackerel.<br />
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4. John Dory is an odd looking fish with a odd sounding name- However it is pretty popular in the UK, especially to cook fish and chips. The fish is also popularly used in fine dining restaurants in Australia and New Zealand where it is popular with chefs because it goes well with a wide variety of ingredients and flavourings and the bones from its head make an excellent stock. The fish is also known by another name- since the dark spot is considered to be the fingerprint of this catholic saint. Whose fingerprints does the fish carry ?<br />
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Ans: St. Peter. Hence the fish is also called Peter's Fish. Many other fish that have similar dark spots have also the nickname of St. Peters Fish and the black spot is considered to by St. Peter's fingerprint. Ex. Tilapia, Red Drum, certain Cod fish etc.<br />
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5. What is the difference between Anadromous fish and Catadromous fish ?<br />
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Ans: An anadromous fish, born in fresh water, spends most of its life in the sea and returns to fresh water to spawn. Ex. Salmon, smelt, shad, striped bass, and sturgeon.<br />
A catadromous fish does the opposite - lives in fresh water and enters salt water to spawn. Most of the eels are catadromous.<br />
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6. 6. There are 17 types in this family of fish. One of them, the Orange finned-humpback is found in the Cauvery river and has been known to anglers around the globe as ‘one of the largest and hardest fighting freshwater fish in the world’. It was first mentioned as an angling challenge by the Oriental Sporting Magazine in 1833, soon becoming a favorite quarry of British anglers living in India and today many tourists come to Cauvery basin just for angling this fish. In the 1970's The Maharashtra Fisheries department noticed a declined in the population of this fish and they approached Tata Power to help save the endangered fish. Slowly millions of tiny fingerlings were released into the river to repopulate the fish. However a large number of blue finned variety too were released along with the humback and today the blue fin fish is replacing the endemic humpback kind. Many today believe the Orange finned-humpback, which is placed in the IUCN red list, will be extinct within a generation. What is the common, well known name of this fish?<br />
Ans: Mahseer<br />
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7. Fugu (Pufferfish) is the most celebrated and notorious dishes in Japanese cuisine. The restaurant preparation of fugu is strictly controlled by law in Japan since it can be lethally poisonous due to its tetrodotoxin. Although anyone in Japan can walk into a restaurant and order a Fugu - who is the only Japanese who is forbidden from eating Fugu?<br />
Ans: The Emperor of Japan - has traditionally been forbidden from eating fugu for safety reasons.<br />
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8. Which two countries were engaged in a series of confrontation over fishing rights in the North Atlantic and was popularly termed as 'Cod war"?<br />
Ans: Iceland and Britain. In 1958 Iceland decided to extend its fisheries jurisdiction from 4 to 12 mi; the British responded by sending warships to protect their trawlers in Icelandic waters.Thus resulting in Cod War that lasted until 1961 and was won by Iceland.<br />
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9. These mostly come in four varieties; they are Beluga, Sterlet, Ossetra, and Sevruga. Beluga is the rarest and the costliest and is black or gray; Israel is the largest producer of Ossetra ; sevruga, is the smallest and is greenish black. What am I talking about?<br />
Ans: Caviar- Named after the sturgeon fish from which they are obtained.<br />
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10. Tilapia is one of the oldest aqua-cultured fish and dates back to Ancient Egypt, where it was represented by the hieroglyph<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Ev4PoWMkvts/Vzbq6g3p2iI/AAAAAAAAJZY/CdZ8HLX14ewlCw3ahr-Qi1ZlLRln2EaSACLcB/s1600/hiero_K1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Ev4PoWMkvts/Vzbq6g3p2iI/AAAAAAAAJZY/CdZ8HLX14ewlCw3ahr-Qi1ZlLRln2EaSACLcB/s1600/hiero_K1.png" /></a> . Today aquaculture has become a refined science and people realised that the presence of female tilapia results in rapidly increasing populations of small fish, rather than a stable population of harvest-size animals. Hence commercially grown tilapia are almost exclusively male. How are the female Tilapia eliminated from a spawn of tilapia fish ?<br />
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Ans: Tilapia can change the sex after birth. Cultivators use hormones, such as testosterone, to reverse the sex of newly spawned females.<br />
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1 Considered to be the most healthiest among fish, this fish belonging to the Herring family got it's name from an island in the Mediterranean, where they were once abundant and also canned for the first time. Which fish ?<br />
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3. This is a Vincent Van Gogh painting, titled "Still Life with X, lemon and tomato". X is the name of the fish in the painting. Identify it.<br />
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4. John Dory is an odd looking fish with a odd sounding name- However it is pretty popular in the UK, especially to cook fish and chips. The fish is also popularly used in fine dining restaurants in Australia and New Zealand where it is popular with chefs because it goes well with a wide variety of ingredients and flavourings and the bones from its head make an excellent stock. The fish is also known by another name- since the dark spot is considered to be the fingerprint of this catholic saint. Whose fingerprints does the fish carry ?<br />
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5. What is the difference between Anadromous fish and Catadromous fish ?<br />
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6. There are 17 types in this family of fish. One of them, the Orange finned-humpback is found in the Cauvery river and has been known to anglers around the globe as ‘one of the largest and hardest fighting freshwater fish in the world’. It was first mentioned as an angling challenge by the Oriental Sporting Magazine in 1833, soon becoming a favorite quarry of British anglers living in India and today many tourists come to Cauvery basin just for angling this fish. In the 1970's The Maharashtra Fisheries department noticed a declined in the population of this fish and they approached Tata Power to help save the endangered fish. Slowly millions of tiny fingerlings were released into the river to repopulate the fish. However a large number of blue finned variety too were released along with the humback and today the blue fin fish is replacing the endemic humpback kind. Many today believe the Orange finned-humpback, which is placed in the IUCN red list, will be extinct within a generation. What is the common, well known name of this fish?<br />
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7. Fugu (Pufferfish) is the most celebrated and notorious dishes in Japanese cuisine. The restaurant preparation of fugu is strictly controlled by law in Japan since it can be lethally poisonous due to its tetrodotoxin. Although anyone in Japan can walk into a restaurant and order a Fugu - who is the only Japanese who is forbidden from eating Fugu?<br />
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8. Which two countries were engaged in a series of confrontation over fishing rights in the North Atlantic and was popularly termed as 'Cod war" ?<br />
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9. These mostly come in four verities; they are Beluga, Sterlet, Ossetra, and Sevruga. Beluga is the rarest and the costliest and is black or gray; Israel is the largest producer of Ossetra ; sevruga, is the smallest and is greenish black. What am I talking about?<br />
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1. Which alternative system of medicine uses the unit t'sun ?<br />
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Ans: Acupuncture. It is a relative unit of distance in acupuncture, one t'sun being the distance between the two outer folds in the bent middle finger and is used to locate acupuncture points on that person's body<br />
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2. Samuel Clemen's took his pen name 'Mark Twain' from a riverman's term for a certain depth in the river . This was the minimum depth needed for the boats to operate safely without running aground. How many Fathoms was Mark Twain equivalent of ?<br />
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Ans: Two Fathoms, Samuel Clemens had been a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi in his youth.<br />
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3. Degree Lovibond is a unit used to measure which characteristics of Honey or Beer?<br />
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Ans: Its colour.<br />
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4. The Ringelmann scale was developed by Maximilien Ringelmann in Paris in 1888 for measuring density of something. It has 5 levels of density measurements inferred from a grid of black lines on a white surface which, if viewed from a distance, merge into known shades of grey. What does the scale measure ?<br />
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Ans: Smoke density. To check how black smoke from a stack is.<br />
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5. In 1920 G.M.B. Dobson a British physicist; invented a spectrometer to measure ozone concentrations from the ground. Today the unit for measuring the ozone in the atmosphere is named after him. So one Dobson unit represents the amount of atmospheric ozone that would form a uniform layer 0.01 millimeter (10 micrometers) thick at standard temperature and pressure. Under normal conditions, the atmosphere contains about 300 Dobson units of ozone. What happens when the reading becomes 220 Dobson units or less?<br />
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Ans: When the value is less than 220 dobson we have a hole in the ozone layer.<br />
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6. For devising a formulae for calculating the probability of congestion Danish mathematician A. K. Erlang was honoured by naming a unit to measure the traffic intensity, after him. What kind of traffic does Erlang represent?<br />
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Ans: Erlang represents telephone traffic intensity and is an international unit of measurement for telephone use, equal to one caller using the telephone for one hour . A. K. Erlang's formulae calculated the probability of congestion of telephone lines.<br />
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7. The unit to measure electrical conductance (under SI system) is named after the founder of a well known international company. Name either the unit or the company.<br />
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Ans: Siemens , named after Ernst Werner von Siemens.<br />
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8. For the ease of understanding and for easily relatable comparisons- what is some times also expressed in "The Banana Equivalent Dose"?<br />
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Ans: Radiation Dose. Like most organic material bananas too contain certain amount of radioactive isotopes. Approximated to 0.1 microsieverts (0.78 nanosieverts to be precise) the banana equivalent dose, is the additional dose a person will absorb from eating one banana. For example, Japan’s Fukushima disaster leaked 76 million bananas Equivalent Dose.<br />
Curiously enough, though seriously used by publications today, the term originated in the webcomic XKCD.<br />
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9.When the British standardised Weights and Measures in India in 1833, this was the base unit of mass. Traditionally the weight was equal to 100 ratti (ruttee) seeds,and its exact weight varied according to locality. The British standardised it to 180 troy ounces. This unit has been used in India since vedic times and the coins minted from Emperor Akbar's period to East India company's days weighed one of this unit. What unit?<br />
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Ans: Tola. Today it is mostly used in bazaars and souks as a measure of bullion and also a measure of charas. (Indian hashish)<br />
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10. Rick and cord are two units used to measure the same quantity. But rick is made illegal in many places because the size of rick has been manipulated by vendors. What are these two units used to measure?<br />
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Ans: It is a unit for measuring the volume of wood cut for fuel.1 cord = 3.62 cu m<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05926303657820940789noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588723143360274115.post-76582490241086488932016-09-04T10:00:00.000+05:302016-09-04T10:00:03.519+05:30Quiz 23- 10 questions on Measurements<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Torino number is a scale adopted in 1999 to express the likelihood of an asteroid or comet colliding with the Earth and the Palermo scale to assess the risk of an impact on the earth by a comet or asteroid. Now lets quiz on some other measurements.<br />
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1. Which alternative system of medicine uses the unit t'sun ?<br />
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2. Samuel Clemen's took his pen name 'Mark Twain' from a river man's term for a certain depth in the river . This was the minimum depth needed for the boats to operate safely without running aground. How many Fathoms was Mark Twain equivalent of ?<br />
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3. Degree Lovibond is a unit used to measure which characteristics of Honey or Beer?<br />
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4. The Ringelmann scale was developed by Maximilien Ringelmann in Paris in 1888 for measuring density of something. It has 5 levels of density measurements inferred from a grid of black lines on a white surface which, if viewed from a distance, merge into known shades of grey. What does the scale measure ?<br />
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5. In 1920 G.M.B. Dobson a British physicist; invented a spectrometer to measure ozone concentrations from the ground. Today the unit for measuring the ozone in the atmosphere is named after him. So one Dobson unit represents the amount of atmospheric ozone that would form a uniform layer 0.01 millimeter (10 micrometers) thick at standard temperature and pressure. Under normal conditions, the atmosphere contains about 300 Dobson units of ozone. What happens when the reading becomes 220 Dobson units or less?<br />
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6. For devising a formulae for calculating the probability of congestion Danish mathematician A. K. Erlang was honoured by naming a unit to measure the traffic intensity, after him. What kind of traffic does Erlang represent?<br />
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7. The unit to measure electrical conductance (under SI system) is named after the founder of a well known company. Name either the unit or the company.<br />
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8. For the ease of understanding and for easily relatable comparisons- what is some times also expressed in "The Banana Equivalent Dose"?<br />
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9.When the British standardised Weights and Measures in India in 1833, this was the base unit of mass. Traditionally the weight was equal to 100 ratti (ruttee) seeds,and its exact weight varied according to locality. The British standardised it to 180 troy ounces. This unit has been used in India since vedic times and the coins minted from Emperor Akbar's period to East India company's days weighed one of this unit. What unit? <br />
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10. Rick and cord are two units used to measure the same quantity. But rick is made illegal in many places because the size of rick has been manipulated by vendors. What are these two units used to measure?<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05926303657820940789noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588723143360274115.post-56115484391024673822016-09-04T09:00:00.000+05:302016-09-04T09:00:05.952+05:30Quiz 22- 10 Questions on Escatology- Answers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
1. On the orders of god Puluga, an earthquake will destroy the earth and the bridge of heaven. The souls of the dead men and animals will then arise and be reunited. There will not be any sickness,death, and marriage.The roots of the palm tree which supports the earth are already being shaken by the impatient spirits of the underworld, to quickly bring the end of this present world. Eschatological belief of the people of which island?<br />
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Ans: Aboriginal people of the Andaman Islands.<br />
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2. This concept/ idea in Jewish and Christian eschatology originated from a place called Gehenna, a valley south west of Jerusalem, where Israelites burnt their children as sacrifices to the Ammonite god Moloch. This practice was carried out by the Israelites during the reigns of King Solomon in the 10th century B.C. and King Manasseh in the 7th century B.C. and continued until the Babylonian Exile in the 6th century B.C. Gehenna later was made a garbage centre to discourage a reintroduction of such sacrifices. The imagery of the place however remained in the minds and stories of people giving rise to what idea that still resonates strongly in the minds of many religious people ?<br />
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Ans: Hell-Fire.<br />
The name given to Hell in Islam, Jahannam, directly derives from Gehenna<br />
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3. In Islamic eschatology, Yajuj and Majuj are two hostile forces who will ravage the Earth before the end of the world.The Koran tells that, people who were terrorized by Yajuj and Majuj forced a king to construct a great wall between them that neither could scale or penetrate (Suras 18:94–97), trapping both between two mountains until just before the Last Judgment (Suras 18:98–100, 21:96) . Yajuj and Majuj, were thus trapped between two mountains and will remain so until the last days of the world. According to the Hadith, Yajuj and Majuj dig under the wall every night trying to escape but each morning they find that the wall has been restored by Allah. Which king constructed the wall?<br />
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Ans: Alexander the Great. (Dhu al-Qarnayn ). Yajuj and Majuj, are the Muslim counterparts of the biblical Gog and Magog.<br />
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4.Revelation is the only apocalyptic book in the canon of the New Testament, which is the only apocalyptic book to be admitted to the Old Testament canon?<br />
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Ans: The book of Daniel<br />
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5. Antiochus IV Epiphanes, king of the Hellenistic Syrian kingdom who reigned from 175 to 164 BC, the persecutor of the Jews, served as its model. Since then this figure has been characterized as a mighty ruler at the head of gigantic armies, destroyer of three rulers, persecutor of saints,and devastator of the Temple of God. Jewish and Christian writers of apocalypses saw him in the emperors Nero, Diocletian, Julian, and Caligula. Many Protestant reformers, saw it as the Pope. He also features as an evil figure in Islamic eschatology. Who?<br />
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Ans: Antichrist.opponent or antagonist of Christ. In Islam traditions he is called Masih ad-Dajjal (Arabic for "The Deceiving Messiah")<br />
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6. Saoshyans, the final saviour of the world, is the foremost of three saviours. The other two saviours are Oshetar and Oshetarmah, sons of the religions founder. Each one of these saviours will appear at the end of each of the three last millennia of the world and will be conceived by a maiden who has swum in a lake where the founders seed was preserved. After 57 years Saoshyans, will break the demonic power and resurrect the bodies of the dead and then lead the work in the seven zones of the world. When all souls have been cleansed, Saoshyans will prepare a ritual drink which will bestow eternal perfection on their bodies.Eschatology of which religion?<br />
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Ans: Zoroastrians (Parsis in India) the founder being Zoroaster.<br />
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7. The founder of this religious group was Charles Russel Taze, who based on his complex biblical calculations preached that 'Christ had an invisible return' in 1874 and that the end of Gentile times would come in 1914 after which God's kingdom would rule earth. Their eschatological teachings say that the forces of good, led by Christ, will defeat the forces of evil, led by Satan, in the final battle. Thereafter Christ will rule the earth for a thousand years. During this time the dead will rise again, and all people will have a second opportunity to achieve salvation. At the end of the millennium Satan will return to earth, and he and those who support him will finally be destroyed. A perfect humankind will then enjoy eternal life on earth.Which religious sect?<br />
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Ans: Jehovah's Witness. The movement survived the embarrassment caused by the apparent failure of Russel's apocalyptic prediction.<br />
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8.The Palestinian city of Megiddo had a fortress that stood on a hill, the city itself commanded the road leading from Egypt and the coastal plain of Palestine into Galilee, Syria, and Mesopotamia. Megiddo was the scene of many battles due to its strategic importance.Which English term owns its origin to this city ?<br />
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Ans: Armageddon; Since the prefix har means “hill” in Hebrew; hence, Armageddon means “Hill of Megiddo.” because of the many battles that were fought there between the Israelites and their enemies during the biblical period the place had become a symbol of the final battlefield where God's heavenly armies will defeat the demon-led forces of evil.<br />
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9."We're gonna stay on until the end of the world. And when that day comes we'll cover it, play 'Nearer My God to Thee' and sign off." Whose ambitious words?<br />
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Ans: Ted Turner referring to CNN television.<br />
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This video had passed into CNN lore as the one chosen by founder of CNN, Ted Turner, to air in the event of nuclear holocaust.<br />
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10.The final incarnation of Lord Vishnu will appear at the end of the Kali Yuga or the present age, when virtue and religion have disappeared and the world is ruled by unjust men. He will be seated on a white horse with a naked sword in his hand, blazing like a comet and will destroy the wicked and usher in a new age.According to some legends of the end of the world, his horse will stamp the earth with its right foot, causing the tortoise which supports the world to drop into the deep. Then the gods will restore the earth once again to its former purity.Name the incarnation?<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05926303657820940789noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588723143360274115.post-73771344961637892272016-08-28T10:00:00.000+05:302016-08-28T10:54:58.335+05:30Quiz 22- 10 Questions on Escatology<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Eschatology literally means " doctrine about the last things" and concerns the end of the world. Eschatology also includes religious doctrines concerning the human soul in its relation to death, judgment, heaven, and hell.<br />
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1. On the orders of god Puluga, an earthquake will destroy the earth and the bridge of heaven. The souls of the dead men and animals will then arise and be reunited. There will not be any sickness,death, and marriage.The roots of the palm tree which supports the earth are already being shaken by the impatient spirits of the underworld, to quickly bring the end of this present world. Eschatological belief of the people of which island?<br />
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2. This concept/ idea in Jewish and Christian eschatology originated from a place called Gehenna, a valley south west of Jerusalem, where Israelites burnt their children as sacrifices to the Ammonite god Moloch. This practice was carried out by the Israelites during the reigns of King Solomon in the 10th century B.C. and King Manasseh in the 7th century B.C. and continued until the Babylonian Exile in the 6th century B.C. Gehenna later was made a garbage centre to discourage a reintroduction of such sacrifices. The imagery of the place however remained in the minds and stories of people giving rise to what idea that still resonates strongly in the minds of many religious people ?<br />
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3. In Islamic eschatology, Yajuj and Majuj are two hostile forces who will ravage the Earth before the end of the world.The Koran tells that, people who were terrorized by Yajuj and Majuj forced a king to construct a great wall between them that neither could scale or penetrate (Suras 18:94–97), trapping both between two mountains until just before the Last Judgment (Suras 18:98–100, 21:96) . Yajuj and Majuj, were thus trapped between two mountains and will remain so until the last days of the world. According to the Hadith, Yajuj and Majuj dig under the wall every night trying to escape but each morning they find that the wall has been restored by Allah. Which king constructed the wall?<br />
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Building a wall against Yajuj and Majuj, painting by Qasim, 16th century; in the British Library (Source: Britannica.com)<br />
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4.Revelation is the only apocalyptic book in the canon of the New Testament, which is the only apocalyptic book to be admitted to the Old Testament canon?<br />
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5. Antiochus IV Epiphanes, king of the Hellenistic Syrian kingdom who reigned from 175 to 164 BC, the persecutor of the Jews, served as its model. Since then this figure has been characterized as a mighty ruler at the head of gigantic armies, destroyer of three rulers, persecutor of saints,and devastator of the Temple of God. Jewish and Christian writers of apocalypses saw him in the emperors Nero, Diocletian, Julian, and Caligula. Many Protestant reformers, saw it as the Pope. He also features as an evil figure in Islamic eschatology. Who?<br />
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6. Saoshyans, the final saviour of the world, is the foremost of three saviours. The other two saviours are Oshetar and Oshetarmah, sons of the religions founder. Each one of these saviours will appear at the end of each of the three last millennia of the world and will be conceived by a maiden who has swum in a lake where the founders seed was preserved. After 57 years Saoshyans, will break the demonic power and resurrect the bodies of the dead and then lead the work in the seven zones of the world. When all souls have been cleansed, Saoshyans will prepare a ritual drink which will bestow eternal perfection on their bodies.Eschatology of which religion?<br />
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7. The founder of this religious group was Charles Russel Taze, who based on his complex biblical calculations preached that 'Christ had an invisible return' in 1874 and that the end of Gentile times would come in 1914 after which God's kingdom would rule earth. Their eschatological teachings say that the forces of good, led by Christ, will defeat the forces of evil, led by Satan, in the final battle. Thereafter Christ will rule the earth for a thousand years. During this time the dead will rise again, and all people will have a second opportunity to achieve salvation. At the end of the millennium Satan will return to earth, and he and those who support him will finally be destroyed. A perfect humankind will then enjoy eternal life on earth.Which religious sect?<br />
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8.The Palestinian city of Megiddo had a fortress that stood on a hill, the city itself commanded the road leading from Egypt and the coastal plain of Palestine into Galilee, Syria, and Mesopotamia. Megiddo was the scene of many battles due to its strategic importance.Which English term owns its origin to this city ?<br />
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9."We're gonna stay on until the end of the world. And when that day comes we'll cover it, play 'Nearer My God to Thee' and sign off." Whose ambitious words?<br />
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10.The final incarnation of Lord Vishnu will appear at the end of the Kali Yuga or the present age, when virtue and religion have disappeared and the world is ruled by unjust men. He will be seated on a white horse with a naked sword in his hand, blazing like a comet and will destroy the wicked and usher in a new age.According to some legends of the end of the world, his horse will stamp the earth with its right foot, causing the tortoise which supports the world to drop into the deep. Then the gods will restore the earth once again to its former purity.Name the incarnation?<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05926303657820940789noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588723143360274115.post-13845414452176568982016-08-28T09:00:00.000+05:302016-08-28T09:00:01.345+05:30Quiz 21 - 10 Questions on pickled or embalmed bodies - Answer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
1.In the 11th-century Spanish hero El Cid, was embalmed and his body was kept seated on an ivory chair in the monastery of San Pedro de Cardena for a decade before burial. Similarly which well known king was embalmed and seated on a marble throne, dressed in imperial robes, with his crown on his head, the Gospels lying open in his lap, and his scepter in his hand at Aachen in Germany after his death ?<br />
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Ans: Charlemagne<br />
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2. According to an Indian Epic, the body of which king was preserved in a Cauldron of oil, until the return of his son the crown prince ?<br />
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Ans: King Dasharatha, in the Ramayana.<br />
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3. After the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. in Babylon, his body was embalmed and was on its way to Macedonia for burial. Ptolemy however had other plans- he organized an attack against Alexander's funerary procession and intercepted the body of his former master which he then buried in Egypt. During all these years of fighting and bickering over Alexanders body, what edible item, which is mostly consumed by us today, was used to preserve Alexander's body?<br />
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Ans: Honey<br />
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4. Which English word has its origin in Persian for 'wax' ?<br />
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Ans: Mummy. The Persian translation of wax was mum,since Egyptians preserved the dead bodies of their royalty by first sealing them with bandages and then coating it with a mixture of wax, oil and salt.<br />
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5. He is one of the most widely recognized Russian physician, scientist and public figure. He is considered to be the founder of field surgery and was the first surgeon to use anesthesia in a field operation (1847). Other than inventing various surgical equipments, he also invented an amputation technique that is today named after him. As a tribute to his achievements a glacier in Antarctica and an asteroid are named after him and so were various medical colleges and Soviet Unions highest humanitarian award. Anatomically too he is well remembered and various tendons, nerves and veins are named after him. When he died in 1881 his body was preserved using embalming techniques he himself developed and rests today at Vinnitsa in Ukraine at room temperature without requiring any maintenance. Which well known Russian figure?<br />
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Ans : Nikolay Pirogov. Pirogoff angle; the Pirogoff aponeurosis, the Pirogoff triangle are named after him.<br />
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6.The Jivaro tribes of Ecuador and Peru took additional precaution to preserve the embalmed bodies of their chiefs, thus ensuring their immortality. What additional procedure, not practiced by any other culture did they follow ?<br />
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Ans: They roasted the embalmed body over slow fire.<br />
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7. The Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo is a macabre tourist attraction in Italy (The last I checked, Trip Advisor has given it a 'certificate of excellence' and is Rated No 18 in Palermo.) There are shelves, rooms and cases of dehydrated mummified bodies going back to many centuries. There was a time when it was a status symbol to be entombed into the Capuchin catacombs. The most well preserved among all the bodies in the catacombs is that of Rosalia Lombardo an Italian child who died of pneumonia. Her body was one of the last corpses to be admitted to the Capuchin catacombs in 1920. Alfredo Salafia, a noted embalmer, worked on the body which has now been revealed to be a mixture of Formalin, Zinc, Glycerin and Salicylic acid. But what nickname, straight from a fairy tale, is Rosalia known to the residents of Palermo or to the tourists visiting the catacombs ?<br />
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Ans: Sleeping Beauty of the Capuchin Catacombs (Sleeping beauty will get points)<br />
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8. In the Royal Navy, sucking the monkey, bleeding the monkey, or tapping the admiral was the practice of sucking liquor from a cask through a straw. This usually involved making a small hole with a gimlet in a keg or barrel and using a straw to suck out the contents. When this British hero died on board a ship, his body was preserved in a cask of brandy, or rum, to allow transport back to England. Upon arrival however, the cask was opened and found to be empty of brandy/rum. The pickled body was removed and, upon inspection, it was discovered that the sailors had drilled a hole in the bottom of the cask and drunk all the brandy/rum. Which personality ?<br />
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Ans: Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson. Shot fatally on board, during the Battle of Trafalgar, where his fleet defeated the combined might of the French and Spanish navies. This tale also serves as a basis for the term "Nelson's blood" used to describe brandy/rum.<br />
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9. Grauballe man ,Tollund man and Lindow man are thousands of years old bodies, preserved in immaculate condition. Even the wrinkle on their skin are preserved. The preservation of these bodies is credited to which natural phenomenon?<br />
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Ans: Peat-bogs. Because of their highly acidic nature, wetness, low temperature, and absence of oxygen, they are a repository of past life. The Tollund man, a 2000 year old body was discovered in a peat bog in Denmark in 1952, and was dressed only in a pointed cap and belt. His body was castoff into the peatbog after being strangled.<br />
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10.During the Third Crusade, en-route to Jerusalem this well known Emperor drowned in the Saleph river (present day Turkey) sending his massive army into chaos. Some of the Emperor's men pickled his body in a barrel of vinegar to preserve it and eventually bury it in Jerusalem. But efforts to conserve his body in vinegar failed. Hence, his flesh was interred in the Church of St Peter in Antioch, his bones in the cathedral of Tyre, and his heart and inner organs in Tarsus. Which Emperor?<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05926303657820940789noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588723143360274115.post-79032312142692718222016-08-21T10:00:00.000+05:302016-08-21T10:00:08.646+05:30Quiz 21 - 10 Questions on pickled or embalmed bodies<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
1.In the 11th-century Spanish hero El Cid, was embalmed and his body was kept seated on an ivory chair in the monastery of San Pedro de Cardena for a decade before burial. Similarly which well known king was embalmed and seated on a marble throne, dressed in imperial robes, with his crown on his head, the Gospels lying open in his lap, and his scepter in his hand at Aachen in Germany after his death ?<br />
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2. According to an Indian Epic, the body of which king was preserved in a Cauldron of oil, until the return of his son the crown prince ?<br />
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3. After the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. in Babylon, his body was embalmed and was on its way to Macedonia for burial. Ptolemy however had other plans- he organized an attack against Alexander's funerary procession and intercepted the body of his former master which he then buried in Egypt. During all these years of fighting and bickering over Alexanders body, what edible item, which is mostly consumed by us today, was used to preserve Alexander's body?<br />
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4. Which English word has its origin in Persian for 'wax' ?<br />
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5. He is one of the most widely recognized Russian physician, scientist and public figure. He is considered to be the founder of field surgery and was the first surgeon to use anesthesia in a field operation (1847). Other than inventing various surgical equipments, he also invented an amputation technique that is today named after him. As a tribute to his achievements a glacier in Antarctica and an asteroid are named after him and so were various medical colleges and Soviet Unions highest humanitarian award. Anatomically too he is well remembered and various tendons, nerves and veins are named after him. When he died in 1881 his body was preserved using embalming techniques he himself developed and rests today at Vinnitsa in Ukraine at room temperature without requiring any maintenance. Which well known Russian figure?<br />
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Google doodle on his 200th Birthday on November 25, 2010.<br />
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6.The Jivaro tribes of Ecuador and Peru took additional precaution to preserve the embalmed bodies of their chiefs, thus ensuring their immortality. What additional procedure, not practiced by any other culture did they follow ?<br />
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7. The Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo is a macabre tourist attraction in Italy (The last I checked, Trip Advisor has given it a 'certificate of excellence' and is Rated No 18 in Palermo.) There are shelfs, rooms and cases of dehydrated mummified bodies going back to many centuries. There was a time when it was a status symbol to be entombed into the Capuchin catacombs. The most well preserved among all the bodies in the catacombs is that of Rosalia Lombardo an Italian child who died of pneumonia. Her body was one of the last corpses to be admitted to the Capuchin catacombs in 1920. Alfredo Salafia, a noted embalmer, worked on the body which has now been revealed to be a mixture of Formalin, Zinc, Glycerin and Salicylic acid. But what nickname, straight from a fairy tale, is Rosalia known to the residents of Palermo or to the tourists visiting the catacombs ?<br />
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8. In the Royal Navy, sucking the monkey, bleeding the monkey, or tapping the admiral was the practice of sucking liquor from a cask through a straw. This usually involved making a small hole with a gimlet in a keg or barrel and using a straw to suck out the contents. When this British hero died on board a ship, his body was preserved in a cask of brandy, or rum, to allow transport back to England. Upon arrival however, the cask was opened and found to be empty of brandy/rum. The pickled body was removed and, upon inspection, it was discovered that the sailors had drilled a hole in the bottom of the cask and drunk all the brandy/rum. Which personality ?<br />
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9. Grauballe man ,Tollund man and Lindow man are thousands of years old bodies, preserved in immaculate condition. Even the wrinkle on their skin are preserved. The preservation of these bodies is credited to which natural phenomenon?<br />
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10. During the Third Crusade, en-route to Jerusalem this well known Emperor drowned in the Saleph river (present day Turkey) sending his massive army into chaos. Some of the Emperor's men pickled his body in a barrel of vinegar to preserve it and eventually bury in Jerusalem. But efforts to conserve his body in vinegar failed. Hence, his flesh was interred in the Church of St Peter in Antioch, his bones in the cathedral of Tyre, and his heart and inner organs in Tarsus. Which Emperor?<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05926303657820940789noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588723143360274115.post-63933985658449654122016-08-21T09:00:00.000+05:302016-08-21T09:00:01.185+05:30Quiz 20 - 10 questions on the Hammer.- Answer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
1. Dave Scott and Jim Irwin were carried to the Lunar surface in July 1971 on Apollo 15’s lunar module- Falcon. On the lunar surface Scott carried out and video taped an experiment to confirm the experiments conducted by a famous scientist. This experiment could only be conducted on the moon because of moons special property. The hypothesis of which famous scientist was confirmed by Dave Scott?<br />
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Ans: Scott dropped a feather and a hammer in the Moon’s airlessness,the feather and the hammer landed simultaneously Confirming Galileo’s hypothesis that falling objects travel at equal speeds irrespective of their weights.<br />
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2. As per legend, what originated during the Tailteann funeral games (athletic competitions held in honor of a recently deceased person) held in Ireland around 2000 BC, when the Celtic hero Cu Chulainn gripped a chariot wheel by its axle, whirled it around his head and threw it farther than did any other individual?<br />
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Ans: The sport of Hammer throw. Wheel hurling was later replaced by throwing a boulder attached to the end of a wooden handle and in the modern day game the boulder is replaced by a heavy metal ball and the handle with a flexible wire.<br />
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3. Mjollnir the Magic hammer of this god never failed him. It was forged by dwarfs and he used it as a weapon to crash down on the heads of giants and as an instrument to hallow people and things. He threw the hammer with the aid of iron gloves and it always returned back to him like a boomerang. Which mythological god?<br />
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Ans: Thor. Norse god of thunder. Thunder was supposed to be the sound of the rolling of his chariot. Thursday is named for Thor.<br />
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4. Two of the three are hammer (malleus) and anvil (incus) , which is the third?<br />
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Ans: Stirrup (stapes). These are the three bones in the middle ear which help transmit sound. Vibrations of the eardrum move the hammer. The motion of the hammer moves the anvil, which in turn moves the stirrup. The stirrup is the smallest bone in the human body.<br />
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5.In the early 1800's to use what, one had to follow the instructions “cut round the top near the outer edge with a chisel and hammer.” written on it ?<br />
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Ans: Canned food. Invented by Peter Durand for the British navy, the cans were made of solid iron and usually weighed more than the food inside them.Can openers were invented only after 1860, a very cumbersome one by Ezra Warner and in 1870 the modern can opener was invented by William Lyman and included a cutting wheel to roll around the rim.<br />
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6. In Japan the seven gods of good fortune are traditionally thought to bring good luck, wealth, and a long life. One of the seven is Daikoku, a mixed Shinto-Buddhist god of wealth and agriculture, with a rice bag and wooden hammer. What is special about the hammer?<br />
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Ans: Simple- It is a wish granting hammer. Other gods are Ebisu, who carries a lucky sea bream( a red snapper ) ;Bishamonten god of good luck, dressed in armor ;Benzaiten, goddess of water, music, and wealth, who plays a lute; Hotei, a fat-bellied Chinese Zen monk who brings good luck; Fukurokuju, who grants longevity; and Jurojin, a god of long life, usually accompanied by a deer.<br />
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7. What was invented or created by Italian harpsichord maker Bartolomeo Cristofori in 1698 when he experimented with a “harpsichord with hammers”?<br />
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8.In 1917 Anatoly Lunacharsky held a competition to create a symbol or an emblem. The winning designer was Yevgeny Ivanovich Kamzolkin. The symbol or emblem is still widely used today. Which Symbol ?<br />
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9. This song was written by Pete Seeger and Lee Hays in 1949 in support of the United States Progressive Party. The Song was not very successful until it was recorded by Peter, Paul and Mary in 1962 and numerous versions of the song have since been made by many artists notably Johnny Cash, Aretha Franklin, Trini Lopez, Brian Johnson (AC/DC), Richard Barone and Al Jardine (for the ONE Campaign) etc, etc...<br />
The song went on to become a Freedom Song of the American Civil Rights movement and Wikileaks chose the song as its "Wikileaks song".<br />
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10. What word ( describing an animation terminology) should appear in the blanked out space ?<br />
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Lyrics of the Hammer Song (Question 9)<br />
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If I had a hammer I'd hammer in the morning<br />
I'd hammer in the evening all over this land<br />
I'd hammer out danger, I'd hammer out warning<br />
I'd hammer out love between my brothers and my sisters<br />
All over this land<br />
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If I had a bell I'd ring it in the morning<br />
I'd ring it in the evening all over this land<br />
I'd ring our danger, I'd ring out warning<br />
I'd ring out love between my brothers and my sisters<br />
All over this land<br />
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If I had a song I'd sing it in the morning<br />
I'd sing it in the evening all over this land<br />
I'd sing out danger, I'd sing out warning<br />
I'd sing out love between my sisters and my brothers<br />
All over this land<br />
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When I've got a hammer, and I've got a bell<br />
And I've got a song to sing all over this land<br />
It's a hammer of justice, it's a bell of freedom<br />
It's a song about love between my brothers and my sisters<br />
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As a famous saying goes. "If you know the facts hammer the jury ,if you know the law only and not the facts hammer the judge ,if you do not know either Hammer the table"<br />
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1. Dave Scott and Jim Irwin were carried to the Lunar surface in July 1971 on Apollo 15’s lunar module- Falcon. On the lunar surface Scott carried out and video taped an experiment to confirm the experiments conducted by a famous scientist. This experiment could only be conducted on the moon because of moons special property. The hypothesis of which famous scientist was confirmed by Dave Scott?<br />
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2. As per legend, what originated during the Tailteann funeral games (athletic competitions held in honor of a recently deceased person) held in Ireland around 2000 BC, when the Celtic hero Cu Chulainn gripped a chariot wheel by its axle, whirled it around his head and threw it farther than did any other individual?<br />
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Figure of Cú Chulainn on a ten shilling coin.</div>
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3.Mjollnir the Magic hammer of this god never failed him.It was forged by dwarfs and he used it as a weapon to crash down on the heads of giants and as an instrument to hallow people and things. He threw the hammer with the aid of iron gloves and it always returned back to him like a boomerang. Which mythological god?<br />
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The Stenkvista runestone at a churchyard in Sodermanland, Sweden, shows Mjollnir instead of a cross.<br />
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4. Two of the three are hammer (malleus) and anvil (incus) , which is the third?<br />
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5.In the early 1800's to use what, one had to follow the instructions “cut round the top near the outer edge with a chisel and hammer.” written on it ?<br />
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6. In Japan the seven gods of good fortune are traditionally thought to bring good luck, wealth, and a long life. One of the seven is Daikoku, a mixed Shinto-Buddhist god of wealth and agriculture, with a rice bag and wooden hammer. What is special about the hammer?<br />
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7. What was invented or created by Italian harpsichord maker Bartolomeo Cristofori in 1698 when he experimented with a “harpsichord with hammers”?<br />
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8. In 1917 Anatoly Lunacharsky held a competition to create a symbol or an emblem. The winning designer was Yevgeny Ivanovich Kamzolkin. The symbol or emblem is still widely used today. Which Symbol ?<br />
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9. This song was written by Pete Seeger and Lee Hays in 1949 in support of the United States Progressive Party. The Song was not very successful until it was recorded by Peter, Paul and Mary in 1962. Numerous versions of the song have since been made by many artists notably Johnny Cash, Aretha Franklin, Trini Lopez, Brian Johnson (AC/DC), Richard Barone and Al Jardine (for the ONE Campaign) etc, etc...<br />
The song went on to become a Freedom Song of the American Civil Rights movement and Wikileaks chose the song as its "Wikileaks song".<br />
Which Song ?<br />
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Peter Seeger who died in Jan 2014, popularised the song "We Shall Overcome" (Hum Honge Kaamyaab) and composed songs like "Turn! Turn! Turn!" and "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" among others.<br />
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10.What word ( describing an animation terminology) should appear in the blanked out space ?<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05926303657820940789noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6588723143360274115.post-80946216768937392842016-08-14T09:00:00.000+05:302016-08-14T09:00:05.067+05:30Quiz 19- 10 questions on stairs - Answers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
1. On December 4, 1981, lights went out on the spiral staircase of this famous monument and the resulting panic created a stampede in wich forty-five people were trampled to death. The incident resulted in the government banning tourist from ever entering the monument. Which monument?<br />
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Ans: Qutub minar<br />
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2.The escalator was originally a trademark of which company ?<br />
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Ans: Otis Elevator Company, the word was adjudged in 1949 to have become public property through popular use.<br />
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3.On a display screen or monitor curved or slanted edges on type characters are prone to a 'staircasing effect', also called as the “jaggies.”It happens because the resolution of the image is too coarse to achieve the appearance of a smooth line or curve. What term is used to define the smoothing of this jagged, “stairstep” appearance ?<br />
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Ans: Anti-aliasing<br />
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4. On Prinsengracht, street was a three storied building, the first floor was a warehouse, the second floor consisted of offices, and the third floor served as a storeroom.The staircase of the building had a sliding bookcase and behind this bookcase was a secret area. Which famous book was written here?<br />
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Ans:The Diary of Anne Frank.<br />
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5. This American film comedian and directors original name was Joseph Frank. He earned his famous nickname when, at age 18 months he fell down a long flight of stairs; magician Harry Houdini picked up the unhurt infant, turned to the boy's parents and chuckled “That's some ________ your baby took.” Joe and Myra the boy's parents added the name to his name and has been known ever since by that name. Who?<br />
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Ans: Buster Keaton.<br />
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6.The Winchester Mystery House is a bizarrely constructed Victorian mansion in California. It was the house of Sarah L. Winchester, heiress to the Winchester Rifle fortune.The 160 room mansion contains stairs and passages that lead to nowhere or to a brick wall. Why was the house constructed in this fashion ?<br />
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Ans: Sarah believed in Ghosts, hence she built the mansion to confuse the ghosts and spirits of those killed by the Winchester rifle.<br />
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7.Where will you find this stairway?<br />
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Ans: Inside the statue of Liberty.<br />
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8.If a dam has a fish ladder, what is it used for or what is its purpose ?<br />
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Ans: Mature diadromous fish like Salmons swim upstream for spawning, but many of these rivers have dams built across them thus creating obstacles for the salmon from reaching their breeding place. A fish ladder consists of a series of small pools, each slightly higher than the one below it. Water rushing from one pool to the next simulates the flow of a natural river. Driven by instinct, fish leap from one pool to the next until they eventually bypass the dam entirely and thus swim up past the dam .<br />
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9. The name for the phenomenon comes from French encyclopedist and philosopher Denis Diderot's description of such a situation in his 'Paradoxe sur le comédien' he called it 'esprit de l'escalier'. In English it is 'called staircase wit' or ' "escalator wit", what is it ?<br />
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Ans: It is a repartee (quick and witty reply) thought of only too late, as one is leaving and on the way downstairs.<br />
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10.The below work titled 'The Rude descending a staircase (Rush-Hour at the Subway)' was printed in The New York Evening Sun, on 20 March 1913 and was a parody of a famous painting that was creating a sensation in New York because it was considered too radical. The painting was synthesis of two modern-art styles: cubism and futurism and was popularly described as “an explosion in a shingle factory" Which painting does the below comic caricature and who was the artist (of the actual painting) ?<br />
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Ans: Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 by Marcel Duchamp<br />
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