Saturday 29 October 2011

Quiz 46: Answers

Q1. The first Indian language to be declared as a classical language by the government of India in 2004. Among Indian languages, that has the most ancient non-Sanskritised Indian literature. Kamil Zvelebil suggests an etymology of this language in which the first three letters meaning “self” or “one’s self”, and having the connotation of “unfolding sound”. Which language we are talking about?

                                Tamil

Q2. This name is a diminutive form of the Slavic word which means “water”.  This word was recorded for the first time in 1495 in Akt Grodzkie, the court documents from the Palatinate of Sandomierz in Poland. At that time this word was referred to chemicals such as medicines and cosmetics cleaners. This word written in the Cyrillic alphabet appeared first in 1533, in relation to a medicinal drink brought from Polant to Russia by the merchants of Kievan Rus. What is the good “word”?

                               Vodka
Q3. In 2011, she was featured in the annual TIMR magazine 100 influential people. During her childhood, her parents would take her with them to acting classes that they taught because they did not want to leave her with a babysitter. She stated that as a child, her mother would bring her to Disneyland twice a week as an opportunity "to have some extra time to bond"; Lively has stated, due to all the time she spent there, she felt that she "grew up at Disneyland.” Name the actress.

                                Blake Lively

Q4. One of its facilities was originally based on a 625-acre (2.53 km2) site in Union Township (now West Chester Township) in Butler country, Ohio, near Cincinnati. The Bethany Relay Station operated from 1944 to 1994. Other former sites include California (Dixon, Delano), Hawaii, Okinawa, Liberia, Costa Rica and Belize. What are we talking about?

                                Voice of America, Official external broadcast institution of US federal Govt.

Q5. Identify

                                Geetha Chandran, Bharatnatyam dancer

Q6. He is perhaps the most notable of students of Cordwainers Technical College in Hackney, England, from which he graduated in 1983. His family name ends with “w” but was misspelled on his birth certificate as “o”. In 1996, he co-founded this famous company with British Vogue magazine accessories editor Tamara Mellon. Name the personality?

                                Jimmy Choo

Q7. Identify and what first she has achieved.
          
             Naina Lal Kidwai was the first Indian woman to graduate from Harvard Business School

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