Sunday 4 December 2011

Quiz 66 : Answers

Q1. Who took over his father’s billboard business and in 1970 bought a TV station in Atlanta, Georgia, also owns the Atlanta Hawks basketball team and the Atlanta braves baseball team, and raised bison in Montana and has pledged a billion dollars of his money to the United Nations?

                        Ted Turner

Q2. In which famous London theatre built by the brothers Richard and Cuthbert were the plays of William Shakespeare performed after 1599 with half the shares going to Shakespeare and the company of actors who performed in the plays?

                        Lord Chamberlin’s Men

Q3. What is the sect of Shaivate sadhus who inhabit graveyards and cremations grounds? They are known for their necrophilic activities designed to acquire mystic powers.

                        Aghors

Q4. Dr. Roy Plunkett invented Polymer and first used it as an electric insulator. An earnest French angler tried it on his fishing line to prevent it from tangling. His wife’s suggestion led to its best known use today. Name the invention that his wife’s suggestion led to.

                        Non-Stick Cookware

Q5. On December 9, 1987, three Palestinian children and at least 12 others were mercilessly slaughtered in the Gaze Strip in Israel. This event sparked the beginning of the Palestinian Uprisings in the Occupied Territories. What is the name of this revolt?

                        Intifadah

Q6. Identify.



                        Alessandra Gucci, Designer of GUCCI

Q7. Connect.

  

                        Asperger’s syndrome

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