Sunday 4 December 2011

Quiz 98:4th December 2011

Q1. Officially known as the Hellenic republic this country’s national anthem is ‘Hymn to Liberty’. This country has the 12th largest coastline and the Ionnian Sea lies to the west of this country. This country consists 80% of mountains. Name this country.
Q2. Saturn's interior is probably composed of a core of iron, nickel and rock (silicon and oxygen compounds), surrounded by a deep layer of metallic hydrogen, an intermediate layer of liquid hydrogen and liquid helium and an outer gaseous layer. Electrical current within the metallic hydrogen layer is thought to give rise to planetary magnetic field, which is slightly weaker than Earth's and around one-twentieth the strength of Jupiter's. Identify the planet.
Q3. As President, he created two new cabinet-level departments: the Department of Energy and the Department of Education. He established a national energy policy that included conservation, price control, and new technology. He survived a primary challenge against Ted Kennedy for the Democratic Party nomination in the 1980 election, but lost the election to Republican candidate Ronald Reagan. Identify him.
Q4.____________ is a motorsport complex around the village of Nürburg, Germany. It features a modern Grand Prix race track built in 1984, and a much longer old North loop track which was built in the 1920s around the village and medieval castle of Nürburg in the Eifel Mountains. The new ­­­­­­­­­­____________ ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­ was completed in 1984 and called GP-Strecke. Name it.
Q5. _____________is a community in the south of the city of Cardiff and is the capital of Wales. It was originally a model housing estate built in the early nineteenth century by John Crichton-Stuart,for whose title the area was named. Commonly known as "Tiger Bay", this area became one of the UK's first multicultural communities with people from over 50 countries settled here by the outbreak of World War I, working in the docks and allied industries. Some of the largest communities included the Somalis, Yemenis and Greeks, whose influence still lives on today. Name this place.
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