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4th weekend quiz

Dear Friends,

Here are my list of 10 questions for this weekend.


1. What was the amount of damages awarded by a Texan jury on 19th August 2005 to the widow of Robert Ernst, a 59 year old marathon runner who died from an irregular heartbeat caused, so the jury concluded, by Merck’s now famous anti-inflammatory drug, Vioxx.



2. Who founded the “Taize” monastery whose philosophy is “light, music and silence”.



3. What was invented by Arthur Okun, an American economist, just after the first oil crisis of 1970s.



4. On March 17th, 2006, the International Criminal Court, the world’s first permanent war crimes tribunal, made its first arrest. Name the person arrested and the charges against him.



5. KGB is still the security service of which country?



6. What is the “East West Economic Corridor”?



7. Who is known as the “father” of the containerization, i.e. transportation of cargo by containers, which revolutionalised the world trade.



8. Patricia Russo and Serge Tchuruk are respective bosses of which two companies who have announced a merger recently.



9. “Give me a balcony and I will become president” said ______________, Ecuador’s most prominent populist, who was five times elected president and four times overthrown by the army. Name the person being referred to.



10. The Italian police recently arrested the country’s most wanted man after chasing him for over 42 years. This man, the boss of the Sicilian mafia the capo di tutti capi, had the chilling nickname, “the tractor” because of the ease with which he mowed down anybody who got in his way. Name this person.




Cheers,

Ramachandran
please send replies to vram25@gmail.com

posted by ramachandran @ 4:58 PM