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ans to 4th weekend quiz

Here are the answers for my list of 10 questions, which I had posted on 23rd April 2006.

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.

Ans) $253 million.

2. Who founded the “Taize” monastery whose philosophy is “light, music and silence”.
Ans) Roger Schutz, a Swiss theologian, who founded the Taize in 1940.

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

“Misery Index” the sum of unemployment and inflation rates.

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.

Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, a Congolese warlord, accused of conscripting child soldiers.

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

Belarus

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

The “East West Economic Corridor” is a road that runs from the Da Nang port in Vietnam, through the land-locked Laos, to Thailand, and then on to the port of Mawlamyine, near Rangoon in Myanmar.

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

Malcom McLean. On April 26, 1956 his converted tanker ship, the Ideal-X set sail from Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas carrying 58 aluminium truck bodies in frames installed atop its deck.

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

Lucent Technologies and Alcatel

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.

Jose Maria Velasco

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.

Bernardo Provenzano

posted by ramachandran @ 6:52 PM