5th weekend quiz
Given below are 10 questions for the weekend. Answers by 24th June 2006 to
vram25@gmail.com. Also posted at
http://quizrama.blogspot.com/. Cheers.
1) Goldman Sachs has given its top man to be the Treasury Secretary of USA. Name this person
2) On May 12th, 2006 a wave of violence orchestrated from within the prison system struck Rio de Janeiro and neighbouring towns. In five days of mayhem and retribution some 150 people, a quarter of them policemen were killed; 82 buses torched, 17 bank branches attacked. Rebellions erupted at 74 of the 140 prisons in Sao Paulo state. Schools, shopping centres, offices were shut down; transport froze. Name the criminal gang that was involved in this spate of violence in Rio de Janeiro.
3) Who wrote the following books: “The Affluent Society”, “American Capitalism”, “The New Industrial State”.
4) What is “ALBA” and who are the members of it.
5) He took over as National Football League’s Commissioner in 1989 and made NFL into the most successful leagues amongst the four sports leagues in America i.e. football, baseball, basketball and ice hockey. He is due to retire in July 2006. Name this person
6) Where is the George Bush Sr. Presidential Library and Museum situated? (In USA, a Presidential Library is opened after every President departs from office, which is actually a wonderful practice to be emulated by Indian government…)
7) In Sudan, they call it “tahoor” or purification, in Sierra Leone, it is known as “bondo” or initiation. An estimated 130M girls and women now alive have undergone this procedure in more than two dozen African countries as well as in parts of Asia, the Middle East and some immigrant communities in the west. What procedure are we talking about?
8) Recently, Singapore government proposed to their Indonesian counterparts that they would be interested in managing one of the 17,500 islands in the Indonesian archipelago. Name the island that Singapore is most interested in.
9) Where and when was the world’s first “hybrid” court set up: “hybrid” in the sense it had a mixture of local and international judges.
10) Name the archaean aeon period.
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
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
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