Message-board Quiz December Week 1 Quiz 1 :- Seniors - S/10/Dec/07/01

1. To make the kiswah, you need 670 kilograms of pure silk. This quantity is turned into

47 panels of cloth, each of a length of 14 metres. Other requirements include 120 kgs

gold and about 50 kgs silver for lettering. The kiswah measures 658 square metres and

costs about 17 million in the local currency. What is the kiswah?

2. At Beijing 2008, in the Rhythmic Gymnastics group event for women, the Israel didn’t

win any medal. The team comprising of Olena Dvornichenko, Katerina Pisetsky, Maria

Savenkov, Rahel Vigdozchik & Veronika Vitenberg finished 6th, but got much media

attention in India. Why?

3. If FeCl2 is Ferrous Chloride, what is CmCl3?.

4. John Tukey was the co-developer of the Fast Fourier Transform algorithm along with James Cooley. He designed polls to predict and analyze election for NBC. He also coined two terms, X and Y, which are now ubiquitous. X was coined in a 1958 American Mathematical Monthly article about electronic calculators, predicting X of the calculators would become atleast as important as the “tubes, transistors, wires, tapes and the like”. Twelve years earlier, while working at Bell Labs he coined the term Y. What are X and Y?.

5. Which is the only Hindi movie OF THE 60’S to feature in the recent Time Magazine list of the 100 best movies of all time?

6. The term 'second-string' comes from the fall-back measure taken by players of a particular sport in medieval times. What sport (National Sport of Bhutan)?

7. Who was the opposing team's goal keeper when Maradona hit his (in)famous 'Hand of God' goal in the 1986 FIFA World Cup?

8. Connect: Bug, Stingray, Ant, Twinjet, Crab, Egg, Red Rectangle, Dandelion Puff, Cat's eye (among others).

9. She is a member of the Doom Patrol, a DC Comics team whose adventures were published from1963 to 1968, as well as in a new series that started in June 2004 after her renewed popularity. Shares her name with the main character of the movie The Incredibles. Who are we talking about?

10. Who connects the movies Troy, Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean, Black Hawk Down, Ned Kelly and Kingdom of Heaven?