General Quiz #1

Since I am an avid quizzer, I will from time to time be publishing a few quizzes here and there for you to read and hopefully enjoy as well. So here goes. This is a good old-fashioned general quiz.

1) "Nick Gillespie, They Know Where You Live". What is the significance of this statement? Was in the news a year back.

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Reason magazine's June 2004 cover was devoted to a cool exercise in technology: the
40,000 subscribers saw individualized satellite photos of their neighborhood, with their homes circled. This quote was on the cover of the magazine delivered to Nick Gillespie, the Editor-in-chief of Reason.


2) This company was formed in 1850 as a temporary solution to a bitter feud between two transportation companies in New York. They decided to stop their price war and found a new transportation company which would automatically dissolve in ten years. After ten years, the company was making so much money that the partners did not have the heart to dissolve the company. Instead they sold off the assets of the company and started a new company with the same name. Which company?

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American Express


3) X is processed from morphine, a naturally occurring substance extracted from the seedpod of the Asian poppy plant. X usually appears as a white or brown powder. Street names for X include "smack,"skag" and "junk." Other names may refer to types of X produced in a specific geographical area, such as "Mexican black tar." What is X?

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Heroin


4) "A lung disease caused by breathing in particles of siliceous volcanic dust". What significance does this have with reference to the english language?

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The above is the definition for Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, which is the longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural. It was coined by Everett Smith, the President of the National Puzzlers' League, in 1935 purely for the purpose of inventing a new "longest word."


5) Not something to be proud of, the scientific name for this is "Bromhidrosis". What am I talking about?

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Body Odour


6) They are small built, under 5'8" and 150 lb, unattached, otherwise unknown and aged between 25 and 39. Their professions vary from workers to white collar political aspirants. Who does this profile describe?

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US Presidential Assasins. A study of previous assasins by the FBI led to the formation of this general description.


7) He was born on June 30, 1985 to Fred and Debbie. His parents already had two daughters, Hilary and Whitney. The family lived in Maryland, just outside of Baltimore. Fred was a state trooper, and Debbie was a middle-school teacher who was twice named Maryland’s "Teacher of the Year.”Outside of his career, he was a normal teenager. He rooted for Baltimore sports teams, read books on sports heroes like Lance Armstrong and Vince Lombardi, and usually fell asleep with the family cat, Savannah, curled up next to him. He didn’t like getting out of the bed in the morning, but refused to slow down once his day began. He tried his hand at baseball (as a catcher and shortstop), soccer and lacrosse as a youngster. When he entered Towson High School, he toyed with the idea of going out for football, and later played on the golf team. Known for his prowess in a totally different sport. Enough said. Who?

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Micheal Phelps.


8) SUDAN 1 is a drug traditionally used for coloring oils, waxes, solvents, petrol and shoe and floor polishes.However, just a few months back, a health report commitee in china repoted the presence of SUDAN 1 in a company's food sauces. This got this company into quite a mess. Which company/food outlet am I talking about?

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K.F.C. Or Heinz


9) But for this man, this tiny Bijapur village, at least its name, would never have been known to the outside world.After finishing his B.Com., he began his career with Filix, India, where he worked as a sales executive.Following a brief stint with a guest house, he took up employment in Saudi Arabia. Returning to India, he set up a manpower consultancy service. But his big opportunity to run a multi-crore business came when he bagges a license from the Government in 1994. Can you name the village?

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Telgi. The person of course is the infamous Abdul Kareem Telgi, the mastermind of the Stamp Paper Racket.


10) Simplest one of the quiz. Everyone has definately heard about the hit television show,'The Apprentice'. All I want to know is which infamous personality, very much in the news for the past year will be hosting the 3rd Season of this Show?

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Martha Stewart