MIXED BAG QUESTIONS

1.Which American state is nicknamed The Diamond State?    

    Delaware

2. Rene Laennac invented which aid for doctors in 1810?   

   Stethoscope

3. If you suffer from cynanthropy what do you think you are? 

Dog

4. What is the commonest symbol on flags of the world? 

Star

5. The First Cyber Forensic and Digital Analysis Centre in India has started functioning in which city?

       Thiruvananthapuram(Kerala)

6. Name of the book in which the first history of Clinton scandal has been written and the same book also alleges that  Clinton had an affair with Susan mcdougal of Whitewater infamy

     “The Death of American Virtue”

7. Which scientist who has a unit of relative speed named after    him, ironically scorned the theory of relativity and Rejected the existence of atoms as a 'mental artifice' who? 

     Ernest Mach

8. With Marshal mccluhan, there two catch phrases associated which became popular. Which ones? 

Global village and The Medium is the message  

9. To become US President one has to be naturally born citizen of America. Obviously the condition was waived for the first few Presidents. Who was the first Chief Executive to fulfill this condition? 

Martin Van Buren  

10.During the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, this company had a very controversial slogan. "You don't win silver, you lose gold". Which company?

Nike

11. Mangal Pande of the 34th Native Infantry Regiment was sentenced and hanged on April 8, 1857. The rest of the infantry was disarmed and disbanded. Who was the only other person to be executed in this regiment?

Iswari Prasad, the head guard.  

12. The name of this language means "of the coast" in Arabic. Today it is the mother tongue of about six million people, most of them living near the Indian Ocean, but it is also spoken by about forty million others as the commonest language of a continent, with many borrowings from Hindi. What? 

Swahili (or Kiswahili)  

13 Which is the only product or process to be named after the US Patent Office? 

Patent Leather.

14. "You have deliberately tasted two whole worms and now you can leave Oxford on the town drain". Name the Warden of New College Oxford who said this? 

Reverend W.A. Spooner, after whom Spoonerisms are named

15. Which fictional character takes part of his name from the19th Century mascot of Princess Pat's Canadian regiment and part from that of a swan encountered by the writer and his family while on holiday? 

Winnie the Pooh

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