QUIZ 3

Q1
Most airlines employ a distinctive and internationally recognised call
sign that is normally spoken during airband radio transmissions as a
prefix to the flight number. For example, the call sign for African
Safari Airways is "Zebra". What is the call sign for Indian Airlines?

Q2
The message--simply the Morse-code signal for the letter "s"--traveled
more than 2,000 miles from Poldhu in Cornwall, England, to
Newfoundland, Canada. What was so great about this?

Q3
In 1919, Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs moved to an immense
540-acre ranch in southern California's San Fernando Valley, and named
it something. And when a city sprung up there in 1970, it inherited
this name. What did he name it?

Q4
Who in the bible, is the first musician and also the inventor of the
harp and the flute?

Q5
She has been described as having snakes as hair and so frightening that anyone who stares at her turns into stone. At one point of time she was a very beautiful sea-nymph and the wrath of a goddess was the reason behind her more famous hideous state. Who is she?

Q6
She is Canadian. She was born Eileen. She changed her name to a word
that means "I'm on my way" in the third most commonly spoken native
language in Canada, Obijwe language. The city where she grew up has
renamed a street after her as also built a museum in her honour. Who's
she?

Q7
This British Statesman was a hyperactive child, who entered Harrow as
a rock-bottom student. He improved slightly, but still failed the
entrance exams at Sandhurst twice, and was taken out of Harrow and
placed with a 'crammer'. Who are we talking about?

Q8
He is the only man to have been awarded the Nobel Prize and an Oscar. Who? (I'm not talking about Al Gore.)

Q9
There is an urban legend that this drink contains `prune juice'.
Contrary to the legend, it never has. The oldest bottling plant of
this drink is in Dublin, Texas. In 1960s, the plant owner refused to
change from cane sugar to less expensive corn syrup. Today, the plant
is still in operation, and is the only US source for this drink made
with real cane sugar. Contractual requirements limit the plant's
distribution range to a 40-mile radius of Dublin! What drink am I
talking about?

Q10
The mascots of the Beijing Olympics are know as the 5 what?

Q11
Identify the person in the above image.

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