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Wednesday, October 1, 2008

QUIZ 33



Q1
It was created in the 1880s by Lunsford Richardson, a Selma, North Carolina pharmacist, as a salve for treating colds and pneumonia. Richardson later moved to Greensboro, North Carolina and began marketing it in the honor of his brother-in-law, Dr. Joshua Vick, a Selma physician. What are we talking about?

Q2
He is a Turkish software engineer. Originally from the Turkish Konya, he obtained a B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering and Information Science from Bilkent University in Ankara, and earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University. His research at Stanford focused on Web search and efficient PDA. He developed his namesake service as an independent project in January 2004. Who?

Q3
Connect: Margaret Thatcher, Queen Elizabeth II, David Beckham, Sir Cliff Richard, Tony Blair, Robbie Williams, Sir Richard Branson (N.B. Besides the fact that they are all Britons) (***GENIUS POINT***)

Q4
It was named by Alexandre Brongniart for the extensive marine limestone exposures of the Jura Mountains, in the region where Germany, France and Switzerland meet. What?

Q5
Joseph Marie François Spoturno began selling essences derived from flowers in Grasse, and then peddled his scents to the barbers of Paris. His genius, however, was in marketing and in recognizing that the bottle made the perfume. He had bottles designed by the great ceramist René Lalique. His first great successes were his Rose Jacqueminot scent, in a bottle by Baccarat, in 1904 and L'Origan in 1905. How Do we know him better as?

Q6 Identify the animal shown in the picture above. (Haven't seen one of those of late.)

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3 comments:

  1. Alive? no quizzes for a long time man!

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  2. 1 inventor of vicks
    2 orkut Boukottinn.
    3 alumni of oxford.
    6 dodo

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