Young World Quiz (August 31, 2007)
V.V. RAMANAN
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The beginning: Fight for civil rights.
1. Why was the Pont de l’Alma road tunnel in the news on this date in 1997?
2. What is the name given to the building that serves as the location for the United States Congress?
3. Which lady in the U.S. has been called the “Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement”?
4. How many milligrams is a carat, the unit of mass used for measuring gems and pearls?
5. What was the currency of Brazil between August 1993 and mid-1994?
6. What is the second of the three major sections in the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) called?
7. The adjective “galline” is used for which bird?
8. What is the last name of Lyra in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy?
9. Of which central Asian country is Ashgabat the capital?
10. Which team has won most Liga de Fútbol Profesional titles in Spain?
11.Which legendary mathematician and engineer was born c. 287 BC in Syracuse, Sicily?
12. Which animal is considered to be the largest nocturnal primate in the world?
13. Which was the first probe to provide detailed images of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn?
14. Which two books in the Old Testament books are named after women?
15. During the shooting of which film, in the early 1980s, did Amitabh Bachchan have a near-fatal accident?
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