Downtime quiz: June 2009
1.Which country produces 70 per cent of the world's silk? (1pt)
2.Jimmy Wales and Larry Singer founded which website in 2007? (1pt)
3.In which country was Greenpeace founded? (1pt)
4.What colour is the letter L in the standard Google logo? (1pt)
5.Name the oil tanker that ran aground off Alaska in 1989 and is still the subject of compensation claims? (1pt)
6.What is the latin phrase for the way something is done? (2pts)
7.What does WAP stand for in mobile phone technology? (2pts)
8.Name Japan's largest island. (2pts)
9.Chrometophobia is an unnatural fear of what? (2pts)
10.What country effectively went bankrupt due to its banking industry collapse? (2pts)
11.Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize? (5pts)
12.Where did the American expression 'a buck', to describe a US dollar come from? (5pts)
13.In which year did the UK hand sovereignty of Hong Kong to China? (5pts)
14.What is the oldest trophy in an international sporting event? (5pts)
15.What company was originally named the Computer-Tabulator-Recorder Company? (5pts)
Answers: 1. China 2. Wikipedia 3. Canada 4. Green 5. Exxon Valdez 6. Modus operandi 7. Wireless Application Protocol 8. Honshu 9. Money 10. Iceland 11. Marie Curie with husband Pierre for physics in 1903 12. Deer skins were common currency in frontier America 13. 1997 14. The America's Cup for yachting 15. IBM
Extracted from http://www.cpaaustralia.com.au/
Reference: June 2009, volume 79:05, p.71
Page last updated: Wednesday, 27 May 2009
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My general knowledge is bad....Only able to answer 4 questions..lolxxx
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