1.

The Separation of Light and Darkness, The Creation of the Sun and the Moon and the firmaments,
the creation of Adam and Eve, the Fall, Noah's Sacrifice and the Drunkenness of Noah are sequences at
which famous location?

* The Sistine Chapel

2. In March 2008, Mark Zuckerberg, at the age of 23, became the youngest self-made billionaire to
find his name in the Forbes Billionaire List. He is the founder of which popular enterprise whose office
is located at 156 Univ. Ave., Palo Alto, California-94301, USA?

*FaceBook, Inc.

3. ________ is the pseudonym given to the secret informant who provided information to Bob
Woodward of the The Washington Post about the involvement of US President Richard Nixon's
administration in what came to be known as the Watergate scandal.
_______ was first introduced to the public in the 1974 book All the President's Men, written by
Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, which was adapted into an Academy
Award-winning film two years later.
Incidently __________ is also the name of a very famous porn movie starring the famous actress Linda
Lovelace.

*Deep Throat

4. Chris Bonington, the widely respected British Himalayan mountaineer, summed up the view of many
mountaineers all over the world:
"If we accept the fact that they were above the Second Step, they would have seemed to be incredibly
close to the summit of Everest and I think at that stage something takes hold of most climbers ... And I
think therefore taking all those circumstances in view ... I think it is quite conceivable that they did go
for the summit ... I certainly would love to think that they actually reached the summit of Everest. I
think it is a lovely thought and I think it is something, you know, gut emotion, yes I would love them to
have got there. Whether they did or not, I think that is something one just cannot know."
Who are the they refreed here?

*George Mallory and Sandy Irvine

5. ___________ has three RIAA certified Platinum albums and over thirteen million records sold
worldwide. Her first studio album, Metamorphosis (2003), was certified triple platinum and she
followed it up with two more platinum albums, ________ (2004) and Most Wanted(2005).
__________last studio album, Dignity, was released in April 2007 and was certified Gold in August
2007. _______is the 7th cousin of Lance Armstrong and ________ owns the fashion brand „Stuff‟ .
Who?

* Hilary Duff

6. _______ are tight-fitting trousers that reach to the ankle, where they end in a snug cuff, and are worn
primarily for horseback riding. The term can also refer to a type of short riding boot, also called a
paddock boot or a ______ boot. What?

*Jodhpur
7. Who and why did he take the three pseudonyms, Christopher Golato, Allan Deon and Mark Rowan
while writing the screenplay of the hit TV series, “ I dream of Jeannie”?

*Sidney Sheldon beacuse he thought he had too many credits in that series!

8. It is a branch of metaphysical philosophy concerned with the study of mind and intuition and its
relationship with the divine intellect. Among its principal purposes one can mention the study of non-
rational ways of knowing and how they relate to reason; it also refers to the study of relationships
between human and divine intuition. What?

*Noetic Theory

9. _______ was probably never aware that __________'s work had been used during construction of a
very famous scientific model, but Maurice Wilkins was and some feel that this was inappropriate.It was
later implied incorrectly by Horace Freeland Judson that Maurice Wilkins had taken a photograph out
of ____________'sdesk drawer, causing an uproar. Others have suggested that not obtaining
_________'s permission before sharing the results was somehow an oversight. It was later suggested by
some that since a customary British notion is that everything official is considered secret until it is
deliberately made public, that Perutz's sharing of the MRC report should have been treated as
confidential even though it was not marked as such.
After the publication of Watson's The Double Helix, Perutz was beset by so many letters questioning
his judgment that he felt the need to both answer them all and to post a general statement in Science
excusing himself on the basis of being "inexperienced and casual in administrative matters." Perutz
also indicated that the MRC information was already made available to the Cambridge team when
Watson had attended __________'s seminar in November in 1951. The Perutz letter was one of three
letters, published with letters by Wilkins and Watson, which discussed their various contributions.
Watson clarified the importance of the data obtained from the MRC report as he had not recorded these
data while attending _________'s lecture in 1951.

Who?

*Rosalind Franklin

10. The circumpunct is a symbol that makes a serial appearence in Dan Brwon's latest novel, "The Lost
Symbol". It had many historical meanings among them being the symbol for Ra, the Sun God, the
Vedantic philosophy etc. In the book however it traces the path of the Ancient Mysteries. What exactly
is a circumpunct?

*It is a circle with a dot in the centre.

Manjil P. Saikia
Dept. of Mathematical Sciences,
Tezpur University
+91 97063 42280
manjil_msi09@agnee.tezu.ernet.in