1. These islands were first sighted and named Las Tortugas by Christopher Columbus after the numerous sea turtles there, on May 10, 1503. The first recorded English visitor to the islands was Sir Francis Drake, who landed there in 1586 and gave these islands their present name after the local word for crocodile. Name these islands.
2. Whose tomb did Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose visit after giving his famous “Delhi Chalo” call?
3. Who created the Centigrade scale? What unusual aspect of it was modified to its present well known form by Carolus Linnaeus?
4. What would you be tested for if you underwent an Ishihara Test?
5. According to Indian mythology, who is the husband of Riddhi and Siddhi?
6. Identify — Initially he worked on analysing university exam results, anthropometric measurements on Anglo-Indians of Calcutta and some metrological problems. His name is associated with the scale free multivariate distance measure. He served as secretary to Rabindranath Tagore, particularly during the latter’s foreign travels, and also worked at Vishwabharati University for some time. He received the Padma Vibhushan for his contribution to science and services to the country. The government of India decided to celebrate his birthday, June 29, as National _______ Day.
7. The skin test using the Dharmendra Antigen is the only in vivo immunological skin test used as an aid to the classification and prognosis of what common disease?
8. In which language did Jesus Christ actually speak?
9. Which American orniothologist wrote the book Birds of the West Indies?
10. Identify the person from the statistics: Number of tests – 52; First wicket – Ivan Barrow; Last wicket – Walt Hammond?
11. Angadias are traditional couriers used to transport 90 per cent of the world’s output of what commodity?
12. What would you be enjoying if you were reading Momics?
13. The practice of saving a hunted fox by causing the pursuing hounds to lose the true scent and follow the false trail gave rise to what term?
14. What technology invented by Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver in 1948 was first implemented through the work of Raymond Alexander and Frank Stietz, and was a system to identify railroad cars?
15. If Superman’s alter ego is Clark Lent, Supremo’s alter ego is ______?
answers
1. The Cayman Islands
2. Bahadur Shah Zafar. Bose gave this call from Rangoon
3. Anders Celsius. Celsius made 0 degrees as the boiling point of water and 100 degrees as the freezing point. Linnaeus reversed this.
4. Colour vision (or colour blindness)
5. Lord Ganesha
6. PC Mahalanobis (National Statistics Day)
7. Leprosy. The lepromin test using the Dharmendra Antigen is now being increasingly used especially for epidemiological studies with the ultimate object of controlling the spread of leprosy.
8. Aramaic
9. James Bond (after whom Ian Fleming named his spy)
10. Sir Donald Bradman (Runs 6996; Avg 99.94; Top score 334)
11. Diamonds
12. Mobile comics
13. Red herring. The fish was dragged across the fox’s trail to cause the pursuing hounds to lose the true scent and follow the false trail of herring odour instead.
14. The Barcode
15. Amitabh Bachchan (Created by Gulzar, Supremo has two sidekicks – Vijay and Anthony!)