Any Topic Quiz No. 7

by Pablo C. Villasenor


1. In physics, what is the theoretical value of temperature defined by total absence of heat and equal to zero degree Kelvin (-273.15 degrees Celcius or –459.67 degree Farenheit)?
2. Which biblical prophet reproved David for causing the death of Bathsheba’s husband Uriah?
3. How many states make up the United Arab Emirates?
4. In what city does Batman operate?
5. What country has an official name Chung Hua Min Kuo?
6. What ancient city of the Golan Heights section of Syria was originally called Paneas because it was a center for the worship of Greek god Pan?
7. What is the complete name of Intel, the computer company founded by Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce?
8. Which former dictator of Chad was known as AFRICA’S PINOCHET?
9. What do you call an estimate based mainly on guesswork?
10. What British band popularized the songs Goin’ Out of My Head, She’s Not There, Tell Her No, and Miles Away?
11. What was the car model introduced by Henry Ford on 01 October 1908 and quickly won the approval of millions of owners who affectionately dubbed it THE TIN LIZZIE?
12. The silvery metallic element hafnium is found in another what metallic element?
13. Who wrote All Quiet on the Western Front, one of the first antiwar novels that led to the author’s deprivation of German nationality?
14. What is Scotland’s national dish, which consists of sheep’s stomach lining stuffed with offal, oatmeal, onions and seasoning, and traditionally eaten with a tot of whisky on Burns’ Night, celebrated annually on January 25 to commemorate the life of Scottish poet Robert Burns?
15. Budolfi Cathedral in Denmark was named after whom?
16. Which Arthur Miller’s play tells about the Salem witch trials of the 17th century but really about the witch hunts of American senator Joseph McCarthy of communist sympathizers after World War II?
17. What is the monetary unit of Bangladesh?
18. Who played the role of Sam “Ace” Rothstein in the 1995 movie Casino?
19. What do you call the legendary creature also known as yeti, which is said to resemble a human with long arms and a thickset body covered with reddish-gray hair?
20. What is the ring that can create light structures of anything that Green Lantern will imagine?


Answers to Any Topic Quiz No. 7