Trivial Pursuit Questions No. 4

[Carl]

• 1. Which British actress won the Hampstead and Highgate seat for Labour in the 1992 General election ?

• 2. The most fundamental unit of human society is ?

• 3. Who wrote "The Castle of Otranto", the Gothic novel ?

• 4. Who were Sumerians ?

• 5. The two theories of a great scientist revolutionized astronomy in the modem times. What are these theories ?

• 6. Name the speculator in a stock exchange who tries to increase the price of securities is called what ?

• 7. A special type of file written in HTML is called ?

• 8. In series resonant circuits, above the resonant frequency the inductive reactance is large. What is the capacitive reactance ?

• 9. Disc signals are used for what ?

• 10. What is the term used for stone and gravel, coarse sand, fine sand, silt and clay ?

• 11. Who said, "Music is the pleasure of the human soul experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting" ?

• 12. Who invented the first ecofriendly note book computer ?

• 13. What is meant by traffic ?

Answers will be provided next Thursday evening after 21:00.

[stowie39]

1. Glenda Jackson

[LucindaC]

2 family ?

[Carl]

ANSWERS

• 1. Which British actress won the Hampstead and Highgate seat for Labour in the 1992 General election ? Glenda Jackson

• 2. The most fundamental unit of human society is ? Family

• 3. Who wrote "The Castle of Otranto", the Gothic novel ? Ann Radcliffe

• 4. Who were Sumerians ? A set of people from Central Asia

• 5. The two theories of a great scientist revolutionized astronomy in the modem times. What are these theories ? General theory of Relativity and special theory of Relativity of Albert Einstein

• 6. Name the speculator in a stock exchange who tries to increase the price of securities is called what ? Bull speculators

• 7. A special type of file written in HTML is called ? Web page

• 8. In series resonant circuits, above the resonant frequency the inductive reactance is large. What is the capacitive reactance ? Low

• 9. Disc signals are used for what ? Shunting operations

• 10. What is the term used for stone and gravel, coarse sand, fine sand, silt and clay ? Particle in soil

• 11. Who said, "Music is the pleasure of the human soul experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting" ? Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

• 12. Who invented the first ecofriendly note book computer ? Fujitsu

• 13. What is meant by traffic ? Transportation of goods by road, rail, air etc. and coming and going of persons