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Sunday, September 20, 2009

Pilot: Sept 21 - Daily Quiz

1) Relate the rightmost bee in the picture to the aircraft. Please...please don't say they both fly!!












2) If 'deja vu' is the feeling of familiarity, what do you call the feeling of unfamiliarity?

3) This disease is nicknamed 'The divine disease' because the sufferers experience auditory and visual hallucinations and feels as if they are seeing god. Identify the disease.

4) Identify














5) Identify this person
  • Former Miss India
  • Former National level swimming champion
  • Acted in several Bollywood films
  • Acted in a Malayalam film with one of the veteran actors
  • She is a social worker and contested in the Lok Sabha elections from South Kolkata
6) Sept. 19th was Software Freedom day. So here goes. If Ubuntu has 'Ubiquity', what does Fedora have?

7) Digital Fortress, Angels and demons, __________________. What all comes next? Fill in chronological order.

8) He was deaf, But he gave us light. What am I talking about?

9) "The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision". Who quoted this?

10) A German psychiatrist and neuropathologist diagnosed Auguste Deter with this disease and successfully described it. Identify the disease and the Day dedicated towards it.

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Update : Answers 
1) The rightmost bee in the pic is a male bee - called drone
    The aircraft is a remotely controlled one - also called the drone

2) Jamais vu

3) Temporal lobe epilepsy

4) Basilisk (HP fans, shocked???)

5) Nafisa Ali

6)  Ubiquity is the Ubuntu installer
     Anaconda is the installer for Fedora

7) Deception Point, The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol

8) Thomas Alva Edison Inventing the light bulb. He was deaf. Still he had 1093 US patents in his name.

9) Helen Keller

10) Alzheimer's disease, Sept 21, Thats  today :)

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