Quiz: Easy as Sunday morning – name in culture!
Alexandria’s library in Egypt is a huge place designed to accommodate 2,000 readers.
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1/10 | Born on this day in 1570, Guido Fox was an English soldier who planned to kill King James I of England by blowing the House of Lords. He was caught before he carried out his plan and his real name entered the English language. What was his name?
2/10 | This syndrome is used to describe people, usually children who have better relations with animals than humans. Like wild children, who are unable to general social interaction. It is named after a character, raised by wolves, then cared for by a bear and a leopard. Which character?
3/10 | Metamorphos, a Latin epic tells the story of a very talkative girl who is praised for her voice and how she falls in love with a person who rejects her. Eventually he is cursed to remain just a voice. The mortal man again sees in the river and whatever he sees falls in love with it. If that man is Narcisus, what is the name of the girl who is ruined to repeat her name?
4/10 | “A powerful athletic body catches a bright sword, with half of its head, the part that completely shuts down the brain,”, describes a special prestigious object. A librarian, Margaret Heric thought that the person resembles his uncle. It was soon picked up and used to refer to this item. What was his uncle’s name?
5/10 | These are binary systems, in which the younger star sucks the material from the big fellow star, becomes a big, hotter and blueer, which gives it the appearance of being young. While the partner burns and falls to a stellar relic. The name of this star is in which fictional character?
6/10 | This is a process named after a French scientist who first discovered this method to prevent bacteria from spoiling food. This process involves warming the items to 63 ° C, maintaining for 30 minutes or for 15 seconds to 72 ° C and then cooling it. Whose name is the name of this process?
7/10 | In 1850, during the California Gold Rush, a German immigrants moved to the canvas to sell the canvas in San Francisco. It did not do well so he put the pants out of the material. Miners loved him because he was very durable and then nicknamed the pants. Who was this entrepreneur?
8/10 | It is a new type of ice cream named after a member of a Germanic people who overtake the Roman Empire. The word also refers to those who wear black clothes almost all the time, and wear makeup regardless of sex. What is this ice cream called?
9/10 | The name of this tech company was selected to pay tribute to the library of Alexandria, which is a parallel between the largest reserves of knowledge in the ancient world and the ability of the Internet, which became a similar store of knowledge. When the original company introduced a virtual assistant, they chose the name to refer to it. What is the name?
10/10 | ______ Siddhant is named after the story of children. Used in developmental psychology, biology and astronomy, it refers to the concept of ‘right amount’. For example, the Earth is neither very hot nor very cold, and therefore supports life. What is the name of this theory?
Published – 10 April, 2025 12:59 pm IST