Qusstion Set 10

Continuing with the trivia hunt:

1)

What is the significance?

This is the blank editorial in Indian Express by Ram Nath Goenka in protest of the emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi.

2) What connects Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan to:
Nalcheti
Jwala
Kanthari
Birds Eye
Bolita

These are different species of Red Chillies and SRK's production house is called 'Red Chillies Entertainment'.

3) Having refused food and water for more than 500 weeks since November 2000, she has been called "the world's longest hunger striker" and was nominated for a Nobel peace prize in 2005 from Guwahati. Who?

Irom Chanu Sharmila.

4) With what science, would you associate these pictures?

Taxonomy (Lazarus, Elvis, Zombie. These are names of Taxons).

5) This country's flag contains a special character from the Soyombo script (Founded on the Sanskrit Devanagari scrit).
This character resembles a vertical arrangement of abstract and geometric representation for fire, sun, moon, earth, water, and the yin-yang symbol.
Which country?

Flag of Mongolia.

 

6) Which God in Norse mythology has such exceptional sense of hearing that He can hear the sound of wool growing on Sheep's body?

Heimdall

7) What word is blanked out?

Fibonacci. (Courtsey : xkcd.com)

8) Who is the designer of this very pecular kind of chair depicted in this  Switzerland stamp?

Le Corbusier.

9) Which person, recently in news for the very wrong reasons connects these?

Oscar Pistorius, who is a brand amassador of the de-mining project called 'Sole of Africa'. He  is nicknamed 'Blade Runner', a movie of the same name was inspired from the Sci-fi book from Philip Dick.



10) The sculptures, as shown below are carved out of trees, especially the Giant Cedar in Southern America.
These type of sculptures have given name to a particular type of Electronic Circuit. What is the circuit called?

Such monuments are called Totem Poles, which is another name of the Push-Pull output stage in TTL or CMOS digital integrated circuits.