Monday, June 23, 2008

QUIZLET 9

1.Q
This American Track and field athlete won gold medals in the 400-meter hurdles at the 1976 and 1984 Olympics. Between 1977 and 1987, he won 107 consecutive finals (122 consecutive races) and set the world record in his event four times. In 2000, he was elected the first Chairman of the , Laureus World Sport Academy. Identify the person.

ANS
EDWIN MOSES

2.Q
One Day in September’ is a 1999 documentary film directed by Kevin Macdonald. The film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2000. On which incident the story is based on?

ANS
The murder of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany.

3.Q
This car has been in production since 1957. This car was initially produced under the name ‘Morris Oxford Series’. It has been used to be the Prime Minister's vehicle until 2002. The then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee exchanged it for a BMW limo. Name the car.

ANS
AMBASSADOR

4.Q
Which great explorer's last words were 'I have not told you half of what I saw'?

ANS MARCO POLO

5.Q
Theodore Fujita’s famous Fujita scale or F-scale, introduced in 1960, is now the standard scale used for classifying the intensity of what kind of weather disturbance three-fourth of which occurs in the US?

ANS TORNADOES





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