QUIZLET 10

1.q
Which English term (two words) was borrowed into Japanese, adapted,
shortened, used to name a toy product and then "returned" to English?
Ans
POKEMON. from pocket n monsters

2.q
An amateur pianist, she excelled in sports and her ambition was to become a ballerina. First high profile celebrity to have been photographed touching an AIDS patient. Humphrey Bogart was her 7th cousin. During her lifetime she was the most photographed person in the world. Her last words were reportedly to be “My God What has happened”. Who is she?
Ans
Princess Diana

3.q
"The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier" and "The Adventure of the Lion's Mane" are Sherlock Holmes stories. How are they different from the other stories?
Ans
Only ones narrated by Sherlock himself

4.q
Time Magazine’s annual ‘Man of the Year’ edition is well known. In 2000 Albert Einstein was also chosen as the ‘Time Man of the Century’. But who in 1949 was chosen as the ‘Time Man of the Half Century’?
Ans
Winston Churchill

5.q
He traveled a record 1,247,613 km, that is 3.24 times the distance from the Earth to Moon. He visited 129 different countries & territories read more than 20,000 addresses from 100,000 pages & held meetings with 1600 political leaders, including 776 with Heads of States & 246 with Prime Ministers. Who?
Ans
Pope John Paul-II