Strain, Congo, Travels, Sphere, Risingsun, Disclosure, The Lost World, Airframe, Timeline, Prey, State of Fear
Strain, Congo, Travels, Sphere, Risingsun, Disclosure, The Lost World, Airframe, Timeline, Prey, State of Fear
He is the author of Jurassic Park, The Andromeda important tool for historians and archaeologists as it
Strain, Congo, Travels, Sphere, RisingSun, Disclosure, includes the most complete extant historical record
The Lost World, Airframe, Timeline, Prey, State of of ancient Japan.
Fear. Answer: Nihon Shoki
Answer: Michael Crichton
11. Also known as Princess Kaguya, it is a 10th
2. According to the book of Genesis, Noah’s ark came century Japanese folktale. It is considered the oldest
to rest in this mountain. extant Japanese narrative and an early example of
Answer: Mount Ararat proto-science fiction. It primarily details the life of a
mysterious girl called Kaguya-hime, who was
3. It is the space between the eyebrows and above discovered as a baby inside the stalk of a
the nose. glowing bamboo plant. She is said to be from Tsuki-
Answer: Glabella no-Miyako (The Capital of the Moon) and has
unusual hair that shines like the moon.
4. Axilla is the anatomical term for what part of the Answer: The tale of the Bamboo Cutter
body?
Answer: Armpit 12. It refers to the period from the mid 1950s to the
early 1960s, where millions of Soviet political
5. The function of this muscle is to raise and lower prisoners were released from Gulag labor camps,
the testes in order to regulate the temperature of due to Nikita Khrushchev's policies of de-
the testes and promote spermatogenesis. Stalinization[2] and peaceful coexistence with other
Answer: Cremaster nations.
Answer: Khrushchev’s Thaw
6. It is a smooth, oblong bone plate which forms
the lateral surface of the labyrinth of the ethmoid 13. The Hanging gardens of Babylon were supposedly
bone in the skull. The plate covers in the middle and built by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar
posterior ethmoidal cells and forms a large part of II around 600 BC to please his homesick wife who
the medial wall of the eye socket. longed for the trees and fragrant plants of her
Answer: lamina papyracea (or orbital lamina) homeland. Who is she?
Answer; Amytis of Medea
7. Regarded as the "Father of the Japanese short
story", he is best known as the writer of Rashomon 14. It was a military standard that displayed the "Chi-
and In a Grove, the two stories used in Akira Rho" symbol ☧, formed from the first two Greek
Kurosawa’s film, Rashomon. letters of the word "Christ" — Chi (χ) and Rho (ρ). It
Answer: Ryunosuke Akutagawa was used by the Roman emperor Constantine I.
Since the military standard consisted of a flag
8. It was a mixed synod of ecclesiastics and laymen of suspended from the crossbar of a cross, it was
the Catholic Church, which was held from November ideally suited to symbolize the crucifixion of Christ.
18 to November 28, 1095 at Clermont, France. Pope Answer: Labarum
Urban II's speech in this council was the starting
point of the First Crusade. 15. It was a Mongol khanatein Azerbaijan and Persia in
Answer: Council of Clermont the 13th century, considered a part of the Mongol
Empire. It was based, originally, on Genghis Khan's
9. He was the most prominent ruler of the Ghaznavid campaigns in the Khwarezmid Empire in 1219–1224,
dynasty who ruled from 997 until his death in 1030 and founded by Genghis's grandson, Hulagu, in what
in the eastern Iranian lands. Mahmud turned the territories which today comprise most of Iran, Iraq,
former provincial city of Ghazni into the wealthy Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan,
capital of an extensive empire which covered most Georgia, Turkey, and some regions of
of today's Iran, Afghanistan as well as Pakistan and western Pakistan.
North-West India. He was also the first ruler to carry Answer: Ilkhanate
the titleSultan ("authority") signifying the extent of
his power, though preserving the ideological link to 16. As mentioned in the New Testament Book of
the suzerainty of the Caliph. Revelation and written to by Ignatius of Antioch, the
Answer: Mahmud of Ghazni cities of Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamon, Thyatira,
Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea are collectively
10. It is the second oldest book of classical Japanese known as what?
history. It is more elaborate and detailed than
the Kojiki, the oldest, and has proven to be an
Answer: Seven Churches of Asia / The Seven Mediterranean from the time of Alexander the Great
Churches of Revelation / The Seven Churches of the until the development of Byzantine Greek.
Apocalypse Answer: Septuagint
17. It is an award presented in recognition of the worst 25. If the Emmy awards recognize television production
in movies, founded by American copywriter achievements and Grammys recognize music
and publicist John J.B. Wilson in 1981. achievements, what award recognizes achievement
Answer: Golden Raspberry Awards in live Broadway theatre?
Answer: Tony Awards
18. It is best-known for portraying the character James
Bond, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 26. It is a genre of Japanese literature consisting of
and 1983. In 1989, he was also proclaimed "Sexiest loosely connected personal essays and fragmented
Man Alive" by People magazine, and in 1999, at age ideas that typically respond to the author's
69, he was voted "Sexiest Man of the Century". surroundings. The name is derived from
Answer: Sean Connery two Kanji meaning "to follow" and "brush", and thus
works of the genre should be considered not as
19. It is an area of partial alteration in one's field of traditionally planned literary pieces but rather as
vision consisting of a partially diminished or casual or random jottings down of thought by their
entirely degenerated visual acuity which is authors.
surrounded by a field of normal - or relatively well- Answer: Zuihitsu
preserved - vision.
Answer: Scotoma 27. Japanese manga artist and prominent film
director and animator of many popular anime
20. In literature and drama, this term has come to mean feature films, he created Spirited Away, the first and
an ordinary individual, with whom the audience or currently the only anime to win an Academy award
reader is supposed to be able to identify easily, and for Best Animated Feature.
who is often placed in extraordinary circumstances. Answer: Hayao Miyazaki
Answer: Everyman
28. Known for acting as Dorothy in the 1939 Wizard of
21. The retina is the layer within the eye where the Oz adaptation, she was the youngest recipient of
nervous structures are found, enabling us to have the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement
the sense of sight. Which part of the retina do we in the motion picture industry, at the age of 39.
have the highest visual acuity or sharpness? Answer: Judy Garland
Answer: Fovea Centralis
29. Directed by Cathy Garcia Molina, it is currently the
22. It is the smallest skeletal muscle in the human body. highest grossing film in the Philippines, with a total
At just over one millimeter in length, its purpose is to of ₱230,436,128 ($4,727,411) in the box-office.
stabilize the smallest bone in the body, the stapes. Answer: You Changed My Life
Answer: Stapedius
30. It was a religious funeral practice among
23. If the most important character is called a some Indian communities in which a
protagonist, what do you call the second most recently widowed woman either voluntarily or by
important character? use of force and coercion would have immolated
Answer: Deuteragonist herself on her husband’s funeral pyre.
Answer: Sati or Suttee
24. It is an ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew
Bible. It is referred to in critical works by the 31. It is the common term for the condition of a
abbreviation G. It was originally the designation for shortened first metatarsal in relation to the second
the Koine Greek translation of the Pentateuch, but metatarsal.
came in time to refer to the Greek translation of Answer: Morton’s toe
the Old Testament adopted by Christians,
incorporating the translations of all the books of the 32. Best known for movies such as Stagecoach, The
Hebrew Bible and books later considered apocryphal Searchers, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,
or deutero-canonical, some composed in Greek and and adaptations of such classic 20th-century
some translations. It incorporates the oldest of American novels as The Grapes of Wrath, He also
several ancient translations of the Hebrew Bible holds the record for the most Academy Award for
into Greek, the lingua franca of the Eastern Best Director, in 1935, 1940, 1941, and 1952.
Answer: John Ford
33. He rose to fame for playing the Man with No 39. Irish-born poet, novelist, and playwright, who won
Name in Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy of spaghetti international fame with his play En attendant Godot
westerns during the 1960s, and as San Francisco (Waiting for Godot), which premiered in 1953.
Police Department Inspector Harry Callahan in Answer: Samuel Beckett
the Dirty Harry films during the 1970s and 1980s. He
also won Academy Awards for Best Director and 40. The framework for peace in the Middle East signed
Producer of the Best Picture, as well as receiving by United States president Jimmy Carter, Egyptian
nominations for Best Actor, for his work in the president Anwar al-Sadat, and Israeli prime minister
films Unforgiven (1992) and Million Dollar Menachem Begin on September 17, 1978, in
Baby (2004). Washington, D.C. Although the accords led to a
Answer: Clint Eastwood peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, they did not
result in peace between Israel and other Arab states.
34. He is best known for a series of comedic mystery For their efforts to resolve their long-standing
novels starring the now iconic Roger Rabbit, a conflict, Sadat and Begin received the 1978 Nobel
cartoon character who inhabits an alternate universe Peace Prize.
where so-called "toons" and humans co-exist. In Answer: Camp David Accords
1988 his work was made into the popular film Who
Framed Roger Rabbit? 41. South African surgeon who performed the first
Answer: Gary Wolf human heart-transplant operation.
Answer: Christiaan Barnard
35. An educated public official belonging to one of nine
ranks, during the centuries of the Chinese Empire. A 42. Russian-born chemist and Zionist leader, who
man attains this rank by passing an examination in became the first president (1949-1952) of modern
Chinese classics. He then wore an official robe and a Israel.
cap button of a particular color, depending on his Answer: Chaim Weizmann
rank, and was forbidden to marry or to own property
within his assigned province, in which he served for 43. An uprising by Palestinians against Israeli rule in the
not more than three years. West Bank and Gaza Strip territories. Palestinian
Answer: Mandarin discontent has resulted in two separate uprisings
since 1987. Both were attempts to liberate portions
36. An ancient empire of Asia, in what are now Iran and of Palestine from Israeli control through a
Afghanistan. They were of Scythian descent, and combination of force and negotiations. These
adopted Median dress and Aryan speech. About 250 uprisings have involved a series of demonstrations,
BC they succeeded in founding an independent strikes, riots, and violence against Israelis, their
kingdom that, during the 1st century BC, grew into an settlements, and their institutions. Originally
empire extending from the Euphrates River to the characterized by civil disobedience, the movement
Indus River and from the Oxus (now Amu Darya) became increasingly violent and included attacks
River to the Indian Ocean. against Israel in its sovereign territory (the land Israel
Answer: Parthia held before capturing the Gaza Strip, West Bank, and
Golan Heights in the Six-Day War of 1967). Answer:
37. The third Mughal emperor of India (1556-1605), Intifada
generally considered the true founder of the Mughal
Empire. His achievements include the establishment 44. He founded the first unified Myanmar state at
of an efficient administrative system that held the Pagan, building its wealth with irrigation works and
empire together and stimulated trade and economic military conquest. He incorporates the existing Mon
development, and his promulgation of a new civilization into his kingdom, linking Myanmar to
religion, the Dini-Ilahi (Divine Faith), a blend of Islam, Indian culture and trade.
Brahmanism, Christianity, and Zoroastrianism. Answer: Anawratha
Answer: Akbar
45. The reform period of the Ottoman Empire between
38. The author of 90 books, he became well known after 1839 and the proclamation of the Ottoman
the publication of his novel The Jungle (1906), which constitution in 1876. This reform era built on the
exposed the unsanitary and miserable working changes instituted under Sultan Mahmud II, who
conditions in the stockyards of Chicago, Illinois, and sought to centralize and modernize government
led to an investigation by the federal government during his reign. Mahmud converted semi-
and the subsequent passage of pure food laws. independent government bureaus into tightly
Answer: Sinclair Upton controlled ministries modeled on European systems
of government, destroyed the Janissaries) as a
prelude to military reform, and embarked on 52. Developed in the mid-19th century from earlier
reforms in education and finance. varieties of Chinese opera, it includes dance, music,
Answer: Tanzimut acrobatics, costumes, drama, and spectacular
acrobatics as an important part of the action.
46. Hindu religious sect founded in 1875 by Swami Answer: Peking opera
Dayananda Sarasvati. An attempt to reform
Hinduism by synthesizing ancient Eastern ideas (the 53. Russian poetess whose poetry was unpublished for
Vedas) with modern Western ideas , it argued that most of her life in the Soviet Union, she is regarded
the Vedas, the earliest Hindu scriptures, were the as the greatest woman poet in Russian literature.
only revelation from God and that they were the Among her masterpieces are Requiem and Poem
basis of all science. All Hindus were exhorted to Without a Hero, which give voice to those who
return to the Vedas and to preach them throughout suffered under Soviet rule.
the world. The actual text of the Rig-Veda, one of Answer: Anna Akhmatova
the four collections of the Vedas, was reinterpreted
loosely, to explain many anachronisms and 54. British novelist of Indian descent. His second book,
incorporate much post-Vedic thought. Midnight’s Children (1981), won Britain’s prestigious
Answer: Arya Samaj Booker Prize and in 1993 was voted the best novel to
win that prize in 25 years. However, his novel The
47. One of the greatest writers of the Tang dynasty, he Satanic Verses (1988) was condemned by many
employed satire and humor in his work to protest Muslims for blasphemy and banned in several
against contemporary evils. His poetry was Islamic countries.
extremely popular in his own time; its elegantly Answer: Salman Rushdie
simple style still attracts readers.
Answer: Po Chu-I 55. American writer known for her novel Beloved, which
is immediately hailed as a major literary
48. Born in 1940, Chinese-born writer and artist, winner achievement and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988. Set
of the 2000 Nobel Prize for literature. Gao’s novels in rural Ohio during the 19th century, the novel tells
and plays have won critical acclaim but have been the story of a former slave who kills her daughter
banned in his native China for violating cultural rather than allow the child to be enslaved. Her lyrical
restrictions there. He is the first Chinese-born writer explorations of history, memory, race, identity, and
to win the Nobel Prize for literature. other themes won her the Nobel Prize in literature in
Answer: Gao Xingjian 1993.
Answer: Toni Morrison
49. Conference of 22 Asian and 7 African countries, held
in Indonesia, in April 1955. The conference 56. He is a Nigerian playwright, poet, novelist, and
demonstrated the determination of those 29 lecturer, whose writings draw on African tradition
nations, which had recently freed themselves from and mythology while employing Western literary
colonialism, to have an independent voice in forms. In 1986 Soyinka became the first African
international affairs. The importance of this writer and the first black writer to win the Nobel
Conference was largely symbolic; it forced the great Prize in literature.
powers of the Cold War era to recognize the Answer: Wole Soyinka
potential power of the nonaligned nations in world
politics. 57. Chinese historian and writer whose play Hai Rui ba
Answer: Bandung Conference guan (The Dismissal of Hai Rui from Office) was
interpreted as a criticism of Chinese leader Mao
50. Term commonly called to grotesque, anxiety- Zedong and was the first target of the Cultural
producing social conditions or their treatment in Revolution.
literature. Answer: Wu Han
Answer: Kafkaesque
58. In this agreement, India and Pakistan restore
51. Generically, it is Jewish mysticism in all its forms; diplomatic relations and return to their original
specifically, the esoteric theosophy that crystallized positions following a war between the two countries
in 13th-century Spain and Provence, France, around over India's claim to Kashmir. Soviet premier Alexey
Sefer ha-zohar (The Book of Splendor), referred to as Kosygin brokers the agreement, following an arms
the Zohar, and generated all later mystical embargo by both the Soviet Union and the United
movements in Judaism. States.
Answer: Kabbalah Answer: Toshkent Agreement
59. Known for his best-known work, The Cairo Trilogy, in liver, lung, spleen, and hematopoietic system. The
1956-1957, about three generations of a family living disease is somewhat similar to cancer, and
in Cairo during the 20th century, he was the first treatment often involves radiation
Arabic recipient of the Nobel Prize for literature. and chemotherapy.
Answer: Naguib Mafouz Answer: Histiocytosis
60. In 1954 he performed the first human kidney 67. What is the common term for the laryngeal
transplant, removing a healthy organ from one man prominence?
and transferring it to the man's identical twin, whose Answer: Adam’s Apple
kidneys had failed due to a degenerative kidney
disease. 68. It is a strong ring of smooth muscle at the end of the
Answer: Joseph E. Murray pyloric canal and lets food pass from the stomach to
the duodenum.
61. American oncologist and co-winner of the 1990 Answer: Pyloric Sphincter
Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his
pioneering work in the field of bone marrow 69. It is the inside space of a tubular structure, such as
transplants. an artery or intestine. By extension, it can also be
Answer: Edward Donall Thomas the inside space of a cellular component or
structure, such as the endoplasmic reticulum.
62. Writer of The Tree of Man, a psychological novel that Answer: Lumen
relates through allegory and symbolism the story of
a farmer who deals with isolation and searches for 70. He is best known for his novel Les Enfants
meaning in a savage wilderness. In 1973 he became terribles (1929), and the films Blood of a
the first Australian to win the Nobel Prize in Poet (1930), Les Parents terribles (1948), Beauty and
literature. the Beast(1946), and Orpheus (1949).
Answer: Patrick White Answer: Jean Cocteau
63. It is a genre of Japanese movies focusing on the 71. It is a medical condition characterized by a
inner workings of lower-middle-class families. prolonged contraction of skeletal muscle fibers.
Answer: Shomin Geki Infection generally occurs through wound
contamination and often involves a cut or deep
64. He became the first major American television star puncture wound. As the infection progresses,
as Uncle Miltie, the host of Texaco Star Theater. A muscle spasms develop in the jaw and elsewhere in
former vaudeville performer and stage actor, he is the body.
known for his brash, outlandish comedy routines. His Answer: Tetanus
program is wildly popular and helps establish
television as a viable entertainment medium. His
72. The function of this organ is the production and
contribution to the early growth of TV is so
"education" of T-lymphocytes (T cells), which are
pronounced that he will be known as Mr. Television.
critical cells of the adaptive immune system.
Answer: Milton Berle
Answer: Thymus
65. His reign was characterized by the modernization of
73. A characteristic of thrombi that appear when formed
Siam, immense government and social reforms, and
in the heart or aorta. They have visible and
territorial cessions to the British Empire and French
microscopic laminations produced by alternating
Indochina. As Siam was threatened by Western
pale layers of platelets mixed with fibrin and darker
expansionism, he, through his policies and acts,
layer containing red blood cells. Their presence
managed to save Siam from being colonized. All his
implies thrombosis at a site of rapid blood flow that
reforms were dedicated to Siam’s insurance of
happened before death. In veins or smaller arteries,
survival in the midst of Western colonialism, so that
where flow is not as constant, they are less
he earned the epithet Phra Piya Maharat - The
apparent.
Great Beloved King.
Answer: Lines of Zahn
Answer: Chulalongkorn
74. He became well known in the late 1980s and the
66. It refers to an excessive number
early 1990s for directing a series of films about
of tissue macrophages, and is typically used to refer
the Vietnam War, in which he had participated as an
to a group of rare diseases which share this as a
American infantry soldier. His work frequently
characteristic. The disease may attack skin, bone,
focuses on contemporary political and cultural
muscles, and other important organs, including the
issues, often controversially. He has received
three Academy Awards: Best Adapted 83. It describes joints that stretch farther than is normal.
Screenplay for Midnight Express (1978), and Best It can affect a single joint or multiple joints
Director for Platoon (1986) and Born on the Fourth throughout the body.
of July (1989). Answer: Hypermobility
Answer: Oliver Stone
84. It refers to a form of independent
75. He is an American actor, film director, producer and filmmaking characterized by low budgets, skeleton
writer. He is renowned for his often dark-themed crews, and simple props using whatever is available.
portrayals of neurotic characters. He has been Often scenes are shot quickly in real locations
nominated for Academy Awards 12 times and won without any warning, and without obtaining
the Academy Award for Best Actor twice, for One permission from the owners of the locations.
Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and for As Good as It Answer: Guerilla filmmaking
Gets, and the Academy Award for Best Supporting
Actor for the 1983 film Terms of Endearment. He is 85. Awarded for his performances in The Last
tied with Walter Brennan for most acting wins by a Command and The Way of All Flesh, he was not only
male actor (three), and second to Katharine the first actor to win the Academy Award for Best
Hepburn for most acting wins overall (four). He is Actor, but also the first person to be presented
also best known for playing the famous villain Jack an Oscar.
Torrance in The Shining and The Joker in 1989's Answer: Emil Jannings
Batman.
Answer: Jack Nicholson 86. It is the only movie that features as many as four
Academy Award winners for Best Actor in a Leading
76. He was an American screenwriter who first came to Role ( Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Susan
prominence after winning and refusing the Hayward, Broderick Crawford) prior to any of the
screenwriting Oscar for The Informer in 1936. actors receiving the Best Actor Award.
Answer: Dudley Nichols Answer: Beau Geste
77. What do you call the tissue that separates the left 87. It is a nickname for a broad sub-
and right airways in the nose? genre of Western films that emerged in the mid-
Answer: Tinea Flava 1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's unique and
much copied film-making style and international
78. A condition in which one or more of the fibrous box-office success, so named by American critics
sutures in an infant skull prematurely fuses by because most were produced and directed
ossification, thereby changing the growth pattern of by Italians.
the skull. It can lead to visual impairment or an Answer: Spaghetti Western
impairment of mental development combined with a
significant reduction in IQ.
88. It is a genre of Italian-made Historical or Biblical
Answer: Craniocytosis
Epics that dominated the Italian film industry from
1957 to 1965. It featured a supernaturally strong
79. Microscopic canals between the various lacunae of
muscleman type as the protagonist, such as
ossified bone that supplies blood to the bone cells.
Hercules, Samson, Goliath, or Italy's own popular
Answer: Canaliculi
folk hero Maciste. These supermen often rescued
captive princesses from tyrannical despots and
80. Also known as white nails, it is a medical term for
fought mythological creatures. Not all of the films
white discoloration appearing on nails.
were fantasy-based however. Many of these films
Answer: leukonychia
featured actual historical personalities (such as Julius
Caesar, Cleopatra, Hannibal, etc.), although great
81. It is the tissue upon which the nail rests; the part of
liberties were taken with the storylines. Gladiators,
the nail bed that extends beneath the nail root and
pirates, Vikings, and slaves rebelling against
contains nerves, lymph and blood vessels. It is
tyrannical kings were also popular subjects.
responsible for the production of the cells that
Answer: Peplum / Sword and Sandal
become the nail plate.
Answer: Matrix
89. It is a small pointed eminence of the external ear,
situated in front of the bowl-shaped part of
82. It is the crescent-shaped whitish area of the bed of the pinna nearest the ear canal, and projecting
a fingernail or toenail. backward over the ear canal. Its name comes from
Answer: Lunula the Greek word that means goat, and is descriptive
of its general covering on its under surface with a the existing insurrection in the Philippine Islands; (2)
tuft of hair, resembling a goat's beard. completion and publication of a census; and (3) two
Answer: Tragus years of continued peace and recognition of the
authority of the United States of America after the
90. It was an armed encounter between the shishi which publication of the census.
included ronins formally employed by the Chōshū Answer: Cooper Act / Philippine Bill of 1902
and Tosa clans and the Shinsengumi, the Bakufu's
special police force in Kyoto on July 8, 1864 at the 99. A bill that unprecedented powers to the executive
Ikedaya Inn in Kyoto, Japan. branch in the development of colonial policy in the
Answer: Ikedaya Incident Philippines. This was a significant milestone in the
development of U.S.–Philippine policy because it
91. Famous collection of writings in the Vedas that allowed the President to govern the Philippines by
discusses the basic ideas about right and wrong, the authority of Congress and not by his wartime
universal order, and human destiny. authority as Commander in Chief.
Answer: Upanishads Answer: Spooner Amendment
92. It is the clear gel that fills the space between the 100. He is best known for his work on films such
lens and the retina of the eyeball of humans and as Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours, 28 Days
other vertebrates. Later, Sunshine and Trainspotting. For Slumdog
Answer: Vitreous humor Millionaire, he won numerous awards in 2008,
including the Academy Award for Best Director. He
93. It is a specialized bone like substance covering the was presented with the Extraordinary Contribution
root of a tooth. Its principal role is to serve as a to Filmmaking Award at the 2008 Austin Film
medium by which the periodontal ligaments can Festival, where he also introduced that year's AFF
attach to the tooth for stability. Audience Award Winner Slumdog Millionaire.
Answer: Cementum Answer: Danny Boyle