The document provides information on various topics including: 1. The founding of FedEx after a student's business idea was deemed feasible by a Yale professor. 2. A quote about the cultural achievements of Italy and Switzerland from an unnamed character in an unspecified movie. 3. Different types of snakes. 4. The US Postal Service will not honor certain kinds of people on stamps. 5. Onychophagia is nail biting. 6. Various words for coffee in different languages. 7. The tapir is a tropical animal that lives in South and Central America and has a prehensile tongue.

1. 1. A Yale University management
professor, in response to student
X’s paper proposing reliable
overnight delivery service said
“The concept is interesting and
well-formed, but in order to earn
better than a ‘C’, the idea must be
feasible”. X later went
on to found Y.

2. 2. "In Italy for thirty years under the
Borgias they had warfare, terror,
murder and bloodshed but they
produced Michelangelo, Leonardo
da Vinci and the Renaissance. In
Switzerland, they had brotherly
love; they had five hundred years
of democracy and peace and what
did they produce? The cuckoo
clock."
who spoke these words and in
which movie?

3. 3. bandy-bandy
Rainbow
Rosy
Stiletto
Twig
are all types of what?

4. 4. According to the US postal
service and the Citizen's Stamp
Advisory Committee, what kind of
person shall not be honored on a
US postal stamp?

5. 5. Onychophagia is a common habit
particularly for many near the end
of a sporting event.
What is Onychophagia?

6. 6. The following words in different
languages all mean what?
Gehve, Qahwa, Sourj, Koohii,
Kape

7. 7. Evolved over 30 million years ago it
can drink water from geysers at
temperatures that are almost boiling.
It has good hearing, eyesight and well-
developed color perception.
Its tactile organs, or their sense of
touch, are on their tongue. Although they are
tropical or subtropical, there is one species
that lives high in the Andes Mountains of
South America
What is it?

8. 8. Measured in kilometers from the
nearest human being, who was the
most isolated person in history for a
few hours in the summer of 1969?

9. 9. Strange, charm, up, down, top,
and bottom are types of what?

10. CONNECT
10.

11. 11. The first long distance car race
was held in 1907 and finished after
nearly 10,000 miles in Paris. The
winners were Prince Scipione
Borghese and journalist Luigi
Barzini, Sr. who claimed the prize of
a bottle of Mumm champagne.
Where did the race start?

12. 12. In gastronomy, the name of
which
popular dish stems from the
Portuguese words for 'wine and
garlic'?

13. 13. It has also been called a "forest
giraffe”. The rain forests in
northern Zaire are its main habitat.
The existence of it was first
confirmed in 1901 in the Congo. It
has a very long tongue which it uses
to pull leaves off of trees.
These nocturnal animals are
ruminants.
What animal is it?

14. 14) X is a military code name for a
weed killer sprayed by USA during
the vietnam war over the jungles and
farms. X is normally used to
defoliate trees and shrubs and to kill
weeds. The steel drums that stores
this chemical were marked with big
______ stripes and hence the name
originated.
What is X?

15. 15.
India inaugurated Arctic Research
Station on 1 July 2008 located at
Ny-Alesund, Svalbard archipelago and
is 1200 kms from the North Pole
It is to be managed by the National
Centre for Antarctic and Ocean
Research (NCAOR), an autonomous
institute under the Ministry of Earth
Sciences.
Name it

16. 16. Because of the linkage of the
passages between the ears nose and
throat, infections in one organ are
commonly spread to another or all.
What is the medical specialty that
combines the study, diagnosis and
treatment of diseases of the ears,
nose and throat?

17. 17. What beverage was
advertised as “ good to the last
drop” in 1907?

18. 18. This museum was founded by
Deborah Henson- Conant, a science
historian. The research staff
includes 45 post-nutrition food
scholars and an extensive support
staff. The exhibit wings and
restaurant pavilion employ 27 full
time educators and food service
workers.
• Which museum is this?

19. 19. What did the Wrigley
company do to promote its
chewing gum nationwide in
1914?

20. 20. If an isobar is a line drawn on a
map joining places of equal average
atmospheric pressure and an
isohume is a line of constant relative
humidity, What is an isohel?

21. 21. A vehicle registration plate has a
code that uniquely identifies the
vehicle within the issuing region's
database. In some countries, the
identifier is unique within the entire
country, while in others it is unique
within a state or province.
E is the international car
registration plate for which country?

22. 22. The German guide to the 1937
World's fair called it 'a hodgepodge
of body parts that any four-year-old
could have painted'. Which painting
were they describing?

23. 23. Allegedly responsible for the murder of
200000 Bosnian Muslims and Croats and the
displacement of a further one million people
during the 1992-1995 civil war in
Yugoslavia, this former Bosnian Serb leader
was captured in July 2008 in a suburb of
Belgrade where he was living in disguise
posing as a doctor of alternative medicine. He
will be tried at the International Wars Crimes
Tribunal in The Hague for genocide and war
Crimes against humanity.
Identify him.

24. 24. Which drink was created
by coca-cola company in
Nazi Germany during WWII
to compensate for the
inability to import cola-cola
syrup?

25. 25. What is Paul McCartney’s
middle name?

26. 26. What is known as a
Dudelsack or Doedelzak in
Germany and the
Netherlands, a Biniou or
Musette de cour in France, a
Zampogna in Italy, or
Sackpfeiffe in Switzerland?

27. 27. Which Nobel prize winner,
born in Bombay, was named
after a lake in Staffordshire
where his parents had
originally met?

28. 28. What do 'The Mystery of Edwin
Drood' by Dickens, 'The
Silmarillion' by J.R.R. Tolkien, and
'The Love of The Last Tycoon' by
F. Scott Fitzgerald have in
common?

29. 29. Which Renaissance artist's
life was fictionalized in the
book 'The Agony and the
Ecstasy' subsequently made
into a film?

30. 30. The X-Men character
Wolverine is named after the
animal of the same name.
What kind of animal is a
wolverine?

31. 31. The prefix mega- is a
millionfold in the SI units and
giga- is a billion. Tera is a
trillion but what is the
quadrillionfold (10 to the
power of 15) prefix?

32. 32. Which is the only sequel of
a Best Picture Oscar-winning
film to have also won Best
Picture Oscar?

33. 33. From leaving university he
moved to San Francisco and it
was there his interest in acting
grew. He won a scholarship in
American Conservatory Theatre
and after 12 months being with
group he managed to get his first
major film role as Roger Porter in
a film called Carbon Copy.
Who am I?

34. 34. I am distinguished from other
lions by my black mane. I love to
lie amongst the desert’s dunes. I
typically hunt antelope, but I am
no friend to the meerkats and will
eat them if necessary.
Who am I?

35. 35. What are Mizaru, Kikazaru,
and Iwazaru?