FUNDAMENTALS
SENJAM RAJ SEKHAR
Many of the world ‘s 45,000 airports became ghost towns during the height of the Coronavirus pandemic. Relive your airport experience in today ‘s quiz.
Write with your suggestions, questions (with answers) to senjam@gmail.com.
AIRPORT
1. Marco Polo has an airport named after him and where else but his home city. Name the city?
2. In which city would you be if your aircraft landed at the Frederic Chopin Airport named after the famous composer?
3. Wiley Post Airport and Will Rogers airport are named after two people who died together in an air crash. Wiley Post was the first man to fly solo around the world and Will Rogers was a famous humorist. In which city would you find these two airports?
4. Bob Hope and John Wayne, both these Hollywood legends have airports named after them in the same city. Which city?
5. There are two airports in the world named after Alexander the Great and both are in different countries. One is situated in Kavala in Greece. The other one is a capital of a country. Name the city and country?
6. America is named after Amerigo Vespucci, cartographer and merchant. Where in the world would you find yourself if you land at the Amerigo Vespucci airport?
7. Nicola Tesla is a renowned inventor whose work in the field of electromagnetism is well known. In which city is there an airport named after him?
8. If you land in the city of Salzburg, which airport would you land in?
9. Some corporate honchos have airports named after them. One of the airports in Seattle is called Boeing Field after Boeing founder William Boeing. In which city would you find the airport named after Will Keith Kellog, the Cornflakes king?
10. Both New York and Los Angeles have six airports each. Which is the only city to have seven airports?
ANYTHING GOES
1. More than 50 Indian films have been submitted for the Academy award for Best International Feature Film. Only three have made it to the shortlist. Two of them are Mother India and Lagaan. Which is the third one? (Dr Shanu Chandran, Vellore)
2. Hari Shivdasani was a character actor in Hindi movies. Her niece is 60s actress Sadhana. Name his daughter who is also of the 1960s?(UN Murthy, Secunderabad)
3. Several bowlers have taken a hattrick in test matches. What is special about Irfan Pathan ‘s hattrick?(Soulath Mohammed, Secunderabad)
4. Schuyler Skaats Wheeler, an American engineer was a pioneer of his time, who helped develop and implement a code of ethics for electrical engineers. He also invented something which is ubiquitous in most modern homes across the world. What? (P Vishaal, Secunderabad)
5. In which place in India would you find the Indroda Dinosaur and Fossil Park which houses the fossilized remains and the petrified eggs of the dinosaurs? (Vaishnnavi Purram, Secunderabad)
6. Who is the only batsman to be dismissed hit wicket , while facing his first ball in test cricket ? (BK Harinath, Mysuru)
7. All Banks in India have an 11-character code representing the name of the bank and individual branch of the bank. What does IFSC stand for? (Partha Gupta, Kolkata)
8. Name the actress who played Sushant Singh Rajput ‘s love interest in his last film ‘Yeh Dil Bechara’? (Sanjay Nair, Noida)