What’s in the belly button?
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NI1. As per the Belly Button Biodiversity Project conducted in 2011 by scientists from North Carolina State University and the Nature Research Center at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, an average person has 67 different species of what in their belly button? NI2. Today is the 90th birth anniversary of Dr A P J Abdul Kalam, an Indian aerospace scientist who served as the 11th president of India. Since 2010, the United Nations has marked this day as what?
NI3. Born on October 14, 1940, as Harry Rodger Webb in Lucknow (India), he is the third-topselling artist in UK Singles Chart history, behind the Beatles and Elvis Presley. As Harry Webb became lead singer of a rock and roll group ‘Drifters’ and had to change from his real name, he adopted a first name which suggested “Rock” and took the surname as a tribute to his musical hero. How is he popularly known as?
NI4. Which historical first was achieved when Capt. Charles E “Chuck” Yeager piloted the rocket-powered Bell X-1, an airplane he dubbed Glamorous Glennis after his first wife, on October 14 in 1947?
NI5. Name the American actress, filmmaker, humanitarian and recipient of such accolades as an Academy Award and three Golden Globe Awards who underwent a preventative double mastectomy in 2013 after testing positive for the BRCA1 gene mutation. Her maternal family history warranted genetic testing for BRCA mutations: her mother, actress Marcheline Bertrand, had breast cancer and died from ovarian cancer. Same was the case with her grandmother and aunt. Following the mastectomy, which lowered her chances of developing breast cancer to under 5%, she had reconstructive surgery involving implants and allografts. NI6. Which fictional detective loves knitting, gardening and gossiping?
NI7. In a traditional wedding ceremony why does the groom stand on the right hand side? NI8. Mephobia is something very funny. What is it?
NI9. Which parts of the human body get their name from a latin term meaning ‘little mouse’? NI10. Pictured is the 3.5-metretall cane and carbon-fibre puppet of a Syrian refugee child travelling nearly 5,000 miles from Turkey, Greece, Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium and the UK to focus attention on the urgent needs of young refugees. What is its name?
NI1. Bacteria
NI2. World Student’s Day.
NI3. Cliff Richard.
NI4. The first person to break the sound barrier – the point where a speeding object (such as an airplane) passes the speed of sound.
NI5. Angelina Jolie.
NI6. Miss Marple. She appears in 12 Agatha Christie novels and 20 short stories and serves as the archetype for small-town, little-old-lady snoops. Miss Marple was based on Christie’s grandmother.
NI7. This tradition originates way back when men carried swords and the groom needed to keep his right arm free (assuming he was right handed!) to be able to draw his sword to protect his bride.
NI8. Fear of becoming so awesome that the human race can’t handle it and everybody dies. NI9. Muscles. The word “muscle” comes from the Latin musculus meaning “little mouse”, as the ancient Romans thought flexed bicep muscles resembled a small mouse (mus in Latin)!
NI10. Little Amal. Amal’s story is that of a nine-year-old refugee in search of her mother and a new life. Amal, in Arabic, means hope.