FUNDAMENTALS
This week's theme is on the various paraphernalia that makes our flights interesting – aircraft, lounges, the frequent flyer programme and others. Read on to find out how much you know about them.
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AIRLINE ACCOUTREMENTS
1. What is common to Miss Moneypenny, Mystery Girl,Dream Jeannie, Miss Chief, Lady Stardust, Birthday Girl, Miss England and Strawberry Fields?
2. The in-flight entertainment system and the magazine of Qatar Airways are named after which endangered member of the antelope family?
3. The Mille Miglia (Thousand Miles) was an open-road endurance race which took place twentyfour times from 1927 to 1957. The Airlines Frequent Flyer programme of which recently shut airline was called Mille Miglia?
4. The Baobab tree and the Cycad plant, found in several places around the world, has given their name to the lounge area of which airline?
5. The Frequent Flyer programme of Cathay Pacific is named after a famous explorer. Who?
6. Kris is both a dagger as well as a spiritual object. Which airline's magazine, lounge, frequent flyer programme as well as in-flight shopping is named after Kris?
7. You will find the Morning Calm lounges in Chicago, Honolulu, London Heathrow, Los Angeles, New York and other airports. Which airline runs these lounges?
8. In which airline’s flight would you read the provocatively titled ‘Voyeur magazine’?
9. The logo of Air New Zealand is an integral symbol of Maori carvings and tattoos. This term of Maori origin refers to the frond of a fern. Identify this term that is also used for the lounges run by Air New Zealand?
10. The lounges run by El Al, Israel’s largest airline in London-Heathrow, Los Angeles, New York-JFK, Paris-Charles de Gaulle are named after the second king of Israel. Who?
ANYTHING GOES
1. Michael Vaughan, the former English Cricket Captain was recently accused of racial abuse. Farokh Engineer who played County cricket remarked, “Thank God I played for Red Roses and not White Roses”. Which English County cricket teams have White Roses and Red Roses as their Emblems? (Dr. Kota Tirupataiah, Hyderabad)
2. Which word that now means ‘confused’, was coined in the 18th century by the poet Alexander Pope and originally meant ‘inspired by the Muses’? (Sanjay Nair, Noida)
3. Ib, Od, Pen, Veer, Roha, Khed, Ajni, Apta etc are some of the railway stations in India having shorter names. They also share a unique feature in their codes. What is it?(Abin K. I., Ernakulam)
4. How are Stephanie Frappart of France, Nevza Back of Brazil and Karen Diaz Medina of Mexico making news?(M. Sthothra Nivriti, Secunderabad)
5. Which Indian cricketer played 131 Tests and batted in 184 innings but was not ever run out in his Test career? (BK Harinath, Mysuru)
6. UNICEF coined a new term when it recently made Patron, Ukraine’s mine-sniffing Jack Russell Terrier, as its first Goodwill ………. Fill the blanks? (P Damodaran, Bengaluru)
7. Which company was originally called Cadabra Inc after the magical words, Abracadabra, before it was changed after the name of a natural resource? (Philip Joshua, Secunderabad)
8. The US Library of Congress saved a copy of something between 2006 and 2010 but then had to stop because there were too many. What are we talking about? (Samanth Banerjee, Kolkata)