Dry Round of 10th June '05

Hi, here's a bunch of 10 dry questions which I had posted to quizfunda on 10th June. I will put up the answers tomorrow i.e. 21st June, 2005. Meanwhile, take a crack and reply to shovon76@gmail.com with your answers.

1. World of business. What are known as "Babyflots"?
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2. This company started as a rubber works company in 1898 and took on the name of the town in which it was setup in the 1920s. After WWII, the rubber company took a majority shareholding in the Finnish Cable Work. The recession of the 1990s forced the company to
focus on a different market and it became a household name even in India. What is the Company and which is its major product line?
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3. Sitter. Identify this Indian corporate bigwig. While at Oxford, he played piano to accompany Einstein's Violin.
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4. What significance do these people or phrases have :

* Chester Carlson
* Otto Kornei
* Paul Selenyi
* 10-22-38 ASTORIA

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5. Connect J.D.Salinger's Catcher in the Rye with John Lenon.
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6. What is the sub-genre of ancient British Ballad where a human helps a ghost to find peace, called?
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7. In music, what is the Mel Tillis Syndrome?
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8. This chief of the Chiricahua Apaches was actually called Goyahkla or "One Who Yawns". He once attacked some Mexicans who called out in Spanish to their patron saint for aid. Goyahkla liked the good saint's name so much that he started calling himself after the saint. After surrendering to Gen.Nelson A.Miles of the U.S. Cavalry, he went on to appear in Buffalo Bill's wild west shows. He died aged 80 when he fell off his horse, literally "dead drunk". What is he better known as ?
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9. In ancient Rome, one out of every ten Roman soldiers who were convicted of mutiny were executed. What English word, meaning "Destroy" comes from this practice ?
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10. Which movies title comes from a William Burroughs story about people who supply medical instruments to outlawed doctors who can't obtain them legally? The movie had nothing to do with this but the director liked the name and obtained permission to use it.
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