1. The Battle of Mactan was fought on April 27,1751 byLapu Lapu a local tribal chieftain of the island of Mactan against Spanish colonizers. The battle was chronicled by Antonio Pigafetta. Who was killed inthis battle?
FERDINAND MAGELLAN
2. Set in Puritan New England in 17th Century, this novel narrates the story of Hester Prynne, who gives birth due to an adulterous affair and the consequent fall out. It gets it’s title from the practice of having an “A” on her clothing to identify her as an adultress during those times.
THE SCARLET LETTER
3. Born in Worcester, he was highly impressed by H.G.Well’s The War of the Worlds, and this fuelled his interest in rocketry. In 1926 he launched the first liquid fuelled rocket at Auburn in Aunt Elfie’s farm.Using a music rack as launcher he developed the basic idea of the bazooka. His theories on the probabilityof inter space travel using rockets was ridiculed bythe media. Ironically, while the US Army rejected his designs, it was the Nazis through Werner Von Braun who developed the V2 rockets based on his designs and he is often called as one of the “fathers of modern rocketry”.
ROBERT GODDARD
4. One of the volcano islands, north of Guam, it getsit’s name from a local world meaning “Sulphur Island”due to the huge sulphur deposits located on it. Itwas the site of a major battle during WW2, and ended with the Americans capturing Mt. Suribachi, theisland’s highest point. Name the island.
IWO JIMA
5. On March 17,1970 14 officers of the US Army weresuspended for their role in this event during theVietnam War. In 1971 Lt. William Calley was convictedfor ordering this massacre, and the photos of thisincident in fact were a major catalyst in turningpublic opinion against the war. Name the incident.
MY LAI MASSACRE
6. This place gets it’s name from a Greek Word meaning“Holy Echo” and is a very sacred city for the Jews.Believed to be the oldest inhabited settlement in theworld. It was the first city to be handed over toPalestinian Authority in 1994 after the Gaza agreement. After Israel reoccupied it, it was againhanded over to Palestine in 2005. Name the place.
JERICHO
7. On March 16,2005 Ripudaman Singh Malik and AjaibSingh Bagri, were found not guilty on all counts by aCanadian court. What crime were they accused of?
AIR INDIA KANISHKA BOMBING
8. Born in Erlangen, Germany, he became Maths professor at Jesuits College, Cologne in 1817. Andlater in 1852, professor of experimental physics atUniversity of Munich. His first major publication washis 1827 pamphlet titled Die galvanische Kettemathematisch bearbeitet and is one of the major works dealing with electricity.
GEORG OHM
9. Nicknamed as Beppo, this Nazi officer was called asTodesengel or Angel of Death by concentration campinmates. One of his famous quotes was “the more we doto you, the less you believe we are doing it”. Famousfor his experiments on prisoners, he escaped to Brazil after the war, and was drowned at a beach in Embu in1979 while swimming.
DR.JOSEF MENGELE
10. This song is set to the melody of the Bulgarian “SadiMoma” and a metal version was written by Jono Bacon.It belongs to the genre of filk and begins with thelines
“Join us now and share the software;
You'll be free, hackers, you'll be free. "
THEME SONG OF FREE SOFTWARE MOVEMENT
