Wednesday 16 February 2011

EUROPEAN UNION COMPETITION (Second Leg)

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Hi everybody! Thanks for your answers. Here you have this week's questions. Yes, you have read correctly. Because the prizes will be awarded during the mobility in Valencia, our next and final set of questions will reach you on the 25th of February, OK?
1.- Name the present Prime Minister (or similar) in 4 of the 5 countries of our project, -that is Germany, Czech Republic, Hungary, Switzerland and Spain.
2.-Let's go for INVENTIONS: a)the contact lense; b)"velcro"; c) Rubik's cube; d) the coffee filter; e) the transporter bridge. Name the inventor and nationality  of 4 of them.
3.-And now and because I know you like this kind of questions... TRIVIA!!! You can answer 6 of the 8 questions in this section, OK?
a) Which French philosopher created analytical geometry?
b) What Rolling Stone album cover had a zip on the side? 
c) What is classified by the A B 0 system?
d) What in business terms is the IMF?
e) The pica pica is which common bird?
f) What is the white trail behind a jet plane made from?
g) Which soul singer was sitting on the Dock of the Bay?
h) What did the Scottish mathematician John Napier create/invent?
Well, looking forward to your answers I say bye bye to you for now!
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SOLUTION:

1.
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero(Spain), Angela Merkel(Germany), Petr Nečas(Czech Republic), Viktor Orbán (Hungary) and Micheline Calmy-Rey, President of the Swiss Confederation
 2.
a) Otto Wichterle (Czech)
b) Georges de Mestral (Swiss)
c)  Ernö Rubik (Hungarian)
d) Melitta Bentz (German)

e) Alberto Palacio (Spanish)
 3.
a) René Descartes
b) Sticky Fingers

c) The blood group
d) It is the International Monetary Fund
e) The Magpie
f) It is the condensed steam of water that the engines expel (contrail)
g) Otis Redding
h) He discovered the logarithm

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