Quiz Whizz

October 23, 2014 04:24 pm | Updated May 23, 2016 07:36 pm IST

Richard Flanagan. File photo

Richard Flanagan. File photo

1 Richard Flanagan worked on this novel for 12 years and wrote five different versions before settling on the final one. He was awarded this year’s Man Booker Prize for fiction for the same. Name the novel.

2 Pacific Tsunami Warning Center is part of an international tsunami warning system and issues bulletins and warnings to other nations in the Pacific Ocean region. Where is its headquarters located?

3 Expand ECG. It is a device that monitors heart rate and investigates the cause of heart ailments.

4 At the age of 15 years, one month and 27 days, this Indian chess player became the youngest grandmaster and held this record through 2002 to 2008. Name her.

5 A sequel to the 2003 film Finding Nemo, focusing on Nemo’s father Marlin’s amnesiac friend, will be released in 2016. What is the title of the sequel?

6 Name the jackal-headed god associated with mummification and the afterlife in ancient Egyptian civilisation.

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