Fundamentals

Spiritual home of a new, placeless, roaming and often dislocated population of sleepwalkers and speed-fliers. Pico Iyer thus described the Los Angeles Airport. Find out your Airport IQ in this week’s theme on airports.
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1. Warsaw
2. Oklahama City. Wiley Post and Will Rogers died together in an air crash in Alaska in 1935
3. Los Angeles
4. Alexander the Great Airport at Skopje, the capital of Republic of Macedonia
5. Florence in Italy
6. Belgrade
7. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Airport. Mozart is Salzburg’s most famous son
8. Battle Creek in Michigan
9. Venice
10. Vancouver

Anything Goes

1. Prem Granth
2. He is reported to have said “Oh boy!”. Later he told the news analyst, “Wally, say something, I’m speechless”
3. Shiv Sena
4. Vimal
5. Sugar
6. Q, F & X
7. Nepal
8. Esther Dyson@gmail.com. You can also join the ‘Friends of Fundamentals’ community on Facebook and Orkut.

Airport

1. In which city would you be if your aircraft landed at the Frederic Chopin Airport named after the famous composer?
2. Wiley Post Airport and Will Rogers airport are named after two people who died together in an air crash. Wiley Post was first man to fly solo around the world and Will Rogers was a famous humorist. In which city would you find these two airports?
3. Bob Hope and John Wayne, both these Hollywood legends have airports named after them. Which city?
4. There are two airports in the world named after Alexander the Great and both are in different countries. One is situated in Kavala in Greece. The other one is a capital of a country. Name the city and country.
5. America is named after Amerigo Vespucci, cartographer and merchant. Where in the world would you find yourself if you land at the Amerigo Vespucci airport?
6. Nicola Tesla is a renowned inventor whose work in the field of electromagnetism is well known. In which city is there an aiport named after him?
7. If you land in the city of Salzburg, which airport would you land in?
8. Some corporate honchos have airports named after them. One of the airports in Seattle is called Boeing Field after Boeing founder William Boeing. In which city would you find the airport named after Will Keith Kellog, the Cornflakes king?
9. Marco Polo has an airport named after him apart from his home city. Name the city.
10. Both New York and Los Angeles have six airports each. Which is the only city to have seven airports?

Anything Goes

1. Which is the first Bollywood movie shot in South Africa after abolition of apartheid? (Aquib Zain, Mumbai)
2. Walter Cronkite was one of the US’ most famous news anchorS, famous for his coverage of some of world’s biggest news events. When Neil Armstrong walked on the moon on July 20, 1969, what did he famously say that has now become part of news lore? (Satish Mudaliar, Bengaluru)
3. Samna is the mouthpiece of which political party? (Abhijit Basak, Dum Dum)
4. Which brand gets its name from the eldest nephew of Dhirubhai Ambani? (Parvinder Bhatia, Jamshedpur)
5. What do Cubans call white gold? (U. Narasimha Murthy, Secunderabad)
6. Which alphabets do not appear in the name of any states OR Union Territory of India? (Muhammed Arif, Mumbai)
7. Belgium, Canada, Netherlands, Luxemburg, Norway, Spain, South Africa have all recognised same sex marriages. Which is the only country in South Asia to recognise same sex marriage? (Deepjyoti Deka,
Nalbari)
8. She is sometimes described as the first lady of the Internet and has played several roles including that of investor in several Internet companies and Chairman of ICANN, the body that devises Internet’s identification system. Name her. (Sudipto Basak, Kolkata)

ANSWERS
Airport
1. Warsaw
2. Oklahama City. Wiley Post and Will Rogers died together in an air crash in Alaska in 1935
3. Los Angeles
4. Alexander the Great Airport at Skopje, the capital of Republic of Macedonia
5. Florence in Italy
6. Belgrade
7. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Airport. Mozart is Salzburg’s most famous son
8. Battle Creek in Michigan
9. Venice
10. Vancouver

Anything Goes

1. Prem Granth
2. He is reported to have said “Oh boy!”. Later he told the news analyst, “Wally, say something, I’m speechless”
3. Shiv Sena
4. Vimal
5. Sugar
6. Q, F & X
7. Nepal
8. Esther Dyson