DESIGN DEPARTMENT

Weekly Technical Quiz

Issue Number 38
38 (1
(15th to 19
19th November 2010)
Thought of The Week

"Today we know that the greatest danger is not the evil among those who are evil, but the
silence of those who are good." By Gran Persson
Questions for This Week
Q.75) At the time of construction of railway in India, after long controversy, the gauge adopted as a standard
gauge was
a)
b)
c)
d)

1.435m
1.524m
1.676m
1.843m

Q.76) The country known as the land of the midnight sun is

a)
b)
c)
d)

Namibia
Macau
Norway
Romania

Answer of the Last Weeks Questions

Q.73) The photos shown below are ANS: Prof. Firtz Leonardt & Prof. G W Housner
a) Prof. Fritz Leonhardt (Expert of Prestressed
Prestressed concrete) and Prof. G. W.
Housner (Expert in Earthqauke Engineering)
b) Dr. Karl Terzaghi (Expert in Geotechnical Engg) and S. P. Timoshenko
(Expert in Structural Mech)
c) Jorg Schaich and Mick Schlaich (expert Structural Engineers from
Germany)
d) Non of the above

Q.74) The earlier name of Sri Lanka was ANS: Ceylon

b)
c)
d)
e)

Ceylon
Taprobana
Serendib
Lankadeepa

National Press Day The 16th of November is symbol of a free and

responsible press in India. This was the day on which the Press Council
of India started functioning as a moral watchdog to ensure that not only
did the press maintain the high standards expected from this powerful
medium but also that it was not fettered by the influence or threats of
any extraneous factors. Though there are several Press or Media Councils
world over, the Press Council of India is a unique entity in as-much-as this
is the only body to exercise an authority even over the instruments of the state in its duty to
safeguard the independence of the press.
Recommending the establishment of Press Council in 1956 the 1st Press Commission had
concluded that the best way of maintaining professional ethics in journalism would be to bring
into existence a body with statutory authority, of people principally connected with industry
whose duty it would be to arbitrate. To this end the Press Council of India was established and
the body that was evolved since November 16, 1966 has not believed the objective.
First Printing Press in India was set up in Goa in 1556 by the Portuguese.