Thursday #04

"Get busy living or get busy dying"

Here is today's dose of daily trivia!

Q1. Brian Kernighan wrote the first ________program as part of the documentation for the BCPL programming language. (BCPL was used while C was being developed at Bell Labs). The code was used for early testing of the C compiler and made its way into Kernighan and Ritchie's book Later, it was one of the first programs used to test Bjarne Stroustrup's C++ compiler. Over time it became the standard first program for new programmers. What is being referred to here?

Hint-This phrase has appeared in title of one of our recent sets!

Q2. The oldest partial fragments of this,dated to roughly the 10th-11th century is held in the Vatican Library. A commonly cited version, dated to 1595, appears in Koine Greek with a Latin translation.In this translation, the author translates "πεσσὸν" to the Latin "fœtum".

What is this?

3. X became popular throughout Europe, particularly in Spain where, following the Civil War, it became a symbol of the country's economic recovery. X was created by Peek Freans in 1874 to commemorate the marriage of the Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia to the Duke of Edinburgh. Id X.

(A lovely companion to tea ❤)

Q4.The legend goes that buddha was well aware of the destruction of vashaili by magadha and buddha was upset about it and thought that the war could have been avoided if Vaishali too had a deterrent military power rather than the so called military democracy where nobody can agree on hard decisions "you can only have peace between equally strong or equally weak nations",this was the reason given by many people behind which name which is really very unusual itself because of the purpose it describes?

Q5.X is a covid test developed by senior scientists Dr Debojyoti Chakraborty and Dr Souvik Maiti at the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB).

It is named after a fictional detective created by the late Satyajit Ray. Which test for covid ?

Answers

1. Hello World program

2. Hippocratic Oath

3. Marie biscuit

4. The reason being why smiling buddha was chosen as the code word for the nuclear tests

(pokhran 2)

5. Feluda