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Q1. Identify the musical instrument
• The Mohan Veena (or Vishwa Veena) is a stringed
musical instrument used in Indian Classical music. It
derives its name from its inventor Pandit Viswa
Mohan Bhatt. The instrument is actually a modified
Archtop guitar and consists of 20 strings viz. three
melody strings, five drone strings strung to the
peghead, and twelve sympathetic strings strung to
the tuners mounted on the side of the neck. Vishwa
Mohan Bhatt won Grammy for his album A Meeting
by the River
Q2. Connect
• Charles Dickens, Alexander Pope, Rutherford
and Charles Darwin(Starting from top-left,
clockwise)
• They are all buried in The Collegiate Church
of St Peter at Westminster referred to
popularly as Westminster Abbey, London
Q3. Identify the voice
• Gordon Gekko is a fictional character and
the main antagonist of the 1987 film Wall
Street and the antihero of the 2010 film
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps both by
director Oliver Stone. Gekko was portrayed
by actor Michael Douglas, in a
performance that won him an Oscar for
Best Actor for the first movie
• Q4. In 1970, Puma had roped in Pele to raise
the company's profile and gave him $120,000
to wear their boots. In 1970 FIFA World Cup
Final, complying with a request by Puma's
representative Hans Henningsen, Pele did
something which shot their KING model
boots to instant fame.
• Pele stopped the referee with a last-second
request to tie his shoelaces at the opening
whistle of a 1970 World Cup finals match and
then knelt down to give millions of television
viewers a close-up of his Pumas. Pelé was
complying with a request by Puma's
representative Hans Henningsen to raise the
German sports shoe company's profile after
they gave him $120,000 to wear their boots
• Q5. Lower Keys Marsh Rabbit, is an
endangered subspecies of Marsh Rabbit.
• Sylvilagus palustris hefneri. It is named
after Hugh Hefner of Playboy !!!
• Q6. Identify the product and the significance
of it’s name.
• Montblanc launched the $25,000 pen to mark the 140th
anniversary of Gandhi’s birth. The limited edition of 241 pens
were made reflecting the number of miles Gandhi walked in
his famous Dandi march in 1930. Each pen comes with an
eight-metre golden thread that can be wound around the
pen, representing the spindle and cotton Gandhi used to
weave simple cloth. Gandhi's great-grandson Tushar Gandhi
has endorsed the idea. His charitable foundation has already
received a donation of $145,000 from Montblanc and will
receive between $200 and $1,000 for each pen sold.
Q7. Identify X
Name
X
Net Worth
$34.1b
Age
340 yrs
Address
Source of Income
Forks, Washington
Compound
Interest, LongTerm Investments
• The Forbes Fictional 15 is a list generated by Forbes magazine that lists
the 15 richest people in the realm of fiction. The members are characters
from movies, books, cartoons and television. The 2010 list is topped by a
person whose particulars are given in the above table . Identify him/her
• Carlisle Cullen - Carlisle Cullen (also
known as Stregone Benefico) is the
adoptive father of Edward, Rosalie,
Emmett, Alice and Jasper's adoptive
father. His first appearance was in Twilight
and his physical age is 23.
• The picture is of Peter Facinelli who plays
Carlisle in the Twilight film series
• Q8. The State Mutual Life Assurance Company of
Worcester, Massachusetts (now known as Hanover
Insurance) purchased Guarantee Mutual Company
of Ohio. The merger resulted in low employee
morale. In an attempt to solve this, Harvey Ball was
employed in 1963 as a freelance artist to create
something to boost the employee morale. In less
than ten minutes the design was complete. What
did he design?
Q9.
• UK’s former Foreign Secretary Robin Cook
proclaimed it as "Britain's true national dish".
• A survey in the United Kingdom claimed that it is
that country's most popular restaurant dish.
• There are 48 different ways of making this dish as
of now, the only common ingredient being chicken.
• Chicken Tikka Masala
• Britain now exports chicken tikka masala
to Pakistan, India and Bangladesh.
Q10. Identify X & Y
• Shown above is the logo of X, a joint venture enterprise
between Telenor, the largest telecommunications
company in Norway and Y, a non-profit sister concern of
an internationally acclaimed organization
• 55.8% shares of the Bangladeshi company X is owned by
Telenor, 34.2% by Y and the remaining 10% is publicly
held.
• It is a joint venture enterprise between
Telenor and Grameen Telecom Corporation, a
non-profit sister concern of the internationally
acclaimed microfinance organization and
community development bank Grameen Bank
Q11. Connect
• The Lawrence School, Sanawar near Chandigarh
in India was founded by Sir Henry Montgomery
Lawrence of the Army of colonial India’s British
Raj. It was established on 15 April 1847.
Q12. Identify the company which
aired this recession themed ad and
the singer of the original track
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mShCPwc
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• CISCO
• The track is “I will survive” by Gloria Gaynor
Q13. Chitra Subramaniam is an Indian
journalist famous for uncovering the
Bofors scandal.
• She co-founded a Swiss watch company
BorgeauD SA. In a global first, BorgeauD
has launched La Collection Gravitas.
• What was so special about this watch?
• It was the world’s first watch that incorporates the
Rahukalam, a daily 90-minute sequence which is
avoided for the taking of important decisions.
• The Rahukaalam calculations are part of the Indian
Panchang, one of the world’s oldest almanacs.
Q14. Marvel Comics has trademarked two words of
their own invention which are considered to be
examples for onomatopoeia –
thwip! and snikt!
• What do these words signify?
• Thwip! : the sound of Spider-Man's web shooter.
• Snikt! : the switchblade-sound of Wolverine's claws
locking into place(which was replaced with the
lesser-known schlikt! during the period he was left
without the adamantium covering on his bones)
Q15. Identify X
• The word ‘X’ comes from the name given by the London
based pharmaceutical company Burroughs Wellcome &
Co. to the compressed tablets they marketed as ‘X’ pills
in the late 1880s. Prior to compressed tablets, medicine
was usually taken in bulkier powder form.
• While Burroughs Wellcome & Co. were not the first to
derive the technology to make compressed tablets, they
were the most successful at marketing them
• Today, the word X is used for products in a completely
different category.
• Tabloid
• Q16.
• “Companies tend to systematically promote their leastcompetent employees to management (generally
middle management), in order to limit the amount of
damage they are capable of doing.”
• “In a hierarchy, members are promoted so long as they
work competently. Sooner or later they are promoted to
a position at which they are no longer competent (their
‘level of incompetence’), and there they remain, being
unable to earn further promotions. In time, every post
tends to be occupied by an employee who is
incompetent to carry out their duties”
• 1.Dilbert’s Principle: In the Dilbert strip of
February 5, 1995, Dogbert says that "leadership
is nature's way of removing morons from the
productive flow".
• 2. Peter’s Principle: “work is accomplished by
those employees who have not yet reached their
level of incompetence.”
• Putt’s Law: "Technology is dominated by two
types of people: those who understand what
they do not manage and those who manage what
they do not understand."
• Q17. Identify this animal?
• The wolverine (Gulo), also referred to as
glutton, carcajou, skunk bear, quickhatch, or
gulon is the largest land-dwelling species of
the weasel family in the genus Gulo
• Q18. Connect?
• 2010 FIFA World Cup
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Yingli Solar, is a solar energy company and one of the largest vertically integrated
manufacturers of photovoltaic solar modules. Yingli is the first Chinese company to
sponsor the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Seara is a Brazilian company which exports fresh and processed poultry meat and
pork meat. It is Brazil’s biggest exporter of pork meat.
MTN Group is a South Africa-based multinational mobile telecommunications
company, operating in many African and Middle Eastern countries. On the 18th
March 2010 it was announced that MTN signed a sponsorship deal with English
football Giants Manchester United F.C.
Other FIFA World Cup™ Sponsors – castrol, budweisser, continental and McD
FIFA Partners – SONY, VISA, Coca Cola, Hyundai, Emirates, Adidas
• Q19. Identify the Place?
• The area of South America known as the The Triple
Frontier . The tri-border region is along the
junction of Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil, where
the Iguazú and the Paraná rivers converge
• Q20. The Patiala Peg is a measure of liquor popular in
India. It is measure of volume roughly equivalent to
90ml, though the rough and ready measure is the
amount of liquor needed to fill a glass equal to the
height between the index and little fingers when they
are held parallel to one-another.
• Origin of the usage?
Maharaja Bhupinder Singh of Patiala, had the reputation of being a ‘king of
kings’ and was Chancellor of ‘The Chamber of Princes of India’. Part of his
army consisted of ‘Nihangs’ the legendary warriors of Punjab. Their favourite
pastime was skullpegging. The civilized version of the game came to be known
as ‘Tent Pegging’
It was in the Patiala tradition to invite the ‘Viceroys Pride’, for a friendly
engagement in the Maharajas territory. The ‘Viceroys Pride’, all Irish men, who
in the evening drank till the night’s end, and were still able and proud to walk
straight. the home team felt nervous and feared that if they lost the game.
On the evening before the encounter, the ‘Viceroys Pride ‘ was entertained to
the pouring of a double measure of whiskey in every peg. In the morning, they
went into the friendly match of tent pegging, their heads heavy and groggy.
While they were drinking, the pegs used for tent pegging were replaced with
smaller ones for the ‘Viceroys Pride’ and the larger ones for the home team.
The upshot was, the ‘Viceroys Pride’ lost to the Maharajas team.
Incensed by the loss of the game and the size of the pegs, the political agent
of the Viceroy went up to the Maharaja to complain that the pegs had been
replaced. Replied the Maharaja, "Yes, in Patiala our pegs are larger". And that
is how the Patiala Peg became famous, not for the pegs in the game but for
the pegs of whiskey!
• Q21. Identify the Placcompany which
gives out bags with this message?
• Q22. Connect
(American National Anthem)
HMS Minden, an Indian teakwood vessel was the first ship
commissioned in the Royal Navy from India. The Star-spangled
Banner, the National anthem of USA, was composed on board this
ship in 1814 by Francis Scott Key in Baltimore harbour when he was a
prisoner of the British on board this ship.
Jamshedji Bomanji Wadia built Minden in 1810. In 1736, Lowjee
Nusserwanjee, a master shipwright, was brought from Surat to
Bombay and assigned him the task of constructing ships for the
British fleet and also the selection of a site for a dock. He set a trend
in shipbuilding that was to be perpetuated by the next seven
generations of his descendants, known as Wadias. During the 150
years that Wadias were the Master Builders, they built more than 400
ships, all of them from Indian Malabar Teak. HMS Trincomalee
launched in 1817 is the second oldest “Man of War” in the world, still
afloat in U.K.
Q23. Identify ‘X’?
• In the year 1812, a large quantity of provisions for
the army was purchased at Troy, N.Y., by Elbert
Anderson, a government contractor. The goods
were inspected by two brothers, Ebenezer and
Samuel Wilson. The last named was invariably
known among the workmen as “X" The packages
were marked E.A.-U.S. On being asked the meaning
of these initials, a workman jokingly replied that he
didn't know unless they meant Elbert Anderson and
‘X’. The title became popular among the workmen,
soldiers and people.
• Uncle Sam
Q24. Identify ‘X’ and ‘Y’?
• In psychology, X is a term used to describe a
paradoxical psychological phenomenon
wherein hostages express adulation and have
positive feelings towards their captors that
appear irrational in light of the danger or risk
endured by the victims, essentially mistaking a
lack of abuse from their captors as an act of
kindness
• An inverse of “X” called “Y" has been
proposed, in which abductors develop
sympathy for their hostages
• Stockholm syndrome and Lima Syndrome
• Stockholm syndrome is named after the Norrmalmstorg robbery
of Kreditbanken at Norrmalmstorg in Stockholm, in which the bank
robbers held bank employees hostage from August 23 to August
28, 1973. In this case, the victims became emotionally attached to
their captors, and even defended them after they were freed from
their six-day ordeal.
• Lima Syndrome was named after an abduction at the Japanese
Embassy in Lima, Peru in 1996, when members of a militant
movement took hostage hundreds of people attending a party in
the official residence of Japan's ambassador. Within a few hours,
the abductors had set free most of the hostages, including the
most valuable ones, due to sympathy.
Q25. Who is she?
• She is 5 feet 9 inches tall, with a 36 -18 -33
figure. In 1963 book entitled How to Lose
Weight she had given the advice: "Don't
eat." which created an uproar among
physicians and dieticians. At around 50kg,
she was 16kg underweight for a 5 feet
9 inches tall woman.
• A standard Barbie doll is 11.5 inches tall, giving a height of 5
feet 9 inches at 1/6 scale. Barbie's vital statistics have been
estimated at 36 inches (chest), 18 inches (waist) and
33 inches (hips). In 1963 the outfit "Barbie Baby-Sits" came
with a book entitled How to Lose Weight which advised:
"Don't eat." The same book was included in another
ensemble called "Slumber Party" in 1965 along with a pink
bathroom scale reading 110 lbs, which would be around
35 lbs. underweight for a woman 5 feet 9 inches tall. In 1997
Barbie's body mould was redesigned and given a wider
waist, with Mattel saying that this would make the doll
better suited to contemporary fashion designs