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General Quiz
Instructions : There are 30 questions in this quiz. Each correct answer gets you 1 point. In case of ties in scores, we check the number of correctly answered “star-marked” questions to break the tie. Rest all is up to the quizmaster. Mind the spelling mistakes. Best of luck!
1) The final design for which logo featured a stylized “L” within an oval, claimed to be rendered using a precise mathematical formula?
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2) “Who is behind that gorgeous behind?” ID the specific line of products. Identifying the company will not get you any points.
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3) In the early industrial age, buildings began to spring up all over the east coast. Many of these new buildings were taller than anything ever built before and most had elevators. As buildings got taller and taller, more people began to use elevators. Elevators in those days were pretty darn slow. People were constantly complaining about how slow the elevators were. Elevator companies were challenged with this problem and came up with a solution. What? [***]
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4) 1st : Servant of the king
2nd : Cook
3rd : Dance Teacher
4th : Took care of horses
5th : Took care of cows. What are we talking about?
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5) The name for which high end PC hardware company was chosen because of the founders' fondness for the hit television series The X-Files?
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7) This famous rock band from Agoura Hills, California, was formed in 1996. Having won 2 Grammies and sold 50 million albums, their latest album, released in September, is named after a quote in Bhagvad Gita, and features speeches by American politicians as well as "Chak De Fatte!" Identify this band.
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9) Which iconic video game character was first featured in Donkey Kong?
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11) Founded in 1884 in a humble shop in Calcutta by Dr. S.K. Burman, this company is now a household name with its health-friendly products. Its most recent tagline : Celebrate Life, captures its line of products. It’s the co-owner of the IPL Team Kings XI Punjab. Enough said…ID!
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12) Whose picture is claimed to be the fallback image in the People Pane in Outlook 2010?
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13) 10.-22.-38 ASTORIA represents a historic breakthrough, which led to the formation of X, by inventor Chester Carlson. The upgraded invention later in 1959 was so successful that it sold in only six months the projected sales of its lifetime! X was renamed to Y in 1961, Y being synonymous with the technology behind the invention.
Identify X & Y. [***]
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14) Harry Truman, Red China, etc in the in 1940s.
Sputnik, Marylin Monroe and N&S Korea in the 1950s.
Beatles, Man on the Moon, Watergate Scandal in the 1960s.
AIDS, Cola Wars, Cocaine in the 1980s.
Where do they, among others, figure simultaneously? [***]
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15) What does HANS in racing terminology stand for? See image for hint.
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17) Which 400 year old company has been relaunched through its e-commerce site to sell luxury tea and gift sets, among other things?
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18) This airline company was founded in 2003 and is endorsed by Katrina Kaif and launched a website www.whereiskatrinakaif.com where people write about their sightings of Katrina. This airline’s logo can be seen on the tail-wing of a Ferrari F1 car. Identify the carrier.
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19) A is a master of virtually all forms of martial art and is experienced in almost every fighting style on Earth. A is also an accomplished pilot and highly skilled in espionage and covert operations. A is fluent in English, Russian, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic to name a few! Some of A’s aliases are Peter Richards, Black Dragon, Captain Terror, Agent Ten, Weapon Chi(among others) .Identify A.
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21) Who is the only player to have defeated Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal in the same grand slam?
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22) Launched in January 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, it is currently the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet. It is among the ten most visited websites worldwide. And of the top ten, it is the only non-profit website. Name the website.
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23) This feature costs Google roughly $110 million a year as 1% of all its searches, which use this feature, bypass all advertising. What is being talked about?
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24) To X, Y is always the woman. I have seldom heard X mention Y under any other name. In X’s eyes Y eclipses and predominates the whole of Y’s sex. It was not that X felt any emotion akin to love for Y. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to X’s cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. X was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover X would have placed himself in a false position. X never spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. Identify X and Y. [***]
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25) A ______ is a passive, linear, lossless, two-port electrical network element proposed in 1948 by Tellegen as a hypothetical fifth linear element after the resistor, capacitor, inductor and ideal transformer. Unlike the four conventional elements, the ______ is non-reciprocal. ________ permit network realizations of two-(or-more)-port devices which cannot be realized with just the conventional four elements. Fill in the blank.
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26) Momofuku Ando was the Taiwanese-Japanese businessman famed as the inventor of something very popular globally. He went on to start a company which is very popular in India. Name the food brand.
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27) The Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Delhi which is hosting the 2010 Commonwealth Games is the third largest in India with a seating capacity of 78,000. Name the two largest stadiums in India. Hint: Both of them are in the same city.
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28) The ______ is reportedly the richest and the most visited place of worship in the world. It is visited by about 100,000 to 200,000 people daily, while on special occasions the number of visitors shoots up to 500,000, making it the most visited holy place in the world. Identify.
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