Words have a curious life of their own. Some of them rise in reputation, some are pushed into oblivion while others experience an irreversible downfall; gravitational force seems to be at work in their world too!!! The fate of words is just as unpredictable as that of human beings. No sensible person would attempt detailing the story of all words in an article. Assuming that I belong to the world of those sensible people I’m here going to tell you the life history of a few words that I have selected in an arbitrary manner.
Most often words acquire a derogatory meaning in the course of time, which is a sad commentary on the human psyche. These words have fallen into disrepute, thanks to the vagaries of the human mind.
The word villain, for instance, had an inoffensive meaning in the initial stages of its existence. In the early days of manorial system the word merely denoted a labourer. Two hundred years later it came to be associated with the gross manners of a lowly labourer and later on came to mean a perpetrator of evil because it was thought that a person in the lower rung of the social ladder lacked probity! Words that have suffered a similar fate are churl (from the root ceorl meaning countryman) and boor (from the Dutch word boer meaning peasant)
To a person living in 1400 AD stink and lust carried no pejorative meaning; they only meant smell and desire. Similarly the word doom meant judgement to the Britishers of the 14th century. This sense of the word is retained in the verb deem derived from the above-mentioned word. Would you believe that lewd originally meant "unlearned" or "ignorant" and that silly meant happy and then happened to have a changeover in meaning? While patriotism has a positive meaning its actual equivalent term nationalism has been attributed negative connotations for no good reason.
Words also have had the problem of mistaken identity. The word demean meant to conduct but due to the mistaken idea that it was connected with the adjective mean it happened to acquire the present meaning; and pester has come to have the present meaning through an etymological stumble making it seem to have come from pest. The word pester, before the twist in its meaning took place, meant to entangle.
Some people have been immortalized in the world of words but not very much to their liking. News of the kind of existence they have in the realm of words would make them squirm in their graves. The word dunce comes from the medieval philosopher Duns Scotus, whose adversaries were of the opinion that his work was insipid; gradually the word came to mean a wooden headed person, in other words, a fathead: boycott originates from Captain Boycott who was agent for the Irish estates of a certain English peer about the year 1880. He was notorious for his harsh treatment of the tenants; the Irish tenants planned to have him removed through a planned strike against him. This mode of treatment came to be known as boycott.
The word spoonerism has the most interesting history of all words. It comes from Spooner who is known for his speech defect of misplacing the first letters of words. When Spooner addressed a gathering of farmers he called them "tons of soil" and to a student who missed his history classes he said in an angry tone, " you hissed my mistory classes". It is said that in a conversation he called the well-known two-wheeled vehicle a "well boiled icicle" and a friend’s cottage as a "nosy little cook". He is also said to have talked about "tearful chidings". Spoonerism later came to be a generic term for such a speech defect. The Count de Sade is responsible for the existence of the word sadism; the sense of opprobrium that his name suggested due to his misdeeds continues to live on in this word.
And then there was a distinguished Roman general called Lucullus who was well known for his love of lavishness and opulence rather than anything else. Once when his servant had cooked unexceptional food because there was no guest the angry Lucullus said "dost thou not know that today Lucullus dines with Lucullus?" Hence lavishness has come to be equated with this Roman general in the word Lucullan.
Finally there is Eros, the Greek god of love (fortunately his name has not been associated with any negative overtones) who is however not as popular as the Roman god of love, Cupid. Words such as erotic come from this god of love. One interesting thing about Eros is that if you rearrange the letters you will get the word rose. Is that why lovers exchange roses? Probably yes.
So far we have seen how, in the case of many words, we human beings have contributed our mite to make the lives of words miserable. The situation can be reversed sometimes. For instance, if you look at a person’s face and say that his/ her face is appalling instead of using the word appealing (deliberately or accidentally, whichever is the case) imagine what your plight would be; what else? You will end up with black eye!
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
10 BIGGEST FALLS OF SENSEX
The Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark Sensex sank by 951 points on black Monday on panic selling by funds, triggered by weak global cues. Similarly, the wide-based National Stock Exchange's index Nifty dropped by 243 points to 4,503.
The government meanwhile said that Indian stock markets are taking cues from the United States and Asian markets, even though the sub-prime mortgage crisis has only moderately impacted the credit and financial flows into the country.
The 10 largest falls of the Sensex
1. Jan 21, 2008 --- - 1,408.35 points
2. Mar 17, 2008 --- - 951.03 points
3. Mar 3, 2008 ---- - 900.84
4. Jan 22, 2008 --- - 875.41 points
5. Feb 11, 2008 --- - 833.98 points
6. May 18, 2006 --- - 826.38 points
7. Mar 13, 2008 --- - 770.63 points
8. Dec 17, 2007 --- - 769.48 points
9. Oct 17, 2007 --- - 717.43 points
10. Jan 18, 2007 --- - 687.82 points
"The sub-prime mortgage market crisis will not directly affect us, because except one private sector bank, which has made its exposure, none of our public sector banks has any exposure to sub-prime mortgage market," Finance Minister P Chidambaram said in his reply to a debate on the Budget 2008-09 in Rajya Sabha.
"But, when crisis moved from sub-prime mortgage market to housing market, and now housing market to the credit market, there is impact upon India. There is impact in terms of credit flows and financial flows. But, at the moment, I believe that impact is second order impact and a moderate impact," he said.
As regards the stock markets, they take cues from developments in the US and Asian markets, he added. "In fact, we now have to track what is happening in Asian markets. Hong Kong, Tokyo and Shanghai open before Indian market opens, and if you watch closely, you will find what is happening in Asian markets is impacting the Indian stock market," he said
The government meanwhile said that Indian stock markets are taking cues from the United States and Asian markets, even though the sub-prime mortgage crisis has only moderately impacted the credit and financial flows into the country.
The 10 largest falls of the Sensex
1. Jan 21, 2008 --- - 1,408.35 points
2. Mar 17, 2008 --- - 951.03 points
3. Mar 3, 2008 ---- - 900.84
4. Jan 22, 2008 --- - 875.41 points
5. Feb 11, 2008 --- - 833.98 points
6. May 18, 2006 --- - 826.38 points
7. Mar 13, 2008 --- - 770.63 points
8. Dec 17, 2007 --- - 769.48 points
9. Oct 17, 2007 --- - 717.43 points
10. Jan 18, 2007 --- - 687.82 points
"The sub-prime mortgage market crisis will not directly affect us, because except one private sector bank, which has made its exposure, none of our public sector banks has any exposure to sub-prime mortgage market," Finance Minister P Chidambaram said in his reply to a debate on the Budget 2008-09 in Rajya Sabha.
"But, when crisis moved from sub-prime mortgage market to housing market, and now housing market to the credit market, there is impact upon India. There is impact in terms of credit flows and financial flows. But, at the moment, I believe that impact is second order impact and a moderate impact," he said.
As regards the stock markets, they take cues from developments in the US and Asian markets, he added. "In fact, we now have to track what is happening in Asian markets. Hong Kong, Tokyo and Shanghai open before Indian market opens, and if you watch closely, you will find what is happening in Asian markets is impacting the Indian stock market," he said
GK 3
1. The two volcanic islands in the Indian territory are:
(a) Kavaratti and New Moor(b) Bitra and Kavaratti(c) Pamban and Barren(d) Narcondam and Barren
2. The philosophy of Sufism is similar to the Hindu philosophy of:
(a) Karma (action) (b) Bhakti (devotion)(c) Kalpa (imagination) (d) Gyana (knowledge)
3. Which of the following Articles in the Indian Constitution deals with formation of new States and alteration of areas, boundaries and names of existing States?
(a) Article 1 (b) Article 2 (c) Article 3 (d) Article 4
4. A body is lifted by a man to a height of 1 m in 30 seconds. Another man lifts the same body to the same height in 60 seconds. The work done by them respectively are in the ratio of:
(a) 1 : 2 (b) 1 : 1 (c) 2 : 1 (d) 4 : 1
5. The world's highest water fall is in:
(a) Brazil (b) USA (c) Venezuela (d) Zambia
6. Which one of the following countries has the oldest operating oil refinery?
(a) Kuwait (b) India (c) Indonesia (d) Venezuela
7. A factory for the processing of monazite has been constructed at:
(a) Alwaye (b) Gopalpur (c) Thumba (d) Trombay
8. With reference to the human consumption of alcohol, consider the following statements:
1. Liver is able to synthesize fats from alcohol.
2. Alcohol addiction results in the lowering of blood sugar.
3. In the Cirrhosis of liver, the liver cells are replaced by fibrous tissue.
4. In the liver, alcohol is converted into acetic acid.
Which of these statements are correct?
(a) 1, 2, 3 and 4(b) 2, 3 and 4(c) 1 and 4(d) 1, 2 and 3
9. Consider the following forms of iron:
1. Pig iron
2. Wrought iron
3. Cast iron
What is the sequence of these in terms of descending order of their carbon content?
(a) 1, 2, 3 (b) 1, 3, 2 (c) 3, 2, 1 (d) 3, 1, 2
10. Among the following languages, which one has the highest number of speakers in the world?(a) English (b) Hindi (c) Portuguese (d) Spanish
11. The political leader Ajit Panja belongs to:
(a) Indian National Congress(b) Loktantrik Congress(c) Nationalist Congress Party(d) Trinamool Congress
12. If a person first inspires with his utmost effort and then expires also with maximum effort, the volume of air breathed out is called the:
(a) Expiratory Reserve Volume(b) Inspiratory Reserve Volume(c) Tidal Volume(d) Vital Capacity
13. In the map given above, the shaded area represents the grasslands locally known as:
(a) Downs (b) Llanos (c) Savanna (d) Velds
14. Consider the following dynasties:
1. Saluva
2. Sangama
3. Tuluva
4. Aravidu
What is the correct chronological sequence of these dynasties?
(a) 2, 1, 3, 4(b) 4, 3, 2, 1(c) 1, 2, 3, 4(d) 3, 4, 1, 2
15. The largest fresh water Lake in the world is:
(a) Baikal (b) Mansarovar(c) Michigan(d) Superior
16. The Vice-President of India is elected by:
(a) Members of Rajya Sabha only(b) Members of the Lok Sabha only(c) Members of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha(d) Members of the Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha and State Legislatures
17. The Constitution of India describes India as:
(a) a federation of States(b) Union of States(c) Confederation of States(d) a Unitary State
18. The product of the pressure and the volume of an ideal gas is:
(a) a constant(b) approximately equal to the universal gas constant(c) directly proportional to its temperature(d) inversely proportional to its temperature
19. With reference to Satavahanas of ancient India, consider the following statements:
1. King Simuka was succeeded by his brother Kanha.
2. The third king Satakarni was the son of Simuka.
3. Gautamiputra was succeeded by Yajna Sri Satakarni.
Which of these statements is/are correct?
(a) 1 only (b) 1 and 2 (c) 2 and 3 (d) 3 only
20. The port especially developed for exporting iron ore to Japan is:
(a) Haldia(b) New Tuticorin(c) Paradeep (d) Vishakhapatnam
21. Which of the following carries out 'Open Market Operations'?
(a) Finance Ministry (b) External Affairs Ministry(c) Reserve Bank of India (d) Planning Commission
22. United Nations' Second World Conference on Ageing was held in April 2002 in:
(a) Geneva (b) Madrid (c) Rome (d) Vienna
23. Crayfish and Silverfish actually belong to the phylum:
(a) Arthropoda(b) Amphibia(c) Erachnida(d) Mollusca
24. Who among the following has been awarded Padma Bhushan recently?
(a) Robert D. Blackwill(b) Bill Clinton(c) Frank Pallone(d) Christina Rocca
25. Holding of elections for the Panchayats is decided by:
(a) the Election Commission(b) the State Government(c) the District Magistrate(d) the Union Government
26. Which one of the following is connected to a galvanometer when it is converted into an ammeter?
(a) Low resistance in series(b) High resistance in series(c) Low resistance in parallel(d) High resistance in parallel
27. In which one of the following soils is Saffron grown?
(a) Alluvial(b) Karewa (c) Hilly (d) Regur
28. The volcano Mt Vesuvius is in:
(a) Indonesia(b) Italy(c) Mexico(d) Philippines
29. In the human body, Henle's loop is found in:
(a) Intestine (b) Kidney (c) Ovary (d) Testis
30. Ashok Shandilya is a professional player of:
(a) Billiards (b) Golf (c) Squash (d) Volley-ball
31. Magnesium is present in:
(a) ascorbic acid (b) chlorophyll(c) hemoglobin(d) Vitamin B12
32. Who among the following are more in number in the world?
(a) Jains (b) Jews (c) Sikhs (d) Zoroastrians
33. Which one of the following was the eighth five year plan period in India?
(a) 1990-1995(b) 1992-1997(c) 1993-1998(d) 1994-1999
34. India's Foreign Exchange Reserves at present in $ billions are:
(a) more than 65(b) between 50 and 65(c) between 35 and 50(d) less than 35
Directions:
The following 7 (Seven) items consist of two statements, one labelled as 'Assertion (A)' and the other labelled as 'Reason (R)'. You are to examine these two statements carefully and decide if the 'Assertion (A)' and the 'Reason (R)' are individually true and if so, whether the 'Reason (R)' is the correct explanation for the given 'Assertion (A)'. Select your answers to these items using the codes given below and mark your answer sheet accordingly:
Codes:
(a) Both A and R are individually true and R is the correct explanation of A
(b) Both A and R are individually true but R is NOT the correct explanation of A
(c) A is true but R is false
(d) A is false but R is true
35. Assertion (A) : Chandragupta Maurya failed in his first campaign against Magadh.Reason (R) : He did not begin with the frontiers, but invaded the heart of Magadh.
36. Assertion (A) : The Ganga Plain is the most densely populated part of India.
Reason (R) : The Ganga is the most harnessed river of India.
37. Assertion (A) : Graphite is used as a lubricant in machine industry.
Reason (R) : Graphite is soft and a good conductor of heat.
38. Assertion (A) : When a piece of rock is brought from the moon to the earth its mass changes.
Reason (R) : The gravitational pull of earth is stronger than that of moon.
39. Assertion (A) : Quit India Movement could not achieve its goal.
Reason (R) : The government of the day adopted a very repressive policy.
40. Assertion (A) : In the initial stages of the rise of Buddhism, the people of Magadha did not respond readily to the new religion.
Reason (R) : At that time, Magadha was placed outside the pale of the holy Aryavarta.
41. Assertion (A) : Jayachandra did not help Prithiviraj Chauhan in his war against Shahabuddin Ghori.
Reason (R) : He thought if the power of Chauhans were destroyed it would clear the way for his own supremacy in the North.
42. The Purusha Sukta which refers to the origin of caste is found in:
(a) the Atharva Veda (b) the Rig Veda(c) the Sama Veda (d) the Yajur Veda
43. The song "Bande Mataram" was originally composed in:
(a) Assamese (b) Bengali (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
44. Which one of the following countries was never taken over by any European power as a colony?
(a) Brunei (b) Indonesia (c) Thailand (d) Singapore
45. Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched?
(a) Mahendravarman I : Sanchi Stupa
(b) Pulakesin II : Rameswaram temple
(c) Harsha : Brahadisvara temple
(d) Rajendra I : Gangaikonda Cholapuram temple
46. Match List I (Institutes) with List II (Locations) and select the correct answer using the codes given below the Lists:
List I List II(Institutes) (Locations)
A. National Council of 1. PuneApplied ManpowerResearch
B. Indira Gandhi Institute 2. New Delhiof Development Research
C. Centre for Development 3. MumbaiStudies
D. Gokhale Institute of 4. ThiruvananthapuramPolitical Economy
Codes :A B C D
(a) 1 4 3 2(b) 2 4 3 1(c) 2 3 4 1(d) 1 3 4 2
47. Among the following Union Territories of India, which one has the largest size?
(a) Pondicherry(b) Lakshadweep(c) Daman and Diu(d) Chandigarh
48. Consider the following Companies/Corporations:
1. Engineers India Ltd.
2. Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Ltd.
3. Rural Electrification Corporation
4. Water and Power Consultancy Services
Which of these are Public Sector Undertakings?
(a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 1 and 4(c) 2, 3 and 4 (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
49. Consider the following mountain ranges:
1. Ladakh Range
2. Karakoram
3. Greater Himalayas
4. Zanskar Range
What is the correct sequence of these from south to north?
(a) 3, 4, 1, 2(b) 3, 1, 4, 2(c) 4, 2, 3, 1(d) 4, 3, 2, 1
50. The Chief Minister of a State in India is NOT eligible to vote in the Presidential Election if:
(a) he/she is a caretaker Chief Minister(b) he/she himself/herself is the candidate(c) he/she is yet to prove majority on the floor of the Lower House of the State Legislature(d) he/she is a member of the Upper House of the State Legislature
51. A decibel is:
(a) a musical instrument(b) a musical note(c) the wavelength of noise(d) a measure of sound level
52. Which one of the following States ranks first in milk procurement in India?
(a) Punjab(b) Gujarat(c) Haryana(d) Maharashtra
53. Consider the following statements:
1. The Ministry of Finance is in charge of monetarypolicy in India.
2. The Ministry of External Affairs is in charge offoreign exchange rate determination in India.
3. The Ministry of Commerce puts forward the Export-Import Policy in India.
4. The Planning Commission prepares the AnnualBudget of the Government.
Which of the statements is/are correct?
(a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 2 only (c) 3 only (d) 2 and 4
54. The density of population in India, per sq km., according to the Census, 2001 is:
(a) 304 (b) 324 (c) 344 (d) 364
55. The constituent Assembly of India was set up under:
(a) Cabinet Mission Plan(b) Wavell Plan(c) Mountbatten Plan(d) Indian Independence Act
56. Who among the following great cricketers did NOT belong to West Indies Test team?
(a) Frank Worell(b) Gary Alexander(c) Ken Barrington(d) Sony Ramadhin
57. Which one of the following taxes is levied by the Union and collected and appropriated by the States?
(a) Passenger and Goods Tax(b) Estate Duty(c) Stamp Duties(d) Taxes on Newspapers
58. The shaded area in the above map of India shows the distribution of:
(a) Gram(b) Ragi(c) Tur (Pegion-pea)(d) Wheat
59. The capital of the British Indian Empire was shifted from Calcutta to Delhi because:
(a) Delhi was located at the centre of the Empire(b) the climate of Delhi was more suitable for Europeans(c) Calcutta was the hotbed of revolutionaries(d) Delhi was the traditional seat of Imperial powers
60. Which of the following vetoes are available to the President of India in relation to bills?
1. Absolute2. Qualified3. Suspensive4. Pocket
Select the correct answer from the codes given below:
Codes:(a) 1 and 2(b) 1 and 3(c) 2, 3 and 4(d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
61. Among the following, the predominantly deep-sea animals are:
(a) Fish (b) Dolphins(c) Whales (d) Turtles
62. An Inter-State Council was set up in 1990 under Article 263 of the Constitution by the:
(a) President(b) Parliament(c) Government (d) Planning Commission
63. The Government of India's current holding in VSNL is:
(a) less than 29%(b) between 29% and 39%(c) between 39% and 51%(d) more than 51%
64. During the financial year 2001-2002 India's foodgrain exports were:
(a) more than 70 lakh tonnes(b) between 55 and 70 lakh tonnes(c) between 40 and 55 lakh tonnes(d) less than 40 lakh tonnes
65. To elect the President of India, which one of the following election procedures is used?
(a) Proportional representation through List System
(b) Secondary voting system
(c) System of proportional representation by means of a single transferable vote
(d) Collective voting system with proportional representation for Union and States
66. Consider the following historical personalities:
1. Abdur Razzak2. Edordo Zarbosa3. Marco Polo4. Nicolo di Conti
What is the correct chronological order in which they visited India?
(a) 4, 1, 2, 3(b) 3, 4, 1, 2(c) 2, 3, 4, 1(d) 1, 2, 3, 4
67. Match List I (Chemicals) with List II (Application) and select the correct answer using the codes given below the Lists:
List I List II(Chemicals) Application)
A. Sodium Carbonate 1. Photography
B. Sodium Bicarbonate 2. Washing
C. Sodium Peroxide 3. Baking
D. Sodium Thiosulphate 4. Source of Oxygen
Codes :A B C D
(a) 2 3 1 4(b) 3 2 4 1(c) 2 3 4 1(d) 3 2 1 4
68. Which of the following is called a 'banker's' cheque?
(a) Demand draft(b) Debit card(c) Pay order(d) Fixed deposit
69. Which one of the following hormones is a steroid?
(a) Cortisone (b) Glucagon(c) Insulin (d) Oxytocin
70. The ratio of external debt to GDP in India as of the year 2001 is around:
(a) 11 per cent(b) 21 per cent(c) 29 per cent(d) 39 per cent
71. Consider the following statements regarding Afghanistan:
1. Kandhar lies to the north of Ghazni
2. Herat lies near the border of Iran
3. Helmund river is a tributary of the Indus
4. Mazar-e-Sharif lies to the north of Kabul
Which of the above statements are correct?
(a) 1 and 2(b) 2 and 3(c) 1 and 3 (d) 2 and 4
72. Lord Curzon is best known for which of the following?
(a) Universities Act of 1904(b) Partition of Bengal in 1905(c) Indian Councils Act of 1892(d) Government of India Act of 1909
73. Which one of the following countries was in news recently for its default on $ 155 billion public debt, the largest such default by any country in history?
(a) Angola(b) Argentina(c) Venezuela(d) Yugoslavia
74. The total number of members in the Legislative Council of a State shall not exceed:
(a) one-fourth of the total members in the Legislative Assembly(b) two-third of the total members in the Legislative Assembly(c) half of the total members in the Legislative Assembly(d) one-third of the total members in the Legislative Assembly
75. Summers in Western Europe are warmer than those in Eastern Europe because of:
(a) the influence of the warm ocean current(b) the influence of bright sunshine(c) the lower mountainous terrain(d) peninsular nature of the continent
76. Consider the following substances:
1. Pectin2. Lignin3. Cutin4. Chitin
Which of these substances occur in plant cell wall?
(a) 1, 2 and 3(b) 1, 2, 3 and 4(c) 1, 2 and 4(d) 3 and 4
77. In medieval India, what was the name given to the Letter of Credit payable after a certain period?
(a) Hundi(b) Kharaj(c) Patta(d) Qubuliyatnama
78. Match List I (Deserts) with List II (Country) and select the correct answer using the codes given below the Lists:
List I List II(Deserts) (Country)
A. Gibson 1. Argentina
B. Karakum 2. Turkmenistan
C. Patagonia 3. Australia
D. Sonara 4. Mexico
Codes :A B C D
(a) 4 1 2 3(b) 3 2 1 4(c) 3 1 2 4(d) 4 2 1 3
79. Weightlessness experienced while orbiting the earth in a spaceship is a result of:
(a) acceleration(b) centre of gravity(c) inertia(d) zero gravity
80. In which part of the Constitution are Emergency Provisions provided?
(a) Part XVIII (b) Part XIX(c) Part XX (d) Part XXI
81. Consider the names of the following four Speakers of Lok Sabha:
1. G.S. Mavalankar
2. Hukam Singh
3. Shivraj Patil
4. Balram Jakhar
What is the correct chronological order in which they served Lok Sabha?
(a) 1, 2, 3, 4(b) 2, 3, 4, 1(c) 1, 2, 4, 3(d) 2, 4, 3, 1
82. Consider the following statements:
The three Movements of Gandhi were named variously as, the Non-Cooperation Movement, the Civil Disobedience Movement and the Quit India Movement because:
1. Gandhi wanted to attract the Indian masses to hismovements by giving it a different name each time.
2. When a movement failed, he did not want to use thesame name for his new movement.
3. Each movement was more rigorous than the previousone.
4. Gandhi prepared the masses slowly from non-cooperating in 1921 to telling the British to quit Indiain 1942.
Which of these statements are correct?
(a) 1, 2, 3 and 4(b) 2 and 3(c) 1, 2 and 4(d) 3 and 4
83. With reference to human beings, consider the following enzymes:
1. Carboxypeptidase2. Lipase3. Maltase4. Sucrase
Which of these are found in pancreatic juice?
(a) 1, 2, 3 and 4(b) 2, 3 and 4(c) 1, 3 and 4(d) 1 and 2
84. Which among the following sectors received the largest Central plan outlay in the last few Central Government annual budgets?
(a) Energy(b) Agriculture and Allied Activities(c) Social Services(d) Communication
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(a) electrons(b) protons(c) neutrons(d) electrons and protons
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008
GK 2
1. Which of the following agencies plans to build a nationwide grid of supercomputers called I-Grid?
(a) Simputer computers (b) C-DAC (c) NIIT(d) Infosys
2. Name the satellites launched by NASA to investigate the earth's gravity?
(a) Dennis (b) Garfield (c) Tom and Jerry (d) Peanuts
3. The South Asian Travel and Tourism Exchange Conference was held at which of the following places?
(a) Chennai (b) Tokyo (c) Bangalore (d) Delhi
4. Name the newly launched entertainment robot of Sony:
(a) Alfa Roman (b) Multipla (c) Robio (d) Flatirm
5. Name the company planning to introduce Genetically Modified Mustard seeds in India?
(a) Maharashtra Hybrid Seed Corporation (b) Proagro (c) Bt. Must (d) None of these
6. The biggest textile fair of Asia known as Hemi textile was held in:
(a) Japan (b) India (c) Sri Lanka (d) Indonesia
7. Name the first Internet company to figure in annual fortune 500:
(a) Satyam (b) Arzoo (c) AOL (d) Infi
8. Name the first American President who modelled for Van Huesan Shirts:
(a) Jimmy Carter (b) Ronald Reagan (c) George Bush (d) William J. Clinton
9. Name the first bank to launch a card especially for doctors in India:
(a) Punjab National Bank (b) Dena Bank (c) State Bank of India(d) IOB
10. "Smooth as Silk" is a punchline used by _____ airline:
(a) Singapore (b) Thai (c) Quantas (d) Cathay Pacific
11. Who has authored the book 'Beyond the Last Blue Mountain'?
(a) Swaraj Paul (b) Ajit Haksar (c) Anil Ambani (d) JRD Tata
12. Who among the following has founded the organization 'World Economic Forum'?
(a) Klaus Schwab (b) William J. Clinton (c) Amartya Sen and Mehboob Haq (d) All of these
13. The new name of Jardine Matheson and Waffoong is:
(a) ANZ Grindley (b) Standard Chartered (c) Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (d) Vyasa Bank
14. Which home appliance company has introduced the concept of hire and purchase?
(a) Singer Sewing Machine (b) Usha home appliances (c) Inalsa (d) Bajaj home appliances
15. Name the Parle Brand that takes Britannia's 50-50 biscuits:
(a) Monaco (b) Krack Jack (c) Parle-G (d) None of these
16. Name the trade organization founded by G.D. Birla and Purshottam Thakur in 1927:
(a) CII (b) PhdCC (c) Assoc ham (d) FICCI
17. Name the car brand of GM named after the founder of Detroit:
(a) Rolls Royce (b) Hamriza (c) Cadillac (d) None of the above
18. FiFi awards are given in_____industry:
(a) Film (b) Home Appliances (c) Automobiles (d) Perfumes
19. In which year the first insurance company 'The Calcutta Insurance' was established in India?
(a) 1758 (b) 1798 (c) 1768 (d) 1788
20. Name the Indo-US joint venture life insurance company which launched its operation in India in April 2001:
(a) ICICI Prudential (b) Bajaj Alliance (c) Max Life New York (d) All of the above
21. Through school quiz, Nestle company is promoting a brand known as:
(a) Bournvita (b) Maggie (c) Soyabisc (d) All of these
22. Which corporation now owns the brand Rolls Royce?
(a) GM (b) BMW (c) Daewoo(d) None of the above
23. 'Transporting Goods, transforming lives' is the adline of:
(a) Shipping Corporation of India Ltd. (b) Stock Holding Corporation of India (c) State Bank of India (d) Container Corporation of India
24. Which international company's logo is made up of exactly 42 dots?
(a) Max (b) Sony (c) Videocon (d) Whirlpool
25. International Advertising film festival is organized annually at:
(a)Shanghai (b) Washington (c)Cannes(d) Paris
26. Name the official sponsor of French open tennis championship:
(a) Nike de Paris (b) Banque National de Paris (c) Adidas Paris (d) Richie inte d' Paris
27. Which Indian city is known as the Manchester of South?
(a) Kochi (b) Coimbatore (c) Lonavala (d) Chennai
28. The Tatas take over charge of the Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd. after acquiring______per cent stake in the telecom major for Rs 1439 crore:
(a) 46(b) 75(c) 25(d) 26
29. Which of the following State do not fall among the Cauvery Basin State?
(a) Tamil Nadu (b) Karnataka (c) Kerala (d) Maharashtra
30. The management control of Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd will be given to which of the following company?
(a) The Tatas (b) The Reliance Petroleum Ltd (c) The IOC (d) The Chatterjee Soros Group
31. India's first ethanol blended fuel project was launched in:
(a) Pune (b) Miraj (c) Nasik (d) Bareilly
32. Which country is the largest importer of Indian marine products?
(a) Thailand (b) Indonesia (c) Russia (d) Japan
33. "Started a family, son attends University, loved ones falls ill, birth of a grand daughter" is the baseline used by____company:
(a) Life Insurance Corporation (b) General Insurance Corporation (c) Allianz Bajaj Life Insurance Corporation (d) Standard Chart Life Insurance Corporation
34. Name the first Indian woman to graduate from Harvard University:
(a) Dr Indira Nath (b) Naina Lal Kidwai (c) Parmeshwar Godrej (d) Sarojini Naidu
35. Asia week, the Hong Kong-based weekly which closed down was owned by:
(a) AOL Time Warner (b) Indiatimes.com (c) Express Group(d) None of the above
36. In which advertisement do you find 'software that powers the Internet':
(a) Wipro (b) Oracle (c) Infosys (d) Sun Microsystems
37. Name the biggest tenant of New York World Trade Centre at the time of the 2001, September 11th attack:
(a) IMF (b) Morgan Stanley (c) IBRD (d) NASDAQ
38. Name the first country to ban the import, sale and manufacture of chewing gum:
(a) Hong Kong (b) Singapore (c) Netherlands(d) Thailand
39. Who among the following has founded the Heal the World foundation?
(a) Pt Ravi Shankar (b) Bhimsen Joshi (c) Madonna (d) Michael Jackson
40. Name the company which has the world's largest retail outlet:
(a) Walmart (b) Harrods (c) Woolworth Corp (d) Louis Phillipe
41. Name the first country to have an electronic Parliament:
(a) Singapore (b) Thailand (c) Japan (d) Hong Kong
42. Name the first Indian singer to earn royalty for records:
(a) Asha Bhonsle (b) Lata Mangeshkar (c) R.D. Burman (d) Nadeem Shravan
43. In 1952 Morris Motors and Austin Motors merged and were renamed as:
(a) British Motor Corporation (b) General Motors (c) Austin Morris Motors (d) British Morris Motors
44. Ashok Leyland is owned by_____group:
(a) Hinduja (b) Ambani (c) Godrej (d) Tata
45. Name India's first Euro 11 complete car:
(a) Matiz (b) Santro (c) Ambassador (d) Indica
46. 'The man of substance' is the promotional logo of which suiting shirting?
(a) Raymond (b) Graviera (c) Van Huesan (d) Louise Phillipe
47. Mohan Bagan football tournament is promoted by:
(a) Shaw Wallace (b) Mohan Meakens (c) McDowell (d) Seamars
48. 'Bite the Bullet' is a book written by:
(a) Ajit Haksar (b) K.R. Narayanan (c) Mukesh Ambani (d) both (a) and (c)
49. 'Give Earth a Chance' is the caption launched for:
(a) World Population Day 2002 (b) World Environment Day 2002 (c) World Environment Day 2001 (d) World Habitat Day 2002
50. 'Ethics for the New Millennium' is a book written by:
(a) Dalai Lama (b) Tiger Woods (c) Hillary Clinton (d) Andrew Miller
1. (b) 2. (c) 3. (a) 4. (c) 5. (b)
6. (b) 7. (c) 8. (b) 9. (c) 10. (a)
11.(d) 12. (a) 13. (c) 14. (a) 15. (b)
16. (d) 17. (c) 18. (d) 19. (b) 20. (c)
21. (b) 22. (a) 23. (a) 24. (b) 25. (c)
26. (b) 27. (b) 28. (c) 29. (d) 30. (d)
31. (b) 32. (d) 33. (c) 34. (b) 35. (a)
36. (b) 37. (b) 38. (b) 39. (d) 40. (a)
41. (a) 42. (b) 43. (a) 44. (a) 45. (d)
46. (b) 47. (c) 48. (a) 49. (b) 50. (a)
GK 1
1. 'Destination India', conference on commerce and trade was organised at:
(a) Zurich (b) Bangalore (c) Singapore (d) Tokyo
2. According to a survey by Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry which of the following countries tops the list on labour productivity:
(a) India (b) Luxembourg (c) Belgium (d) France
3. India's first Asset Reconstruction Company's road map was prepared by
:(a) SBI (b) IDBI (c) ICICI (d) HDFC
4. Which of the following country is the new member of International Coffee Organisation?
(a) India (b) Sri Lanka (c) Kenya (d) Vietnam
5. Who among the following headed the Indo-UK Round Table conference held at London to strengthen bilateral ties between the two countries?
(a) Swaraj Paul (b) Jaswant Singh(c) K.C. Pant (d) Yashwant Sinha
6. 'Diva' a specially ! ! designed women's international credit card has been launched by:
(a) Federal Bank (b) Standard Chartered Bank(c) Dresdner Bank (d) ABN-Amro Bank
7. Richard Grasso is the head of:
(a) NASDAQ(b) London Stock Exchange(c) New York Stock Exchange(d) Dubai Stock Exchange
8. 'Indiva' is the multipurpose vehicle, launched by____at the international motorshow in Geneva.
(a) TELCO (b) BAJAJ and SIL (c) LML (d) HONDA
9. Match the following Company/organisation Chief Executive Officer
I. General Electricals A. Harvey Pitt
II. Star Alliance B. S. Devarajah
III. Securities and C. Jeff Immelt Exchange Commission D. Cheong Choong Kong
IV. Manufacturer's Association of Information Technology Code:
I II III IV
(a) A B C D(b) B A C D(c) C D B A(d) D C A B
10. Nokia Corporation, the leading mobile phone makers is a___based company.
(a) USA (b) Japan (c) Philippines (d) Finland! !
11. ICENET is the network connecting the offices of the:
(a) Central Board of Excise and Customs(b) State Bank of India(c) Human Resource Ministry(d) External Affairs Ministry
12. Geographical Information System Software known as 'Gram Chitra' was unveiled by:
(a) C-DAC (b) Media Labs Asia(c) Satyam Infoway (d) Honda
13. The Kofi Annan Institute for IT Excellence, has been set by India at____:
(a) Kenya (b) Guatemala (c) Ghana (d) Durban
14. India's first Defence Intelligence Agency became operational in___2002.
(a) June (b) March (c) April (d) May
15. The first hydel project in Andaman and Nicobar islands has been commissioned by:
(a) NHPC (b) Dabhol Power Corporation(c) BHEL (d) NTPC
16. First Indian Laboratory (and India to be the 26th country) to be accredited by the College of American Pathology is:
(a) Cipla lab (b) Speciality Ranbaxy Ltd(c) Zydu! ! s Cadila Ltd (d) Sun Pharma lab
17. Smart Kid Insurance policy has been launched for students by:
(a) Tata-AIG (b) SBI-Cardif(c) ICICI Prudential (d) LICI
18. Who among the following has been appointed as the chairman of Central Electricity Authority:
(a) J.L. Bajaj (b) H.L. Bajaj(c) Y.N. Prasad (d) J.L. Raina
19. Chilka Development Authority, the first organisation in the Asian subcontinent to receive Ramsar Wetland Conservation Award for the year 2002 is in:
(a) Kerala (b) Orissa (c) Assam (d) Uttaranchal
20. The chief architect of Ganga Action Plan, an environmentalist and recipient of various awards died recently. Name him.
(a) Md. Bazzi (b) Arshad-uz-Zaman(c) Dr T.N. Khoshro (d) George Soros
21. CBE-2002 a NATO exercise by Canada, Greece, Hungary, Turkey, UK and US was launched in____, for NATO peace programme.
(a) Georgia (b) Angola (c) Durban (d) Ireland
22. 2002 MN is the name of:
(a) Supercomputer (b) Asteroid(c) Spacecraft (d) Star
23. 'Orange Prize' is given in the field of:
(a) literature (b) sports (c) medicine (d) acting
24. In the global tea production, India accounts for____per cent of tea production.
(a) 27 (b) 26.7 (c) 24.3 (d) 27.7
25. USA has signed a legislation to protect the country from biological terrorist attack worth:
(a) $ 4.6 billion (b) $ 6 billion(c) $ 7 billion (d) $ 8 billion
26. World day to combat desertification and drought is observed on:
(a) June 17 (b) June 20 (c) April 17 (d) July 20
27. Name the robot spacecraft, launched by NASA to observe frozen core of comets.
(a)! ! Contour (b) Odyssey (c) Dumar (d) Columbia
28. Blue Ocean, the World's most powerful Supercomputer, is specifically designed for:
(a) NASA(b) US Naval Oceanographic office(c) US Federal Reserve Bank(d) US Intelligence Agency
29. To review the disclosure and investor protection guidelines, a committee was constituted by SEBI under:
(a) T.N. Chaturvedi (b) A.K. Basu(c) N.J. Reddy (d) Y.H. Malegam
30. First State to introduce a life insurance scheme covering 1.2 crore students and three lakh teachers is:
(a) Karnataka (b) Madhya Pradesh(c) Maharashtra (d) Rajasthan
31. Hrithik Roshan has turned down an offer to act in the Warner Brother's film,____due to unavailability of dates.
(a) Escape from Taliban(b) Hamlet(c) Three Wall(d) Hey Ram! Genocide in the land of Gandhi
32. "The Shade of Swords" is a book written by:
(a) M.J. Akbar (b) Manil Suri(c) Urmila Lanba! ! (d) Vasant Potdar
33. India's first Jan Shatabdi Express between Mumbai-Goa was commenced on:
(a) April 16, 2002 (b) April 20, 2002(c) June 20, 2002 (d) June 16, 2002
34. Who among the following has been appointed as the chairman of IIM Ahmedabad:
(a) Y.C. Deveshwar (b) N.R. Narayana Murthy(c) Sanjiv Gupta (d) M. Damodaran
35. Automobile Industry's man of the year 2002 is:
(a) Carlos Ghoshn (Japan) (b) Dr Mark Faber(c) Dr Doom (d) Lious Haochuang
36. Who among the following has been named as the White Lightning in the cricket?
(a) Adam Parore (New Zealand)(b) Allan Donald (South Africa)(c) Ben Hollioake (Australia)(d) Dion Nash (New Zealand)
37. Which Indian cricketer has bagged a deal with ESPN?
(a) Md Kaif (b) Yuvraj(c) Sachin Tendulkar (d) Anil Kumble
38. Who among the following is the official sponsors of the Indian team at the Asian Games to be held ! ! in Busan, South Korea?
(a) Phillips (b) Sahara (c) LG (d) Samsung
39. '24 Brand Mantras', is a book written by:
(a) Bimal Chowdhary (b) Shiv Khera(c) Arindam R. Chowdhary (d) Jagdeep Kapoor
40. Ist developing country in the world to make use of fire optics technology is:
(a) China (b) Japan (c) India (d) Vietnam
41. Defence Research and Development Organisation was formed in the year:
(a) 1980 (b) 1958 (c) 1956 (d) 1975
42. Who among the following has been appointed as the President of the flagship channel Zee TV:
(a) Apurva Purohit (b) Pritish Nandi(c) Jitendra K. Singh (d) Raghu Rai
43. India's first commercially manufactured sports car is:
(a) Reeva (b) Indigo (c) Sedan (d) Fibro
44. How many new railway zones have been notified by the Railway Ministry in July 2002:
(a) 10 (b) 8 (c) 14 (d) 5
45. Name the quarterly magazine, launched by The Time Grou! ! p.
(a) Bindia (b) b-drive(c) businessdrive.com (d) none of these
46. According to Economic Intelligence Unit, maximum amount of FDI is received by:
(a) India (b) China (c) South Korea (d) Brazil
47. European Union Summit was held in Slovenia at:
(a) Bled (b) Geory (c) Repti (d) Ottowom
48. Transport Research and Injury Prevention Programme was awarded the Stockholm award and is unveiled by:
(a) IIT, Kanpur (b) IIT, Delhi(c) IIT, Kharagpur (d) IIT, Chennai
49. Alvaro Silva Calderon was appointed as the Secretary General of:
(a) OPEC (b) FIEO (c) NACO (d) AIMPLB
50. ASEAN was set up in the year:
(a) 1985 (b) 1975 (c) 1967 (d) 1958
ANSWERS
1. (a)
2. (b)
3. (c)
4. (d)
5. (c)
6. (b)
7. (c)
8. (a)
9. (c)
10. (d)
11. (a)
12. (b)
13. (c)
14. (c)
15. (a)
16. (b)
17. (a)
18. (b)
19. (b)
20. (c)
21. (a)
22. (b)
23. (a)
24. (d)
25. (a)
26. (a)
27. (a)
28. (b)
29. (d)
30. (a)
31. (b)
32. (a)
33. (a)
34. (b)
35. (a)
36. (b)
37. (c)
38. (d)
39. (d)
40. (c)
41. (c)
42. (a)
43. (a)
44. (d)
45. (b)
46. (c)
47. (a)
48. (b)
49. (a)
50. (c)
(a) Zurich (b) Bangalore (c) Singapore (d) Tokyo
2. According to a survey by Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry which of the following countries tops the list on labour productivity:
(a) India (b) Luxembourg (c) Belgium (d) France
3. India's first Asset Reconstruction Company's road map was prepared by
:(a) SBI (b) IDBI (c) ICICI (d) HDFC
4. Which of the following country is the new member of International Coffee Organisation?
(a) India (b) Sri Lanka (c) Kenya (d) Vietnam
5. Who among the following headed the Indo-UK Round Table conference held at London to strengthen bilateral ties between the two countries?
(a) Swaraj Paul (b) Jaswant Singh(c) K.C. Pant (d) Yashwant Sinha
6. 'Diva' a specially ! ! designed women's international credit card has been launched by:
(a) Federal Bank (b) Standard Chartered Bank(c) Dresdner Bank (d) ABN-Amro Bank
7. Richard Grasso is the head of:
(a) NASDAQ(b) London Stock Exchange(c) New York Stock Exchange(d) Dubai Stock Exchange
8. 'Indiva' is the multipurpose vehicle, launched by____at the international motorshow in Geneva.
(a) TELCO (b) BAJAJ and SIL (c) LML (d) HONDA
9. Match the following Company/organisation Chief Executive Officer
I. General Electricals A. Harvey Pitt
II. Star Alliance B. S. Devarajah
III. Securities and C. Jeff Immelt Exchange Commission D. Cheong Choong Kong
IV. Manufacturer's Association of Information Technology Code:
I II III IV
(a) A B C D(b) B A C D(c) C D B A(d) D C A B
10. Nokia Corporation, the leading mobile phone makers is a___based company.
(a) USA (b) Japan (c) Philippines (d) Finland! !
11. ICENET is the network connecting the offices of the:
(a) Central Board of Excise and Customs(b) State Bank of India(c) Human Resource Ministry(d) External Affairs Ministry
12. Geographical Information System Software known as 'Gram Chitra' was unveiled by:
(a) C-DAC (b) Media Labs Asia(c) Satyam Infoway (d) Honda
13. The Kofi Annan Institute for IT Excellence, has been set by India at____:
(a) Kenya (b) Guatemala (c) Ghana (d) Durban
14. India's first Defence Intelligence Agency became operational in___2002.
(a) June (b) March (c) April (d) May
15. The first hydel project in Andaman and Nicobar islands has been commissioned by:
(a) NHPC (b) Dabhol Power Corporation(c) BHEL (d) NTPC
16. First Indian Laboratory (and India to be the 26th country) to be accredited by the College of American Pathology is:
(a) Cipla lab (b) Speciality Ranbaxy Ltd(c) Zydu! ! s Cadila Ltd (d) Sun Pharma lab
17. Smart Kid Insurance policy has been launched for students by:
(a) Tata-AIG (b) SBI-Cardif(c) ICICI Prudential (d) LICI
18. Who among the following has been appointed as the chairman of Central Electricity Authority:
(a) J.L. Bajaj (b) H.L. Bajaj(c) Y.N. Prasad (d) J.L. Raina
19. Chilka Development Authority, the first organisation in the Asian subcontinent to receive Ramsar Wetland Conservation Award for the year 2002 is in:
(a) Kerala (b) Orissa (c) Assam (d) Uttaranchal
20. The chief architect of Ganga Action Plan, an environmentalist and recipient of various awards died recently. Name him.
(a) Md. Bazzi (b) Arshad-uz-Zaman(c) Dr T.N. Khoshro (d) George Soros
21. CBE-2002 a NATO exercise by Canada, Greece, Hungary, Turkey, UK and US was launched in____, for NATO peace programme.
(a) Georgia (b) Angola (c) Durban (d) Ireland
22. 2002 MN is the name of:
(a) Supercomputer (b) Asteroid(c) Spacecraft (d) Star
23. 'Orange Prize' is given in the field of:
(a) literature (b) sports (c) medicine (d) acting
24. In the global tea production, India accounts for____per cent of tea production.
(a) 27 (b) 26.7 (c) 24.3 (d) 27.7
25. USA has signed a legislation to protect the country from biological terrorist attack worth:
(a) $ 4.6 billion (b) $ 6 billion(c) $ 7 billion (d) $ 8 billion
26. World day to combat desertification and drought is observed on:
(a) June 17 (b) June 20 (c) April 17 (d) July 20
27. Name the robot spacecraft, launched by NASA to observe frozen core of comets.
(a)! ! Contour (b) Odyssey (c) Dumar (d) Columbia
28. Blue Ocean, the World's most powerful Supercomputer, is specifically designed for:
(a) NASA(b) US Naval Oceanographic office(c) US Federal Reserve Bank(d) US Intelligence Agency
29. To review the disclosure and investor protection guidelines, a committee was constituted by SEBI under:
(a) T.N. Chaturvedi (b) A.K. Basu(c) N.J. Reddy (d) Y.H. Malegam
30. First State to introduce a life insurance scheme covering 1.2 crore students and three lakh teachers is:
(a) Karnataka (b) Madhya Pradesh(c) Maharashtra (d) Rajasthan
31. Hrithik Roshan has turned down an offer to act in the Warner Brother's film,____due to unavailability of dates.
(a) Escape from Taliban(b) Hamlet(c) Three Wall(d) Hey Ram! Genocide in the land of Gandhi
32. "The Shade of Swords" is a book written by:
(a) M.J. Akbar (b) Manil Suri(c) Urmila Lanba! ! (d) Vasant Potdar
33. India's first Jan Shatabdi Express between Mumbai-Goa was commenced on:
(a) April 16, 2002 (b) April 20, 2002(c) June 20, 2002 (d) June 16, 2002
34. Who among the following has been appointed as the chairman of IIM Ahmedabad:
(a) Y.C. Deveshwar (b) N.R. Narayana Murthy(c) Sanjiv Gupta (d) M. Damodaran
35. Automobile Industry's man of the year 2002 is:
(a) Carlos Ghoshn (Japan) (b) Dr Mark Faber(c) Dr Doom (d) Lious Haochuang
36. Who among the following has been named as the White Lightning in the cricket?
(a) Adam Parore (New Zealand)(b) Allan Donald (South Africa)(c) Ben Hollioake (Australia)(d) Dion Nash (New Zealand)
37. Which Indian cricketer has bagged a deal with ESPN?
(a) Md Kaif (b) Yuvraj(c) Sachin Tendulkar (d) Anil Kumble
38. Who among the following is the official sponsors of the Indian team at the Asian Games to be held ! ! in Busan, South Korea?
(a) Phillips (b) Sahara (c) LG (d) Samsung
39. '24 Brand Mantras', is a book written by:
(a) Bimal Chowdhary (b) Shiv Khera(c) Arindam R. Chowdhary (d) Jagdeep Kapoor
40. Ist developing country in the world to make use of fire optics technology is:
(a) China (b) Japan (c) India (d) Vietnam
41. Defence Research and Development Organisation was formed in the year:
(a) 1980 (b) 1958 (c) 1956 (d) 1975
42. Who among the following has been appointed as the President of the flagship channel Zee TV:
(a) Apurva Purohit (b) Pritish Nandi(c) Jitendra K. Singh (d) Raghu Rai
43. India's first commercially manufactured sports car is:
(a) Reeva (b) Indigo (c) Sedan (d) Fibro
44. How many new railway zones have been notified by the Railway Ministry in July 2002:
(a) 10 (b) 8 (c) 14 (d) 5
45. Name the quarterly magazine, launched by The Time Grou! ! p.
(a) Bindia (b) b-drive(c) businessdrive.com (d) none of these
46. According to Economic Intelligence Unit, maximum amount of FDI is received by:
(a) India (b) China (c) South Korea (d) Brazil
47. European Union Summit was held in Slovenia at:
(a) Bled (b) Geory (c) Repti (d) Ottowom
48. Transport Research and Injury Prevention Programme was awarded the Stockholm award and is unveiled by:
(a) IIT, Kanpur (b) IIT, Delhi(c) IIT, Kharagpur (d) IIT, Chennai
49. Alvaro Silva Calderon was appointed as the Secretary General of:
(a) OPEC (b) FIEO (c) NACO (d) AIMPLB
50. ASEAN was set up in the year:
(a) 1985 (b) 1975 (c) 1967 (d) 1958
ANSWERS
1. (a)
2. (b)
3. (c)
4. (d)
5. (c)
6. (b)
7. (c)
8. (a)
9. (c)
10. (d)
11. (a)
12. (b)
13. (c)
14. (c)
15. (a)
16. (b)
17. (a)
18. (b)
19. (b)
20. (c)
21. (a)
22. (b)
23. (a)
24. (d)
25. (a)
26. (a)
27. (a)
28. (b)
29. (d)
30. (a)
31. (b)
32. (a)
33. (a)
34. (b)
35. (a)
36. (b)
37. (c)
38. (d)
39. (d)
40. (c)
41. (c)
42. (a)
43. (a)
44. (d)
45. (b)
46. (c)
47. (a)
48. (b)
49. (a)
50. (c)
Monday, March 17, 2008
HOW PANELISTS RATE YOU IN A GD?
How many times have you seen a candidate yelling at the top of his/ her voice during a Group Discussion?
It is a sureshot way to ruin his/ her chances of getting admission to a top B-School. We feature the more common gaffes students make that could ensure a speedy exit and elimination from a GD, as well as the evaluation sheet used by panelists to judge your performance.
List of don’ts for your GD~ Project a shabby image by wearing wrinkled clothes and unpolished shoes.
~ Start clarifying the meaning of the topic from the examiner as soon as it is announced.
~ As soon as the GD starts, jump into the fray with wrong facts and figures.
~ Sit on the fence throughout the discussion.
It is advisable to take a stand (in favour or against the topic), as this will help you be more aggressive in the GD.
~ Never agree to anyone else’s point of view. Disagreement with everyone will guarantee you more enemies.
~ Resort to negative body language; sit with your arms and legs crossed, stare at your GD members, point fingers at others, make a fist at another and sit at the edge of the chair.
~ Maintain a sardonic smile on your face throughout the GD. This will seem, to the examiners, that you feel superior to the other members of the group.
~ Do not let fellow candidates speak and, if someone is making a good point, interrupt him/her mid-way and put forth a completely unrelated point.
~ Use words like yaar, um, etc, at every juncture and use abbreviations and acronyms, without explaining them. This will alienate you from the group.
~ Make wisecracks, in the hope of showing off your wit.
~ Yawn or maintain a blank look on your face.
~ Give subjective opinions which are not supported by facts or figures.
~ Only listen, and never speak.
GD evaluation sheet for panelists
The weightage of evaluating parameters varies from B-School to B-School, but the general framework more or less remains the same.
We have attempted to reproduce the actual criteria used in Group Discussions to top B-Schools, which is circulated to the respective evaluators before the start of a Group Discussion.
You can download this sheet, which comprises three parts:
i. Evaluation table with parameters
ii. Rating key
iii. Instructions for panelists to help eliminate subjectivity
It is a sureshot way to ruin his/ her chances of getting admission to a top B-School. We feature the more common gaffes students make that could ensure a speedy exit and elimination from a GD, as well as the evaluation sheet used by panelists to judge your performance.
List of don’ts for your GD~ Project a shabby image by wearing wrinkled clothes and unpolished shoes.
~ Start clarifying the meaning of the topic from the examiner as soon as it is announced.
~ As soon as the GD starts, jump into the fray with wrong facts and figures.
~ Sit on the fence throughout the discussion.
It is advisable to take a stand (in favour or against the topic), as this will help you be more aggressive in the GD.
~ Never agree to anyone else’s point of view. Disagreement with everyone will guarantee you more enemies.
~ Resort to negative body language; sit with your arms and legs crossed, stare at your GD members, point fingers at others, make a fist at another and sit at the edge of the chair.
~ Maintain a sardonic smile on your face throughout the GD. This will seem, to the examiners, that you feel superior to the other members of the group.
~ Do not let fellow candidates speak and, if someone is making a good point, interrupt him/her mid-way and put forth a completely unrelated point.
~ Use words like yaar, um, etc, at every juncture and use abbreviations and acronyms, without explaining them. This will alienate you from the group.
~ Make wisecracks, in the hope of showing off your wit.
~ Yawn or maintain a blank look on your face.
~ Give subjective opinions which are not supported by facts or figures.
~ Only listen, and never speak.
GD evaluation sheet for panelists
The weightage of evaluating parameters varies from B-School to B-School, but the general framework more or less remains the same.
We have attempted to reproduce the actual criteria used in Group Discussions to top B-Schools, which is circulated to the respective evaluators before the start of a Group Discussion.
You can download this sheet, which comprises three parts:
i. Evaluation table with parameters
ii. Rating key
iii. Instructions for panelists to help eliminate subjectivity
1.Tell me something about yourself
This statement is usually made at the beginning of the formal part of interview. Do not just repeat what you have given in your resume. Be ready with the answer, a talent or something you did out of the ordinary. You can sound it as unique or give it a touch of your personality. "Tell me, starting with school, and progressing through the jobs that you have held about what you have been doing. Include any accomplishments, and bring you up to the present.
2. How did you hear about this position?
This answer demonstrates the the quality of your sources of Information. Be specific and give a straight answer of how you came to know about the vacancy. If it was advertised specify how you came across it or if your neighbour happens to be the chairperson and CEO of the organization you are meeting with (or other employee), do not hesitate to mention he or she told you about the opening.
3. What is the reason you are planning to leave the organization?
Be careful that your motivation is not totally selfish. Don't tell that the present company would not give you any increment or promotion. You should give two or three reasons for leaving like lack of challenge, focus on the limitations etc. Point out your ambition to prove your worth confidently. Be reliable to your answer. Consider reasons you may have included in your cover letter, on the application. Your tone and your nonverbal signals while giving answer is very important. You need to be comfortable and confident with the answer , regardless of what you say.
4. Are you looking for a permanent or temporary Job?
This question is little tricky. If you say the wrong answer, the interviewer pull you out of the box. Try to get an information about the type of post is available there.
5. What were your positions, Salary, dates of employment for the past years?
Usually this question is asked in an employment application. Be consistent in the details on the application as well as on the resume . Take care while giving the details about salary because it may repeat in the personal interview and you must provide the same answer. Otherwise your credibility may be questioned due to the dissimilarity. Moreover if you are appointed, some employers may ask you to provide a most recent copy of your salary voucher to confirm the accuracy of your stated salary.
6. Can we contact your references /present/former employers?
If you are not resigned from the present job, you definitely do not let your present employer know about job search. If you have given your present boss as your reference, tell that you prefer to call your current boss only after you receive a confirmed offer, as he may not like you changing the job.
7. How do you feel about your career progress to date?
To be frank, explain your satisfaction up to a point and meanwhile try to let them know that the same point is the reason for deciding to move on in this direction now.
8. How would you describe your own personality?
It is better to review the first section of your personal worksheet that you have completed earlier. Ask to your friends, family and colleagues what words could be used to describe you. It is advisable to create a definition which is needed to fill the position and cite your characteristics that support your candidacy. Your answer should be 2-3 minutes long, remember that more questions will be asked, which will allow you to go into more detail about you.
9. Have you received any other job offers?
Employers like applicants who are actively sought by others. A positive answer can show that you are efficient. A positive answer should be true as it may be verified. Once you admit that you have other offers pending, you need to be careful while giving the information. But don't disclose too much about the offers.
10. We find gaps in your resume. What were you doing this time?
It depends on the situation and what you did while you were not employed. You should be prepared to answer the question before hand. Make your answer crisp, brief and focused on the point and but do not be defensive. If you have period of unemployment on your resume, be prepared to answer further questions about it. If the gap is for a personal or family, avoid details about it and simply state that due to family or personal reasons you were unable to work for a period .
11. What do you do with your spare time?
The interviewer is looking for some insight into your personality by asking the question. If you say something be ready to answer more question on the topic.
12. Describe a major goal you have set for yourself?
Plan the answer carefully. Select a imperative project either professional or personal. It can be concerned with education, job or some personal development program. A goal related to job is preferable because it portray the fact that you are very serious about a career and a job.
13. Why do you want to work for this organization?
This may take some thought and should be based on the research you have done on the organization. Sincerity is extremely important here and will easily be sensed. Talk about products, services, history and people, especially any friends that work there. Also relate it to your long-term career goals. Honesty is the best policy, compliment the company, point out one specific qualification you posses.
14. How long would you expect to work for us if selected?
Don't specify any time frame. Make them sure that you are willing to work for a long time. Something like this should work: I'd like it to be a long time. Or As long as we both feel I'm doing a good job.
15. What are your strong points?
What are your weak points?Be Positive and take this opportunity to let the employer know about your strong points. Try to include the points that are relevant for the position and also important for you. Loyalty, a strong work ethic, good interpersonal and communication skills , a project and result orientation are all personal characteristics that interviewers love to hear. Do not be as open with your weakness as with your strong points. Your weakness should be a honest assessment of an area in which you lack experience or need to improve upon. Don't mention that you are always late, and unable to deal with people well etc.
16. Have you ever been denied a salary increase?
The Answer " Yes" denotes you are a person with a problem, regardless of the situation of the company you are working. Being denied a salary increase and not getting the salary increment is different. So Be careful about your answer and it is always recommended to give a negative reply.
17. What do you know about the position for which you are applying?
It is always advisable to figure out some details about the organization and post for which you are applying. Basic research is the only way to prepare for this question. Take this as a best opportunity to show the depth of your knowledge about the position. If you have a lot of information, try to explain it in a few words but with confidence. Lack of knowledge about the position will create a bad impression on your employers.
18. Would you describe a few situations in which your work was criticized?
Your answer to this question gives an opportunity to the interviewer to get an idea about your ability to communicate effectively, your tolerance to criticism, the environment in which you have been working etc. Give only one, but portray them as being born out by the situation itself. Tell how you have corrected or plan to correct your work.
19. You may be over-qualified or too experienced for the position we have to offer
This question is put to you to puzzle a candidate. Be calm and answer the question with a positive and confident approach. Getting a candidate who has more experienced than required is worth for the employer. Try to answer like this "My experience and qualification will just help me to do the job better. Moreover I am at establishing a long term relationship which my qualification will favor me to handle more responsibilities and help me to rise to your expectations."
20. What is your greatest accomplishment?
If possible, try to tell an accomplishment which is related to your job like taking a great risk to get the project and and make it work. For this a deep review of your career life is required. if you note some solid accomplishments as well, you may be able to make the jump onto a recruiter's short list. If you don't have anything to say related to your job, go for your family or personal life achievement such as building a house, completing your degree etc. Narrate the things as a small story with a short and clear manner.
COUNTRIES & CAPITALS
The countries of the world and capitals of every country follow:
Afghanistan - Kabul
Albania - Tirane
Algeria - Algiers
Andorra - Andorra la Vella
Angola - Luanda
Antigua and Barbuda - Saint John's
Argentina - Buenos Aires
Armenia - Yerevan
Australia - Canberra
Austria - Vienna
Azerbaijan - Baku
The Bahamas - Nassau
Bahrain - Manama
Bangladesh - Dhaka
Barbados - Bridgetown
Belarus - Minsk
Belgium - Brussels
Belize - Belmopan
Benin - Porto-Novo
Bhutan - Thimphu
Bolivia - La Paz (administrative); Sucre (judicial)
Bosnia and Herzegovina - Sarajevo
Botswana - Gaborone
Brazil - Brasilia
Brunei - Bandar Seri Begawan
Bulgaria - Sofia
Burkina Faso - Ouagadougou
Burundi - Bujumbura
Cambodia - Phnom Penh
Cameroon - Yaounde
Canada - Ottawa
Cape Verde - Praia
Central African Republic - Bangui
Chad - N'Djamena
Chile - Santiago
China - Beijing
Colombia - Bogota
Comoros - Moroni
Congo, Republic of the - Brazzaville
Congo, Democratic Republic of the - Kinshasa
Costa Rica - San Jose
Cote d'Ivoire - Yamoussoukro (official); Abidjan (de facto)
Croatia - Zagreb
Cuba - Havana
Cyprus - Nicosia
Czech Republic - Prague
Denmark - Copenhagen
Djibouti - Djibouti
Dominica - Roseau
Dominican Republic - Santo Domingo
East Timor (Timor-Leste) - Dili
Ecuador - Quito
Egypt - Cairo
El Salvador - San Salvador
Equatorial Guinea - Malabo
Eritrea - Asmara
Estonia - Tallinn
Ethiopia - Addis Ababa
Fiji - Suva
Finland - Helsinki
France - Paris
Gabon - Libreville
The Gambia - Banjul
Georgia - Tbilisi
Germany - Berlin
Ghana - Accra
Greece - Athens
Grenada - Saint George's
Guatemala - Guatemala City
Guinea - Conakry
Guinea-Bissau - Bissau
Guyana - Georgetown
Haiti - Port-au-Prince
Honduras - Tegucigalpa
Hungary - Budapest
Iceland - Reykjavik
India - New Delhi
Indonesia - Jakarta
Iran - Tehran
Iraq - Baghdad
Ireland - Dublin
Israel - Jerusalem
Italy - Rome
Jamaica - Kingston
Japan - Tokyo
Jordan - Amman
Kazakhstan - Astana
Kenya - Nairobi
Kiribati - Tarawa Atoll
Korea, North - Pyongyang
Korea, South - Seoul
Kosovo - Pristina
Kuwait - Kuwait City
Kyrgyzstan - Bishkek
Laos - Vientiane
Latvia - Riga
Lebanon - Beirut
Lesotho - Maseru
Liberia - Monrovia
Libya - Tripoli
Liechtenstein - Vaduz
Lithuania - Vilnius
Luxembourg - Luxembourg
Macedonia - Skopje
Madagascar - Antananarivo
Malawi - Lilongwe
Malaysia - Kuala Lumpur
Maldives - Male
Mali - Bamako
Malta - Valletta
Marshall Islands - Majuro
Mauritania - Nouakchott
Mauritius - Port Louis
Mexico - Mexico City
Micronesia, Federated States of - Palikir
Moldova - Chisinau
Monaco - Monaco
Mongolia - Ulaanbaatar
Montenegro - Podgorica
Morocco - Rabat
Mozambique - Maputo
Myanmar (Burma) - Rangoon (Yangon); Nay Pyi Taw (administrative)
Namibia - Windhoek
Nauru - no official capital; government offices in Yaren District
Nepal - Kathmandu
Netherlands - Amsterdam; The Hague (seat of government)
New Zealand - Wellington
Nicaragua - Managua
Niger - Niamey
Nigeria - Abuja
Norway - Oslo
Oman - Muscat
Pakistan - Islamabad
Palau - Melekeok
Panama - Panama City
Papua New Guinea - Port Moresby
Paraguay - Asuncion
Peru - Lima
Philippines - Manila
Poland - Warsaw
Portugal - Lisbon
Qatar - Doha
Romania - Bucharest
Russia - Moscow
Rwanda - Kigali
Saint Kitts and Nevis - Basseterre
Saint Lucia - Castries
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Kingstown
Samoa - Apia
San Marino - San Marino
Sao Tome and Principe - Sao Tome
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Senegal - Dakar
Serbia - Belgrade
Seychelles - Victoria
Sierra Leone - Freetown
Singapore - Singapore
Slovakia - Bratislava
Slovenia - Ljubljana
Solomon Islands - Honiara
Somalia - Mogadishu
South Africa - Pretoria (administrative); Cape Town (legislative); Bloemfontein (judiciary)
Spain - Madrid
Sri Lanka - Colombo; Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte (legislative)
Sudan - Khartoum
Suriname - Paramaribo
Swaziland - Mbabane
Sweden - Stockholm
Switzerland - Bern
Syria - Damascus
Taiwan - Taipei
Tajikistan - Dushanbe
Tanzania - Dar es Salaam; Dodoma (legislative)
Thailand - Bangkok
Togo - Lome
Tonga - Nuku'alofa
Trinidad and Tobago - Port-of-Spain
Tunisia - Tunis
Turkey - Ankara
Turkmenistan - Ashgabat
Tuvalu - Vaiaku village, Funafuti province
Uganda - Kampala
Ukraine - Kyiv
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
United Kingdom - London
United States of America - Washington D.C.
Uruguay - Montevideo
Uzbekistan - Tashkent
Vanuatu - Port-Vila
Vatican City (Holy See) - Vatican City
Venezuela - Caracas
Vietnam - Hanoi
Yemen - Sanaa
Zambia - Lusaka
Zimbabwe - Harare
While the listing above is an authoritative listing of the independent countries of the world, it is important to note that there are also more than sixty Territories, Colonies, and Dependencies of independent countries.
BUZZ QUIZ
BUSINESS QUIZ
1. K Malleswari, the lone medal winner for India in the millenium Olympics, and the first woman from India to ever win a medal, is employed at which Central Government Corporation?
2. First there was Bridgestone, and then Mitsubishi; What giant automaker of Japan was embroiled, recently, in a quality-related (again!) controversy?
3. The Times of India launched its latest edition in which city?
4. Which famous fashion accessories House first started as leather goods shop in Florence in 1921?
5. Uncle Pai is associated with which once roaringly successful publishers of children’s literature?
6. Which international airline uses the slogan "Smooth As Silk" in its advertisements?
7. Which TV programme currently aired in India, is sponsored by a) Colgate b) Bajaj c) Dettol and d) LG?
8. Who are the maker of the soft contact lens "Accuvue"?
9. Named "Manager of the Century" by the business magazine ‘Fortune’, he was recently in India? Who is he?
10. The "Three Golden Balls" is the traditional symbol of which class of businessmen, especially in Europe?
11. Which is the largest ‘unlisted’ company in India in terms of turnover?
12. What watchmaker sells an environment-friendly brand of watches called "Eco Drive"?
13. The useful thumb rule in Economics, "Bad money drives out the good" goes by what name?
14. What is film Production Company owned by the Hollywood star Dustin Hoffman?
15.What famous place in New York gets its name from the original location of a stockade built by the Dutch in 1653 to keep out the attacking English colonists and Red Indians?
16. Which famous TV personality owns a film production company called Harpo Films? Look hard at the name, may be you can decipher the answer.
17. The person next-in-command to the CEO is often referred to as the ‘Upper Roger’. From what Indian (Sanskrit) word does this phrase come?
18. Some aeroplanes of which airline sported Meera Mehta’s "Paithan Sari Motif"on their tails for sometime?
19. Who or what is a MAMBA?
20. Under what brand name is the compound "sidenafil citrate’ sold by the pharma company, Pfizer?
21. What ‘social expression’ company (if I may coin a phrase) was started by the 18 year old Joyce Hall in 1910?
22. Which is the biggest toy retail chain in the world?
23. Here’s a Dot-buster: Which award-winning net-based furniture selling company, despite being backed by Amazon.com, filed for bankruptcy, recently?
24. What is the name given to software developed exclusively for use by infants and toddlers?
25. What major currency is known as ‘Greenbacks’ in slang?
26. Who is the only Asian to be included in Sunday Times list of " The Wealthiest 200 in Britain since 1066"?
27. R Gopalan who is basking in the limelight for his role as a the official emissary in the Raj Kumar Kidnapping case, is the editor of which Tamil Magazine?
28. What we know as Maruti Zen was launched worldwide by Suzuki in the 90’s under what name?
29. Zee Movies is contemplating a co-branding exercise in collaboration with which major Hollywood Film studio?
30. Ashok H Advani is the publisher of which business magazine?
31. Lord Raj Kumar Bagri is the first non-Briton Chairman of what mercantile organization
32. You’ve heard of BSA motorcycles and surely seen BSA bicycles on Indian roads. What does BSA stand for?
33. What brand of Firestone tyres is creating an uproar in the USA, for causing many fatalities on the highway because of a manufacturing defect?
34. He appears in a series of books which made publishing history, and he is the most famous pupil of the "Hogwart’s Witchcraft School". Who is this fictional character?
35. To which fashion house did the minister Maneka Gandhi address her remark, "The skin of the python is no less precious to the snake than fur is to the fox"?
36. The ‘Calatrava Cross’ is the emblem of which coveted brand of Swiss watch?
37. What famous sports goods company did Phil Knight and Bill Boweman launch in 1964?
38. Which Indian textile brand proudly proclaims "Since 1925"in its advertisements?
39. Which famous hospital chain of India sells an accident insurance cover called "Dost’?
40. What product is associated with the Colombian mascot "Juan Valdez"?
41. Which newspaper baron started his career by launching the "Adelaide Herald" when he was just 23years old?
42. The Hollywood horror flick "Crocodile 2 – Death Roll" was recently shot in which film studio in India?
43. ‘The Striding Man’ is the logo of which best selling brand of scotch whiskey?
44. In his recent visit to New Delhi, in which 5 star Hotel did Bill Gates stay?
45. What automobile, still seen on the roads with minor variations, did Ferdinand Porsche develop under the behest of Adolf Hitler?
46. Mumbai-born Fareed Zackaria has been appointed the editor of which international newsmagazine?
47. Which textile company of India is head quartered at "Neville House"?
48. What useful and innovative computer accessory did Douglas Engelbert invent in 1968?
49. At long last the Department of Telecommunications (DoT, for short) has been transformed in to a corporation. What is its name in its new avatar?
50. What ingredient of chewing gum comes from the South American sapodilla tree?
51. Which Indian confectioneries brand and Times Warner are involved in a legal wrangle over the 'Bunny' logo?
52. What is the consulting firm recently acquired by the electronics giant Hewlett-Packard?
53. What pharma company markets the 'Ayurvedic Concepts' range of health products?
54. What Hyderabad based company has been contracted by Cantor Index plc to supply giant- sized, inflatable images of the latest contenders to American Presidency-Bush and Gore?
55. What internationally famous sports apparel company was started in the 1930's by a champion tennis-player of France?
56. Prime Minister AB Vajpayee under went knee surgery in which Mumbai hospital?
57. According to 'BBC's Moneytalk' which German brand is ranked No. 1 amongst car audio products?
58. Who was chosen to be the first and only recipient in India of the choicest, limited edition champagne 'Espirit du Siecle'?
59. Which Hollywood star and brand ambassador of Omega watches was recently in India to meet the Dalai Lama?
60. What tourist attraction in London, designed by Sir Richard Rogers especially for the millennium, is in grave financial crisis because of its failure to attract enough visitors?
61. OM Gruppen of Sweden is in the news for wanting to takeover of all things which European stock exchange?
62. Carlos Ghosn, living up to his sobriquet of 'Le Cost-Killer', is putting which ailing Japanese carmaker on the road to recovery?
63. In the mesmerically popular TV Game show Kaun Banega Crorepati, the prize money is issued on the cheques of which bank?
64. What redoubtable Swiss watchmaker markets a range of metal-cased watches under a clever and ironic name of "Irony"?
65. In the world of Food and Agriculture what does the acronym GM stand for?
66. The indigenously produced Hepatitis b vaccine called Shanvac B, which is giving the multinationals a run for their money, is produced by which company?
67. Sierra Leone is now always in the news for the bloody civil war which is raging there. Otherwise it was known for its highly lucrative export trade in which mineral?
68. What 'wireless' technology, which has almost become a buzzword, is named after an ancient Viking chief?
69. What is the new name of the TV channel TNT, after its recent rechristening?
70. Sumantra Ghoshal has been appointed the founding Dean of which fledgling Business School?
71. Arun Bajoria's takeover threat was targeted at which company?
72. Which Bank has launched the "India Millennium Deposits" to mobilize resources of NRI’s?
73. The quality enforcing technique of 'Six Sigma' was first introduced by which American company?
74. Which airline uses the slogan "Be Good to Yourself" in its ads?
75. What is the expensive delicacy obtained from the fish sturgeon especially found in the Caspian Sea?
76. What is the name of the new generation fuel cell car recently developed by GM?
77. Which large chaebol, now in dire straits, was started by five friends in 1979 to manufacture and export garments?
78. Which Dutch brewery is ranked as the biggest producer of beer in Europe?
79. What prized and exclusive cars are manufactured in Malvern Link, North west of London?
80. In collaboration which Bollywood star is 'Emami' proposing to launch a range of Ayurvedic personal care products?
81. What is the name of the alliance formed by airlines such as Delta, Air France, Aero Mexico and Korean Air?
82. Which Budapest-born American CEO's biography is entitled "Swimming Across"?
83. Who is the 'person of Indian origin' who was hailed by the online magazine 'Valley Talk' as "the most successful Venture Capitalist of all time"?
84. Consequent upon a long drawn out family feud, what is the new name assumed by Andersen Consulting?
85. Italy's Monte Paschi di Seine, established in 1472, has the distinction of being the oldest of its kind. What is it?
86. Which advertising legend is supposed to have advised, "If you have nothing to say, sing it!"
87. Hans Wilsdorf, a German who set up his business in Switzerland, and later moved to London became the founder of which famous brand of watches?
88. Touted as one of the most useful inventions of this century, it was invented by George Mestral after he noticed burr sticking to his clothes on his return from a walk in the woods. What is it?
89. What is the 'highest scoring partnership' in cricket, which became a world famous brand of cigarettes?
90. Unit Trust's recent intention of terminating what scheme has caused public outcry and a lot of litigation?
91.Which mobile phone manufacturer is popularizing mobile-telephone etiquette with its 'mobile manners' campaign?
92.Which Indian TV channel owned the transmission rights for the 50th Miss World contest held in theMillennium Dome in London?
93. Bajaj auto is setting up a two wheeler assembly line in which South American country?
94.Merino, one of the finest types of wool, is associated with which country?
95.In the heyday of nationalization, which PSU emerged from the amalgamation of ESSO and Caltex?
96.What biscuit in McVittie's range was originally developed by Sir Alexander Grant in the 1890's?
97.In the world of TV transmission technology, what does the much-talked about acronym DTH stand for?
98.With what product would you associate the well-known designs such as 'American Tank' and 'TankFrancaise'?
99.Which Indian packaging company has taken over a firm called 'Propack' in China?
100.What is the internationally known brand of ice-cream co- promoted by an ex-hippie named Ben Cohen?
101.In what make of car did the couple from Calcutta, MS Choudhary and his wife Neena, achieve the record for first circumnavigation of the world?
102.What international brand of cigarette is named after a ritzy street in London?
103.Which is the biggest Petroleum Company in the world?
104.Nazomi 503, is the fastest of its kind in the world. What is it?
105.Dhunji Rana was the model for what enduring and macho icon in Indian advertising?
106. Who is the hotshot executive of Indian origin with PepsiCo, who appears in the Fortunes list of 50 most powerful women in corporate America?
107. What is the prized sports drink in the Quaker Oat's portfolio which makes merger with it so desirable to suitors like Coke, Pepsi or Danone?
108. What is the Danish Electronics Company famed for producing 'haute couture' stuff in areas like Stereos, Televisions and Telephones?
109. What internationally famous brand of shoes is named whimsically after a rural American dish made from corn, fed to pet dogs?
110. "Beeps" and "Peeps' were the experimental prototypes of what legendary hard terrain vehicle?
111. Tidel Park, yet another of those prestigious complexes housing software firms, is associated with which city?
112. What invention was called the Lover's Telegraph" when first exhibited in Philadelphia, 1876?
113. What now universally popular food item was called "Food of the Gods", by Linnaeus the eminent naturalist of the nineteenth century?
114. Which aircraft manufactures the A3XX superjumbo, slated to be the biggest civilian aircraft?
115. What international brand of shirts, marketed in India too, is observing 150 years of existence?
116. The Dynatac made in the1970's was the first of its kind. What is this product which became extremely visible in India only in the mid 90's?
117. What was the epoch-making book written in the 60's by Rachel Carson, which awakened the world to the dangers of environmental pollution but incurred the wrath of industrial giants like Dupont?
118. What car being sold in India celebrated its first birthday recently with a birthday song sung especially for it by Shankar (Breathless) Mahadevan?
119. What hard liquor traditionally made from potatoes, literally means 'Little Water' in the native tongue?
120. What French sports fashion house has begun to sell India inspired knitwear kurta-pajamas successfully?
121. What large India retail chain proudly describes itself as 'The Family Store' in its advertisements?
122. Everyone has heard of the catchphrase "Intel Inside". But who authored a book entitled "Inside Intel"?
123. What brand of 'cold cream', also available in India, derives its name from a latin word meaning 'snow white'?
124. In Mumbai's underworld slang the word 'kavva' refers to what handy communication device?
125. With what cigarette brand (now gone up in smoke, I'm afraid), would you associate the once ubiquitous slogan "For Men of Action-- Satisfaction"?
126. What do you call the style of selling where the bid price goes down progressively until the deal is closed?
127. With which Management Guru of Indian Origin would you most associate the phrase "Core Competence"?
128. What is the popular (though not available in India) low calorie soft drink produced by Coca Cola, having a three letter name?
129. What expensive and legendary brand of cars is supposedly named after the founder of Dertroit - the car manufacturing capital of the world?
130. Which company started by Jim Clark has its headquarters at 'Mountain View'?
131. What is name of the range of bestselling digital cameras manufactured by Sony?
132. In UK, what brand of beer is most preffered as an accompaniment to India food?
133. What potent liquor, also known a 'the Green Fairy', is extracted from wormwood?
134. What invention, in its early years, was described as 'the horse that never says nay'?
135. Back to acronyms. What does the first three letters of 'Sun Microsystems' stand for?
136. A Navigator could mean many things. But a company has launched a toothbrush called Navigator. Which company are we talking about?
137. Tata Finance has launched a credit card with a tie up with which credit card company?
138. Kabhi Dekha Hai Aisa TV? Big Picture! Big Sound! .... Onida. Which ad agency created this award winning advertisement?
139. Which company has the advertising punchline, "The Power To Create"?
140. The movies Mohabbatein, Raju Chacha and Mission Kashmir had breath-taking special effects. Name the company that created these effects.
141. Which company makes Ujala?
142. If you can't beat them, join them. Which clock company has decided to shift base to China so that it remains competitive?
143. An Indian businessman has been named among Businessweek's top entrepreneurs for 2000. Name him.
144. The beautiful Ekta Kapoor, daughter of film star Jeetendra, is a highly successful producer of television serials. Name her company.
145. We all know what bulls and bears do. What would sheep do in the stock market?
146. Which media group (you have to name the company, not the newspaper) has launched India's first electronic newspaper, or e-paper?
147. Nescafe has two coffee brands. One is Nescafe Classic and the other is?
148. The Human Genome Project has been in the news because government agencies and private sector companies have been racing to become the first to decipher the human genome. Name the private sector company which was in this race?
149. For which electronics brand does Rahul Dravid model?
150. Ceat. This tyre company gives the cricket ratings. To which group does this company belong?
ANSWERS
1. Food Corporation of India
2. Toyota
3. Hyderabad
4. Gucci
5. Amar Chitra Katha
6. Thai
7. Kaun Banega Crorepati
8. Johnson & Johnson
9. Jack Welch
10. Pawnbrokers
11. Maruti Udyog
12. Ciitizen
13. Greshams Law
14. Punch Productions
15. Wall Street
16. Oprah Winfrey
17. Yuva Raja
18. British Airways
19. Middle Aged Middlebrow Acheiver
20. Viagra
21. Hallmark
22. Toys R US
23. Living.Com
24. Lapware
25. US Dollars
26. L. N. Mittal
27. Nakkheeran
28. Alto
29. MGM
30. Business India
31. London Metal Exchange
32. Birmingham Small Arms
33. Wilderness
34. Harry Potter
35. Calvin Klein
36. Patek Phillippe
37. Nike
38. Raymond’s
39. Apollo
40. Coffee
41. Rupert Murdoch
42. Ramoji Film City
43. Johnny Walker
44. Maurya Sheraton
45. Volkswaggen
46. Newsweek
47. Bombay Dyeing
48. The Mouse
49. Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited
50. Chicle
51. Nutrine
52. Pricewaterhouse Coopers
53. Himalaya Drugs Company
54. Unique Inflatables
55. Lacoste
56. Breach Candy
57. Blaupunkt
58. Prannoy Roy
59. Pierce Brosnan
60. Millennium Dome
61. London Stock Exchange
62. Nissan Motors
63. ICICI Bank
64. Swatch
65. Genitically Modified
66. Shantha Biotechnics
67. Diamonds
68. Bluetooth
69. TCM
70. Indian School Of Business, Hyderabad
71. Bombay Dyeing
72. State Bank Of India
73. Motorola
74. The Emirates
75. Caviar
76. Hydrogen
77. Daewoo
78. Heinneken
79. Morgan
80. Madhuri Dixit
81. Sky Team
82. Andy Grove
83. Vinod Khosla
84. Accenture
85. Bank
86. David Ogilvy
87. Rolex
88. Velcro
89. 555
90. Rajyalakshmi
91. Nokia
92. Zee
93. Brazil
94. Australia
95. Hindustan Petroleum
96. Digestive
97. Direct To Home
98. Watches
99. Essel
100. Ben & Jerry
101. Contessa Classic
102. Pall Mall
103. Shell
104. Train
105. Zodiac Man
106. Indra Nooyi
107. Gatorade
108. Bang & Oluffsan
109. Hush Puppies
110. Jeep
111. Chennai
112. Telephone
113. Chocolate
114. Airbus Industry
115. Arrow
116. Mobile (Cell) Phone
117. The Silent Spring
118. Ford Ikon
119. Vodka
120. Lacoste
121. Pantaloon's
122. Tim Jackson
123. Nivea
124. Cellular Phone
125. Scissors
126. Dutch Auction
127. C. K. Prahlad
128. Tab
129. Cadillac
130. Netscape
131. Mavica
132. Cobra
133. Absinthe
134. Bicycle
135. Stanford University Network
136. Colgate137. American Express138. Oglivy And Mather (O&M)139. Epson140. Western Outdoor141. Jyothi Labs142. Ajanta Quartz143. Sunil Mittal (Bharti Telecom)144. Balaji Telefilms145. Follow The Leader146. Living Media India Ltd147. Sunrise148. Celera Genomics149. Thomson150. RPG Enterprises
1. Pepsico has acquired which American food and drink company recently, which Coca Cola had also bid for but rejected by its board?
(a) Kellogg's b) Quaker Oats c) Cadbury Schweppes d) General Milks
2. Who became the first woman to head a Fortune 500 company (The Washington Post) after her husband’s death?
a) Linda Goodman b) Nancy Eldridge c) Katherine Graham d) Denise Albrecht
3. Which of the following figures is nearest to the Non-Performing Assets (NPAs) of banks in 1999-2000?a) Rs. 52,000 crore b) Rs. 46,000 crore c) Rs. 67,000 crore d) Rs. 75,000 crore
4. What does SMS stand for in the communications industry?
a) Sharp Microchip Service b) Simple Messaging and Start-up
c) Simple Messaging Service d) Short Messaging System
5. Match the following top four Bangalore’s businessmen with the companies they own:I. Narayan Murthy i) Infosys
II. Azim Premji ii) Kids Kemp
III. Vijay Mallaya iii) Wipro
IV. Ravi Melwani iv) UB group
a) I-i, II-ii, III-iii, IV-iv b) I-i, II-iii, III-ii, IV-iv
c) I-i, II-iii, III-iv, IV-ii d) I-i, II-iv, III-iii, IV-ii
6. Why was the website, “Wahindia.com” in the news recently?
a) it launched a new service b) it laid off some of its employees
c) it announced its closure d) it decided to become an ISP
7. Who, among the following, is the President of the World Bank?
a) James Wolfensohn b) Michael Camadeuss c) Michael Bonsignore d) Robert Bishop8. Which television channel has started ‘Kaun Banega Kangal’ as a spoof of ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati?'
a) Start TV b) Sony TV c) Channel V d) MTV
9. Which of the following banks has launched credit card co-branded with HSBC?
a) SBI b) PNB c) Bank of Baroda d) Canara Bank
10) What is ‘Red Hat’?
a) a fashion accessory b) a danger signal in shipping industry c) a medicine for AIDS
d) a company owned by Linux, the free operating system for computers
11) Which company uses the punchline “Applying thought”?
a) LML b) IBM c) Wipro d) Compaq
12) Name the company formed by film star Shah Rukh Khan for a variety of business interests?
a) SRK.com b) Shah Rukh & Co. c) SRKWORLD d) Dreamz
13) Who, among the following, has been selected as ‘Businessman of the year 2000’ by Business India magazine?
a) Narayan Murthy b) Azim Premji c) Mukesh Armbani d) Kumarmangalam Birla
14) Which company has launched personalised CDs under the brand "Hamara CD”?
a) Polydor b) EMI c) HMV d) GPI
15) Which advertising agency has created the advertisements for “Color Plus”?
a) O & M b) HTA c) Rubecon d) Euro RSCG
16. Who designed the Nike logo ‘Swoosh’ in 1971 and how much was she paid for it?
16. Caroline Davidson, a college student. She was paid $35 for it.
17. ‘Tony the Tiger’ is the mascot for which product?
17. Kellog’s Frosties.
18. What is the claim to fame of Miral Durlabhji in the world of Indian Advertising?
18. He played the Junior Onida Devil
19. “If You don’t have to answer to anyone, what would you do’ is the tag line for what?
19. Harley Davidson
20. Wrigley’s once distributed one million pieces of this company’s product as handouts for a sales promotion. What product and which company?
20. Gillette and the Disposable Shaving Razor
21. What is the Quickie P 300?
21. The brand of wheelchair that Christopher Reeve uses following his accident
22. Invented in the 1920s, by C.L.Briggs, in Missouri, this product contained Lithium salts and was initially called ‘Bib-label Lithiated Lemon Lime Soda’. What?
22. UP
23. Apart from speeds of aircraft, what is the Mach 3?
23. Gillette’s new razor that contains 3 blades
24. What are ‘Toast in New York’, ‘Mad about Mauve’, ‘Raisin’ rage’?
24. Shades of Revlon Lipstick
25. ‘Work Less, do more’ is the tag line for what?
25. Microsoft Office 97
26. Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras and Luciano Pavorotti appear in an ad for an airline. Name the airline and the service advertised.
26. Japanese Airlines and Executive Class
27. ‘A Cigarette is a perfect type of perfect pleasure’ was BAT’s first punchline. To whom are the above words attributed?
27. Oscar Wilde
28. Who started Naturence Research Labs?
28. Manoj Prabhakar
29. In the 1960s girls carried a penny in their shoes lest their dates failed to drop them home. What product got its name from this?
29. Penny Loafers
30. Which is the official footwear of the Woodstock music festival?
30. Burkinstock Sandals
30. How do we better know the company J.W.Foster and Co.?
30. Reebok
31. Sears Roebuck and Co., the retailing giant started selling products through mail order. What was the first product sold through mail order?
31. Quartz Watches
32. Launched in 1935 as a chocolate crisp, it was later renamed after an 18th century London Club. Name the product.
32. Kit-Kat
33. In the book ‘Around the World in 80 Days’, Phileas Fogg withdraws 20000 Guineas from a bank. Name the bank.
33. Barings’ Bank
34. What did Timothy Leary brand as LSD of the future?
34. The Internet
35. Singer Sewing Machines was the first company to introduce a highly innovative marketing tool. What was it?
35. Buying goods through installment schemes.
36. In the movie ‘Forrest Gump’, Tom Hanks is frequently shown drinking a particular drink. Which one?
36. Dr. Pepper
37. “Nov 7,1912 July 3,1996 I’ve lost my voice” What is the significance of this ad?
37. This was the Air India ad given out after the death of Bobby Kooka. The first date was when Air India was founded as Tata Airlines by J R D Tata. The second date was the death of Booby Kooka.
36. Which famous cricketer endorsed Colman’s Mustard?
36. W G Grace
37. Who was the Time Man of the Year 1997?
37. Andy Grove, former Intel CEO
38. The first product made by this company was a car record player. They gave themselves a name similar to the name of the market leader in record players in those days. Today, this company has a worldwide presence and is known as a premier communications company. Name the company?
38. Motorola
39. Mitchell Kapor, a Bostonian, is a teacher of Transcendental Meditation and a Buddhist. In 1988, he started a foundation for electronic free speech. But he is the founder of a well-know company. Which one?
39. Lotus
40. An American inventor Herman Hollerith devised an electromechanical counting machine that used punched cards to tabulate the results of the 1890 United States census. The firm that grew out of this business eventually became which familiar company?
40. IBM (international Business Machines)
41. Nolan Bushnell launched the video game industry with the founding of a company that took its name from the Japanese game of "Go" where the word is used to warn an opponent that he is in danger of losing. Name the Company?
41. Atari
42. In the Internet lingo, if someone advised you to 'RTFM', what is he telling you to do?
42. Read the F***ing Manual
43. What is a three-finger exercise?
43. Pressing Ctrl+Alt+del on the Keyboard (cold reboot)
44. Why did Intel call the successor to the 486 Processor series "Pentium", instead of using a combination of digits as they had always done?
44. Because Numbers cannot be trademarked.
45. He shares his first name with a character in "Peanuts" and he is known as the person who wrote Linux. Who?
45. Linus Torvalds
46. If you find yourself in an Infinite Loop in the Bay area, where would you be?
46. Apple’s HQ
47. What is the section of Yahoo that is dedicated to kids called?
47. Yahooligans
48. What are "Bells & Whistles"?
48. Features in a software that are of cosmetic value only.
49. A program that automatically sends a default reply to the senders of incoming email messages is called?
49. Auto Responders or Vacation Responders
50. Which Bangalorean started the free e-mail service "Hotmail"?
50. Sabeer Bhatia
51. It is the name of a very famous river in South America. However, Amazon is also known in the wired world for what?
51. The largest bookstore in the Universe
52. What is electronic money known as in common internet parlance?
52. Cybercash
53. It is not something that you'd like to eat even if you were stranded in an island with adequate supplies of it. However, which unpopular food item is also the term used to describe unwanted mail sent to a mass of e-mail addresses to advertise products or services?
53. Spam
54. What is DPI in computer printing terminology?
54. Dots per inch
55. What is the term for a small, book-sized computer with a screen that allows you to read the digitized text of a book complete with a touch-sensitive screen and stylus that let you highlight, annotate, or bookmark the book?
55. An e-book.
56. Before the World Wide Web, what was the system for finding and displaying document files stored on the Internet. It was named for the mascot of the college where it was developed, the University of Minnesota?
56. Gopher
57. Which company started in a garage in Palo Alto received its first order from Disney, the making the film Fantasia, for Oscillators?
57. Hewlett Packard
58. What do we call software that has become so loaded with features that it practically takes up all of a computer's hard disk and requires much too much of its RAM to run?
58. Bloatware
59. Who is called the father of computing for his contribution to the basic design of the Computer through what he called the analytical engine?
59. Charles Babbage
60. DVD, the new technology that looks like a CD-ROM but holds over 4.7 Gb of data (can hold a full length movie) stands for?
60. Digital Versatile Disc
61. Who is a 404? (clue : The Internet)
61. A clueless person, from the www error message "404 not found"
62. Which word, meaning both "an opportunistic Computer hacker" and science Fiction dealing with future urban societies dominated by computers" was coined by writer Bruce Bethke?
62. Cyberpunk
63. What is a program that is disguised as useful software but which actually crashes your hard-disk called?
63. Trojan Horse
64. What is Spanish for a "tall pole"?(clue : ask the Document Company)
64. Palo Alto
65. In the field of Computers, the statement "the power of a microprocessor doubles every 18 months...." is better known as?
65. Moore’s Law
66. Name the first Indian product to be put up (earlier this week) on Microsoft's Site Builder Network site? Hint - it is a customised customer e-mail manager
66. Bangalore-based Aditi Technologies’ Talisma.
67. What was Project Memphis?
67. Code name for the development of Windows 98. Project Chicago was Windows 95.
68. M.H.Hasham lost his family business of rice exports when the Govt. nationalised it in 1940. Unfazed he plunged into the oil business setting up Western India Vegetable Products in 1945. At the time of partition he was invited by Mohd. Ali Jinnah to join his ministry in Pakistan. He refused and chose to stay on in India. His company did not grow too much and at the time of his death in 1967 had just two fairly successful Vanaspati brands Sunflower and Camel. Which company?
68. WIPRO
69. Why did Homi Sethna of TOMCO name India’s first detergent bar, 501?
69. All the soaps at that time were imported from England and came in batches of 500. Homi Sethna was instrumental in launching India’s first ever detergent bar and in order to drive the point home to the British he named it 501.
70. Which company was founded by Frank A. Seiberling and his brother Charles in 1900. Its main product was lined with long staple cotton?
70. Good Year
71. Why is IBM called the ‘Big Blue’?
71. IBM built its reputation on customer service. It had an army of blue suited salesmen who swarmed all over the US. Therefore it got the name Big Blue
72. This brand was launched in India with one of the largest advertising budgets – Rs. 15 Crore which was 60% of its turnover. 1.5 Crore of this was used to buy up 5 minutes of airtime on the same day at the same time on every TV Channel thus accomplishing for the first time in India, what in advertising jargon is known as a ‘road block’. Which brand?
72. Real Value vacuumiser.
73. Revlon was founded by Charles Revson. Then why is it called Revlon?
73. The ‘L’ was added in honour of the nail polish supplier Charles Lachman.
74. The 1900 Corporation, USA introduced a product under a brand name which became a huge success. The company soon adopted the brand name as the name of the company. Which company?
74. Whirlpool
75. In 1980, Rolls Royce launched their ‘Silver Spirit’ model highlighting a particular feature. What feature and why?
75. David Ogilvy’s ad for the Rolls Royce had the adline ‘At 60 miles per hour, the only sound comes from the clock’. The team of engineers who designed the car were not impressed that the clock made a noise. So Rolls Royce worked on installing a noise free digital clock that was soundless and installed it in the ‘Silver Spirit’. This was the feature that was highlighted.
76. One morning in 1935, a small time businessman Bishandas Basil hit upon the idea of setting up a sewing machine factory in Calcutta. He thus set up Jay Engineering Works. The machines went on to become a huge success. What name were the machines sold under and why?
76. It was called Usha after Bishandas’s daughter.
77. This person named his company’s leading brand after his nephew, the son of his brother Ramniklal. What brand and who?
77. Vimal and Dhirubhai Ambani
78. ‘I have 3 priorities – God, family and __________, and at work these get reversed’. So said the founder of this famous company. 8 months after he died his company sold its 50 billionth product and dislodged Sears Roebuck to enter the Dow Jones 30 Index. Name the founder and the company.
78. Ray Kroc and McDonald’s.
79. In the Ford Escort ad featuring Leander Paes he drinks a particular soft drink and has two books in the car. Name all three.
79. 7 Up, Joseph Heller’s Catch 22 and Jack Higgins’ Thunderpoint.
80. In 1884, a practicing and self-dispensing doctor in Calcutta, Dr. S.K.Burman launched three ayurvedic machines. The medicines were sold on a ‘value for money plank’ and were sent to patients through VPP. Two of the brands he launched were Juri Tap, an anti-malarial and Plaguin for Plague. He also launched a third brand, which was a digestive and exists even today. Later a company which was named in his honour took over the brands. Name the doctor and the company.
80. The doctor was Dr. S.K.Burman. He was affectionately called Daktar Burman by the locals thus giving the company the name Dabur. The third brand was Pudin Hara.
81. Who on whom – ‘If he was a plumber, he would control all the water in the world and force anyone who wants a drop of the precious liquid to cut a deal with him’.
81. Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle on Bill Gates
82. The owner of this well known Indian brand once worked as a lab assistant at the Lalbhai Group’s New Cotton Mills, followed y the Gujarat Govt.’s Dept. of Mining and Geology. In his free time he would manufacture his product, which he sold door-to-door on Sundays for Rs. 3 a Kg. While his nearest competitor sold it at Rs. 15. Who and what?
82. Karsanbhai Patel and Nirma.
83. In 1994, IBM ran a campaign whose punchline was ‘Flight 4.0 to Chicago is delayed’. What was IBM referring to?
83. Microsoft’s delay in launching Windows 95 (Windows 4.0 officially) which was codenamed ‘Chicago’.
84. What was the contribution of Caroline Davidson, a college student to the world of business in 1971?
84. She designed the Nike logo ‘Swoosh’ for which she was paid $35.
85. This company was founded by Joyce and brother Rolle. Together they developed one of the world’s largest art organisations with over 400 artists. What?
85. Hallmark Cards.
86. What is the claim to fame of Sergei Zyman in the marketing world?
86. He was behind the disastrous launch of ‘New Coke’ in 1984.
87. In 1947, Digamber Parasuram Dandekar, a small time entrepreneur was sitting in an Irani restaurant in Bombay, drinking tea. An advertisement caught his eye then. Inspired, he launched a brand which controls 60% of its market today. Which brand?
87. Camel and Camlin Stationery. He saw the ad for Camel cigarettes, which went ‘I would walk a mile for a Camel’. He started Camel Stationery and his first product was Camel Ink with the line ‘Camel Ink writes for mils and miles without a break’.
88. What did Nestle do in 1938, on the request of the Brazilian Govt.?
88. It invented ‘Instant Coffee’.
89. Which brand’s logo, in the form that it appears on it products, always weighs 0.38 gms and is the surest sign of the authenticity of the product?
89. Lacoste
90. In corporate jargon, what is ‘Cold Calling’?
90. Making an unsolicited call in person on a perspective customer to sell a product.
91. According to Business Week, when the New York trade center was bombed in 1993, a man by name Jim McIntyre led a group of people across 34 floors in total darkness to safety. What did he use for light?
91. A Times Indiglo watch.
92. The first wholly Indian made commercial was for Dalda Vanaspati. Who sang the jingle?
92. Talat Mehmood.
93. Which major Japanese company started in 1915 with the manufacture of pencils and only later moved on to the products that they are today famous for, also retaining the brandname of the pencils for all their products?
93. Sharp
94. In the UK, what is a ‘Pink Pound’?
94. Money earned from offering services or selling products to gays.
95. According to McDonald’s , what is the ‘Golden Arches theory of Conflict prevention’?
95. No country with McDonald’s has ever gone to war with each other.
96. Bill Gates and his team at Microsoft took a team of reporters into a submarine during a product launch. Why did Gates do this?
96. To show what it was like, to live in a ‘windowless world’. The product of course was Windows
97. In 1891, James C. Fargo, then President of a particular company went on a business trip to Europe. Fed up with a certain kind of hassle that he repeatedly faced, he asked the manager of the European branch of the company, Marcellus Berry, to devise a solution. What resulted?
97. Fargo had problems carrying money abroad. He could carry currency gold or non-negotiable drafts or letters of credits, all acceptable only at the banks they named. Berry came up with the idea of a cheque that could be signed and paid for on purchasing and again on encashment, thus allowing safe carrying anywhere the cheques were accepted. In other words, he invented Travellers’ Cheques. The company was American Express.
98. What is common to Aspirin, Cellophane, Corn flakes, Escalator, Kerosene, Nylon, thermos and Zipper?
98. Brand names that have become words in English language.
99. Which TELCO product is named after its long time chief Sumant Moolgaonkar?
99. The Tata Sumo
100. What was concocted by a pharmacist named Caleb D Bradham as a cure for dyspepsia?
100. Pepsi
101. What did a newly wed Johnson and Johnson employee named Earl G Dickson come up with in 1920 because his wife, who was inexperienced in the kitchen kept burning and cutting herself?
101. Band –Aid
102. Which Indian brand gets its name from the Latin word for ‘strength’ or ‘vigour’?
102. Vim detergent
103. Which Indian product was launched by ace magician Franz Hararay at a magic show in Delhi?
103. The TVS Spectra
104. Which soft drink, invented in the 1920s by C.L.Briggs in Price’s Branch, Missouri was originally called Bib-Label Lithianted Lemon Hearted Soda and was guaranteed to take the ‘ouch out of the grouch’?
104. 7-UP
105. The name of the cassette and record company TIPS is an acronym for what?
105. To Improve and Promote Singing
106. By 1861, this product, produced in USA, enjoyed higher sales abroad than in the USA. In Africa, salesmen had to customise the machine because the tribesmen wanted it to be noisier, because they believed ‘good iron made more noise’. Mahatma Gandhi described it as ‘One of the few useful things ever invented’. What?
106. The Singer Sewing Machine
107. What does the T in the name of the Indian entertainment conglomerate T-Series stand for?
107. Trishul
108. What do the letters ESPN in the name of the TV channel stand for?
108. Entertainment and Sports Programming Network
109. Which European supermarket chain opened their first Indian outlet in Bangalore and later sold out to the Tatas who renamed it ‘Westside’?
109. Littlewoods
110. What was designed by Umesh Rao, a young empoyee of the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency on an idea by Booby Kooka?
110. The Air India Maharaja
111. What do the letters in the names of the Indian corporate giants BPL and MRF stand for?
111. BPL – British Physical Laboratories, MRF – Madras Rubber Factory
112. What is common to MRF, Britannia, Elf, BPL?
112. All corporate giants who run sports academies in India viz. The MRF Pace Foundation at Chennai, The Britannia Amritraj Tennis Academy at Chennai, The Elf Vengsarkar Cricket Academy at Mumbai and the BPL Padukone Badminton Academy at Bangalore.
113. What according to the Indian government is the only 3 wheeler that you can drive without a license?
113. The Road Roller
114. Persis Khambatta and Protima Bedi both died on the same day. A month earlier they had been interviewed together on a Television show. Name the show and the host.
114. ‘Not a nice man to know’ hosted by Kushwant Singh on Star Plus
115. What name is derived from the Persian for ‘Huge sheet of water’?
115. India. Since the Persians couldn’t pronounce Sindhu, they referred to it as ‘the huge sheet of water’ or ‘India’.
116. Which animal is the largest member of the Pig family?
116. The Hippopotamus
117. This vehicle was used for all general purposes during the World Wars and it was said that it could do anything but talk. What?
117. The General Purpose Vehicle or the Jeep (from GP)
118. In Tirupati, the Hundi receives millions of rupees every year. What is the mythological reason for the Hundi to be there in the first place?
118. Once Vishnu was reborn on earth to take back Lakshmi who had come away after a fight. In that birth he needed money to marry her and he borrowed it from Kubera since he had none. Till today his devotees are helping him pay back the loan by contributing to the Hundi.
119. Nowadays, there is this trend of conducting marriages at weird locales, like on a plane. But, for a wedding conducted on a plane, the rule is that Sikh rites have to be followed even though it is a Hindu wedding. Why?
119. Because the Sikh rites of marriage don’t need the marriage to be conducted in the presence of Agni or fire.
120. Complete the lines – “Till earth and sky stand, presently at God’s great judgement seat, _____________”.
120. “East is East and West is West and the Twain shall never meet” from Rudyard Kipling’s ‘Ballads of the East and West’
121. In the world of Children’s fiction, if you followed the directions “Second to the right and straight on till morning”, where would you go?
121. Neverland (Peter Pan)
122. The road outside the Chicago Art Institute in Chicago was originally called Michigan Avenue. Now it has been renamed after an Indian. Who?
122. Swami Vivekananda
123. Captain Haddock is the President of an organization called SSS. What odes SSS stand for?
123. Society of Sober Sailors
124. The chief architectural planner of the 1893 World Columbian Exposition in Chicago, David H. Burnham wanted to produce a homegrown structure that would rival the Eiffel Tower. He conducted a competition. The winner was George Washington Gale. What did he invent?
124. The Giant Wheel or the Ferris Wheel
125. What practice evolved when Eskimos murdered the captain of the ship Heartsease in 1612?
125. The practice of flying the flag at half-mast.
126. The San Francisco Chronicle described this person as having ‘the determination of Bjorn Borg, the grunt of Jimmy Connors and the laugh of Woody Woodpecker’. Who?
126. Monica Seles
127. In 1979, the Nobel Prize winners for medicine Sir Geoffrey Hounsfield and Allan Cormack were neither doctors nor physiologists. Why were they then awarded the Nobel Prize?
127. For inventing the CAT scan.
128. What, during the French Revolution, were called Liberty, Equality and Fraternity?
128. The King, Queen and Jack on a pack of cards.
129. Which is the most famous publication of the company Bennett and Coleman?
129. The Times of India
130. In 1935, Carl Van Ossietzsky, German journalist and pacifist won the Nobel Prize by beating a much more famous person whose nomination for the Prize was vehemently opposed by the British. Who?
130. Mahatma Gandhi
131. Sage Bhagiratha performed penance to bring Ganga to earth. Sage Kashyapa performed penance to bring which river to earth?
131. Saraswathi
132. Devonshire House is one of the most popular haunts of Bangaloreans. By what name is it better known?
132. Galaxy Theatre
133. She was the first winner of the Asian Women’s amateur Table Tennis title but is better known for her professional life. Who?
133. Kiran Bedi
134. The controversial movie ‘Fire’ is the first of director Deepa Mehta’s ‘Elements’ trilogy. Name the other two.
134. Earth and Water
135. Which two cricketers and singer have been signed on to endorse Coca Cola in addition to Saurav Ganguly and Javagal Srinath?
135. Robin Singh, Anil Kumble and Daler Mehndi
136. Which celebrity made her Hindi film debut in the small role of the wife of tribal Raghubir Yadav in the award winning ‘Massey Saheb’?
136. Arundhati Roy
137. Who was awarded the Bank of Sweden Prize for 1998?
137. Amartya Sen (The Bank of Sweden Prize is the Economics Nobel)
138. Recently a Dubai based company launched a range of perfumes called ‘SK’. After whom is it named?
138. Shahrukh Khan
139. In the world of comics whose mind ‘works faster than a computer’?
139. Chacha Chaudhary
140. Which Kannada movie won the National Award for Best Film in 1998?
140. Girish Kasaravalli’s ‘Thayi Saaheba’
141. Where in Bangalore would you find the following words inscribed ‘Government’s work is God’s work’?
141. On the Vidhana Soudha
142. What is advertised with the line ‘Nothing else matters at nine’?
142. Star News
143. In the world of Indian classical music how are Lalitha and Haripriya better known?
143. Hyderabad Sisters
144. In the name of the popular computer iMAC, What does the ‘i’ stand for?
144. Internet
145. It was earlier called as ‘The Statuette’. How do we know it today?
145. The Oscar
146. Who or what did Shakespeare describe as ‘the green eyed monster’?
146. Jealousy
147. In the Mahabharata, other than the Kauravas who else had a hundred brothers?
147. Shakuni
148. Whose autobiography is titled ‘Wings of Fire’?
148. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
149. Who edits the women’s magazine ‘New Woman’?
149. Hema Malini
150. Which cricketer is slated to star opposite Madhuri Dixit in a forthcoming film?
150. Ajay Jadeja
1. What was born in a pub in London during a barroom argument on which bird was the fastest in the British Isles?
1. The Guinness Book of Records
2. Which king, the son of Sage Pulyasta was an accomplished veena player and his royal flag bore it as his insignia?
2. Ravana
3. What according to the Indian government is the only 3 wheeler that you can drive without a license?
3. The Road Roller
4. Persis Khambatta and Protima Bedi both died on the same day. A month earlier they had been interviewed together on a Television show. Name the show and the host.
4. ‘Not a nice man to know’ hosted by Kushwant Singh on Star Plus
5. What name is derived from the Persian for ‘Huge sheet of water’?
5. India. Since the Persians couldn’t pronounce Sindhu, they referred to it as ‘the huge sheet of water’ or ‘India’.
6. Which animal is the largest member of the Pig family?
6. The Hippopotamus
7. This vehicle was used for all general purposes during the World Wars and it was said that it could do anything but talk. What?
7. The General Purpose Vehicle or the Jeep (from GP)
8. In Tirupati, the Hundi receives millions of rupees every year. What is the mythological reason for the Hundi to be there in the first place?
8. Once Vishnu was reborn on earth to take back Lakshmi who had come away after a fight. In that birth he needed money to marry her and he borrowed it from Kubera since he had none. Till today his devotees are helping him pay back the loan by contributing to the Hundi.
9. Nowadays, there is this trend of conducting marriages at weird locales, like on a plane. But, for a wedding conducted on a plane, the rule is that Sikh rites have to be followed even though it is a Hindu wedding. Why?
9. Because the Sikh rites of marriage don’t need the marriage to be conducted in the presence of Agni or fire.
10. Complete the lines – “Till earth and sky stand, presently at God’s great judgement seat, _____________”.
10. “East is East and West is West and the Twain shall never meet” from Rudyard Kipling’s ‘Ballads of the East and West’
11. In the world of Children’s fiction, if you followed the directions “Second to the right and straight on till morning”, where would you go?
11. Neverland (Peter Pan)
12. The road outside the Chicago Art Institute in Chicago was originally called Michigan Avenue. Now it has been renamed after an Indian. Who?
12. Swami Vivekananda
13. Captain Haddock is the President of an organization called SSS. What odes SSS stand for?
13. Society of Sober Sailors
14. The chief architectural planner of the 1893 World Columbian Exposition in Chicago, David H. Burnham wanted to produce a homegrown structure that would rival the Eiffel Tower. He conducted a competition. The winner was George Washington Gale. What did he invent?
14. The Giant Wheel or the Ferris Wheel
15. What practice evolved when Eskimos murdered the captain of the ship Heartsease in 1612?
15. The practice of flying the flag at half-mast.
16. The San Francisco Chronicle described this person as having ‘the determination of Bjorn Borg, the grunt of Jimmy Connors and the laugh of Woody Woodpecker’. Who?
16. Monica Seles
17. In 1979, the Nobel Prize winners for medicine Sir Geoffrey Hounsfield and Allan Cormack were neither doctors nor physiologists. Why were they then awarded the Nobel Prize?
17. For inventing the CAT scan.
18. What, during the French Revolution, were called Liberty, Equality and Fraternity?
18. The King, Queen and Jack on a pack of cards.
19. Which is the most famous publication of the company Bennett and Coleman?
19. The Times of India
20. In 1935, Carl Van Ossietzsky, German journalist and pacifist won the Nobel Prize by beating a much more famous person whose nomination for the Prize was vehemently opposed by the British. Who?
20. Mahatma Gandhi
21. Sage Bhagiratha performed penance to bring Ganga to earth. Sage Kashyapa performed penance to bring which river to earth?
21. Saraswathi
22. Devonshire House is one of the most popular haunts of Bangaloreans. By what name is it better known?
22. Galaxy Theatre
23. She was the first winner of the Asian Women’s amateur Table Tennis title but is better known for her professional life. Who?
23. Kiran Bedi
24. The controversial movie ‘Fire’ is the first of director Deepa Mehta’s ‘Elements’ trilogy. Name the other two.
24. Earth and Water
25. Which two cricketers and singer have been signed on to endorse Coca Cola in addition to Saurav Ganguly and Javagal Srinath?
25. Robin Singh, Anil Kumble and Daler Mehndi
26. Which celebrity made her Hindi film debut in the small role of the wife of tribal Raghubir Yadav in the award winning ‘Massey Saheb’?
26. Arundhati Roy
27. Who was awarded the Bank of Sweden Prize for 1998?
27. Amartya Sen (The Bank of Sweden Prize is the Economics Nobel)
28. Recently a Dubai based company launched a range of perfumes called ‘SK’. After whom is it named?
28. Shahrukh Khan
29. In the world of comics whose mind ‘works faster than a computer’?
29. Chacha Chaudhary
30. Which Kannada movie won the National Award for Best Film in 1998?
30. Girish Kasaravalli’s ‘Thayi Saaheba’
31. Where in Bangalore would you find the following words inscribed ‘Government’s work is God’s work’?
31. On the Vidhana Soudha
32. What is advertised with the line ‘Nothing else matters at nine’?
32. Star News
33. In the world of Indian classical music how are Lalitha and Haripriya better known?
33. Hyderabad Sisters
34. In the name of the popular computer iMAC, What does the ‘i’ stand for?
34. Internet
35. It was earlier called as ‘The Statuette’. How do we know it today?
35. The Oscar
36. Who or what did Shakespeare describe as ‘the green eyed monster’?
36. Jealousy
37. In the Mahabharata, other than the Kauravas who else had a hundred brothers?
37. Shakuni
38. Whose autobiography is titled ‘Wings of Fire’?
38. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
39. Who edits the women’s magazine ‘New Woman’?
39. Hema Malini
40. Which cricketer is slated to star opposite Madhuri Dixit in a forthcoming film?
40. Ajay Jadeja
41. What was born in a pub in London during a barroom argument on which bird was the fastest in the British Isles?
41. The Guinness Book of Records
42. Which king, the son of Sage Pulyasta was an accomplished veena player and his royal flag bore it as his insignia?
42. Ravana
43. During the late 80s the Times of India group had launched a super premium tea brand which met with a quick death in the market. Name the brand.
43. Editor’s Choice
44. Which industrialist began his career ass an attendant for Burmah Shell Gas in Aden(Yemen)?
44. Dhirubhai Ambani
45. If IBM is the Big Blue, Coca Cola the Big Red, what is Big Black?
45. United Parcel Service
46. Whose first foray into business was the founding of the ‘Laugh-O-gram’ corporation in 1921 which went bankrupt barely two years later?
46. Walt Disney
47. Which company started as a playing card company in 1889 in Japan and literally means ‘Leave luck to Heaven’?
47. Nintendo
48. Which product was launched with the adline ‘It helps a school girl to maintain her complexion’?
48. Palmolive Soap
49. Which brand employs Mercury, the swift messenger of the Gods, a connotation of speed, as its trademark?
49. Good Year
50. The name of which Japanese company literally means ’50 Bells’?
50. Isuzu
51. In the mid 80s, the Beatles’ song ‘revolution’ was licensed for a TV commercial, the first time ever that a Beatles’ song had been licensed for advertising purposes. Name the brand
51. Nike
52. Which was the first commercial symbol to be displayed at Madame Tussaud’s wax museum?
52. The Singapore Girl of Singapore Airlines
53. Derived from the Japanese word for ‘great Prince’, it found its way into English, after foreigners mispronounced it, as something else which came to mean ‘a man of great wealth’. What word?
53. Tycoon from ‘taikon’
54. Which company has its headquarters in Crewe, Cheshire, CWI, 3pl, England?
54. Rolls Royce
55. Who once advertised with the slogan ‘Nothing improvises the circulation of a magazine like a dirty picture’?
55. The Sportstar, the picture in question was the infamous ball tampering incident where Mike Artherton is seen pulling out some sawdust from his pocket and rubbing it on the ball
56. David Whitebread is a little known stage actor and part time model. What is he best known as?
56. The Onida Devil
57. Which ad agency keeps a bowl of fresh apples in the reception areas of its offices all over the world?
57. Leo Burnett
58. Which celebrity owns ‘Unsquashable Inc”?
58. Jahangir Khan
59. Who said ‘I have done more than anyone else to change the face of mankind’?
59. King Camp Gillette
60. Warner Communications & American Express paid Manhattan Design 1000 dollars to design a logo. What?
60. MTV logo
61. In the 1880s a person called Richardson sold this ointment in USA. It was named after his son-in-law. What?
61. Vicks
62. What is the Roman word for ‘To roll over’?
62. Conglomerate (Latin for Roll over is Volvo)
63. Which brand had the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra play at its Indian Launch?
63. Seagram
64. Which media baron was born Jan Ludwik Hoch and died under mysterious circumstances abroad his yacht ‘Lady Ghislaine’?
64. Robert Maxwell
65. Who recently launched a website ‘India 2002’?
65. Harshad Mehta
66. Which computer company recently taken over by Samsung, was founded in 1980 and derives its name from the combination of first letters of first names of the founders?
66. AST, from Albert Wong, Safi Qureshi and Tom Yuen
67. Who heads a Delhi based beauty company called ‘Naturence Research Labs’?
67. Manoj Prabhakar
68. Who actually built a bridge in Sri Lanka for the film ‘Bridge on the River Kwai’?
68. Larsen and Toubro
69. What US Presidential election campaign slogan was lifted in an Indian softdrink jingle to claim that a coke replacement had arrived?
69. ‘Happy days are here again’ by Thums Up
70. This brand of alcohol advertised abroad with the line ‘I thought the Kamasutra was an Indian restaurant until I discovered ________. Their ads also cautioned ‘Remember whatever happens do not over do it’.
70. Smirnoff
71. This brand manufactured by Kazuo Tazima gets its name from three words – Machine, Instrument, Optical. Which brand?
71. Minolta
72. Which company gets its name from a fruit which used to be exported to England from a Moroccan port?
72. Tangerine
73. Hasbro has a tie up with Funskool India to market its toys and games in India. Name the parent company of Funskool.
73. MRF
74. The ad featuring Moon Moon Sen’s daughter Riya Dev Varma for Nirma lime Soap looks very similar to the Liril ad. Could it be because it was directed by the same person? Who directed them?
74. Kailash Surendranath
75. Name the newspaper started by industrialist Vijaypath Singhania of the J.K. Group.
75. The Indian Post
76. What does TIMES stand for in the name of TIMES Television, the Television division of Bennett and Coleman Ltd.
76. Television for Information, Music, Entertainment and Sports
77. A Bombay based jewellery house launched a range of earrings called H.B. a couple of years ago. Why were they called H.B.?
77. After Henry Blofeld the popular cricket commentator known for his penchant for earrings
78. When Henry Ford died, amongst his last possessions was a test tube. What did it supposedly contain?
78. The last breath of Thomas Alva Edison
80. Which Indian businessman was part of the design team at Intel that designed the Intel 80486 microprocessor?
80. Rajeev Chandrasekhar of BPL
81. In which merchant bank did P.G.Wodehouse work for two years?
81. The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
82. To which company did the shipment of tea destroyed by the American colonists during the Boston Tea Party in 1773 belong?
82. The East India Company
83. What was advertised with the slogan “You press the button and we do the rest”?
83. Kodak
84. What is an unrhymed Japanese poem of 3 lines, containing 17 syllables called? It is also the name of an Indian saree range.
84. Haiku
85. Honda advertised in the 1960s with the line “You meet the nicest people on a Honda”. Which Indian automobiles advertised two decades later with the same line?
85. Kinetic Honda and Contessa
86. Which brand created a sensation by sticking a Ford Cortina to a billboard at a busy junction in London?
86. Araldite
87. During Wimbledon 1995 Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi played a mock tennis match at Trafalgar Square in London. Why?
87. To shoot a commercial for Nike
88. Which Indian brand combined the Coke and Pepsi ad slogans to come up with the line “The real thing is the choice of the new generations”?
88. London Pilsner Beer
89. What was launched in 1959 in Kansas by the Carney Brothers?
89. Pizza Hut
90. The highest ever wicket partnership in England was between Herbert Sutcliffe and Percy Holmes in 1923 against Essex in Leyton. How is this significant to the present day corporate world?
90. They scored 555 runs giving 555 cigarettes their name
91. Complete this line “There is but one cup to win, eleven proud people, twelve proud nations, lean to win the cup ________ .
91. Share the Magic
92. What food item was patented in 1830 and called ‘Dr. Miles compound Tomato extract’?
92. Tomato Ketchup
93. Which Indian clothing brand gets its name from Greek for ‘Circle of Animals’?
93. Zodiac
94. Which industrialist – Philanthropist donated $800,00 for the land on which the U.N. General Assembly has been built?
94. John D. Rockefeller Jr.
95. Ken Follett has written a book ‘On the wings of Eagles’ which deals with the true story of how 40 odd employees of an American Company EDS corporation escaped from Iran when caught in the Islamic Revolution. Who owns EDS and appears throughout the book?
95. Ross Perot
96. 17 year old Rudyard Kipling roamed India as Assistant Editor of the Civil and Military Gazette, Lahore. He then wrote ‘Soldiers Three’ a series of short tales that launched a pervasive, nation wide enterprise which exists to date. What?
96. The A.H.Wheeler publishing House and chain of bookstores
97. What is a ‘Sen’ in monetary terms?
97. 1/100th of a Yen
98. Which brand derives its name from the Japanese God of Mercy?
98. Canon from Kwanon
99. Following the super success of Food World, the Spencers Group has launched two other chains of superstores. Name them.
99. Music World and Health&Glow
100. Which Indian newspaper advertises with the line “Why settle for anything else”?
100. The Statesman
101. Ads for which Indian product feature the following – a raunchy novel titled ‘fantasies’, perfume and a registered postal package?
101. VIP Frenchie
102. Which Indian newspaper claims along with its price on the masthead that ‘One Paise goes to charity for every issue sold”.
102. The Afternoon Despatch and Courier
103. This was the classification of the highest quality of ships, by the Lloyds shipping Registrar of the world famous insurance association Lloyds. It has now become a phrase in the language meaning something of superior quality. What?
103. The term ‘A-1’
104. Sachin Tendulkar was named after his brother Ajit's favourite music director. Who?
104. Sachin Dev (S D ) Burman
105. Who is known as the 'Terror of MM Hills'?
105. Veerapan
106. In which Indian city did Shivaji marry?
106. Bangalore
107. Which British General was responsible for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre?
107. General Dyer
108. What is the Sanskrit word for 'refined'?
108. Sanskrit
109. In telephone terminology what does ISD stand for?
109. International Subscriber Dialing
110. Which Indian author's first names are Rasipuram Krishnaswamy?
110. R.K.Narayan
111. Name the wife of Agni.
111. Swaha
112. By what name do we know the Hindi actor Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia better?
112. Akshay Kumar
113. Which place in Bangalore was originally known as South Parade?
113. Mahatma Gandhi Road
114. Two wards in the Tihar Jail in New Delhi were named after Indian cricketers by supercop Kiran Bedi. Who?
114. Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli
115. To avenge whose death did Bhagat Singh shoot and kill General Saunders?
115. Lala LAjpat rai
116. Why did Pakistan supposedly name its missile 'Ghauri'?
116. Because it thought India had named Prithvi after Prithviraj Chauhan
117. From which ancient Indian work do we get the lines 'Satyameva Jayate'?
117. Mandokya Upanishad
118. This product is manufactured only by one company - The Mysore Paints & Varnishes Ltd.What?
118. Voter's Indelible Ink
119. Whose ashes are supposedly stored at the Renkoji Temple in Japan?
119. Subhash Chandra Bose
120. Which actor and director both made their debut in the Kannada film 'Pallavi Anu Pallavi'?
120. Maniratnam and Anil KApoor
121. What is the name of the play by Girish Karnad dealing with Basavanna and his Sharanas?
121. Ghatashraddha
122. Who founded the Mysore Bank now known as the State Bank of Mysore?
122. Sir M. Vishweshvarayya
123. Who is the Indian God of Medicine?
123. Dhanvantri
124. Which of India's greatest freedom fighters got his name because his familywere originally sellers of perfume?
124. Gandhi from gandha
125. The Chipko movement was found to save trees from destruction. By what name was it known inKarnataka?
125. Appiko Movement
126. The letters that he wrote to his daughter from jail were published as a book 'Letters from afather to a daughter' . Name both.
126. Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira GAndhi
127. Which state has the distinction of having the most Jnanpith Award winners?
127. Karnataka
128. Who promotes Kannada theatre through his troupe called Rangayana?
128. B V Karanth
129. Which great writer and poet introduced and promoted the sport of Judo in India?
129. Rabindranath TAgore
130. Who wrote the book "The God of Small Things' which won the Booker Prize last year?
130. Arundhati Roy
131. Which international airline is named after the vahana of Lord Vishnu?
131. Garuda Indonesia
132. Subhash Chandra Bose renamed what as “Shaheed” and “Swaraj”?
132. The Andaman and Nicobar Islands
133. By what name was the women’s regiment of the INA known?
133. Rani Jhansi Regiment
134. Which political party was founded by Subhash Chandra Bose?
134. The Forward Bloc
135. Which nationalist slogan of India was coined by Netaji?
135. Jai Hind
136. In which city was the INA found?
136. Singapore
137. The Gadag Co-operative Society is the only one in the whole country licensed to manufacture what?
137. The National Flag
138. Which Kannada author wrote under the pen name ‘Srinivasa’?
138. Masti Venkatesha Iyengar
139. Why did Kempegowda name the two tanks he built in Bangalore as Kempambudhi and Dharmambudhi?
139. It was after his two wives
140. The GPO circle near Vidhana Soudha was renamed as Meese Thimmaiah Circle. Why?
140. In honour of the traffic constable ‘meese Thimmaiah’ who was killed in an mishap on duty
141. Where in Bangalore would you find the lines ‘Government’s work is God’s Work’?
141. On the Vidhana Soudha
142. The person who built Cubbon Park has something else named after himself in the city. Who?
142. Sankey Tank
143. If you went to a bar in Bombay and asked for a Sunil Gavaskar what would you get?
143. A bottle opener
144. What is the name of the jackal in Tinkle comics?
144. Chamataka
145. Pt. Ravishankar set ‘Saare jahan se achcha‘ to tune. Who wrote it?
145. Mohammed Iqbal
146. Which Kannada film won the National Award for Best Film this year?
146. Thayi Saaheba
147. Which Kannada writer said ‘Naane Kannadakke kaavalu naayi’?
147. B.M.Sri
148. Whom did the British refer to as “Typical Ass’
148. T.P.Kailasam
149. Which Indian wrote a treatise on mathematics called ‘Lilavati’?
149. Bhaskaracharya
150. What in the Indian constitution is called the 52 second rule?
150. That the duration of the National Anthem is 52 seconds
1. What was renamed as Rajiv Gandhi National Park?
1. Nagarhole
2. She was the first woman president of the INC and the first woman Governor of India. Who?
2. Sarojini Naidu
3. He was the first Indian to be the member of the British Parliament and President of INC thrice. Who?
3. Dadabhai Naoroji
4. Her real name was Agnes Gonha Bojaxhiu. She won a Nobel Prize in 1979 and died in 1997 and before her death said ‘Love others as I have loved you’.Who?
4. Mother Teresa
5. The foremost Maratha patriot, his real name was Ramachandra Pandurang. He got his nickname from the fact that he was in charge of the firing of cannons. Who?
5. Tantya Tope
6. This place gets its name because it was here that Lakshmana cut of the nose of Shurpanakha. Which place?
6. Nasik
7. When Ravana set fire to Hanuman’s tail, he set fire to entire Lanka. How was the fire put out?
7. Ravana played the Amruthavarshini raga on his Veena and brought forth rain
8. What was the principle of peace and friendship enunciated by Nehru called?
8. Panchsheel
9. Two famous Indian cricketers starred in a movie called ‘Kabhi Ajnabi The’. Who?
9. Syed Kirmani and Sandeep Patil
10. According to Hindu myth who was the first mortal to die?
10. Yama
11. In the Mahabharatha other than the Kauravas who else had a 100 brothers?
11. Shakuni
12. Whose residence is called ‘Matushri’?
12. Bal Thackeray
13. What does the M.F. in M.F.Hussain’s name stand for?
13. Maqbool Fida
14. What well known verse is actually part of an over all poem titled ‘Bharat Vidhatha’?
14. Jana Gana Mana
15. Who sang the theme song of France’98?
15. Ricky MArtin
16. Whose last words were ‘Don’t worry, relax’?
16. Rajiv Gandhi
17. Who is the only Indian to win a Grand Slam title?
17. Mahesh Bhupati
18. Which place would be the Indian equivalent of the Pakistani Chagai Hills?
18. Pokhran
19. What is common to Clinic All Clear, Pepsi, Nippo, Reebok?
19. Rahul Dravid endorses all of them
20. Who made the popular T.V. serial Malgudi Days?
20. Shankar Nag
21. Who owns a little known software company in Bangalore called D’n’A Systems?
21. Anil Kumble
22. He calls his dog Chewbacca Khan. He won the Sword of Honour in the 12th std. At St. Columbus, Delhi. He made his debut on television as a soldier. Who?
22. Shahrukh Khan
23. In restaurants today, the computerised bill is heavily in use. The items are often abbreviated. If you found MS Dos written on your bill what would you have eaten?
23. Masala Dosa
24. Created by Tnoshiro Honda and Eiji Tsukusuya it was named after a workman at Toho studios in Tokyo. Radioactive and 164 foot high, it breathes fire and made its way to the cover of TIME and Newsweek in the 60s. What?
24. Godzilla
25. If you went to Ooty and asked for a "Filmi Chakkar" what would you get?
25. A tour of the locations where movies are shot in Ooty
26. This man's first direct contribution to the test field was a leg-break over where he gave nine runs. The place was Port of Spain in 1971. Who?
26. Sunil Gavaskar
27. Which vehicle has the registration no. NCC 1701?
27. Star Trek Enterprise
28. It is called the Hoysala in Bangalore. What is it in Mysore?
28. Garuda
29. What is the duck that appears on Channel 9's cricket scorecards called?
29. Waddles
30. What would you find at 1600, Pennsylvania Avenue?
30. The White House
31. Who is the daughter of Fred and Wilma Flintstone?
31. Pebbbles
32. It made its first appearance in the New York Times supplement in 1913. What?
32. The Crossword
33. He is the son of accomplished choreographer Sundaram Master. He made his first on screen appearanceas an extra in a song in the movie 'Agni Nakshatram'. Who?
33. Prabhudeva
34. What does the 31 in Baskin Robbins 31 signify?
34. That it is available in 31 favours
35. His residence is called "Neverland Ranch'. His autobiography is titled Moonwalk. Who?
35. Michael JAckson
36. What is common to Rajnikanth, Johnny Walker, John Major?
36. All were bus conductors at some point of time
37. In the Bofors case who was nicknamed 'Lotus'?
37. Rajiv Gandhi
38. His heir apparent Baby was killed a year ago. His brother Arjunan and his two associates Ayyandorai and Karanangalur Ramaswamy committed suicide. Who?
38. Veerappan
39. Which brand's new adline is 'I Can'?
39. Nike
40. Which cricketer is nicknamed 'Jammy' because his father used to work in Kissan?
40. Rahul Dravid
41. His middle name is Fauntleroy. His father's name is Quackmore. Who?
41. Donald Duck
42. He made his debut as a stunt double for Bruce Lee because Lee refused to jump from 30 feet for a sequence. Who?
42. Jackie Chan
43. Who is the only real life character to appear in Tintin comics?
43. Al Capone
44. Who was the target of the Jackal in the 'Day of the Jackal'?
44. Charles De GAulle
45. One of the two main components of the dowry given by Catherine Braganza to Charles I was the Moroccan city of Tangiers. What was the other?
45. Bombay
46. Abandoned in front of a cathedral, he was brought up by a priest. His name in Latin means 'half formed'. He became the church bell ringer by the age of 14 and lost his hearing as a result. He was dubbed the'Pope of Fools'. Who?
46. Quasimodo, the Hunchback of Notre Dame
47. Which animal gets its name, from Tamil, because it supposedly has the strength to kill an elephant?
47. Anaconda
48. What does the NE in the Premier 118 NE stand for?
48. Nissan Engine
49. Under what category does the Guinness Book of Records enter itself?
49. As the most stolen book from Libraries
50. This linguist knows 13 languages. He recently released a semi-autobiography titled 'The Insider'. Who?
50. P.V. Narasimha Rao
51. The video of which recent chartbuster is based on Indiana Jones?
51. Aqua's Dr. Jones
52. Who represents the constituency of Gurdaspur in the current Lok Sabha?
52. Vinod Khanna
53. His father was the dreaded dacoit Bhairav Singh. He is the founder chief of the Citizens Security Force. Who?
53. Bahadur
54. Who would you find with Raveena Tandon on the cover of the latest issue(Aug 98) of Filmfare?
54. Ricky MArtin
55. Which popular comic character made his first appearance in Pep Comics No. 22 in Dec 1941?
55. Archie
56. What did the Romanian Govt. ban in 1935 saying that it frightened children?
56. Mickey Mouse
57. Who wrote romantic novels under the pen name Mary Clarissa Westmacott?
57. Agatha Christie
58. What was the football world cup trophy called before it was renamed the FIFA trophy?
58. Jules Rimet Cup
59. If you were 'oscitating' what would you be doing?
59. Walking backwards
60. Who, at a Nobel awards banquet, wished that the dinner could have been packed and carried to the more needy back home?
60. Mother TEresa
61. India is developing an ICBM called Surya and also an underwater missile. What is it called?
61. Sagarika
62. Who is the host of a new Star Plus chat show called "Not a nice man to know" which is also the title ofhis autobiography?
62. Kushwant Singh
63. In Hindu myth it is referred to as the Pralaya, in Christianity as Armageddon. What is it referred to as in Islam?
63. Qayamat
64. A famous lexicographer upon being approached by a lady thanking him for omitting 4-letter words from his dictionary, is said to have replied with consternation “ So you have been looking for them madam”. Who?
64. Noah Webster
65. What is the German word for ‘store’ or ‘storehouse’?
65. Lager, therefore Lager beer
66. If your IQ is below 20, you are an ‘idiot’, if it is between 20 and 49 you are an ‘imbecile’. What are you if it is between 50 and 69?
66. Moron
67. What is a ‘Mexican breakfast’?
67. A glass of water with a cigarette
68. In the world of Indian fiction, who won the ‘All India Rifle Competition’ in 1975?
68. Feluda
69. “We contemplate the ultimate reality which is in the earth, the sky, the heaven, Let us bring our minds to meditate in the glory of the divine earth. May truth inspire our reflection“. This is the last prayer of a cult. Which one?
69. Heaven’s Gate
70. Which sportsman’s name is a corruption of the title ‘Ayo Dele’ which means ‘Joy in the house’ and was bestowed upon him by his Nigerian father while it got corrupted due to a mispronunciation by his Scottish mother?
70. Daley Thompson
71. In Greek myth when Theseus offered to kill the Minotaur, Ariadne, Daughter of the King of Crete gave him a thread to help him find his way back from the Minotaur’s dwelling. What word came into English language from this?
71. Clue
72. What commodity was originally called a ‘delirious drug’ in France and ‘a product that causes the shrivelled look of the orient’ in Germany?
72. Tea
73. Where in the world would you find the only digital Rolex clock?
73. Wimbledon Centre Court
74. She works 10-12 hours a day. She smokes 5 packets of cigarettes a day while working. She is the daughter of the renowned poet, Manish Ghatak and niece of director Ritwik Ghatak. She runs a tribal welfare organisation called ‘Paschim Bangla Keriya Sabar Kalyan Samiti’. Who?
74. Mahashweta Devi
75. ‘RUPTUREWORT’ is the largest word that can be made from the letters on the first row of a typewriter. What is the second largest?
75. Typewriter
76. What is the female equivalent of a ‘runway’?
76. Catwalk
77. The fusion of the Chinese ‘Yin’ and ‘Yang’ is the symbol of which organisation in India?
77. Doordarshan
78. Who is the first Indian to be appointed the Master of the Trinity College at Oxford?
78. Amartya Sen, now Nobel laureate
79. What did Winston Churchill describe as ‘an ineffectual attempt to direct an uncontrollable object into an inaccessible hole with instruments ill-adapted for the purpose’?
79. Golf
80. In Table Tennis a ball is so spun on the table that the opponent does not reach it. This inspired a person named Bosanquet to invent something. What?
80. The Googly in cricket
81. He was recently in India to inaugurate the India Internet World exhibition in Delhi. Originally from Bangalore, he was the co-founder of the popular Hotmail free e-mail service which he sold to Microsoft for $400 million last year. Who?
81. Sabeer Bahtia
82. It’s official name is ‘The Albert Victor Conservatory’ and is spread over an area of 2180 sq.m. What are we talking about?
82. The Glass House at lalbagh, Bangalore
83. This person originally had the surname ‘Little’. Influenced by Elijah Mohd., he joined the Nation of Islam. After a pilgrimage to Mecca, he returned under the name G Haj Malik el Shahbazz, a Sunni Muslim. Who?
83. Malcolm X
84. In a fit of madness this person killed his wife Megara and their children. In order to atone for his sins he did something. Who and what?
84. Hercules and he performed the 12 tasks
85. He was named so because he was born in the same year as that his father first tasted success, in the movie ‘Choti Behan’. He cleaned carpets, worked on an oil rig and on a horse farm. He is now settled as a farmer in New Zealand. Who?
85. Lucky Ali
86. Its predecessor was codenamed ‘Chicago’. Its codename was ‘Memphis’. It was released about two months ago after a delay of nearly a year. What are we talking about?
86. Windows 98
87. A 2 word answer: The first word is the common name for a South American shrub whose dried leaves are chewed as a stimulant. The second word is a West African tree whose seed is used as a condiment and tonic.
87. Coca Cola
88. ‘The god of wind brought about the winds of change in India’. What was once advertised thus?
88. Maruti
89. Which literary personality’s last work was ‘The Phoenix and the Turtle’?
89. William Shakespeare
90. In Phantom comics what are the names of the Phantom’s two pet dolphins?
90. Solomon and Nefertiti
91. Who recently won the “Businessperson of the Year” Award for 1998 instituted by The Economic Times newspaper?
91. N. Chandrababu NAidu, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh
92. About which music group did the legendary Phil Spector remark “ The only difference between a pornographic movie and them is that the pornographic movie has better music”
92. The Spice Girls
93. In the film Mr. And Mrs. 55 Guru Dutt was a cartoonist. Who actually drew the cartoons?
93. Bal Thackeray
94. His wife said of him “he is frightened of the titles and degrees on peoples visiting cards” and his card reads ‘ senior shoe salesman’. Who?
94. Thomas J. Bata
95. It is called ‘deuce’ in English, ‘egalite’ in French. What is it in German?
95. Einstein
96. So sure were the distributors of the success of this film , that they split up the film into 20 minute segments for a kids morning show. Which film?
96. Star Wars
97. If you were engaged in an altercation with a friend and he gave you a ‘circum orbital Hemotopo’ what would you have?
97. A black eye.
98. What is referred to as ‘blue sky research’?
98. Spending enormous amounts of money on futile projects like finding out why the sky is blue etc.
99. What do psychologists define as ‘a disorder in which strongly felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longing often of a perverse nature’?
99. Love
100. Locals affectionately refer to it as ‘bobby’. It is 90 ft long, has a sinuous body, tail, snake like head and a long neck. What?
100. The Loch Ness Monster.
101. According to legend Allah has 1001 names. To be good men, men need know only 1000 names. Who is the only one to know all 1001 names?
101. The Camel
102. What contribution did a vague movie by name ‘Rooplekha’ make to Indian cinema?
102. First movie with a flashback sequence.
103. The word ‘stadium’ comes from ‘stade’ a unit of distance. What was the unit?
103. The distance that Hercules could walk holding his breath.
104. In Asterix comic Unhygienix buys a plot of land from Obelix. How do we supposedly know this land today?
104. As Stonehenge.
105. Which day to day medical term is derived from the Latin for Cow?
105. Vaccination.
106. Based on Hamlet, it was the first English movie to be dubbed into Zulu and was also the first English movie not to feature a single human. Which movie?
106. The Lion King
107. It was believed that the devil was present at all important occasions during the medieval period. What practice arose from this?
107. The practice of clinking glasses to toast. They believed that the sound made was similar to church bells which scared the Devil away.
108. When King George first met him he asked him ‘Tell me , how did you pee’? Who are we talking about?
108. Sir Charles Lindbergh
109. She is a graduate of the National School of Drama . She replaced Mita Vashist in her most celebrated role to date. She is also starring in Kamal Hassan’s under-production film ‘Ladies Only’. Who
109. Seema Biswas.
110. What is common to hearty, Patiala, silent, cocktail, open heart, dancing and round?
110. All are types of laughter.
111. If you were playing with the Devil’s Book what would you be doing?
111. Playing cards.
112. In medieval times, in Europe, 1/3 of taxes went to the King, 1/3 to the nobility and 1/3 to the common man. How is this immortalised?
112. Through the nursery rhyme ‘Baa Baa Black Sheep’
113. Born with the body of a mastiff, looks of a lamb, teeth of a bunny rabbit and is one of those mutations that happen when God plays dice. Who or What are we talking about?
113. Ronaldo
114. Following the demolition of the Babri Masjid, there were many debates in Parliament regarding what to be done with the disputed land. One of the most popular suggestions came from a first time M.P. from Uttar Pradesh who suggested that a sweet shop be built there. What was his logic?
114. Rama + Babri = Rabri which was a sweetmeat.
115. This bird has the unique distinction of being called by the names of two different countries in different parts of the world. Give both names.
115. Turkey and Peru in Latin America.
116. “There was neither non-exist nor exist. There was neither the realm of space nor the sky beyond”. Opening lines of what?
116. The Rig Veda.
117. In February 1935, the superpolyamide formed from hexamethylene diamine and adipic acid was made by Du Pont. How do we know this compound better?
117. As Nylon
118. This person wrote about himself thus :"Principal virtues : keeps his nails clean. Principal faults : that he has no family, is bad tempered and has a poor digestion. One and only wish : Not to be buried alive. Greatest sin : that he does not worship Mammon. Important events in his life : None". Who?
118. Alfred Nobel
119. There's a story that, around 1600, two children were playing with lenses in a shop in Middleburg. What resulted, according to the story, from the game?
119. The telescope. They were playing in Hans Lippershey's shop. Lippershey is considered to be the probable inventor of the telescope. By holding together the two lenses, the children found, they could magnify the objects kept in the shop. This led Lippershey to construct the telescope.
120. What was patented by Hippolyte Mege Mouries in 1869, after he was commissioned by the Victualing Department of the French Navy to find an alternative for butter at a time of acute butter shortage?
120. Margarine
121. They began to appear in quantities in the 1860s. "I hate those redbreasts", cried "Punch" in 1869. In 1877 "The Times" magazine declared them a great social evil, and it was following difficulties with them in 1879 that the London Post Office in 1880 cried out "Post Early". What are we talking about?
121. Christmas Cards
122. His first voyage, in 1607, was intended to find a quick way to China by way of the North Pole, but resulted instead in the establishment of the Spitzbergen whale fisheries. In 1608, in the service of the Dutch East India Company, he sailed 150 miles past the site of New York, but returned back. In 1610, he explored the site that is now known by his name and was frozen in it. Who?
122. Henry Hudson, of Hudson Bay
123. A man by name Friedrich Froebel, walking with two of his disciples over the Steiger Pass on the way to the village of Blankenburg, scratched his head for the right name to give the institution, and then suddenly shouted out "Eureka ! I have it ! It shall be called _______________!". Fill in the blank.
123. Kindergarten. Froebel, the German educational reformer was the inventor of the Kindergarden system of education.
124. Back in 1890, Johnson & Johnson put together the first of its kind in response to a plea from railroad workers who needed treatment on the scene as they toiled to lay tracks across America. What?
124. First Aid kits
125. To the Hopi Indians, who feared it and filled it with frightening myths, it was the trail made by the God Ta-Vwoats when he took a mourning chief to find his wife in the other world; the river associated with it, according to them was an addition to hold back the unworthy. What?
125. The Grand Canyon and the River Colorado.
126. An author, as a sign of gratitude to the nurse who had cared for his firstborn child, gave a script and asked her to sell it when she was in need of money. Years later, when the nurse was really in want of money, she sold it and lived in comfort for the rest of her life. The manuscript was the first part of a famous work of this author Name the book and author?
126. Rudyard Kipling and the Jungle Book
127. Though Magellan is regarded as the first person to circumnavigate the world, technically he was not, and it was a person by name Juan Sebastian del Cano, who is technically the first circumnavigator. Why?
127. Magellan, while on the expedition, was killed in a squabble with the natives in the Philippines, and it was Cano who assumed command of the expedition and sailed the expedition through the rest of its journey
128. In the United States, currently a small stock of this exists at only one location - at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia. Some additional stocks are available in Great Britain, Russia and China. Stocks of what?
128. The Small pox virus
129. Masaru Ibuka, after graduating in engineering, failed the entry examination for lifetime employment at Toshiba, and decided to start his own small business. He was fortunate to find a partner who had a flair for finance and salesmanship. Who was this partner?
129. Akio Morita. They together started the company that later became Sony.
130. US banned her entry calling her ‘a communist good’. She was kept in On her journey to the USA from China she got into trouble when the London for time’s sake and became a major attraction there. Who?
130. Chi-Chi the Panda, who became the mascot of the WWF
131. The comic character Yogi Bear lives in a national park that takes its name from the world’s first national park. Name both.
131. Jellystone and Yellowstone
132. The byline of which company, rather ironically went ‘What we do will touch your lives in some way everyday’?
132. Union Carbide Limited (Bhopal Gas Tragedy)
133. Cubatao, in Brazil has certain epithet because it is the world’s most polluted place. What epithet?
133. The Valley of Death
134. Which popular brand takes its name from a particular species of deer native to South Africa?
134. Reebok
135. Which metal was responsible for the fatal brain disease that affected people eating fish caught from the Minamata Bay off the Japanese island of Kyushu?
135. Mercury
136. What is the claim to fame of a body called the Dasohli Gram Swarajya Mandali?
136. Pioneered the Chipko movement
137. A certain kind of bird called Storm Petrels are named after St. Peter. Why?
137. Because they can walk on water
138. The largest flower in the world is named after the person who forced Lord Minto to occupy Java and was at one time the keeper of the London Zoo. We know him best for a city that he founded. Name him and the flower?
138. Sir Stamford Thomas Raffles and the Rafflesia arnoldi
139. In which book would you find the lines ‘All animals are equal but some animals are more equal’.
139. George Orwell’s ‘Animal farm’
140. The Indian television series ‘Living on the edge’ was the first in Asia to win the prestigious Panda Award. By what popular name is this award known?
140. The Green Oscar
141. Which animal is mentioned as the teacher of Yudhishthira in the Mahabharatha?
141. The Mongoose
142. Which comic character cannot stand trees being cut down?
142. Dogmatix of Asterix
143. Which Banking and Finance corporate major recently tied up with the WWF to issue special WWF branded credit cards wherein the company would donate a certain amount of money on the customer’s behalf to WWF everytime he used the card?
143. Citibank
144. A few years ago a certain insect called the Mexican Beetle was imported into Bangalore in large numbers. Why?
144. To eradicate the weed Parthenium
145. India’s premier environmental magazine is edited by activist Bittu Sahgal. Name it.
145. Sanctuary
146. Who said ‘A nation’s wealth, its real wealth can be gauged by its tree cover ‘?
146. Richard St. Barbe Baker, ‘The Man of Trees’
147. Who is the patron saint of ecology?
147. St. Francis
148. Of which media powerhouse is the Discovery Channel a division?
148. Disney
149. Who authored a bestseller ‘Overload’ which is concerned with a fight between environmentalists and an engineer over the building of a thermal power station?
149. Arthur Hailey
150. This American industrialist donated about 1/5th of his property to WWF in return for which the WWF gives an annual Wildlife Conservation Prize to individuals and organisations for distinguished service to the cause of conservation, in his name. Who?
150. J. Paul Getty
1. Which ancient Indian text contains rules and regulations on how to run a protected forest or a ‘abhayaranya’?
1. Kautilya’s Arthashastra
2. The oldest of the species is supposedly more than 600 years old and is found in Kerala’s Perambikulam game sanctuary. Now it is a primary component for reforestation and its bark and flowers are used as medicine for Bronchitis. Its name originated in Malayalam and entered Portuguese to mean ‘carpenter’. Which tree?
2. The Teak
3. This tree was supposedly brought to India from Sri Lanka by Hanuman when he was carrying messages from Sita. He felt so delighted by it that he threw the seeds on what is presently Maharashtra. Which tree?
3. The Mango
4. What is the area adjoining the Kuntipuzha river in Kerala called?
4. The Silent Valley
5. Which comic achieved the distinction of being the first to be printed on recycled paper as early as the mid 80s?
5. Archie Comics
6. Petra Kelly founded a political party in Germany whose agenda is conservation. Name the party.
6. The Greens Party
7. Who was the star of a film “Grime goes green’ along with John Cleese?
7. Prince Charles
8. The first environmentally conscious community are found in Rajasthan and get their name from the fact that the follow 29 commandments?
8. The Bishnois
9. If you were a Gargencian with whom would you mate?
9. The Amazon tribe
10. Carl Sagan headed a research team called TTAPS which introduced a phrase into the English language. What phrase?
10. Nuclear Winter
11. In an irony of war in the Gulf, a US owned tanker flying a Pan American flag carrying Iranian oil struck a mine off Fujirah port in UAE and caused an oil slick, the first in the Indian Ocean. Name the ship.
11. Texaco Carribean
12. In 1992, At the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro two countries, rather incongruously announced they would resume whale hunting. Name them.
12. Iceland and Norway
13. What was E.P.Gee referring to in his book ‘Wildlife of India’ when he wrote ‘ There are floating islands in Burma, Kashmir and North America that I have heard of. But I think ________ is the only floating wildlife sanctuary in the world. Fill in the blank.
13. Keibul Lamjao floating sanctuary in Manipur
14. Sir John Randel and H.A.H. Bart of Birmingham University invented the magnetron for use in Britain’s radar system during WW II. It produced waves of 12 cm long frequency 2450 Hz. A company called Raytheon Inc. patented the concept in 1945. What did it do with the concept?
14. It Made microwave ovens.
15. This phrase originated from the name of a tax levied on the Irish by the Danes in the 9th century. Those who did not pay had this part of the body cut off. What is the phrase?
15. To Pay through the nose. The nose of those who did not pay was cut off.
16. This artist declared "I am still a victim of Chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialised. Chess is much purer than art in its social position." Another time he commented that "while all artists are not chess players all chess players are artists. He gave up chess in the 1920s to pursue full time painting. Who?
16. Marcel Duchamp, who painted the 1911 painting ‘The Chess Players’.
17. In evolutionary theory parlance, what is this phenomenon called - "All organisms are evolving at a furious pace just to stay in the same balance"?
17. The Red Queen phenomenon. In Alice in Wonderland, the red Queen tells Alice to run as fast as possible just to stay where she is.
18. Since 1982, the English Department at San Jose University has sponsored the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction contest, encouraging writers to submit the worst possible opening sentence for a novel. This is in honour of Edward Bulwer-Lytton who had a famous line to open his 1830 novel ‘Paul Clifford’. What was the line?
18. It was a dark and stormy night.
19. What does a ‘u in a small circle ‘ on a food product signify?
19. That it is a Kosher food product. The u is a stamp of approval from the union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America that the product is prepared for use according to Jewish dietary laws.
20. When Sir Alec Bedser was knighted he remarked. " I suppose no bowler has been knighted since _____." Who?
20. Francis Drake.
21. Who wrote the following lines and what was he referring to - "It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don’t go out with ____. The Almighty has said, no doubt: Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together."?
21. Mark Twain - Halley’s Comet. (1835-1910) He wrote this in 1909.
22. Sunil Gavaskar scored one century against Karnataka in the Ranji Trophy. What was strange about it?
22. He played left handed during the course of the innings because the wicket was turning.
23. Why are HAM actors called HAM actors?
23. Because in early days extras used Ham for make up while the costly make-up was reserved for the stars.
24. He holds the record for being Christchursh College’s longest staying Dean. HE was co-author of the Scot Greek dictionary and a revised version of Passawo’s Greek German Dictionary. HE got into trouble later in his life when he was forced to remove a Greek word meaning "to thrust a radish up the fundament’. Which was a punishment for adulterer’s in ancient Greece. Who?
24. John Liddell.
25. When the Skipper doll was introduced in the market a major controversy followed because of a fad which caught on called the "Skipper Salute’ What was it?
25. The doll was so designed that when you turned her arms her waist became smaller and the breasts became larger and the toy became taller and people began trying this with their wife etc.
26. The first German colony in Transylvania was said to have been established in the 1380s as a result of about 130 people migrating across the Koppellberg Hill from a place in Westphalia. Who were these people?
26. Rattenfanger- Pied Piper of Hamelin. These were the children who were led away by him.
27. In the year 1775, Paul Revere made his historic ride to Lexington. With him was a drummer boy who assisted him at the age of 10. The boy later attained international fame and was immortalised by the artist James Montgomery Flagg. Who?
27. Sam Wilson - Uncle Sam.
28. Hengist desired to have a friendly meeting with Vortigern who in turn fell upon him with his army and put to death Hengist and his entire coterie of attendants. Aurelius Ambrosious requested the Court Advisor to recommend a memento for this event . What was the memento?
28. The Stonehenge.
29. The Abott of Glastonbury at the time of the Dissolution of the monasteries sent the deeds of the mAnor of Mells to King Henry VIII concealed. The steward carrying the package knew of the contents extracted it and ended up owning the manor. How is this event immortalised?
29. By the nursery rhyme Little Jack Horner. (He put in his thumb and pulled out a plum)
30. King Louis IX , later St. Louis was so upset by the fact that people swore using the nam of God like ‘ pardieu’, etc. that he banned these words which resulted in the introduction of a few more words in the language. Which words and how?
30. They cursed using the name of Bleu (the King’s dog). Hence words like ‘sacre bleu’ came in to the language.
31. Henri Matisse’s ‘Le Bateau’ hung in New York’s Museum of Modern Art for days in 1961. 116,000 people watched and appreciated it and then on the 48th day a major error was noticed. What?
31. It was hung upside down.
32. He was Jack Dempsey’s sparring partner. Later in life Jack Dempsey in his autobiography confessed that the only time he was knocked out was in an altercation informally with him over a girl. Who is the person?
32. J.Paul Getty.
33. He was cited to play the role that Nirmal Pandey finally played in Bandit Queen, and then was relegated to play the role of Man Singh. His favourite author is Shakespeare as he shares his birthday with him .Who?
33. Manoj Bajpai
34. Its now considered a path breaking concept in humour psychology. Its called the Stephen Hawking syndrome. Its making great news in Britain and every psychologist presents his patient with a poster of Hawking at the beginning of the treatment. What is it all about?
34. Impotent people are given Stephen Hawking’s poster cause he has 5 children inspite of his disabilities and if he could do it you can do it kind of inspiration.
35. The Jain Dilwara temples at Mt.Abu are incomparable in detail and ornamentation . But this is supposed to have been the side result of a unique idea of the Maharaja . What?
35. The rule was that payment in Silver would be equal to the weight of marble filed and cut out. Hence the workers chose to file instead of carve sice they could make more silver that way.
36. One pf the current managemant acronyms in vogue amongst B-school graduates is FIB or Fire in Belly referrring to young, raring to go managers. What is FIPB?
36. Fire in Pot Belly for fat, middle aged managers
37. Amrita devi, a member of the Bishnoi tribe was killed by the soldiers of the Maharaja of Jodhpur. What was she doing at the time of her death and what did It trigger?
37. She was hugging a tree preventing it from being cut and it started the Chipko movement..
38. King Janamejaya once conducted a Snake Sacrifice at the city of Taxila in order to ward of a curse on his Grandfather Pareekshit. What event of great significance occurred here?
38. It was here that the Mahabharata was recited for the first time ever to man by Vaishampayana pupil of Veda Vyasa.
39. The inventor of this concept was Francis Bacon. He called it the biliteral cipher. How has it been immortalised now?
39. It originally was used to assist the secret service of the queen. The Binary system
40. In 1987, the Low Pay Unit of Britain instituted this award. In the I year a Wiltshire stable owner who paid a qualified groom only 28 pounds a week and runners up was a doctor who paid his telephonist only 30p. Name the award?
40. The Scrooge Prize.
41. This person’s first foray into show business was in a popular wild west show where she demonstrated her sharp shooting skills to Annie Oakley. Buffalo Bill who was the organiser offered this 16 year old a job. Who?
41. Florenze Ziegfield.
42. This word has its origin from Hungarian from the fact that the Hungarian King Crathias Corvinus used to enlist one horseman from every 20 houses. which word?
42. Hussars from Hungarian for 20.
43. This person went into debt and was sued by the Theological Society in the late 1700s for maligning a household name. He fought back and lost and his house , tools and workplace were confiscated. Who is this guy?
43. Johann Gutenberg
44. In corporate jargon who are referred to as ‘Whistle blowers’?
44. Those who reveal company secrets.
45. Directed by Martin Scorcese it was part inspired by the life of Edmund Perry gifted Black Graduate of Philips Exater Academy whose violet death revealed a violent and troubled existence?
45. BAD the video.
46. ‘Modern Times ‘ was the remake of a French Movie ‘A nous la liberte’ by Rene Clair. Since it was made under a German banner J Goebbels wanted to sue Chaplin but couldn’t as Rene Clair refused to support him. Why?
46. Rene Clair refused saying that he was honoured to have inspired Chaplin.
47. At the Karnidevi Temple in Rajasthan they are worshipped as the deity’s descendants. They are referred to as Kabas (Marwari for children). This temple was ordered to be closed during the plague? Why?
47. Because the prasad at the temple is given only after the rats have tasted it.
48. During the Ayodhya riots, many solutions were put across in Parliament to solve the crisis. But one of the unique ones was from a MP from Up who suggested that a sweet shop be built on the disputed land selling only one product. What?
48. Rabri - Ra, Bri (rama and Babri)
49. One of the earliest use of the beep to censor was when a US television Network presented a live telecast of the trials of the Nazi judges who had allowed the atrocities during the WW II What was being censored?
49. American National Gas tried to censor the word gas since they were the sponsors.
50. This person was the inventor of the first Alarm Clock. When the time was reached a bell would peal and a lighted lamp would come out. He was decorated for his application of electricity to docks by the French Govt. in 1855. Who?
50. Jean Eugene Houdin after whom Houdini takes his name.
51. In the early1860s a New York firm offered a prize of $10,000 for a satisfactory substitute of making billiards balls. It was won by John Wellessley Hayack. What did he invent?
51. The first synthetic plastic - celluloid.
52. The Matshushita company is the pioneer of the worker control room. Seeing the rise in popularity most Japanese companies have adopted it. What is this concept?
52. Dummies of foremen are hit by workers to give vent to their frustration on Friday evenings.
53. " Some day they will go down together, And they will bury them side by side. To a few it means grief, To the law its relief, But its death to ________." Fill in the blank.
53. Bonnie and Clyde.
54. This person as a cub reporter of the Times of India in 1944 had the memorable assignment of interviewing Mahatma Gandhi which he says was the most inspiring moment of his life. Who?
54. K.R.Narayanan
55. ‘Pheri Betaunia’ was the first movie of which Bollywood actress?
55. Manisha Koirala. It was a Nepali movie
56. The first person from Harvard University to be knighted has a street in London named after him. Who?
56. Sir George Downing and Downing Street.
57. This phrase, originated from the name of a British clothes shop, where men could buy their suits and everything else required for their outfits. It originally meant just the opposite of what it means today. What phrase?
57. The Full Monty. The name of the shop was Montague-Burton’s.
58. The film ‘Bobby’ which resurrected Raj Kapoor after the mega debacle of Mera Naam Joker was based on a script originally written in Tamil by whom?
58. Murasoli Maran
59. Tazio Secchiaroli, a photographer died in June this year. What is his claim to fame?
59. He was the original paparazzo who inspired the Paparazzo in Fellini’s La Dolce Vita.
60. Minutes before his death, he had his will testified in which he said, "My ashes may be sunk in the holy Sindhu river, when she will again flow freely under the aegis of the flag of a unified Hindustan. It hardly matters even if it took a couple of generations for realising my wish. Preserve the ashes till then.." Who?
60. Nathuram Godse.
61. This French company started publishing a road guide. As it became popular it soon started reviewing the hotels and inns on the major routes. Name this company and what was the outcome of this practise?
61. The company was Michelin Tyres and The Star Ratings came out of it.
62. M.M.Hasham’s family business of Rice exports was lost when the Government nationalised it in 1941. Undeterred he plunged into the oil business and founded Western India Vegetable Products. In 1947, during partition he was offered a ministerial post by Jinnah if he went to Pakistan. But he chose to stay on in India. At the time of his death in 1967 his company had done reasonably well had two popular oil brands Sunflower and Camel. His son took over the business and entered a new field in which it is the leader today. How do we know this company?
62. WIPRO
63. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All play and no work makes him a ___ ___. Fill in the blanks.
63. a mere toy.
64. Which term was coined by Don Hoeffler in 1971 writing in "electronic News’ describing a particular area of the USA?
64. Silicon Valley.
65. Gandhiji’s ashes were carried on a scheduled train from Allahabad to Delhi for immersion. But something was different about the train on that journey. What?
65. There were no first and second class coaches since Gandhiji always travelled by third class.
66. Which Indian musical instrument’s name when translated into English means Royal Flute?
66. Shehnai
67. According to Islamic lore , two lumps of clay were left after God created the universe. One was fashioned into the camel. What happened to the other?
67. It became the date palm tree.
68. Which invention of confectioner George Smith was named after a famous race horse of the early 20th Century?
68. Lollipop
69. Dwight Davis was the secretary of war during the regime of Edgar J. Hoover. What is his claim to fame?
69. The Davis Cup is named after him.
70. Why are Bill Clinton and Pamela Anderson in the Guinness Book?
70. Most mentioned male and female names on the Internet.
71. The oaths in Christianity were always taken by the name of the Lord’s mother. Hence all agreements were taken to be true and definite when this phrase was uttered. Which word came from this practise?
71. Marry from Virgin Mary
72. What was originally built by King Joonkar as a wedding gift for his wife Sheba, queen of Tigra so that he could spend the first night of his marriage with her, there?
72. The Jade Hut at Keela Wee in Phantom
73. In feudal times peasants were not allowed to climb trees or cut them down for firewood by the landlords. They could use only branches lying on the ground or those that they could pull down. How do we remember this practise?
73. By the phrase ‘By hook or crook’. The peasants used a hook to pull down branches and a crook to gather those on the ground.
74. The Houston Astrodome was the first place where it was tested and was appreciated by the teams who took part in a local baseball match. What?
74. Astroturf
75. The HAM operators creed has been now adopted by a product as its ad-line. Product and line?
75. ‘One world. One Language’ and Durex Condoms.
76. Whose advertisement in the London Times read "Are you happy? If not consult _____ , 17, Richmond Street"?
76. Parker Pyne
77. Connect Boardwalk, Rue de la Paix, Schlossallee, Paseo De L Prado and Mayfair.
77. The costliest properties in different language versions of Monopoly.
78. This magazine was the first to feature a nude male in the centrefold under the editorship of Curly Brown. This model posed for the April 1972 edition. Model and Magazine?
78. Burt Reynolds and Cosmopolitan.
79. It was originally made of wood. The revised version was initiated by Sir Peter Colechurch. and was finally completed in 1831. It was designed by John Rennie and cost 1,458,000 Pounds. What?
79. The London Bridge
80. What is the Celtic word for ‘bush’?
80. Perth
81. Fill in the blank in this work of John Derrick(1593) -" ……. free school of Gulderforde, he and his fellowes did runne and play there at ________ and other plaies."
81. Cricket. The first recorded use of the word.
82. She made her debut in ‘Raja Ki Aayegi Baarat’ and was suppose to play Priety Zinta’s role in Dil Se.. . Who?
82. Rani Mukherjee
83. 22 of the world’s best cricketers battled it out at Lord’s in the one-dayer between the MCC XI led by Mike Atherton and the Rest Of The World XI led by Sachin Tendulkar on July 18, 1998 (Diana Memorial Match). Why that particular date?
83. It was the 150th birth anniversary of W.G.Grace
84. It comes in two types - The English type and the Indian type. The English styled one is made of ashwood and the semi-circular extension is smaller than its Indian counterpart which is made of mulberry wood. What are we talking about?
84. A hockey stick.
86. A graduate of SSG Medical College, Baroda, he got his PhD. From Mumbai University in 1987 where his Doctorate thesis was "Anatomy of human body in Dance’. Later he got an Honorary doctorate from Zoroastrian College, Mumbai in 1990. He writes for Science Express and conducts gym classes for Bollywood Elite. Who?
86. Dr. Ali Irani, former physiotherapist of the Indian Cricket team.
87. It comes from the Phoenician word meaning ‘house’. It is said to have had its origins in a Hieroglyphic sign for a ladder and others continue to insist it comes from the sign for the crane. What?
87. The letter ‘B’.
88. If ABCDs are American Born Confused Desis, what are BBCDs?
88. Bombay born Confused Desis
89. This music group’s name is a direct dig at the British scepticism of the India Business scene in London and has its origins in an old British joke about an Indian’s attitude in setting business establishments. Name the group.
89. Corner Shop
90. On the banks of which river does Jammu stand?
90. River Tawi
91. Herodotus wrote his first book on History in the V Century B.C. Name the book.
91. History. That’s why History is called History.
92. Poor Anglo-Indians during the Raj could not afford Fowl for their Christmas dinner and instead came up with a cheaper substitute. This when blended with Indian spices tasted exactly like Fowl thus getting its English name. What?
92. Bombay Duck
93. Fill in the missing words in this epitaph found on a grave in Kirklees, Yorkshire near Halifax. – "Here underneath this Latil Staen, Laiz ______________________, Nea Arcir Ver Az Hae Sae Geud, An Pipl Kauld Him __________ , Sich Vtlaz Az He And Hizmen, VII England Nivr Si Agen"
93. The Earl of Huntingdon And Robin Hood.
94. About which music group did the legendary Phil Spector remark “ The only difference between a pornographic movie and them is that the pornographic movie has better music”?
94. The Spice girls
95. Who is also known by the title ‘Guardian of the Eastern Dark’?
95. The Phantom
96. The Leonid showers were meteors formed due to mass shed by which comet?
96. Temple Tuttle
97. His wife said of him “he is frightened of the titles and degrees on peoples visiting cards” and his card reads ‘ senior shoe salesman’. Who?
97. Thomas J. Bata
98. It is called ‘deuce’ in English, ‘egalite’ in French. What is it in German?
98. ‘Einstein’
99. So sure were the distributors of the success of this film , that they split up the film into 20 minute segments for a kids morning show. Which film?
99. Star Wars
100. If you were engaged in an altercation with a friend and he gave you a ‘circum orbital Hemotopo’ what would you have?
100. A Black Eye
101. What is referred to as ‘blue sky research’?
101. Wasting money on research to find out why the sky is blue etc. etc.
102. What do psychologists define as ‘a disorder in which strongly felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longing often of a perverse nature’?
102. Love
103. Locals affectionately refer to it as ‘bobby’. It is 90 ft long, has a sinuous body, tail, snake like head and a long neck. What?
103. The Loch Ness Monster
104. According to legend Allah has 1001 names. To be good men, men need know only 1000 names. Who is the only one to know all 1001 names?
104. The Camel
105. What contribution did a vague movie by name ‘Rooplekha’ make to Indian cinema?
105. First movie to feature a flashback sequence
106. The word ‘stadium’ comes from ‘stade’ a unit of distance. What distance was the unit equal to?
106. The distance that Hercules could run in a single breath
107. In Asterix comics Unhygienix buys a plot of land from Obelix. How do we supposedly know this land today?
107. The Stonehenge
108. It was believed that the devil was present at all important occasions during the medieval period. What practice arose from this?
108. The practise of toasting a drink, since it was believed that the clinking sound of glasses resembled a church bell’s ring and that sound would drive the devil away.
109. When King George first met him he asked him ‘Tell me , how did you pee’? Who are we talking about?
109. Sir Charles Lindbergh
110. What is common to hearty, Patiala, silent, cocktail, open heart, dancing and round?
110. All types of Laughter
111. In medieval times, in Europe, 1/3 of taxes went to the King, 1/3 to the nobility and 1/3 to the common man. How is this immortalised?
111. By the nursery rhyme ‘Baa Baa Black Sheep’
112. Born with the body of a mastiff, looks of a lamb, teeth of a bunny rabbit and is one of those mutations that happen when God plays dice. Who or What are we talking about?
112. Ronaldo, the footballer
113. This bird has the unique distinction of being called by the names of two different countries in different parts of the world. Give both names.
113. As the Turkey in the rest of the world and as Peru in Turkey
114. “There was neither non-exist nor exist. There was neither the realm of space nor the sky beyond”. Opening lines of what?
114. The Rig Veda
115. In February 1935, the superpolyamide formed from hexamethylene diamine and adipic acid was made by Du Pont. How do we know this compound better?
115. As Nylon
116. This person wrote about himself thus :"Principal virtues : keeps his nails clean. Principal faults : that he has no family, is bad tempered and has a poor digestion. One and only wish : Not to be buried alive. Greatest sin : that he does not worship Mammon. Important events in his life : None". Who?
116. Sir Alfred Nobel
117. There's a story that, around 1600, two children were playing with lenses in a shop in Middleburg. What resulted, according to the story, from the game?
117. Hans Lippershey who observed these children was inspired to invent the Telescope.
118. What was patented by Hippolyte Mege Mouries in 1869, after he was commissioned by the Victualing Department of the French Navy to find an alternative for butter at a time of acute butter shortage?
118. Margarine
119. They began to appear in quantities in the 1860s. "I hate those redbreasts", cried "Punch" in 1869. In 1877 "The Times" magazine declared them a great social evil, and it was following difficulties with them in 1879 that the London Post Office in 1880 cried out "Post Early". What are we talking about?
119. Christmas Cards
120. His first voyage, in 1607, was intended to find a quick way to China by way of the North Pole, but resulted instead in the establishment of the Spitzbergen whale fisheries. In 1608, in the service of the Dutch East India Company, he sailed 150 miles past the site of New York, but returned back. In 1610, he explored the site that is now known by his name and was frozen in it. Who?
120. Henry Hudson after whom the Hudson Bay is named
121. A man by name Friedrich Froebel, walking with two of his disciples over the Steiger Pass on the way to the village of Blankenburg, scratched his head for the right name to give the institution, and then suddenly shouted out "Eureka ! I have it ! It shall be called _______________!". Fill in the blank.
121. Kindergarten
122. Back in 1890, Johnson & Johnson put together the first of its kind in response to a plea from railroad workers who needed treatment on the scene as they toiled to lay tracks across America. What?
122. First Aid Kits
123. To the Hopi Indians, who feared it and filled it with frightening myths, it was the trail made by the God Ta-Vwoats when he took a mourning chief to find his wife in the other world; the river associated with it, according to them was an addition to hold back the unworthy. What?
123. The Grand Canyon
124. An author, as a sign of gratitude to the nurse who had cared for his firstborn child, gave a script and asked her to sell it when she was in need of money. Years later, when the nurse was really in want of money, she sold it and lived in comfort for the rest of her life. The manuscript was the first part of a famous work of this author Name the book and author?
124. The Jungle Book and Rudyard Kipling
125. Though Magellan is regarded as the first person to circumnavigate the world, technically he was not, and it was a person by name Juan Sebastian del Cano, who is technically the first circumnavigator. Why?
125. Because Magellan died halfway through the voyage, killed by the natives
126. In the United States, currently a small stock of this exists at only one location - at the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia. Some additional stocks are available in Great Britain, Russia and China. Stocks of what?
126. The Small Pox Virus
127. Masaru Ibuka, after graduating in engineering, failed the entry examination for lifetime employment at Toshiba, and decided to start his own small business. He was fortunate to find a partner who had a flair for finance and salesmanship. Who was this partner? What did they launch?
127. Akio Morita and Sony
128. He made his debut as a hero in Shah-E-Nissar and then starred in Durbar with Naseer Banu, Saira Banu’s mother but his carer never took off. His first wife was a woman by name Gwendolyn Rita de Monte. His father was a Pathan and had been honoured for his bravery by Queen Victoria in the Afghan War. His screen name was given to him by K.Amarnath with the release of Bekasoor opposite Madhubala. Who?
128. Ajit alias Hameed Ali Khan
129. This person signs his paintings using the corruption of the word ‘Au Fait’ meaning ‘its done’. The name was suggested to him by Frank Dudley Wright. He replaced Gina Lollobrigida as the Guest of Honour at the Carnival celebrations at Rio in 1965 and is the lead singer of the band ‘The 3 quarks’ with Ralph Leighton laying the drums and Tom Rutishauser playing the guitar. Who?
129. Richard Feynman
130. Whose epitaph in Newsteed reads ‘To mark a friends’ remains these stones arise, I never knew one and here he is’?
130. Botswain, Lord Byron's Dog
131. He created the first universe(different from the present world) and his personal scribe is Weneg. His eternal enemy is represented by a giant serpent. He is always represented with Uraeus the asp who spits flame and destroys god’s enemies. Who?
131. Ra, the sun god
132. “My debts amount to 3000, 300 to the Jews, 800 to Mrs. B of Nottingham, to the coachmaker and the other tradesmen a 1000 more and these must be increased before they are lessened.” To his lawyers he wrote on April 26, 1809. ‘The whole of my wishes are summed up in thes procure me, either of my own or borrowed of others , 3000 pounds,…. Allow me to depart from this cursed country and I promise to turn Mussalman rather than return to it.’ Whose words?
132. Lord Byron
133. The Teary Folliculties disease is quite prevalent among the youth of this generation. If you were suffering from it what would be the cause of this disease?
133. Wearing tight jeans
135. Born in Pasadena, he was arrested for a minor offence when he was 20. In prison he wrote a book about these experiences called ‘They tortured me to hell’. After release he went back with the name James Clark because he was afraid that the KGB would assassinate him. Who?
136. The publication of the first supplement of the Oxford Dictionary was postponed for one particular reason. What?
136. To include the word Bodyline
137. What instigated Paul Delaroche to quip, ‘from today paintings are dead’?
137. The invention of Photography
138. What is the claim to fame of Marcel Marceaus’ utterance ‘Non’ I the history of cinema?
138. Only spoken word in "The Silent Movie'
139. An author was reading the Times Literary Supplement which carried a review of ‘Human Bondage’. The author, impressed by the review took the name of his next book from it. Who and book?
139. Somerset Maugham and ‘The Moon and Sixpence’
140. An illegitimate son of a nobleman he craved for the Royal recognition he could never get from the upper classes. Trained as a chemist and a mineralogist his achievements include analysis of Zinc ores one of which, ZnCo3 is named after him. Who?
140. Jjames Smithson of Smithsonite fame
141. In the old theatres a mixture of CaCO3 and Phosphorous was used to produce effects on stage. Which phrase originates from this?
141. The term ‘In the limelight’
142. This person was almost exchanged at birth with a Koli fisherman’s family. Fatefully he was reunited with his mother when the resident doctor cracked the case of the missing mole on the bottom. He recalls the incident and muses on the possibilities of fishing in Mahim, if not for the doctor. Who?
142. Sunil Gavaskar
143. A particular hill range in Orissa is a haven for Botanists and home of some of the rarest herbs in the world and attracts experts from all over the world who conduct research there. How do we know this hill?
143. The Gandhamadhana Hill from where Hanuman obtained the Sanjeevani herb
144. What did Oliver Pollock create to be first used by the US on 1st April 1778?
144. The '$' sign
145. The Chinese have ideograms to represent ideas. What does the one with ’two women under the same roof’ represent?
145. Trouble
146. Why were Edgar Rice Burroughs’ books banned in the USA for a large part of their published life?
146. Because tarzan and Jane were unmarried and therefore living in sin
147. ‘I don’t know who you are or what you do, but I ‘am gonna get you’. Who to whom?
147. Deep blue to Gary Kasparov.
148. In cyber lingo what does ‘PEFKUSH’ stand for?
148. Push Every Fucking Key Until Something Happens
149. The walk of this animal is supposed to be sensuous to look from behind that there are instances in ancient Hindu literature asking women to follow the walk of this animal. Who is the latest woman to join this bandwagon?
149. Madhuri Dixit (Gaj Gamini)
150. ‘She is older than the rocks among which she has been dead many times and has learned the secrets of the grave and has been a diver in the deep seas and keep their falling days about her’. Mark quoted about her saying “She has the look of a woman who has had just her husband for dinner’. Who?
150. The Monalisa
1. The MIT students calculated my speed to be around 1046 km/sec, bout 3000 times the speed of light. The total load weight involved in my transfer is 321000 tonnes. 214000 living organisms of the same species are involved in my transfer. I have 918 million destinations to reach in 31 hours across 24 time zones visiting 822.6 destinations per second. Who or what am I?
Santa Claus
1. Who were the models for the campaign for safe sex initiated by Johnny condoms, the adline being ‘Appearances can be deceptive. Use Johnny condoms’.
Prince Charles and Lady Diana
2. What instrument was originally invented as a torture device to pull out nails?
2. The Screwdriver
3. Many objects in India are trademarked with the ISI stamp. What is trademarked ISI No.1?
3. The National Flag
4. ‘There is no God and Mohammed is the Prophet of God’ Where would you find this inscribed?
4. On the Saudi Arabian National Flag
5. 50 colonials and members of the committee of correspondence met at the home of a printer named Benjamin Edes at but 4 P.M. on Dec. 16, 1773. Later that evening they drank from a massive punch bowl of rum concoction which Peter, Edes’ son kept filled. After that they left to do what?
5. They attended the Boston Tea Party
6. A New York stock broker Bill W on a business trip to Akron met Doctor Bob in a pub on Jun 10, 1935 and discussed the horrible brawls they had in pubs. They decided they should do something sand about it. What id they do the next day?
6. Founded Alcoholics Anonymous
7. A total of 321,360 persons viewed his body as it lay in state at Westminster Hall for 3 days. Crowds stood 5 to 10 hours in bitter cold to see the procession to St. Paul’s Cathedral for the first ever state funeral accorded to a commoner in 50 years. Who?
7. Winston Churchill
8. On Aug 9, 1945 the US Army Air Force HQ radio station received a message from a 25 year old major in the force. It said ‘What have we done’? Who sent the message and why?
8. Paul Tibbeths who bombed Hiroshima
9. The result of an experiment at MIT went - ‘Specimen X had a specific gravity of 1.00 Specimen Y had a specific gravity of 1.06. Specific gravity of XLY. Hence QED’. What did the experiment prove?
9. That Blood is thicker than Water
10. The Texas theatre was featuring a B grade war movie ‘War is Hell’ starring Tony Russell. A man ducked into the theatre without paying the admission and drew attention from the staff. He was arrested for this. who?
10. Lee Harvey Oswald
11. The novel begins in 1648 and tells the story of Carl Emannuel Madruzzo who is the Archbishop of Trent and Prince of Trentino and of his mistress of 20 years Claudia Particella whose father is the Archbishop’s closest friend and counsellor. The peasants and priests hate Claudia and want them banished. They feel that this would make Madruzzo a better man but Madruzzo is hell bent on marrying Claudia. Name the novel or author.
11. Mussolini - 'Cardinal's Mistress'
12. His main foe was sexual passion. He tried various methods of restraint. He devised various methods, the most used amongst them being the ‘earth treatment’. Consisting of application of clear earth moistened with cold water and spread on fine linen on the abdomen and at bedtime and removed it in the day, supposed to be a radical care. Who devised this method?
12. Mahatma Gandhi
13. What was begun on 19th June, 1969 in a flat by 6 like-minded people in Bombay?
13. The Shiv Sena
14. The SB company is marketing the Bengali version of Paul Robson’s ‘We are in the same boat brother’. Who has rendered this version?
14. Saurav Ganguly
15. The Andhra Bank is the only bank in the country licensed to sell food products. Funda?
15. It sells Tirupati Laddoos
16. What connects Calcutta, San Fransisco, tennis courts and Apache Indian?
16. Tramlines
17. How does the popular pharmaceutical brand Disprin get its name?
17. Dissolvable Aspirin hence Dispirin
18. Built in 1920 by Count Zborowski on his estate near Canterbury ,England, she had a pre 1914 war chain drive, 75 horsepower, Mercedes chassis which was installed with a 6 cylinder Maybach Aero engine, same type as used in Zeppelins. She had a gray steel body with an immense polished hood 8 ft in length and weighed over 5 tons. In 1921 she won the 100 mph ghost handicap at Brooklands and again in 1922, the Lightning Ghost handicap. But in that year she met with an accident and she never raced again. What?
18. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
19. The abode of the gods was the summit of Mt. Olympus in Thessaly. A Gate of clouds was kept by a set of goddesses who opened the doors of celestials to earth and welcomed them on return. Name them.
19. The Seasons
20. Callisto was converted into an Animal by Juno as Jove was captivated by her beauty. One day she was espied but a youth whom she recognised as her son. She was inclined to embrace him but the youth seeing the animal rushing towards him took position to kill it. Jove saw this situation and prevented it. How?
20. He converted them into the Little Bear and the Great Bear
21. The Greeks believed that was a circular disc divided into 2 equal parts by sea. They also assumed that around the earth flowed a river its course being from South to North. Which sea?
21. The Mediterranean
22. “ A computer program is like a henchman of a ship charting its course through unknown waters”. This statement gave rise to a word. Which word?
22. Cybernetics
23. What word was derived from Latin for “To put away or remove flesh’ referring to the abstinence of meat during Lent.
23. Carnival
24. The Maha Kumbh Mela occurs 4 times every 12 years in 4 places Hardwar, Ujjain, Prayag and Nasik. Why these four places?
24. The four places where Garuda spilt Nectar while bringing them from the heavens
25. The King Daksha had a daughter who committed suicide as she was unable to bear the fact that her husband had not been invited to the great sacrifice when all other Gods were. Who is this and what practice takes its name from her?
25. Sati and Sati
26. King Janaka is said to have been the only King to have coined a shloka. Why did he do this?
26. The shloka recited during Kanyadaana
27. The sage Bharatha is the author of Natyashastra. But he is believed to have been taught the art by a sage who watched Shiva’s cosmic dance. Name the sage?
27. Sage Tandu (Therefore Tandava Nritya)
28. It is composed of 3 parts. Each is made up of 9 twisted strands. It can be made only from cotton, hemp or wool depending on strata. What?
28. The Sacred Thread or ‘Poonal’
29. In 1456, the first known book to be printed movable type in Europe was brought out in Mainz, Germany. Which book?
29. The Gutenberg Bible
30. This French princess was slain by her incestuous father and is the patron saint of the insane. Who?
30. Demphna
31. What first appeared in the newspaper ‘Belle life in London’ in 1835?
31. The first Chess column
32. It was created by Ub Iwerks who gave its voice too. Later its voice was given by James McDonald. It first appeared on Jan 13, 1930 with Floyd Gottfredson as writer of the column. Bob Lampett designed the doll version of it. What?
32. Mickey Mouse
33. Which instrument meaning ‘3 stringed’ in Persian was introduced by a resident of Etah district in UP. He was called Hindu Turk in his home town. Who?
33. Amir Khusro
34. How do we know Atah Mohammed Khan, husband of Hussaini, a maid in the service of Queen Mriganayanee, the widow of the king of Gwalior better?
34. Tansen
35. In the world of comics what is the Mabel Syrup’s claim to fame?
35. Author of Calvin's favourite book ' Hamster Yoiee and Goeey Kablooie'
36. In the 18th century, wealthy visitors thoroughly enjoyed the mineral springs and baths in a village in South East Belgium near the German Border. What was the village called?
36. Spa
37. This book originally came out with the adline “ A full vacations’ reading for $3” but didn’t sell because $3 was considered too expensive for it. Then it became a best seller with its alternative adline. Book or new adline?
37. Gone with the Wind
38. Who was the first sportsman to be given a memorial service at the Westminster Abbey?
38. Sir Frank Worell
39. ‘If you understand ______ completely, we failed. We wanted to raise few more questions than we answered.‘ Who about what?
39. Arthur C. Clarke on 2001-A Space Odyssey
40. He was the first sportsman to have ever modelled for any product. The product was Coleman’s Mustard. Who?
40. W.G.Grace
41. She began studying drama at the age of 11 and her first acting job was dancing with the Honey monster in a commercial for Sugar Puff cereal. Who?
41. Kate Winslet
42. This singer. For $8 an hour used to smoke cigarettes for a scientific experiment at UCLA. Who?
42. Axl Rose
43. In 1969, a world famous personality challenged Broadway in a musical version of ‘By time Buck White’, a play which described the turmoil that ensues when the militant dynamic hero arrives at the address of the beautiful Allelujah Day Soe. It flopped after running for 7 days. Who was the hero?
43. Mohammed Ali
44. Her ashes were scattered by plane over Marvin County and in her will she left $2500 ‘so that my friends can get blown when I am gone’. Who?
44. Janis Joplin
45. The legend of Romulus and Remus being suckled by the wolf has inspired two literary characters of the present day. Name both.
45. Mowgli and tarzan
46. This phrase comes into the language during medieval times where signatures in a petition were placed in a circle so as not to reveal the order in which they were signed. Which phrase?
46. Round Robin
47. Maine Pyar Kiya was released as “When Love Calls’ in English. What was released as ‘Me stud, you dud’?
47. Main Khiladi Tu Anadi
48. Hayby Mills who played twins in the ‘Parent Trap’ is the parent of musical son Crispian Mills. Which band?
48. Kula Shaker
49. It was banned in Iran for 2 reasons, one that it runs counter to Islamic spirit. The other that it damages the hips. What?
49. Rock and Roll
50. What was started as a result of a discovery made by Mackay, Fair O’Brien and Flood.?
50. The Gold Rush
51. During the American Civil War, temporary Telegraph wires were set up on trees for speedy processing of info. Which phrase came as a result of this?
51. From the Grapevine
52. Which consumer good gets its name from the Latin word for ‘Vigour’?
52. Vim
53. The poem “The old man’s daughter’ and how he gained them by Robert Southey has been parodied by a famous author. The parody being more famous than the original. Which one?
53. Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland
54. Whose motto is ‘Best Care Anywhere’?
54. MASH 4077
55. Which magazine’s first issue carried a special message from the editor on the cover saying “Please buy this magazine’?
55. MAD
56. IN 1932, Japan planned to kill 2 Americans with a view of provoking them to war. One was Joseph Curran, the American Ambassador. Who Was the other?
56. Charlie Chaplin
57. The title of which music album was inspired by a series of paintings by Hiroshima survivors?
57. U2's Unforgettable Fire
58. Which music group gets its name from a sadomasochistic novel by Michael Leigh?
58. Velvet Underground
59. During the Gulf War, all low brow condom manufacturing companies in the US received major bulk orders resulting in a great financial rejuvenation. Why were these bulk orders placed all of a sudden?
59. To prevent sand from getting into the nozzles of Guns
60. Which English word comes from Cambridge slang for room or chamber mate?
60. Chum
61. ‘He who paints the sky Green and the grass blue must be sterilised’. Who on whom?
61. Hilter on Picasso
62. His autobiography is ‘My Story’ and he starred in the movie ‘Le Boheur est dans le pre’. Who?
62. Eric Cantona
63. Recitation of Rig Veda, Music of the Sama Veda , mime of the Yajur Veda and sentiments of the Atharva Veda came together to form what?
63. Bharatanatyam
64. The first Pestilence rode a white horse and carried a bow ready to conquer, war rode a red horse carrying a sword. Famine rode a black horse and then came a grey horse with death on it. How do we know them better?
64. Horsemen of the Apocalypse
65. Whose epitaph ‘The philosophers have only interpreted the world in different ways, the point however is to change it. Workers of all lands unite.’?
65. Karl Marx
66. What was first advocated in a booklet by the name of ‘A memory of Solferino’?
66. The Red Cross
67. Aware of the unpopularity of his job, a German tax collector of Apolda in Thuringia developed in the 1880s an especially fierce breed of dogs to help him on his rounds and this breed takes its name from him. Which one?
67. Doberman
68. Which comic character is also known by the name Marquis De Gorgonzola?
68. Rastapopoulos
69. Who translated the ‘Jabberwocky’ for Alice in ‘Through the looking glass’?
69. Humpty Dumpty
70. Darrell Waters first’ book was ‘A Child Whispers’, a book of poems. How do we know her better?
70. Enid Blyton
71. John Bunyan once said’ Sin will prevent you from reading this book or this book will prevent you from sinning’. Which book?
71. The Bible
72. Whose said ‘There, where I have passed, the grass will not grow again’?
72. Attilla the Hun
73. Who advertised with the line’ Only the umpires have a closer view’?
73. Channel Nine
74. Sachin Tendulkar's father-in-law Anand Mehta is a national champion in which sport?
74. Bridge
75.How does Sachin Tendulkar get the name Sachin?
75. He was given the name by his brother Ajit because his(Ajit's) favourite composer was Sachin Dev (S D) Burman.
76.This year SRT broke his own world record of scoring max runs in ODIs in a calendar year. How much did he score?
76. 1894
77. SRT has endorsed three brands of shoes. The well-known ones are Adidas and Action. Which is the third?
77. Power
78. In which tournament did SRT put up a world record score of 664 with Vinod Kambli?
78. Harris Shield
79. On his ODI debut he scored 0, how much did he score on his test debut?
79. 15
80. In the early 1990s SRT was frequently but incorrectly linked with a Bollywood starlet several times in the gossip mags. Who was she?
80. Shilpa Shirodkar
81. SRT and Azhar appeared together in an ad for which product(excluding Pepsi where they appeared along with Kambli)?
81. Luna
82. When he opened the innings for the first time in ODIs in New Zealand, Who opened with him?
82. Vinod Kambli
83. In the Mohinder Amarnath benefit ODI against S.A. in Bombay, SRT is supposed to have played this stroke the only time in his career according to Gavaskar. Which stroke?
83. The reverse sweep
84. SRT was the first batsman to given out by a third umpire when he was run out . Who was the non-striker?
84. Ravi Shastri
85. SRT admits to having just one superstition. What?
85. That he always wears his left pad first.
86. Name SRT’s daughter.
86. Sara
87. SRT and Imran Khan have a non-cricketing connection. What is it?
87. Their mother-in-laws names. Both Jemima Godsmith and Anjali Mehta’s mothers are named Annabel.
88. Against which country did SRT debut as opener in ODIs?
88. New Zealand, at Auckland in 91-92.
1. K Malleswari, the lone medal winner for India in the millenium Olympics, and the first woman from India to ever win a medal, is employed at which Central Government Corporation?
2. First there was Bridgestone, and then Mitsubishi; What giant automaker of Japan was embroiled, recently, in a quality-related (again!) controversy?
3. The Times of India launched its latest edition in which city?
4. Which famous fashion accessories House first started as leather goods shop in Florence in 1921?
5. Uncle Pai is associated with which once roaringly successful publishers of children’s literature?
6. Which international airline uses the slogan "Smooth As Silk" in its advertisements?
7. Which TV programme currently aired in India, is sponsored by a) Colgate b) Bajaj c) Dettol and d) LG?
8. Who are the maker of the soft contact lens "Accuvue"?
9. Named "Manager of the Century" by the business magazine ‘Fortune’, he was recently in India? Who is he?
10. The "Three Golden Balls" is the traditional symbol of which class of businessmen, especially in Europe?
11. Which is the largest ‘unlisted’ company in India in terms of turnover?
12. What watchmaker sells an environment-friendly brand of watches called "Eco Drive"?
13. The useful thumb rule in Economics, "Bad money drives out the good" goes by what name?
14. What is film Production Company owned by the Hollywood star Dustin Hoffman?
15.What famous place in New York gets its name from the original location of a stockade built by the Dutch in 1653 to keep out the attacking English colonists and Red Indians?
16. Which famous TV personality owns a film production company called Harpo Films? Look hard at the name, may be you can decipher the answer.
17. The person next-in-command to the CEO is often referred to as the ‘Upper Roger’. From what Indian (Sanskrit) word does this phrase come?
18. Some aeroplanes of which airline sported Meera Mehta’s "Paithan Sari Motif"on their tails for sometime?
19. Who or what is a MAMBA?
20. Under what brand name is the compound "sidenafil citrate’ sold by the pharma company, Pfizer?
21. What ‘social expression’ company (if I may coin a phrase) was started by the 18 year old Joyce Hall in 1910?
22. Which is the biggest toy retail chain in the world?
23. Here’s a Dot-buster: Which award-winning net-based furniture selling company, despite being backed by Amazon.com, filed for bankruptcy, recently?
24. What is the name given to software developed exclusively for use by infants and toddlers?
25. What major currency is known as ‘Greenbacks’ in slang?
26. Who is the only Asian to be included in Sunday Times list of " The Wealthiest 200 in Britain since 1066"?
27. R Gopalan who is basking in the limelight for his role as a the official emissary in the Raj Kumar Kidnapping case, is the editor of which Tamil Magazine?
28. What we know as Maruti Zen was launched worldwide by Suzuki in the 90’s under what name?
29. Zee Movies is contemplating a co-branding exercise in collaboration with which major Hollywood Film studio?
30. Ashok H Advani is the publisher of which business magazine?
31. Lord Raj Kumar Bagri is the first non-Briton Chairman of what mercantile organization
32. You’ve heard of BSA motorcycles and surely seen BSA bicycles on Indian roads. What does BSA stand for?
33. What brand of Firestone tyres is creating an uproar in the USA, for causing many fatalities on the highway because of a manufacturing defect?
34. He appears in a series of books which made publishing history, and he is the most famous pupil of the "Hogwart’s Witchcraft School". Who is this fictional character?
35. To which fashion house did the minister Maneka Gandhi address her remark, "The skin of the python is no less precious to the snake than fur is to the fox"?
36. The ‘Calatrava Cross’ is the emblem of which coveted brand of Swiss watch?
37. What famous sports goods company did Phil Knight and Bill Boweman launch in 1964?
38. Which Indian textile brand proudly proclaims "Since 1925"in its advertisements?
39. Which famous hospital chain of India sells an accident insurance cover called "Dost’?
40. What product is associated with the Colombian mascot "Juan Valdez"?
41. Which newspaper baron started his career by launching the "Adelaide Herald" when he was just 23years old?
42. The Hollywood horror flick "Crocodile 2 – Death Roll" was recently shot in which film studio in India?
43. ‘The Striding Man’ is the logo of which best selling brand of scotch whiskey?
44. In his recent visit to New Delhi, in which 5 star Hotel did Bill Gates stay?
45. What automobile, still seen on the roads with minor variations, did Ferdinand Porsche develop under the behest of Adolf Hitler?
46. Mumbai-born Fareed Zackaria has been appointed the editor of which international newsmagazine?
47. Which textile company of India is head quartered at "Neville House"?
48. What useful and innovative computer accessory did Douglas Engelbert invent in 1968?
49. At long last the Department of Telecommunications (DoT, for short) has been transformed in to a corporation. What is its name in its new avatar?
50. What ingredient of chewing gum comes from the South American sapodilla tree?
51. Which Indian confectioneries brand and Times Warner are involved in a legal wrangle over the 'Bunny' logo?
52. What is the consulting firm recently acquired by the electronics giant Hewlett-Packard?
53. What pharma company markets the 'Ayurvedic Concepts' range of health products?
54. What Hyderabad based company has been contracted by Cantor Index plc to supply giant- sized, inflatable images of the latest contenders to American Presidency-Bush and Gore?
55. What internationally famous sports apparel company was started in the 1930's by a champion tennis-player of France?
56. Prime Minister AB Vajpayee under went knee surgery in which Mumbai hospital?
57. According to 'BBC's Moneytalk' which German brand is ranked No. 1 amongst car audio products?
58. Who was chosen to be the first and only recipient in India of the choicest, limited edition champagne 'Espirit du Siecle'?
59. Which Hollywood star and brand ambassador of Omega watches was recently in India to meet the Dalai Lama?
60. What tourist attraction in London, designed by Sir Richard Rogers especially for the millennium, is in grave financial crisis because of its failure to attract enough visitors?
61. OM Gruppen of Sweden is in the news for wanting to takeover of all things which European stock exchange?
62. Carlos Ghosn, living up to his sobriquet of 'Le Cost-Killer', is putting which ailing Japanese carmaker on the road to recovery?
63. In the mesmerically popular TV Game show Kaun Banega Crorepati, the prize money is issued on the cheques of which bank?
64. What redoubtable Swiss watchmaker markets a range of metal-cased watches under a clever and ironic name of "Irony"?
65. In the world of Food and Agriculture what does the acronym GM stand for?
66. The indigenously produced Hepatitis b vaccine called Shanvac B, which is giving the multinationals a run for their money, is produced by which company?
67. Sierra Leone is now always in the news for the bloody civil war which is raging there. Otherwise it was known for its highly lucrative export trade in which mineral?
68. What 'wireless' technology, which has almost become a buzzword, is named after an ancient Viking chief?
69. What is the new name of the TV channel TNT, after its recent rechristening?
70. Sumantra Ghoshal has been appointed the founding Dean of which fledgling Business School?
71. Arun Bajoria's takeover threat was targeted at which company?
72. Which Bank has launched the "India Millennium Deposits" to mobilize resources of NRI’s?
73. The quality enforcing technique of 'Six Sigma' was first introduced by which American company?
74. Which airline uses the slogan "Be Good to Yourself" in its ads?
75. What is the expensive delicacy obtained from the fish sturgeon especially found in the Caspian Sea?
76. What is the name of the new generation fuel cell car recently developed by GM?
77. Which large chaebol, now in dire straits, was started by five friends in 1979 to manufacture and export garments?
78. Which Dutch brewery is ranked as the biggest producer of beer in Europe?
79. What prized and exclusive cars are manufactured in Malvern Link, North west of London?
80. In collaboration which Bollywood star is 'Emami' proposing to launch a range of Ayurvedic personal care products?
81. What is the name of the alliance formed by airlines such as Delta, Air France, Aero Mexico and Korean Air?
82. Which Budapest-born American CEO's biography is entitled "Swimming Across"?
83. Who is the 'person of Indian origin' who was hailed by the online magazine 'Valley Talk' as "the most successful Venture Capitalist of all time"?
84. Consequent upon a long drawn out family feud, what is the new name assumed by Andersen Consulting?
85. Italy's Monte Paschi di Seine, established in 1472, has the distinction of being the oldest of its kind. What is it?
86. Which advertising legend is supposed to have advised, "If you have nothing to say, sing it!"
87. Hans Wilsdorf, a German who set up his business in Switzerland, and later moved to London became the founder of which famous brand of watches?
88. Touted as one of the most useful inventions of this century, it was invented by George Mestral after he noticed burr sticking to his clothes on his return from a walk in the woods. What is it?
89. What is the 'highest scoring partnership' in cricket, which became a world famous brand of cigarettes?
90. Unit Trust's recent intention of terminating what scheme has caused public outcry and a lot of litigation?
91.Which mobile phone manufacturer is popularizing mobile-telephone etiquette with its 'mobile manners' campaign?
92.Which Indian TV channel owned the transmission rights for the 50th Miss World contest held in theMillennium Dome in London?
93. Bajaj auto is setting up a two wheeler assembly line in which South American country?
94.Merino, one of the finest types of wool, is associated with which country?
95.In the heyday of nationalization, which PSU emerged from the amalgamation of ESSO and Caltex?
96.What biscuit in McVittie's range was originally developed by Sir Alexander Grant in the 1890's?
97.In the world of TV transmission technology, what does the much-talked about acronym DTH stand for?
98.With what product would you associate the well-known designs such as 'American Tank' and 'TankFrancaise'?
99.Which Indian packaging company has taken over a firm called 'Propack' in China?
100.What is the internationally known brand of ice-cream co- promoted by an ex-hippie named Ben Cohen?
101.In what make of car did the couple from Calcutta, MS Choudhary and his wife Neena, achieve the record for first circumnavigation of the world?
102.What international brand of cigarette is named after a ritzy street in London?
103.Which is the biggest Petroleum Company in the world?
104.Nazomi 503, is the fastest of its kind in the world. What is it?
105.Dhunji Rana was the model for what enduring and macho icon in Indian advertising?
106. Who is the hotshot executive of Indian origin with PepsiCo, who appears in the Fortunes list of 50 most powerful women in corporate America?
107. What is the prized sports drink in the Quaker Oat's portfolio which makes merger with it so desirable to suitors like Coke, Pepsi or Danone?
108. What is the Danish Electronics Company famed for producing 'haute couture' stuff in areas like Stereos, Televisions and Telephones?
109. What internationally famous brand of shoes is named whimsically after a rural American dish made from corn, fed to pet dogs?
110. "Beeps" and "Peeps' were the experimental prototypes of what legendary hard terrain vehicle?
111. Tidel Park, yet another of those prestigious complexes housing software firms, is associated with which city?
112. What invention was called the Lover's Telegraph" when first exhibited in Philadelphia, 1876?
113. What now universally popular food item was called "Food of the Gods", by Linnaeus the eminent naturalist of the nineteenth century?
114. Which aircraft manufactures the A3XX superjumbo, slated to be the biggest civilian aircraft?
115. What international brand of shirts, marketed in India too, is observing 150 years of existence?
116. The Dynatac made in the1970's was the first of its kind. What is this product which became extremely visible in India only in the mid 90's?
117. What was the epoch-making book written in the 60's by Rachel Carson, which awakened the world to the dangers of environmental pollution but incurred the wrath of industrial giants like Dupont?
118. What car being sold in India celebrated its first birthday recently with a birthday song sung especially for it by Shankar (Breathless) Mahadevan?
119. What hard liquor traditionally made from potatoes, literally means 'Little Water' in the native tongue?
120. What French sports fashion house has begun to sell India inspired knitwear kurta-pajamas successfully?
121. What large India retail chain proudly describes itself as 'The Family Store' in its advertisements?
122. Everyone has heard of the catchphrase "Intel Inside". But who authored a book entitled "Inside Intel"?
123. What brand of 'cold cream', also available in India, derives its name from a latin word meaning 'snow white'?
124. In Mumbai's underworld slang the word 'kavva' refers to what handy communication device?
125. With what cigarette brand (now gone up in smoke, I'm afraid), would you associate the once ubiquitous slogan "For Men of Action-- Satisfaction"?
126. What do you call the style of selling where the bid price goes down progressively until the deal is closed?
127. With which Management Guru of Indian Origin would you most associate the phrase "Core Competence"?
128. What is the popular (though not available in India) low calorie soft drink produced by Coca Cola, having a three letter name?
129. What expensive and legendary brand of cars is supposedly named after the founder of Dertroit - the car manufacturing capital of the world?
130. Which company started by Jim Clark has its headquarters at 'Mountain View'?
131. What is name of the range of bestselling digital cameras manufactured by Sony?
132. In UK, what brand of beer is most preffered as an accompaniment to India food?
133. What potent liquor, also known a 'the Green Fairy', is extracted from wormwood?
134. What invention, in its early years, was described as 'the horse that never says nay'?
135. Back to acronyms. What does the first three letters of 'Sun Microsystems' stand for?
136. A Navigator could mean many things. But a company has launched a toothbrush called Navigator. Which company are we talking about?
137. Tata Finance has launched a credit card with a tie up with which credit card company?
138. Kabhi Dekha Hai Aisa TV? Big Picture! Big Sound! .... Onida. Which ad agency created this award winning advertisement?
139. Which company has the advertising punchline, "The Power To Create"?
140. The movies Mohabbatein, Raju Chacha and Mission Kashmir had breath-taking special effects. Name the company that created these effects.
141. Which company makes Ujala?
142. If you can't beat them, join them. Which clock company has decided to shift base to China so that it remains competitive?
143. An Indian businessman has been named among Businessweek's top entrepreneurs for 2000. Name him.
144. The beautiful Ekta Kapoor, daughter of film star Jeetendra, is a highly successful producer of television serials. Name her company.
145. We all know what bulls and bears do. What would sheep do in the stock market?
146. Which media group (you have to name the company, not the newspaper) has launched India's first electronic newspaper, or e-paper?
147. Nescafe has two coffee brands. One is Nescafe Classic and the other is?
148. The Human Genome Project has been in the news because government agencies and private sector companies have been racing to become the first to decipher the human genome. Name the private sector company which was in this race?
149. For which electronics brand does Rahul Dravid model?
150. Ceat. This tyre company gives the cricket ratings. To which group does this company belong?
ANSWERS
1. Food Corporation of India
2. Toyota
3. Hyderabad
4. Gucci
5. Amar Chitra Katha
6. Thai
7. Kaun Banega Crorepati
8. Johnson & Johnson
9. Jack Welch
10. Pawnbrokers
11. Maruti Udyog
12. Ciitizen
13. Greshams Law
14. Punch Productions
15. Wall Street
16. Oprah Winfrey
17. Yuva Raja
18. British Airways
19. Middle Aged Middlebrow Acheiver
20. Viagra
21. Hallmark
22. Toys R US
23. Living.Com
24. Lapware
25. US Dollars
26. L. N. Mittal
27. Nakkheeran
28. Alto
29. MGM
30. Business India
31. London Metal Exchange
32. Birmingham Small Arms
33. Wilderness
34. Harry Potter
35. Calvin Klein
36. Patek Phillippe
37. Nike
38. Raymond’s
39. Apollo
40. Coffee
41. Rupert Murdoch
42. Ramoji Film City
43. Johnny Walker
44. Maurya Sheraton
45. Volkswaggen
46. Newsweek
47. Bombay Dyeing
48. The Mouse
49. Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited
50. Chicle
51. Nutrine
52. Pricewaterhouse Coopers
53. Himalaya Drugs Company
54. Unique Inflatables
55. Lacoste
56. Breach Candy
57. Blaupunkt
58. Prannoy Roy
59. Pierce Brosnan
60. Millennium Dome
61. London Stock Exchange
62. Nissan Motors
63. ICICI Bank
64. Swatch
65. Genitically Modified
66. Shantha Biotechnics
67. Diamonds
68. Bluetooth
69. TCM
70. Indian School Of Business, Hyderabad
71. Bombay Dyeing
72. State Bank Of India
73. Motorola
74. The Emirates
75. Caviar
76. Hydrogen
77. Daewoo
78. Heinneken
79. Morgan
80. Madhuri Dixit
81. Sky Team
82. Andy Grove
83. Vinod Khosla
84. Accenture
85. Bank
86. David Ogilvy
87. Rolex
88. Velcro
89. 555
90. Rajyalakshmi
91. Nokia
92. Zee
93. Brazil
94. Australia
95. Hindustan Petroleum
96. Digestive
97. Direct To Home
98. Watches
99. Essel
100. Ben & Jerry
101. Contessa Classic
102. Pall Mall
103. Shell
104. Train
105. Zodiac Man
106. Indra Nooyi
107. Gatorade
108. Bang & Oluffsan
109. Hush Puppies
110. Jeep
111. Chennai
112. Telephone
113. Chocolate
114. Airbus Industry
115. Arrow
116. Mobile (Cell) Phone
117. The Silent Spring
118. Ford Ikon
119. Vodka
120. Lacoste
121. Pantaloon's
122. Tim Jackson
123. Nivea
124. Cellular Phone
125. Scissors
126. Dutch Auction
127. C. K. Prahlad
128. Tab
129. Cadillac
130. Netscape
131. Mavica
132. Cobra
133. Absinthe
134. Bicycle
135. Stanford University Network
136. Colgate137. American Express138. Oglivy And Mather (O&M)139. Epson140. Western Outdoor141. Jyothi Labs142. Ajanta Quartz143. Sunil Mittal (Bharti Telecom)144. Balaji Telefilms145. Follow The Leader146. Living Media India Ltd147. Sunrise148. Celera Genomics149. Thomson150. RPG Enterprises
1. Pepsico has acquired which American food and drink company recently, which Coca Cola had also bid for but rejected by its board?
(a) Kellogg's b) Quaker Oats c) Cadbury Schweppes d) General Milks
2. Who became the first woman to head a Fortune 500 company (The Washington Post) after her husband’s death?
a) Linda Goodman b) Nancy Eldridge c) Katherine Graham d) Denise Albrecht
3. Which of the following figures is nearest to the Non-Performing Assets (NPAs) of banks in 1999-2000?a) Rs. 52,000 crore b) Rs. 46,000 crore c) Rs. 67,000 crore d) Rs. 75,000 crore
4. What does SMS stand for in the communications industry?
a) Sharp Microchip Service b) Simple Messaging and Start-up
c) Simple Messaging Service d) Short Messaging System
5. Match the following top four Bangalore’s businessmen with the companies they own:I. Narayan Murthy i) Infosys
II. Azim Premji ii) Kids Kemp
III. Vijay Mallaya iii) Wipro
IV. Ravi Melwani iv) UB group
a) I-i, II-ii, III-iii, IV-iv b) I-i, II-iii, III-ii, IV-iv
c) I-i, II-iii, III-iv, IV-ii d) I-i, II-iv, III-iii, IV-ii
6. Why was the website, “Wahindia.com” in the news recently?
a) it launched a new service b) it laid off some of its employees
c) it announced its closure d) it decided to become an ISP
7. Who, among the following, is the President of the World Bank?
a) James Wolfensohn b) Michael Camadeuss c) Michael Bonsignore d) Robert Bishop8. Which television channel has started ‘Kaun Banega Kangal’ as a spoof of ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati?'
a) Start TV b) Sony TV c) Channel V d) MTV
9. Which of the following banks has launched credit card co-branded with HSBC?
a) SBI b) PNB c) Bank of Baroda d) Canara Bank
10) What is ‘Red Hat’?
a) a fashion accessory b) a danger signal in shipping industry c) a medicine for AIDS
d) a company owned by Linux, the free operating system for computers
11) Which company uses the punchline “Applying thought”?
a) LML b) IBM c) Wipro d) Compaq
12) Name the company formed by film star Shah Rukh Khan for a variety of business interests?
a) SRK.com b) Shah Rukh & Co. c) SRKWORLD d) Dreamz
13) Who, among the following, has been selected as ‘Businessman of the year 2000’ by Business India magazine?
a) Narayan Murthy b) Azim Premji c) Mukesh Armbani d) Kumarmangalam Birla
14) Which company has launched personalised CDs under the brand "Hamara CD”?
a) Polydor b) EMI c) HMV d) GPI
15) Which advertising agency has created the advertisements for “Color Plus”?
a) O & M b) HTA c) Rubecon d) Euro RSCG
16. Who designed the Nike logo ‘Swoosh’ in 1971 and how much was she paid for it?
16. Caroline Davidson, a college student. She was paid $35 for it.
17. ‘Tony the Tiger’ is the mascot for which product?
17. Kellog’s Frosties.
18. What is the claim to fame of Miral Durlabhji in the world of Indian Advertising?
18. He played the Junior Onida Devil
19. “If You don’t have to answer to anyone, what would you do’ is the tag line for what?
19. Harley Davidson
20. Wrigley’s once distributed one million pieces of this company’s product as handouts for a sales promotion. What product and which company?
20. Gillette and the Disposable Shaving Razor
21. What is the Quickie P 300?
21. The brand of wheelchair that Christopher Reeve uses following his accident
22. Invented in the 1920s, by C.L.Briggs, in Missouri, this product contained Lithium salts and was initially called ‘Bib-label Lithiated Lemon Lime Soda’. What?
22. UP
23. Apart from speeds of aircraft, what is the Mach 3?
23. Gillette’s new razor that contains 3 blades
24. What are ‘Toast in New York’, ‘Mad about Mauve’, ‘Raisin’ rage’?
24. Shades of Revlon Lipstick
25. ‘Work Less, do more’ is the tag line for what?
25. Microsoft Office 97
26. Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras and Luciano Pavorotti appear in an ad for an airline. Name the airline and the service advertised.
26. Japanese Airlines and Executive Class
27. ‘A Cigarette is a perfect type of perfect pleasure’ was BAT’s first punchline. To whom are the above words attributed?
27. Oscar Wilde
28. Who started Naturence Research Labs?
28. Manoj Prabhakar
29. In the 1960s girls carried a penny in their shoes lest their dates failed to drop them home. What product got its name from this?
29. Penny Loafers
30. Which is the official footwear of the Woodstock music festival?
30. Burkinstock Sandals
30. How do we better know the company J.W.Foster and Co.?
30. Reebok
31. Sears Roebuck and Co., the retailing giant started selling products through mail order. What was the first product sold through mail order?
31. Quartz Watches
32. Launched in 1935 as a chocolate crisp, it was later renamed after an 18th century London Club. Name the product.
32. Kit-Kat
33. In the book ‘Around the World in 80 Days’, Phileas Fogg withdraws 20000 Guineas from a bank. Name the bank.
33. Barings’ Bank
34. What did Timothy Leary brand as LSD of the future?
34. The Internet
35. Singer Sewing Machines was the first company to introduce a highly innovative marketing tool. What was it?
35. Buying goods through installment schemes.
36. In the movie ‘Forrest Gump’, Tom Hanks is frequently shown drinking a particular drink. Which one?
36. Dr. Pepper
37. “Nov 7,1912 July 3,1996 I’ve lost my voice” What is the significance of this ad?
37. This was the Air India ad given out after the death of Bobby Kooka. The first date was when Air India was founded as Tata Airlines by J R D Tata. The second date was the death of Booby Kooka.
36. Which famous cricketer endorsed Colman’s Mustard?
36. W G Grace
37. Who was the Time Man of the Year 1997?
37. Andy Grove, former Intel CEO
38. The first product made by this company was a car record player. They gave themselves a name similar to the name of the market leader in record players in those days. Today, this company has a worldwide presence and is known as a premier communications company. Name the company?
38. Motorola
39. Mitchell Kapor, a Bostonian, is a teacher of Transcendental Meditation and a Buddhist. In 1988, he started a foundation for electronic free speech. But he is the founder of a well-know company. Which one?
39. Lotus
40. An American inventor Herman Hollerith devised an electromechanical counting machine that used punched cards to tabulate the results of the 1890 United States census. The firm that grew out of this business eventually became which familiar company?
40. IBM (international Business Machines)
41. Nolan Bushnell launched the video game industry with the founding of a company that took its name from the Japanese game of "Go" where the word is used to warn an opponent that he is in danger of losing. Name the Company?
41. Atari
42. In the Internet lingo, if someone advised you to 'RTFM', what is he telling you to do?
42. Read the F***ing Manual
43. What is a three-finger exercise?
43. Pressing Ctrl+Alt+del on the Keyboard (cold reboot)
44. Why did Intel call the successor to the 486 Processor series "Pentium", instead of using a combination of digits as they had always done?
44. Because Numbers cannot be trademarked.
45. He shares his first name with a character in "Peanuts" and he is known as the person who wrote Linux. Who?
45. Linus Torvalds
46. If you find yourself in an Infinite Loop in the Bay area, where would you be?
46. Apple’s HQ
47. What is the section of Yahoo that is dedicated to kids called?
47. Yahooligans
48. What are "Bells & Whistles"?
48. Features in a software that are of cosmetic value only.
49. A program that automatically sends a default reply to the senders of incoming email messages is called?
49. Auto Responders or Vacation Responders
50. Which Bangalorean started the free e-mail service "Hotmail"?
50. Sabeer Bhatia
51. It is the name of a very famous river in South America. However, Amazon is also known in the wired world for what?
51. The largest bookstore in the Universe
52. What is electronic money known as in common internet parlance?
52. Cybercash
53. It is not something that you'd like to eat even if you were stranded in an island with adequate supplies of it. However, which unpopular food item is also the term used to describe unwanted mail sent to a mass of e-mail addresses to advertise products or services?
53. Spam
54. What is DPI in computer printing terminology?
54. Dots per inch
55. What is the term for a small, book-sized computer with a screen that allows you to read the digitized text of a book complete with a touch-sensitive screen and stylus that let you highlight, annotate, or bookmark the book?
55. An e-book.
56. Before the World Wide Web, what was the system for finding and displaying document files stored on the Internet. It was named for the mascot of the college where it was developed, the University of Minnesota?
56. Gopher
57. Which company started in a garage in Palo Alto received its first order from Disney, the making the film Fantasia, for Oscillators?
57. Hewlett Packard
58. What do we call software that has become so loaded with features that it practically takes up all of a computer's hard disk and requires much too much of its RAM to run?
58. Bloatware
59. Who is called the father of computing for his contribution to the basic design of the Computer through what he called the analytical engine?
59. Charles Babbage
60. DVD, the new technology that looks like a CD-ROM but holds over 4.7 Gb of data (can hold a full length movie) stands for?
60. Digital Versatile Disc
61. Who is a 404? (clue : The Internet)
61. A clueless person, from the www error message "404 not found"
62. Which word, meaning both "an opportunistic Computer hacker" and science Fiction dealing with future urban societies dominated by computers" was coined by writer Bruce Bethke?
62. Cyberpunk
63. What is a program that is disguised as useful software but which actually crashes your hard-disk called?
63. Trojan Horse
64. What is Spanish for a "tall pole"?(clue : ask the Document Company)
64. Palo Alto
65. In the field of Computers, the statement "the power of a microprocessor doubles every 18 months...." is better known as?
65. Moore’s Law
66. Name the first Indian product to be put up (earlier this week) on Microsoft's Site Builder Network site? Hint - it is a customised customer e-mail manager
66. Bangalore-based Aditi Technologies’ Talisma.
67. What was Project Memphis?
67. Code name for the development of Windows 98. Project Chicago was Windows 95.
68. M.H.Hasham lost his family business of rice exports when the Govt. nationalised it in 1940. Unfazed he plunged into the oil business setting up Western India Vegetable Products in 1945. At the time of partition he was invited by Mohd. Ali Jinnah to join his ministry in Pakistan. He refused and chose to stay on in India. His company did not grow too much and at the time of his death in 1967 had just two fairly successful Vanaspati brands Sunflower and Camel. Which company?
68. WIPRO
69. Why did Homi Sethna of TOMCO name India’s first detergent bar, 501?
69. All the soaps at that time were imported from England and came in batches of 500. Homi Sethna was instrumental in launching India’s first ever detergent bar and in order to drive the point home to the British he named it 501.
70. Which company was founded by Frank A. Seiberling and his brother Charles in 1900. Its main product was lined with long staple cotton?
70. Good Year
71. Why is IBM called the ‘Big Blue’?
71. IBM built its reputation on customer service. It had an army of blue suited salesmen who swarmed all over the US. Therefore it got the name Big Blue
72. This brand was launched in India with one of the largest advertising budgets – Rs. 15 Crore which was 60% of its turnover. 1.5 Crore of this was used to buy up 5 minutes of airtime on the same day at the same time on every TV Channel thus accomplishing for the first time in India, what in advertising jargon is known as a ‘road block’. Which brand?
72. Real Value vacuumiser.
73. Revlon was founded by Charles Revson. Then why is it called Revlon?
73. The ‘L’ was added in honour of the nail polish supplier Charles Lachman.
74. The 1900 Corporation, USA introduced a product under a brand name which became a huge success. The company soon adopted the brand name as the name of the company. Which company?
74. Whirlpool
75. In 1980, Rolls Royce launched their ‘Silver Spirit’ model highlighting a particular feature. What feature and why?
75. David Ogilvy’s ad for the Rolls Royce had the adline ‘At 60 miles per hour, the only sound comes from the clock’. The team of engineers who designed the car were not impressed that the clock made a noise. So Rolls Royce worked on installing a noise free digital clock that was soundless and installed it in the ‘Silver Spirit’. This was the feature that was highlighted.
76. One morning in 1935, a small time businessman Bishandas Basil hit upon the idea of setting up a sewing machine factory in Calcutta. He thus set up Jay Engineering Works. The machines went on to become a huge success. What name were the machines sold under and why?
76. It was called Usha after Bishandas’s daughter.
77. This person named his company’s leading brand after his nephew, the son of his brother Ramniklal. What brand and who?
77. Vimal and Dhirubhai Ambani
78. ‘I have 3 priorities – God, family and __________, and at work these get reversed’. So said the founder of this famous company. 8 months after he died his company sold its 50 billionth product and dislodged Sears Roebuck to enter the Dow Jones 30 Index. Name the founder and the company.
78. Ray Kroc and McDonald’s.
79. In the Ford Escort ad featuring Leander Paes he drinks a particular soft drink and has two books in the car. Name all three.
79. 7 Up, Joseph Heller’s Catch 22 and Jack Higgins’ Thunderpoint.
80. In 1884, a practicing and self-dispensing doctor in Calcutta, Dr. S.K.Burman launched three ayurvedic machines. The medicines were sold on a ‘value for money plank’ and were sent to patients through VPP. Two of the brands he launched were Juri Tap, an anti-malarial and Plaguin for Plague. He also launched a third brand, which was a digestive and exists even today. Later a company which was named in his honour took over the brands. Name the doctor and the company.
80. The doctor was Dr. S.K.Burman. He was affectionately called Daktar Burman by the locals thus giving the company the name Dabur. The third brand was Pudin Hara.
81. Who on whom – ‘If he was a plumber, he would control all the water in the world and force anyone who wants a drop of the precious liquid to cut a deal with him’.
81. Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle on Bill Gates
82. The owner of this well known Indian brand once worked as a lab assistant at the Lalbhai Group’s New Cotton Mills, followed y the Gujarat Govt.’s Dept. of Mining and Geology. In his free time he would manufacture his product, which he sold door-to-door on Sundays for Rs. 3 a Kg. While his nearest competitor sold it at Rs. 15. Who and what?
82. Karsanbhai Patel and Nirma.
83. In 1994, IBM ran a campaign whose punchline was ‘Flight 4.0 to Chicago is delayed’. What was IBM referring to?
83. Microsoft’s delay in launching Windows 95 (Windows 4.0 officially) which was codenamed ‘Chicago’.
84. What was the contribution of Caroline Davidson, a college student to the world of business in 1971?
84. She designed the Nike logo ‘Swoosh’ for which she was paid $35.
85. This company was founded by Joyce and brother Rolle. Together they developed one of the world’s largest art organisations with over 400 artists. What?
85. Hallmark Cards.
86. What is the claim to fame of Sergei Zyman in the marketing world?
86. He was behind the disastrous launch of ‘New Coke’ in 1984.
87. In 1947, Digamber Parasuram Dandekar, a small time entrepreneur was sitting in an Irani restaurant in Bombay, drinking tea. An advertisement caught his eye then. Inspired, he launched a brand which controls 60% of its market today. Which brand?
87. Camel and Camlin Stationery. He saw the ad for Camel cigarettes, which went ‘I would walk a mile for a Camel’. He started Camel Stationery and his first product was Camel Ink with the line ‘Camel Ink writes for mils and miles without a break’.
88. What did Nestle do in 1938, on the request of the Brazilian Govt.?
88. It invented ‘Instant Coffee’.
89. Which brand’s logo, in the form that it appears on it products, always weighs 0.38 gms and is the surest sign of the authenticity of the product?
89. Lacoste
90. In corporate jargon, what is ‘Cold Calling’?
90. Making an unsolicited call in person on a perspective customer to sell a product.
91. According to Business Week, when the New York trade center was bombed in 1993, a man by name Jim McIntyre led a group of people across 34 floors in total darkness to safety. What did he use for light?
91. A Times Indiglo watch.
92. The first wholly Indian made commercial was for Dalda Vanaspati. Who sang the jingle?
92. Talat Mehmood.
93. Which major Japanese company started in 1915 with the manufacture of pencils and only later moved on to the products that they are today famous for, also retaining the brandname of the pencils for all their products?
93. Sharp
94. In the UK, what is a ‘Pink Pound’?
94. Money earned from offering services or selling products to gays.
95. According to McDonald’s , what is the ‘Golden Arches theory of Conflict prevention’?
95. No country with McDonald’s has ever gone to war with each other.
96. Bill Gates and his team at Microsoft took a team of reporters into a submarine during a product launch. Why did Gates do this?
96. To show what it was like, to live in a ‘windowless world’. The product of course was Windows
97. In 1891, James C. Fargo, then President of a particular company went on a business trip to Europe. Fed up with a certain kind of hassle that he repeatedly faced, he asked the manager of the European branch of the company, Marcellus Berry, to devise a solution. What resulted?
97. Fargo had problems carrying money abroad. He could carry currency gold or non-negotiable drafts or letters of credits, all acceptable only at the banks they named. Berry came up with the idea of a cheque that could be signed and paid for on purchasing and again on encashment, thus allowing safe carrying anywhere the cheques were accepted. In other words, he invented Travellers’ Cheques. The company was American Express.
98. What is common to Aspirin, Cellophane, Corn flakes, Escalator, Kerosene, Nylon, thermos and Zipper?
98. Brand names that have become words in English language.
99. Which TELCO product is named after its long time chief Sumant Moolgaonkar?
99. The Tata Sumo
100. What was concocted by a pharmacist named Caleb D Bradham as a cure for dyspepsia?
100. Pepsi
101. What did a newly wed Johnson and Johnson employee named Earl G Dickson come up with in 1920 because his wife, who was inexperienced in the kitchen kept burning and cutting herself?
101. Band –Aid
102. Which Indian brand gets its name from the Latin word for ‘strength’ or ‘vigour’?
102. Vim detergent
103. Which Indian product was launched by ace magician Franz Hararay at a magic show in Delhi?
103. The TVS Spectra
104. Which soft drink, invented in the 1920s by C.L.Briggs in Price’s Branch, Missouri was originally called Bib-Label Lithianted Lemon Hearted Soda and was guaranteed to take the ‘ouch out of the grouch’?
104. 7-UP
105. The name of the cassette and record company TIPS is an acronym for what?
105. To Improve and Promote Singing
106. By 1861, this product, produced in USA, enjoyed higher sales abroad than in the USA. In Africa, salesmen had to customise the machine because the tribesmen wanted it to be noisier, because they believed ‘good iron made more noise’. Mahatma Gandhi described it as ‘One of the few useful things ever invented’. What?
106. The Singer Sewing Machine
107. What does the T in the name of the Indian entertainment conglomerate T-Series stand for?
107. Trishul
108. What do the letters ESPN in the name of the TV channel stand for?
108. Entertainment and Sports Programming Network
109. Which European supermarket chain opened their first Indian outlet in Bangalore and later sold out to the Tatas who renamed it ‘Westside’?
109. Littlewoods
110. What was designed by Umesh Rao, a young empoyee of the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency on an idea by Booby Kooka?
110. The Air India Maharaja
111. What do the letters in the names of the Indian corporate giants BPL and MRF stand for?
111. BPL – British Physical Laboratories, MRF – Madras Rubber Factory
112. What is common to MRF, Britannia, Elf, BPL?
112. All corporate giants who run sports academies in India viz. The MRF Pace Foundation at Chennai, The Britannia Amritraj Tennis Academy at Chennai, The Elf Vengsarkar Cricket Academy at Mumbai and the BPL Padukone Badminton Academy at Bangalore.
113. What according to the Indian government is the only 3 wheeler that you can drive without a license?
113. The Road Roller
114. Persis Khambatta and Protima Bedi both died on the same day. A month earlier they had been interviewed together on a Television show. Name the show and the host.
114. ‘Not a nice man to know’ hosted by Kushwant Singh on Star Plus
115. What name is derived from the Persian for ‘Huge sheet of water’?
115. India. Since the Persians couldn’t pronounce Sindhu, they referred to it as ‘the huge sheet of water’ or ‘India’.
116. Which animal is the largest member of the Pig family?
116. The Hippopotamus
117. This vehicle was used for all general purposes during the World Wars and it was said that it could do anything but talk. What?
117. The General Purpose Vehicle or the Jeep (from GP)
118. In Tirupati, the Hundi receives millions of rupees every year. What is the mythological reason for the Hundi to be there in the first place?
118. Once Vishnu was reborn on earth to take back Lakshmi who had come away after a fight. In that birth he needed money to marry her and he borrowed it from Kubera since he had none. Till today his devotees are helping him pay back the loan by contributing to the Hundi.
119. Nowadays, there is this trend of conducting marriages at weird locales, like on a plane. But, for a wedding conducted on a plane, the rule is that Sikh rites have to be followed even though it is a Hindu wedding. Why?
119. Because the Sikh rites of marriage don’t need the marriage to be conducted in the presence of Agni or fire.
120. Complete the lines – “Till earth and sky stand, presently at God’s great judgement seat, _____________”.
120. “East is East and West is West and the Twain shall never meet” from Rudyard Kipling’s ‘Ballads of the East and West’
121. In the world of Children’s fiction, if you followed the directions “Second to the right and straight on till morning”, where would you go?
121. Neverland (Peter Pan)
122. The road outside the Chicago Art Institute in Chicago was originally called Michigan Avenue. Now it has been renamed after an Indian. Who?
122. Swami Vivekananda
123. Captain Haddock is the President of an organization called SSS. What odes SSS stand for?
123. Society of Sober Sailors
124. The chief architectural planner of the 1893 World Columbian Exposition in Chicago, David H. Burnham wanted to produce a homegrown structure that would rival the Eiffel Tower. He conducted a competition. The winner was George Washington Gale. What did he invent?
124. The Giant Wheel or the Ferris Wheel
125. What practice evolved when Eskimos murdered the captain of the ship Heartsease in 1612?
125. The practice of flying the flag at half-mast.
126. The San Francisco Chronicle described this person as having ‘the determination of Bjorn Borg, the grunt of Jimmy Connors and the laugh of Woody Woodpecker’. Who?
126. Monica Seles
127. In 1979, the Nobel Prize winners for medicine Sir Geoffrey Hounsfield and Allan Cormack were neither doctors nor physiologists. Why were they then awarded the Nobel Prize?
127. For inventing the CAT scan.
128. What, during the French Revolution, were called Liberty, Equality and Fraternity?
128. The King, Queen and Jack on a pack of cards.
129. Which is the most famous publication of the company Bennett and Coleman?
129. The Times of India
130. In 1935, Carl Van Ossietzsky, German journalist and pacifist won the Nobel Prize by beating a much more famous person whose nomination for the Prize was vehemently opposed by the British. Who?
130. Mahatma Gandhi
131. Sage Bhagiratha performed penance to bring Ganga to earth. Sage Kashyapa performed penance to bring which river to earth?
131. Saraswathi
132. Devonshire House is one of the most popular haunts of Bangaloreans. By what name is it better known?
132. Galaxy Theatre
133. She was the first winner of the Asian Women’s amateur Table Tennis title but is better known for her professional life. Who?
133. Kiran Bedi
134. The controversial movie ‘Fire’ is the first of director Deepa Mehta’s ‘Elements’ trilogy. Name the other two.
134. Earth and Water
135. Which two cricketers and singer have been signed on to endorse Coca Cola in addition to Saurav Ganguly and Javagal Srinath?
135. Robin Singh, Anil Kumble and Daler Mehndi
136. Which celebrity made her Hindi film debut in the small role of the wife of tribal Raghubir Yadav in the award winning ‘Massey Saheb’?
136. Arundhati Roy
137. Who was awarded the Bank of Sweden Prize for 1998?
137. Amartya Sen (The Bank of Sweden Prize is the Economics Nobel)
138. Recently a Dubai based company launched a range of perfumes called ‘SK’. After whom is it named?
138. Shahrukh Khan
139. In the world of comics whose mind ‘works faster than a computer’?
139. Chacha Chaudhary
140. Which Kannada movie won the National Award for Best Film in 1998?
140. Girish Kasaravalli’s ‘Thayi Saaheba’
141. Where in Bangalore would you find the following words inscribed ‘Government’s work is God’s work’?
141. On the Vidhana Soudha
142. What is advertised with the line ‘Nothing else matters at nine’?
142. Star News
143. In the world of Indian classical music how are Lalitha and Haripriya better known?
143. Hyderabad Sisters
144. In the name of the popular computer iMAC, What does the ‘i’ stand for?
144. Internet
145. It was earlier called as ‘The Statuette’. How do we know it today?
145. The Oscar
146. Who or what did Shakespeare describe as ‘the green eyed monster’?
146. Jealousy
147. In the Mahabharata, other than the Kauravas who else had a hundred brothers?
147. Shakuni
148. Whose autobiography is titled ‘Wings of Fire’?
148. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
149. Who edits the women’s magazine ‘New Woman’?
149. Hema Malini
150. Which cricketer is slated to star opposite Madhuri Dixit in a forthcoming film?
150. Ajay Jadeja
1. What was born in a pub in London during a barroom argument on which bird was the fastest in the British Isles?
1. The Guinness Book of Records
2. Which king, the son of Sage Pulyasta was an accomplished veena player and his royal flag bore it as his insignia?
2. Ravana
3. What according to the Indian government is the only 3 wheeler that you can drive without a license?
3. The Road Roller
4. Persis Khambatta and Protima Bedi both died on the same day. A month earlier they had been interviewed together on a Television show. Name the show and the host.
4. ‘Not a nice man to know’ hosted by Kushwant Singh on Star Plus
5. What name is derived from the Persian for ‘Huge sheet of water’?
5. India. Since the Persians couldn’t pronounce Sindhu, they referred to it as ‘the huge sheet of water’ or ‘India’.
6. Which animal is the largest member of the Pig family?
6. The Hippopotamus
7. This vehicle was used for all general purposes during the World Wars and it was said that it could do anything but talk. What?
7. The General Purpose Vehicle or the Jeep (from GP)
8. In Tirupati, the Hundi receives millions of rupees every year. What is the mythological reason for the Hundi to be there in the first place?
8. Once Vishnu was reborn on earth to take back Lakshmi who had come away after a fight. In that birth he needed money to marry her and he borrowed it from Kubera since he had none. Till today his devotees are helping him pay back the loan by contributing to the Hundi.
9. Nowadays, there is this trend of conducting marriages at weird locales, like on a plane. But, for a wedding conducted on a plane, the rule is that Sikh rites have to be followed even though it is a Hindu wedding. Why?
9. Because the Sikh rites of marriage don’t need the marriage to be conducted in the presence of Agni or fire.
10. Complete the lines – “Till earth and sky stand, presently at God’s great judgement seat, _____________”.
10. “East is East and West is West and the Twain shall never meet” from Rudyard Kipling’s ‘Ballads of the East and West’
11. In the world of Children’s fiction, if you followed the directions “Second to the right and straight on till morning”, where would you go?
11. Neverland (Peter Pan)
12. The road outside the Chicago Art Institute in Chicago was originally called Michigan Avenue. Now it has been renamed after an Indian. Who?
12. Swami Vivekananda
13. Captain Haddock is the President of an organization called SSS. What odes SSS stand for?
13. Society of Sober Sailors
14. The chief architectural planner of the 1893 World Columbian Exposition in Chicago, David H. Burnham wanted to produce a homegrown structure that would rival the Eiffel Tower. He conducted a competition. The winner was George Washington Gale. What did he invent?
14. The Giant Wheel or the Ferris Wheel
15. What practice evolved when Eskimos murdered the captain of the ship Heartsease in 1612?
15. The practice of flying the flag at half-mast.
16. The San Francisco Chronicle described this person as having ‘the determination of Bjorn Borg, the grunt of Jimmy Connors and the laugh of Woody Woodpecker’. Who?
16. Monica Seles
17. In 1979, the Nobel Prize winners for medicine Sir Geoffrey Hounsfield and Allan Cormack were neither doctors nor physiologists. Why were they then awarded the Nobel Prize?
17. For inventing the CAT scan.
18. What, during the French Revolution, were called Liberty, Equality and Fraternity?
18. The King, Queen and Jack on a pack of cards.
19. Which is the most famous publication of the company Bennett and Coleman?
19. The Times of India
20. In 1935, Carl Van Ossietzsky, German journalist and pacifist won the Nobel Prize by beating a much more famous person whose nomination for the Prize was vehemently opposed by the British. Who?
20. Mahatma Gandhi
21. Sage Bhagiratha performed penance to bring Ganga to earth. Sage Kashyapa performed penance to bring which river to earth?
21. Saraswathi
22. Devonshire House is one of the most popular haunts of Bangaloreans. By what name is it better known?
22. Galaxy Theatre
23. She was the first winner of the Asian Women’s amateur Table Tennis title but is better known for her professional life. Who?
23. Kiran Bedi
24. The controversial movie ‘Fire’ is the first of director Deepa Mehta’s ‘Elements’ trilogy. Name the other two.
24. Earth and Water
25. Which two cricketers and singer have been signed on to endorse Coca Cola in addition to Saurav Ganguly and Javagal Srinath?
25. Robin Singh, Anil Kumble and Daler Mehndi
26. Which celebrity made her Hindi film debut in the small role of the wife of tribal Raghubir Yadav in the award winning ‘Massey Saheb’?
26. Arundhati Roy
27. Who was awarded the Bank of Sweden Prize for 1998?
27. Amartya Sen (The Bank of Sweden Prize is the Economics Nobel)
28. Recently a Dubai based company launched a range of perfumes called ‘SK’. After whom is it named?
28. Shahrukh Khan
29. In the world of comics whose mind ‘works faster than a computer’?
29. Chacha Chaudhary
30. Which Kannada movie won the National Award for Best Film in 1998?
30. Girish Kasaravalli’s ‘Thayi Saaheba’
31. Where in Bangalore would you find the following words inscribed ‘Government’s work is God’s work’?
31. On the Vidhana Soudha
32. What is advertised with the line ‘Nothing else matters at nine’?
32. Star News
33. In the world of Indian classical music how are Lalitha and Haripriya better known?
33. Hyderabad Sisters
34. In the name of the popular computer iMAC, What does the ‘i’ stand for?
34. Internet
35. It was earlier called as ‘The Statuette’. How do we know it today?
35. The Oscar
36. Who or what did Shakespeare describe as ‘the green eyed monster’?
36. Jealousy
37. In the Mahabharata, other than the Kauravas who else had a hundred brothers?
37. Shakuni
38. Whose autobiography is titled ‘Wings of Fire’?
38. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
39. Who edits the women’s magazine ‘New Woman’?
39. Hema Malini
40. Which cricketer is slated to star opposite Madhuri Dixit in a forthcoming film?
40. Ajay Jadeja
41. What was born in a pub in London during a barroom argument on which bird was the fastest in the British Isles?
41. The Guinness Book of Records
42. Which king, the son of Sage Pulyasta was an accomplished veena player and his royal flag bore it as his insignia?
42. Ravana
43. During the late 80s the Times of India group had launched a super premium tea brand which met with a quick death in the market. Name the brand.
43. Editor’s Choice
44. Which industrialist began his career ass an attendant for Burmah Shell Gas in Aden(Yemen)?
44. Dhirubhai Ambani
45. If IBM is the Big Blue, Coca Cola the Big Red, what is Big Black?
45. United Parcel Service
46. Whose first foray into business was the founding of the ‘Laugh-O-gram’ corporation in 1921 which went bankrupt barely two years later?
46. Walt Disney
47. Which company started as a playing card company in 1889 in Japan and literally means ‘Leave luck to Heaven’?
47. Nintendo
48. Which product was launched with the adline ‘It helps a school girl to maintain her complexion’?
48. Palmolive Soap
49. Which brand employs Mercury, the swift messenger of the Gods, a connotation of speed, as its trademark?
49. Good Year
50. The name of which Japanese company literally means ’50 Bells’?
50. Isuzu
51. In the mid 80s, the Beatles’ song ‘revolution’ was licensed for a TV commercial, the first time ever that a Beatles’ song had been licensed for advertising purposes. Name the brand
51. Nike
52. Which was the first commercial symbol to be displayed at Madame Tussaud’s wax museum?
52. The Singapore Girl of Singapore Airlines
53. Derived from the Japanese word for ‘great Prince’, it found its way into English, after foreigners mispronounced it, as something else which came to mean ‘a man of great wealth’. What word?
53. Tycoon from ‘taikon’
54. Which company has its headquarters in Crewe, Cheshire, CWI, 3pl, England?
54. Rolls Royce
55. Who once advertised with the slogan ‘Nothing improvises the circulation of a magazine like a dirty picture’?
55. The Sportstar, the picture in question was the infamous ball tampering incident where Mike Artherton is seen pulling out some sawdust from his pocket and rubbing it on the ball
56. David Whitebread is a little known stage actor and part time model. What is he best known as?
56. The Onida Devil
57. Which ad agency keeps a bowl of fresh apples in the reception areas of its offices all over the world?
57. Leo Burnett
58. Which celebrity owns ‘Unsquashable Inc”?
58. Jahangir Khan
59. Who said ‘I have done more than anyone else to change the face of mankind’?
59. King Camp Gillette
60. Warner Communications & American Express paid Manhattan Design 1000 dollars to design a logo. What?
60. MTV logo
61. In the 1880s a person called Richardson sold this ointment in USA. It was named after his son-in-law. What?
61. Vicks
62. What is the Roman word for ‘To roll over’?
62. Conglomerate (Latin for Roll over is Volvo)
63. Which brand had the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra play at its Indian Launch?
63. Seagram
64. Which media baron was born Jan Ludwik Hoch and died under mysterious circumstances abroad his yacht ‘Lady Ghislaine’?
64. Robert Maxwell
65. Who recently launched a website ‘India 2002’?
65. Harshad Mehta
66. Which computer company recently taken over by Samsung, was founded in 1980 and derives its name from the combination of first letters of first names of the founders?
66. AST, from Albert Wong, Safi Qureshi and Tom Yuen
67. Who heads a Delhi based beauty company called ‘Naturence Research Labs’?
67. Manoj Prabhakar
68. Who actually built a bridge in Sri Lanka for the film ‘Bridge on the River Kwai’?
68. Larsen and Toubro
69. What US Presidential election campaign slogan was lifted in an Indian softdrink jingle to claim that a coke replacement had arrived?
69. ‘Happy days are here again’ by Thums Up
70. This brand of alcohol advertised abroad with the line ‘I thought the Kamasutra was an Indian restaurant until I discovered ________. Their ads also cautioned ‘Remember whatever happens do not over do it’.
70. Smirnoff
71. This brand manufactured by Kazuo Tazima gets its name from three words – Machine, Instrument, Optical. Which brand?
71. Minolta
72. Which company gets its name from a fruit which used to be exported to England from a Moroccan port?
72. Tangerine
73. Hasbro has a tie up with Funskool India to market its toys and games in India. Name the parent company of Funskool.
73. MRF
74. The ad featuring Moon Moon Sen’s daughter Riya Dev Varma for Nirma lime Soap looks very similar to the Liril ad. Could it be because it was directed by the same person? Who directed them?
74. Kailash Surendranath
75. Name the newspaper started by industrialist Vijaypath Singhania of the J.K. Group.
75. The Indian Post
76. What does TIMES stand for in the name of TIMES Television, the Television division of Bennett and Coleman Ltd.
76. Television for Information, Music, Entertainment and Sports
77. A Bombay based jewellery house launched a range of earrings called H.B. a couple of years ago. Why were they called H.B.?
77. After Henry Blofeld the popular cricket commentator known for his penchant for earrings
78. When Henry Ford died, amongst his last possessions was a test tube. What did it supposedly contain?
78. The last breath of Thomas Alva Edison
80. Which Indian businessman was part of the design team at Intel that designed the Intel 80486 microprocessor?
80. Rajeev Chandrasekhar of BPL
81. In which merchant bank did P.G.Wodehouse work for two years?
81. The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
82. To which company did the shipment of tea destroyed by the American colonists during the Boston Tea Party in 1773 belong?
82. The East India Company
83. What was advertised with the slogan “You press the button and we do the rest”?
83. Kodak
84. What is an unrhymed Japanese poem of 3 lines, containing 17 syllables called? It is also the name of an Indian saree range.
84. Haiku
85. Honda advertised in the 1960s with the line “You meet the nicest people on a Honda”. Which Indian automobiles advertised two decades later with the same line?
85. Kinetic Honda and Contessa
86. Which brand created a sensation by sticking a Ford Cortina to a billboard at a busy junction in London?
86. Araldite
87. During Wimbledon 1995 Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi played a mock tennis match at Trafalgar Square in London. Why?
87. To shoot a commercial for Nike
88. Which Indian brand combined the Coke and Pepsi ad slogans to come up with the line “The real thing is the choice of the new generations”?
88. London Pilsner Beer
89. What was launched in 1959 in Kansas by the Carney Brothers?
89. Pizza Hut
90. The highest ever wicket partnership in England was between Herbert Sutcliffe and Percy Holmes in 1923 against Essex in Leyton. How is this significant to the present day corporate world?
90. They scored 555 runs giving 555 cigarettes their name
91. Complete this line “There is but one cup to win, eleven proud people, twelve proud nations, lean to win the cup ________ .
91. Share the Magic
92. What food item was patented in 1830 and called ‘Dr. Miles compound Tomato extract’?
92. Tomato Ketchup
93. Which Indian clothing brand gets its name from Greek for ‘Circle of Animals’?
93. Zodiac
94. Which industrialist – Philanthropist donated $800,00 for the land on which the U.N. General Assembly has been built?
94. John D. Rockefeller Jr.
95. Ken Follett has written a book ‘On the wings of Eagles’ which deals with the true story of how 40 odd employees of an American Company EDS corporation escaped from Iran when caught in the Islamic Revolution. Who owns EDS and appears throughout the book?
95. Ross Perot
96. 17 year old Rudyard Kipling roamed India as Assistant Editor of the Civil and Military Gazette, Lahore. He then wrote ‘Soldiers Three’ a series of short tales that launched a pervasive, nation wide enterprise which exists to date. What?
96. The A.H.Wheeler publishing House and chain of bookstores
97. What is a ‘Sen’ in monetary terms?
97. 1/100th of a Yen
98. Which brand derives its name from the Japanese God of Mercy?
98. Canon from Kwanon
99. Following the super success of Food World, the Spencers Group has launched two other chains of superstores. Name them.
99. Music World and Health&Glow
100. Which Indian newspaper advertises with the line “Why settle for anything else”?
100. The Statesman
101. Ads for which Indian product feature the following – a raunchy novel titled ‘fantasies’, perfume and a registered postal package?
101. VIP Frenchie
102. Which Indian newspaper claims along with its price on the masthead that ‘One Paise goes to charity for every issue sold”.
102. The Afternoon Despatch and Courier
103. This was the classification of the highest quality of ships, by the Lloyds shipping Registrar of the world famous insurance association Lloyds. It has now become a phrase in the language meaning something of superior quality. What?
103. The term ‘A-1’
104. Sachin Tendulkar was named after his brother Ajit's favourite music director. Who?
104. Sachin Dev (S D ) Burman
105. Who is known as the 'Terror of MM Hills'?
105. Veerapan
106. In which Indian city did Shivaji marry?
106. Bangalore
107. Which British General was responsible for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre?
107. General Dyer
108. What is the Sanskrit word for 'refined'?
108. Sanskrit
109. In telephone terminology what does ISD stand for?
109. International Subscriber Dialing
110. Which Indian author's first names are Rasipuram Krishnaswamy?
110. R.K.Narayan
111. Name the wife of Agni.
111. Swaha
112. By what name do we know the Hindi actor Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia better?
112. Akshay Kumar
113. Which place in Bangalore was originally known as South Parade?
113. Mahatma Gandhi Road
114. Two wards in the Tihar Jail in New Delhi were named after Indian cricketers by supercop Kiran Bedi. Who?
114. Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli
115. To avenge whose death did Bhagat Singh shoot and kill General Saunders?
115. Lala LAjpat rai
116. Why did Pakistan supposedly name its missile 'Ghauri'?
116. Because it thought India had named Prithvi after Prithviraj Chauhan
117. From which ancient Indian work do we get the lines 'Satyameva Jayate'?
117. Mandokya Upanishad
118. This product is manufactured only by one company - The Mysore Paints & Varnishes Ltd.What?
118. Voter's Indelible Ink
119. Whose ashes are supposedly stored at the Renkoji Temple in Japan?
119. Subhash Chandra Bose
120. Which actor and director both made their debut in the Kannada film 'Pallavi Anu Pallavi'?
120. Maniratnam and Anil KApoor
121. What is the name of the play by Girish Karnad dealing with Basavanna and his Sharanas?
121. Ghatashraddha
122. Who founded the Mysore Bank now known as the State Bank of Mysore?
122. Sir M. Vishweshvarayya
123. Who is the Indian God of Medicine?
123. Dhanvantri
124. Which of India's greatest freedom fighters got his name because his familywere originally sellers of perfume?
124. Gandhi from gandha
125. The Chipko movement was found to save trees from destruction. By what name was it known inKarnataka?
125. Appiko Movement
126. The letters that he wrote to his daughter from jail were published as a book 'Letters from afather to a daughter' . Name both.
126. Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira GAndhi
127. Which state has the distinction of having the most Jnanpith Award winners?
127. Karnataka
128. Who promotes Kannada theatre through his troupe called Rangayana?
128. B V Karanth
129. Which great writer and poet introduced and promoted the sport of Judo in India?
129. Rabindranath TAgore
130. Who wrote the book "The God of Small Things' which won the Booker Prize last year?
130. Arundhati Roy
131. Which international airline is named after the vahana of Lord Vishnu?
131. Garuda Indonesia
132. Subhash Chandra Bose renamed what as “Shaheed” and “Swaraj”?
132. The Andaman and Nicobar Islands
133. By what name was the women’s regiment of the INA known?
133. Rani Jhansi Regiment
134. Which political party was founded by Subhash Chandra Bose?
134. The Forward Bloc
135. Which nationalist slogan of India was coined by Netaji?
135. Jai Hind
136. In which city was the INA found?
136. Singapore
137. The Gadag Co-operative Society is the only one in the whole country licensed to manufacture what?
137. The National Flag
138. Which Kannada author wrote under the pen name ‘Srinivasa’?
138. Masti Venkatesha Iyengar
139. Why did Kempegowda name the two tanks he built in Bangalore as Kempambudhi and Dharmambudhi?
139. It was after his two wives
140. The GPO circle near Vidhana Soudha was renamed as Meese Thimmaiah Circle. Why?
140. In honour of the traffic constable ‘meese Thimmaiah’ who was killed in an mishap on duty
141. Where in Bangalore would you find the lines ‘Government’s work is God’s Work’?
141. On the Vidhana Soudha
142. The person who built Cubbon Park has something else named after himself in the city. Who?
142. Sankey Tank
143. If you went to a bar in Bombay and asked for a Sunil Gavaskar what would you get?
143. A bottle opener
144. What is the name of the jackal in Tinkle comics?
144. Chamataka
145. Pt. Ravishankar set ‘Saare jahan se achcha‘ to tune. Who wrote it?
145. Mohammed Iqbal
146. Which Kannada film won the National Award for Best Film this year?
146. Thayi Saaheba
147. Which Kannada writer said ‘Naane Kannadakke kaavalu naayi’?
147. B.M.Sri
148. Whom did the British refer to as “Typical Ass’
148. T.P.Kailasam
149. Which Indian wrote a treatise on mathematics called ‘Lilavati’?
149. Bhaskaracharya
150. What in the Indian constitution is called the 52 second rule?
150. That the duration of the National Anthem is 52 seconds
1. What was renamed as Rajiv Gandhi National Park?
1. Nagarhole
2. She was the first woman president of the INC and the first woman Governor of India. Who?
2. Sarojini Naidu
3. He was the first Indian to be the member of the British Parliament and President of INC thrice. Who?
3. Dadabhai Naoroji
4. Her real name was Agnes Gonha Bojaxhiu. She won a Nobel Prize in 1979 and died in 1997 and before her death said ‘Love others as I have loved you’.Who?
4. Mother Teresa
5. The foremost Maratha patriot, his real name was Ramachandra Pandurang. He got his nickname from the fact that he was in charge of the firing of cannons. Who?
5. Tantya Tope
6. This place gets its name because it was here that Lakshmana cut of the nose of Shurpanakha. Which place?
6. Nasik
7. When Ravana set fire to Hanuman’s tail, he set fire to entire Lanka. How was the fire put out?
7. Ravana played the Amruthavarshini raga on his Veena and brought forth rain
8. What was the principle of peace and friendship enunciated by Nehru called?
8. Panchsheel
9. Two famous Indian cricketers starred in a movie called ‘Kabhi Ajnabi The’. Who?
9. Syed Kirmani and Sandeep Patil
10. According to Hindu myth who was the first mortal to die?
10. Yama
11. In the Mahabharatha other than the Kauravas who else had a 100 brothers?
11. Shakuni
12. Whose residence is called ‘Matushri’?
12. Bal Thackeray
13. What does the M.F. in M.F.Hussain’s name stand for?
13. Maqbool Fida
14. What well known verse is actually part of an over all poem titled ‘Bharat Vidhatha’?
14. Jana Gana Mana
15. Who sang the theme song of France’98?
15. Ricky MArtin
16. Whose last words were ‘Don’t worry, relax’?
16. Rajiv Gandhi
17. Who is the only Indian to win a Grand Slam title?
17. Mahesh Bhupati
18. Which place would be the Indian equivalent of the Pakistani Chagai Hills?
18. Pokhran
19. What is common to Clinic All Clear, Pepsi, Nippo, Reebok?
19. Rahul Dravid endorses all of them
20. Who made the popular T.V. serial Malgudi Days?
20. Shankar Nag
21. Who owns a little known software company in Bangalore called D’n’A Systems?
21. Anil Kumble
22. He calls his dog Chewbacca Khan. He won the Sword of Honour in the 12th std. At St. Columbus, Delhi. He made his debut on television as a soldier. Who?
22. Shahrukh Khan
23. In restaurants today, the computerised bill is heavily in use. The items are often abbreviated. If you found MS Dos written on your bill what would you have eaten?
23. Masala Dosa
24. Created by Tnoshiro Honda and Eiji Tsukusuya it was named after a workman at Toho studios in Tokyo. Radioactive and 164 foot high, it breathes fire and made its way to the cover of TIME and Newsweek in the 60s. What?
24. Godzilla
25. If you went to Ooty and asked for a "Filmi Chakkar" what would you get?
25. A tour of the locations where movies are shot in Ooty
26. This man's first direct contribution to the test field was a leg-break over where he gave nine runs. The place was Port of Spain in 1971. Who?
26. Sunil Gavaskar
27. Which vehicle has the registration no. NCC 1701?
27. Star Trek Enterprise
28. It is called the Hoysala in Bangalore. What is it in Mysore?
28. Garuda
29. What is the duck that appears on Channel 9's cricket scorecards called?
29. Waddles
30. What would you find at 1600, Pennsylvania Avenue?
30. The White House
31. Who is the daughter of Fred and Wilma Flintstone?
31. Pebbbles
32. It made its first appearance in the New York Times supplement in 1913. What?
32. The Crossword
33. He is the son of accomplished choreographer Sundaram Master. He made his first on screen appearanceas an extra in a song in the movie 'Agni Nakshatram'. Who?
33. Prabhudeva
34. What does the 31 in Baskin Robbins 31 signify?
34. That it is available in 31 favours
35. His residence is called "Neverland Ranch'. His autobiography is titled Moonwalk. Who?
35. Michael JAckson
36. What is common to Rajnikanth, Johnny Walker, John Major?
36. All were bus conductors at some point of time
37. In the Bofors case who was nicknamed 'Lotus'?
37. Rajiv Gandhi
38. His heir apparent Baby was killed a year ago. His brother Arjunan and his two associates Ayyandorai and Karanangalur Ramaswamy committed suicide. Who?
38. Veerappan
39. Which brand's new adline is 'I Can'?
39. Nike
40. Which cricketer is nicknamed 'Jammy' because his father used to work in Kissan?
40. Rahul Dravid
41. His middle name is Fauntleroy. His father's name is Quackmore. Who?
41. Donald Duck
42. He made his debut as a stunt double for Bruce Lee because Lee refused to jump from 30 feet for a sequence. Who?
42. Jackie Chan
43. Who is the only real life character to appear in Tintin comics?
43. Al Capone
44. Who was the target of the Jackal in the 'Day of the Jackal'?
44. Charles De GAulle
45. One of the two main components of the dowry given by Catherine Braganza to Charles I was the Moroccan city of Tangiers. What was the other?
45. Bombay
46. Abandoned in front of a cathedral, he was brought up by a priest. His name in Latin means 'half formed'. He became the church bell ringer by the age of 14 and lost his hearing as a result. He was dubbed the'Pope of Fools'. Who?
46. Quasimodo, the Hunchback of Notre Dame
47. Which animal gets its name, from Tamil, because it supposedly has the strength to kill an elephant?
47. Anaconda
48. What does the NE in the Premier 118 NE stand for?
48. Nissan Engine
49. Under what category does the Guinness Book of Records enter itself?
49. As the most stolen book from Libraries
50. This linguist knows 13 languages. He recently released a semi-autobiography titled 'The Insider'. Who?
50. P.V. Narasimha Rao
51. The video of which recent chartbuster is based on Indiana Jones?
51. Aqua's Dr. Jones
52. Who represents the constituency of Gurdaspur in the current Lok Sabha?
52. Vinod Khanna
53. His father was the dreaded dacoit Bhairav Singh. He is the founder chief of the Citizens Security Force. Who?
53. Bahadur
54. Who would you find with Raveena Tandon on the cover of the latest issue(Aug 98) of Filmfare?
54. Ricky MArtin
55. Which popular comic character made his first appearance in Pep Comics No. 22 in Dec 1941?
55. Archie
56. What did the Romanian Govt. ban in 1935 saying that it frightened children?
56. Mickey Mouse
57. Who wrote romantic novels under the pen name Mary Clarissa Westmacott?
57. Agatha Christie
58. What was the football world cup trophy called before it was renamed the FIFA trophy?
58. Jules Rimet Cup
59. If you were 'oscitating' what would you be doing?
59. Walking backwards
60. Who, at a Nobel awards banquet, wished that the dinner could have been packed and carried to the more needy back home?
60. Mother TEresa
61. India is developing an ICBM called Surya and also an underwater missile. What is it called?
61. Sagarika
62. Who is the host of a new Star Plus chat show called "Not a nice man to know" which is also the title ofhis autobiography?
62. Kushwant Singh
63. In Hindu myth it is referred to as the Pralaya, in Christianity as Armageddon. What is it referred to as in Islam?
63. Qayamat
64. A famous lexicographer upon being approached by a lady thanking him for omitting 4-letter words from his dictionary, is said to have replied with consternation “ So you have been looking for them madam”. Who?
64. Noah Webster
65. What is the German word for ‘store’ or ‘storehouse’?
65. Lager, therefore Lager beer
66. If your IQ is below 20, you are an ‘idiot’, if it is between 20 and 49 you are an ‘imbecile’. What are you if it is between 50 and 69?
66. Moron
67. What is a ‘Mexican breakfast’?
67. A glass of water with a cigarette
68. In the world of Indian fiction, who won the ‘All India Rifle Competition’ in 1975?
68. Feluda
69. “We contemplate the ultimate reality which is in the earth, the sky, the heaven, Let us bring our minds to meditate in the glory of the divine earth. May truth inspire our reflection“. This is the last prayer of a cult. Which one?
69. Heaven’s Gate
70. Which sportsman’s name is a corruption of the title ‘Ayo Dele’ which means ‘Joy in the house’ and was bestowed upon him by his Nigerian father while it got corrupted due to a mispronunciation by his Scottish mother?
70. Daley Thompson
71. In Greek myth when Theseus offered to kill the Minotaur, Ariadne, Daughter of the King of Crete gave him a thread to help him find his way back from the Minotaur’s dwelling. What word came into English language from this?
71. Clue
72. What commodity was originally called a ‘delirious drug’ in France and ‘a product that causes the shrivelled look of the orient’ in Germany?
72. Tea
73. Where in the world would you find the only digital Rolex clock?
73. Wimbledon Centre Court
74. She works 10-12 hours a day. She smokes 5 packets of cigarettes a day while working. She is the daughter of the renowned poet, Manish Ghatak and niece of director Ritwik Ghatak. She runs a tribal welfare organisation called ‘Paschim Bangla Keriya Sabar Kalyan Samiti’. Who?
74. Mahashweta Devi
75. ‘RUPTUREWORT’ is the largest word that can be made from the letters on the first row of a typewriter. What is the second largest?
75. Typewriter
76. What is the female equivalent of a ‘runway’?
76. Catwalk
77. The fusion of the Chinese ‘Yin’ and ‘Yang’ is the symbol of which organisation in India?
77. Doordarshan
78. Who is the first Indian to be appointed the Master of the Trinity College at Oxford?
78. Amartya Sen, now Nobel laureate
79. What did Winston Churchill describe as ‘an ineffectual attempt to direct an uncontrollable object into an inaccessible hole with instruments ill-adapted for the purpose’?
79. Golf
80. In Table Tennis a ball is so spun on the table that the opponent does not reach it. This inspired a person named Bosanquet to invent something. What?
80. The Googly in cricket
81. He was recently in India to inaugurate the India Internet World exhibition in Delhi. Originally from Bangalore, he was the co-founder of the popular Hotmail free e-mail service which he sold to Microsoft for $400 million last year. Who?
81. Sabeer Bahtia
82. It’s official name is ‘The Albert Victor Conservatory’ and is spread over an area of 2180 sq.m. What are we talking about?
82. The Glass House at lalbagh, Bangalore
83. This person originally had the surname ‘Little’. Influenced by Elijah Mohd., he joined the Nation of Islam. After a pilgrimage to Mecca, he returned under the name G Haj Malik el Shahbazz, a Sunni Muslim. Who?
83. Malcolm X
84. In a fit of madness this person killed his wife Megara and their children. In order to atone for his sins he did something. Who and what?
84. Hercules and he performed the 12 tasks
85. He was named so because he was born in the same year as that his father first tasted success, in the movie ‘Choti Behan’. He cleaned carpets, worked on an oil rig and on a horse farm. He is now settled as a farmer in New Zealand. Who?
85. Lucky Ali
86. Its predecessor was codenamed ‘Chicago’. Its codename was ‘Memphis’. It was released about two months ago after a delay of nearly a year. What are we talking about?
86. Windows 98
87. A 2 word answer: The first word is the common name for a South American shrub whose dried leaves are chewed as a stimulant. The second word is a West African tree whose seed is used as a condiment and tonic.
87. Coca Cola
88. ‘The god of wind brought about the winds of change in India’. What was once advertised thus?
88. Maruti
89. Which literary personality’s last work was ‘The Phoenix and the Turtle’?
89. William Shakespeare
90. In Phantom comics what are the names of the Phantom’s two pet dolphins?
90. Solomon and Nefertiti
91. Who recently won the “Businessperson of the Year” Award for 1998 instituted by The Economic Times newspaper?
91. N. Chandrababu NAidu, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh
92. About which music group did the legendary Phil Spector remark “ The only difference between a pornographic movie and them is that the pornographic movie has better music”
92. The Spice Girls
93. In the film Mr. And Mrs. 55 Guru Dutt was a cartoonist. Who actually drew the cartoons?
93. Bal Thackeray
94. His wife said of him “he is frightened of the titles and degrees on peoples visiting cards” and his card reads ‘ senior shoe salesman’. Who?
94. Thomas J. Bata
95. It is called ‘deuce’ in English, ‘egalite’ in French. What is it in German?
95. Einstein
96. So sure were the distributors of the success of this film , that they split up the film into 20 minute segments for a kids morning show. Which film?
96. Star Wars
97. If you were engaged in an altercation with a friend and he gave you a ‘circum orbital Hemotopo’ what would you have?
97. A black eye.
98. What is referred to as ‘blue sky research’?
98. Spending enormous amounts of money on futile projects like finding out why the sky is blue etc.
99. What do psychologists define as ‘a disorder in which strongly felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longing often of a perverse nature’?
99. Love
100. Locals affectionately refer to it as ‘bobby’. It is 90 ft long, has a sinuous body, tail, snake like head and a long neck. What?
100. The Loch Ness Monster.
101. According to legend Allah has 1001 names. To be good men, men need know only 1000 names. Who is the only one to know all 1001 names?
101. The Camel
102. What contribution did a vague movie by name ‘Rooplekha’ make to Indian cinema?
102. First movie with a flashback sequence.
103. The word ‘stadium’ comes from ‘stade’ a unit of distance. What was the unit?
103. The distance that Hercules could walk holding his breath.
104. In Asterix comic Unhygienix buys a plot of land from Obelix. How do we supposedly know this land today?
104. As Stonehenge.
105. Which day to day medical term is derived from the Latin for Cow?
105. Vaccination.
106. Based on Hamlet, it was the first English movie to be dubbed into Zulu and was also the first English movie not to feature a single human. Which movie?
106. The Lion King
107. It was believed that the devil was present at all important occasions during the medieval period. What practice arose from this?
107. The practice of clinking glasses to toast. They believed that the sound made was similar to church bells which scared the Devil away.
108. When King George first met him he asked him ‘Tell me , how did you pee’? Who are we talking about?
108. Sir Charles Lindbergh
109. She is a graduate of the National School of Drama . She replaced Mita Vashist in her most celebrated role to date. She is also starring in Kamal Hassan’s under-production film ‘Ladies Only’. Who
109. Seema Biswas.
110. What is common to hearty, Patiala, silent, cocktail, open heart, dancing and round?
110. All are types of laughter.
111. If you were playing with the Devil’s Book what would you be doing?
111. Playing cards.
112. In medieval times, in Europe, 1/3 of taxes went to the King, 1/3 to the nobility and 1/3 to the common man. How is this immortalised?
112. Through the nursery rhyme ‘Baa Baa Black Sheep’
113. Born with the body of a mastiff, looks of a lamb, teeth of a bunny rabbit and is one of those mutations that happen when God plays dice. Who or What are we talking about?
113. Ronaldo
114. Following the demolition of the Babri Masjid, there were many debates in Parliament regarding what to be done with the disputed land. One of the most popular suggestions came from a first time M.P. from Uttar Pradesh who suggested that a sweet shop be built there. What was his logic?
114. Rama + Babri = Rabri which was a sweetmeat.
115. This bird has the unique distinction of being called by the names of two different countries in different parts of the world. Give both names.
115. Turkey and Peru in Latin America.
116. “There was neither non-exist nor exist. There was neither the realm of space nor the sky beyond”. Opening lines of what?
116. The Rig Veda.
117. In February 1935, the superpolyamide formed from hexamethylene diamine and adipic acid was made by Du Pont. How do we know this compound better?
117. As Nylon
118. This person wrote about himself thus :"Principal virtues : keeps his nails clean. Principal faults : that he has no family, is bad tempered and has a poor digestion. One and only wish : Not to be buried alive. Greatest sin : that he does not worship Mammon. Important events in his life : None". Who?
118. Alfred Nobel
119. There's a story that, around 1600, two children were playing with lenses in a shop in Middleburg. What resulted, according to the story, from the game?
119. The telescope. They were playing in Hans Lippershey's shop. Lippershey is considered to be the probable inventor of the telescope. By holding together the two lenses, the children found, they could magnify the objects kept in the shop. This led Lippershey to construct the telescope.
120. What was patented by Hippolyte Mege Mouries in 1869, after he was commissioned by the Victualing Department of the French Navy to find an alternative for butter at a time of acute butter shortage?
120. Margarine
121. They began to appear in quantities in the 1860s. "I hate those redbreasts", cried "Punch" in 1869. In 1877 "The Times" magazine declared them a great social evil, and it was following difficulties with them in 1879 that the London Post Office in 1880 cried out "Post Early". What are we talking about?
121. Christmas Cards
122. His first voyage, in 1607, was intended to find a quick way to China by way of the North Pole, but resulted instead in the establishment of the Spitzbergen whale fisheries. In 1608, in the service of the Dutch East India Company, he sailed 150 miles past the site of New York, but returned back. In 1610, he explored the site that is now known by his name and was frozen in it. Who?
122. Henry Hudson, of Hudson Bay
123. A man by name Friedrich Froebel, walking with two of his disciples over the Steiger Pass on the way to the village of Blankenburg, scratched his head for the right name to give the institution, and then suddenly shouted out "Eureka ! I have it ! It shall be called _______________!". Fill in the blank.
123. Kindergarten. Froebel, the German educational reformer was the inventor of the Kindergarden system of education.
124. Back in 1890, Johnson & Johnson put together the first of its kind in response to a plea from railroad workers who needed treatment on the scene as they toiled to lay tracks across America. What?
124. First Aid kits
125. To the Hopi Indians, who feared it and filled it with frightening myths, it was the trail made by the God Ta-Vwoats when he took a mourning chief to find his wife in the other world; the river associated with it, according to them was an addition to hold back the unworthy. What?
125. The Grand Canyon and the River Colorado.
126. An author, as a sign of gratitude to the nurse who had cared for his firstborn child, gave a script and asked her to sell it when she was in need of money. Years later, when the nurse was really in want of money, she sold it and lived in comfort for the rest of her life. The manuscript was the first part of a famous work of this author Name the book and author?
126. Rudyard Kipling and the Jungle Book
127. Though Magellan is regarded as the first person to circumnavigate the world, technically he was not, and it was a person by name Juan Sebastian del Cano, who is technically the first circumnavigator. Why?
127. Magellan, while on the expedition, was killed in a squabble with the natives in the Philippines, and it was Cano who assumed command of the expedition and sailed the expedition through the rest of its journey
128. In the United States, currently a small stock of this exists at only one location - at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia. Some additional stocks are available in Great Britain, Russia and China. Stocks of what?
128. The Small pox virus
129. Masaru Ibuka, after graduating in engineering, failed the entry examination for lifetime employment at Toshiba, and decided to start his own small business. He was fortunate to find a partner who had a flair for finance and salesmanship. Who was this partner?
129. Akio Morita. They together started the company that later became Sony.
130. US banned her entry calling her ‘a communist good’. She was kept in On her journey to the USA from China she got into trouble when the London for time’s sake and became a major attraction there. Who?
130. Chi-Chi the Panda, who became the mascot of the WWF
131. The comic character Yogi Bear lives in a national park that takes its name from the world’s first national park. Name both.
131. Jellystone and Yellowstone
132. The byline of which company, rather ironically went ‘What we do will touch your lives in some way everyday’?
132. Union Carbide Limited (Bhopal Gas Tragedy)
133. Cubatao, in Brazil has certain epithet because it is the world’s most polluted place. What epithet?
133. The Valley of Death
134. Which popular brand takes its name from a particular species of deer native to South Africa?
134. Reebok
135. Which metal was responsible for the fatal brain disease that affected people eating fish caught from the Minamata Bay off the Japanese island of Kyushu?
135. Mercury
136. What is the claim to fame of a body called the Dasohli Gram Swarajya Mandali?
136. Pioneered the Chipko movement
137. A certain kind of bird called Storm Petrels are named after St. Peter. Why?
137. Because they can walk on water
138. The largest flower in the world is named after the person who forced Lord Minto to occupy Java and was at one time the keeper of the London Zoo. We know him best for a city that he founded. Name him and the flower?
138. Sir Stamford Thomas Raffles and the Rafflesia arnoldi
139. In which book would you find the lines ‘All animals are equal but some animals are more equal’.
139. George Orwell’s ‘Animal farm’
140. The Indian television series ‘Living on the edge’ was the first in Asia to win the prestigious Panda Award. By what popular name is this award known?
140. The Green Oscar
141. Which animal is mentioned as the teacher of Yudhishthira in the Mahabharatha?
141. The Mongoose
142. Which comic character cannot stand trees being cut down?
142. Dogmatix of Asterix
143. Which Banking and Finance corporate major recently tied up with the WWF to issue special WWF branded credit cards wherein the company would donate a certain amount of money on the customer’s behalf to WWF everytime he used the card?
143. Citibank
144. A few years ago a certain insect called the Mexican Beetle was imported into Bangalore in large numbers. Why?
144. To eradicate the weed Parthenium
145. India’s premier environmental magazine is edited by activist Bittu Sahgal. Name it.
145. Sanctuary
146. Who said ‘A nation’s wealth, its real wealth can be gauged by its tree cover ‘?
146. Richard St. Barbe Baker, ‘The Man of Trees’
147. Who is the patron saint of ecology?
147. St. Francis
148. Of which media powerhouse is the Discovery Channel a division?
148. Disney
149. Who authored a bestseller ‘Overload’ which is concerned with a fight between environmentalists and an engineer over the building of a thermal power station?
149. Arthur Hailey
150. This American industrialist donated about 1/5th of his property to WWF in return for which the WWF gives an annual Wildlife Conservation Prize to individuals and organisations for distinguished service to the cause of conservation, in his name. Who?
150. J. Paul Getty
1. Which ancient Indian text contains rules and regulations on how to run a protected forest or a ‘abhayaranya’?
1. Kautilya’s Arthashastra
2. The oldest of the species is supposedly more than 600 years old and is found in Kerala’s Perambikulam game sanctuary. Now it is a primary component for reforestation and its bark and flowers are used as medicine for Bronchitis. Its name originated in Malayalam and entered Portuguese to mean ‘carpenter’. Which tree?
2. The Teak
3. This tree was supposedly brought to India from Sri Lanka by Hanuman when he was carrying messages from Sita. He felt so delighted by it that he threw the seeds on what is presently Maharashtra. Which tree?
3. The Mango
4. What is the area adjoining the Kuntipuzha river in Kerala called?
4. The Silent Valley
5. Which comic achieved the distinction of being the first to be printed on recycled paper as early as the mid 80s?
5. Archie Comics
6. Petra Kelly founded a political party in Germany whose agenda is conservation. Name the party.
6. The Greens Party
7. Who was the star of a film “Grime goes green’ along with John Cleese?
7. Prince Charles
8. The first environmentally conscious community are found in Rajasthan and get their name from the fact that the follow 29 commandments?
8. The Bishnois
9. If you were a Gargencian with whom would you mate?
9. The Amazon tribe
10. Carl Sagan headed a research team called TTAPS which introduced a phrase into the English language. What phrase?
10. Nuclear Winter
11. In an irony of war in the Gulf, a US owned tanker flying a Pan American flag carrying Iranian oil struck a mine off Fujirah port in UAE and caused an oil slick, the first in the Indian Ocean. Name the ship.
11. Texaco Carribean
12. In 1992, At the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro two countries, rather incongruously announced they would resume whale hunting. Name them.
12. Iceland and Norway
13. What was E.P.Gee referring to in his book ‘Wildlife of India’ when he wrote ‘ There are floating islands in Burma, Kashmir and North America that I have heard of. But I think ________ is the only floating wildlife sanctuary in the world. Fill in the blank.
13. Keibul Lamjao floating sanctuary in Manipur
14. Sir John Randel and H.A.H. Bart of Birmingham University invented the magnetron for use in Britain’s radar system during WW II. It produced waves of 12 cm long frequency 2450 Hz. A company called Raytheon Inc. patented the concept in 1945. What did it do with the concept?
14. It Made microwave ovens.
15. This phrase originated from the name of a tax levied on the Irish by the Danes in the 9th century. Those who did not pay had this part of the body cut off. What is the phrase?
15. To Pay through the nose. The nose of those who did not pay was cut off.
16. This artist declared "I am still a victim of Chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialised. Chess is much purer than art in its social position." Another time he commented that "while all artists are not chess players all chess players are artists. He gave up chess in the 1920s to pursue full time painting. Who?
16. Marcel Duchamp, who painted the 1911 painting ‘The Chess Players’.
17. In evolutionary theory parlance, what is this phenomenon called - "All organisms are evolving at a furious pace just to stay in the same balance"?
17. The Red Queen phenomenon. In Alice in Wonderland, the red Queen tells Alice to run as fast as possible just to stay where she is.
18. Since 1982, the English Department at San Jose University has sponsored the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction contest, encouraging writers to submit the worst possible opening sentence for a novel. This is in honour of Edward Bulwer-Lytton who had a famous line to open his 1830 novel ‘Paul Clifford’. What was the line?
18. It was a dark and stormy night.
19. What does a ‘u in a small circle ‘ on a food product signify?
19. That it is a Kosher food product. The u is a stamp of approval from the union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America that the product is prepared for use according to Jewish dietary laws.
20. When Sir Alec Bedser was knighted he remarked. " I suppose no bowler has been knighted since _____." Who?
20. Francis Drake.
21. Who wrote the following lines and what was he referring to - "It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don’t go out with ____. The Almighty has said, no doubt: Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together."?
21. Mark Twain - Halley’s Comet. (1835-1910) He wrote this in 1909.
22. Sunil Gavaskar scored one century against Karnataka in the Ranji Trophy. What was strange about it?
22. He played left handed during the course of the innings because the wicket was turning.
23. Why are HAM actors called HAM actors?
23. Because in early days extras used Ham for make up while the costly make-up was reserved for the stars.
24. He holds the record for being Christchursh College’s longest staying Dean. HE was co-author of the Scot Greek dictionary and a revised version of Passawo’s Greek German Dictionary. HE got into trouble later in his life when he was forced to remove a Greek word meaning "to thrust a radish up the fundament’. Which was a punishment for adulterer’s in ancient Greece. Who?
24. John Liddell.
25. When the Skipper doll was introduced in the market a major controversy followed because of a fad which caught on called the "Skipper Salute’ What was it?
25. The doll was so designed that when you turned her arms her waist became smaller and the breasts became larger and the toy became taller and people began trying this with their wife etc.
26. The first German colony in Transylvania was said to have been established in the 1380s as a result of about 130 people migrating across the Koppellberg Hill from a place in Westphalia. Who were these people?
26. Rattenfanger- Pied Piper of Hamelin. These were the children who were led away by him.
27. In the year 1775, Paul Revere made his historic ride to Lexington. With him was a drummer boy who assisted him at the age of 10. The boy later attained international fame and was immortalised by the artist James Montgomery Flagg. Who?
27. Sam Wilson - Uncle Sam.
28. Hengist desired to have a friendly meeting with Vortigern who in turn fell upon him with his army and put to death Hengist and his entire coterie of attendants. Aurelius Ambrosious requested the Court Advisor to recommend a memento for this event . What was the memento?
28. The Stonehenge.
29. The Abott of Glastonbury at the time of the Dissolution of the monasteries sent the deeds of the mAnor of Mells to King Henry VIII concealed. The steward carrying the package knew of the contents extracted it and ended up owning the manor. How is this event immortalised?
29. By the nursery rhyme Little Jack Horner. (He put in his thumb and pulled out a plum)
30. King Louis IX , later St. Louis was so upset by the fact that people swore using the nam of God like ‘ pardieu’, etc. that he banned these words which resulted in the introduction of a few more words in the language. Which words and how?
30. They cursed using the name of Bleu (the King’s dog). Hence words like ‘sacre bleu’ came in to the language.
31. Henri Matisse’s ‘Le Bateau’ hung in New York’s Museum of Modern Art for days in 1961. 116,000 people watched and appreciated it and then on the 48th day a major error was noticed. What?
31. It was hung upside down.
32. He was Jack Dempsey’s sparring partner. Later in life Jack Dempsey in his autobiography confessed that the only time he was knocked out was in an altercation informally with him over a girl. Who is the person?
32. J.Paul Getty.
33. He was cited to play the role that Nirmal Pandey finally played in Bandit Queen, and then was relegated to play the role of Man Singh. His favourite author is Shakespeare as he shares his birthday with him .Who?
33. Manoj Bajpai
34. Its now considered a path breaking concept in humour psychology. Its called the Stephen Hawking syndrome. Its making great news in Britain and every psychologist presents his patient with a poster of Hawking at the beginning of the treatment. What is it all about?
34. Impotent people are given Stephen Hawking’s poster cause he has 5 children inspite of his disabilities and if he could do it you can do it kind of inspiration.
35. The Jain Dilwara temples at Mt.Abu are incomparable in detail and ornamentation . But this is supposed to have been the side result of a unique idea of the Maharaja . What?
35. The rule was that payment in Silver would be equal to the weight of marble filed and cut out. Hence the workers chose to file instead of carve sice they could make more silver that way.
36. One pf the current managemant acronyms in vogue amongst B-school graduates is FIB or Fire in Belly referrring to young, raring to go managers. What is FIPB?
36. Fire in Pot Belly for fat, middle aged managers
37. Amrita devi, a member of the Bishnoi tribe was killed by the soldiers of the Maharaja of Jodhpur. What was she doing at the time of her death and what did It trigger?
37. She was hugging a tree preventing it from being cut and it started the Chipko movement..
38. King Janamejaya once conducted a Snake Sacrifice at the city of Taxila in order to ward of a curse on his Grandfather Pareekshit. What event of great significance occurred here?
38. It was here that the Mahabharata was recited for the first time ever to man by Vaishampayana pupil of Veda Vyasa.
39. The inventor of this concept was Francis Bacon. He called it the biliteral cipher. How has it been immortalised now?
39. It originally was used to assist the secret service of the queen. The Binary system
40. In 1987, the Low Pay Unit of Britain instituted this award. In the I year a Wiltshire stable owner who paid a qualified groom only 28 pounds a week and runners up was a doctor who paid his telephonist only 30p. Name the award?
40. The Scrooge Prize.
41. This person’s first foray into show business was in a popular wild west show where she demonstrated her sharp shooting skills to Annie Oakley. Buffalo Bill who was the organiser offered this 16 year old a job. Who?
41. Florenze Ziegfield.
42. This word has its origin from Hungarian from the fact that the Hungarian King Crathias Corvinus used to enlist one horseman from every 20 houses. which word?
42. Hussars from Hungarian for 20.
43. This person went into debt and was sued by the Theological Society in the late 1700s for maligning a household name. He fought back and lost and his house , tools and workplace were confiscated. Who is this guy?
43. Johann Gutenberg
44. In corporate jargon who are referred to as ‘Whistle blowers’?
44. Those who reveal company secrets.
45. Directed by Martin Scorcese it was part inspired by the life of Edmund Perry gifted Black Graduate of Philips Exater Academy whose violet death revealed a violent and troubled existence?
45. BAD the video.
46. ‘Modern Times ‘ was the remake of a French Movie ‘A nous la liberte’ by Rene Clair. Since it was made under a German banner J Goebbels wanted to sue Chaplin but couldn’t as Rene Clair refused to support him. Why?
46. Rene Clair refused saying that he was honoured to have inspired Chaplin.
47. At the Karnidevi Temple in Rajasthan they are worshipped as the deity’s descendants. They are referred to as Kabas (Marwari for children). This temple was ordered to be closed during the plague? Why?
47. Because the prasad at the temple is given only after the rats have tasted it.
48. During the Ayodhya riots, many solutions were put across in Parliament to solve the crisis. But one of the unique ones was from a MP from Up who suggested that a sweet shop be built on the disputed land selling only one product. What?
48. Rabri - Ra, Bri (rama and Babri)
49. One of the earliest use of the beep to censor was when a US television Network presented a live telecast of the trials of the Nazi judges who had allowed the atrocities during the WW II What was being censored?
49. American National Gas tried to censor the word gas since they were the sponsors.
50. This person was the inventor of the first Alarm Clock. When the time was reached a bell would peal and a lighted lamp would come out. He was decorated for his application of electricity to docks by the French Govt. in 1855. Who?
50. Jean Eugene Houdin after whom Houdini takes his name.
51. In the early1860s a New York firm offered a prize of $10,000 for a satisfactory substitute of making billiards balls. It was won by John Wellessley Hayack. What did he invent?
51. The first synthetic plastic - celluloid.
52. The Matshushita company is the pioneer of the worker control room. Seeing the rise in popularity most Japanese companies have adopted it. What is this concept?
52. Dummies of foremen are hit by workers to give vent to their frustration on Friday evenings.
53. " Some day they will go down together, And they will bury them side by side. To a few it means grief, To the law its relief, But its death to ________." Fill in the blank.
53. Bonnie and Clyde.
54. This person as a cub reporter of the Times of India in 1944 had the memorable assignment of interviewing Mahatma Gandhi which he says was the most inspiring moment of his life. Who?
54. K.R.Narayanan
55. ‘Pheri Betaunia’ was the first movie of which Bollywood actress?
55. Manisha Koirala. It was a Nepali movie
56. The first person from Harvard University to be knighted has a street in London named after him. Who?
56. Sir George Downing and Downing Street.
57. This phrase, originated from the name of a British clothes shop, where men could buy their suits and everything else required for their outfits. It originally meant just the opposite of what it means today. What phrase?
57. The Full Monty. The name of the shop was Montague-Burton’s.
58. The film ‘Bobby’ which resurrected Raj Kapoor after the mega debacle of Mera Naam Joker was based on a script originally written in Tamil by whom?
58. Murasoli Maran
59. Tazio Secchiaroli, a photographer died in June this year. What is his claim to fame?
59. He was the original paparazzo who inspired the Paparazzo in Fellini’s La Dolce Vita.
60. Minutes before his death, he had his will testified in which he said, "My ashes may be sunk in the holy Sindhu river, when she will again flow freely under the aegis of the flag of a unified Hindustan. It hardly matters even if it took a couple of generations for realising my wish. Preserve the ashes till then.." Who?
60. Nathuram Godse.
61. This French company started publishing a road guide. As it became popular it soon started reviewing the hotels and inns on the major routes. Name this company and what was the outcome of this practise?
61. The company was Michelin Tyres and The Star Ratings came out of it.
62. M.M.Hasham’s family business of Rice exports was lost when the Government nationalised it in 1941. Undeterred he plunged into the oil business and founded Western India Vegetable Products. In 1947, during partition he was offered a ministerial post by Jinnah if he went to Pakistan. But he chose to stay on in India. At the time of his death in 1967 his company had done reasonably well had two popular oil brands Sunflower and Camel. His son took over the business and entered a new field in which it is the leader today. How do we know this company?
62. WIPRO
63. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All play and no work makes him a ___ ___. Fill in the blanks.
63. a mere toy.
64. Which term was coined by Don Hoeffler in 1971 writing in "electronic News’ describing a particular area of the USA?
64. Silicon Valley.
65. Gandhiji’s ashes were carried on a scheduled train from Allahabad to Delhi for immersion. But something was different about the train on that journey. What?
65. There were no first and second class coaches since Gandhiji always travelled by third class.
66. Which Indian musical instrument’s name when translated into English means Royal Flute?
66. Shehnai
67. According to Islamic lore , two lumps of clay were left after God created the universe. One was fashioned into the camel. What happened to the other?
67. It became the date palm tree.
68. Which invention of confectioner George Smith was named after a famous race horse of the early 20th Century?
68. Lollipop
69. Dwight Davis was the secretary of war during the regime of Edgar J. Hoover. What is his claim to fame?
69. The Davis Cup is named after him.
70. Why are Bill Clinton and Pamela Anderson in the Guinness Book?
70. Most mentioned male and female names on the Internet.
71. The oaths in Christianity were always taken by the name of the Lord’s mother. Hence all agreements were taken to be true and definite when this phrase was uttered. Which word came from this practise?
71. Marry from Virgin Mary
72. What was originally built by King Joonkar as a wedding gift for his wife Sheba, queen of Tigra so that he could spend the first night of his marriage with her, there?
72. The Jade Hut at Keela Wee in Phantom
73. In feudal times peasants were not allowed to climb trees or cut them down for firewood by the landlords. They could use only branches lying on the ground or those that they could pull down. How do we remember this practise?
73. By the phrase ‘By hook or crook’. The peasants used a hook to pull down branches and a crook to gather those on the ground.
74. The Houston Astrodome was the first place where it was tested and was appreciated by the teams who took part in a local baseball match. What?
74. Astroturf
75. The HAM operators creed has been now adopted by a product as its ad-line. Product and line?
75. ‘One world. One Language’ and Durex Condoms.
76. Whose advertisement in the London Times read "Are you happy? If not consult _____ , 17, Richmond Street"?
76. Parker Pyne
77. Connect Boardwalk, Rue de la Paix, Schlossallee, Paseo De L Prado and Mayfair.
77. The costliest properties in different language versions of Monopoly.
78. This magazine was the first to feature a nude male in the centrefold under the editorship of Curly Brown. This model posed for the April 1972 edition. Model and Magazine?
78. Burt Reynolds and Cosmopolitan.
79. It was originally made of wood. The revised version was initiated by Sir Peter Colechurch. and was finally completed in 1831. It was designed by John Rennie and cost 1,458,000 Pounds. What?
79. The London Bridge
80. What is the Celtic word for ‘bush’?
80. Perth
81. Fill in the blank in this work of John Derrick(1593) -" ……. free school of Gulderforde, he and his fellowes did runne and play there at ________ and other plaies."
81. Cricket. The first recorded use of the word.
82. She made her debut in ‘Raja Ki Aayegi Baarat’ and was suppose to play Priety Zinta’s role in Dil Se.. . Who?
82. Rani Mukherjee
83. 22 of the world’s best cricketers battled it out at Lord’s in the one-dayer between the MCC XI led by Mike Atherton and the Rest Of The World XI led by Sachin Tendulkar on July 18, 1998 (Diana Memorial Match). Why that particular date?
83. It was the 150th birth anniversary of W.G.Grace
84. It comes in two types - The English type and the Indian type. The English styled one is made of ashwood and the semi-circular extension is smaller than its Indian counterpart which is made of mulberry wood. What are we talking about?
84. A hockey stick.
86. A graduate of SSG Medical College, Baroda, he got his PhD. From Mumbai University in 1987 where his Doctorate thesis was "Anatomy of human body in Dance’. Later he got an Honorary doctorate from Zoroastrian College, Mumbai in 1990. He writes for Science Express and conducts gym classes for Bollywood Elite. Who?
86. Dr. Ali Irani, former physiotherapist of the Indian Cricket team.
87. It comes from the Phoenician word meaning ‘house’. It is said to have had its origins in a Hieroglyphic sign for a ladder and others continue to insist it comes from the sign for the crane. What?
87. The letter ‘B’.
88. If ABCDs are American Born Confused Desis, what are BBCDs?
88. Bombay born Confused Desis
89. This music group’s name is a direct dig at the British scepticism of the India Business scene in London and has its origins in an old British joke about an Indian’s attitude in setting business establishments. Name the group.
89. Corner Shop
90. On the banks of which river does Jammu stand?
90. River Tawi
91. Herodotus wrote his first book on History in the V Century B.C. Name the book.
91. History. That’s why History is called History.
92. Poor Anglo-Indians during the Raj could not afford Fowl for their Christmas dinner and instead came up with a cheaper substitute. This when blended with Indian spices tasted exactly like Fowl thus getting its English name. What?
92. Bombay Duck
93. Fill in the missing words in this epitaph found on a grave in Kirklees, Yorkshire near Halifax. – "Here underneath this Latil Staen, Laiz ______________________, Nea Arcir Ver Az Hae Sae Geud, An Pipl Kauld Him __________ , Sich Vtlaz Az He And Hizmen, VII England Nivr Si Agen"
93. The Earl of Huntingdon And Robin Hood.
94. About which music group did the legendary Phil Spector remark “ The only difference between a pornographic movie and them is that the pornographic movie has better music”?
94. The Spice girls
95. Who is also known by the title ‘Guardian of the Eastern Dark’?
95. The Phantom
96. The Leonid showers were meteors formed due to mass shed by which comet?
96. Temple Tuttle
97. His wife said of him “he is frightened of the titles and degrees on peoples visiting cards” and his card reads ‘ senior shoe salesman’. Who?
97. Thomas J. Bata
98. It is called ‘deuce’ in English, ‘egalite’ in French. What is it in German?
98. ‘Einstein’
99. So sure were the distributors of the success of this film , that they split up the film into 20 minute segments for a kids morning show. Which film?
99. Star Wars
100. If you were engaged in an altercation with a friend and he gave you a ‘circum orbital Hemotopo’ what would you have?
100. A Black Eye
101. What is referred to as ‘blue sky research’?
101. Wasting money on research to find out why the sky is blue etc. etc.
102. What do psychologists define as ‘a disorder in which strongly felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longing often of a perverse nature’?
102. Love
103. Locals affectionately refer to it as ‘bobby’. It is 90 ft long, has a sinuous body, tail, snake like head and a long neck. What?
103. The Loch Ness Monster
104. According to legend Allah has 1001 names. To be good men, men need know only 1000 names. Who is the only one to know all 1001 names?
104. The Camel
105. What contribution did a vague movie by name ‘Rooplekha’ make to Indian cinema?
105. First movie to feature a flashback sequence
106. The word ‘stadium’ comes from ‘stade’ a unit of distance. What distance was the unit equal to?
106. The distance that Hercules could run in a single breath
107. In Asterix comics Unhygienix buys a plot of land from Obelix. How do we supposedly know this land today?
107. The Stonehenge
108. It was believed that the devil was present at all important occasions during the medieval period. What practice arose from this?
108. The practise of toasting a drink, since it was believed that the clinking sound of glasses resembled a church bell’s ring and that sound would drive the devil away.
109. When King George first met him he asked him ‘Tell me , how did you pee’? Who are we talking about?
109. Sir Charles Lindbergh
110. What is common to hearty, Patiala, silent, cocktail, open heart, dancing and round?
110. All types of Laughter
111. In medieval times, in Europe, 1/3 of taxes went to the King, 1/3 to the nobility and 1/3 to the common man. How is this immortalised?
111. By the nursery rhyme ‘Baa Baa Black Sheep’
112. Born with the body of a mastiff, looks of a lamb, teeth of a bunny rabbit and is one of those mutations that happen when God plays dice. Who or What are we talking about?
112. Ronaldo, the footballer
113. This bird has the unique distinction of being called by the names of two different countries in different parts of the world. Give both names.
113. As the Turkey in the rest of the world and as Peru in Turkey
114. “There was neither non-exist nor exist. There was neither the realm of space nor the sky beyond”. Opening lines of what?
114. The Rig Veda
115. In February 1935, the superpolyamide formed from hexamethylene diamine and adipic acid was made by Du Pont. How do we know this compound better?
115. As Nylon
116. This person wrote about himself thus :"Principal virtues : keeps his nails clean. Principal faults : that he has no family, is bad tempered and has a poor digestion. One and only wish : Not to be buried alive. Greatest sin : that he does not worship Mammon. Important events in his life : None". Who?
116. Sir Alfred Nobel
117. There's a story that, around 1600, two children were playing with lenses in a shop in Middleburg. What resulted, according to the story, from the game?
117. Hans Lippershey who observed these children was inspired to invent the Telescope.
118. What was patented by Hippolyte Mege Mouries in 1869, after he was commissioned by the Victualing Department of the French Navy to find an alternative for butter at a time of acute butter shortage?
118. Margarine
119. They began to appear in quantities in the 1860s. "I hate those redbreasts", cried "Punch" in 1869. In 1877 "The Times" magazine declared them a great social evil, and it was following difficulties with them in 1879 that the London Post Office in 1880 cried out "Post Early". What are we talking about?
119. Christmas Cards
120. His first voyage, in 1607, was intended to find a quick way to China by way of the North Pole, but resulted instead in the establishment of the Spitzbergen whale fisheries. In 1608, in the service of the Dutch East India Company, he sailed 150 miles past the site of New York, but returned back. In 1610, he explored the site that is now known by his name and was frozen in it. Who?
120. Henry Hudson after whom the Hudson Bay is named
121. A man by name Friedrich Froebel, walking with two of his disciples over the Steiger Pass on the way to the village of Blankenburg, scratched his head for the right name to give the institution, and then suddenly shouted out "Eureka ! I have it ! It shall be called _______________!". Fill in the blank.
121. Kindergarten
122. Back in 1890, Johnson & Johnson put together the first of its kind in response to a plea from railroad workers who needed treatment on the scene as they toiled to lay tracks across America. What?
122. First Aid Kits
123. To the Hopi Indians, who feared it and filled it with frightening myths, it was the trail made by the God Ta-Vwoats when he took a mourning chief to find his wife in the other world; the river associated with it, according to them was an addition to hold back the unworthy. What?
123. The Grand Canyon
124. An author, as a sign of gratitude to the nurse who had cared for his firstborn child, gave a script and asked her to sell it when she was in need of money. Years later, when the nurse was really in want of money, she sold it and lived in comfort for the rest of her life. The manuscript was the first part of a famous work of this author Name the book and author?
124. The Jungle Book and Rudyard Kipling
125. Though Magellan is regarded as the first person to circumnavigate the world, technically he was not, and it was a person by name Juan Sebastian del Cano, who is technically the first circumnavigator. Why?
125. Because Magellan died halfway through the voyage, killed by the natives
126. In the United States, currently a small stock of this exists at only one location - at the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia. Some additional stocks are available in Great Britain, Russia and China. Stocks of what?
126. The Small Pox Virus
127. Masaru Ibuka, after graduating in engineering, failed the entry examination for lifetime employment at Toshiba, and decided to start his own small business. He was fortunate to find a partner who had a flair for finance and salesmanship. Who was this partner? What did they launch?
127. Akio Morita and Sony
128. He made his debut as a hero in Shah-E-Nissar and then starred in Durbar with Naseer Banu, Saira Banu’s mother but his carer never took off. His first wife was a woman by name Gwendolyn Rita de Monte. His father was a Pathan and had been honoured for his bravery by Queen Victoria in the Afghan War. His screen name was given to him by K.Amarnath with the release of Bekasoor opposite Madhubala. Who?
128. Ajit alias Hameed Ali Khan
129. This person signs his paintings using the corruption of the word ‘Au Fait’ meaning ‘its done’. The name was suggested to him by Frank Dudley Wright. He replaced Gina Lollobrigida as the Guest of Honour at the Carnival celebrations at Rio in 1965 and is the lead singer of the band ‘The 3 quarks’ with Ralph Leighton laying the drums and Tom Rutishauser playing the guitar. Who?
129. Richard Feynman
130. Whose epitaph in Newsteed reads ‘To mark a friends’ remains these stones arise, I never knew one and here he is’?
130. Botswain, Lord Byron's Dog
131. He created the first universe(different from the present world) and his personal scribe is Weneg. His eternal enemy is represented by a giant serpent. He is always represented with Uraeus the asp who spits flame and destroys god’s enemies. Who?
131. Ra, the sun god
132. “My debts amount to 3000, 300 to the Jews, 800 to Mrs. B of Nottingham, to the coachmaker and the other tradesmen a 1000 more and these must be increased before they are lessened.” To his lawyers he wrote on April 26, 1809. ‘The whole of my wishes are summed up in thes procure me, either of my own or borrowed of others , 3000 pounds,…. Allow me to depart from this cursed country and I promise to turn Mussalman rather than return to it.’ Whose words?
132. Lord Byron
133. The Teary Folliculties disease is quite prevalent among the youth of this generation. If you were suffering from it what would be the cause of this disease?
133. Wearing tight jeans
135. Born in Pasadena, he was arrested for a minor offence when he was 20. In prison he wrote a book about these experiences called ‘They tortured me to hell’. After release he went back with the name James Clark because he was afraid that the KGB would assassinate him. Who?
136. The publication of the first supplement of the Oxford Dictionary was postponed for one particular reason. What?
136. To include the word Bodyline
137. What instigated Paul Delaroche to quip, ‘from today paintings are dead’?
137. The invention of Photography
138. What is the claim to fame of Marcel Marceaus’ utterance ‘Non’ I the history of cinema?
138. Only spoken word in "The Silent Movie'
139. An author was reading the Times Literary Supplement which carried a review of ‘Human Bondage’. The author, impressed by the review took the name of his next book from it. Who and book?
139. Somerset Maugham and ‘The Moon and Sixpence’
140. An illegitimate son of a nobleman he craved for the Royal recognition he could never get from the upper classes. Trained as a chemist and a mineralogist his achievements include analysis of Zinc ores one of which, ZnCo3 is named after him. Who?
140. Jjames Smithson of Smithsonite fame
141. In the old theatres a mixture of CaCO3 and Phosphorous was used to produce effects on stage. Which phrase originates from this?
141. The term ‘In the limelight’
142. This person was almost exchanged at birth with a Koli fisherman’s family. Fatefully he was reunited with his mother when the resident doctor cracked the case of the missing mole on the bottom. He recalls the incident and muses on the possibilities of fishing in Mahim, if not for the doctor. Who?
142. Sunil Gavaskar
143. A particular hill range in Orissa is a haven for Botanists and home of some of the rarest herbs in the world and attracts experts from all over the world who conduct research there. How do we know this hill?
143. The Gandhamadhana Hill from where Hanuman obtained the Sanjeevani herb
144. What did Oliver Pollock create to be first used by the US on 1st April 1778?
144. The '$' sign
145. The Chinese have ideograms to represent ideas. What does the one with ’two women under the same roof’ represent?
145. Trouble
146. Why were Edgar Rice Burroughs’ books banned in the USA for a large part of their published life?
146. Because tarzan and Jane were unmarried and therefore living in sin
147. ‘I don’t know who you are or what you do, but I ‘am gonna get you’. Who to whom?
147. Deep blue to Gary Kasparov.
148. In cyber lingo what does ‘PEFKUSH’ stand for?
148. Push Every Fucking Key Until Something Happens
149. The walk of this animal is supposed to be sensuous to look from behind that there are instances in ancient Hindu literature asking women to follow the walk of this animal. Who is the latest woman to join this bandwagon?
149. Madhuri Dixit (Gaj Gamini)
150. ‘She is older than the rocks among which she has been dead many times and has learned the secrets of the grave and has been a diver in the deep seas and keep their falling days about her’. Mark quoted about her saying “She has the look of a woman who has had just her husband for dinner’. Who?
150. The Monalisa
1. The MIT students calculated my speed to be around 1046 km/sec, bout 3000 times the speed of light. The total load weight involved in my transfer is 321000 tonnes. 214000 living organisms of the same species are involved in my transfer. I have 918 million destinations to reach in 31 hours across 24 time zones visiting 822.6 destinations per second. Who or what am I?
Santa Claus
1. Who were the models for the campaign for safe sex initiated by Johnny condoms, the adline being ‘Appearances can be deceptive. Use Johnny condoms’.
Prince Charles and Lady Diana
2. What instrument was originally invented as a torture device to pull out nails?
2. The Screwdriver
3. Many objects in India are trademarked with the ISI stamp. What is trademarked ISI No.1?
3. The National Flag
4. ‘There is no God and Mohammed is the Prophet of God’ Where would you find this inscribed?
4. On the Saudi Arabian National Flag
5. 50 colonials and members of the committee of correspondence met at the home of a printer named Benjamin Edes at but 4 P.M. on Dec. 16, 1773. Later that evening they drank from a massive punch bowl of rum concoction which Peter, Edes’ son kept filled. After that they left to do what?
5. They attended the Boston Tea Party
6. A New York stock broker Bill W on a business trip to Akron met Doctor Bob in a pub on Jun 10, 1935 and discussed the horrible brawls they had in pubs. They decided they should do something sand about it. What id they do the next day?
6. Founded Alcoholics Anonymous
7. A total of 321,360 persons viewed his body as it lay in state at Westminster Hall for 3 days. Crowds stood 5 to 10 hours in bitter cold to see the procession to St. Paul’s Cathedral for the first ever state funeral accorded to a commoner in 50 years. Who?
7. Winston Churchill
8. On Aug 9, 1945 the US Army Air Force HQ radio station received a message from a 25 year old major in the force. It said ‘What have we done’? Who sent the message and why?
8. Paul Tibbeths who bombed Hiroshima
9. The result of an experiment at MIT went - ‘Specimen X had a specific gravity of 1.00 Specimen Y had a specific gravity of 1.06. Specific gravity of XLY. Hence QED’. What did the experiment prove?
9. That Blood is thicker than Water
10. The Texas theatre was featuring a B grade war movie ‘War is Hell’ starring Tony Russell. A man ducked into the theatre without paying the admission and drew attention from the staff. He was arrested for this. who?
10. Lee Harvey Oswald
11. The novel begins in 1648 and tells the story of Carl Emannuel Madruzzo who is the Archbishop of Trent and Prince of Trentino and of his mistress of 20 years Claudia Particella whose father is the Archbishop’s closest friend and counsellor. The peasants and priests hate Claudia and want them banished. They feel that this would make Madruzzo a better man but Madruzzo is hell bent on marrying Claudia. Name the novel or author.
11. Mussolini - 'Cardinal's Mistress'
12. His main foe was sexual passion. He tried various methods of restraint. He devised various methods, the most used amongst them being the ‘earth treatment’. Consisting of application of clear earth moistened with cold water and spread on fine linen on the abdomen and at bedtime and removed it in the day, supposed to be a radical care. Who devised this method?
12. Mahatma Gandhi
13. What was begun on 19th June, 1969 in a flat by 6 like-minded people in Bombay?
13. The Shiv Sena
14. The SB company is marketing the Bengali version of Paul Robson’s ‘We are in the same boat brother’. Who has rendered this version?
14. Saurav Ganguly
15. The Andhra Bank is the only bank in the country licensed to sell food products. Funda?
15. It sells Tirupati Laddoos
16. What connects Calcutta, San Fransisco, tennis courts and Apache Indian?
16. Tramlines
17. How does the popular pharmaceutical brand Disprin get its name?
17. Dissolvable Aspirin hence Dispirin
18. Built in 1920 by Count Zborowski on his estate near Canterbury ,England, she had a pre 1914 war chain drive, 75 horsepower, Mercedes chassis which was installed with a 6 cylinder Maybach Aero engine, same type as used in Zeppelins. She had a gray steel body with an immense polished hood 8 ft in length and weighed over 5 tons. In 1921 she won the 100 mph ghost handicap at Brooklands and again in 1922, the Lightning Ghost handicap. But in that year she met with an accident and she never raced again. What?
18. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
19. The abode of the gods was the summit of Mt. Olympus in Thessaly. A Gate of clouds was kept by a set of goddesses who opened the doors of celestials to earth and welcomed them on return. Name them.
19. The Seasons
20. Callisto was converted into an Animal by Juno as Jove was captivated by her beauty. One day she was espied but a youth whom she recognised as her son. She was inclined to embrace him but the youth seeing the animal rushing towards him took position to kill it. Jove saw this situation and prevented it. How?
20. He converted them into the Little Bear and the Great Bear
21. The Greeks believed that was a circular disc divided into 2 equal parts by sea. They also assumed that around the earth flowed a river its course being from South to North. Which sea?
21. The Mediterranean
22. “ A computer program is like a henchman of a ship charting its course through unknown waters”. This statement gave rise to a word. Which word?
22. Cybernetics
23. What word was derived from Latin for “To put away or remove flesh’ referring to the abstinence of meat during Lent.
23. Carnival
24. The Maha Kumbh Mela occurs 4 times every 12 years in 4 places Hardwar, Ujjain, Prayag and Nasik. Why these four places?
24. The four places where Garuda spilt Nectar while bringing them from the heavens
25. The King Daksha had a daughter who committed suicide as she was unable to bear the fact that her husband had not been invited to the great sacrifice when all other Gods were. Who is this and what practice takes its name from her?
25. Sati and Sati
26. King Janaka is said to have been the only King to have coined a shloka. Why did he do this?
26. The shloka recited during Kanyadaana
27. The sage Bharatha is the author of Natyashastra. But he is believed to have been taught the art by a sage who watched Shiva’s cosmic dance. Name the sage?
27. Sage Tandu (Therefore Tandava Nritya)
28. It is composed of 3 parts. Each is made up of 9 twisted strands. It can be made only from cotton, hemp or wool depending on strata. What?
28. The Sacred Thread or ‘Poonal’
29. In 1456, the first known book to be printed movable type in Europe was brought out in Mainz, Germany. Which book?
29. The Gutenberg Bible
30. This French princess was slain by her incestuous father and is the patron saint of the insane. Who?
30. Demphna
31. What first appeared in the newspaper ‘Belle life in London’ in 1835?
31. The first Chess column
32. It was created by Ub Iwerks who gave its voice too. Later its voice was given by James McDonald. It first appeared on Jan 13, 1930 with Floyd Gottfredson as writer of the column. Bob Lampett designed the doll version of it. What?
32. Mickey Mouse
33. Which instrument meaning ‘3 stringed’ in Persian was introduced by a resident of Etah district in UP. He was called Hindu Turk in his home town. Who?
33. Amir Khusro
34. How do we know Atah Mohammed Khan, husband of Hussaini, a maid in the service of Queen Mriganayanee, the widow of the king of Gwalior better?
34. Tansen
35. In the world of comics what is the Mabel Syrup’s claim to fame?
35. Author of Calvin's favourite book ' Hamster Yoiee and Goeey Kablooie'
36. In the 18th century, wealthy visitors thoroughly enjoyed the mineral springs and baths in a village in South East Belgium near the German Border. What was the village called?
36. Spa
37. This book originally came out with the adline “ A full vacations’ reading for $3” but didn’t sell because $3 was considered too expensive for it. Then it became a best seller with its alternative adline. Book or new adline?
37. Gone with the Wind
38. Who was the first sportsman to be given a memorial service at the Westminster Abbey?
38. Sir Frank Worell
39. ‘If you understand ______ completely, we failed. We wanted to raise few more questions than we answered.‘ Who about what?
39. Arthur C. Clarke on 2001-A Space Odyssey
40. He was the first sportsman to have ever modelled for any product. The product was Coleman’s Mustard. Who?
40. W.G.Grace
41. She began studying drama at the age of 11 and her first acting job was dancing with the Honey monster in a commercial for Sugar Puff cereal. Who?
41. Kate Winslet
42. This singer. For $8 an hour used to smoke cigarettes for a scientific experiment at UCLA. Who?
42. Axl Rose
43. In 1969, a world famous personality challenged Broadway in a musical version of ‘By time Buck White’, a play which described the turmoil that ensues when the militant dynamic hero arrives at the address of the beautiful Allelujah Day Soe. It flopped after running for 7 days. Who was the hero?
43. Mohammed Ali
44. Her ashes were scattered by plane over Marvin County and in her will she left $2500 ‘so that my friends can get blown when I am gone’. Who?
44. Janis Joplin
45. The legend of Romulus and Remus being suckled by the wolf has inspired two literary characters of the present day. Name both.
45. Mowgli and tarzan
46. This phrase comes into the language during medieval times where signatures in a petition were placed in a circle so as not to reveal the order in which they were signed. Which phrase?
46. Round Robin
47. Maine Pyar Kiya was released as “When Love Calls’ in English. What was released as ‘Me stud, you dud’?
47. Main Khiladi Tu Anadi
48. Hayby Mills who played twins in the ‘Parent Trap’ is the parent of musical son Crispian Mills. Which band?
48. Kula Shaker
49. It was banned in Iran for 2 reasons, one that it runs counter to Islamic spirit. The other that it damages the hips. What?
49. Rock and Roll
50. What was started as a result of a discovery made by Mackay, Fair O’Brien and Flood.?
50. The Gold Rush
51. During the American Civil War, temporary Telegraph wires were set up on trees for speedy processing of info. Which phrase came as a result of this?
51. From the Grapevine
52. Which consumer good gets its name from the Latin word for ‘Vigour’?
52. Vim
53. The poem “The old man’s daughter’ and how he gained them by Robert Southey has been parodied by a famous author. The parody being more famous than the original. Which one?
53. Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland
54. Whose motto is ‘Best Care Anywhere’?
54. MASH 4077
55. Which magazine’s first issue carried a special message from the editor on the cover saying “Please buy this magazine’?
55. MAD
56. IN 1932, Japan planned to kill 2 Americans with a view of provoking them to war. One was Joseph Curran, the American Ambassador. Who Was the other?
56. Charlie Chaplin
57. The title of which music album was inspired by a series of paintings by Hiroshima survivors?
57. U2's Unforgettable Fire
58. Which music group gets its name from a sadomasochistic novel by Michael Leigh?
58. Velvet Underground
59. During the Gulf War, all low brow condom manufacturing companies in the US received major bulk orders resulting in a great financial rejuvenation. Why were these bulk orders placed all of a sudden?
59. To prevent sand from getting into the nozzles of Guns
60. Which English word comes from Cambridge slang for room or chamber mate?
60. Chum
61. ‘He who paints the sky Green and the grass blue must be sterilised’. Who on whom?
61. Hilter on Picasso
62. His autobiography is ‘My Story’ and he starred in the movie ‘Le Boheur est dans le pre’. Who?
62. Eric Cantona
63. Recitation of Rig Veda, Music of the Sama Veda , mime of the Yajur Veda and sentiments of the Atharva Veda came together to form what?
63. Bharatanatyam
64. The first Pestilence rode a white horse and carried a bow ready to conquer, war rode a red horse carrying a sword. Famine rode a black horse and then came a grey horse with death on it. How do we know them better?
64. Horsemen of the Apocalypse
65. Whose epitaph ‘The philosophers have only interpreted the world in different ways, the point however is to change it. Workers of all lands unite.’?
65. Karl Marx
66. What was first advocated in a booklet by the name of ‘A memory of Solferino’?
66. The Red Cross
67. Aware of the unpopularity of his job, a German tax collector of Apolda in Thuringia developed in the 1880s an especially fierce breed of dogs to help him on his rounds and this breed takes its name from him. Which one?
67. Doberman
68. Which comic character is also known by the name Marquis De Gorgonzola?
68. Rastapopoulos
69. Who translated the ‘Jabberwocky’ for Alice in ‘Through the looking glass’?
69. Humpty Dumpty
70. Darrell Waters first’ book was ‘A Child Whispers’, a book of poems. How do we know her better?
70. Enid Blyton
71. John Bunyan once said’ Sin will prevent you from reading this book or this book will prevent you from sinning’. Which book?
71. The Bible
72. Whose said ‘There, where I have passed, the grass will not grow again’?
72. Attilla the Hun
73. Who advertised with the line’ Only the umpires have a closer view’?
73. Channel Nine
74. Sachin Tendulkar's father-in-law Anand Mehta is a national champion in which sport?
74. Bridge
75.How does Sachin Tendulkar get the name Sachin?
75. He was given the name by his brother Ajit because his(Ajit's) favourite composer was Sachin Dev (S D) Burman.
76.This year SRT broke his own world record of scoring max runs in ODIs in a calendar year. How much did he score?
76. 1894
77. SRT has endorsed three brands of shoes. The well-known ones are Adidas and Action. Which is the third?
77. Power
78. In which tournament did SRT put up a world record score of 664 with Vinod Kambli?
78. Harris Shield
79. On his ODI debut he scored 0, how much did he score on his test debut?
79. 15
80. In the early 1990s SRT was frequently but incorrectly linked with a Bollywood starlet several times in the gossip mags. Who was she?
80. Shilpa Shirodkar
81. SRT and Azhar appeared together in an ad for which product(excluding Pepsi where they appeared along with Kambli)?
81. Luna
82. When he opened the innings for the first time in ODIs in New Zealand, Who opened with him?
82. Vinod Kambli
83. In the Mohinder Amarnath benefit ODI against S.A. in Bombay, SRT is supposed to have played this stroke the only time in his career according to Gavaskar. Which stroke?
83. The reverse sweep
84. SRT was the first batsman to given out by a third umpire when he was run out . Who was the non-striker?
84. Ravi Shastri
85. SRT admits to having just one superstition. What?
85. That he always wears his left pad first.
86. Name SRT’s daughter.
86. Sara
87. SRT and Imran Khan have a non-cricketing connection. What is it?
87. Their mother-in-laws names. Both Jemima Godsmith and Anjali Mehta’s mothers are named Annabel.
88. Against which country did SRT debut as opener in ODIs?
88. New Zealand, at Auckland in 91-92.
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