5. When asked recently, "Which is the best cell phone
ever?", X replied with, "Nokia Lumia 900 Cyan (AT&T)".
X came up with the answer by computing the average
of all customer reviews till date. Naturally, X's response
became popular because of the irony involved. Id X.
8. OLD NICKNAMES OF GOOGLE
Initially Larry Page and Sergey Brin (the creators of the
search engine) nicknamed their new search engine
"BackRub", because the system checked backlinks to
estimate the importance of a site.
The later on other hand was simply recalled by Brin as
sounding more like ‘Wet Box’. Eventually they went with
Google.
9. Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo is well known movie
of 60’s. How do we know this movie??
13. Dr SK Burman, a physician in West Bengal, had a goal
to successfully produce and market effective medicine
for ordinary villagers. Dr Burman designed Ayurvedic
medication for diseases such as cholera and malaria.
Soon the news of his medicines travelled, and he came
to be known as the trusted 'Daktar', mispronunciation
of "Doctor". That is how India's Largest manufacturer
got its name in 1844. Which manufacturer?
15. In 1957, inventors of X (a pliable transparent plastic material)
Alfred Fielding and Marc Chavannes attempted to create a 3D
wallpaper.
Unfortunately, the wallpaper didn't catch on but the men
realized that it was useful for something completely different.
The success and popularity of X has gotten so large that the
last Monday of every January is dubbed "X Appreciation Day".
Toy company Bandai even created a virtual X popping toy
called "Mugen Puchipuchi" and a version was created for the
Wii!
What is X??
19. • X has received a national medal from Nelson Mandela
for a science project
• X was the captain of SA junior rugby team
• X holds six national swimming records
• X was the national badminton U19 champion
• X has a golf handicap of scratch
But we all know X for a completely different
sport!! Who is X?
21. For a few years in the height of the Depression of the
1930s, the founder of this company eked out a living
by selling private label soaps. He soon shifted to
making a woman's fragrance based on a potpourri jar
in his mother's home. In the 1940s, this person
commissioned Salvador Dali to interpret a particular
line of fragrance manufactured by his company. It
was duly represented in Dali's trilogy of paintings.
Name the person and the company he set up and
also the fragrance line.
25. CHRIST THE REDEEMER
THE MOTHERLAND CALLS
STATUE OF LIBERTY
USHIKU DAIBUTSU
SPRING TEMPLE BUDDHA
These are the world's tallest statues. However The X is a
planned 182 meters (597 ft) monument of Y that will be created
directly facing the Narmada Dam, 3.2 km away on the river
island called Sadhu Bet near Vadodara in Gujarat.
It would be the world's tallest statue .Name the statue X and
the person Y
27. Q: This is Thomas Stoltz Harvey
(a pathologist). However in 1955 he stole something. What was it??
28. The man who performed the autopsy on Einstein's body shortly after he died was a Princeton
pathologist by the name of Thomas Harvey. Harvey removed the brain for examination, as is
customary during autopsies, but he never replaced it. At the cost of his job and reputation,
Harvey instead placed it in a jar of formaldehyde and took it home!
Over the next 40 years, he sent bits of the brain to leading neuroscientists for them to study.
He felt that stealing the brain was his scientific duty! What is left of the brain now resides back
at Princeton where it started - Harvey tried to return it to Einstein's daughter at one point, but
she didn't want it, so he gave it back to the university.
29. As a child X wanted to be a priest
X had a portrait of Henry Ford behind his desk regarding him as an
inspiration
X lead the 1st anti-smoking campaign in modern history
X was a vegetarian and created laws against animal cruelty
X was the TIME magazine person of the year and was also nominated
for the noble peace prize the preceding year
ID X
30.
31. Very famous line by Zindane when Real Madrid sold X and bought Y
"Why put another layer of gold paint on the Bentley when you are losing
the entire engine?"
Give X and Y.
67. X may seem like an innocent children's story on the surface, but after deeper inspection it
doesn't appear to be so! Journals published in the Canadian Medical Journal have shed new
light on the characters.
First written by A. A. Milne in 1926, and after being acquired by Disney, X went on to become
one of the most successful children's series of all time. However, it turns out there are
immense psychological undertones throughout the series and each character was meant to
portray a different disorder. Tiger has severe ADHD, Piglet has anxiety, Rabbit is a pedantic
loner, Owl has OCD, Eore has extreme depression, while X represents an addict!
Which series X am I talking about?
71. The town of Herzogenaurach, in Germany was called
'The town of bent necks' in the 1930's and 40s
because of a strange thing people did over there,
when they met each other in those days. Which
custom is being referred to here?
72. Herzogenaurach is the place where Adidas and Puma started. So whenever
people met each other, they would look down and see which company's
shoes the other person was wearing and then decide whether to swear
their allegiance to them or not.
73. John Hertz, a Chicago based entrepreneur, hired the
University of Chicago, to experiment which colour
could be seen from the farthest distance. What was the
result of this study?
75. I want to have the keys of my house so that I can open closed doors."
What is the next famous line?
And who delivered this message?
76. Swaraj is my birthright, and I shall have it!" -
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
77. X was born in Hyderabad in a Telugu family from Anantapur district Andhra Pradesh,
India. X's father was a civil servant in the Indian Administrative Service.X attained a
bachelor of engineering in Electronics and Telecommunications from the Manipal
Institute of Technology in 1987.
X subsequently traveled to the U.S. on a student visa to study for an MS degree in
Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.ID X