1. 1) Longest river of Asian Continent is?
2) Heaviest metal known is?
3) Royal Oak , One Tree Hill, Phoenix , Shiretoko , Namoroka , Tumucumaque -
what is connection?
4) What is common to the flicks ‘Inception’, ‘Yogi Bear’, ‘Life As We Know It,’
‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,’ and ‘Harry Potter and the Chamber of
Secrets’
(Hint: Something to do with extremely popular website... )
5)
Where X Was Born. Id X
“In the offices of this corridor, all the fundamental technologies of the __________ were developed.
Started in 1990 from a proposal made by __________ in 1989, the effort was first divided between an office in building 31 of
the ________ and one in building 2 of the _________.
In 1991 the team came together in these offices, then belonging to ___. It was composed of two CERN staff members,
_________ and _________, aided by a number of Fellows, Technical Students, a Coopérant and Summer Students.
At the end of 1994 _________ left ______ to direct the _______, a world-wide organization devoted to leading the “X” to its full
potential. The ___ was founded with the help of _______, the European Commission, the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT), the Institut National pour la Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), and the Advanced
Research Projects Agency (ARPA).
In 1995 _____________ and __________ received the ACM Software System Award for the _______. In 2004, __________
was awarded the first Millennium Technology Prize by the Finnish Technology Award Foundation.
The ________ Library
June 2004
6) What sport does the film "Pan Singh Tomar" potray?
2. 7) Identify the logo
8) Identify the logo
9) This Khel Ratna Awardee, had got a brown belt in karate at age 9. However,
she quit – when she was asked to have a motorcycle run over her stomach.
She was named Most promising player in 2008. She is also brand
ambassador for Deccan Chargers.
10)Which dynasty was ruling at delhi before the arrival of the mughals?
First human (necessarily not man :P) to score a double century in an one day
international cricket match?
11) Where is Fort William located ?
12)City of Seven Hills
13)This gesture is at least second century BC old. It is symbol of good
sportsmanship, equality, and trust. The record for maximum show of this
gesture belongs to President Roosevelt who on January 1, 1907 did it 8, 513
times at a White House reception. The record was broken in July, 19 77 by a
New Jersey mayor, Joseph Lazaron, by touching the figure of 11,000
14)Which ancient Indian sage authored
the 'Yog Darshan' ?
15)Dow Chemicals whose sponsorship to
the London Olympics was highly
protested in India is the parent
company of
16)
Nadia Comaneci – the lady on left – she
holds many laurels, but what is her “perfect
10” claim?
3. STARRED QUESTIONS
17)***The Spanish referred to him as El Draque (the Dragon), he was
instrumental in annihilating the mighty Spanish Armada and was the first
Englishman to circumnavigate the globe.
18)***In 1949, a young entrepreneur, K. M. Mammen Mappillai, opened a small
toy balloon manufacturing unit in a shed at Tiruvottiyur, Madras (now
Chennai). Although the factory was just a small shed without any machines, a
variety of products, ranging from balloons and squeaking toys to industrial
gloves and contraceptives, were produced. Which multi-billion dollar company
had such a humble beginning?
19)
• The White Star Line owned three of such products to fend off the
competition from its rivals Cunard. Thus they turn to Harland and Wolf –
their long-term partners.
• Harland and Wolf made first of such product – which they named it to
“400” since it was their 400th design. It was later re-named as Olympic.
• Their next design was most famous of them all, and 2012 was centennial
year for its tragedy. It was named as 401.
• The last one was originally called Gigantic, but was re-named Britannic.
ID the 401.