Saturday, April 19, 2008

General Quiz 002

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1.Which endangered mammal, found in China and globally famous as an organisation's logo, has the scientific name Ailuropoda melanoleuca?(The organization is WFF)
Ans. Panda

2.By what name is Marie Grasholtz, who first exhibited her work in 1835 at Baker Street, London, better known?
Ans.Madame Tussaud's

3.In Japanese, what word means 'they who serve'?
Ans. Samurai

4.Ramanujan's first paper presented in the London Mathematical Society in 1914, was about equations to create an approximate of which no.?
Ans. Pi

5.In Australian cricket terminology, what is 'Roughie'?
Ans. 'Roughie' means a bad decision by umpire against batsman in Australian cricket terminology

6.Who would open the door if u knock at the apartment at 3B, 344 Clinton Street?
Ans. Superman

7.In medieval Europe, how did the quality of bread distinguish the social status of people?
Ans. Whiteness of bread

8. According to John Lennon which book provided the inspiration for the lyrics of 'Lucy in the sky with diamonds'?
Ans. Alice in Wonderland

9. After watching Dhyanchand in action at Adelaide in 1935,this legendary cricketer told him ''u scored goal like runs in cricket''?
Ans. Don Bradman

10.What is Alta Vista's web-based online translation application called?
Ans. Babel Fish.

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Friday, April 18, 2008

General Quiz 001

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1.Whose life the inspiration for the movie The Beautiful Mind?
Ans. John Nash

2.What is common between Osama Bin Laden, George.W.Bush n a polar bear?
Ans. All of them are left handed.

3.Who and Why did Shane Warne name kp650 ?
Ans. Because he said Kevin Peterson will be his 650 th victim

4.Which brand was formed by the brother of the founder of Adidas ?
Ans. Puma

5.In which sport participants are called 'pugilist'?
Ans. Boxing

6.Which singers original name is Abhas Kumar Ganguly?
Ans. Kishore Kumar

7.What was the name of the political party floated by Isac Martov as a opposition to the Bolshevik party of Lenin ?
Ans. Mensheviks

8.Which rock band first introduced the popular slogan 'Girl Power'?
Ans. Spice Girls

9."God does not play dice"-it was the famous sentence by Einstein on Quantum Mechanics.But another famous scientist reacted on it with this line "Don't teach God what to do".Who was he?
Ans.Neil Bohr

10.What is the special about the book 'Gadsby' by Earnest Lawrence which contains 50000 words?
Ans. It is the only novel in which where there was no usage of letter 'E'

11.In which game the referee is called 'The President'?
Ans. Fencing

12.Which building in Rome used to be the arena where people were thrown to the lions?
Ans. Collosium

13.Almost every country was ruled by England.But in 11thcentury,which country ruled England?
Ans. Denmark

14.The simple,solid and straight motto of which organization is 'Service'?
Ans. Rotary Club

15. What has the post code SW1A 2AA?
Ans. British PM residence, 10 downing street.

16.What did Steven Levy,a reporter from 'New Jersey Journal' find in a box labelled 'Costa Cider' at the house of Thomas Harvey(a pathologist at a small hospital at Princeton)?
Ans. Einstein's Brain.

17.In 1933, Mrs. Mikkelson was the 1st woman to set foot where?
Ans.Antartica.

18.This bestseller based on the American Civil war went through a string of titles such as 'Milestones', 'Ba Ba Black Sheep', 'Tomorrow is another day' before the eventual title was chosen. Name the book.
Ans.Gone with the Wind.

19..What word did Nobel peace prize winner Elie Weasel coin to describe Hitler's massacre of the Jews?
Ans. Holocaust

20.Name the brothers whose first names were James and William who made the first milk supplement using malted barley and wheat flour?
Ans. Horlicks.

21.At which famous London theatre built by the brothers Richard and Cuthbert Burbage were the plays of William Shakespeare performed after 1599 with half the shares going to Shakespeare and the company of actors who performed in the plays?
Ans.Globe Theater.

22.A fashionable country club at a park in New York gave its name to a dinner jacket or evening dress for men. name the resulting outfit?
Ans. Tuxedo.

23.Where did Pepsi get its name from?
Ans. From one of its Ingredients Pepsin(Digestive Enzyme)

24.What is Triskaidekaphobia?
Ans. Fear of Number 13.

25.Who are the only two men who advertised for LUX soap?
Ans.Paul Newman and Shahrukh Khan.


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