Question 1: Connect / Identify the common link between the follwing four photographs.
Pic 1:First torrential downpour of the 2005 Mumbai deluge.
Pic 2:Tiger Hill conquest of the Indian forces during the Kargil Conflict'99.Now celebrated as Vijay Diwas.
Pic 3:Sandra Bullock.Born on July 26,1964.
Pic 4:Ernesto "Che" Guevara.He,along with Fidel Castro,led the 26th of July Movement.
Question 2: What's common between STI (the trade ticker at the New York Stock Exchange) , Spencerian Script and the Hutchison Bottle.
Answer : Coca Cola
STI is the trade symbol for Sun Trust Banks.Coca Cola's original secret formula is kept in a vault in the bank's Atlanta branch.On every Coke bottle,Spencerian Script is used for the 'Coca Cola' trademark.Coca Cola was first packed and sold in Hutchison bottles.
Question 3: X was born in Darjeeling, West Bengal in India and spent the early childhood days in Ootacamund.X is the only Indian bornAcademy Award winner beside Bhanu Athaiya and Satyajit Ray. Identify X .
Answer : Vivian Leigh.She won the Best Actress award for Gone With the Wind (1939) & A StreetCar named Desire (1951).
Question 4: In Hollywood, how do we better know the four brothers Harry, Albert, Sam and Jack ?
Answer : The Warner Brothers.(as easy as it could get !!)
Question 5: Name the only Formula 1 circuit to have deviated from the tradition of spraying champagne on the podium.
Answer :Bahrain F1 Grand Prix.The drink used instead is Waard
Question 6: "Wait wait wait ! You see the whole country of the system is juxtaposition by the hemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity.” What line/phrase follows the above quoted well heard, well known paragraph ?
Answer :"My Name is Anthony Gonsalves" (The popular song from the 1977 Bollywood film "Amar Akbar Anthony").
Question 7: At which institution of prime importance to India would you find the words” Vaisudhevam Kuttumbakam” inscribed under the statue of the famous architect of the same ?
Answer:The Parliament House,New Delhi.
Question 8: Had it not been the insistence of the man who wished to have this monument built, this very famous monument would have been in Madhya Pradesh today. Name the monument and the place where it was to be built originally.
Answer :The Taj Mahal.It was initially to be built at Burhanpur,Madhya Pradesh.
Question 9: On December 4, 1971, a fire broke out during the gig of Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention at the Montreux Casino, Switzerland. This event resulted in something that went on to attain a huge popularity. What ?
Answer :This event led the band Deep Purple to compose the hugely popular number "Smoke on the Water"
Question 10: Below is a team X’s run to the championship in a tournament. Identify this champion team. The figures mentioned within the brackets are the points scored by the teams in the match.
X (116) defeats Angola(48)
X (103)defeats Croatia(70)
X (111) defeats Germany(68)
X (127)defeats Brazil (83)
X (122) defeats Spain(81)
X (115) defeats Puerto Rico (77)
X (127) defeats Lithuania (76)
X (117) defeats Croatia(85).
Answer :The Us Basketball 'Dream' Team of Barcelona Olympics,1992.
And the winner is..
Harsh Bansal (Information Technology,5th Semester).
Good work done man.We'll get in touch with you soon regarding your prize.
