Friday 4 January 2013

QC# 55


1       This is a private business school established in 1908 and is now located on the banks of river Charles, Boston. Some of the famous alumnus include George W Bush, P Chidambaram, Rahul Bajaj, Rajat Gupta etc. Identify this institution….
2       Pratheeksha ,Akshaya ,Pournami ,Bhagyanidhi ,Dhanasree are the list of _________________.
3       (*) You can find these on either side of the tail of something which started its operation on 29 April 2005 which is most remembered for an incident on 22 May 2010 at Managalore.
Thrissur Pooram, Pushkar Fair
 Konark sun temple, Taj Mahal
 India Gate, Gateway of India
  Dal Lake, Thar Desert
 Kathakali, Bharatanatyam .
Identify it….
4.       Whose tweets are published under the name @pontifex ?
5.       Former alumni of IIT Kharagpur and employee of TATA steel. Joined Indian Revenue Service in 1992 and later turned into politics and social works. Got Ramon Magsaysay award for Emergent leadership in 2006. Helped in the foundation of “Parivartan” a movement to help people on issues related to income tax, ration etc.
Identify this famous Indian personality
6.       BSNL provides services all over India except Mumbai and New Delhi. Instead who provides services there ?
7.       (*) This term originated from George Orwell’s famous novel Nineteen Eighty four. This is used as the title of a reality show which was first broadcasted in Veronica channel in Netherlands. Later various adaptations of this was aired in different countries. This show gained attention in India due to racist remarks towards an Indian celebrity. Which is this show ?
8.       In the Bretton Woods conference which was conducted on May 1944, agreements were signed for the setting up of two international organizations which are commonly known by the name Bretton Wood Sisters. If one of them is IMF, name the other one…
9.       Which multinational company’s official magazine is named “THINK” ?
THINK is also a trade mark of this company as they used this word along with their so many products….
10   Joseph Woodland who died on 9th Dec 2012 along with Bernard Silver invented __________
Woodland once said "I just extended the dots and dashes downwards and made narrow lines and wide lines out of them."
11   Identify the advertisement 



12   Which American MNC designed the 6 reactors in Fukushima nuclear power plant which underwent serious destruction in 2011 leading to radiation emission?
13   The Imperial Bank which in turn became the State Bank of India was formed by the merger of 3 presidency banks namely Bank of Calcutta, Bank of Bombay and _________________.
14   (*) “The Moguls of Real Estate” is the biography of which Indian born construction tycoon who is always referred as the Phantom of Bombay House and is the richest Parsi in 2012 according to Forbes ?
15   Why they were in news recently ? Name the firm associated with them which was involved in the controversy.



16   "I had a terrible dream yesterday with military helicopters and the Taliban. I have had such dreams since the launch of the military operation in Swat. I was afraid of going to school because the Taliban had issued an edict banning all girls from attending schools. Only 11 students attended the class out of 27. The number decreased because of Taliban's edict."
This is a diary entry from a person who was short listed for Time person of the year in 2012…Whose words ?
17   The resignation of the sitting MP on June 26 lead to the by-poll in Jangipur Lok Sabha constituency in Murshidabad on October 2012. Who was that sitting MP/ why did he resign ?
18 (*) Don Bradman, Brian Lara, Bill Ponsford, Wally Hammond, WG Grace, Graeme Hick, Mike Hussey , ________________
Who is the 8th person in this list and the 1st Indian to achieve that feat ?
19.   _________ is an Italian word which means “every other year” and it is used to describe any event that occurs every two years. This word conquered news some days ago in India.
20.   Which recently released Hollywood film was awarded two National Tourism awards by Ministry of Tourism because of its impact in promoting India as a tourist destination especially Munnar and Puducherry. “Richard Parker”, one of the main characters is of Bengali descent and also has other connections with India.
21.   (*) Dennis Papin, a French Physicist invented “Steam Digesteur” after his intense studies about steam. This was the first model of something that is found in every house. How do this invention better known to us ?
22.   This newly discovered Etheostoma genus fish is named after a Nobel laureate. Name him 



23.   Still, I dare to submit my imperfect work for my readers to judge. Perhaps some of you will find my bursts of word-fire too long, others may regard them too brief and broken.” What matters is if my words hit the target.”
These are the starting lines of whose auto biography?
24.   ___________  is a marketing term for the Monday after Black Friday which was invented by shop.org. This was created to persuade people to shop online and the recent trends showed that is it one of the biggest online shopping day of the year.
25.   This phrase is a Korean neologism that refers to a lifestyle associated with a district of Seoul. It entered the Collins dictionary as word of the year for the month of November and it also entered Guinness World records. Identify the phrase.




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