Thursday 24 January 2013

QC# 64

1. West Bengal govt on 22nd January 2013 declared that it would give heritage status to whose ancestral house in Kodalia ?

2. This tournament was started in England two years before the first men's tournament took place. India hosted it in 1978 and in 1997. There are only 3 winners since its inception and of those the two countries didn't won the tournament in men's version. Name the tournament.

3. Name the world's largest optical telescope which will be developed by a 5 nation consortium including India. 

4. Recently, X's sonnets were encoded in DNA by scientists of Cambridge University. They also made strands of DNA that stored part of audio of Y's 1963 speech "I have a dream". 
Identify X and Y.

5. Which French company announced the acquisition of Chennai based MacLellan on January 9, 2013 ?

Answers :

1. Netaji Subash Chandra Bose
2. Women's world cup cricket tournament
3. Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT)
4. William Shakespeare
5. Sodexo

1 comment:

  1. 1)subhash chandra bose
    2)
    3)
    4)y=martin luther kind jr
    5)lacoste?

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