Business Quiz 1

1. Which company was founded by Hans Wildorf ?
2. In business regard, what is LUP ?
3. The Aura brand of mobile phones are from which company ?
4. Whose tagline reads as 'Life Well Shared' ?
5. Who is the author of the book Inside Intel ?
6. Which was the first commercial symbol to be featured at Madame Tussaud's ?
7. Fill with a famous liquor brand. Facundo da _______?
8. Jubilant Food Works is the Indian franchisee of which food chain ?
9. Which Bollywood actor owns Monarch Group ?
10. Which daily used word was coined by Deepak Mohani ?
11. Simple Filler Pen Company is the former name of which penmaker ?
12. Where is Tata Archives is located ?
13. The Nissan GTR is nicknamed what ?
14. Which was the first public company to be listed on Bombay Stock Exchange ?
15. Who founded the firm Corbis in 1989 ?
16. Which is the largest search engine in China
17. The Smartest Guys in the Room is a book on which firm ?
18. Sanjiv Bikchandani is the CEO of which job search website ?
19. Which famous logo was designed by Charles Sykes ?
20. Which term means 'free of care' in Latin ?

Answers

1. Rolex
2. Low Unit Packaging
3. Motorola
4. Readers' Digest
5. Tim Jackson
6. Singapore Girl of Singapore Airlines
7. Bacardi
8. Domino's
9. Mithun Chakraborthy
10. Sensex
11. Mont Blanc
12. Pune
13. Godzilla
14. HPCL (Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd)
15. Bill Gates
16. Baidu
17. Enron
18. Naukri.com
19. Spirits of Ecstasy
20. Security

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Film Quiz 1

1. Which was the first colour movie to win a Best Picture Oscar ?
2. Which Hollywood actress became the queen of Monaco later after her marriage to King Rainier ?
3. Which production company was founded in 1919 by David Griffith, Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford ?
4. Which great Tamil actor was known as Nadigar Tilakam ?
5. Who adapted the classic novel Dr. Zhivago into film ?
6. Whose autobiography is titled Magic Lantern ?
7. Who has won the maximum number of Oscar awards ?
8. Which film directed by Akira Kurasowa was an adaptation of Shakespearean play King Lear ?
9. Bloodstone is the only Hollywood film of which Indian superstar ?
10. The Orsen Welles masterpiece Citizen Kane was allegedly based on the life of which media tycoon ?
11. For the performance in which film, did Marlon Brando recieve his first Academy Award ?
12. Who was the first person to be awarded the Phalke Award, the highest film honour in India ?
13. The Oscar winning movie Slumdog Millionaire was based on the book by which Indian diplomat ?
14. Who directed the film Cinema Paradiso ?
15. Who is considered as the father of Documentary films ?
16. The recent Hollywood film Dam 999 has been inspired by which disaster ?
17. Which Football legend appeared in the film Hot Shot ?
18. Which was the first Indian cinemascope film ?
19. Which renowned Italian director made the movie Blow Up ?
20. Which was the first X-rated movie to win Oscar ?

Answers

1. Gone With the Wind
2. Grace Kelly
3. United Artists
4. Sivaji Ganesan
5. David Leen
6. Ingmer Bergman
7. Walt Disney, 26 times
8. Ran
9. Rajnikanth
10. William Randolph Hearst
11. On the Waterfront
12. Devika Rani
13. Vikas Swarup
14. Giuseppe Tornatore
15. Robert Flaharty
16. Banqiao dam disaster
17. Pele
18. Kaagaz Ke Phool
19. Michaelangelo Antonioni
20. Midnight Cowboy, 1969

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Technology Quiz

1. What is the expansion of SMTP ?
2. Who developed the Linux operating system while being a University student ?
3. Which wireless data transfer technology is named after a 10th century Viking King ?
4. Which company produces the BlackBerry model phones ?
5. In 2010, which country became the first in world to make access to broadband service a basic right ?
6. What does the word 'Wiki' mean in Hawaiian ?
7. Which social networking website was founded by Ramu Yalamanchi in 2003 ?
8. Where was the first Cyber Court in India was insituted ?
9. Who is considered as the father of Nanotechnology ?
10. Which science fiction auther wrote the three laws of robotics ?
11. What is the word used for 4 bits ?
12. Which day is observed as the World Computer Literacy Day ?
13. Who called internet 'Information Super Highway ?
14. Which e-mail service was founded by Sabir Bhatia ?
15. Who wrote the book Computer Liberation and Dream Machine ?
16. Which computer company was founded by Stan Shih in Taiwan ?
17. Ego is the range of laptops from which firm ?
18. Who is the founder of Scribd.com ?
19. Expand CDMA ?
20. Which author used the word Robot for the first time ?

Answers

1. Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
2. Linus Torvalds
3. Bluetooth, after Harald Bluetooth
4. RIM(Research In Motion)
5. Finland
6. Quick
7. Hi5
8. New Delhi
9. Richard Feynman
10. Isaac Asimov
11. Nibble
12. December 2
13. Al Gore, former US Vice President
14. Hotmail
15. Ted Nelson
16. Acer
17. Wipro
18. Trip Adler
19. Code Division Multiple Access
20. Karel Capek

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Places Quiz

1. Which is the largest island among the Lakshadweep Islands ?
2. In which country do you find the Cave of Letters ?
3. What does the word Sahara, as in the name of world's largest desert, mean in the native language ?
4. Which is the largest fresh water lake in the world ?
5. Which country was earlier called Upper Volta ?
6. Which is the largest mountain peak outside Asia ?
7. Which strait separates Africa and Europe ?
8. Horse Shoe Falls and American Falls are the two parts of which famous water falls ?
9. In which city is the famous Copacabana beach ?
10. Which famous canal was opened for passage on 15 August, 1914 ?
11. Which country's capital is Caracas ?
12. Which country has the lengthiest sea coast in the world ?
    
13. Which country is named after the Earth equator ?
14. Which is the most populous island in the world ?
15. Rapa Nui is the native name of which island ?
16. On the banks of which river, most number of capital cities are situated ?
17. Which European country is called the land of thousand lakes ?
18. Who wrote the book 'The Origin of Continents and Oceans' ?
19. In which country do you find Ayer's rock, world's largest monolith ?
20. On which mountain the faces of four American presidents are carved ?

Answers

1. Aanthroth
2. Israel
3. Desert!
4. Lake Superior
5. Burkinafaso
6. Mt. Aconcagia
7. Strait of Gibraltar
8. Niagra Falls
9. Rio de Janeiro
10. Panama Canal
11. Venezuela
12. Canada
13. Ecuador
14. Java
15. Easter Island
16. Danube
17. Finland
18. Alfred Wegner
19. Australia
20. Mount Rushmour

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Sports Quiz 1

1. In which sport, the referee is called President ?
2. Which is the national game of Scotland ?
3. Which sport is known as King of Sports ?
4. Who was the first Indian woman to win a gold at Asian Games ?
5. Which country hosted the first Football World Cup ?
6. Who was the first Cricketer to win Arjuna Award ?
7. In which Olympics, 26 world records were broken in Swimming ?
8. Who was the first person to complete a Tennis Grandslam ?
9. Which two nations competed in the first ever International Handball match ?
10. How many times India have won gold in Olympic Hockey ?
11. Which martial art was earlier called Ji-jitsu ?
12. In 1988 who became the first boxer to have won world championships in five different weight categories ?
13. Which was the first Asian country to hold a F1 Grand Prix ?
14. Which footballer's autobiography was titled '1966 and All That' ?
15. The Sam McGuire Trophy is awarded in which sport ?

Answers

1. Fencing
2. Rugby
3. Horse Racing
4. Kamaljith Sandhu
5. Uruguay
6. Salim Durani
7. Montreal, 1976
8. Donald Budge, 1938
9. Germany and Belgium, 1925
10. 8 times
11. Judo
12. Sugar Ray Leonard
13. Japan
14. Geoff Hurst
15. Gaelic Football

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India Quiz 1

This is the first of the India Quiz series. Some general knowledge questions and answers on India are given here.

1. Who was the first foreigner to be awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour ?
2. In which space vehicle did Rakesh Sharma go to space ?
3. Who was the first Indian to cross the English Channel ?
4. What is the southernmost point of India called ?
5. Which is the only Indian state to have English as its official language ?
6. In which year the Indian constitution was amended for the first time ?
7. What is the strait that separates India and Sri Lanka called ?
8. Who was the first Governor General in India ?
9. Where is India's only volcano situated
10. What was the other name of Bengal Gazette, the first newspaper published from India ?
11. Who has been called Indian Machiavelli ?
12. For which film did Pandit Ravisankar compose music for the first time ?
13. What is the headquarters of Life Insurance Corporation of India is called ?
14. Which is the largest Mosque in India ?
15. Who was the first Indian musician to compose a symphony ?
16. Who was the first bowler to take a hat-trick in a Cricket world cup
17. Which writer's real name was Dhanpat Rai Shrivastava ?
18. In which year the Kendra Sahitya Academy was instituted ?
19. Who was the founder of Swaraj Party ?
20. Where was the first medical college in India started ?

Answers

1. Khan Abdul Jaffer Khan
2. Soyuz T-11
3. Mihir Sen
4. Indira Point
5. Nagaland
6. 1951
7. Palk strait
8. Warren Hastings
9. Barron Island
10. Calcutta General Advertiser
11. Chanakya
12. Anuradha
13. Yogakshema Bhavan
14. Jama Masjid, Delhi
15. Ilaiyaraja
16. Chetan Sharma
17. Munshi Premchand
18. 1954
19. Mothilal Nehru
20. Kolkata

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Important Days in India

January 9 : Pravasi Bharatiya Divas
January 12 : National Youth Day
January 15 : Army Day
January 25 : National Tourism Day
January 26 : Republic Day
January 30 : Martyrs’ Day
February 28 : National Science Day
March 3 : National Defence Day
March 4 : National Security Day
March 16 : National Vaccination Day
April 5 : National Maritime Day
April 21 : National Civil Services Day
May 11 : National Technology Day
July 26 : Kargil Victory Day
August 9 : Quit India Day
August 15 : Independence Day
August 20 : Sadbhavna Divas
August 29 : National Sports Day
September 5 : Teachers’ Day; Sanskrit Day
October 2 : Gandhi Jayanthi
October 8 : Indian Air Force Day
October 10 : National Postal Day
November 14 : Children’s Day
November 17 : National Epilepsy Day
November 26 : Law Day
December 4 : Navy Day
December 7 : Armed Forces' Flag Day
December 18 : Minorities Rights Day
December 14 : National Energy Conservation Day
December 23 : Farmers Day

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Important International Days

January 1 Global Family Day
Jan 6 : World Day for War Orphans
Jan 10 : World Laughter Day
Jan 26 : International Customs Day
Jan 27 : International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Jan 30 : World Leprosy Eradication Day
February 2 World Wetland Day
Feb 4 : World Cancer Day
Feb 2nd Sunday : World Marriage Day
Feb 14 : Valentine’s Day
Feb 20 : World Day of Social Justice
Feb 21 : International Mother Language Day
Feb 22 : World Scouts Day
Feb 23 : World Peaces and Understanding Day
March 4 World Day of the Fight Against Sexual Exploitation
Mar 8 : International Womens' Day, International Literacy Day
Mar 13 : World Kidney Day, World Rotaract Day
March 2nd Monday Commonwealth Day
Mar 15 : World Disabled Day, World Consumer Rights Day
Mar 21 : World Sleep Day, World Forestry Day, International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
Mar 22 : World Water Day
Mar 23 : World Meteorological Day
Mar 24 : World TB Day
Mar 27 : World Drama Day
April 2 World Autism Awareness Day
Apr 4 : International Day for Mine Awareness
Apr 7 : World Health Day
Apr 12 : World Aviation & Cosmonautics Day
Apr 17 : World Haemophilia Day
Apr 18 : World Heritage Day
Apr 21 : World Creativity and Innovation Day
Apr 22 : Earth Day
Apr 23 : World Book and Copyright Day
Apr 25 : World Malaria Day
Apr 26 : World Intellectual Property Day
Apr 28 : International Worker’s Memorial Day
Apr 29 : World Dance Day
May 1 : May day- Labour Day
May 3 : Press Freedom Day, World Asthma Day
May 4 : Coal Miners Day
May 5 : World Athletics Day
May 8 : World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day
May 9 : World Thalassaemia Day
May 2nd Sunday: World Mother Day
May 12 : International Nurses Day, World Hypertension Day
May 15 : International Day of the Families
May 17 : World Telecommunication Day
May 18 : World Museum Day
May 19 : World Hepatitis Day
May 20 : World Metrology Day
May 21 : World Day for Cultural Diversity
May 22 : International Day for Biological Diversity
May 23 : World Turtle Day
May 24 : Commonwealth Day
May 28 : Anti-Narcotics Day, Engineers Day
May 31 : World Anti Tobacco Day
June 1 : International Children’s Day
Jun 5 : World Environment Day
Jun 8 : World Brain Tumors Day, World Ocean Day
Jun 12 : World Day Against Child Labor
Jun 14 : World Blood Donor Day
June 3rd Sunday : World Father’s Day
Jun 16 : International Integration Day
Jun 20 : World Refugee Day
Jun 21 : World Music Day
Jun 23 : International Olympic Day
Jun 26 : International Day against Drug abuse and Illicit Trafficking
July 1 : International Joke Day, Doctor's Day
July 1st Saturday : International Day of Cooperatives
Jul 11 : World Population Day
Jul 28 : World Nature Conservation Day
August 1-7 : World Breast-feeding Week
August 1st Sunday : Friendship Day
Aug 6 : Anti-Nuclear Day, Hiroshima Day
Aug 9 : Nagasaki Day
Aug 12 : International Youth Day
Aug 15 : International Mourning Day
Aug 18 : International Day of the World’s Indigenous People
Aug 19 : World Humanitarian Day, World Photography Day
September 2 : Coconut Day
Sept 8 : World Literacy Day
Sept 10 : World Anti-Suicide Day
Sept 11 : World First Aid Day
Sept 15 : International Day of Democracy
Sept 16 : World Ozone Day
Sept 21 : World Peace Day, World Alzheimer's Day
Sept 22 : World Rose Day- Welfare of Cancer Patients
Sept 24 : World Heart Day
Sept 26 : Day of the Deaf, European Day of Languages
Sept 27 : World Tourism Day
Sept 28 : Right to Know Day, World Rabies Day
September Last week: World Maritime Week
October 1 : World Hepatitis Day
Oct 2 : International Day of Non-Violence
Oct 3 : World Habitat Day
Oct 4 : World Animal Welfare Day
Oct 5 : World Teachers' Day
October second Saturday: World Palliative Care Day
Oct 8 : World Humanitarian Action Day
Oct 9 : World Postal Day
Oct 10 : World Mental Health Day
Oct 12 : World Sight Day, World Arthritis Day
Oct 13 : International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction
Oct 14 : World Standards Day
Oct 15 : World White Cane Day- guiding the Blind
Oct 16 : World Food Day, World Anaesthesiologists Day
Oct 17 : World Trauma Day
Oct 20 : World Osteoporosis Day
Oct 24 : UN Day, World Development Information Day, World Polio Day
Oct 30 : World Thrift Day
November 8 : World Radiographer Day
Nov 9 : World Freedom Day
Nov 14 : World Diabetes Day
Nov 17 : International Students Day
Nov 19 : International Men's Day
Nov 21 : World Fisheries Day, World Television Day
Nov 25 : International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
December 1 World AIDS Day
Dec 2 : World Computer Literacy Day, International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
Dec 3 : International Day of Disabled People, World Conservation Day
Dec 7 : International Civil Aviation Day
Dec 9 : The International Day Against Corruption
Dec 10 : International Day of Broadcasting, Human Rights Day
Dec 11 : International Mountain Day
Dec 14 : World Energy Day
Dec 18 : International Migrants Day
Dec 20 : International Human Solidarity Day

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Pop singer Whitney Houston dies

Legendary pop singer Whitney Houston passed away on Saturday. She was
found dead at a hotel in Beverly Hills. She was 48. The death cause hasn't been revealed yet. She has been struggling with drug addiction problems for a few years.
Houston was one of the top-selling artists in pop music history, with more than 170 million records sold all over the world. She was born on August 9, 1963, in Newark, New Jersey.
Houston entered the pop music world with self-titled debut album, released in 1985. It was sold 25 million copies worldwide. She has released seven albums and three film soundtracks overall. Houston's major hits include "Saving All My Love for You", "How Will I Know", "The Greatest Love of All," and "Where Do Broken Hearts Go," with many others. Her songs were used in the soundtrack of the film 'The Bodyguard' which went on to become one of the topselling soundtracks. She also acted in the film. She later appeared in a few more films including 'Waiting to Exhale'. She is also the winner of seven Grammy awards and two Emmy awards. She was briefly married to actor Bobby Brown.

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10 things you might not know about Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day is one of the most celebrated days in the world. It is the day for lovers. Here are given some rare known facts about Valentine's Day.

The Valentine's Day was established by Pope Gelasius I in 496 AD.

One of many legends about the Valentine's Day says that it commommorates St. Valentine, the priest who was killed by Roman emperor Claudius II for performing secret marriages against the laws.

The first recorded association of Valentine's Day with romance is found in 'Parlement of Foules', a poem written by Geoffrey Chaucer in 1382.

Hamlet is the only Shakespearean play that mentions Valentine's Day.

The first known Valentine card was written by Charles, Duke of Orleans, to his wife. It is now kept in British Library, London.

In Wales, most of the people celebrate St. Dwynwen's Day on January 25, instead of Valentine's Day. St. Dwynwen is the patron saint of Welsh lovers.

In Sweden, Valentine's Day is known as 'All Hearts Day'.

The Italian city Verona, where Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is set, recieves thousands of letters addressed to Juliet on every Valentine's Day.

In South Korea, women give chocolate to men on Valentine's Day and men give non-chocolate candys to women on White Day (March 14). Those who don't recieve any of these go to eateries and have Black Noodles on April 14, Black Day to mourn their single life !

Did you know, Alexander Grahambell applied for the patent of telephone on the Valentine's Day of 1876 !

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Commonwealth Games Years and Host Cities

The Commonwealth Games is the multisport event held among the member countries of former British Commonwealth. The event was started in the name British Empire Games in 1930. Later it was called British Empire and Commonwealth Games and British Commonwealth Games. It has been known as simply Commonwealth Games since 1978.

Year, City and Country

As British Empire Games
1930 - Hamilton (Canada)
1934 - London (Britain)
1938 - Sydney, New South Wales (Australia)
1950 - Auckland (New Zealand)
As British Empire and Commonwealth Games
1954 - Vancouver (Canada)
1958 - Cardiff (Wales)
1962 - Perth (Australia)
1966 - Kingston (Jamaica)
As British Commonwealth Games
1970 - Edinburgh (Scotland)
1974 - Christchurch (New Zealand)
As Commonwealth Games
1978 - Edmonton (Canada)
1982 - Brisbane (Australia)
1986 - Edinburgh (Scotland)
1990 - Auckland (New Zealand)
1994 - Victoria (Canada)
1998 - Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
2002 - Manchester (Britain)
2006 - Melbourne (Australia)
2010 - Delhi (India)
2014 - Glasgow (Scotland)
2018 - Gold Coast (Australia)

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Asian Games Years and Host Cities

The Asian Games or Asiad (formerly Asiatic Games) is the largest multisport event for Asian countries. It was founded in 1951. The motto of Asian Games is 'Ever Onwards'.

Year, City and Country

1951 - New Delhi (India)
1954 - Manila (Philippines)
1958 - Tokyo (Japan)
1962 - Jakarta (Indonesia)
1966 - Bangkok (Thailand)
1970 - Bangkok (Thailand)
1974 - Tehran (Iran)
1978 - Bangkok (Thailand)
1982 - New Delhi (India)
1986 - Seoul (South Korea)
1990 - Beijing (China)
1994 - Hiroshima (Japan)
1998 - Bangkok (Thailand)
2002 - Busan (South Korea)
2006 - Doha (Qatar)
2010 - Guangzhou (China)
2014 - Incheon (South Korea)

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