50 Important Questions About British India

1) In which year was the Regulating Act implemented?
A) 1773
2) Who is regarded as the Father of Indian Civil Service
A) Lord Cornwallis
3) Who wrote the book 'The Sepoy Mutiny and the Revolt of 1857'?
A) R C Majumdar
4) Who was the first Viceroy in British India?
A) Lord Canning
5) Who was the British king to annul the partition of Bengal?
A) George V
6) Which Viceroy did occupy the office for the longest period?
A) Lord Linlithgo
7) Who is considered to be the first martyr of the 1857 rebellion
A) Mangal Pandey
8) Which was the first university established by the British?
A) Kolkata
9) Which Indian city was attacked by the German forces during the
First World War?
A) Chennai
10) Which was the first South Indian city to host the conference of
Indian National Congress?
A) Chennai
11) Who was the founder of Bharat Matha Society?
A) Ajit Singh
12) Whose autobiography is titled 'The Indian Struggle'?
A) Subhas Chandra Bose
13) Who was known as the Socratese of Maharashtra?
A)   Gopalkrishna Gokhale
14) The first cement factory in India was established at?
A)   Chennai
15)  Who founded the Lahore Students Union?
A)   Bhagat Singh
16)  Who used to be called Deenabandhu?
A)   C F Andrews
17) The party founded by Motilal Nehru and C R Das?
A)   Swaraj Party
18) Who was the father of Indian Archaeology?
A)   Alexander Cunningham
19) Who wrote the book 'A Nation in Making'?
A)   Surendranath Bannerjee
20) Who was the first Indian leader to address the people through Radio?
A)   Subhas Chandra Bose
21) Who is known as the Babur of British Empire in India?
A)   Robert Clive
22) What was the former name of India Gate?
A)   All India War Memorial
23) The city where the rebellion of 1857 did commence?
A)   Meerut
24) What is also known as August Revolution?
A)   Quit India movement
25) Who was called the Father of Indian Unrest?
A)   Bal Gangadhar Tilak
26) What was the name of the Parliament during the British rule?
A)   Central Legislative Assembly
27) Which city became the Summer Capital of Indian in 1864?
A)   Shimla
28) What was the official name of Simon Commission?
A)   Indian Statutory Commission
29) Who founded the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal?
A)   Warren Hastings
30) Which was the first South Indian city to be electrified?
A)   Bangalore
31) The only Indian leader to have attended all the Round Table Conferences?
A)   B R Ambedkar
32) What is known as the Magna Carta of Indian Education?
A)   Wood's Despatch
33) The city to host the first conference of All India Trade Union Congress?
A)   Mumbai
34) The Father of Local Self Administration in India?
A)   Lord Rippon
35) The book 'Unhappy India' was written by?
A)   Lala Lajpat Rai
36) Who did bestow the title Sardar upon Vallabhbhai Patel?
A)   Mahatma Gandhi
37) The first coal mine in India was at?
A)   Ranighanj
38) Where was the first Art Gallery in India established?
A)   Kolkata
39) The first budget in British India was presented by?
A)   Sir James Wilson
40) Who is known as the Joan of Arc of India?
A)   Queen of Jhansi
41) Who was the British Prime Minister during the revolt of 1857?
A)   Palmer Stone
42) Who was elected as the Chairman of Allahabad municipality in 1923?
A)   Jawaharlal Nehru
43) Muslim League was founded in the year of?
A)   1906
44) The first woman Law graduate in India was?
A)   Cornelia Sorabji (1894)
45) The first trade union in India was?
A)   Madras Labour Union
46) The first census in India was conducted in?
A)   1881
47) Who was the political mentor of Subhas Chandra Bose?
A)   C R Das
48) The last act passed by the British Parliament for India?
A)   Indian Independence Act
49) Who wrote the book 'India Wins Freedom'?
A)   Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad
50) The father of Indian Railway?
A)   Lord Dalhousie

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Encyclopaedia Britannica: History and Facts

The Encyclopædia Britannica was first published between 1768 and 1771 in Edinburgh.

The Encyclopædia Britannica was founded by Colin Macfarquhar and Andrew Bell from Ireland.

The present owner of Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. is Jacqui Safra , a Swiss billionaire and actor.

The Britannica was dedicated to the British monarch from 1788 to 1901 and to both the British monarch and the President of the United States then onwards.

In 1933, the Britannica became the first encyclopædia to adopt "continuous revision", that is it is continually reprinted and every article updated on a schedule.

Great people including Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, James Maxwell, Lord Kelvin and Leon Trotsky have served as the authors of Britannica articles.

The Britannica Junior edition was first published in 1934 as 12 volumes. It was withdrawn from the market in 1984.

The first Children's version of Britannica was issued in London in 1960. It was edited by John Armitage.

The longest article in Britannica is about the United States, which spans 310 pages.

Christine Sutton of the University of Oxford is the most prolific contributor to the Encyclopædia Britannica with 24 articles on particle physics.

Time magazine called the Britannica the "Patriarch of the Library" at the release of its 14th edition.

Since the first release of 15th edition, Britannica has been organised into three parts: the Micropædia, Macropædia, and Propædia.

The first CD-ROM edition Britannica was issued in 1994.

The online Britannica won the Codie award for "Best Online Consumer Information Service" in 2005.

The final print edition of Britannica was in 2010, a 32-volume set.

On, 13 March 2012, it was announced that Encyclopædia Britannica will be publishing no more print editions.

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Olympic Games: Basic Information

The Olympic games is the largest sporting event in the world with the participation of thousands of athletes from over 200 countries. The history of Olympics traces back to 776 BC. The first Olympics took place in Greece. Later, it was abandoned but was brought back by in 1896 to revive the history. Greece, the birthplace of the games, also witnessed the dawn of the modern Olympics that unites the different countries under one roof. Frenchman Pierre de Cubertin is regarded as the father of modern Olympics.
Olympic Symbol
The symbol consists of five interlinked rings to represent the friendship of all people. The rings also represent the 5 continents. Blue- Europe, Yellow- Asia, Black- Africa, Green- Australia and Red- America.
Motto
The Olympic Motto is 'Citius, Altius, Fortius' meaning 'Faster, Higher, Stronger' in Latin. The motto was coined by Father Didon, a French priest in 1895.

Flag
The Olympic Flag consists of the five rings of Olympic symbol in a plain white background.
Flame
The Olympic Flame represents the continuity between the ancient and modern games. It was adopted in 1936. The flame is kindled by the Olympic torch. It is lit by the sun rays at Olympia, Greece and is then carried to the games venue by a relay of runners.
Oath
The Olympic oath should be taken by an athlete during the opening ceremony. It reads "In the name of all name of all the competitors, I promise that we shall take part in these Olympic Games, respecting and abiding by the rules which govern them in the true spirit of sportsmanship for the glory of sport and the honour of our teams". It was composed by Pierre de Cubertin, the founder of modern Olympics.
Creed
The Olympic creed was also composed by Pierre de Cubertin. It is that the most important thing is not to win but take part in the Olympics. The primary thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

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American Presidents: Facts and Trivia

George Washington

George Washington is the first US President. He is also known as the Father of Nation.

The first US Vice President and 2nd President was John Adams.

John Adams was the first US President to reside in White House.

The official airplane of the US President is known as Airforce 1.

George Washington is the only US President who won getting 100% electoral votes.

Franklin D Roosevelt was the US President to serve for the longest time. He was the only person to be in the chair for more than two times as well.

The youngest person to be the US President was Theodore Roosevelt. He was 42 when he took charge in 1901.

Ronald Reagen was the oldest to be the US President. He was 69 when he was elected in 1981.

Abraham Lincoln is the US President who abolished slavery.

Four US Presidents have been assassinted in office. Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William Mckinely and John F Kennedy are them.

Abraham Lincoln was the first US President from Republican Party.

George Bush and George W Bush are the only father and son to have been US Presidents.

A presidential term is 4 years.

The official room of US President in the White House is called Oval Office.

The world famous toy Teddy Bear got its name from Theodore Roosevelt.

Harry S Truman was the US President who ordered the Atom bomb attack at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Four US Presidents have won the coveted Nobel Peace Prize. They are Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Jimmy Carter and Barak Obama.

The summer residence of the President is known as Camp David.

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The Mayan Calendar and World's End: Things to know

Author: Krishnanjan Pramanik

The Mayans were the civilization inhabited in South America. They and the calendar devised by them, the 'Mayan Calendar' have been on headlines for a while. Non-senses are in the air about it and its connection with an another non-sense (End of world in 2012). But I really have doubt regarding the number of persons who really know about the Mayan way of counting days. Let me explain it for those who don't.

First of all, the Mayans had two basic way of counting days, namely Tzolkin and Haab. Tzolkin is a 260-day ritual count. This 260-days were counted with 13-cycles of 20 days each. Haab was a 365-day solar count. This 365-day were calculated with 18-cycles of 20 days each. Research workers sometimes call the Haab as the ' Vague Year ' because Mesoamericans did not take account of the fact that a solar year lasts slightly more than 365 days and add an extra day every four years. So, overtime, their solar years must have dragged behind the movements of stars ans sun. There used to have a 'unlucky period' of five days period at the end of each year.
There are conflicts about why the early Mesoamericans first fixed on 260-days count as a useful unit for measuring time. Some have argued that it was based on observation of the movements of Venus and of the Sun because 260-days period roughly corresponds to the gap between the appearance of Venus as the evening star and its emergence as the morning star. There is also an interval of 260 days between the sun's annual southward movement and its northward return when viewed from latitude close to Copan.
Most modern researchers argue thet the 260-days cycle is based on counting forward 260 days from the date of a woman's last menstrual period, to predict when a baby is likely to be born, as do the modern Maya still living in the mountains of southern Guatemala.

The Mayan Long Count

In addition to the twinned 260-days and 365-days calendars, the Maya people greatly refined a much longer running measuring system, the 'Long count', which is known to have been used in many parts of Mesoamerica at the beginning of the first millennium BC. Researchers found that during the Classical period, the Mayans dated their monuments using the Long Count to record births, deaths, royal accessions and anniversaries, the dates of ritual sacrifices and battle triumphs. This system counted forward from a Zero date of 4 Ahua 8 Cumku, equivalent to 11 August 3114 BC in the Gregorian calendar.
The Maya Long count counted days in units of 20 and used 360 days as a 'Year'. Its five units were the 'Baktun' (144,000 days), the 'Katun' (7,200 days), the 'Tun' (360 days), the 'Uinal' (20 days), and the 'Kin' (1 day). Dates were carved in this order, with units separated by full points. For example, the date 3.3.2.1.1 would be 3 Baktuns, 3 Katuns, 2 Tuns, 1 Uinal and 1 Kin, making a total of 454,341 days after the Zero date of 11th August 3114 BC.
The misinterpretation of this Long count calendar is the basis for the popular belief that a cataclysm will take place on 21st December of 2012 .
But actually 21st December, 2012 is the day that the calendar will go to the next 'Baktun'. The foresaid fact is what inspired many prophecies and the exploitation of people in the name of World's End.

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Nokia 808 PureView comes up with 41 Mega Pixel Camera!

Believe it or not! Nokia is all set to make history as it launched their latest product Nokia 808 PureView smartphone at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The phone runs Symbian Belle instead of usual Windows Phone operating system. Nokia had announced that it is going to cease the Symbian handsets with the end of this year. That suggests that the 808 PureView may be one of the last Symbian Belle phones to come out from to the Nokia factory.
The PureView is concieved by two Nokia engineers who wanted to make revelutionary changes in the camera concepts of a smartphone. It is coming with the whopping 41 Megapixels camera that sports the PureView technology. It was developed by combining Carl Zeiss optics and Nokia's own Pixel over-sampling technology. The camera can take pictures at 5, 8 and 38 Megapixels. Apart from that, we can zoom in the frame up to 3X without losing any clarity. There will be no artificially created pixels in the picture, either.
But it is pointed out that the phone won't be having that much demand among the conventional smartphone users unless you are a photography geek. The Symbian OS is not as much flexible and perfect as other systes like Android and Windows Phone. So the mainstream consumers might hesitate to buy the Nokia 808.

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Clearmyguilt.com; Confess your sins anonymously

Have you been feeling guilty of something you did in the past? And you wanted to confess it but none was there to give an ear or none should know that it was you? Then you should join the website Clearmyguilt.com (http://clearmyguilt.com). It is a different kind of website that allows its users to confess their deepest secrets and sins online keeping their anonymity.
You can post your mistakes that have been haunting you in the forum named Guilt Box. The fellow users read rate the sins as either 'forgiveable' or 'unforgiveable'. The sinners who get more forgivable votes go to heaven and who get more unforgivable votes go to hell ! The venture helps to absolve sinners of their guilt and take the pressure away. The people can have some relief and make a new start.
The idea of Clearmyguilt.com was concieved by two Arizona University students named Lonny Ruben and Ryan Charleston. It was launched in January. The duo curate the sins and choose the top 15 those are supposed to recieve the best response on the forum. They say that keeping the identity anonymous encourages the members to be honest.
Obviously, the site has made an impact on the people that it enjoys around 100,000 visitors a day. Its Facebook page has got more than 2000 likes as well.

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Oscar Awards Quiz

1. Which was the first colour movie to win the Best Picture Oscar ?
2. Who holds the record of winning the Best Director award most no.of times ?
3. Which art director designed the Oscar statuette ?
4. Who was the first to win an Oscar for Best Actress for a role in a foreign language film ?
5. Which Oscar winning movie was a film adaptation of the George Bernard Shaw play, Pygmalion ?
6. Who directed the Oscar winning film The Last Emperor, based on the life of Chinese emperor Pu-Yi ?
7. Who won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her 8 minutes long role in 1998 film Shakespeare in Love ?
8. Which two actors share the distinction of being nominated for Oscar 7 times without a single win ?
9. For the performance in which film, did Marlon Brando win his first Oscar ?
10. Who became the youngest to win a Best Actor Oscar in 2002 ?
11. The Oscar winning film Braveheart is based on the life of which English king ?
12. Which actor won the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of boxer Jake La Motta ?
13. Which film by William Wyler based on Bible won a record 11 Oscars in 1959 ?
14. In which name the Oscar winning actor Krishna Bhanji became popular ?
15. Which 1985 Spielberg film was nominated for 11 Oscars, without winning a single award ?
16. Who was the director of 1976 film Dersu Uzala that won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film ?
17. Who is the only woman to have won a Best Director Oscar ?
18. Which musical won 8 Oscars in 1958 ?
19. Who was the first to win the Best Actress Oscar in 1928 ?
20. The Oscar nominated film The Miracle Worker tells the story of which famous teacher and student ?

Answers

1. Gone With the Wind, 1939
2. John Ford, 4 times
3. Cedric Gibbons
4. Sophia Loren, Two Women
5. My Fair Lady, 1964
6. Bernardo Bertolucci
7. Judi Dench
8. Peter O' Toole and Richard Burton
9. On the Waterfront, 1954
10. Adrien Brody
11. William Wallace
12. Robert De Niro, Raging Bull in 1980
13. Ben-Hur
14. Ben Kingsley
15. The Colour Purple
16. Akira Kurasowa
17. Katheryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
18. Gigi
19. Janet Gaynor
20. Anne Sullivan and Helen Keller

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Cricket Quiz 1

This is the first edition of Cricket Quiz. Only Men's Cricket has been reffered to here.

Questions

1. In which year the International Cricket Council was founded ?
2. Who was the first bowler to take a hat-trick in Test Cricket ?
3. Who holds the record for highest individual score in the World Cup ?
4. Who was the first player to be declared out by the third umpire in an international match ?
5. Sunil Gavaskar has taken only one wicket in Test Cricket. Who was his victim ?
6. Which player was known as Black Bradman ?
7. Which player scored century in his debut match, debut match as capain and the final match in Test Cricket ?
8. Who is the only player to have hit 6 sixes in an over in ODI ?
9. 'Straight from the Heart' is the autobiography of which Cricketer ?
10. Which company sponsored the first three world cup trophies ?
11. Who was the Player of the Tournament in 1999 World Cup ?
12. Which is the largest Cricket stadium in the world ?
13. Which Cricketer was called Big Cat ?
14. Which was the first country to win by 10 wickets in a One-day match ?
15. Which English king banned Cricket in 1365 ?
16. Who is the only player to have won 4 consecutive Man of the Match awards in ODIs ?
17. Which country holds the record for highest team total in both Test and ODI Cricket ?
18. Who scored the fastest double hundred in Test Cricket ?
19. Which umpire is known for his 'slow death' style of indicating a batsman is out ?
20. Which stadium hosted the first international Day-Night match ?

Answers

1. 1909
2. S R Spolforth
3. Gary Kirsten, 188* v/s UAE, 1996
4. Sachin Tendulkar
5. Zaheer Abbas, Pakistan
6. George Headley
7. Greg Chappel
8. Herschelle Gibbs, v/s Netherlands
9. Kapildev
10. Prudential Insurance
11. Lance Klusner, South Africa
12. Melbourne Cricket Ground, Australia
13. Clive Lloyd
14. India, in 1975 v/s East Africa
15. Edward III
16. Sourav Ganguly
17. Sri Lanka
18. Adam Gilchrist
19. Rudi Koertzen, South Africa
20. Sydney Cricket Ground

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Music Quiz 1

1. Who is considered the father of Orchestra ?
   
2. Which music band has won the most number of Grammy awards till date ?


3. Who was the first Indian musician to do a symphony ?


4. Who composed the ballet Swans in the Lake ?


5. Who edited the book The Pelican History of Music ?


6. Which musical instrument was invented by Italian Bartolommeo Christofori ?


7. Which musician scored for the film Chariots of Fire to win an Oscar ?


8. Who are known as the trinity of Carnatic Music ?


9. Singer Harry Rodger Webb became popular in what name ?


10. Bouzouki is a string instrument from where ?


11. The song "Horst-Wessel-Lied" was the anthem of which infamous political party ?


12. Which instrument is known as the King of Orchestra ?


13. The word Music was formed from the Greek for Muses' Art. Who are the Muses ?


14. Whom did Ringo Starr replace to join the Beatles ?


15. Which jazz trumpeter was called the 'Prince of Darkness' ?


16. Which Beethoven symphony was a tribute to Nepoleon Bonaparte ?


17. Graceland was the home of which Rock N Roll legend ?


18. Which Pink Floyd song was banned by the South African government during apartheid ?


19. Who composed the background score of the Satyajit Ray film Pather Panchali ?


20. The Salzburg Music Festival commommorates which music legend ?

Answers

1. Joseph Haydn
2. U2
3. Ilaiyaraja
4. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
5. Alec Robertson and Denis Stevens
6. Piano
7. Vangelis
8. Thyagaraja Swamikal, Mutthuswami Dikshithar and Shyama Shastrikal
9. Cliff Richard
10. Greece
11. Nazi Party
12. Violin
13. Muses are the 9 sons of Greek god Zeus
14. Pete Best
15. Miles Davis
16. Eroica
17. Elvis Presley
18. Another Brick in the Wall
19. Pandit Ravishankar
20. Wolfgang Mozart

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United Nations Specialised Agencies

Agency, Founding Year and Headquarters

United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation [UNESCO] - 1946 - Paris

United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund [UNICEF] - 1946 - New York

United Nations Development Programme [UNDP] - 1972 - New York

United Nations Environment Programme [UNEP] - 1972 - Nairobi

United Nations Fund for Population Activities [UNFPA] - 1969 - New York

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees [UNHCR] - 1950 - Geneva

United Nations Industrial Development Organisation [UNIDO] - 1967 - Vienna

United Nations Institute for Training and Research [UNITAR] - 1965 - New York

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development [UNCTAD] - 1964 - Geneva

United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East [UNRWA] - 1949 - New York

International Labour Organisation [ILO] - 1919 - Geneva

International Atomic Energy Agency [IAEA] - 1957 - Vienna

Food and Agriculture Organisation [FAO] - 1945 - Rome

World Health Organisation [WHO] - 1948 - Geneva

World Meteorological Organisation [WMO] - 1950 - Geneva

International Maritime Organisation [IMO] - 1948 - London

International Development Association [IDA] - 1960 - Washington DC

International Finance Corporation [IFC] - 1956 - Washington DC

International Civil Aviation Organisation [ICAO] - 1947 - Montreal

Universal Postal Union [UPU] - 1875 - Berne

International Telecommunication Union [ITU] - 1932 - Geneva

International Fund for Agricultural Development [IFAD] - 1977 - Rome

World Intellectual Property Organisation [WIPO] - 1970 - Geneva

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International Mother Language Day: History and Facts

The International Mother Language Day is observed annually on 21 February worldwide to promote awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism. The observation was first announced by UNESCO on 17 November 1999.
International Mother Language Day observation was inspired from the Language Movement Day commemorated in Bangladesh since 1952.

History

On 21 March 1948, Pakistan Governor General Mohammed Ali Jinnah declared Urdu as the only official language for both West and East Pakistan. The people of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh ) started to protest against this as Bangla was their mother tongue. As a part of protest, students in Dhaka called for a provincial strike on 21 February 1952. The government declared a curfew at the place. But the students did not withdraw the strike but continued peacefully. The Pakistani police fired on the students despite these peaceful protests and 4 students were killed. The Mother Language Day commommorates this incident.

Other Facts

United Nations declared 2008 as the International Year of Languages to recognise the Mother Language Day movement.

The Linguapax Institute of Spain awards Linguapax Prize on every Mother Language Day to linguists, researchers, professors and members of the civil society 'in acknowledgement of their outstanding work in the field linguistic diversity or multilingual education'. The award was instituted in 2002.

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Wildlife Quiz 1

1. What is the colour of Hippoppotamus sweat ?
2. The extinct bird Dodo had lived in which country ?
3. What is Ornithology a study of ?
4. What type of creature is a Bombay Duck ?
5. Which is the first National Park in the world ?
6. Which are the two egg laying mammals ?
7. Which is the only animal with chlorophyll ?
8. Which is the smallest flightless bird ?
9. Name the only kind of apes found in India.
10. In which country the bird Kiwi is found ?
11. In which class of deers both male and female have horns ?
12. Which is the largest fish in the world ?
13. Which Indian National Park is famous for One Horned Rhinos ?
14. Which type of Turtles have the longest lifespan ?
15. Where are the headquarters of World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF) ?
16. What is the meaning of the word Dinausur ?
17. Expand IUCN.
18. Which is the largest carnivore living on the land ?
19. Which bird can fly backwards ?
20. What is the scientific name of Peacock ?

Answers

1. Red
2. Mauritius
3. Birds
4. Fish
5. Yellowstone National Park, Canada
6. Platypus and Echidna
7. Euglena
8. Island Rail
9. Gibbon
10. New Zealand
11. Reindeer
12. Whale Shark
13. Kaziranga National Park, Asom
14. Galapagos Turtles
15. Gland in Switzerland
16. Giant Lizard
17. International Union for Conservation of Nature
18. Polar Bear
19. Bee Humming Bird
20. Pavo Christatus

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History Quiz 1

1. Who is called the Father of History ?
2. Who is the first Pharao king to be reffered in Bible ?
3. Twelve Tables was the first book on the law system of which empire ?
4. Which British Prime Minister presented the Act of Union in Parliament in 1800 that recommanded a common parliament for Britain and Ireland ?
5. In what name the aids of Garibaldi, who led the Italian unification in 1800s, were known as ?
6. Who named Greenland, the largest island in the world ?
7. Who led the drafting of the Declaration of American Independence ?
8. Which peace treaty ended the First World War ?
9. The Pacific War during 1879-84 was fought between which Latinamerican countries ?
10. Who was the first Secretary General of United Nations ?
11. Which fascist leader used to be called El Cadillo ?
12. After which liberator is Bolivia named ?
13. Which dynasty was overthrown in the Chinese revolution in 1912
14. Who was the only British king who never talked English ?
15. Which nation was formed on 14 May, 1948 ?
16. Whose followers are called Rastafarians ?
17. Who is known as the founder of Modern Turkey ?
18. Whose assassination by Gavrilo Princip triggered the First World War ?
19. Who was the first Republican president of USA ?
20. The Battle of Waterloo was what determined the fall of Napoleon. Where is Waterloo ?

Answers

1. Herodotus
2. Necko
3. Roman empire
4. William Pitt
5. Red Shirts
6. Erik the Red
7. Thomas Jefferson
8. Versailes Treaty
9. Chile and Bolivia
10. Trigvey Li of Norway
11. General Franco of Spain
12. Simon Bolivar
13. Manchu dynasty
14. King George I
15. Israel
16. Haile Selassie, former Ethiopian ruler
17. Mustafa Kamal Pasha Attaturk
18. Duke Ferdinand of Serbia
19. Abraham Lincoln
20. Belgium

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Literature Quiz 1

1. 'Frailty, thy name is woman.' in which Shakespeare play do these words appear ?
2. Who was the first African writer to win a Literature Nobel ?
3. How do we better know Charles Dodgson ?
4. Who was the first winner of Jnanpith Award, India's most prestigious literary honor ?
5. Who was the author of The Godfather ?
6. 'Call me Ishmael', which classic novel begins with this line ?
7. Which famous poet wrote the preface to Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali ?
8. What is the other name of Geethagovindam by Jayadeva ?
9. Sir Nigel and The White Company are the lesser known romance novels by which author ?
10. Who is the only person to have won a Nobel Prize and an Oscar Award ?
11. What is the real name of the character who people know as the 'hunchback of Notre Dame' ?
12. Who created the character Lolita ?
13. Lago is the antagonist of which famous literary work ?
14. On whose novel of the same title is the Oscar winning film The English Patient based ?
15. Which literature Nobel laureate was once the Mexican ambassador to India ?
16. Which famous novel ends with the line 'After all, tomorrow is another day' ?
17. Whose autobiography is titled The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian ?
18. Which author played a village girl in the film Massey Saahib ?
19. Which Soviet author had to reject the Nobel prize in 1958 due to the government pressure ?
20. The Hugo Award for detective fiction is named after whom ?

Answers

1. Hamlet
2. Wole Soyinka
3. Lewis Caroll, author of Alice in Wonderland
4. G Shankarakkurup, Malayalam poet
5. Mario Puzo
6. Mobydick by Herman Melville
7. WB Yeats
8. Ashtapadi
9. Arthur Conan Doyle
10. George Bernard Shaw
11. Quasimodo
12. Vladimir Nabokov
13. Othello
14. Michael Ondaatje
15. Octavio Paz
16. Gone With the Wind
17. Nirad C Chaudhari
18. Arundhati Roy
19. Boris Pasternak
20. Hugo Gernsbach

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Tweek : India's first tablet magazine

Times Internet Limited (TIL) has launched 'Tweek', India's first tablet magazine. The magazine can be accessed on the iPad and is to be launched on the iPhone and Android soon.
Times CEO Rishi Khiani said that Times is intending to pioneer the 'tablet magazine' arena in India. Tweek will have the latest stories in all categories like business, entertainment and sports from across the globe.

The Tweek application for the tablet was developed by TIL and the cloud-based mobile publishing company GENWI.
The magazine lets the reader to watch and listen to the story apart from just reading. Owing to the interactive format, the readers can share the contents through social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. The readers can connect directly with the writers of Tweek and give the feedback about the stories they read or watched.

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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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