Quiz 1
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The document provides information about various topics including Earl Grey tea, the Dutch East India Company, the highest honor awarded in Italy, Indian actor Kabir Bedi, the origin of the Subaru car company name, the Walkie Talkie building in London, the first woman to win the Fields Medal for mathematics, a proposed German-only internet project, and multiple meanings of the word "shingle".
Quiz 1
- 1. Dial Q for QUIZ Soumya Sarkar
- 2. This famous tea has added Oil of Bergamot that gives it its distinct aroma and flavor Oil of Bergamot is a cold-pressed essential oil produced by cells inside the rind of a bergamot orange fruit. It is a common top note in perfumes.
- 3. Earl Grey
- 4. Identify the company from the logo It is often considered to have been the first multinational corporation in the world and it was the first company to issue stock.
- 5. Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie Or the Dutch East India Company
- 6. Cavaliere Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana The highest ranking honour of Italy, it is awarded for "merit acquired by the nation" in the fields of literature, the arts, economy, public service, and social, philanthropic and humanitarian activities and for long and conspicuous service in civilian and military careers. WHO IS THE ONLY INDIAN RECIPIENT?
- 7. KABIR BEDI • In Europe, his greatest success was Sandokan, the saga of a romantic Asian pirate during British colonial times; an Italian-German-French TV series which broke viewership records across Europe • He can speak fluent Italian
- 8. Place of Origin? District or Town…not the State.
- 9. JUNAGADH
- 10. The name of this automobile company originates from the name of a six star cluster in the constellation of Pleiades WHICH ?
- 11. SUBARU Subaru is the name of a six-star cluster in the Taurus constellation. In the West the cluster is called Pleiades, in China, Mao, and in Japan, Subaru. Also known as Mutsuraboshi (or "Six Stars") in very Japanese literature, this is one of the clusters much loved by the Japanese from ancient times.
- 12. A London skyscraper was blamed for reflecting light which melted parts of a car parked on a nearby street. What is the nickname of the building in question?
- 13. The Walkie Talkie Building One cafe in the focus of the building's glare even managed to toast a baguette and fry an egg outside their shop. The architect Rafael Viñoly, has a track record of creating buildings that burn. His Vdara hotel in Las Vegas, with a similarly concave form, focused sunlight onto the pool terrace in 2010, hot enough to melt loungers and singe guests' hair. The glass has since been covered in non-reflective film.
- 14. Iranian president Hassan Rouhani has made history by tweeting this image of an award-winning Iranian-born mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani for becoming the first woman to win the Fields Medal, which is nicknamed the Nobel Prize for Mathematics. WHY?
- 15. The tweet was hailed as a major step forward for women's rights in Iran, following a call for fainter headscarfs, or even no headscarf at all, to be permitted.
- 16. German engineers are working on a German- only internet, using cables and computer servers entirely within Germany, following outrage about US eavesdropping. What has the project been dubbed?
- 17. Internetz Combination of the German words for internet and network. The project is being led by a team at Deutsche Telekom
- 18. What word can mean all of the following: • a woman’s short hairstyle in which the hair tapers to the nape of the neck, • a rectangular roof tile, • and a mass of small rounded pebbles along a shoreline?
- 19. SHINGLE
- 20. In 1973, who became the first Oscar winner to have parents who had also both won Oscars?
- 21. 1. LIZA MINELLI – Best Actress in a Leading Role (Cabaret) 2. MOTHER: Judy Garland – Two Academy Juvenile Awards for The Wizard of Oz and Babes in Arms in 1940 3. FATHER: Vincente Minelli – Best Director, Gigi 1958 1 2 3
- 22. In which Indian city do you get to see these world-famous lines
- 23. Kohima, Nagaland The Kohima 2nd Division Memorial is maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission on behalf of the 2nd Infantry Division. The memorial remembers the Allied dead who repulsed the Japanese 15th Army, a force of 100,000 men, who had invaded India in March 1944 in Operation U-Go. Kohima, the capital of Nagaland was a vital to control of the area and in fierce fighting the Japanese finally withdrew from the area in June of that year.
- 24. The Longitude 141 E separates which two countries
- 25. Indonesia and Papua New Guinea Longitude 141 E also separates South Australia from New South Wales in Australia
- 26. Salar de Uyuni (Bolivia) and Salar de Atacama (Chile) are the largest salt lakes in the world. Why are they being touted as the next big thing after Middle Eastern oil reserves?
- 27. Hint
- 28. LITHIUM The salt lakes contain the world’s largest reserves of Lithium Carbonate. The lightest of all metals, lithium is the key ingredient in the rechargeable batteries that keep cell phones and laptops humming. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, between them Bolivia and Chile have 70% of the known world reserves of lithium.
- 29. X was established in mid 1800s by Colonel Henry Hopkinson as a refuge for officers and staff of East India Company during summers. It was made into a new civil station by British in 1864 and was also designated as the summer capital of Eastern Bengal and Assam for many years. Finally on January 21, 1972, Y was declared a new state with X as its capital. Identify X and Y
- 30. X – SHILLONG Y - MEGHALAYA