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8/3/2019 Five Sections Quiz

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In the 90s, this lady served as the MLA (Janata Dal) for the Kutiyana constituency in Porbandar,

Gujarat. She recently died due to a heart ailment. In some ways, why would she be considered

the female equivalent of a person who migrated to the US from Italy in the last years of thenineteenth century, and who took his last name from his hometown?Image: Rediff

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This is Santokben Jadeja, who was known to be one of the few female heads of an Indianunderworld gang. In 1999, a film named "Godmother" based on her life made her famous. The

other 'person' in the question is of course Don Vito Corleone, who became the fictional character'The Godfather'.

This Google Doodle seen in India on the 14th of March commemorates the 80th anniversary of

India's first ever talkie, the film "Alam Ara". The doodle shows the leading pair of the film, the

'hero' being Master Vitthal. What is the name of the heroine, who coincidentally shares her name

with another actress by the same name (who has a fictional biopic based on her)?

Zubeida


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This Chinook military helicopter is about to leave on a 'bombing' run of sorts and was part of a

set of four used for this purpose. What is the helicopter carrying?

Sea water; these were dumped on a damaged reactor at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan, in

an effort to cool down the overheating there.

This Amul advertisement appeared in January this year. The subject is a media campaign by the

Hindustan Times newspaper on Jan 29 in Mumbai. What was to be avoided that day?

Television.


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Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee recently released a commemorative Rs. 150/- coin tomark 150 years of the establishment of the Income Tax Department of India. The coin (seen in

the image) features the outline of a person, and a honeybee sitting on a lotus. The choice of thesesymbols is because this person opined that the process of taxation shouldn't be painful for the

taxed, and that governments should collect taxes like a bee, sucking just the right amount ofhoney from the flower allowing both to flourish.

Who was this person? (The name of his most famous work can be translated into English as

"Economics".)

Chanakya.

ID the man making the call and the company which manufactured the phone. After this occasion, the

company rose to prominence

Man: Mikhail GorbachevCompany: Nokia


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"The beginnings were humble - classic example of the enterprising Punjabi spirit. Thefounders Pahwa Brothers dreamt of giving the common man of this country anaffordable means of mobility in those early days of our countrys independence.Excellent quality, economical price and ethical business dealings earned them instantacceptability. Holding these values close to their hearts they built the trust brick by

brick.Starting up a bicycle saddles and brakes manufacturing unit in 1948, the Pahwas setout on a long and arduous journey. __X__ Cycles came into being in 1952 when thefirst batch of 250 bicycles rolled out of its plant."

The numbers have been going up, ever since. From amongst the pioneers of the Indianbicycle industry, __X__ has remained in the top performers position for over half acentury. The promoters abiding faith in human values and fairness, built enduringbusiness bonds with a vast dealer network in India and abroad. High-class technology,consistent quality and effective after-sales service made up a perfect proposition.

__X__ is the only group anywhere in the world with full backward integration. They havefacilities for making almost all the parts, including Steel Balls needed for their Bicycles.This places them a cut above the rest when we talk of quality born of work culture. Theydid not venture into Tyre and Tubes, these being in a different discipline, altogether. Tomeet their expanding requirement of raw materials, they added facilities for makingSteel Strips, Steel Tubes and Hot Rolled Steel, achieving full backward integration,unmatched and unequalled anywhere else."

Still more humble than most personal endorsements, identify this Indian Conglomerate.


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Avon Cycles

Parthiv Patel

Connect the three

Not very direct.


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Connect - Jeff Bezos.

Analyst at D.E. Shaw.

Coined "Artificial Intelligence"

Hedge Fund Blue Origin set up by Bezos.

Man can be a self sufficient being

Cheers?

Morarji Desai and his Urine TherapyHe is only person to be awarded with Bharat Ratna and Pakistan's highest equivalent of Bharat Ratna i.e.

Nishan-e-Pakistan.


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Identify this man and who he replaced at the beginning of this year

Jerry brown, replaced The Terminator Arnold S as Governor of California

Very Simple, Identify the Person and Nationality


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Julian Assange, Australian


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What is the link between all these companies? Name the companies, bonus.

The Companies allegedly involved in the 2G spectrum scandal.


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Answer: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" contains all 26 letters of the alphabet.

The sentence is also used to test typewriters and computers for font processing.

In this demotivational poster, identify the guy? What is the text a reference to?


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Answer: Freddie Mercury, who was tested HIV positive and died of AIDS. So being positive, isn't the best

thing after all!


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Identify the Person? Have a second question once this is answered.


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Identify this Carnigie Mellong Alumni

Luis Von Ahn, coined Captcha, Human Computation, Crowdsourcing

These two gentlemen? Who they?what did they come up with?

Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal, Flipkart

Where?


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Ground Zero of the 9/11 attack.


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The Darvaza gas crater in Turkmenistan a natural-gas exploration gone wrong: they decided to set fire

to it in 1971, and it's still burning. The 'Darvaza to Hell', indeed.

Where would you find this hellhole? What caused it?


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Aerila View of What


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"Stranger to History: A Son's Journey through Islamic Lands" was published in 2009. In thebook, the author visits several Islamic countries in an attempt to understand modern times in

these places. The journey is immensely personal, because he also visits his estranged father inPakistan and is trying to come to terms with his own Islamic identity.

If the author's mother is noted journalist Tavleen Singh, who is the father?

Salmaan Taseer, the Governor of Punjab (Pakistan), who was assassinated by a member of his own

security detail.

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