set 1(with answers)

8/4/2019 Set 1(with answers)

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Name?

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A :2

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A is a fictional scientist,created by X. B is also afictional scientist created by

Y. X based A on B.

X had also created a super-sleuth based on an super-sleuth created by Y.

Identify the super-sleuthscreated by X and Y.


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X is Satyajit Ray. He created Feluda, the super-sleuth and Prof Shanku, the scientist .

Y is Arthur Conan Doyle. He created Sherlock

Holmes and Professor Challenger.


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First example of an Indian companyhiring a local face to endorse itsbrand exclusively in another

Country. Dabur has roped in whichPakistani cricketer for its brand Hajmola?

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Shahid Afridi


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Y is a fictional character erroneously referred to as X. But

in the novel, in which Y was introduced, the author hadn'tnamed Y.

Yis also variously referred to as a creature, fiend, thedemon, wretch, devil, thing, being, ogre and

Adam of your creation in the novel.In the novel, X is a student of science and alchemy , andhad created Y keeping in mind a noble objective but itturned out to be the other way round.

Identify X & Y.

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Y Frankenstein's monster

X- Frankenstein


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A hero ventures forth from the world ofcommon day into a region of supernaturalwonder: fabulous forces are there encounteredand a decisive victory is won: the hero comesback from this mysterious adventure with the

power to bestow boons on his fellow man.

What is being described here?

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Joseph Campbell's monomyth cycle, in thebook 'Hero With Thousand Faces'.


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Who released this ad?

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Amul


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What is so special about this picture?

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First color photograph taken by James Maxwell.

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Which Asian Country with Voice based revenues of $ 5.70Billion has overtaken India as the Call centre capital of theworld ?

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Phillipines


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This is the erstwhile flag of a company currently ownedby Sanjiv Mehta. Which company?

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British East India Company


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ICANN, the corporation that manages the domainsand addresses of the internet, has finally approved along-standing request (pending since 2004) for a top-level domain. The move is not likely to be free of

controversy, with both its opponents andrepresentatives of those it is supposed to be for,voicing concerns about how this will be used.

So what new, three-letter TLD is this?


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.xxx


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This cricketer was considered as perhaps the greatest allrounder of his time. In all, he took 1,109 first-classwickets with a bowling average of 10.32 He was also afine batsman (4,140 first-class runs with a batting

average of 14.12).He retired from cricket as a result ofrheumatism . He was posthumously selected as WisdenCricketer of the Year in 1913, 50 years after hisretirement from first-class cricket.

Identify the cricketer.


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John Wisden


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Who ismissing?


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AR Rehman. This is the band Superheavy.


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Those were the pictures of an airshow accidentin Germany.

That airshow accident inspired the formation of

German band famous for its pyrotechniques.The band had released an eponymous song tocommemorate the victims of the accident.

Identify the band.


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Rammstein


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Based on?


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Bond Girls


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Helen Morrison was confined to a lunatic asylum in 1727,for taking out an ad in Manchester Weekly Journal. TheLord Mayor sent her there so that it would be an examplefor others, after a big outburst by outraged citizens. What

ad did she take out?


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First Matrimony Ad


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The cover of whichmagazine and what isso special about it?


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The Playboy, first to have a male model on it. Guyis Peter Sellers


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Whose Ad?


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Fevicol


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It was born in 1984 out of an observation by Richard SaulWurman and their first __________________ includeddemos of the newly released Macintosh computer &Sony compact disc and Benoit Mandelbrots

demonstration on how to map coastlines using fractals.Owned by The Sapling Foundation, a private nonprofitfoundation it was established in 1996 by an erstwhilepublishing entrepreneur.

What?


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Ted Talks


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Funda?


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Union Bank Advertising Joint Accounts!


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The 1980 Moscow Olympics were the first whereelectronic scoreboards at events scored by judges weremade to display 4 characters (2 digits & 2 decimals). Atprevious events, scoreboards would display only 3

characters.Who/What necessitated the change?


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Nadia Comaneci. Perfect 10.


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What is this?


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Blackbox

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This is an artist's depiction of the van of whichfamous physicist.


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Richard P. Feynman.

The van had 'Feynman diagrams' on its body.

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During a previous total solar eclipse visible in India, in1868, a French scientist named Pierre Jansentravelled to a tobacco field just outside Guntur toobserve the spectrum. A resultant yellow line in the

spectrum was a pointer to which new element, which was the first-ever element to be discovered outsideEarth before it was found on Earth?


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Helium

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Copenhagen Suborbitals is a Denmark-basedorganisation attempting to be the first amateur groupto achieve manned spaceflight. Towards that end, theyrecently (and successfully) launched an unmannedrocket.

The rocket is named "Heat-1X" and is also named fora famous Danish scientist; this scientist is known forhaving a nose for the bizarre.

Who is this scientist?


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Tycho Brahe

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In this ad by Nike, who is the opponent of MichaelJordan?


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Isaac Newton.

Jordan is defying gravity in the ad.

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