By-

Saksham Koul

QUESTION 1

X was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass and launched by July 2006. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with more than 100 million users who in 2012 posted 340 million Ys per day. The service also handled 1.6 billion search queries per day.  In 2013 X was one of the ten most-visited websites.

Identify X.

ANSWER

Twitter

QUESTION 2

Connect

ANSWER

Real Madrid C.F.

Image 1 – King Rey Alphonso III, who founded the club.

Image 2 – the Santiago Bernabeu stadium, the home of Real Madrid C.F.

QUESTION 3

This company was founded in 1884.  Their famous emblem — a cross in a shield — has been used since 1909. That year, the mother of founder Karl Elsener died and he named the company in her honour. In 1921, with the introduction of stainless steel into their products, the brand and name of the company became the present  _________. Simply name the company.

ANSWER

Victorinox [ Victoria + Inox - Victoria was the mother of Karl Elsener, and ‘inox’ is the French term for stainless steel. The year when his mother died, he named the co. in her honour – ‘Victoria’, but now it is ‘Victorinox’]

QUESTION 4

Connect

ANSWER

All of them are nicknamed ‘El Nino’.

1- Sergio Garcia 2- Fernando Torres 3- Hanley Ramirez

QUESTION 5

X is a local search and discovery service mobile app which provides a personalized local search experience for its users. By taking into account the places a user goes, the things they have told the app that they like, and the other users whose advice they trust, X aims to provide highly personalized recommendations of the best places to go around a user's current location.

The service was created in late 2008 and launched in 2009 by Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai. 

ANSWER

FourSquare

QUESTION 6

X is a 2000 American neo-noir psychological thriller film directed by Y.

Cast - Guy Pearce as Leonard Carrie-Anne Moss as Natalie Joe Pantoliano as Teddy Mark Boone Junior as Burt Stephen Tobolowsky as Sammy Harriet Sansom Harris as Mrs. Jankis Callum Keith Rennie as Dodd Larry Holden as Jimmy Jorja Fox as Leonard's Wife

This film (X) also served as the inspiration behind the Indian film Ghajini. Identify X.

ANSWER

Memento (2007)

QUESTION 7

How do we better know the footballer Carlos Caetano Bledorn Verri?

ANSWER

Dunga (presently the manager of the Brazil National Football Team.)

QUESTION 8

Robert Polet, former Chief Executive of which international giant remarked in a Fortune Asia interview: “We are not in the business of selling handbags. We are in the business of selling dreams”?

ANSWER

Gucci group

QUESTION 9

Youngest Son: Bilas Khan. Daughter’s Name: Saraswati. Son-in-law: Mishri Singh. His initial surname: Mishra.

Can you name the Indian legend?

ANSWER

Tansen

QUESTION 10

If CNN-IBN is “Whatever It Takes”, then which international brand would be “All it takes”?

ANSWER

Visa

QUESTION 11

India’s first mobile telephone call was made to Sukh Ram – the then Telecom minister on August 23, 1995. Who made the call?

Sukh Ram

ANSWER

Jyoti Basu (the then CM of West Bengal)

QUESTION 12

In 1988, the Goa Postal division opened a landmark post office whose name begins with the word X. Where was the post office and what was it called?

ANSWER

Dakshin Gangotri Post Office, Antarctica

QUESTION 13

His real name is Paul David Hewson. He was briefly christened as The Mother Teresa of Abandoned Songs. How do we know him better?

ANSWER

Bono

QUESTION 14

X were an English rock band formed in London in 1968. The group consisted of guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, bassist and keyboardist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham. The band's heavy, guitar-driven sound, rooted in blues and psychedelia on their early albums, has earned them recognition as one of the progenitors of heavy metal, though their unique style drew from a wide variety of influences, including folk music.

Identify X.

ANSWER

Led Zeppelin

QUESTION 15

What is this, or for what work was this used?

ANSWER

The Deringer pistol used by John Wilkes Booth to assassinate Abraham Lincoln.

QUESTION 16

Who is he and what is his claim to fame?

ANSWER

Shyam Saran Negi, India’s first voter at the 1951 elections, the first ever elections after the British Raj.

QUESTION 17

What is this?

ANSWER

The first Macintosh, released in 1984.

QUESTION 18

The use of X was first recorded in the city of Antioch from the 4th century. Later it was recorded in the Arab Empire from the 9th–10th centuries, especially in Cordova, and then in London from 1417 when Henry Barton, the mayor, ordered it to be done. It was introduced to the US by inventor Benjamin Franklin, who was the postmaster of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. For this reason, many regard Philadelphia as the birthplace of X in the US.

Identify X.

ANSWER

Street lighting.

QUESTION 19

The X is derived from the need of the printers of family trees in feudal times for a symbol to indicate date of birth. The original shape was seven-armed, each arm like a teardrop shooting from the center.

In computer science, the X is commonly used as a wildcard character.

Identify X.

ANSWER

Asterisk (*)

QUESTION 20

how do you feel about using X (pound) for groups. As in Xbarcamp [msg]?

—Chris Messina, ("factoryjoe"), August 23, 2007

Identify X.

ANSWER

Hashtag (#)

This was the first hashtag posted on Twitter, by Chris Messina, who was inspired to do so by the use of the number symbol (#) in IRC (Internet Relay Chat).

QUESTION 21

Identify

ANSWER

Doris Lessing, oldest person ever to receive a Nobel Prize.