QC session 4th April 2010

Finals

1. CONNECT:

Ans.Leaves,Jacket,Spine,Index.All parts of a book

2. Identify this Iconic picture.

Aerial View of the battle field after the Battle of Longewala , 1971.Also shown in the movie Border, 1997

3. A part of the Bhakti movement, name the Gujarati saint who wrote Mahatma Gandhi’s favorite bhajan.

Ans. Narsee Mehta

4) These pictures were in news recently. Give me the news.

Google launched an application ‘Google translate for Animals’ in Android for Iphone. This application claimed to convert animal voices to English words.Launched on 1st April this year, this was an April Fool Hoax by Google.

5) What is a ‘Cigar butt’ in the business world?

According to Warren Buffett"A cigar butt found on the street that has only one puff left in it may not offer much of a smoke, but the bargain purchase will make that puff all profit.“ If you buy a share at a low enough price you'll nearly always get a chance to make a profit at some stage.

6) Mahendra Singh Dhoni-157; Dinesh Karthik-156; Virender Sehwg-123; Rahul Dravid -95; Saurav Ganguly-84; Sachin Tendulkar-74.

Funda?.

Their ODI cap number. The Cap number shows their order in which they started playing for India.Sachin’s 74 show’s he was 74th player to play for India.

7) Walrus, Tooth brush, Pencil, Horse shoe and Fu Manchu are all types of................

Moustaches

8) Connect:

GOAT

Ans. Tennis

Net, Ace, GOAT (Greatest Of All Times), Court

GOAT

9) Guwahati, Bilaspur, Ahmedabad, Jabalpur, Kochi, Cuttack, Jodhpur, Nainital and Allahabad are only such places.

Only non-state capitals to have High Court

10) The Braille system was originally developed by Charles Barbier on Napolean’s demand for some purpose but was rejected citing the reason that it was too complex and difficult to learn. Later the system was modified by Louis Braille (a blind Frenchman) and is now used by blind worldwide. Can you guess the original purpose for which the system was made?

For soldiers to communicate in dark.

11) This is India’s first indigenously developed passenger car. It is also exported to UK and is sold there by name Rover CityRover. Other foreign markets include South Africa where it is sold by the name B-line. What is being talked about here?

Tata Indica