General Quiz

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The orbit of Jupiter, and any other heavenly body for that matter has Lagrangian points where clusters of mass may be found.

Many asteroids share their orbits with Jupiter in the Lagrangian points and are named after the characters of X.

Earth’s first X asteroid was discovered in October 2010 and confirmed recently. Solve for X.

Earth got its first ‘Trojan’ asteroid – An asteroid that ‘shares’ Earth’s orbit around the Sun.

Jupiter’s asteroids were originally given names of characters from the Trojan War

2From their website : TJ's has a variety of products such as Bakery products, Handloom & Textile, Apparel, Furniture, Pure Mustard Oil, Recycled hand-made paper products, paintings, designer candles & lamps, Jute bags, herbal products and many more.What does TJ stand for?

3

What is ‘aibohphobia’ a fear of?

Fear of Palindromes (words which are same backwards)

AIBOHPHOBIA itself is a palindrome

4

Robert Chesebrough was a mid-19th century chemist whose work was to distill fuel from the oil of sperm whales. His work soon became obsolete because of the introduction of Petroleum.

This prompted him to research more on Petroleum and took him to oil fields in Pennsylvania. He ended up discovering a new substance which he marketed after cosmetic changes in New York.

What substance?

Vaseline or Petroleum Jelly. Was found on the oil field pipes collecting naturally.

BBG Sports, the makers of HotSpot have said that at least 1 cm of Vaseline is required to avoid detection.

5Apart from being a list of animals, what are the following types of?

Pelican

Puffin

Zebra

Toucan Pegasus

Pedestrian Crossings

6The logo of this company consists of 3 white dots which are supposed to signify the three shops that were initially set up by this company. The business expanded and the number of shops started increasing, but the number of dots were (thankfully) restricted to three. Which company?

7

Bastille Day is the 15th August and 26th January equivalent of France. Being such an important day for the French, no banks are open on Bastille Day except ONE.

Which ‘traveling’ bank is being talked about?

Le Tour de France has a traveling bank of its own which has to remain operational even on Bastille Day

8The Order of the Star of India was an order of chivalry founded by Queen Victoria in 1861.No appointments have been made since the 1948 New Year Honours, shortly after the Partition of India in 1947. The motto of the order is Heavens light our guide. The "Star of India", the emblem of the order, also appeared on the flag of the Viceroy of India.It is pictured below as a part of a whole ensemble. Which famous and major organisation’s logo still possesses the Star of India?

9

This is Jane ‘X’, English born actress and singer and who now lives in France.When the chief executive of a French high fashion house was traveling with her on a plane, her bag kept in the overhead compartment fell and she had to scramble to get everything.

Some time later she was presented with a special 1892 design by the same executive. The article in question became a cult fashion icon.

What is ‘X’ and who was sporting it recently?

Hina Rabbani Khar and her Hermes Birkin bag.

10This company was launched in 1966 by Pierre Ballon (Chairman) in Marseille, France initially serving company restaurants, schools and hospitals under the name Société d'Exploitation Hotelière. It has gone a long away in replacing the standard conventional paper economy. Which company?

11

Using the spectral range of the light of about 20,000 galaxies and averaging them out, Karl Glazebrook and Ivan Baldry determined that the color of the universe was a greenish white, but they soon corrected their analysis in a 2002 paper.

The resultant (corrected) color is shown below and was termed ‘X’. ‘X’ was proposed by one Peter Drum who came up with the name while he was at Starbucks. Solve for ‘X’.

Cosmic Latte.These were the results of a vote by scientists. ‘Cappuccino Cosmico’ received more votes but the researchers liked ‘Cosmic Latte’ [Wikipedia]

12Castor and Pollux were the twin brothers in Roman mythology, taken from Greek Mythology, where they are collectively known as the Dioskouroi. In the myth, the twins shared the same mother but had different fathers (immortal Zeus and mortal Tyndareus), which meant that Pollux was immortal and Castor was mortal. When Castor was killed, Pollux asked Zeus to let him share his own immortality with his twin to keep them together and they were transformed into the X. What is X?

13Incorrect spellchecking or Autocorrect can give wrong results if the mistyped word is closer to a wrong entry in an editor’s dictionary. ‘X’ has been present in Microsoft's custom dictionaries since at least 1989 (when Word 4 for Mac was released).Direct examples of the X effect can be seen in sentences like :"as well as valuable experience in international ________“. Other examples include : "South Asian Association for Regional ________" and "presentation on African-German _________.“

What is the ‘X’ effect?

Cupertino Effect.

Apple Inc. HQ at Cupertino, California.

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The original headquarters of this organization had a rear entrance on a street called ‘Great X Y’. A 1964 NYT article states that the street got its name because it occasionally housed diplomatic representatives of the then Kingdom of X.

This organization uses a national IT system developed for major crime enquiries, called Home Office Large Major Enquiry System.

What is X Y?

Scotland Yard.Home Office Large Major Enquiry System stands for HOLMES.

Their training program is called ‘Elementary’.

15

Wisden Cricketer of the Year, 1913, this gentleman was an English cricketer who played 190 first-class cricket matches for three English county cricket teams, Kent, Middlesex and Sussex. Frequent attacks of rheumatism caused him to abandon the game after the 1863 season at the early age of 37. Identify.

This is John Wisden of the Wisden Cricketer’s Almanack fame

16

IEEE 802.11 is a set of standards for implementing ‘X’ in the 2.4, 3.6 and 5 GHz frequency bands. This was recently ‘celebrated’ in the US as ‘X Day’.‘X’ is actually a brand owned by X Alliance. It’s logo which has elements of yin/yang demonstrated ‘interoperability’.Solve for ‘X’.

Wi-Fi.

August 2,2011 ( 8.02.11) was ‘Wifi Day’ in the US.

17Who’s wax statue at Madame Tussauds?

This is Marie Tussaud, the founder of the museum.

18

This is the first ever X-ray image of a human body part. Who was the ‘subject’ of the X-ray and also explain what the dark spot amidst the fingers is?

Wilhelm Roentgen, the producer of X-Ray tried it first on his wife’s hand. The dark spot is her wedding ring.

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Founder of the Internet Users Community of India (IUCI) and a key person in establishing the Ethical Hackers Association, this film celebrity is often associated with a popular website which shares it’s name with a particular word made popular by him.Regarded as a pioneer for Internet in India, even when it was in its infancy, this one time compulsive smoker has highlighted the positive effects of the web in this way “the mouse took my cigarette away.” Who is being talked about?

Shammi Kapoor

20The founder of this company used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation technique as taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The company is named after a Yoga asana. This naming also prompted its competitors to nickname themselves ‘Buddha’ because ‘Buddha assumes ______asana’.

Which company?

21This movie has given us a very popular name in Bollywood? Who are we talking about?

22Invented by a Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Erno _____, the original purpose to make it was to address the structural problem of moving the parts independently without the entire mechanism falling apart. The following equation could act as a clue. What is being talked about?

23Mr. Sumant Moolgaonkar was instrumental in a number of revolutionary changes in TELCO and bringing about significant progress. How has TELCO, now Tata Motors, has immortalised his name?

Tata Sumo is named after him

FIN