Quiz - Orbis

8/3/2019 Quiz - Orbis

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1.Turbo PC was the first product of this company.Each Television ad of this company ended with

the sentence "Dude, you're getting' a _ _ _ _!

Fill in the blanks?


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DELL


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2. The term is typically applied to those whoseheight is not just in the upper 1% of the

population but several standard deviation

above mean for persons of the same sex, age,

and ethnic ancestry. The term is seldom

applied to those who are simply "tall" or

"above average" whose heights appear to be

the healthy result of normal genetics andnutrition. Which term we are talking about?


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Gigantic


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3. The Beretta 92 (also Beretta 96 and Beretta 98) is a series ofsemi-automatic pistols designed and manufactured by Beretta of

Italy. The model 92 was designed in 1972 and production of

many variants in different calibers continues today. The

United States armed forces replaced the M1911.45 ACP pistol in

1985 with the military spec Beretta 92F, the M9. Identify thismodel ?
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Pamas
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4. This word in Hindi means Light. It is

the seventh month of lunisolar Hinducalendar and sixth month of the Solar

Bengali calendar. What is the word?
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Ashvin


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5. In Greek, it literally means a temple of

all Gods. Identify the type of building?
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Pantheon


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6. It is a distributed computing project in the fields of

economics, Finance and Stock Markets, that generates

stock forecasts by application of artificial intelligence

with the aid of artificial neural networks The idea was

first conceived in an economics thesis on stockforecasts with the aid of artificial neural networks at the

University of Heidelberg. This system was then

developed by i42 GmbH, Mannheim, who added some

innovative features to the original idea. Name thecomputing system?
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Money Bee


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7. Identify the company.


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Kedia Shares & Stock Brokers


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8.

NGC 4411 ------ is in the constellation

Coma Berenices, is about 55,000

light-years in diameter and approximately

60 million light-years away from Earth.Identify
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Galaxy


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Genus Santalam is the name of this plant. What is derived

from this plant?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Santalum_paniculatum_1326.jpg


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Sandalwood


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10. The Company was founded in December

1926 by way of the merger of four companies

Brunner Mond, Nobel Explosives, the

United Alkali Company, and

British Dyestuffs Corporation. It is considered

as the Bellwether of the British Economy.

Identify the company
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunner_Mondhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Enterpriseshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Alkali_Companyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Dyestuffs_Corporationhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Dyestuffs_Corporationhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Alkali_Companyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Enterpriseshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunner_Mond


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ICI Paints (ICI stands for Imperial Chemicalindustries)


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12.Ad Age is the leading global source ofnews, intelligence and conversation for

marketing and media communities. They

have declared this company as Worlds one

of the hottest brands in 2010. They also won

the Golden Peacock award for product

innovation. No dream too small is the

caption of this company. Identify thecompany.


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Fullerton


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12. The first word in the name of this

company in US slang term for is Money. The

second word of this company is colloquially

used for dollar. Name the company (twowords)


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Green Bucks


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13. The first name of this personality is something todo with the picture above. The term belonged to the

Muslim monetary system. The famous novel by Leo

Tolstoy ----Karerina shares the common first name.

Also it is the Latin form of the Greek name Awa.

He shares the second name with the famous Indian

cricketer of the 1950s who led India to their first ever

Test cricket victory.

Identify the personality who is attempting to create a

new system?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:East_India_Company_-_Quarter_Anna_1835.JPG


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Anna Hazare


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14. This word means an Ombudsman in India. This

word literally means Protector of People. This wasintroduced in the year 1971, 1977, 1985, 1989, 1996,

1998, 2001, 2005 and in 2008 and it is yet to take off.

In case the complaint under this is found to bebaseless, punitive action extending to two years in jail

and monetary fine of up to Rs.50,000 may be imposed

on the complainant.

What is the good word?


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Lokpal


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15.Harish Manwani is the current CEO. This companywas formed by a merger with Hindustan

Vanaspathi mfg co. Sixteen of this companies

brands featured in the AC Nielsen Brand Equity list

of 100 Most Trusted Brands Annual Survey (2008).

It has been recognised as a Golden Super StarTrading House by the Government of India. This

company products are marketed under the brand

name Ayush in colloboration with Arya Vaidya

Pharmacy, Coimbatore. It knocked off Infosys fromthe position of Best Employer

Name the company


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Hindustan Lever Limited


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16.

He was appointed Additional Solicitor General by the V. P. singh

Government in 1989 and did the paperwork for the

investigations into the Bofors Scandal. His clients include

Sharad Yadav of Janata Dal, Madhav Rao Scindia of Congress

& L. K. Advani of BJP. He represented the Birla family in their

legal battle against R. S. Lodha on the question of ownership of

Birla Corporation Ltd, the property worth Rs. 5000 Cr and

above.

He has represented Ram Gopal Verma in a case against thefilm-maker who had a distorted version of the National Anthem

in his film Rann.

Identify this famous Lawyer. (Clue: His signature gives away

the name)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ee/Signature_of_Arun_Jaitely.svg


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Arun Jaitley


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16. This personality threatened to shave her head, don

a white saree and eat groundnuts (symbolically

mourning) if Sonia Gandhi, the Italian-born

Congress leader, became Prime Minister of India.

She has served as the Chief Minister of one of the

Union Territories for a brief period of 52 days. Shewas Interviewed by Pakistani channel and it was

well appreciated by the Pakistani Media. She spoke

in such a flawless Urdu and the only Hindi word

she used was vishay (for subject, instead ofmauzu).

Identify the Personality.


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Sushma Swaraj


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17. He refuses to be called himself as Dr. in spite of the fact he

holds a PH.d degree in addition to holding LLB and DBMqualifications. When he was holding the post of PWD

minister he convinced the state to allocate Rs. 700 Crores

for rural connectivity. In the next 4 years, 98% of the total

population of this state achieved an all-weather road

connectivity.

His report on Rural development was accepted and a new

rural road connecting scheme now popularly known as

Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana was launched. The

ambitious scheme is of Rs. 60,000 crores. He is also

promoter director of a company called Nikhil Furniture &

Appliances Pvt Ltd.

Name the politician


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Nitin Gadkari


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18. After obtaining the LLM from Harvard Law School in 1997,he appeared for the Civil services Exam and was offered an

appointment, but declined the offer . I witness is an

anthology of poems published by him in 2008. He won a

landslide victory against the TV actress Smita Irani . He has

recently approved the creation of an Indian Institute of

Technology Muddenahali as part of the 11th 5 year plan.

His brain child project Sakshat (one lap top per child

policy ) has lead to an open letter by Nicholas Negroponte

offering him complete access to MIT and OLPC

technologies to help realise India's dream to create a laptop

of its own.

Identify the personality


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Kapil Sibal


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19. Connect

2.5, 2.75,3 & 4
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Connect is 2G scam

Siddhartha Berua - He was the Telecom secretary who served in

the DOT at the time of the 2G allocation

R. K. Chandolia - He was private secretary of Raja during UPA-Iwhen the licences were awarded.

Vinod Rai Present Comptroller and Auditor General of India

was in news for his unforgiving audits on 2 G Scam

Shahid Balwa - Was arrested in Feb 2011 for his alleged

involvement in 2G Scam through his company Swan

Telecom


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20. This was first performed by Rahman at the song release

function held at Kingdom of Dreams in Gurgaon, Haryanaon August 28, 2010. The song was dedicated to Mahatma

Gandhi. This song become part of a famous event . The

Motto of this event is HUMANITY EQUALITY DESTINY.

Azim Premzi called this event as drain on public funds .

Name the event and the song


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Jiyo Utho Bado Jeeto & 2010 Commonwealth Games


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The Colonel's secret flavor recipe of 11 herbs andspices that creates the famous "finger lickin' good

------- , remains a trade secret.

Portions of the secret spice mix are made at differentlocations in the United States, and the only complete,

handwritten copy of the recipe is kept in a vault incorporate headquarters.

What are we referring to?


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Chicken (by KFC)


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The term retina display is beingused quite often in certainspecifications these days.

What product uses this and whatdoes it imply?


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For screen display for mobile phones assertionis that the screen resolution matches or exceedsthat of human eye

(Iphone 4 is using this term for marketing)


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This research project started in 1996.

Once the offering was ready, it was initially nicknamed"BackRub!

Later was renamed, but while renaming the original word wasmisspelt! But they retained the misspelt word!

Owners names Page and Brin

What are we talking about and what was supposedly thecorrect word planned for the name?


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Google

The original word is Googol (1 followed by 100 zeros).Idea was to indicate that the search will product

enormous amount of data!!

The original term BackRub was meant to indicate thatthe search technology lists web pages based on their

back links to other websites and would thus rank anddisplay the searched links based on their popularity

(term called Page Rank)


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Ranbaxy is now a pure MNC firmowned by Daichi Sankyo of Japan.

Though Ranbaxy name alreadysounded an MNC type, but do youknow background of this name.


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Was derived from the names oftwo brothers who started this in

1937!

Ranbir Singh and Gurbax Singh


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Can spot out which ones are theIndian company owned productsin the below list of our household

brands in India!!


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None!


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Q: In which country's coins you can found thefollowing lines imprinted, 'This is the root of all

evils' ?A: Vatican City


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A: Vatican City


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Q: What is an unusual service offered by Bank ofBaroda at Tirupati?


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A: Its the only bank in India to sell Prasad.


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Q: What is known as the 'Slash Fund'?


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Q: A: Money spent for payment towards theinfluential persons for the benefit of organizations


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Q: What does 'Asset Tripping' mean?


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A: Buying a company to sell its assets


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Q: Name the lady of Indian origin who heads Pepsi:


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A: Indira Nooyi


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Q: Which famous Bollywood star said I dont wantto be anonymous Im very honest about that. I

love being recognized, I love people like me, I lovethe fact that people scream when I go out. I think Illmiss all that when its taken away.


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A: Shah Rukh Khan

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