grey matter inaugural quiz finals 1 quiz

Q1

What business entity connects the following set of people:• Manas Sarkar, a 17 year 'cadet' footballer• Pawan Kumar, a senior associate for quality control• Asha Hansda, a tribal beneficiary of the "Tejaswini" Project• Deepika Kumari, a Commonwealth Gold medallist in Archery• Jyoti Pandey, A Departmental Ethics coordinator• Mark Denys, a Dutch researcher, formerly an employee of

Corus• Sadhan Baske, a tomato farmer• Bachendri Pal, the fifth woman to scale Mt. Everest

• These people are featured in the 2011 Tata Steel "Values Stronger Than Steel" ad campaign.

Q2 Who?

• Shantanu Narayen, (Indian born American) CEO of Adobe Systems.

Q3 One more to complete the list of what?

• Ove Olson• Bent Lofqvist• Jose Altafini• Ray Crawford• Nikola Kotkov• Florian Albert• Paul van Himst• Gerd Muller• Claudio Sulser• Soren Lerby• ???????????

• Players to have scored FIVE goals in a single European Cup match. the missing name was Lionel Messi.

Q4 This is a tribute, in Lego, to which iconic image?

• Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times

Q5 Person in the first pic(X) died recently.He

assisted around 130 people to die in peace in his lifetime,also serving 8 years of prison for second degree murder.He fought for his patients rights to euthanasia.Identify,connect to second pic(Y)

and explain please.

• Dr. Death Jack Kevorkian And Al Pacino in “You Don’t Know Jack”!

Q6 Name the two towers

These two Deutsche bank towers have a very crafty name.The two aspects of every financial transaction.Guess madi!

• Credit and Debit

Q7 Put Funda

• For special trains, 0.• For Kolkata locals, 3.• Secunderabad is 4.• 9 for Mumbai suburban locals, 9• 1 is for all mail and express trains.• What is all this about?

• In December 2010, Indian Railways added anew prefix digit for different types of trains.

Q8 Who?

• This author made his feature film debut as an actor in the the film "7 Khoon Maaf" directed by Vishal Bhardwaj.

Who?

• Ruskin Bond; the film is based on his short story "Susanna's Seven Husbands".

Q9

This Roman God lords over the sea and isusually depicted with a beard and not muchelse. His name appears in association withmany fields such as astronomy, sea-faring,geography, and the military.His weapon of choice was the name of a militaryoperation in May 2011. What was the operationfor?

• The god is Neptune. His weapon is a kind of spear, more commonly referred to as the Trident. The US operation to kill Osama bin Laden was officially called "Operation Neptune's Spear".

Q10

Solve each clue to get a set of items in a specific context. This set began in 1981 and ended in July May 2011. What set?1. The capital of the American state of South Carolina.

(Alternatively, the name of the federal district which the American capital of Washington is part of.)

2. A series of ranking tournaments for professional tennis players that is one level below the ATP World tour.

3. A popular TV channel whose logo features the earth and has a slogan called "The world is just awesome".

4. A lost continent in legend.5. A word that means "to attempt" or "to take effort in

something".

The American Space Shuttle program which concluded in 2011.The individual elements are:• Columbia• Challenger• Discovery• Atlantis• Endeavour

Q11

These peopledelivered BradmanOrations in theseyears.

Q12

How does this list connect to the pomaceous fruit of the Malus domestica tree?7. Panthera leo6. Uncia uncia5. Panthera pardus4. Panthera tigris3. Panthera onca2. Puma concolor1. Acinonyx jubatus

The fruit is an apple. Apple's Mac OS X versions are named after wild cats:Lion (the latest), Snow Leopard, Leopard, Tiger, Panther, Puma, and Cheetah.

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