General Quiz

Elims answers

• This game is particularly known for its difficulty and simplicity. This game was introduced in Apple app/game store in 2013. Later it was recently discontinued. It became so famous that many clones of this game came into market. Now Google and Apple are cracking them down. What game is this???

Flappy bird

Name of the mascot ???

Fuleco

What is it…

• Logo of X depicts Kamadhenu which suggests auspicious and Airavatham which depicts strength and power both with a shield of lotus with blades of grass on either sides with a conch in the middle of the unified India on shield and on the top with the rising sun.

THE HINDU

Fundae Daal… (old one)

OPCW : Syria

• Nobel peace prize winner of 2013

This English word is derived from the Latin language which has a general meaning of

"impure, unchaste". It was introduced into Middle English, both in the generic Latin

sense and in modern sense. Prior to the introduction of the Latin term, this was known in Old English for sibbleger (from sib 'kinship'

+ leger 'to lie') or mǣġhǣmed but in time, both words fell out of use.

Incest

Fundae daal…

Mark Zuckerberg’s Look Back : Beast

What’s X and Y ???

• X is the new education initiative of Times Group just like any other brands like Times of India, Economic Times, Times Now, Radio Mirchi. Y and X have embarked on a journey to create skilled professionals to meet the ever growing needs of the banking industry by introducing the Modern Banker Program.

TimesPro & HDFC

Fundae daal…

J.K. Rowling

• Started at Kansas now this extends to other cities like Austin, Texas and Provo. Right now offers 3 kinds of packages and the basic package includes 1Tb of cloud storage free of cost and 1 Gbps internet speed. The television options would include Nexus 7 as remote control. What is it I am talking???

Google fiber

What’s there in the box ???

Yes bank

WHO’S X ???

• X’s grandmother was born in Berlin and left the country in 1937.

• “X's great-grandfather was running an underground newspaper against Hitler. He was found out and imprisoned for two years," X’s father wrote, that his grandparents walked across the border to Czechoslovakia and sought refuge in England.

Alia Bhatt

Guess who…

Martin Luther King Jr.

Fundae daal…

• Bitspin• Nest• Impermium• Deep Mind Technologies• SlickLogink

Google acquired companies in Jan 2014

What was this about ???

Nancy Powell

What is it…

• This rule means that retired soldiers of the same rank and length of service will receive the same pension, regardless of when they retire. Currently, pensioners who retired before 2006 draw less pension than their counterparts and even their juniors. Mr. Chidambaram has included Rs. 500 crore for this decision.

One Rank One Pension

Fundae daal…

Sochi Olympics' mascots

• The first smartphones of X will be launched this year, the company’s CEO.

• BQ and Meizu, both Chinese phone makers, will produce the phones that will launch “well within” 2014, said Mark Shuttleworth.

• BQ phone would have dual-SIM slots and the Meizu phone would be a dual-boot system.

Ubuntu

Which company’s is this???

Bajaj

What’s X & Y ???

• Y has been renamed to X after a naming dispute with UK broadcasting and ISP giant Sky forced Microsoft to make a name change.

• New users who sign up receive 7GB of free cloud storage space and an additional 500MB for each additional user they invite to the service.

• Its expected to take on Google drive and Dropbox.

What’s this fight between Manuel Pellegrini and Jonas Eriksson ???

• Manuel Pellegrini has accused Swedish referee Jonas Eriksson, claiming the official "favored Barcelona from beginning to end"