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General Knowledge, some current affairs inspired questions.

43 questions and answers follow(Custom Slideshow with only questions is also

available)Infinite bounce and pounce.

General Quiz

01-Oct-2016


In which super fast train is Indian Railways expected to introduce rail hostesses ?

(As of a Feb 2016 announcement)

Q1. Speedy railvez!

01-Oct-2016


“Imagine being ushered into a train by a hostess who presents you a rose bud as soft music plays in the background.”

It will soon be a reality, with the Railways deciding to introduce train hostesses on soon to be launched Delhi-Agra Gatiman Express, the first train in India to run at a speed of 160 kmph.

Gearing up to launch the Gatiman Express next month, Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu will announce special features of the first semi-high speed train in the country when he presents the Rail Budget on February 25.

01-Oct-2016

A1. Gatiman Express

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/delhiagra-gatiman-express-train-hostesses-to-welcome-travellers-with-roses/article8264163.ece

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/delhiagra-gatiman-express-train-hostesses-to-welcome-travellers-with-roses/article8264163.ece


in this old Complan ad.

01-Oct-2016

Q2. Identify the 2 kid*s


01-Oct-2016

A2. Shahid Kapoor and Ayesha Takia


Identify this island nation It is so small and remote that a substantial amount of

its government revenues come from the lease of its popular TLD(domain name) to video related sites.

01-Oct-2016

Q3. Media Haven


01-Oct-2016

A3. Tuvalu

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuvalu


What is the most abundant metal in the human body? There is approximately 1 Kg of it in the average human

body.

01-Oct-2016

Q4. Human mining, anyone?


It is a soft gray Group 2 alkaline earth metal, fifth-most-abundant element by mass in the Earth's crust.

It is essential for living organisms, particularly in cell physiology where movement of the calcium ion into and out of the cytoplasm functions as a signal for many cellular processes.

As a major material used in mineralization of bone, teeth and shells, calcium is the most abundant metal by mass in many animals. 01-Oct-

2016

A4. Ca - Calcium


In programming, what’s the term for a software bug that seems to disappear or alter its behaviour when one attempts to study it?

This term is a play on the name of a prominent quantum physicist.

01-Oct-2016

Q5. “Quantum” Bug


Uncertainty PrincipleObserver effect- the act of observing a system

inevitably alters its state. Are these two the same?

01-Oct-2016

A5. Heisenbug

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle


The search engine Ask.com had a different name when founded in 1996 and is still sometimes referred to by this name.

A fictional male servant was part of the name and logo. Name the search engine or the servant

01-Oct-2016

Q6. The search engine that serves


From the delightfully humorous stories by PG Wodehouse.

Reginald Jeeves

01-Oct-2016

A6. Ask Jeeves

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeeves


In the world of music, what is common to these artists?Brian Jones(Rolling Stones)Jimi HendrixJanis JoplinJim Morrison(The Doors)Kurt Cobain(Nirvana) and recently Amy Winehouse

01-Oct-2016

Q7. Merely a coincidence


Involuntary members of the "27 club"Set of musicians that died at an age of 27 yearsStatistical studies, however, have failed to find any

unusual pattern of deaths at this age.Popular with conspiracy theorists, nevertheless.

01-Oct-2016

A7. 27 Club

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27_Club


A publisher had a bet that an author could not complete an entire book using just 50 (distinct) words.

The author won the bet using the below 50 words in a widely popular book. Identify the author and the book.

"a, am, and, anywhere, are, be, boat, box, car, could, dark, do, eat, eggs, fox, goat, good, green, ham, here, house, I, if, in, let, like, may, me, mouse, not, on, or, rain, Sam, say, see, so, thank, that, the, them, there, they, train, tree, try, will, with, would, you."

01-Oct-2016

Q8. Add salt, to taste


One of Seuss's “Beginner Books”Written in a very simple vocabulary

for beginning readers.

It follows what earlier book written in a limit of 236 words?

01-Oct-2016

A8. Green Eggs and Ham

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Eggs_and_Ham


Hidden in a popular software are these passages:

01-Oct-2016

Q9. Identify the software/org(X)…

Hint: Most of us have used this software, some using it every day. The hidden word corresponds to "the beast" in the text. Mammon(corporate greed) slept is a sly reference to the then market leader losing their share. Did I mention the software is Free and open source(FOSS)?


The Book of X, 8:20-And thus the Creator looked upon the beast reborn and saw that it was good.

The Book of X, 11:9 (10th Edition)-Mammon slept. And the beast reborn spread over the earth and its numbers grew legion. And they proclaimed the times and sacrificed crops unto the fire, with the cunning of foxes. And they built a new world in their own image as promised by the sacred words, and spoke of the beast with their children. Mammon awoke, and lo! it was naught but a follower.

The Book of X, 15:1-The twins of Mammon quarrelled. Their warring plunged the world into a new darkness, and the beast abhorred the darkness. So it began to move swiftly, and grew more powerful, and went forth and multiplied. And the beasts brought fire and light to the darkness.

01-Oct-2016

Q9…


The Book of Mozilla, an Easter egg in Firefox browsers.Try this on Firefox by browsing to about:mozilla

Mozilla is the beast( like Godzilla, also see bugzilla) arising from the ashes of Netscape.

The 2nd line "crops unto the fire, cunning of foxes" refers to Firefox.01-Oct-2016

A9. Firefox, Mozilla

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Mozilla


Identify the logo in news in May, 2016.

Shows the earth, a peacock and a human figure using seven colours, represents people from all sections of society. Symbolizes development for all without obstructions. It was judged the best in a public competition as it depicts connectivity, beauty, environment and growth. It also attempts a fusion of technology and nature, has a sense of joyousness and the feeling of a happy city.

01-Oct-2016

Q10. Intelligent idea

Designed by Prof. Ramesh Pawar for the happy city which was placed 2nd in a public list of 20 cities, released around March end after 2 stages of evaluation.


Pune Smart City Development Corporation Limited (PSCDCL)

Pune was 2nd on the list of 20 cities selected by the Ministry of Urban Development for the Smart City program.

01-Oct-2016

A10. Smart City, Pune

http://www.punesmartcity.in/


What starts with"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good."

and ends with"Mischief managed." ?

01-Oct-2016

Q11. Transaction

An advanced and impressive tracking device incorporating the Homonculous Charm


An advanced and impressive tracking device, uses the Homonculous Charm with anti-Snape abilities.

Mr Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business.Mr Prongs agrees with Mr Moony and would like to add that Professor Snape is an ugly git.Mr Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a Professor.Mr Wormtail bids Professor Snape good day, and advises him to wash his hair, the slime-ball.

Know of any muggle versions?

01-Oct-2016

A11. Marauders Map

https://www.pottermore.com/writing-by-jk-rowling/the-marauders-map

https://www.pottermore.com/writing-by-jk-rowling/the-marauders-map


"Fascination-Slave Action-Moon Grocer" Whose name was translated as such by the late

novelist G. V. Desani (1909-2000)?

01-Oct-2016

Q12. Identify

Try translating the first 4 words into Hindi. That should remind you of someone.The bloke is so popular that you see his face every day, if you pay attention.Many have also called him a great soul. (Tagore started this)


In other news: http://www.indialivetoday.com/students-protest-remove-statue-racist-gandhi-university-ghana/33065.html

01-Oct-2016

A12. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

http://www.indialivetoday.com/students-protest-remove-statue-racist-gandhi-university-ghana/33065.html




Identify the song, movie from this poster. Easy!

01-Oct-2016

Q13. Globalization?

The movie takes its title from a section in the Indian penal code for cheating.


Mera juta hein Japani…Shree 420What other movie title does the song inspire?

01-Oct-2016

A13. Japanese shoes


recently claimed to be the true identity of "Satoshi Nakamoto"

Promised extraordinary proof for an extraordinary claim and did not follow up, generating a wave of controversy.

What is Satoshi Nakamoto's claim to fame?

01-Oct-2016

Q14. Who is John Galt Satoshi Nakamoto?This is Craig Wright, an Australian “computer scientist/entrepreneur”

Released a system which led to a gold rush of sorts to mine this "new resource“

Anonymous writer of 2008 whitepaper(BC) 10^8 Satoshi= ABC?


Satoshi Nakamoto was the anonymous author who shared the influential whitepaper on blockchains in 2008 and released the software as open source in 2009.

It was hailed as the first of its kind(Cryptocurrency). One of these would fetch you ₹30241.39 on May 24, 2016

However, there have been less popular predecessors. In honor of Satoshi's contribution, the smallest unit was named as Satoshi with 10^8

Satoshi=1 B. Since 2010, there has been a gold rush of sorts as people rushed to mine this "new resource"

going so far as creating dedicated machines to do so.

01-Oct-2016

A14. Bitcoin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin


Where in the world will you find a village with no locks and no doors? It also claims to have the first lock-less bank branch in the world.

01-Oct-2016

Q15. Security measures?


Famous for the fact that no house in the village has doors, only door frames.

Despite this, no theft was reported in the village until 2010. Though there has been reports of thefts in Oct 2010, Feb 2011 and Jan

2012. Villagers believe that the god Shani punishes anyone attempting theft.

01-Oct-2016

A15. Shani-shingnapur

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shani_Shingnapur


In 1888, the Swedish inventor X had the unpleasant surprise of reading his own obituary.

It was titled "The merchant of death is dead" referring to his most famous invention D. The paper was mistaken as it was X’s brother who had died instead.

Something good did come out of this incident. The thought of death prompted X to think about his legacy and inspired him to rewrite his will. It specified that his vast fortune would be used to reward those who confer the "greatest benefit on mankind".

01-Oct-2016

Q16. Identify X, his invention D and his legacy.

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Chemist, engineer, and inventor.He amassed a fortune during his lifetime, with most of

his wealth from his 355 inventions, of which dynamite is the most famous.

Connect Nobel with Indian politics?

01-Oct-2016Question Of The Day @ Talentica by Gokul Panigrahi

A16. Alfred Nobel, Dynamite, Nobel Prize


A month back, Google released an English language parser named Parsey McParseface (bundled with its neural network framework SyntaxNet).

What inspired Google to name the parser in this comic fashion?

01-Oct-2016

Q17. Democracy is bad?


The UK govt. held an online poll to name a new polar research ship. Someone proposed the name which went viral.

The final poll result was 120000+ votes for this against 30000 for the 2nd popular name. So much for the British stiff upper lip :D

While the ship itself was named for Attenborough, they did name a submersible robotic explorer as Boaty.

01-Oct-2016

A17. Boaty McBoatface

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-36225652




01-Oct-2016

Q18. A quick answer please?What was named by Ward Cunningham in1995, who

remembered a Honolulu Airport employee telling him to take the shuttle bus that runs between the airport's terminals?


01-Oct-2016

A18. WikiCunningham: "I chose wiki-wiki as an alliterative

substitute for 'quick' and thereby avoided naming this stuff quick-web.”

Ironically, there have been complaints about the hot, slow, outdated buses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki#History


Magnus Gustaf Mittag-Leffler was a prominent Swedish mathematician with contributions in Theory of Functions and a successful businessman.

But most people know of him for his association with a certain popular rumour which is?

It may involve a triangle.

01-Oct-2016

Q19. Rumour has it…


The unsubstantiated rumour is Mittag-Leffler had an affair with Alfred Nobel's love interest because of which Nobel hated mathematicians.

There may have been friction between the two, but definitely no love triangle.

01-Oct-2016

A19. No Nobel for Mathematicians

http://scilogs.spektrum.de/hlf/no-nobel-prize-for-mathematics-is-it-kovalevskayas-fault/





Located in Jharkand, this mining town achieved fame among radio listeners.

Because of a large number of song requests and the town's unusual name, many people used to doubt its existence.

Thus the name came to be associated with any less-known or insignificant place. This reference is found in several Hindi movies and songs.

01-Oct-2016

Q20. Identify the town


Once a major mica mining center with a booming business.

Its fame rests on the basis of its song request letter writers.

The trend started in the early 1950s, when a mica businessman named Rameshwar Prasad Barnawal started mailing 20-25 song requests (farmaish) to Radio Ceylon daily. Regularly hearing Barnwal's name on the radio inspired the paan-shop owner Ganga Prasad Magadhiya to similarly mail a large number of song requests. The growing fame of these two Jhumri Telaiya residents led to the emergence of a song-request fad among the people of the town. Young listeners from the town would compete among themselves to send out the most song requests in a day or month

What is the African equivalent?

01-Oct-2016

A20. Jhumri Talaiya

http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/the-last-letter-writer-of-jhumri-telaiya/story-fFr9DhnIu6lW9Qlwzj6gEK.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jhumri_Telaiya




In June of 2003, a group of more than 100 people gathered at the Macy Department Store in Manhattan, under the pretext of buying a "love rug". When approached by any sales assistant, the gatherers said that they lived in a Warehouse and that they made all the their purchase decision as a group.

Right there, these people went on to do something which was the first recorded instance of a popular social phenomenon.

01-Oct-2016

Q21. What did they do?


01-Oct-2016

A21. Flash Mob

This is not a flash mob, btw

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_mob


Mars Climate Orbiter was a robotic space probe launched by NASA in December 1998 to study the red planet.

The mission with a cost upwards of 300 million USD ended in failure. Why?

01-Oct-2016

Q22. The cost of non-conformity

Hint- It was a Silly issue.


Software bug due to confusion between SI vs imperial units.

The USA, along with Liberia and Myanmar is one of only 3 countries which do not use the metric/SI system.

Lockheed Martin did not follow the NASA specs for a ground control software, using Pound-seconds instead of Newton-seconds for thrust calculations.

01-Oct-2016

A22. Software bug, units confusion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter#Cause_of_failure


You see the whole country of the system is juxtapositioned by the haemoglobin in the atmosphere because you are a sophisticated rhetorician intoxicated by the exuberance of your own verbosity.

You see such extenuating circumstances coerce me to preclude you from such extravagance.

You see the coefficient of the linear is juxtapositioned by haemoglobin of the atmospheric pressure in the country.

01-Oct-2016

Q23. Who, where, what?


These great lines, written by lyricist Anand Bakshi were said by Mr Anthony Gonsalves while addressing a crowd from an Easter egg seat.

01-Oct-2016

A23. Amar, Akbar, Anthony

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Name_Is_Anthony_Gonsalves_(song)


Identify X who is a co-founder of TENVIC which is a sports training and consulting firm. (The name celebrates an achievement of X)

X is a recipient of Arjuna Award and Padma Shri awards and was in the news(Jun,16) as a serious candidate for a national position.

01-Oct-2016

Q24. Not a disciple.


Anil Kumble became coach of the indian cricket team, despite his late nomination.

Tenvic refers to his ten wicket haul in a test innings, one of only 2 such people. Who is the other?

01-Oct-2016

A24. Anil Kumble


Id the person who was the 2nd governor of Portuguese India. He was considered a military genius and one of the greatest naval commander of his age, having conquered Goa and Malacca.

He introduced something with his journeys to India which gave his name to the item.

You may not have heard of the man, but you would have heard of the item.

01-Oct-2016

Q25. Man of Goa?


Portuguese general, a "great conqueror," a statesman, and an empire builder.

His actions as the second governor of Portuguese India were crucial to the longevity of the Portuguese Empire.

Namer for Alphonso mango.

01-Oct-2016

A25. Afonso de Albuquerque

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afonso_de_Albuquerque




Identify the illustrated object and where you would find this most prominently?

It is the origin of an English word for an unstoppable force which will destroy anything in its way.

The object and its place will be in the news in Jul, 2016)

01-Oct-2016

Q26. An unstoppable force


It is a "Rath"(chariot) from the annual event in Puri, Orissa.

Lakhs of devotees pull the chariots of the deity Jagannath, his brother Balaram and sister Subhadra and take them out on a vacation..

Juggernaut: an allegorical reference to the Hindu temple cars of Jagannath Temple in Puri, which apocryphally were reputed to crush devotees under their wheels.

01-Oct-2016

A26. Jagannath Rath Yatra

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratha-Yatra






North Sailing is a tourism firm in Europe.

In Jun-2016, they had offered 23 individuals free tickets for a whale watching trip depending on a particular outcome which they predicted.

The tickets were suggested as a bandage for wounded pride, to be polite and hospitable and provide a temporary sanctuary for them. The prediction was true and hence the firm printed these tickets.

Who were these recipients and what was predicted?

01-Oct-2016

Q27. Psychological warfare?


01-Oct-2016

Q27…


English national football team ‘When Iceland knock England out on Monday, they can come here’ 23 free whale-watching tickets have been printed: ‘It is only polite’

01-Oct-2016

A27. Iceland defeats England

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/23/icelandic-firm-offers-england-players-whale-watching-holiday-euro-2016


…events occurred which created ripples in the fabric of space-time. One of its echoes was detected in 2016 with the apparatus X,

validating a 100 year old prediction. The prediction by Y was a result of his MASSively revolutionary work, Z. Y's name has become the sarcastic word for geniuses everywhere.

Identify: X(apparatus shown in simplified diagram), Y(genius), Z(MASSive work)

01-Oct-2016

Q28. A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...


01-Oct-2016

Q28…


Einstein hypothesized the presence of gravitational waves as a consequence of his Theory of General Relativity(geometric theory of gravitation).

I was quoting Star Wars in the first line, it seemed fitting.

LIGO's working is comparable to knowing that a storm occurred across the worlds by observing the flapping of a butterfly's wing. It is very exciting for India to also build its own version of LIGO!

01-Oct-2016

A28. G-Waves, LIGO, Einstein

https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/


01-Oct-2016

A28…


In Roman mythology, X was a philandering god who preferred to have his fun on the down-low, hiding it from his jealous wife(Y).

Referring to this, an organization sent out a press release about a mission 5 years back which contained this quote: "The god X drew a veil of clouds around himself to hide his mischief, and his wife, the goddess Y, was able to peer through the clouds and reveal X's true nature.“

The mission reached its objective last week. Identify X, Y and the organization.

01-Oct-2016

Q29. Gods who cheat!


In the painting, Jupiter(the chief Roman God) is romancing Io as a tall, dark and handsome cloud.

Unfortunately for Io, Juno finds out and turns her into a cow as revenge!

NASA hopes the Juno space probe will reveal some mysteries of the planet Jupiter.

01-Oct-2016

A29. NASA-Juno mission to Jupiter

http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/7/12118040/nasa-galileo-jupiter-moons-mistresses-wife-mythology-joke


This is an exhaustive list of names. Identify what is the list about?

Also, if you generalize a bit and go in the opposite direction, you will get a single name. Name it.

01-Oct-2016

Q30. [Dakshin Gangotri, Maitri, Bharati]


First 3 are all Indian research stations in Antartica. Antarctic bases are permanent settlements by India for scientific research.

The polar opposite of these bases: in the North is Himadri (named for the Himalayas). It is located in Svalbard, Norway.

01-Oct-2016

A30. Indian Polar Bases

http://www.ncaor.gov.in/


What can be expressed with this formula:

alternately representing one half side as: (2.1.2.3)/(2.1.2.3)

Most of us would be conforming to this.

01-Oct-2016

Q31. Let’s start with the weeping and …


ICPM = Incisors, Canines, Premolars & Molars with the frequency of these teeth mentioned above and below for a quadrant.

If no one got it, I should point out that the numbers in the formula work out to 32. :)

Hopefully, no one gets misled into thinking I was talking about 4 Bytes or IP addresses :P

The reference was a throwback to Biblical quotes: "there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth" (about sinners not making it to heaven).

01-Oct-2016

A31. Human adult dental set


The city’s name has been interpreted as mound of the dead men. It had remarkably sophisticated civil engineering and urban planning as evidenced from the layout.

Situated on the banks of a river, it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the first in South Asia in fact.

01-Oct-2016

Q32. In news for the wrong reasonsIdentify the city, it was in the news around Aug, 2016.


Mohenjo-daro on the banks of the Indus.

The city is incredible when you consider their drainage systems 5000 years back were way better than current systems in the same region.

From whatever I read so far, the coming film will likely be is a disappointment.

01-Oct-2016

A32. Mohenjodaro

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohenjo-Daro


Identify this MNC conglomerate named after its founder.

Its logo reflects its origins as a manufacturer of musical instruments (incorporating a set of tuning forks).

It was originally named Nippon Gakki Seizō Kabushiki Kaisha.

The company is well known in India, albeit for a different set of products.

01-Oct-2016

Q33. Gets you around


01-Oct-2016

A33. Yamaha Yamaha was established in 1887 as a piano and reed organ manufacturer

by Torakusu Yamaha as Nippon Gakki Company, Limited

As music fans will no doubt know, it is the world's largest musical instrument manufacturer.

After World War 2, it diversified into the motorcycles business.

Nippon Gakki Seizō Kabushiki Kaisha translates to Japan Musical Instrument Manufacturing Corporation. Nippon is the Japanese term for Japan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_Corporation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torakusu_Yamaha

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torakusu_Yamaha


Where in Pune will you find this statue and who does it represent?

01-Oct-2016

Q34. Don’t underestimate his power


The Common Man , a legendary cartoon character by R.K. Laxman.

The statue is at Symbiosis Institute.

The Common Man is a cartoon character created by Indian author and cartoonist R. K. Laxman. For over a half of a century, the Common Man has represented the hopes, aspirations, troubles and perhaps even foibles of the average Indian, through a daily comic strip, "You Said It" in The Times of India. The comic was started in 1951.

01-Oct-2016

A34. Common man, Symbi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._K._Laxman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._K._Laxman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Common_Man


"It is played with three people, a man (A), a woman (B), and an interrogator (C) who may be of either sex.

The object of the game for the interrogator is to determine which of the other two is the man and which is the woman.

The interrogator stays in a room apart from the other two. He knows them by labels X and Y, and at the end of the game he

says either "X is A and Y is B" or "X is B and Y is A." So that tones of voice may not help the interrogator the answers

should be written, or better still, typewritten and passed between the rooms."

01-Oct-2016

Q35. Games people play? Identify: (1)the game, (2) who came up with it and (3) a variant of this

applied in your daily life.


Alan Turing's classic article "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" begins with the words: I propose to consider the question, 'Can machines think?"

He then rejected this question as absurd and redefined this in terms of the imitation game in which either A or B are replaced with a machine.

He suggested any machine that could win this game regularly by pretending to be a person could be considered intelligent.

The 2015 movie sadly had no reference to this, choosing to (over)dramatize his story.

01-Oct-2016

A35. Imitation Game, Alan Turing, Captcha

CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) is a reverse Turing test in which a computer determines if the other party is a machine or a human.

http://www.csee.umbc.edu/courses/471/papers/turing.pdf


Apparently it was love at first sight, when he saw her selling silk and glass beads. In the 19 years of their marriage, Arjumand Banu Begum gave birth to 14 children of whom seven survived infancy.

The multiple pregnancies took a heavy toll on her. The 14th birth proved her undoing, causing her death at the age of 39 due to postpartum haemorrhage and other complications.

Apart from the 14th child who survived, what else came into being as a result?

01-Oct-2016

Q36. Womb to Tomb


From this tragedy arose an enduring wonder of the world and a monument of love. The death of Mumtaz Mahal led Shah Jahan to build the Taj Mahal.

Although, one wonders if her death was not avoidable?

This thought-provoking article covers the issue nicely, comparing this story against a similar one in Sweden where the queen inspired the founding of a midwifery school.

01-Oct-2016

A36. Mumtaz Mahal, Taj Mahal

http://www.casereportswomenshealth.com/article/S2214-9112(14)00003-4/fulltext

http://www.casereportswomenshealth.com/article/S2214-9112(14)00003-4/fulltext


Identify this passenger jet airliner.

Jointly developed by the UK and France, its name reflects its cooperative origin.

This plane could cross the Atlantic in a mere 3.5 hours then as compared to the typical 7 hours taken by others now.

Although considered an aviation icon and an engineering marvel, it was retired in 2003 after 27 years of service as it proved quite uneconomical.

01-Oct-2016

Q37. Doomed by economics…


It was named to signify agreement, harmony or union and was the only successful commercial passenger plane in the world with a certain capability.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concordehttp://www.vox.com/2016/7/19/12195452/concorde-supersonic-flight-fail

Now there are a bunch of projects competing to be the next successful supersonic commercial plane, like http://boom.aero/

01-Oct-2016

A37. Concorde

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde

http://www.vox.com/2016/7/19/12195452/concorde-supersonic-flight-fail

http://www.vox.com/2016/7/19/12195452/concorde-supersonic-flight-fail

http://boom.aero/

http://boom.aero/

http://boom.aero/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde


Identify the iconic island creature X which gives its name to a nationality as well as a fruit.

Since the creature is only found there, hence it has become their popular symbol.

Local fruit growers successfully marketed the fruit Chinese gooseberry as X-fruit, since shortened to X.

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Q38. Fruity people?


New Zealanders are also called kiwis.NZ has unveiled plans to eliminate introduced predators

by 2050.

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A38. Kiwi

Island birds usually discard flight due to the lack of endemic predators. However when humans recolonize an island, they usually bring pests and pets along which quickly wipe out such birds. Hopefully, popularity will ensure their survival, or else it will also go the way of the dodo.

https://twitter.com/johnkeypm/status/757417988433641472

https://twitter.com/johnkeypm/status/757417988433641472

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/11/on-islands-even-flying-birds-are-edging-towards-flightlessness/


Identify the author and his book series which is accompanied by this flowchart which determines how you might read it.

The author is also known to mail people $2.56 for any new error reported in the content.

01-Oct-2016

Q39. Not A Science?


It is Donald Knuth with his seminal series: The Art Of Computer Programming.

Bill Gates had this to say about it: "If you think you’re a really good programmer… read it… You should definitely send me a resume if you can read the whole thing."

01-Oct-2016

A39. Donald Knuth, TAOCP


As a young aspiring singer, his performance was complimented by Lokmanya Tilak who called him __ ______.

The name stuck and it is how we know him popularly. He was famous for his roles of female characters in Marathi plays.

01-Oct-2016

Q40. Kid wonder


"Bal Gandharva", actual name is Narayan Shripad Rajhans

01-Oct-2016

A40. Bal Gandharva


Easy Q, from the world of business.

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Q41. Identify the logo.

• The founder named it after a famous literary character for its universal appeal:

• One day I was in San Francisco in a coffee shop, and I was thinking X is a good name. And then a waitress came, and I said, "Do you know about X?" And she said yes. I said, "What do you know about?", and she said, "Open Sesame". And I said, "Yes, this is the name!"

• Then I went on to the street and found 30 people and asked them, "Do you know X?" People from India, people from Germany, people from Tokyo and China … they all knew about X.


It is Alibaba, from the 1001 Arabian Nights tale, who opens the gateway to riches with the invocation of "Khul ja sim sim" or "Open Sesame".

The founder in question is Jack Ma.He is a kind, smart business person, and helped the

village. So easy to spell, and globally known. Opens sesame for small- to medium-sized companies.

01-Oct-2016

A41. Alibaba


September 15 is celebrated as Engineer's day in India in whose memory? He did Civil Engineering from COEP, designed the Khadakwasla sluice gate system, was the Diwan of Mysore and recipient of Bharat Ratna among other honors and

achievements.

01-Oct-2016

Q42. Very Civil Engineer!


NIT Nagpur is named VNIT in his honour.

01-Oct-2016

A42. Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya


From the world of entertainment, where would you find these and what do these signify?N 11º 33' 0" E 104º 51' 00"

N 9º 2' 0" E 38º 45' 0" S 22º 40' 26" E 14º 31' 40"N 10° 46' 0" E 106º 41' 40" N 43º 41' 21" E 07º 14' 28" N 43º 41' 21" E 07º 14' 28"

Also present (but not mentioned here given current affairs) is a 7th one.

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Q43. Sins?


A set of coordinates that leads to the place where a member of her family was born.

Seventh one is for Brad Pitt, this is reportedly coming off soon.

01-Oct-2016

A43. Angelina Jolie, left arm tattoo

http://weirdnews.about.com/od/celebrityescapades/ss/Angelina-Jolie-Tattoos.htm#step2

By Gokul Panigrahi

At BCQC, COEP, Shivajinagar3PM, Sunday, October 9th 2016

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