3. • The Taj Mahal was constructed using materials
from all over India and Asia and over 1,000
elephants were used to transport building
materials. The jasper from Punjab, jade and
crystal from China. The turquoise was from
Tibet and the Lapis lazuli from
Afghanistan, while the sapphire came from Sri
Lanka and the carnelian from Arabia. The
translucent white marble was brought from
which place in Rajasthan?
6. • The first working model of X was created in 1984 by Chuck
Hull and he patented the term ‘Stereolithography‘.
• “X makes it as cheap to create single items as it is to
produce thousands and thus undermines economies of
scale. It may have as profound an impact on the world as
the coming of the factory did....Just as nobody could have
predicted the impact of the steam engine in 1750—or
the printing press in 1450, or the transistor in 1950—it is
impossible to foresee the long-term impact of XXX. But the
technology is coming, and it is likely to disrupt every field it
touches.”— The Economist, February 10.
Identify the most discussed technical term in 2013
12. • In 1963 August 28 famous Afro
American gospel singer Mahalia
Jackson performed in an event
before King. King’s address speech
started with the words “I am happy
to join with you…”.
• But toward the end of its
delivery, Mahalia Jackson shouted
to King from the crowd and urged
him to speak about something else.
The king repeated a particular
phrase nearly nine times after that.
What?
15. • The Inland Customs line was
begun while India was under the
control of the East India
Company. It covered a distance of
more than 2,500 miles. The line
was initially made of dead, thorny
material such as the Indian
Plum but eventually evolved into
a living hedge that grew up to 12
feet high and was compared to
the Great Wall of China. The
primary purpose of this formation
was to prevent smuggling of X to
avoid the tax. What is X?
18. • X was an administrative unit of the
Vijayanagara Empire ruled by Sri Krishna
Devaraya of Rayala dynasty. It was the
original home of the Eastern Chalukya
Empire. Currently it includes the districts
Anantapur, Chittoor, Kadapa and Kurnool.
How do you know the place?
38. • Based on a Social Media Consumer Behavior
study, consumers usually decide to switch to contact lenses
for specific life events, as in the case of youngsters
switching to contact lenses when they move from school to
college. Using this insight X targeted youngsters and did
activation across colleges across towns and cities, like using
its social media page to ask spectacle users to upload their
pictures for a new face contest, terming it a model hunt. It
offers the chosen faces a chance to transform their look
using professional stylists and contact lenses. This propped
the X’s Facebook community to among the top ranked in
terms of subscribers, likes and shares. Screenshot of X’s
facebook page given in the next slide. Identify the brand?
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42. • October 24th was celebrated as a special day in
Newyork, decreed by Mayor, Michael
Bloomberg. The honour is bestowed in
celebration of X's long-standing relationship
with the city, which began thirty-five years ago
when he opened a fashion boutique on
Madison Avenue. Identify X founder of a well
known fashion house?
45. • Which brand created India’s first ever crowdsourced kiss song along with a special music
video featuring Alia Bhatt?
46.
47.
48. • “The mark is expected to provide a muchneeded identity to the brand(X) as an
assurance of purity and genuineness to
customers to boost sales. This is part of the
ongoing reform measures in the sector to keep
up with the changing times,” the Ministry of
Small and Medium Enterprises said in the
release of this mark on October 2, 2013. What
was the event?
53. • Which famous company did Sanjay Mehrotra
form, headquartered at Milpitas, california,
this company produces what are today known
as pendrives?
54.
55.
56. • James Bond car Lotus Esprit S1 capable of
transforming into a submarine, displayed in
the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu. RM Auctions
auctioned the white Lotus Esprit in London on
September 9, 2013 for 550,000 pounds.
• Just after the auction the buyer said“It was amazing as
a little kid in South Africa to watch James Bond in The
Spy Who Loved Me drive his Lotus Esprit off a pier,
press a button and have it transform into a submarine
underwater, I was disappointed to learn that it can't
actually transform. What I'm going to do is upgrade it
with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it
transform for real.”
60. • Name the largest the apex business
organisation in India Established in 1927, on
the advice of Mahatma Gandhi by GD Birla
and Purushottam Das Thakurdas?
61.
62.
63. • The Beige Book, more formally called the
Summary of Commentary on Current
Economic Conditions, is a report published
eight times a year. Who publishes it?
66. • Six young nationalists led by social reformer G.
Subramania Aiyer started X on September 20,
1878. X currently owned by Kasturi & Sons Ltd
(KSL), India's leading media house. What is X?
127. Its a bra that tweets each time it is unclasped. It is part of the brand’s
cause marketing around breast cancer. A special mechanism is hidden
under the hook of this bra. Every time it is unhooked, it sends a signal to a
cell phone, the cell phone notifies a server, and the server generates the
tweet… It’s the first and only bra that tweets with a mission to remind you
one thing you should never forget: your monthly breast self exam!
The fitness division of which Swiss multinational food and beverage
company behind the campaign?
130. • Broadcom BCM2835 system on a
chip (SoC).
• ARM1176JZF-S 700 MHz
processor.
• VideoCore IV GPU
• Originally shipped with
256 megabytes of RAM, later
upgraded to 512 MB.
• It does not include a built-in hard
disk or solid-state drive, but uses
an SD card for booting and longterm storage.
• Originally released two versions
priced at US$25 and US$35.
• ID the device?
135. • Amit Singhal, senior vice president of search
launching the latest Humming Bird Algorithm.
136. • X an iOS game was
published as “Challenge
your vocabulary and
spatial reasoning skills
by sliding rows and
columns of letters in a
6x8 grid to form
words.”
• Later the company was
named after X. Identify
X?
145. 'Pulse' a News Reader App acquired by
Which tech giant ?
146.
147.
148. • What is the common
name for a communityoperated workspace
where people with
common
interests, often in
computers, technology,
science, digital art or
electronic art, can
meet, socialise and/or
collaborate.