Colloquium general quiz 2017

2. According to her bio, she is the founder of
Svatantra Microfinance – an initiative to
help rural women, Curocarte- a luxury e-
commerce platform and Mpower which
opens treatment centres for the mentally
disabled.
Her first song was released worldwide by
Universal Music .

5.  X is a pricing strategy by which a product or
service (typically a digital offering or
application such as software, media, games
or web services) is provided free of charge,
but money is charged for proprietary features,
functionality, or virtual goods.
 92% of Apple App Store revenue comes from
this model and this has led to game
developers declaring their game as “free” to
download.

7.  The word ______ is derived from the
sanskrit word Nagara meaning city. The
kingdom started with Jayavarman II declaring
himself as the Deva Raja but it was
Suryavarman II that really made a mark on
the planet.
 In 2007, researchers concluded that ____
had been the largest pre-industrial city in the
world, with an elaborate infrastructure system
connecting an urban sprawl of at least 1,000
square kilometres to the well-known temple at
its core.

9. Ray Kroc was forced to buy out the names
and the symbol from brothers Richard and
Maurice since he thought that naming the
company ‘Krocs burgers’ would just be
weird.

11. Pune – Delhi – Air India
Mumbai – Delhi – Air India
Hyderabad – Delhi – Air India
Nagpur – Delhi – Air India
Pune- Ahmedabad – Spice Jet
Delhi – Pune – Indigo
Delhi – Pune – Air India

13.  Some said that he was a member of the Mongolian
Trade delegation in Peking
 Other reports mentioned him being imprisoned in
Soviet forced labour camps.
 The best version was accusing a sadhu of
Ramakrishna Mission of actually being him. The
sadhu vehemently opposed the accusations and
eventually died in 1977.
 The latest story was of one “Gumnami Baba” who
used to speak to people behind white curtains and
used to have in-depth knowledge about the USSR
and japanese armies. He died in 1985.

15.  The Morning Post remembered him in an article
titled "The Man Who Saved India“ and called him the
saviour of Punjab.
 Rudyard Kipling wrote two tributes
• ‘He did his duty as he saw it.’
• These beds have been endowed as a lasting
memorial to X, a brave man who in the face of a
great peril did his duty as he saw it -- ‘he that
observeth the clouds shall not reap’.

17.  X believed in transferring control from workers to
management. He set out to increase the distinction
between mental (planning work) and manual labor
(executing work). Detailed plans, specifying the job
and how it was to be done, were to be formulated
by management and communicated to the
workers. He wrote all this in his “ The Principles of
Scientific Management.
 X was also the first ever doubles champion of the
US Open in 1881 and participated in the 1900
summer olympics

19.  Robert Zemeckis said this about Castaway.
 There was absolutely no product placement. We
weren’t paid by anybody to place products in the
movie. I did that in the past, and it wasn’t worth the
little bit of money that they give you, because then you
end up with another creative partner, which you don’t
need. However, it just seemed to me that the whole
integrity of the movie would be compromised if this
was some phony trans-global letter delivery service,
with some Hollywood fake logo and all that. It wouldn’t
seem like it would be real. So very simply, we asked
_______ for their permission to use their logo, and
they could’ve said no. And that was it.

21.  Vilayat Khan refused and stated that "the selection
committees were incompetent to judge [his] music".
 Swami Ranganathanandan declined the award in
2000 as it was conferred to him as an individual and
not to the Ramakrishna Mission.
 Lakshmi Chand Jain died on 14 November 2010, at
the age of 84. His family refused to accept the
posthumous honour as Jain was against accepting
state honours.
 Sharad Anantrao Joshi's family refused to accept
the posthumous honour as Joshi's work for good of
farmers is not reflected in the Government policies for
them.
 In 1991, Baba Amte returned the award, to protest
against the treatment given to the tribals during the
construction of Sardar Sarovar Dam.

23.  The __________ uses a linear electric motor to
accelerate and decelerate an electromagnetically
levitated pod through a low-pressure tube. The vehicle
will glide silently for miles at speeds of up to 620 mph
(1,000 km/h) with no turbulence. The system is
designed to be entirely autonomous, quiet and on-
demand (departures every 10–20 seconds) and, as it
is built on columns or tunneled underground,
eliminates the dangers of at-grade crossings and
requires much smaller rights of way than high-speed
rail or a highway.
 Talks are going on to introduce one of the prototypes in
India.

25. Season 3 – Will Champion of Coldplay.
Season 3- Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol.
Season 4 – All members of Sigur Ros.
Season 5 – All members of Mastodon.
Season 7 – Ed Sheeran.

27. In 2013, Chinese tourists in Malaysia were
numbered to be around 1.8 million and
rising each year. In order to promote
tourism, they declared 2014 as the China –
Malaysia friendship year with massive
discounts offered by tour companies and
airlines.
However the number of Chinese tourists
declined heavily after the first few months
of 2014.

29. A tuned mass damper, is a device
mounted in structures to reduce the
amplitude of mechanical vibrations such as
strong winds and earthquakes.
The only building in India to have a tuned
mass damper was the ATC tower in Delhi
airport. However, one of the largest tuned
dampers in the world is being fitted into the
chest of a structure due to its location in an
earthquake prone area.

31. Armalcolite was originally found on the
Moon, in the Sea of
Tranquility at Tranquility Base.
Armalcolite is a minor mineral found in
titanium-rich basalt rocks, volcanic lava
and sometimes
granite pegmatite, ultramafic
rocks, lamproites and kimberlites.

33.  Xs authorship was revealed by The Sunday
Times on 13 July 2013 after it investigated how a
first-time author “with a background in the army
and the civilian security industry” could write such
an assured debut novel.
 The Sunday Times enlisted the services
of professor Peter Millican and Patrick Juola,
whose software programs ran multiple analyses of
the novel and other works, comparing them with
the works of other authors. However, it was later
reported that Xs authorship had been leaked to
a Sunday Times reporter via Twitter.

35. No discrimination on basis of caste, creed
and faith.
No action on those sitting at coffee shops
or in parks.
No hair shaving, blackening of face or
murga position.

37.  X was born in Penang, Malaysia, into a
family of shoemakers. His family name is
Chow but was misspelled on his birth
certificate.
In 1988 he got featured in Vogue but his
real boost came when Princess Diana
made him her official shoemaker.

47. The company was founded as Swanson
Analysis Systems, Inc (SASI). Its primary
purpose was to develop and market finite
element analysis software for structural
physics that could simulate static
(stationary), dynamic (moving) and thermal
(heat transfer) problems.
However the company was acquired by TA
Associates and changed its name to
________.

49.  His birth certificate reads simply "Baby
Songkla", as the parents had to consult
his uncle, King Rama VII (then head of the
House of Chakri), for an auspicious name.
The king chose a name of Sanskrit origin
which basically translated into- “ Strength
of the Land, Incomparable Power”.

51.  An academic seminar usually led by a
different lecturer and on a different topic at
each meeting or similarly to a tutorial led by
students as is the case in Norway.
 The Parliament of Scotland in the 13th
century.
 Any musical piece celebrating birth or
distribution of good news.
 The part of a complaint for defamation in
which the plaintiff avers that the defamatory
remarks related to him or her.