4. Q2 Based on the construction material and style, what is the building below called? Ans:
5. Q3La _________ is a neighborhood of Seville, Spain, as well as a district. The neighborhood is best known as being home to the Virgen de la _________ whose wooden statue dates from the 17th Century and can be found in the Basilica. However, it is much famous for being the namesake of a 1995 summer sensation by locals Los Del Rio. Ans:
7. Q5The 2009 recipients of _________ are: · Biology: Fumiaki Taguchi, Song Guofu and Zhang Guanglei of Kitasato University Graduate School of Medical Sciences in Sagamihara, Japan, for demonstrating that kitchen refuse can be reduced more than 90% in mass by using bacteria extracted from the feces of giant pandas. · Chemistry: Javier Morales, Miguel Apatiga and Victor M. Castano of Universidad NacionalAutonoma de Mexico, for creating diamond film from tequila. · Economics: The directors, executives, and auditors of four Icelandic banks — Kaupthing Bank, Landsbanki, Glitnir Bank, and Central Bank of Iceland — for demonstrating that tiny banks can be rapidly transformed into huge banks, and vice versa (and for demonstrating that similar things can be done to an entire national economy). · Literature: Ireland's police service for writing and presenting more than 50 traffic tickets to a Polish individual, by the name of PrawoJazdy. MrJazdy was widely thought to be the most frequent driving offender in Ireland, until an investigation uncovered the fact that PrawoJazdy is the Polish term for "Driving License". · Mathematics: Gideon Gono, governor of Zimbabwe's Reserve Bank, for giving people a simple, everyday way to cope with a wide range of numbers by having his bank print notes with denominations ranging from one cent to one hundred trillion dollars. · Medicine: Donald L. Unger of Thousand Oaks, California, US, for investigating a possible cause of arthritis of the fingers, by diligently cracking the knuckles of his left hand but not his right hand every day for 50 years. · Peace: Stephan Bolliger, Steffen Ross, Lars Oesterhelweg, Michael Thali and Beat Kneubuehl of the University of Bern, Switzerland, for determining whether it is better to be hit on the head with a full bottle of beer or with an empty bottle. · Physics: Katherine K. Whitcome of the University of Cincinnati, Daniel E Lieberman of Harvard University and Liza J. Shapiro of the University of Texas, all in the US, for analytically determining why pregnant women do not tip over. Ans:
8. Q6Ronnie James Dio, who died May 16 this year, was the lead singer of the heavy metal bands Black Sabbath and Dio. He was widely hailed as one of the most powerful singers in heavy metal, renowned for his operatic voice but was more famous for popularizing something else. What did he popularize, which is almost identical to the Karana Mudra of Buddhism? Ans:
17. Q15 Started in 1996, marked a new re-entry in a specific field for its mother company. __________’s logo represents the integration of analog and digital technology, as it features both the sine wave (symbolic of analog devices) and binary code (symbolic of digital devices). Ans:
18. Q16 X is an American computer hardware company and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dell, Inc. According to employees, the name of the company was chosen because of the founders' fondness for the hit television series The X-Files. Identify X. Ans:
20. Q18 At 3:30 am on 30 December 1999 Michael Abram broke into the X’s Friar Park home in Henley-on-Thames and began loudly calling to X. X left the bedroom to investigate while his wife, Olivia, phoned the police. Abram attacked X with a seven-inch kitchen knife, inflicting seven stab wounds, puncturing a lung and causing head injuries before his wife Olivia incapacitated the assailant by striking him repeatedly with a fireplace poker. The attack lasted approximately fifteen minutes while all the time X kept on chanting “Hare Krishna, Hare Ram”. Identify X. Ans:
23. Q21 The phrase comes from the batacchio or bataccio — called the '_______' in English — a club-like object composed of two wooden slats used in Commedia dell'arte(a form of professional Italian theatre). When struck, the battacchio produces a loud smacking noise, though little force is transferred from the object to the person being struck. Actors may thus hit one another repeatedly with great audible effect while causing very little actual physical damage. The term was widely applied to describe the films of early stars like Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, the Keystone Cops, Laurel and Hardy and the Three Stooges. Ans:
25. Q23 What modern English word is derived from the below pictures (both depict the same): Ans:
26. Q24 The name of this company does not derive from any of the North Germanic languages; it is simply two made-up words meant to look Scandinavian to American eyes. This is known as foreign branding. The company’s owner thought that Denmark was known for its dairy products and had a positive image in the U.S. He included an outline map of Denmark on early labels, as well as the name of Copenhagen. What company are we talking about? Ans:
31. Q29The origins of "_____________" date back to the mid-nineteenth century, when two sisters, Patty and Mildred J. Hill, began singing the song "Good Morning To All" to their kindergarten class in Kentucky. In 1893, they published the tune in their songbook Song Stories for the Kindergarten. However, manybelieve that the Hill sisters most likely copied the tune and lyrical idea from other songs from popular and substantially similar nineteenth-century songs that predated the their composition, including "Good Night to You All“ from 1858. The copyright for both the words and the music of "Good Morning to All" has long since expired and both are now a part of the public domain. Fill in the blank. Ans:
33. Ans 1: Apple products. Clockwise from left: Isaac Newton (Apple Newton PDA), the space pod from 2001: A Space Odyssey (iPod), Windows Notepad (iPad), a mackintosh (Apple Mac), a snow leopard (the latest Mac OS X release v10.6 Snow Leopard).
34. Ans 2: Adobe. An adobe is a natural building material made from sand, clay, water, and some kind of fibrous or organic material (sticks, straw, and/or manure), which is shaped into bricks using frames and dried in the sun. In more modern English usage, the term "adobe" has come to include a style of architecture that is popular in the desert climates of North America (as in the image).
36. Ans 4: Moon. Clockwise from left: the band The Who (drummer Keith Moon), the Greek god Apollo (as in Apollo 11), Remus ‘Moony’ Lupin (a werewolf no less), the U.N. (secretary general Ban ki-Moon).
37. Ans 5: Ig Nobel Prizes. The Ig Nobel Prizes are an American parody of the Nobel Prizes and are given each year in early October for ten achievements that "first make people laugh, and then make them think". Organized by the scientific humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research (AIR), they are presented by a group that includes genuine Nobel Laureates at a ceremony at Harvard University's Sanders Theater.
38. Ans 6: Devil’s horn sign or sign of the horns a.k.a. the heavy metal sign. Illustrated below by the late Ronnie James Dio:
39. Ans 7: Eyjafjallajökull, the ice cap of Iceland that houses an active volcano which caught the attention of the world during March-April 2010 when the ash cloud spewing from it disrupted numerous trans-Atlantic flights.
40. Ans 8: Mustang. Clockwise from left: P51 Mustang US World War II era fighter plane, the Ford Mustang car, wild horses or mustangs.
42. Ans 10: 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics. The video depicts the field hockey final between Germany and India which India (captained by DhyanChand) won 8-1, the only goal conceded by the Indian team in that tournament.
43. Ans 11: These are the lyrics to the Mr. Bean T.V. show choral theme. Translation: Ecce homo qui estfaba – "Behold the man who is a bean" (sung at beginning) Finis partisprimae – "End of part one" (sung before the advertisement break) Pars secunda – "Part two" (sung after the advertisement break) Vale homo qui estfaba – "Farewell, man who is a bean" (sung at end)
44. Ans 12: The flag of the Commonwealth of Nations.
45. Ans 13: The Hangover. Stu sings and plays piano while the gang is waiting for the ‘roofies’ to take effect on Mike Tyson’s tiger. This didn’t make any sense to those who haven’t seen the movie, right?
46. Ans 14: 2001: A Space Odyssey. The audio clip is the movie’s theme Also SprachZarathustra by Richard Strauss. Clockwise from left: Odysseus (after whom Homer’s The Odyssey is named), H.A.L. (as in the HAL9000, the psychotic computer of the movie), Stanley Kubrick (the movie’s director).
47. Ans 15: VAIO. Stands for Visual Audio Intelligence Organiser. The sine wave (made by VA) and the 1 and 0 (made by IO) represent the integration of analog and digital technologies:
48. Ans 16: Alienware. According to employees, the Alienware name was chosen because of the founders' fondness for the hit television series The X-Files, hence the theme to their products, with names such as Area-51, Hangar18, m15x, and Aurora.
49. Ans 17: Firefox. Clockwise from left: the red dinosaur Mozilla mascot, the fictional MiG-31 Firefox aircraft from the movie of the same name, the red ‘firefox’ fox, Firefox Cycles.
51. Ans 19: Left-handed people. Clockwise from left: Jimi Hendrix, Bart Simpson, AbhishekBachchan, Barack Obama, Rafael Nadal, Leonardo da Vinci.
52. Ans 20: Avatar. Clockwise from left: a collection of computer avatars (from forum avatars to X-Box and WiiMiis), Aang (the protagonist of Avatar: The Last Airbender – this was before M. Night ruined it), Vishnu showing his many avatars to a doubting Arjun, the Terminator (created by James Cameron), AVATAR (Aerobic Vehicle for Hypersonic Aerospace Transportation, a single-stage reusable rocket plane being developed by the DRDO and ISRO).
54. Ans 22: Robot. This is a scene from KarelČapek’s play R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots), which premiered in 1921, and is credited for introducing the word robot. The word itself was coined by Čapek's brother, who took it from robota, which means ‘hard work’ or ‘drudgery’ in Czech and other Slavic languages. Note that robot in the play refers to artificial men, similar to today’s terms of android or even clone, and does not refer to the modern definition of a robot being an automatically guided machine.
55. Ans 23: Thug. The two pictures depict members of the notorious Thuggee cult that thrived in 17th-19th century India.
59. Ans 27: They all have centre courts of Grand slams named after them. From left: Rod Laver, Philippe Chartier, Arthur Ashe
60. Ans 28: Weapons manufacturing companies founders. Clockwise from left: Gaston Glock, Mikhail Kalashnikov (famous for the AK-47), Samuel Colt, John Browing (famous for his .50 caliber machine guns).
