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1. TUSK T hings U S hould K now KWIZ PAKOdah www.kwizpakodah.blogspot.com PRESENTS

2. What is this picture all about? Identify the two people marked in red photo frame?

3. They are the 32 people in Virginia tech university on 16th April,2007. Prof. G V Loganadhan , He hailed from Karatadipalayam of Gobichettipalayam Taluk in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. He was an alumnus of PSG College of Technology ,Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and Purdue University. A professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Minal Panchal , She had obtained an undergraduate degree from the Rizvi School of Architecture in her home state of Mumbai, India, and was pursuing a masters degree in architecture at Virginia Tech.

4. "On the first day of a British literature class, students went around and introduced themselves. When it was his turn, he didn't speak. On the sign-in sheet where everyone else had written their names, this person had written a question mark". In his hate letter he mentioned that" you caused me to do this". He was a quiet,sullen,loner but he was responsible for a bloodbath at his own University. His university uses the tagline, 'Invent the future'. Who is he? He was born in which nation? Identify the university also.

5. Cho Seung-hui. He killed 32 people in Virginia tech university recently on 16th April,2007.He was born in South-Korea.

6. who was the TIME person of the year-2007 and there were four runners up? Name the author and the noble laureate out of them.

7. (Vladimir Putin, Al Gore & JK Rowling, the other two were Hu Jintao & David Petraeus)

8. It was named Time magazine's Invention of the Year in 2007.Identify it?

9. Apple i-Phone

10. He was born in the hospital across the road from the cricket ground in Kanpur, India. His father was the cricketer, who represented United Provinces (now Uttar Pradesh) in the Ranji Trophy. He is thought to be the only man to witness both Brian Lara's innings of 501 not out vs Durham (1994) and Hanif Mohammed's 499 in Karachi in (1958). His international career stalled after he joined the World Series break-away group run by Kerry Packer. As a coach, he has been credited with making the reverse sweep shot more popular. Identify him.

11. BOB WOOLMER, He died On 18 March 2007, suddenly in Jamaica, just a few hours after the Pakistan team's unexpected elimination at the hands of Ireland in the 2007 Cricket World Cup.

12. He was responsible for the “Shock Therapy” in Russia. Identify him and why he was in news in 2007?He is the author of “Midnight Diaries”.

13. Boris Yeltsin, He died on April 23 rd ,2007. shock therapy refers to the sudden release of price and currency controls, withdrawal of state subsidies, and immediate trade liberalization within a country, usually also including large scale privatization of previously public owned assets .

14. Herbert Breslin had written this book, “King & I”. The book criticizes A famous personality’s acting (in opera), his ability to read music and learn parts, and his personal conduct. Despite the differences leading to the split, however, Breslin does acknowledge his outstanding voice, magnificent career, and positive influence on his own career. The famous personality, after abandoning the dream to become a professional football goalkeeper, spent seven years in vocal training and began his career as a tenor and later became one of the leading vocal singer. The famous personality died on 6th September, 2007. Identify the famous personality.

15. Luciano Pavarotti

17. (Coimbatore)

29. Greg Chappel

37. BHUJ

41. MTNL-GARUDA

76. BADE SAHEB

77. He created “GOOFY,DONALD DUCK”. His first commercially viable creation was stolen from him.Name it?

78. WALT DISNEY, Oswald the Rabbit

79. Identify the person? Name the most famous book written by him, A retail business legend?

80. SAM WALTON MADE IN AMERICA

81. The co-founder of his company is Masaru Ibuka.Identify the person and his company?

82. AKIO MORITA,sony

83. Teddy Bear name derived from this person’s name?

84. Teddy Roosevolt (Theodre)

85. Identify the person?Why she was in news in 2007?

86. MARION JONES confessed about her taking steroids

87. Identify the person and why he was in news recently?

88. BOBBY JINDAL On October 20, 2007 Jindal was elected the first non-white governor of Louisiana since Reconstruction and the first Indian American governor in U.S. history.

89. Identify the person and why he was in news recently?

90. DR.RAJENDRA PACHAURI Under Pachauri's watch, the IPCC ( Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ) shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore

91. Identify the aerial view of this structure and why it was in news recently?

92. ADAM’S BRIDGE/The Ram Setu

93. Identify these two people and why they were in news recently? Question- Fiv e

94. The two winners of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics — Albert Fert and Peter Gruenberg, — made their contributions to the computer age as far back as 1988. Now that the smallest commercially available hard drive is an iPod, the inventors who led to its development, and many yet to come, have received the grand prix of awards. Nobel prize winners Albert Fert of France and Peter Gruenberg of Germany .

95. Identify the person and he is related to which news in India recently?

96. Mohamed ElBaradei is an Egyptian diplomat and the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), an inter-governmental organization under the auspices of the United Nations. In India,the controversy is signing on the atomic deal.

97. Identify her?

98. ADA LOVELACE She is known as the "first programmer".

99. When and in what context Google came out with this Doodle?

100. In the memory of Graham Bell on 3 rd March,which is his Birth Day, Google came out with this Doodle Trivia:- Graham Bell & Jamsetji Tata share their birth days.(I.e.3 rd March)

101. Identify him?

102. Thomas Alva Edison

103. Identify this?

104. MORSE KEY/TELEGRAPH KEY

105. Identify Him?

106. ALBERT EINSTEIN

107. DIMAG KI BATTI JALAO…

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165. This cover page of TIME explains which event?

166. India –Pakistan partition

167. Connect it?

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173. Identify the tennis players shown in this famous ‘Terracotta Tennis Warriors’?

177. Connect it? (hint – celebrity)

178. Katrina Kaif endorses all of them

180. "simple, inexpensive and multilingual people's computer"

181. He completed his undergraduate education in Electrical Engineering from the Delhi College of Engineering. In 1971, after graduation, he joined a Delhi-based semiconductor company called Continental Devices. In 1975, he left this job and joined University of Cincinnati to pursue a masters degree in Electrical Engineering, where he specialized in Solid State Science. He rose to the position of vice-president of Intel. Identify the Indian Techie?

182. Vinod Dham is often referred to as the father of the Intel Pentium processor.

183. Which Indian technocrat is associated with SabSebolo.com,blogeverywhere.com, teamon.com, neomeo.com, responses.com, highku.com and Navin Mail, a voice mail service ?

184. SABEER BHATIA

185. He was born in India in Titilagarh, Orissa.His parents hailed from Gujarat and migrated to Orissa. They were deeply influenced by Mahatma Gandhi and his philosophy. H e designed his own computer-themed card game called Compucards .

186. SAM PITRODA

187. What is common to Indian Superstar Rajinikanth, in his flick Sivaji: The Boss, James Bond (Daniel Craig)in the film Casino Royale ?(I am talking about a device they used)

188. SONY VAIO laptop was used by them in the movie

189. Both of them received Nobel prize for their contribution in the field of physics have Indian origin.One of them is a nephew of the other person.Identify them?

190. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was nephew of CV Raman. CV Raman "for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him“ in 1930, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar , for his “ theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars".

191. A fter the end of the Second World War and before India got independence, Sir Ardeshir Dalal from the Viceroy's Executive Council foresaw that the future prosperity of India would depend not so much on capital as on technology. Thus he proposed and conceptualised something,but died before he could see them being born .What did he conceptualise?

192. IIT(Indian Institute of Technology)

193. UNSCRAMBLE

194. SIX TEA MENN TRUSTS It is the No. 3 manufacturer of semiconductors worldwide after Intel and Samsung

195. TEXAS INSTRUMENTS

196. WE ARE LACK - D HTTP The founders of this company tossed a coin to decide whose name should come first while naming their organisation’s name.

197. HEWLETT - PACKARD

198. RIX POOR ART COIN TAN Name of this research organization is an anglicised version of a Sanskrit/Hindi word

199. ANTRIX CORPORATION The commercial and marketing wing of ISRO

200. A SEVEN ARROW BOBI It is a multinational corporation headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland, operating mainly in the power and automation technology area

201. ASEA BROWN BOVERI (ABB)

202. RAT GENE RICE CELL ‘ Imagination at work’ is their tagline,founded in 1878 in Menlo Park, New Jersey .

203. GENERAL ELECTRIC(GE)

204. CURE TEN AC The new name of this organization is due to it 's attempt to "hide" from the Enron scandal

205. ACCENTURE Arthur Anderson consulting firm was involved with the Enron scandal.Thus to hide itself from that issue,it rechristened itself as ACCENTURE.

206. AD-MAD

207. Identify the female model?

209. Identify the actor in the ad? WITH AUDIO

210. RAJ KUMAR HIRANI

211. Identify the children in the advertisement? WITH AUDIO

212. SHAHEED KAPOOR & AYESHA TAKIA

213. Which brand of condom belongs to this business house ? WITH AUDIO

214. KAMASUTRA

215. Who owns the brand? WITH AUDIO

216. PERFETTI VAN MELLE

217. This watch's parent company Also owns a jewellery brand. Identify it.

218. TANISHQ

219. The owner of this brand was in news due to his alleged involvement in a murder case. Which case is it?

220. Ashok Todi in Rizwanur murder case