The document provides information about various topics including Earl Grey tea, the Dutch East India Company, the highest honor awarded in Italy, Indian actor Kabir Bedi, the origin of the Subaru car company name, the Walkie Talkie building in London, the first woman to win the Fields Medal for mathematics, a proposed German-only internet project, and multiple meanings of the word "shingle".

1. Dial Q for QUIZ
Soumya Sarkar

2. This famous tea has
added Oil of
Bergamot that gives
it its distinct aroma
and flavor
Oil of Bergamot is a cold-pressed essential oil
produced by cells inside the rind of a bergamot
orange fruit. It is a common top note in perfumes.

3. Earl Grey

4. Identify the
company from the
logo
It is often considered to have been the first
multinational corporation in the world and it was
the first company to issue stock.

5. Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie
Or the Dutch East India Company

6. Cavaliere Ordine al
Merito della
Repubblica Italiana
The highest ranking honour of Italy, it is awarded
for "merit acquired by the nation" in the fields of
literature, the arts, economy, public service, and
social, philanthropic and humanitarian activities
and for long and conspicuous service in civilian
and military careers.
WHO IS THE ONLY INDIAN RECIPIENT?

7. KABIR BEDI
• In Europe, his greatest success was Sandokan, the saga of a romantic Asian pirate during British
colonial times; an Italian-German-French TV series which broke viewership records across Europe
• He can speak fluent Italian

8. Place of Origin? District or Town…not the State.

9. JUNAGADH

10. The name of this automobile company
originates from the name of a six star cluster
in the constellation of Pleiades
WHICH ?

11. SUBARU
Subaru is the name of a six-star cluster in the
Taurus constellation.
In the West the cluster is called Pleiades, in China,
Mao, and in Japan, Subaru. Also known as
Mutsuraboshi (or "Six Stars") in very Japanese
literature, this is one of the clusters much loved by
the Japanese from ancient times.

12. A London skyscraper
was blamed for
reflecting light which
melted parts of a car
parked on a nearby
street.
What is the nickname
of the building in
question?

13. The Walkie Talkie Building
One cafe in the focus of the building's glare even managed to toast a baguette and fry an egg outside
their shop.
The architect Rafael Viñoly, has a track record of creating buildings that burn. His Vdara hotel in Las
Vegas, with a similarly concave form, focused sunlight onto the pool terrace in 2010, hot enough to
melt loungers and singe guests' hair. The glass has since been covered in non-reflective film.

14. Iranian president
Hassan Rouhani has
made history by
tweeting this image of
an award-winning
Iranian-born
mathematician Maryam
Mirzakhani for
becoming the first
woman to win the
Fields Medal, which is
nicknamed the Nobel
Prize for Mathematics.
WHY?

15. The tweet was hailed as a major step forward for
women's rights in Iran, following a call for fainter
headscarfs, or even no headscarf at all, to be
permitted.

16. German engineers are
working on a German-
only internet, using
cables and computer
servers entirely within
Germany, following
outrage about US
eavesdropping. What
has the project been
dubbed?

17. Internetz
Combination of the German words for internet and network. The project is being led by a team at
Deutsche Telekom

18. What word can mean all of the following:
• a woman’s short hairstyle in which the hair tapers to the nape of the neck,
• a rectangular roof tile,
• and a mass of small rounded pebbles along a shoreline?

19. SHINGLE

20. In 1973, who became the first Oscar winner
to have parents who had also both won
Oscars?

21. 1. LIZA MINELLI – Best Actress in a Leading Role (Cabaret)
2. MOTHER: Judy Garland – Two Academy Juvenile Awards for The
Wizard of Oz and Babes in Arms in 1940
3. FATHER: Vincente Minelli – Best Director, Gigi 1958
1 2 3

22. In which Indian city do
you get to see these
world-famous lines

23. Kohima, Nagaland
The Kohima 2nd Division Memorial is maintained
by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
on behalf of the 2nd Infantry Division.
The memorial remembers the Allied dead who
repulsed the Japanese 15th Army, a force of
100,000 men, who had invaded India in March
1944 in Operation U-Go.
Kohima, the capital of Nagaland was a vital to
control of the area and in fierce fighting the
Japanese finally withdrew from the area in June of
that year.

24. The Longitude 141 E separates which two
countries

25. Indonesia and
Papua New Guinea
Longitude 141 E also separates South Australia
from New South Wales in Australia

26. Salar de Uyuni (Bolivia) and Salar de Atacama (Chile) are the largest salt
lakes in the world.
Why are they being touted as the next big thing after Middle Eastern oil
reserves?

27. Hint

28. LITHIUM
The salt lakes contain the world’s largest
reserves of Lithium Carbonate.
The lightest of all metals, lithium is the
key ingredient in the rechargeable
batteries that keep cell phones and
laptops humming.
According to the U.S. Geological
Survey, between them Bolivia and Chile
have 70% of the known world reserves
of lithium.

29. X was established in mid 1800s by Colonel Henry Hopkinson
as a refuge for officers and staff of East India Company
during summers. It was made into a new civil station by
British in 1864 and was also designated as the summer
capital of Eastern Bengal and Assam for many years. Finally
on January 21, 1972, Y was declared a new state with X as
its capital.
Identify X and Y

30. X – SHILLONG
Y - MEGHALAYA