3. 1.
‘Darwins Engineer’ is a 2005 article by David
piotz on the life and times of Robert klark
Graham who made millions by developing
shatter proof plastic eye glass and spent quite
of his fortune in developing his dream
institution. While most people refused with
Grahams venture william shockeley is the only
one to have acknowledge his venture publicly.
What was Grahams venture all about?
6. 2.
In 2004, APJ Abdul Kalam broke this tradition, that
was being followed by most of his predecessors.
In 2009, Pratibha Patil followed suit, I mean, by
breaking the tradition.
However, in 2014, Pranab Mukherjee decided to
reinstate the practice.
What are we talking about ?
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9. 3.
These are called Ferrite Beads or Chokes –
Essentially an Electromagnetic wave-
bouncer.
They look like this from the inside, mostly
empty – essentially a magnetic core to
prevent EMI interference.
Where would you most regularly come
across this in everyday life?
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13. 4.
An experiment conducted at MIT gave the
following result.
Specific gravity of X – 1.0.
Specific gravity of Y – 1.6.
X<Y.
QED.
What?
19. 6
The book, published by hachette
India,was released on nov 6 ,2014 and
has broken all records for an adult
hardback across fiction and non
fiction with more than 1.5 lakh copies
confirmed. It is pulling ahead the
lifetime sales of Dan Browns Inferno
and jk Rowlings casual vacancy.
Yesterday it entered the limca book of
records too. What book I am talking
about?
22. 7
While working as a reporter in ‘Times of
India’, he got a chance to interview MK
Gandhi. But gandhi was on ‘Mounvrith”
on the alloted day. The reporter asked
questions by writing in a piece of paper
in which gandhi replied the same way.
Through out his life he kept that piece of
papers with him. Who was the reporter?
25. 8
The restaurants “Palm court”,
“Café Parisien” and “Verandah”
were created and intended to be
used as grand eateries in the
early part of the 20th century,
but they all provided service for
only a few days. Why did they
stop service?
28. 9
In July 2011, Nokia India organized a
‘Twins Day Out’ which entered Limca
Book of Records 2012. The Nokia Twins
Day out was a first of its kind festival that
brought 63 pairs of twins of different age
groups together.
What feature of Nokia phones were Nokia
trying to release to the public via this
campaign?
