The Infosys Prize is an annual award established in 2008 to recognize and honor outstanding achievements of researchers and scientists of Indian origin. It awards 50 lakh rupees each in six categories, including mathematics and four scientific fields. The prize aims to encourage high-quality scientific research by researchers in India.

1. First awarded in 2008 as a prize in Mathematics, this prize was extended to
four other scientific categories from 2009 (two prizes are awarded under
the Social Sciences segment, making it 6 'laureates' per year). It is meant
to reward and encourage high quality scientific research by Indians; the
prize includes a fifty lakh rupees award.
You see the winners of 2011 above. The name of the prize comes from the
corporate entity that has instituted this. Which entity?

2. The Infosys Prize

3. The 1980 Moscow Olympics was heavily boycotted by Western
countries, and so this country's women's hockey team received a
11th hour call up to join 5 other teams. (This was also the first time
women's hockey featured in the Olympics.) To everyone's surprise,
they remained undefeated and won the gold.
This team was led by Ann Grant, who later also coached the English
women's hockey team. She was from a sporting family, with her
brothers also having represented their nation at another sport. One of
these brothers also has an Indian connection.
Which country and who is the 'grumpy' brother?

4. Zimbabwe and Duncan Fletcher

5. René Laennec

6. Stethescope

7. With respect to ICC World Cup finals, what do these statistics
represent:
England: 9 appearances
West Indies: 5 appearances
Pakistan: 3
India, New Zealand, Australia: 1 each

8. Number of times umpires from these
countries officiated in the finals

9. Who?
“‘No, as a matter of fact, it deflects water away from
my mouth, allows my rear end to rise and makes me
bullet-shaped in the water..”

10. Mark Spitz

11. Winners of what?

12. Google Science Fair 2011

13. What word, meaning “Free” in Italian, is used to refer to a
player specialized in defensive skills in volleyball and also a
versatile center back in football?

14. Libero

15. In ice hockey, what two-word term is used to describe the situation
where one team gets a player sent off for a foul, and the other
team holds a numerical advantage?

16. Power Play

17. Right caught left!

18. This is actually Thomas Edison's
last breath. Henry Ford asked
Edison's son to catch it

19. What do the big boys play?

20. Ad for Day/Night cricket by Terry
Packer for his world series cricket

21. Hello what's this?

22. First Iphone. Apple later got the rights
for this.

23. Meme me !

24. FML

25. Blank?

26. Lord of the Rings

27. “Trainee, Intermediate, Captain, Honor, Championship” and “B level,
A level, AA level, Honor level and Evans scholar” are two
alternative ranking systems used in which profession?

28. Caddying

29. What term in sports, say X, came into being because of the
analogy with botany where the X might grow into a top rank at
the end of that tournament, or might instead wither away?

30. Seed/Seeding