1. Microsoft created Solitaire to familiarize users with graphical user interfaces and using a mouse when many were still unfamiliar. 2. Ferrari's comments about tractors led Lamborghini to start making cars, forming his famous brand. 3. Audi's logo represents its formation from four previous brands, including Audiwerke.

1. Weekly Quiz #1
20/06/2019
Kaustub Bharadwaj
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2. 1. Microsoft intended X "to soothe people intimidated by the operating system," and at a time
where many users were still unfamiliar with graphical user interfaces, it proved useful in
familiarizing them with the use of a mouse. X is one of the three most used windows
programs ahead of Microsoft Word and Excel
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3. • Solitaire
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4. 2. In the early ’60s, X once said that the Ferrari was too noisy and rough, the
legendary Enzo Ferrari replied that he didn’t appreciate such comments from a
‘middle-aged tractor manufacturer’. This exchange led X to start manufacturing
cars which led to the formation of a famous eponymously named car brand.
Who is X?
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5. • Lamborghini
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6. 3. This iconic car brand was founded by Horch, DKW, Wanderer and one other
company, and this coming together reflects even today in its logo. Name the
brand
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7. • Audi
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8. 4. A Case of Exploding Mangoes, published in 2008, is a critically acclaimed novel
based on the assassination of which president who died when his C-130
Hercules aircraft exploded in mid-air?
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9. • Zia ul-Haq, then President of Pakistan
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10. 5. 638 Ways to Kill ______, a Channel 4 documentary broadcast in the UK in
November 2006, tells the story of some of the numerous attempts of the CIA
to assassinate a specific leader. Who was the leader who survived all the
attempts including syringes inside pens, exploring cigars and infected scuba
diving suits?
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11. • Fidel Castro
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12. 6. Fanny Kaplan’s unsuccessful attempt on the life of a political leader in 1918
was regarded as one of the reasons behind the restitution of the death penalty
in her country after being abolished in October 1917. Who did she try to
assassinate?
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13. • Vladmir Lenin
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14. 7. This song was first released in late 1975 and went to number 1 on the UK
charts in early 1976. It went back to the same spot for another five weeks in
1991. Which song and why did it make a comeback? The song was re-released
again with the release of the eponymous film in 2018
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15. • Bohemian Rhapsody
• Was re-released when Freddie Mercury died
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16. 8. In 1938, American architect Alfred Mosher Butts created this game as a
variation on an earlier word game he invented called Lexiko. The two games
had the same set of letter tiles, whose distributions and point values Butts
worked out by performing a frequency analysis of letters from various sources,
including The New York Times. The new game, which he called "Criss-
Crosswords”. He was not successful in selling the game to any major game
manufacturers of the day. However the game became very popular later under a
different name? What was the new name of the game?
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17. • Scrabble
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18. 9. Who is the most portrayed movie character according to the Guinness World
Records? The character is synonymous with a certain role in novels even
though he was not the first character of that type.
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19. • Sherlock Holmes
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20. 10. In January 2019, which sporting landmark did D Gukesh — only 12 years 7
months and 17 days at the time — achieve? He was the youngest Indian and
the second youngest in the world to have accomplished the feat.
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21. • Chess Grandmaster
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22. 11. Which well-known personality was a Wushu prodigy and was only 12 years
old when he won the Chinese Wushu championship, beating competitors who
were twice his age? He is well-known as an action star today
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23. • Jet Li
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24. 12. Only one person has played test matches for both India and England. He is
part of a father-son duo who captained India. Give his name or the title we
better know him by
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25. • Ifthikar Ali Khan Pataudi/ Nawab of Pataudi Sr.
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26. 13. Owned by a company called ByteDance, it was originally launched in China
as Douyin ( a word that literally translates to ‘vibrating sound”) in September
2016. By what name do the rest of the world know it as, that has since then
witnessed more than 500 million downloads and courted recent controversies
across the globe ?
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27. • Tiktok
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28. 14. Kepler Wessels, Anderson Cummins, Ed Joyce and Eoin Morgan are an
exhaustive list of what in connection to the cricket world cup?
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29. • Played for two countries at the world cup
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30. 15. What did Lieutenant Pierre-François Bouchard discover in July 1799 while
on an expedition with Napoleon in Egypt that changed the understanding of
ancient African history by being key in deciphering the ancient egyptian
hieroglyphic based language?
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31. • Rosetta stone
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32. 16. Which sportsperson nicknamed ‘the greatest’ appeared in four of the 10
most globally watched events of the ’70s — in 1974 in Zaire and then in 1975,
1976 and 1979.
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33. • Muhammad Ali
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34. 17. Which term used by the underworld in India, especially Mumbai, originates
from an elaborate ceremony started by Bhim, the king of present-day Mahim,
to find a candidate up for a difficult task?
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35. • Supari
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36. 18. This is a google doodle tribute to a man who invented a system of reading and
writing. Name the system.
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37. • Braille
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38. 19. This is a google doodle from 1998 which commemorates the burning man
festival. What is special about this doodle?
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39. • First google doodle
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40. 20. Which space explorer is this google doodle a tribute to?
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41. • Yuri Gagarin
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42. Answers1. X= Solitare
2. X= Ferruccio Lamborgini.
3. Audi; the fourth company was Audiwerke and the four interlocked rings represent the union of the four companies
4. Zia-ul-Haq
5. Fidel Castro of Cuba
6. Vladmir Lenin
7. Bohemian Rhapsody, Re-released when Freddie Mercury died
8. Scrabble
9. Sherlock Holmes
10. Chess Grandmaster
11. Jet Li
12. Iftikhar ali Khan Pataudi or Nawab of Pataudi Senior
13. Tiktok
14. Players who represented two countries at a world cup.
15. The rosetta stone
16. Muhammad Ali
17. Supari
18. Braille
19. First google doodle
20. Yuri Gagarin
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