GENERAL QUIZBy:-

Vishwas AhujaEEE(3rd Year)

1.

X is a brand of instant soups, stocks, bouillon cubes, ketchups, sauces, seasonings and noodles. The original company came into existence in 1872 in Switzerland, when Julius X took over his father's mill. He quickly became a pioneer of industrial food production, aiming to improve the nutritional intake of worker families. X was the first to bring protein-rich legume meal to the market, and followed up with a ready-made soup based on legume meal in 1886. In 1897, He founded the company in the German town of Singen, where it is still based today.

In 1947, following several changes in ownership and corporate structure, X's holding company merged with the Y company to form Y-Alimentana S.A., currently known in its francophone homebase as Y S.A..

Give me X.

2.Print ad for???

The Economist

3.Minimal poster for???

4.Minimal poster for???

5.Significance of the pic??

It is the first camera phone image taken on 11th June 1997 by Philippe Kahn after his daughter's birth.

6.ID this businesswoman.

Indra Nooyi, Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo.

7.Print ad of???

WWF(World Wildlife Fund)

8.

The first edition of this was published to help drivers maintain their cars, find decent lodging, and eat well while touring France. It included addresses of gasoline distributors, garages, tyre stockists, and information on fuel prices, changing tyres and repairing automobiles.It was distributed free from 1900 until 1920. What?

Michelin Guide

9.

The map shows a route,(blue) of the Abhohar-Jodhpur express. This route has achieved significance due to an Acharya Tulsi Treatment and Research Center in Bikaner.

What is the name of this route and the funda?

Cancer Express or Cancer Train; Used by cancer patients for reaching treatment sites as a result of excess pesticides in the region

10.

This term is basically a generic term for a place/spot which attracts tourists and/or locals in large crowds.

In computing, it is used for security purposes, as a trap used to detect or deflect attempts at unauthorized usage of the network. It consists of a proxy site, a site which appears as if it’s a part of the network, but is detached from the network. It appears to contain content of importance to hackers.

So, it attracts hackers and spammers away from the actual site, and is thus called X.

Honeypot.

12.

The technology X was developed in the military for tank and jet fighting. This was chiefly developed by a Dr. Nicholas Bion, and a group of companies in Paris.

It was first used in the historic clash between England and Australia in 2007. It is supposed to be better than Y, because Y uses only sound sensors which add to the error, and are therefore risky to use in critical situations.

However, X was put in doubt when it wrongly judged an outgoing strike, and was the reason for controversy in another set of clashes in 2011.

ID X and Y.

X- Hot Spot Y- Snickometer

13.

 X was a FIFA referee between the match between El Salvador and Netherlands Antilles in 1988. Soon after this X had to retire from being a football referee as the age limit was lowered to 45. However this allowed him to start his career as a cricket umpire. Id X.

“Villain of Indian cricket” Steve Bucknor

14.

Pierre Boulle, a Frenchman, used his wartime experiences to pen a novel which made into the film The Bridge on the River Kwai for which he won an Oscar. Another book by him proved so popular that it is now a film franchise with about seven films.

Name the franchise.

Planet of the Apes.

15.

 In 2010, Urs Holzle sent a memo warning that their company would be crushed if it didn’t figure out its social media strategy. A team started working on a project and code named it ‘Emerald Sea’ after this 1878 painting by Albert Bierstadt. What project?

Google +

16.

According to U.S. law toys manufactured in other countries are subject to tax. However the taxes are much lower if the toys depict non-human characters. This has led to what?

Marvel declared mutants non human

17. What’s Blanked out?

18.

A manufacturer of high performance sports cars based in a small Italian village of Sant’Agata Bolognese near Bologna. This company was founded in 1963 by Ferrucio ___________. Name this company.

Lamborghini

19.

X derives it’s name from the Persian word literally meaning “crescent-shaped”, owing to it’s triangular-crescent shape. However, other variations of shape and size are found all across the world.

X is a baked or fried pastry, and is consumed across the world in North, Central Africa, Central and South-east Asia, the Arabian Peninsula and the Mediterranean (Not an exhaustive list) . In former Portuguese colonies, X is filled with beef, chicken, pork or minced meat of any form an served hot and deep fried. In Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and their neighboring countries, X is mostly baked, and is filled with lamb, onion and potato.

X was banned in Somalia in 2011, as Muslim extremists found it’s shape too “Western” and “pro-Christ”, saying it resembled the “Christian Trinity”. 

All of you have definitely tasted this at least once. ID X.

Samosa

20.

This mixture is said to be slightly inflammable, and out of every 100 samples, roughly 33 samples burn with a blue flame, while the remaining burn with a yellowish flame. Owing to this fact, a society called the Royal Order of the Blue Flame was established.

Roman King Claudius once passed a law saying this mixture should be legalized to be released in public, as having it trapped was believed to be corrosive and thus leading to more damage than being released.

Also, the time for which the gas is trapped increases the content of inert Nitrogen in the mixture due to the combination of other gases with some components present around them.

You all know what this mixture is, but would never have thought about it in this way. ID the mixture, or it’s common name. No scientific name required.

Fart!!!

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