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1 point per correct answer. Part points for few questions
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 Question 1
 Marketing genius Charles Forster noticed young boys
selling ___________ made of Spanish willow while
travelling through Brazil.
 He returned to Boston in 1870 and set up a factory for
mass production of this item using white birch as raw
material because it was tasteless.
 What business did Forster thus begin?
 Hint
 This cleaning tool is traditionally made from wood, bone,
bamboo, quill or even ivory, gold and silver.

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 Answer

Toothpick/s
 Was it a good starter 

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 Question 2
 Till October 6, 2013, the record for the world's Longest
Railway platform was held by Kollam Junction Railway
Station, Kerala.
 The record is now held by the platform in the city which is
also a home of world's largest publisher of Hindu religious
texts
 Name the city
 Hint
 Chicago of the East

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 Answer

Gorakhpur
 Headquarters of North Eastern Railways
 Gita Press is the largest publisher of Hindu religious texts
 Termed as Chicago of the East for the many gang wars it is
used to

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 Question 3
 This Baltic state is the latest member of the Eurozone to
start using EURO as the official currency from January 1,
2014
 Name the country

 Hint
 Capital city - Riga

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 Answer

Latvia

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 Question 4
 For Muslims, if the “Umrah” is minor, what is the major?
 Hint
 In Arabic, Umrah means "to visit a populated place".

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 Answer

Hajj
 The Umrah is a pilgrimage to Mecca that can be
undertaken at any time of the year. It is sometimes called
the 'minor pilgrimage' or 'lesser pilgrimage', the Hajj
being the 'major' pilgrimage and which is compulsory for
every able-bodied Muslim who can afford it.
 The Umrah is not compulsory but highly recommended. It
does not contain as many steps as Hajj.

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 Question 5
 One day while building
magnetrons,
engineer
Percy
Spencer
was
standing in front of an
active radar set when he
noticed that the candy
bar he had in his pocket,
had melted.
 This lead to the invention
of ?
 Hint

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 Answer

MICROWAVE
 His employer was Raytheon
that transformed the
invention into a model
called Radarange

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 Question 6

 What is the world's third most expensive spice by weight,
outstripped in market value only by saffron and vanilla.
 Hint
 The Queen of Spices

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 Answer

Cardamom
 Guatemala is the biggest producer
and exporter of this spice in the
world followed by India

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 Question 7
 Which fermented Korean side dish made of select
vegetables with a variety of seasonings is considered as its
national dish?
 Hint

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 Answer

Kimchi, also spelled Kimchee
 The US magazine Health named Kimchi in its list of top five
"World's Healthiest Foods" for being rich in vitamins,
aiding digestion, and even possibly retarding cancer
growth.

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 Question 8
 X loved sports and was a die-hard fan of Muhammad Ali,
confessing on record that he dreamt of meeting Ali some day.
 While on a 14-city-US tour in 1979, he took time out from his
schedule and took a flight to Kentucky along with his 18-yearold-son and wife.
 The son recounts: “My father
wanted to remember this
Contd.
moment and Ali had an idea.
Ali said, 'We will pose like
this. You punch me on the
face and I will punch you
back'. And they laughed
about it.”
 Who?

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 Question 8
 Hint
 “Ali was aware that my father was a big man in India. He
came and sat down. Maybe it was exciting for him to meet
my father and he said, 'I am the great Muhammad Ali
from America and you are the great ________ ____ from
India'.

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 Answer

Mohammed Rafi

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 Question 9

 According to a 2013 report on CNBC, which movie is the
all-time most pirated movie?
 Hint
 Movie is set in Pandora

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 Answer

Avatar
 Ref:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/48768803?slide=11&__source=yaho
o%7Cinstory%7C&par=yahoo

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 Question 10
 Apart from a short introduction — in which the author is
introduced as narrating the rest of the work to the princes
— it consists of following parts:
 Mitra-bheda:
The Separation of Friends
 Mitra-samprāpti:
The Gaining of Friends
 Kākolūkīyam:
Of Crows and Owls
 Labdhapraṇāśam:
Loss Of Gains
 Aparīkṣitakārakaṃ:
Ill-Considered Action / Rash deeds

 Hint
 In the Indian tradition, it is regarded as “nītiśāstra” – a
treatise on wise conduct of life

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 Answer

Panchtantra
 It was written by Vishnu Sharma to educate the three sons
of King Amarashakti

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 Question 11
 Which incident in 18th century Japan that involved a
group of revenge-seeking leaderless samurai has been
dramatized in several accounts and is considered the
country's national legend'?

 Hint
 A recent Hollywood movie

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 Answer
It recounts the most famous case involving
the samurai code of honor, bushidō. The
story is about a group of samurai who were
left leaderless (becoming Ronin) after their
daimyo (feudal lord) was forced to commit
seppuku (ritual suicide) for assaulting a
court official. The Ronin avenged their
master's honor after patiently waiting and
planning for 2 years and in turn, were
themselves forced to commit seppuku for
committing the crime of murder. The
popularity of the story is still high today.
With ten different television productions in
the years 1997–2007 alone, it ranks among
the most familiar of all stories in Japan.

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 Question 12
 What has been called "a sword cut through the
mountains" by Kipling?
 Hint
 This Asian mountain pass of significant historical
importance was an integral part of the ancient Silk Road

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 Answer

Khyber Pass
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It links Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Throughout history it has been an important trade route between Central
Asia and South Asia and a strategic military location.
In some versions of the Aryan migration theory, the Indo-Aryans migrated
to India via the Khyber Pass.
Recorded invasions through the Khyber begin with the conquests of Darius
I and Alexander the Great and also include later Muslim invasions of South
Asia, culminating with the establishment of the Mughal Empire from 1526.
The British invaded Afghanistan from India and fought three Afghan Wars in
1839-42, 1878-80, and 1919.
George Molesworth, a member of the British force of 1919, summarized:
"Every stone in the Khyber has been soaked in blood."

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 Question 13
 It is Russia’s largest resort city being one of the very few
places in Russia with a subtropical climate, with warm to
hot summers and mild winters
 Unofficially regarded as summer capital of Russia
 Name the city
 Hint
 It also boasts of being home town of 2 tennis grand slam
winners

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 Answer

SOCHI
 Venue of Winter Olympics, 2014
 Grand slam winners  Maria Sharapova and Yevgeny
Kafelnikov

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 Question 14
 The monetary value of this annual prize is adjusted such
that it exceeds that of the Nobel Prizes since the
organization sponsoring it felt that there was this one
important field which was ignored in the Nobel Prizes.
 At £1.1 million, as of 2013, it is the second largest single
annual financial prize award (behind the Fundamental
Physics Prize) given to an individual by a philanthropic
organization
 Hint
 The inaugural winner of this prize, in 1973, was Mother
Teresa. 3 other Indians + one self-proclaimed Indian have
won this prize since then.

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 Answer

Templeton prize
Indian winners:
Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan  1975
Baba Amte  1990
Pandurang Shastri Athavale  1997
Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama  2012

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 Question 15
 Who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2013?
 Hint

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 Answer

Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical
Weapons
 For its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons

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 Question 16
 _____ / _____ _____ is the world's tallest flying bird, with
a height of up to 1.8 m and wingspan of up to 2.5 m
 Hint
 In India, they are considered symbols of marital fidelity,
believed to mate for life and pine the loss of their mates
even to the point of starving to death.

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 Answer

Saaras / Sarus Crane
 0.5 for crane, Hans is not valid

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 Question 17
 ______ is a 3-banded armadillo with a cheerful and
appealing personality.
 He is a likeable character and scores 7.3 out of 10 on
appeal
 His name was chosen by more than 1.7 million fans over
Amijubi (Amizade - Friendship and Júbilo - Joy) and
Zuzeco (Azul - Blue and Ecologia - Ecology).
 Half points for correct context

 Hint
 His previous counterpart was “Zakumi”

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 Answer

Fuleco
 FIFA World Cup 2014 official mascot
 Fuleco is a portmanteau of the words
Futebol (football) and Ecologia (Ecology).

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 Question 18
 He was born in 1904 at Mughal Sarai as ___ _______
Srivastava
 He graduated with a first class degree from Kashi
Vidyapeeth in 1926 where he was given a title, along with
the degree, according to the institution’s practice
 This title stuck and eventually became a part of his name,
replacing his original surname of Srivastava
 Hint
 Varanasi International Airport is named after him

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 Answer

Lal Bahadur Shastri

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 Question 19
 In 2002, activists in Egypt and neighboring countries,
asked the people to boycott the use of a certain consumer
product after rumors that it was named after a leader
whom they staunchly opposed and that its logo was a
cleverly disguised form of “Star of David”
 Which consumer product?
 Hint
 A spokesperson of the company selling this product
categorically denied this stating "It's ridiculous; _____ was
around long before the Israeli leader. Our logo represents
an atom's path, not a religion."

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 Answer

Ariel
 The leader was Ariel Sharon,
the PM of Israel at that time.
 Ref:
http://www.theguardian.com/
business/2002/nov/07/interna
tionalnews

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 Question 20
 ___________ _____ is the only bowler to dismiss Sachin
Tendulkar for a duck in Indian domestic cricket
 Hint
 He claimed the wicket of the first ball on his ODI debut
(not the only one to do so)

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 Answer

Bhuvneshwar Kumar

 First ODI wicket 
 Mohammad Hafeez of Pakistan.

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 Question 21
 X was the last man to come in. He was fielding at fine-leg.
And as he walked in he said something along the lines of
“Well guys the bowlers have done their job. They’re 10
runs short of what they should have got. Let's go and get
it.” And everyone burst out laughing because everyone
knew that ___ wasn't really 10 runs short. But it turned
out to be that way.
 Who is X?

 Hint
 ___ = 434

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 Answer

Jacques Kallis
 Shaun Pollock, talking about Kallis on the day of his retirement
from international test cricket.
 Context – Biggest chase in ODIs

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 Question 22
 BSNL stopped its 163 year old telegram service on July 15,
2013.
 Who was the recipient of the last telegram?

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 Answer

Rahul Gandhi
 The telegram counter closed at 11.45 p.m. and the last
message was booked at the counter of Central Telegraph
Office (CTO) Janpath by Ashwani Mishra, who sent
messages to Mr. Gandhi and Director General of DD news
S M Khan

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 Question 23
 It is a defense policy pioneered by China in 1964 and later
adopted by India and North Korea.
 Erstwhile USSR also adopted it but was dropped by Russia
in 1993.
 This policy has been repeatedly been rejected by NATO
 Hint
 Abbreviated as NFU

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 Answer

No first use
 No first use (NFU) refers to a pledge or a policy by a nuclear
power not to use nuclear weapons as a means of warfare
unless first attacked by an adversary using nuclear weapons

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 Question 24
 In this all-inclusive flag, having the four common colors, the
emblem in the middle is a bundle of 10 rice stalks – staple
food of member nations.
 Flag of?

 Hint
 Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand,
Brunei, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam

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 Answer

ASEAN
Association of Southeast Asian Nations

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 Question 25
 X is an old term meaning hoax or jest. Its present meaning
as an exclamation is closer to 'nonsense' or 'gibberish',
while as a noun, it refers to a fraud or impostor, implying
an element of unjustified publicity and spectacle.

 Hint
 In modern usage, the word is most associated with
Ebenezer Scrooge, a character created by Charles Dickens.
 His famous reference to Christmas, "Bah! X!", declaring
Christmas to be a fraud, is commonly used in stage and
television versions of A Christmas Carol and also appeared
frequently in the original book.

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 Answer

Humbug
 Read more at:
http://www.answers.com/topic/humbug#ixzz1jbUfwAiw

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 Question 26
 This startup helps increase productivity by measuring and
analyzing employee data.
 Their product measures employees' work patterns on
their computers, and provides various firms organization
level analytics, and accordingly help companies increase
productivity by 20 percent, without any extra
management effort.
 Hint
 Some of their customers include major IT firms such as
KPIT Cummins, Tech Mahindra and BMC Software.

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 Answer

Sapience / Sapience Analytics

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 Question 27
 Connect

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 Answer

Q Mobile
 Brand Ambassadors (0.5 points)
 It is the Pakistani counter-part of Micromax

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 Question 28
 One of India’s most influential editor who is also known as
“Lucknow Boy”
 His truly formative job was as the editor of “Debonair” in
the 1970s

 Hint
 He is a famous TV panelist and frequently appears on TV
shows like Newshour on Times Now and India at 9 on CNN
IBN

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 Answer

Vinod Mehta

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 Question 29
 VacationRentals.com tops a certain list. What list?
 Hint
 Insure.com comes 2nd on this list

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 Answer

Most expensive domain name sale of all time
 HomeAway Founder and CEO Brian Sharples bought the
VacationRentals.com domain name for mind-boggling $35
million in 2007
 VacationRentals.com had been a very active website before
the acquisition, although Sharples sounds like the purchase
was a defensive measure primarily for the domain name:
“The only reason we bought it was so Expedia couldn’t have
that url.”

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 Question 30
 Technology blog Gamasutra calls the addiction to this
game a “fun pain”, where so-called reward mechanisms
defeat a person’s ability to make informed choices about
the costs and value of these products

 Hint
 The game’s manufacturer, King, makes 670,000 dollars a
day from users, who purchase extra lives or access to the
next level

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 Answer

Candy Crush / Candy Crush Saga

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 Questions dedicated to my son - Vihaan

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 Question 31
 _______ ______ is one of the most popular Digital
campaigns of 2013 and is symbolic of the success
humorous content enjoys on YouTube
 The ad film was directed by Shyam Madiraju, from
Gobsmack, who worked closely with animation experts
from Crater Film Studios, Belgrade
 Hint
 The highlight is the infectious music track, created by
celebrated music producer Mikey McCleary who has
worked on songs like Khoya Khoya Chand + Hawa Hawai
from Shaitan, O Lal Meri + Mast Kalandar from David and
Dhak Dhak + So Gaya Yeh Jahan from Nautanki Saala.

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 Answer

Kit Kat – Dancing Babies

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 Question 32
 Google Doodle for ?

 Hint

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 Answer

Montessori / Maria Montessori

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 Question 33
 According to the Guinness Book of World Records, which
song usually sung to congratulate a person is the secondmost popular song in the English language, following
"Happy Birthday to You".
 It is frequently used instead of "Happy Birthday to You" in
films and television to avoid possible copyright issues.
 Hint
 You all may want to sing this song for the QM once we
complete this quiz

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 Answer

For He's a Jolly Good Fellow
 The tune comes from the French song "Malbrouk" which it has
been claimed was composed the night after the Battle of
Malplaquet (one of the main battles of the War of the Spanish
Succession) in 1709.

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 Question 34
 Which company’s in-house film production unit is termed
"a Glass and a Half Full Production" based on one of its
most famous brand?
 Name either the company or the brand

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 Answer

Cadbury / Dairy Milk

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 Question 35
 As per a survey on Wired.com, the following items topped
the all time list of a particular set / category of items
without which our childhood is incomplete
1) Stick
2) Box
3) String
4) Cardboard Tube
5) Dirt

 What set / category of items am I talking about?

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 Answer

Toys
 The 5 Best Toys of All Time
 Ref: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/01/the-5-best-toysof-all-time/all/

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