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Mind the Star questions
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PRELIMS
3. He joined Tata Steel as a Graduate Trainee in 1932. With his
hard work and dedication for the company He was promoted
to the post of General Superintendent in 1954. In 1961 he
took over as the General Manager of the company. He became
the Director-in-Charge of Tata Steel in 1968. He was the first
Managing Director of the organization in 1970 after the
abolition of the Managing Agency System. Who?
Q1
4. This is the world’s first what by Robert Cornelius?
Q2
6. ______ job is slang for a low-paying, low-prestige dead-end job
that requires few skills and offers very little chance of intra
company advancement. The term comes from the name of the
fast-food restaurant ________but is used to describe any low -
status job – regardless of the employer – where little training
is required, staff turnover is high, and workers' activities are
tightly regulated by managers
Q4
9. Q7
From a book called Science Ink by Carl Zimmer . It talks about
tattoos inspired by science. What do these 2 examples depict?
10. Famous wife of Chinese-vietnamese origin who is also a
pediatrician to her colour blind husband
Q8
11. Wood took a vacation from his work at Microsoft in 1998
to trek through the Himalayas.While trekking, he met a
“resource director” for the schools in the Annapurna
Circuit of Nepal, with whom he visited a primary school
that contained 450 children and only a handful of
books—none age- appropriate.Upon seeing Wood's
reaction to the lack of books, the school’s headmaster
suggested, "Perhaps, sir, you will someday come back
with books," which inspired Wood to solicit book
donations from family and friends via email sent from an
Internet cafe in Kathmandu.
A year later, Wood returned to the school with 3,000
books—all donated in response to his email appeal to
friends and family.Soon thereafter, he left his job at
Microsoft entirely to devote himself full -time to Books for
Nepal, a side project that would eventually form the
foundation for Room to Read.
This book was the first book to be sold by which online
megastore?
Q9
12. Who is the only Turkish citizen to win a Nobel Prize?
Q10*
13. X was born in Murom, Vladimir region in 1923.
In 1941, X was drafted into the Red Army. He fought on the
southern and south-western areas in the 1st and 4th
Ukrainian Fronts. He fought for the liberation of Ukraine,
Poland, Czechoslovakia. During the war, X was awarded the
Order of Patriotic War II degree (1945), Red Star (1944), and
the medals "For Courage" (1943), "For Military Merit" (1944),
"For Victory over Germany" (1946).
In 1945 X was demobilized from the ranks of the Red Army for
health reasons and returned to Moscow. In February 1946, he
entered the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute at the
Faculty of Physics and subsequently worked on Nuclear and
Atomic physics in Moscow.
X created something we all know and respect.
Q11
14. Which TV Channel’s name is literally “The Island”?
Q12
18. "Animation is a word, a process. In India, people think animation is
cartoon. Avatar was animation, but is not a cartoon. Tintin is completely cartoonistic.
I am creating him, where he has actually performed, it's captured on a camera and
then put into a 3D version. Avatar took seven years and so much budget and a
James Cameron. There was always the insecurity of the unknown, but we have taken
a road never taken in India and broken rules and have completed the film in just a
year and a half."
—in an interview with The Times of India
Q16
19. Q17
ONLY DISCOVERED BY ACCIDENT IN THE REMOTE FUJA
MOUNTAINS OF INDONESIA,THIS FROG RESEMBLES A
LITERARY CHARACTER . WHAT IS THIS FROG KNOWN AS?
20. What was the first sports event to broadcast live on Youtube?
Q18
21. David Saltzberg is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at
the University of California, Los Angeles. Saltzberg received a
Sloan Fellowship, NSF Career Award, and Department of
Energy Outstanding Junior Investigator Award while an
assistant professor.Saltzberg earned a bachelors degree in
physics in 1989 from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in
physics from the University of Chicago in 1994. From 1995-97
he worked at CERN in Switzerland. His research interests
include high-energy collider physics and the radio detection of
cosmic neutrinos.
Saltzberg is also known for his work as technical director of Y
adding complex equations and reviewing them.
Q19
