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3) This google doodle, that appeared on January 15, 2007 was in memory of a great American known for his dream. Who?
4) Tomorrow, a duathlon will be held in scotland. Individuals in each team of four will be required to complete two legs of an eight-legged event, in northern Scotland -- one 10-kilometre run and one 20-kilometre cycle.The organisers have taken out a one million pound insurance policy for the event. What’s being insured against? ( hint: what would u find in SCOTLAND?)
5) As one of twenty-eight French tax collectors and a powerful figure in the unpopular Ferme Générale, X was branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by French Revolutionists in 1794. One of his actions that might have sealed his fate was a clash a few years earlier with the young Jean-Paul Marat.He had also intervened on behalf of a number of foreign-born scientists including Joseph Louis Lagrange, granting them exception to a mandate stripping all foreigners of possessions and freedomX was tried, convicted, and executed on the same day. An appeal to spare his life was cut short by the judge: "The Republic has no need of geniuses”.One and a half years after his death, he was exonerated by the French government. When his private belongings were delivered to his widow, a brief note was included reading "To the widow of X, who was falsely convicted." Id X.
6) What are these the criteria for?
"inability to reproduce" — Nominee must be dead or sterile.
"Excellence" — Astounding misapplication of judgment.
"Self-selection" — Cause of one's own demise.
"Maturity" — Capable of sound judgment.
"Veracity" — The event must be verified
7) He was born in Khurd in Jhelum District (Now in Pakistan). His father died when he was just five and he, his sister and brother were brought up by his uncle. in 1947, during Partition, his family fled to india and lived in Ambala district, now in Haryana. in the early 1950s, he moved to Mumbai to continue his education and joined the Jai Hind College. His involvement in dramatics got him his first job with Keymers, a British advertising agency that hired him for radio programmes. Lipton ki Mehfil, broadcast on Radio Ceylon, at that time the only commercial radio station in the region, became extremely popular.IDentify him.
8) In the early 1990s, the term, ____-______ , began appearing as a pun on "perestroika", the reform policy of the Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev. Critics viewed the policy as "a lot of fizz without substance" and as an attempt to usher in Western products in deals there with the old elites. _______, as one of the first Americanproducts in the Soviet Union, became a symbol of the relationship and the Soviet policy. Fill in the blanks
9) IN Araimic,this phrase roughly means "what I speak is destroyed". The phrase is also believed to be influenced by the Latin word cadaver, meaning "corpse". It is one of the very few NOT adapted fromLatin by its creator. What?
10) The enemy advances, we retreat. The enemy camps, we harass. The enemy tires, we attack. The enemy retreats, we pursue." What kind of military tactic is Mao Tse-tung describing?
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Q.2) X is an American rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1980 by Michael Stipe (lead vocals), Peter Buck (guitar), Mike Mills (bass guitar), and Bill Berry (drums and percussion). After considering names like "Twisted Kites", "Cans of Piss", and "Negro Wives", the band settled on X , which Stipe selected at random from a dictionary.
X became one of the most popular alternative rock bands, and gained early attention due to its first single, "Radio Free Europe". "Losing My Religion" was X's highest-charting single in the US and eventually in 2007, the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The band has been actively involved in social awareness programs and famously helped raise awareness of Aung San Suu Kyi and human rights violations in Burma, when they worked with the Freedom Campaign and the US Campaign for Burma.
The name 'X' also means the roentgen equivalent in man which is a unit of radiation dose. It is the product of the absorbed dose in röntgens (R) and the biological efficiency of the radiation.
Q.3) This organization was founded in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1971 to oppose the United States testing nuclear devices in Alaska. The focus of the organization later turned to other issues: whaling, bottom trawling, global warming, old growth and nuclear power. Name this organization.
Q.4) Born in Germany, X is often renowned as 'the prince of mathematicians". A story goes that in primary school, X's teacher, J.G. Büttner, tried to occupy pupils by making them add a list of integers. The young X reputedly produced the correct answer within seconds, to the astonishment of his teacher. In his later life, he managed to predict the trajectory of the asteroid Ceres with very high accuracy and when he was asked how he did it, he replied, "I used logarithms." The questioner then wanted to know how he had been able to look up so many numbers from the tables so quickly. "Look them up?" X responded. "Who needs to look them up? I just calculate them in my head!"
Name X.
Q.5) This is one of those wonderful stories of innovation and its practical use.
The first innovation came when the Houston Baseball Stadium (whr the Houston team plays its home matches) was converted into an indoor stadium by constructing a huge dome of glass over it. Although this move elated the spectators, the baseball players complained that they couldn't spot the ball clearly due to the glare from the glass dome above.
In order to solve this problem, they decided to paint the galss dome gray. Now this resulted in an entirely new problem. The problem became so bad that the stadium no longer looked suitable for play.
They finally got the solution with a product that was co-invented in 1965 by James M. Faria and Robert T. Wright. The product(patent) was called something else but after its use in Houston its name changed to the more popular one we recognize today. What?
Q.6) This company named after its most famous product whose name when translated into English means "play well", had a very humble beginning in the workshop of Ole Kirk Christiansen, a carpenter from Billund, Denmark. Christiansen began creating wooden toys in 1932 and the company began calling itself _________ two years later in 1934. The company expanded to producing plastic toys in 1940. However it was in 1947 that the company marketted its most famous product which was manufactured from cellulose acetate.
Incidentally, Fortune 500 named this toy as the toy of the century. What is being referred to?
Q.7) This company has the photograph of the Matterhorn mountain as it's logo. The logo also incorporates a 'hidden bear' which is the Swiss symbol for Bern, signifying the place of origin of this company by Theodor ______ and Emil Baumann in 1908. Identify.
Q.8)In 1900, seven brothers migrated from Italy to the USA and started an aircraft manufacturing company with their family name. This business was operational till 1976 although the products changed. In 1968, one of the brothers Candido, invented and started marketing their most famous creation till date. 'Water that moves you' is their base line. Identify the family/product.
Q.9)The origins of this term trace back to the early days of radio broadcasts when programmes were broadcast at time slots when housewives were available to listen. P&G, Colgate-Palmolive and Lever Brothers have contributed significantly to the origin of this popular term. Identify.
Q.10)This word debuted in the English language in the late 19th century. It means 'journey' in Swahili. And is originally from the Arabic word for travel and is widely used in tourism, fashion and is also a cinema genre. Identify.