Monday, July 13, 2009

Quiz of the day

Q.1) Given below is the quantity of daily consumption of various ingredients to manufacture X :

i)Besan flour - 100 bags (each bag contains 50 kg)
ii)Sugar-100 bags (each bag contains 100 kg)
iii)Cashewnuts- 40 boxes (one box contains 15 kg)
iv)Cardamom- 150 kg
v)Ghee- 300 litres
vi)Oil-20 kg approx.
vii)Sugar candy- 8 bags (each bag contains 50 kg)
viii)Raisins-36 boxes (each box contains 15 kg)
viii)Almonds- 1 or 2 boxes

It is believed that roughly about a 1.25 lakh Xs are prepared every day. What is X?


Q.2) Name this cricketing technology that is used to determine the point of impact of the ball.



Q.3) This sportsman has recenlty broken a world record. Who is he?



Q.4) Who is this cricketer and what is hi claim to fame?

Q.5) Which cricketer holds the record for the most number of runs scored by an individual in a single day of a test match?

Q.6) Identify this beautiful woman. She has been in the news for quite some time now.

Q.7) Publishers Weekly declared this author as "the bestselling novelist of the 90s," selling a total of 60,742,289 copies of his works till date. He is also one of only a few authors to sell two million copies on a first printing; others include Tom Clancy and J.K. Rowling. Who is this amazing author?


Q.8) What has been blanked out from the image? It is something that seems to have impressed Barack Obama a great deal :).


Q.9) Identify this organization from its logo. Hint : It is the world's biggest manager of something.

7 comments:

ER.KD_77 said...

2.hot spot technology
6.sarah palin
9. UBS

ER.KD_77 said...

4. marcus north-scored centuries on both his Test and Ashes debuts

Hawk said...

1. Tirupati laddu
2.
3. Aaron Peirsol (100 & 200 m backstroke WR)
4.
5. Virender Sehwag?
6. Sarah Palin
7. John Grisham
8. A picture of Obama himself??
9.

Arkantos said...

brilliant attempts by both of u...only two questions unanswered...i'll wait for some time if anyone else wishes to post before giving out the answers...

IvjyotSingh said...

i do wish to answer.. plz w8 for tomm..

IvjyotSingh said...

8. a brazillian football jersey signed by the team.

Arkantos said...

Here are the answers :

1. Tirupati Laddu (I just had some a few days back...so prompted me to make a question on it :))

2. Hotspot
3. Aaron Peirsol (record holder of 100m and 200m backstroke)

4. Marcus North (he scored a century both on his test debut and ashes debut)

5. Sir Donald Bradman (i think he scored some 300+ runs in Headingly...)

6. Sarah Palin

7. John Grisham (he's now writing a a novel based on a true story and trying to prove the actual accused in the real case as innocent...)

8. In the recently concluded G8 summit at L'Aquila, President of Brazil Lula gave each of the delegates a Brazilian football jersey signed by all the players of the squad.

9. Its UBS more popularly known as 'the Swiss Bank'. Its the world's biggest manager of private assets.