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2. Q1
What business entity connects the following set of people:
• Manas Sarkar, a 17 year 'cadet' footballer
• Pawan Kumar, a senior associate for quality control
• Asha Hansda, a tribal beneficiary of the "Tejaswini" Project
• Deepika Kumari, a Commonwealth Gold medallist in
Archery
• Jyoti Pandey, A Departmental Ethics coordinator
• Mark Denys, a Dutch researcher, formerly an employee of
Corus
• Sadhan Baske, a tomato farmer
• Bachendri Pal, the fifth woman to scale Mt. Everest
3. • These people are featured in the 2011 Tata
Steel "Values Stronger Than Steel" ad
campaign.
5. • Shantanu
Narayen, (Indian born American) CEO of Adob
e Systems.
6. Q3 One more to complete the list of
what?
• Ove Olson
• Bent Lofqvist
• Jose Altafini
• Ray Crawford
• Nikola Kotkov
• Florian Albert
• Paul van Himst
• Gerd Muller
• Claudio Sulser
• Soren Lerby
• ???????????
7. • Players to have scored FIVE goals in a single
European Cup match. the missing name was
Lionel Messi.
8. Q4 This is a tribute, in Lego, to which
iconic image?
10. Q5
Person in the first pic(X) died recently.He
assisted around 130 people to die in peace in his
lifetime,also serving 8 years of prison for second
degree murder.He fought for his patients rights
to euthanasia.Identify,connect to second pic(Y)
and explain please.
11. • Dr. Death Jack Kevorkian
And Al Pacino in “You Don’t Know Jack”!
12. Q6 Name the two towers
These two
Deutsche bank
towers have a very
crafty name.
The two aspects of
every financial
transaction.
Guess madi!
14. Q7 Put Funda
• For special trains, 0.
• For Kolkata locals, 3.
• Secunderabad is 4.
• 9 for Mumbai suburban locals, 9
• 1 is for all mail and express trains.
• What is all this about?
15. • In December 2010, Indian Railways added a
new prefix digit for different types of trains.
16. Q8 Who?
• This author made his feature film debut as an
actor in the the film "7 Khoon Maaf" directed
by Vishal Bhardwaj.
Who?
17. • Ruskin Bond; the film is based on his short
story "Susanna's Seven Husbands".
18. Q9
This Roman God lords over the sea and is
usually depicted with a beard and not
much
else. His name appears in association with
many fields such as astronomy, sea-faring,
geography, and the military.
His weapon of choice was the name of a
military
operation in May 2011. What was the
operation
for?
19. • The god is Neptune. His weapon is a kind of
spear, more commonly referred to as the
Trident. The US operation to kill Osama bin
Laden was officially called "Operation
Neptune's Spear".
20. Q10
Solve each clue to get a set of items in a specific context. This
set began in 1981 and ended in July May 2011. What set?
1. The capital of the American state of South Carolina.
(Alternatively, the name of the federal district which the
American capital of Washington is part of.)
2. A series of ranking tournaments for professional tennis
players that is one level below the ATP World tour.
3. A popular TV channel whose logo features the earth and
has a slogan called "The world is just awesome".
4. A lost continent in legend.
5. A word that means "to attempt" or "to take effort in
something".
21. The American Space Shuttle program which
concluded in 2011.
The individual elements are:
• Columbia
• Challenger
• Discovery
• Atlantis
• Endeavour
24. Q12
How does this list connect to the pomaceous fruit
of the Malus domestica tree?
7. Panthera leo
6. Uncia uncia
5. Panthera pardus
4. Panthera tigris
3. Panthera onca
2. Puma concolor
1. Acinonyx jubatus
25. The fruit is an apple. Apple's Mac OS X versions
are named after wild cats:
Lion (the latest), Snow Leopard, Leopard, Tiger,
Panther, Puma, and Cheetah.