Business quiz by myself at KG college

1. Greycells Challenge
Research And Conducted By
Akhil R Nair
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2. quizzcongoz.blogspot.in
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3. 1.
This is a private business school established in 1908
and is now located on the banks of river Charles,
Boston.
Some of the famous alumnus include George W
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Bush, P Chidambaram, Rahul Bajaj, Rajat Gupta etc.
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4. 1.
Harvard Business School
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5. 2.
List of ___________ ????
Pratheeksha
Akshaya
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Bhagyanidhi E 2
Dhanasree P 0
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6. 2.
Kerala state lotteries
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7. 3.
You can find these on either side of the tail of
something which started its operation on 29 April
2005.
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1. Thrissur Pooram, Pushkar Fair
2. Konark sun temple, Taj Mahal E 2
3. India Gate, Gateway of India P 0
4. Dal Lake, Thar Desert
5. Kathakali, Bharatanatyam H 1
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What are we talking about ?
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8. 3.
Air India Express
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9. 4.
Whose tweets are published under the name
@pontifex ?
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10. 4.
Pope Benedict XVI
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11. 5.
Former alumni of IIT Kharagpur and employee of
TATA steel.
Joined Indian Revenue Service in 1992 and later
turned into politics and social works.
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Got Ramon Magsaysay award for Emergent
leadership in 2006. E 2
Helped in the foundation of “Parivartan” a P 0
movement to help people on issues related to income
tax, ration etc. H 1
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Identify this famous Indian personality
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12. 5.
Aravind Kejriwal
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13. 6.
BSNL provides services all over India except
Mumbai and New Delhi. Instead who provides services
there ?
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14. 6.
MTNL
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15. 7.
This term originated from George Orwell’s famous
novel Nineteen Eighty four. This is used as the title of
a reality show which was first broadcasted in Veronica
channel in Netherlands. Later various adaptations of
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this was aired in different countries. This show gained
attention in India due to racist remarks towards an E 2
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16. 7.
Big Brother
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17. 8.
In the Bretton Woods conference which was
conducted on May 1944, agreements were signed for
the setting up of two international organizations
which are commonly known by the name Bretton
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Wood Sisters. If one of them is IMF, name the other
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18. 8.
World Bank
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19. 9.
Which multi national company’s official magazine is
named “THINK” ?
THINK is also a trade mark of this company as
they used this word along with their so many
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products….
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20. 9.
IBM
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21. 10.
Joseph Woodland who died on 9 th Dec 2012 along
with Bernard Silver invented __________
Woodland once said "I just extended the dots and dashes
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22. 10.
Bar code
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23. 11.
Identify the brand
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24. 11.
Fevicol
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25. 12.
Which American MNC designed the 6 reactors in
Fukushima nuclear power plant which underwent serious
destruction in 2011 leading to radiation emission ?
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26. 12.
General Electric
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27. 13.
The Imperial Bank which in turn became the State
Bank of India was formed by the merger of 3
presidency banks namely Bank of Calcutta, Bank of
Bombay and __________.
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28. 13.
Bank of Madras
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29. 14.
“The Moguls of Real Estate” is the biography of
which Indian born construction tycoon who is always
referred as the Phantom of Bombay House and is
the richest Parsi in 2012 according to Forbes ?
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30. 14.
Pallonji Mistry
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31. 15.
Why they were in news recently ?
Name the firm associated with them which was involved
in the controversy.
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32. 15.
Mel Craig and Mike Christian, RJs of 2DAY FM who
were behind the hoax call to King Edward VII's Hospital
to obtain information about Kate Middleton and
eventually lead to the death of Jacintha Saldhana
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33. 16.
"I had a terrible dream yesterday with military
helicopters and the Taliban. I have had such dreams since
the launch of the military operation in Swat. I was afraid of
going to school because the Taliban had issued an edict
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banning all girls from attending schools. Only 11 students
attended the class out of 27. The number decreased E 2
because of Taliban's edict." P 0
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listed for Time person of the year in 2012… Y 3
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34. 16.
Malala Yousafzai
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35. 17.
The resignation of the sitting MP on June 26 lead to
the by-poll in Jangipur Lok Sabha constituency in
Murshidabad on October 2012.
Who was that sitting MP/ why did he resign ?
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36. 17.
Due to the resignation of Pranab Mukharjee
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37. 18.
1. Don Bradman
2. Brian Lara
3. Bill Ponsford
4. Wally Hammond
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5. WG Grace
6. Graeme Hick E 2
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8. _________
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to achieve that feat ?
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38. 18.
Ravindra Jadeja
This is the list of persons who scored 3 triple
centuries in first class cricket.
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39. 19.
_________ is an Italian word which means “every
other year” and it is used to describe any event that
occurs every two years.
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This word conquered news some days ago in India.
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40. 19.
Biennale
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41. 20.
Which recently released Hollywood film was
awarded two National Tourism awards by Ministry of
Tourism because of its impact in promoting India as a
tourist destination especially Munnar and Puducherry.
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42. 20.
Life of Pi
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43. 21.
Dennis Papin, a French Physicist invented “Steam
Digesteur” after his intense studies about steam. This
was the first model of something that is found in
every house.
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44. 21.
Pressure Cooker
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45. 22.
This newly discovered Etheostoma genus fish is
named after a Nobel laureate.
Name him…
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46. 22.
Etheostoma Obama
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47. 23.
“Still, I dare to submit my imperfect work for my readers
to judge. Perhaps some of you will find my bursts of word-
fire too long, others may regard them too brief and broken.
What matters is if my words hit the target.”
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These are the starting lines of whose auto biography
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48. 23.
Mikhail Kalashnikov
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49. 24.
___________ is a marketing term for the Monday
after Black Friday which was invented by shop.org. This
was created to persuade people to shop online and the
recent trends showed that is it one of the biggest online
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shopping day of the year.
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50. 24.
Cyber Monday
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51. 25.
This phrase is a Korean neologism that refers to a
lifestyle associated with a district of Seoul. It entered the
Collins dictionary as word of the year for the month of
November and it also entered Guinness World records.
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Identify the phrase.
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52. 25.
Gangnam Style
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