Quiz on Rail, Brands & Ice-creams..

Q1 : Translate into French and abbreviate to get the popular name of a train: ‘train of great speed’
Ans : TGV

Q2 : This is an Italian family of tilting trains that were manufactured by Fiat Ferroviaria. The tilt was introduced to enable to trains to round curves at high speeds. The name of these trains comes from a commonplace object that is associated with repeated tilting motion. What are these trains called?
Ans : Pendolino

Q3 : The Madras and South Mahratta railway was one of the constituents of the present day Southern Railways. The logo of this railway company depicted a famous monument that is located at a place that was central to the railway’s operations. This monument also has the largest dome in India. Which monument?
Ans : Gol Gumbaz, Bijapur

Q4 : This is a piece of playground equipment for children that was invented in 1920 and was sold under a brand name that has currently become a generic term. Its initial patent refers to the ‘monkey instinct’ of children, and claims the benefits of climbing as exercise and play. Which brand name/which term?
Ans : Jungle Gym

Q5 : This is a proper noun that is the name of a dominant internet company. However, in course of time, it came to be used as a verb that referred to the act of using this company’s primary product. The verb form was chosen ‘the most useful word of 2002’ by the American dialect society. Which word/which company?
Ans : Google

Q6 : The name of this toy company comes from the Danish word for ‘play well’. The name of the company is now a generic term in English that refers to toys similar to the company’s most popular product. Which company?
Ans : Lego

Q7 : On July 23 1904, during the St. Louis World’s fair, Charles Menches was selling ice cream and ran out of dishes. He therefore is said to have sought the help of the owner of the stall next to his, who was selling a middle eastern delicacy called Zalabia. The result was the first use of something that is now very commonplace. What?
Ans : Ice cream cone

Q8 : It is believed that this ice-cream variety was created in response to the ‘blue laws’ that decreed that ice cream soda could not be sold on Sundays. This reason is also said to be the reason for its nomenclature. Which variety?
Ans : Sundae

Q9 : Ice cream makers who wanted to sell frozen ice cream cones faced the problem of the ice cream making the cone go soggy. The Italian manufacturer Spica invented a process whereby the inside of the cone was insulated from the ice cream by a layer of oil, sugar and chocolate. What name was used by Spica to register this product?
Ans : Cornetto

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$$ Nicknames of the US Dollar $$

The colloquialism buck (much like the English "quid") is often used to refer to dollars of various nations, including the U.S. dollar. This term, dating to the 18th century, may have originated with the colonial fur trade. Greenback is another nickname originally applied specifically to the 19th century Demand Note dollars created by Abraham Lincoln to finance the costs of the Civil War for the North. The original note was printed in black and green on the back side. It is still used to refer to the U.S. dollar (but not to the dollars of other countries).

Grand, sometimes shortened to simply G, is a common term for the amount of $1,000. The suffix K (from "kilo-") is also commonly used to denote this amount (such as "$10K" being pronounced "Ten kay" to mean $10,000). Banknotes' nicknames are usually the same as their values (such as five, twenty, etc.) The $5 bill has been referred to as a "fin" or a "fiver" or a "five-spot;" the $10 bill as a "sawbuck," a "ten-spot," or a "Hamilton"; the $20 bill as a "double sawbuck," a "twomp," a "twenty-banger," or a "Jackson;" the $1 bill is sometimes called a "single," the $2 bill a "deuce" or a "Tom," and the $100 bill is nicknamed the hunsky, a "Benjamin," "Benjie," or "Frank" (after Benjamin Franklin, who is honored on the note), or a C-note (C being the Roman numeral for 100) or a Century Note. Occasionally these will be referred to as "dead presidents," although neither Hamilton ($10) nor Franklin ($100) was President. $100 notes are occasionally referred to as 'large' in banking ("twenty large" being $2,000, etc.). The newer designs are sometimes referred to as "Bigface" bills.

Source - wikipedia

Few facts about Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt

*Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, third child of celebrity couple Angelina Joile and Bradd Pitt was born on May 27, 2006,in Swakopmund, Namibia.
*Jolie decided to offer the first pictures of Shiloh through the distributor Getty Images herself, rather than allowing paparazzi to make these extremely valuable snapshots.

*People Magazine paid more than $4.1 million for the North American rights, while British magazine Hello! obtained the international rights for roughly $3.5 million.

*The total rights sale earned up to $10 million worldwide – the most expensive celebrity image of all time.

*All profits were donated to an undisclosed charity by Jolie and Pitt.

*Madame Tussauds in New York unveiled a wax figure of two-month-old Shiloh; it was the first infant re-created in wax by Madame Tussauds.

New Biz Quiz.

Q1 : Under Robert Woodruff, Coke changed its formula so that the glycerine in it came not from hog fat but from vegetable sources. For what specific reason was this done?
Ans : To ensure it could be certified as kosher .

Q2 : This was inspired by a picture of a cocoa pod, inspired by which the creator made a pencil sketch and subsequently the first prototype of this. What originated thus?
Ans : Contour bottle of Coca Cola .

Q3 : The Coca Cola company decided to replace Coca Cola or Coke by a new product in 1985. Due to a massive consumer backlash, this new product had to be withdrawn and the original Coke reintroduced. The drink officially came to be known as Coca Cola II. What was the popular name of the new drink?
Ans : New Coke.

Q4 : This designer founded the company named after him in Florence in 1906 as a leather saddlery shop. Soon the company became famous for leather bags for horsemen, and expanded its business to Rome and subsequently to Milan and Manhattan. Which company, or which designer?
Ans : Guccio Gucci

Q5 : This woman is a fashion designer, and is depicted in this painting by her more famous father. Identify the woman.

Ans : Paloma Picasso

Q6 : This Italian designer originally trained in medicine before becoming a photographer. He then was in the army, and subsequently worked in a department store. He then worked as a designer, and in 1974, he established a menswear label along with his partner. Who?
Ans : Giorgio Armani

Q7 : Which Italian automobile manufacturing company’s crest/logo comes from the founder’s sunsign?
Ans : Lamborghini

Q8 : This brand, which began production in 1986, was initially a front wheel drive mid size car. It was considered a milestone in the American automobile industry, and was the best selling car in the US from 1992 to 1996. Which brand?
Ans : Taurus

Q9 : This SUV made by an Indian company for a global market was launched in 1996. It was sold under the brandname ‘Goa’ in Western Europe in order to avoid confusion with another automobile there. Which brand?
Ans : Scorpio

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Mark Zuckerberg : Facebook to Forbes !!!!!!!!

Here are some interesting things you wanted to know about FACEBOOK and its founder Mark Zuckerberg, who is also named as the "World's youngest self-made billionaire" by Forbes .

* Mark Elliot Zuckerberg launched facebook from his Harvard dorm room on February 4, 2004.
* Zuckerberg attended Harvard University and was enrolled in the class of 2006.
* "The Facebook",was originally located at thefacebook.com, in February 2004. Later dropped 'The' from its name after purchasing the domain name facebook.com in 2005.
* On September 5, 2006, Facebook launched News Feed, a list of what friends were doing on the site.
* Microsoft announced on October 24, 2007 that it purchased a 1.6% share of Facebook for $246 million.
* In March 2008, Forbes.com ranked Zuckerberg as #785 on its rich list, citing his net worth as $1.5 billion.
* Facebook has won the People's Voice Award" from the Webby Awards in 2008.
* Facebook has more than 70 million active users worldwide.


Some controvercies :

* Zuckerberg's Harvard classmates, Divya Narendra, Cameron Winklevoss, and Tyler Winklevoss, claim they hired him to finish the code on their website, ConnectU and that he stole their idea, design, business plan, and source code.
* E-mails verified by the Chicago Tribune suggest that Zuckerberg might have taken many ideas for Facebook from Aaron J. Greenspan's houseSYSTEM website.

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Q1 : This guy served as U.S. Treasury Secretary and as Chief Justice of the United States. A bank formed in 1877 was named after him, even though he was not directly connected with the bank. It is now a part of one of the major financial services companies in the world. Who, or what bank was named after him?

Ans : Salmon P Chase

Q2 : The bank whose logo is shown here is best known because of a recognition conferred in 2006. Which bank?



Ans : Grameen Bank

Q3 : This famous advertising slogan for a bank was formulated by the agency Rich, Wells, Greene in 1977. The slogan was inspired by a common statement about the frantic activity-levels of New York city. Which slogan?

Ans : The Citi Never Sleeps

Q4 : Which two wheeler gets its name from the term for the class of military nobles of pre-Industrial Japan?

Ans : Samurai

Q5 : This two wheeler gets its name from the term for highly magnetized rotating neutron stars which emit a beam of detectable electromagnetic radiation in the form of radio waves. Which?

Ans : Pulsar

Q6 : This was the first of the small scooterettes launched in India. This was launched by Bajaj in 1990 with a 50cc engine, which was later expanded to a 60cc engine. This was targeted mainly at teenagers who could get a licence for ungeared vehicles at the age of 16. Which?

Ans : Sunny

Q7 : Which airline is named after the bird shown here?



Ans : Kingfisher

Q8 : This airline established by a former Formula One world motor racing champion and named after him, began operations in 1985. It belongs to the Austrian Airlines group. Which?

Ans : Lauda

Q9 : This now defunct Indian airline gets its name from the founder's surname. The surname indicates that the bearer of the surname hails from a place that is today a part of a union territory. This place was formerly a part of Portuguese India. Which airline/which surname?

Ans : Damania


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Manchester United :The Richest Football Club

Country: England
League: English Premiership
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Manchester United is the richest club in the world, thanks to shrewd marketing to a worldwide fan base. The Red Devils have won 16 English league championships, eight since the start of the Premiership in 1993. That dominance of English football has been challenged if not eclipsed by Chelsea and Arsenal's rise, but the club's commercial potential was tempting enough for Tampa Bay Buccaneers owner Malcolm Glazer to buy the team in 2005.

Team Value1 $1,800 mil(€1,333 mil / £897 mil)
(2007: #1)


Owner/Major Shareholder:
Malcolm Glazer

Chief Executive:
David Gill

Head Coach:
Sir Alex Ferguson

Club President:
Joel & Avram Glazer (Co-chairmen)

European Trophies:
2 European Champions Cups: 1968, 1999, 1 Cup Winners Cup: 1991, 1 Intercontinental Cup: 1999

Domestic Championships:
16: 1907-08, 1910-11, 1951-52, 1955-56, 1956-57, 1964-65, 1966-67, 1992-93, 1993-94, 1995-96, 1996-97, 1998-99, 1999-00, 2000-01, 2002-03, 2006-07

Domestic Cups:
11 F.A. Cups: 1909, 1948, 1963, 1977, 1983, 1985, 1990, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2004, 2 League Cups: 1992, 2006

Iconic Star:
Cristiano Ronaldo

Legend of the Past:
Duncan Edwards was one of eight members of Sir Matt Busby's young team of the 1950s, the "Busby Babes", who died in 1958 in an air crash in Munich on the way home from a European Cup tie in Belgrade. The young wing half, 21 at the time of the tragedy, had already played 151 matches for United and 17 for England.

Main Sponsor/Uniform Sponsor:
AIG/Nike


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Air Asia, Audi, Betfred,Budweiser,Kumho Tires, Hestiun, Tourism Malaysia, ViaGogo, XFM Radio

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Q1) In 2004, this brand became the first premium whisky brand to clock one-million-case sales in a year. An IPL team, which shares this brand’s initials, is said to be named after it. Which brand?

Ans. Royal Challenge

Q2) This newspaper, with seven editions in Andhra Pradesh and one in Chennai, owns an IPL franchise that shares its initials. Which newspaper?

Ans. Deccan Chronicle

Q3) This Hyderabad based business group that has been involved in the construction of the Delhi and Hyderabad airports is the owner of an IPL franchise. Which group?

Ans.GMR

Q4) Which Mitsubishi group company was founded in 1907 by Toshiya Iwasaki?

Ans. Asahi

Q5) Which company originated as the French public enterprise Manufacture royale de glaces de miroirs in 1665?

Ans. Saint Gobain

Q6) This company, now a subsidiary of the company in question 4, came about as a merger between the companies Glaver and Univerbel. Which?

Ans. Glaverbel

Q7) The name of which social networking website is said to stand for ‘I build, I bond’?

Ans. IBIBO

Q8) This social networking website gets its name from a book containing freshmen’s photos, majors and hometowns that is distributed to all incoming students at Harvard University. Which website?

Ans. Facebook

Q9) Whose social networking profile is this?

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Ans. Orkut Buyukkoten
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