1. Who won the Ramon Magsaysay award for Eminent Leadership in 2006?
2. Which cricketer’s nickname is “Hash”?
3. Name the new retail trade platform developed by Infosys in association with Proctor & Gamble.
4. Which popular tourist island would you be visiting if you land at the capital town of Denpasar, bargain for paintings at Ubud, play at the Kuta beach and while away the evening watching a Legong dance performance?
5. When Potti Sriramulu undertook a fast-unto-death for the creation of a separate Andhra state, which city did he demand be made the capital of the Andhra state?
6. In the 1920s, new airplanes allowed people to fly higher and farther. Many US Army Air Service pilots reported that the glare from the sun was causing headaches and altitude sickness. In 1929, a US Army Air Corps, Lieutenant General John MacCready, asked New York-based medical equipment manufacturer Bausch & Lomb to find a solution. What was it?
7. There have been only three recipients, all artistes, honoured with all the four civilian awards of India —Bharat Ratna, Padma Bhushan, Padma Vibhushan and Padma Shri. Two of them are Bismillah Khan and Bhimsen Joshi who was the third?
8. Which opening in chess is named after a 16th Century Spanish Monk who also wrote one of the first definitive books on modern chess?
Answers:
1. Arvind Kejriwal
2. Hashim Amla (full name: Memon Hashim Mohammad Amla)
3. TradeEdge
4. Bali
5. Madras
6. The Ray Ban Aviator sun-glasses
7. Satyajit Ray
8. Ruy Lopez Opening, named after Ruy Lopez De Segura
Tailpiece !!!!
Do you know how the company we know as Mahindra and Mahindra got its name?” Of course, I do not. The answer is: The company was originally Mahindra and Muhammed. But with Partition, Malik Ghulam Muhammed moved to Pakistan where he became its first finance minister. Back home Mahindra was left with heaps of stationery with M&M on it. Rather than throwing it all away, they decided to call themselves Mahindra and Mahindra!
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