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It's Quiz time!!!
 
Three Quizzes - Great Fun - Edutainment...
 
 
 
 
 
 
Quiz 1 : Start Ups
 
  1. Which book opens with these lines, "I wrote my first software programme when I was 13 years old. It was for playing Tic Tac Toe."?
  2. Who founded General Electric?
  3. Which was the first credit card in India?
  4. An American, he came to Britain and introduced the concept of the monster departmental store. It was he who said, "The Customer is always right." Who is he?
  5. Name the first Indian to own newspapers in the US.
  6. Who is considered the most successful textbook writer of all time?
  7. What extends from Sangam in the South to Map Reference NJ 9842 in the North?
  8. Which Mathematician introduced the letter 'x' as a symbol to represent an unknown quantity?
  9. What was originally defined as 1/3 rd the length of the arm of King Henry I of England?
  10. "This is the biggest drink of water after the longest drought in my life..." Who said this and in what context?
 
 
Answers
 
  1. 'The Road ahead' by Bill Gates
  2. Thomas Alva Edison
  3. Diner's Club
  4. Selfridge
  5. Vijay Mallya
  6. Euclid
  7. LOC
  8. Descartes
  9. A foot
  10. Steven Spielberg after winning the Oscar for 'Best Director' for his film 'Schindler's List'
 
 
 
Quiz 2: Intermediate
 
  1. Which film star won the first Miss India contest in 1951?
  2. Which is the world'd largest employer?
  3. Which English writer used the swastika as his emblem in all his books?
  4. The British knew this town as 'Bezwada'. How do we know it today?
  5. Which river originates at Amarkantak?
  6. Who speaks to whom in the opening lines of the Bhagvad Gita?
  7. Which is the oldest inhabited city in the world?
  8. Which is the tallest Indian Bird?
  9. About whom did Gandhi say, "He is more than a brother to me."?
  10. What would you find on top of raisina hill?
 
Answers
 
  1. Nutan
  2. Indian Railways
  3. Rudyard Kipling
  4. Vijaywada
  5. Narmada
  6. Dhritarashtra to Sanjaya
  7. Jerricho
  8. Sarus Crane
  9. C.F. Andrews
  10. Rashtrapathi Bhavan
 
 
Quiz 3: Expert
 
  1. Which is the only phobia that is a physical disease and not a state of mind?
  2. Which ancient Indian university was famous for studying Medicine?
  3. Who is considered the patron saint of ecology?
  4. Who was the first Bollywood actor to shoot a film in Nepal?
  5. What word defines the duration of one tick of the computer system clock?
  6. Who wrote in a letter to a friend, "Now let's do something beautiful for God."?
  7. What musical instrument is best made out of clay from Manamadurai in Tamil Nadu?
  8. Which Indian percussion instrument was cut into 2 to make the tabla?
  9. Who is the only cricketer to have played, captained and umpired at the Lord's?
  10. In ludo, the winner represents the centre of the board. According to legend what does this depict?
 
Answers
 
  1. Hydrpohobia(Rabies)
  2. Taxila
  3. St. Francis of Assissi
  4. Dev Anand - Hare Krishna Hare Ram
  5. Jiffy
  6. Mother Teresa
  7. Ghatam
  8. Pakhawaj
  9. S. Venkataraghavan
  10. Akbar's throne.
 
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