Prelims (Non-Visuals)
1. Dokomo / Docomo
2.
A- Jack Welch
B - Jeffrey Immelt
C - Boeing
D - Robert Nardelli
E - Chrysler
3. Weta Digital (Peter Jackson)
4. Pranav Mistry, SixthSense
5. Google Earth
6. Quantum Entanglement / Entanglement
7. Vespa
8. Spinal Tap
9. AstroTurf
10. Perpetual Motion
11. Ecole Polytechnique
12.
X - Wolfgang Pauli
Y - Carl Jung
13. Alfred Wegener
14.
a. Credit Rating and Information Services of India Ltd.
b. Earnings Before Interest, Tax, Depreciation and Amortization
b. Earnings Before Interest, Tax, Depreciation and Amortization
15. Transformers (the toyline, the 1984 buyout was by Hasbro)
16. Jack Kilby
17. Johnnie Walker (they're moving out of Kilmarnock after 189 years)
18. Sir Isaac Newton
19. Fabindia
20. Teeth (Odontoceti, Baleen whales have baleen plates for chewing and intake)
21. Detecting landmines
22.
A - George Lemaitre
B - Big Bang
C - Fred Hoyle
23. Vanity Fair
Prelims (Visuals)
1. Dr Vijay Bhatkar (the man behind CDAC and PARAM)
2. Twitter (Jack Dorsey)
3. Aerostatic Flutter
4. Scrabble
5. Medea & Gaea
Medea was the wife of Jason (and the Argonauts). Out of spite for Jason when he left her for another woman, she killed her own kids (fillicide). She is considered the archetype of the bad mother.
Gaea is the Greek Goddess of the Earth and is considered the archetype of the good mother (mother earth).
Medea Hypothesis - Postulates an inherently suicidal earth waiting to self-destruct
Gaea Hypothesis - Postulates the presence of an inherent homeostasis (regulating mechanism) so that when something changes drastically, the other components change to restore balance
6. Maxwell's Demon Paradox
Sadi Carnot's Reflections of the Motive Power of Fire led to the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
James Clerk Maxwell proposed a thought experiment featuring Maxwell's, supposedly an acutely perceptive creature whose interference would lead to a reduction in entropy over time (a violation of the 2nd law)
7. They are brands that have become generic terms.
Tarmac, Jacuzzi, Frisbee and Kleenex
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