1. What significance does the question “Who was Rama’s mother?” have in Indian publishing?
3. K M Mammen Mapillai is known for the Madras Rubber Factory (MRF). His father, K C Mammen Mapillai was imprisoned in 1938 for his inflammatory editorials. Which daily was he the editor of?
4. Which magazine has its current slogan as “Life Well Shared”?
BANKING
1. Of which Indian bank is Shikha Sharma the CEO?
3. There is no legal instrument between this bank and its borrowers. The system works entirely on trust. The Bank also incorporates a set of values embodied by the Sixteen Decisions. At every branch, borrowers recite these Decisions and vow to follow them. Which bank are we talking about?
4. As of now, which is the largest bank failure in US history?
CONSTRUCTION & REAL ESTATE
1. Which country made revenue from the sale of its internet domain name in 1998?
3. In a dense downtown area, there may be a building of historical value surrounded by skyscrapers. This building is only three stories high, but each building in the area has the right to thirty-five stories of airspace. The municipal government may permit skyscraper developers to purchase the right to build a taller building. In this case, a skyscraper developer may purchase the unused 32 stories of air rights from the owners of the historic building, giving them the right to build a skyscraper to a maximum height of 67 stories. What concept is being illustrated?
4. This firm was conceived during a holiday in Matheran when Søren Kristian read a report quoting Mahatma Gandhi – “I am not leading a movement to rid India of its white colonial masters in order to substitute them with brown ones”. Which firm?
RETAIL
1. What resulted from Tata’s selling of their 50% stake in Lakmé to HLL for Rs 200 Crore?
3. Which retail outlet came out with the tagline ‘Even the Odds’ when it introduced odd numbered shirt sizes (39, 41, 43) for the first time in India?
4. To which retain chain is the famous motto “The customer is always and completely right!” attributed?
THE NOBELS
1. Venkataraman Ramakrishnan won the Nobel Prize in Chemsitry for 2009 for studies regarding the structure and function of which intracellular component?
2. Harold Urey is famous for the Miller-Urey experiment. In recognition of what was he awarded the Nobel for Chemistry in 1934?
3. The Nobel citation for Physics in 1969 read - "for his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions". He was among the earliest proponents of Quantum Chromodynamics. Who?
4. Marie Curie. Linus Pauling. John Bardeen. Who completes this exclusive club of four in Nobel history?
INVENTORS & INVENTIONS
1. What invented is credited to Jacques-Yves Cousteau?
2. Thomas Midgley Jr. improved the process of synthesis of CFCs and led the effort to use CFC as refrigerant. His legacy involves one more invention that has resulted in serious consequences for the environment. One historian remarked that Midgley "had more impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth's history." Name the other invention.
3. He had made his first firearm at the age of thirteen out of a piece of scrap metal. Over the course of his career, he went onto have 128 gun patents. He is also the founder of the eponymous firearms company. Who are we talking about?
4. What concept / invention would one associate Willard Libby with?
SOFTWARE & IT
1. Mitch Kapor derived the name for his company from the Padmasana position in Yoga. What company did he found?
2. The .mk format series can hold an unlimited number of video, audio, picture or subtitle tracks inside a single file. This is akin to a container which can hold inside it other containers deriving its name from a Russian word. What does mk stand for?
3. The name of this file sharing concept is partly derived from the fact that its developers Justin Frankel and Tom Pepper supposedly ate a lot of a hazelnut spread brand by the Italian chocolate manufacturer Ferrero. Identify.
4. Which product recently out grossed Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows to become the highest grossing pre-order in Amazon’s history?
TERMINOLOGY
1. Although attributed to Charles Darwin, this phrase was actually coined by Herbert Spencer in his Principles of Biology. Darwin later picked it up for use in paralleling his own term ‘Natural Selection’. Which phrase?
2. As a concept, this dates back to 1960 when John McCarthy opined that “computation may someday be organized as a public activity”. The first attempt at deriving commercial value out of this concept was made by Marc Andreesen of Netscape fame. Name the term.
3. Which term in psychology was coined by Alfred Adler?
4. This is a phenomenon observed in animals which do not have a tapetum lucidum. It is caused by the circulation of blood in the choroid, which nourishes the eye, and also depends on the amount of melanin being present behind the retina. So the effect is more pronounced in albinos. Which phenomenon?
