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Q.30

Identify this device & its patent holder.
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Answer: Enigma Encoder & Arthur Schrebius

Q.29

Why is this monument is in news?
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Answer : Sanchi Stupa, featured in new Rs.200 currency note.

Q.28

Identify him & his most famous word processing application.
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Answer : Sheshadrivasu Chandrashekharan & Baraha

Q.27

What connects them?
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Answer : Gottlieb ( Gottlieb Daimler and Lauren Gottlieb)

Q.26

In veterinary medicine, X is used to measure the total plasma protein in a blood samples. In drug diagnostics, it is used to measure the specific gravity of human urine. X is also used to measure the amount of water in honey in Bee Keeping.
What is X? (It is a device)

Answer : Refractometer

Q.25

Founded about 68 years ago, name this organisation whose mission is :
"Influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable."

Answer : International Union For Conservation Of Nature - IUCN

Q.24

What is blanked?
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Answer : Vinod Kambli

Q.23

What was his post in the First Lok Sabha which was constituted in 1952?
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Answer : G.V. Mavalankar, First Speaker of the Lok Sabha

Q.22

Ghoom Railway Station. Put Funda

Answer : Highest Railway Station in India

Q.21

X was developed by a French Artist Yves Klein, which he never patented on his name while deposited a Soleau envelope, registering the paint formula under the name X.
X was used by Blue Man Group which was formed in early 90s.
What is X?

Answer : International Klein Blue.

Q.20

Put Funda & Name the Poet.
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Answer :
Poem - Partition
Poet - W.H. Auden
Theme - Describes the condition of Cyril Radcliffe who was I/C of drawing borders between India & Pakistan

Q.19

How is this French Physicist related (indirectly) to Quantum Physics? Put Funda
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Answer : He is Maurice de Broglie, brother of Louis de Broglie. He is said to have influenced Louis to study & research in Physics.

Q.18

Logo Of?
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Answer : Etherium

Q.17

T-series is on #1, Zee Music Company is on #4, YRF on #10, Shemaroo on #16.
Put Funda & what is on #3?

Answer : ChuChu TV Kids Songs

Q.16

This epic narrates the story of a woman who converted from Jainism to Buddhism. 'Silappadikaram' is its prequel.
Name the epic.

Answer : Manimekalai

Q.15

Name the company by its logo.
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Ans : Ola Money

Q.14

Identify this media company.
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Answer : Storypick

Q.13

On the afternoon of March 19, 1987, Arvind Inamdar received an urgent phone call at his office at the Police Headquarters in Mumbai. Inamdar would retire in 2000 as director-general of police for Maharashtra, but he was in the crime division then and this call was about something odd happening in X where the city’s most exclusive jewellery stores were located.
Inamdar was told that a Z raid had taken place at Y, the most prestigious jeweller of them all. “They came in, pulled down the shutters, ordered customers and staff to wait and took the registers,” recalls Inamdar. All that was standard for the Z, but what happened next was not. “We were told they had taken a lot of jewellery and decamped,” says Inamdar.
Give X, Y and Z

Answer : X - Opera House ; Y - Tribhovandas Zhaveri Jewellers (TBZ) ; Z - CBI

Q.12

Identify the place whose name is blanked out and Put Funda
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Answer : 1520 Sedgewick Avenue, where DJ Kool Herc invented the break tecnique.
Funda being Google Doodle honouring Birth of Hip Hop.

Q.11

What campaign was launched by Burger King in 2009, for which the participants got a free burger?

Answer : Unfriend 10 friends on Facebook !

Q.10

This is the logo of a society named after a great scientist. Who?
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Ans : Max Planck

Q.9

He was the first and last X. He became the Professor in his 20s in the same institution, where he studied. He has a great name in the field of Science for his invaluable contributions.
What is his birth name? Also Give X
(X is a member of the lowest order of the British nobility, usually being referred to as ‘Lord’)


Answer : William Thomson & X - Baron Kelvin