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IQL KnowBytes # 51 & 52 5th June, 10 for private circulation only

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These quizzes are meant for private circulation to members of IQLKnowBytes(For more details please refer to the last page)

First, a recap of the last edition with a simple visual:

He is Mr. Azim Premji , chairman of Wipro Limited , a group company that holds

Wipro Technologies, one of India's largest software development companies. According

to Forbes, he is currently the second richest Indian with a personal wealth of US$17

billion in 2010.

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Welcome to the 51st / 52nd Edition of Knowbytes, the online quiz-magazine

that helps you develop a thirst for knowledge and improves your self-

confidence through weekly questions on Trivia and Current Affairs! We will

have 20 questions in this edition.

Please feel free to use the Internet to further research these questions.

Guessing is always encouraged in quizzing. All the best!

We are introducing a new format, where we will give points to the questions

based on the difficulty of the question asked. Par-Score indicates the score one

is expected to get without much pressure i.e. the score one expects a quizzer

to get in a quiz of this level.

For this edition:

Par-Score : 24

Maximum Score : 40

QUESTI ONS

1. Hyderabadi Damaad is an upcoming low- budget Bollywood film, starring Debina

Bonnerjee as a hotshot tennis star. Other actors in the film's cast include Amar

Upadhyaya and Ali Merchant. The film is directed by Jaiprakash. This movie is supposed

to be based on whose life? (1 point)

2. Identify these 3 famous authors and connect them

(1 point for each name and 1 point for the connect i.e. 4 points in total)

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3. He was the first person known to have evaluated the integral of general power

functions and able to reduce this evaluation to the sum of geometric series. The resulting

formula was helpful to Newton, and then Leibniz, when they independently developed

the fundamental theorem of calculus. Through his correspondence with Pascal in 1654,

he helped lay the fundamental groundwork for the theory of probability. From this brief

but productive collaboration on the problem of points, they are now regarded as jointfounders of probability theory. Who is this famous mathematician? (2 points)

4. He is the Chairman and Managing Director of which troubled Indian firm? (2 points)

5. X is the promoter of all key Tata companies and holds the bulk of shareholding in

these companies. I t was established as a trading enterprise by Group founder Jamsetji

Tata in 1868. The chairman of X has traditionally been the chairman of the Tata group.

About 66 per cent of the equity capital of X is held by philanthropic trusts endowed by

members of the Tata family. X is the owner of the Tata name and the Tata trademark,

which are registered in India and several other countries. What is X? (1 point)

6. This group was formed because of a Regional Trade Agreement (RTA) between

Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay founded in 1991 by the Treaty of Asuncin topromote free trade and the fluid movement of goods, people, and currency. Its official

languages are Portuguese and Spanish. Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru

currently have associate member status. Venezuela signed a membership agreement on

17 June 2006, but its entry has to be ratified by the Paraguayan parliament. The founding

of the Parliament of this group of nations was agreed at the December 2004 presidential

summit. I t should have 18 representatives from each country by 2010. Israel is currently

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the only non-South American free trade partner in this group. Which group am I talking

about here? (A portion of the groups official flag is shown below) (3 points)

7. What name is missing from this list?

Nargis (Pakistan), Rashmi (Sri Lanka), Khai-Muk (Thailand), Nisha (Bangladesh), Bijli

(India), Aila (Maldives), Phyan (Myanmar), Ward (Oman), ????? (Pakistan), Bandu (Sri

Lanka), Phet (Thailand) (2 points)

8. Which country in the world has the largest official water territory by area? (Hint: It

shares the longest border with a neighbour, which is longer than that any country in this

world has shared with another country) (1 point)

9. Logo of which firm / Brand? (2 points)

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10.What is this movies claim to fame? (2 points)

Questions 11-14 are connected by a theme. Answer the four questions

independently and also find out what theme connects them. Q. 15 asks for the

connecting theme.

11. What medal is this? (2 points)

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12. Connect the following images (Exhaustive connect) (2 points)

13. Which Indian medal/ award of honour is shown below? (1 point)

14. Logo of which Indian organization? (2 points)

15. Connect the answers of Qns. 11-14 to a living person. (3 points)

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16. They are the leaders of 2 key regions in West Asia that have been fighting since thelast 60 years. Name them. (2 points)

17. Why was this in the news recently? (2 points)

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18. He is the current Chairman and CEO of a famous global investment banking andsecurities firm founded in 1869. Name the firm. (2 points)

19. Her name is Rima Fakih. What contest did she win recently? (2 points)

20. By what better name do we know the Korean firm The Pohang Iron and SteelCompany, the worlds second largest steel maker by market value? (2 points)

Answers on the next page

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16. Benjamin Netanyahu, current Prime Minister of Israel and Mahmoud Abbas,

Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) & President of the Palestinian

National Authority.

17. ICICI Bank is proposing a merger with the Bank of Rajasthan.

18. Goldman Sachs (He is Lloyd Craig Blankfein)

19. Ms. Rima Fakih won the Miss USA title on May 16, 2010.

20. POSCO

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