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1) A popular anecdote recounts that the 11th century king Veera Ballala II, once while on a
hunting expedition, lost his way in the forest. Tired and hungry, he came across a poor old
woman who served him boiled beans. The grateful king named the place "benda kaal-ooru"
(literally, "town of boiled beans"), which was eventually colloquialised to
__________________.
There are also theories that the name has a floral origin and is derived from the tree
"Ben-kai", also known as the Indian Kino Tree.
Which city are we talking about?
2) In the Victorian Era, there were these group of people who used to go around and pick
all the garbage and wastes thrown around from various places all over London. At the end of the day, all these waste-pickers would gather together at a place and classify the
wastes into two major heaps depending upon the nature and structure of the wastes. The
names of these two heaps gave rise to two most significant terms of the of the computer
age. What were these two heaps called?
3) X is a small town on the banks of the Nokianvirta River in the region of Pirkanmaa and
the province of Western Finland, some 15 km west of Tampere.In modern Finnish, X means soot. This town is more famous as the head quarters of a current corporate giant X which was started here, as a pulp mill for manufacturing paper.
What is X?
4) Mir Ranjan Negi was the goal keeper of India's hockey team when India suffered a
humiliating 7-1 loss to Pakistan in the Asian Games final in Delhi. Negi, the goalie, was
dubbed the villain, and was accused of taking money from the Pakistanis to concede goals. Negi fought those allegations and redeemed his honour by helping India win the men’s Asian Games gold in 1998 at Bangkok and coached the women’s team to gold at the Manchester Commonwealth Games in 2002.
Why was he in news very recently?
5) Edward Kasner was a prominent Jewish American mathematician who was appointed Tutor on Mathematics in the Columbia University Mathematics Department. One day on a walk in the New Jersey Palisades with his nephews, Milton and Edwin Sirotta, Kasner asked them which is the largest number they could think of. Nine-year-old Milton suggested that it will be 1 followed by 100 zeroes and also called it a ___________
6) Connect A and B to Infosys
A) Sanskrit word for "Son".
B)The Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmins ,an offshoot of the Gaud Saraswat Brahmins community
mainly found in Canara, the costal region of Karnataka, were mostly educators and
administrators. Their intelligence and generations-old experience as administrators,
allowed some of them to secure prominent positions as accountants in the courts of the
Hindu rulers of the time. One such Hindu king of the Keladi kingdom, was so impressed by
the diligence and skills of his Saraswat accountant, that he decreed that each village in
his kingdom, be administered by a Saraswat. Eventually these Saraswats took on the name of the village as their last name.
7) When Yahoo co-founders Jerry Yang and David Filo applied for a trademark , they found
out that the name "Yahoo" had already been trademarked for a barbecue sauce by EBSCO
Industries and for a human propelled watercraft by Old Town Canoe Co. Therefore, in order
to get the trademark, Yang and Filo did something. What did they do?
Abhijat Joshi received his M.F.A. from the University of Texas, Austin and is currently
a professor of English at Otterbein College in Westerville, Ohio. He is also a screenwriter
and has worked with many Productions. But he became famous because of a particular word that he coined, which took the Indian film industry into a different genre in 2006. What did he invent/coin?
9) Apart from being India’s 28th Independence day, why is August 15th 1975 remembered more lovingly.(Think Movies.)
10) X was apparently invented in New Orleans, circa 1795, by Antoine Amédée Peychaud, an apothecary from Santo Domingo. Peychaud, used to hold social gatherings for fellow Masons at his pharmacy. There he used to serve brandy toddies to which he would add his own mixture of bitters and would serve in an egg-cup. He used to keep the feather of a rooster/chicken on top of the cups to distinguish the alcoholic drinks for the teetotalers.
What is X?
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