[EuPhOrIa]

Can I reiterate one thing to you guys again?

plz post all business quiz on

http://www.pagalguy.com/cat/showthre...810#post217810

and general quiz on

http://www.pagalguy.com/cat/showthre...808#post217808

Since all of us are doing a great job for all MBA aspirant of 2006 batch, it wud be great if we join on the one theread. We are also creating archieves for future use. This will help us in saving time by not visiting 10 different threads for the sole purpose of GK!!

Give it a thought n come there. I can ask my gud ol' frnz Akhil, Popeye n all other to take an initiative.

cheers,

[East Ka Beast]

Originally Posted by umbilical

boys gear up

1.SPECIFICALLY,WHICH INTERNATIONAL CRICKET TEAM WAS REFFERED TO AS "WHITE FERNS"

2.WHOSE BIOGRAPHY IS "SONGS MY MAMA TAUGHT ME" (GUESS THIS ONE AND I WILL BOW DOWN)

3.THIS PLACE IN NORTH AMERICA GETS ITS NAME CUS THE FRENCH SAILORS WHO SAW THE HIGH RISING ROCKS SHOUTED 'WHAT A BEAK'?

4.CURRENT CHAIRMAN OF THE PLANNING COMMISION OF INDIA?

5.COMPLETE THE GROUP:RUMA GUHA THAKURTA,YOGITA BALI,LEENA CHANDAWARKAR......

6.WHOSE OSCAR SPEECH WAS VOTED AS THE MOST MEMORABLE SPEECH OF THE LAST 30 YEARS?

7.ORIGINALLY THE NAME OF THIS PARTY MEANT "REBIRTH" IN ARABIC.ORIGINALLY THERE WAS JUST ONE PARTY,THEN IT SPLIT INTO TWO,ONE EACH IN SYRIA AND IRAQ.NAME THIS.

8.A COLLECTIVE NOUN FOR APES??

9.WHO MADE THE LARGEST FOREIGN ACQUISTION BY AN INDIAN EVER?

10.MOON HAS THREE FLAGS ON IT.THE FLAG OF US,THE FLAG OF USSR,..................??

11.WHAT IS 'VENUSTROPHOBIA'?(NOW THATS AN EASY ONE)

12.WHICH COMPANY SHIFTED TO ITS ACRONYM BECAUSE OF THE NEGATIVE CONNOTATIONS ATTACHED TO ITS MIDDLE NAME?

13.'GREASE' MADE JOHN TRAVOLTA A STAR.WHO WAS HE PAIRED AGAINST?

14.BEFORE BEAUTY CROWNS AND MOVIES LARA DUTTA FIRST FACED CAMERA IN AN OBSCURED VIDEO OF AN EVEN MORE OBSCURE SONG "TUU CHALU HAI RE"
WHO SUNG IT?

15.ZIZOU OR ZINEDINE ZIDANE IS THE SON OF IMMIGRANTS.FROM WHERE DID HIS PARNTS IMMIGRATE TO FRANCE?

16.HE WROTE A BOOK "A SALMON OF DOUBT" BEFORE HIS DEATH.HIS BOOK HAS VARIOUS MANIFESTATIONS LIKE TV,RADIO,COMP GAMES,BATH TOWELS.ITS BEING MADE INTO A MAJOR MOVIE.HIS NAME?

17.WHO FOUND GENERAL MOTORS?

18.ON DEC 21ST,1989 AT WANKHEDE STADIUM ACTIVISTS OF THE BOMBAY SARVODAYA MANDAL,STREE MUKTI SANGHATANA,JANMUKTI SANGHARSHA VAHINI AND OTHER SUCH GROUPS WERE PROTESTING AGAINST THE MILLION POURED INTO AN EXTRAVAGANT WEDDING OD RESHMA TO THE SON OF DIAMOND MERCHANT KISHORE MEHTA.WHO WAS THE FATHER?

19.IN DEC.1985,TWO TEENAGE BOYS,JAMES VANCE AND RAY BELKNAP ATTEMPTED SUICIDE ON A CEMETERY.BELKNAP DIED BUT VANCE SURVIVED ONLY TO DIE OF DRUG COMPLICATIONS THREE YEARS LATER.ON TRIAL IN 1990,THE BOY'S PARENTS ALLEGED THE SUBLIMINAL MESSAGES CONTRIBUTED TO THEIR SUICIDAL IMPUSLSES.THOSE MESSAGES WERE BELIEVED TO BE HEARD IN SONGS "BETTER BY YOU BETTER THAN ME","BEYOND THE REALMS OF DEATH",BOTH ON A 1978 ALBUM "STAINED CLASS"
OF A BIRMINGHAM BASED BAND WITH ROB HALFORD AS LEAD SINGER:GLENN TIPTON AND K.K.DOWNING WERE ON THE GUITARS.THE NAME OF THE BAND????
(ROCK FANS COME ON!)

20.WHICH ARTIST IS CREDITED FOR SKETCHIN AND DESIGNING A HELICOPTER AS EARLY AS IN 1483?

Apart from the ones that sumit has already answered;
4:Manmohan Singh(The PM heads the planning com.)
12:ITC(Indian"Tobacco"Company)

.....others beyond me....
-see ya

[QuickSilver]

Great going guys/gals ideal thread to catch up if your GK is poor.

[aditi_s]

hey,
those grrrrrrrrrt questions.
v helpful.

keep posting more,
Aditi

[aditi_s]

HERE r some q=============along with answers as smtimes CORRECT answers r lost admist many guesses........................................... ...

So every1 plz keep ans 2gether..........



1. Royal Stag brand of Whisky is owned by
(1) United Breweries
(2) Shaw Wallace & Co
(3) Seagram
(4) Mohan Meakin

2. Iodex brand of pain balm is owned by
(1) Smithkline Beecham
(2) Wyeth Laboratories
(3) Glaxo
(4) Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories

3. Who is the author who created the character Dilbert?
(1) David Scott
(2) Scott Robert
(3) Robert Williams
(4) Scott Adams

4. Which of the year in which Md. Ghazni first invaded India?
(1) 1220 A.D
(2) 1001 A.D
(3) 1348 A.D
(4) 1196 A.D

5. Who invented Parachute?
(1) Leonardo da Vinci
(2) Scanderberg
(3) Sigismund
(4) Van Gogh

6. Which of the following countries fought the first of the opium wars?
(1) Russia - China
(2) Britain - Indonesia
(3) China - Britain
(4) Japan - China

7. Beech King and Cessna are popular models of:
(1) Cars
(2) Aircraft
(3) Ships
(4) Transport vans

8. Cash Reserve Ratio ( CRR) and Stautory Liquidity Ratio (SLR ) are terms most closely related to which of the following industries/markets:
(1) Stock Exchange
(2) Banking
(3) Mutual Fund
(4) Income Tax

9. Dr. Pepper is a famous brand of:
(1) Iced tea
(2) Peppermint
(3) Soft Drinks
(4) None of these

10. Mr. Shiv Nadar is the Chairman of which of the following groups of companies?
(1) Wipro
(2) HCL
(3) Aptech
(4) None of these
ANSWERS

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Answer Key
(1) 3 (6) 3
(2) 1 (7) 2
(3) 4 ( 2
(4) 2 (9) 3
(5)1 (10) 2

ADITI

[krishmoon]

1.SPECIFICALLY,WHICH INTERNATIONAL CRICKET TEAM WAS REFFERED TO AS "WHITE FERNS" New Zealand?perhaps their womens team.(Since theyve got black with the white fern. their mens team is Black Caps so womens team)

2.WHOSE BIOGRAPHY IS "SONGS MY MAMA TAUGHT ME" (GUESS THIS ONE AND I WILL BOW DOWN) Dolly Parton?

4.CURRENT CHAIRMAN OF THE PLANNING COMMISION OF INDIA? Manmohan Singh (the PM is the ex-officio chairman rite?) perhaps ur thnkng of Montek Aingh Ahluwalia tho

7.ORIGINALLY THE NAME OF THIS PARTY MEANT "REBIRTH" IN ARABIC.ORIGINALLY THERE WAS JUST ONE PARTY,THEN IT SPLIT INTO TWO,ONE EACH IN SYRIA AND IRAQ.NAME THIS. Baath??

8.A COLLECTIVE NOUN FOR APES?? Shrewdness (shrewd answer ) btw ... plz clear this one 4 me ive also heard it to be "troop", "sympathy"

9.WHO MADE THE LARGEST FOREIGN ACQUISTION BY AN INDIAN EVER? Goenka

11.WHAT IS 'VENUSTROPHOBIA'?(NOW THATS AN EASY ONE) Fear of beautiful women (hope i never get that )

13.'GREASE' MADE JOHN TRAVOLTA A STAR.WHO WAS HE PAIRED AGAINST? Olivia Newton John

14.BEFORE BEAUTY CROWNS AND MOVIES LARA DUTTA FIRST FACED CAMERA IN AN OBSCURED VIDEO OF AN EVEN MORE OBSCURE SONG "TUU CHALU HAI RE"
WHO SUNG IT? Abhijeet?(I remember it used to cum sometimes on Zeetv)

15.ZIZOU OR ZINEDINE ZIDANE IS THE SON OF IMMIGRANTS.FROM WHERE DID HIS PARNTS IMMIGRATE TO FRANCE? Algeria

16.HE WROTE A BOOK "A SALMON OF DOUBT" BEFORE HIS DEATH.HIS BOOK HAS VARIOUS MANIFESTATIONS LIKE TV,RADIO,COMP GAMES,BATH TOWELS.ITS BEING MADE INTO A MAJOR MOVIE.HIS NAME? Douglas Adams

17.WHO FOUND GENERAL MOTORS? Bill Durant

18.ON DEC 21ST,1989 AT WANKHEDE STADIUM ACTIVISTS OF THE BOMBAY SARVODAYA MANDAL,STREE MUKTI SANGHATANA,JANMUKTI SANGHARSHA VAHINI AND OTHER SUCH GROUPS WERE PROTESTING AGAINST THE MILLION POURED INTO AN EXTRAVAGANT WEDDING OD RESHMA TO THE SON OF DIAMOND MERCHANT KISHORE MEHTA.WHO WAS THE FATHER? Dawood?????

19.IN DEC.1985,TWO TEENAGE BOYS,JAMES VANCE AND RAY BELKNAP ATTEMPTED SUICIDE ON A CEMETERY.BELKNAP DIED BUT VANCE SURVIVED ONLY TO DIE OF DRUG COMPLICATIONS THREE YEARS LATER.ON TRIAL IN 1990,THE BOY'S PARENTS ALLEGED THE SUBLIMINAL MESSAGES CONTRIBUTED TO THEIR SUICIDAL IMPUSLSES.THOSE MESSAGES WERE BELIEVED TO BE HEARD IN SONGS "BETTER BY YOU BETTER THAN ME","BEYOND THE REALMS OF DEATH",BOTH ON A 1978 ALBUM "STAINED CLASS"
OF A BIRMINGHAM BASED BAND WITH ROB HALFORD AS LEAD SINGER:GLENN TIPTON AND K.K.DOWNING WERE ON THE GUITARS.THE NAME OF THE BAND????
(ROCK FANS COME ON!) JUDAS PRIEST !!!!!!!!!!

20.WHICH ARTIST IS CREDITED FOR SKETCHIN AND DESIGNING A HELICOPTER AS EARLY AS IN 1483? Leonardo da Vinci

[aditi_s]

ok
just 1 q
quite easy probably..............dont google it though.........


WHAT IS ARACHIBUTYROPHOBIA ?


POST UR ANSWERS........................


ADITI

[teesra banda]

Originally Posted by aditi_s

WHAT IS ARACHIBUTYROPHOBIA ?

Its "fear of peanut butter sticking to the upper portion of one's mouth"

[aditi_s]

YUP!
thats right!

I just wonder who actually HAS such a phobia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Aditi



one more q.............
WHAT DOES A HUMAN BEING HAS AT LEAST 1046 EVERY YEAR???/

[raman.bhan]

One frm me too...:grab:

easy one.....


WHAT IS phonodromophobia ?


ANSWERS........................???