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Teaser Questions Set 2

• India Unplugged The India Quiz, 2011
  (Chennai) on 6th February, 2011
• India Quiz, Mukti, NIT Durgapur, 2011, 5th
  February, 2011

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Rules

• 1 point for each question
• Self-Scoring ?
• All the best ?

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Question 1

• Logo of what?

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Question 2

• 113 years of punishment, and over 10 mysterious
  jailbreaks credited to his name, Mithilesh Kumar
  Srivastava, who is said to have sold Taj Mahal
  thrice, the Red Fort twice and the Rashtrapati
  Bhavan once to foreigners, is said to have died
  on July 25, 2009.
• Keeping him in jail was a real challenge for the
  police. He walked out of Kanpur jail dressed as a
  Sub-Inspector, handed out an attaché case of
  money to the guards, hailed a taxi and drove
  away.
• In 1996, at the age of 84, he slipped at the New
  Delhi Railway station. Interestingly, he was on
  wheelchair and was so old, ill, and disabled that
  he was on his way to AIIMS Hospital for
  treatment. By what name do we know him?

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Question 3

• Connect this image, and the ones in the next 2
  slides, to an Indian personality

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Question 4

• The Kerala Government in association with
  Thiruvananthapuram Doordarshan Kendra initiated a
  unique developmental programme titled Green
  Kerala Express to select the best panchayat in
  Kerala which has developed sustainable
  development models. This daily 40 minute
  interactive show which involves all the 999 Grama
  Panchayts, 57 Municipalities and five
  corporations in Kerala. After the telecast of
  each Panchayat the viewers were requested to give
  SMS marks and votes for the selected
  developmental model. The final winners were
  Elappully Panchayat (Palakkad) Ottapalam
  Muncipality, (Palakkad) . What was so unique
  about this show w.r.t Indian television?

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Question 5

• Logo of which Export Promotion Council of India
  (EPC) established by the Government of India in
  the year 1955?

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Question 6

• In 1890 pharmacist Lunsford Richardson took over
  the retail drug business of his brother-in-law
  Dr. Joshua and began marketing X Family
  Remedies. The most popular remedy was Croup and
  Pneumonia Salve, which was first compounded in
  1891 in Greensboro and rebranded as Y in 1912.
  The flu epidemic of 1918 increased sales of Y
  from 900,000 to 2.9 million in just one year.
  In 1985, the entire company was sold to Procter
  Gamble and PG has since marketed the product as
  The only thing more powerful than a mother's
  touch. Y is currently manufactured and
  packaged in India and Mexico.
• Identify the name X and the brand name Y.

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Question 7

• He is the Chairman and Managing Director of which
  troubled Indian firm?

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Question 8

• A project, which makes use of satellite imaging
  system for rail navigation, has been developed to
  provide online train running information to
  public/passengers through Internet, Short Message
  Service (SMS), Interactive Voice Response System
  (IVRS), station display board and to Onboard
  Passengers. 18 rakes of Rajdhani Express train,
  6 rakes of Shatabdi Express train and a Sealdah
  Duronto Express train were equipped with it in
  its initial stages.
• How do we know it as?

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Question 9

• Indias youngest billionaire, enough said ?

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Question 10

• This Indian language is also spoken in Guyana,
  Suriname, Fiji, Trinidad and Tobago and
  Mauritius. In Suriname, it is called Sarnami
  and has experienced considerable Creole and Dutch
  lexical influence. Which language?

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  and Durgapur. Contact us for more details.
• Answers will be put up by 04.02.2011 (Friday)
  1129 pm.