Greycells Challenge

Research And Conducted By

Akhil R Nair Quizz Congoz

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This is a private business school established in 1908

and is now located on the banks of river Charles,

Boston.

Some of the famous alumnus include George W

Bush, P Chidambaram, Rahul Bajaj, Rajat Gupta etc.

Identify this institution….

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Harvard Business School

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List of ___________ ????

Pratheeksha

Akshaya

Pournami

Bhagyanidhi

Dhanasree

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Kerala state lotteries

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You can find these on either side of the tail of

something which started its operation on 29 April

2005.

1. Thrissur Pooram, Pushkar Fair

2. Konark sun temple, Taj Mahal

3. India Gate, Gateway of India

4. Dal Lake, Thar Desert

5. Kathakali, Bharatanatyam

It is most remembered for an incident on 22 May

2010 at Managalore.

What are we talking about ?

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Air India Express

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Whose tweets are published under the name

@pontifex ?

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Pope Benedict XVI

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Former alumni of IIT Kharagpur and employee of

TATA steel.

Joined Indian Revenue Service in 1992 and later

turned into politics and social works.

Got Ramon Magsaysay award for Emergent

leadership in 2006.

Helped in the foundation of “Parivartan” a

movement to help people on issues related to income

tax, ration etc.

Identify this famous Indian personality

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Aravind Kejriwal

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BSNL provides services all over India except

Mumbai and New Delhi. Instead who provides services

there ?

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MTNL

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This term originated from George Orwell’s famous

novel Nineteen Eighty four. This is used as the title of

a reality show which was first broadcasted in Veronica

channel in Netherlands. Later various adaptations of

this was aired in different countries. This show gained

attention in India due to racist remarks towards an

Indian celebrity.

Which is this show ?

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Big Brother

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In the Bretton Woods conference which was

conducted on May 1944, agreements were signed for

the setting up of two international organizations

which are commonly known by the name Bretton

Wood Sisters. If one of them is IMF, name the other

one…

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World Bank

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Which multi national company’s official magazine is

named “THINK” ?

THINK is also a trade mark of this company as

they used this word along with their so many

products….

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IBM

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Joseph Woodland who died on 9th Dec 2012 along

with Bernard Silver invented __________

Woodland once said "I just extended the dots and dashes

downwards and made narrow lines and wide lines out of

them."

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Bar code

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Identify the brand

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Fevicol

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Which American MNC designed the 6 reactors in

Fukushima nuclear power plant which underwent serious

destruction in 2011 leading to radiation emission ?

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General Electric

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The Imperial Bank which in turn became the State

Bank of India was formed by the merger of 3

presidency banks namely Bank of Calcutta, Bank of

Bombay and __________.

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Bank of Madras

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“The Moguls of Real Estate” is the biography of

which Indian born construction tycoon who is always

referred as the Phantom of Bombay House and is

the richest Parsi in 2012 according to Forbes ?

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Pallonji Mistry

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Why they were in news recently ?

Name the firm associated with them which was involved

in the controversy.

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Mel Craig and Mike Christian, RJs of 2DAY FM who

were behind the hoax call to King Edward VII's Hospital

to obtain information about Kate Middleton and

eventually lead to the death of Jacintha Saldhana

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"I had a terrible dream yesterday with military helicopters and the Taliban. I have had such dreams since the launch of the military operation in Swat. I was afraid of going to school because the Taliban had issued an edict banning all girls from attending schools. Only 11 students attended the class out of 27. The number decreased because of Taliban's edict."

This is a diary entry from a person who was short

listed for Time person of the year in 2012…

Whose words ?

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Malala Yousafzai

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The resignation of the sitting MP on June 26 lead to

the by-poll in Jangipur Lok Sabha constituency in

Murshidabad on October 2012.

Who was that sitting MP/ why did he resign ?

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Due to the resignation of Pranab Mukharjee

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1. Don Bradman

2. Brian Lara

3. Bill Ponsford

4. Wally Hammond

5. WG Grace

6. Graeme Hick

7. Mike Hussey

8. _________

Who is the 8th person in this list and the 1st Indian

to achieve that feat ?

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Ravindra Jadeja

This is the list of persons who scored 3 triple

centuries in first class cricket.

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_________ is an Italian word which means “every

other year” and it is used to describe any event that

occurs every two years.

This word conquered news some days ago in India.

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Biennale

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Which recently released Hollywood film was

awarded two National Tourism awards by Ministry of

Tourism because of its impact in promoting India as a

tourist destination especially Munnar and Puducherry.

“Richard Parker”, one of the main character is of

Bengali descent and also has other connections with

India…..

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Life of Pi

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Dennis Papin, a French Physicist invented “Steam

Digesteur” after his intense studies about steam. This

was the first model of something that is found in

every house.

How do this invention better known to us ?

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Pressure Cooker

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This newly discovered Etheostoma genus fish is

named after a Nobel laureate.

Name him…

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Etheostoma Obama

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“Still, I dare to submit my imperfect work for my readers to judge. Perhaps some of you will find my bursts of word-fire too long, others may regard them too brief and broken. What matters is if my words hit the target.” These are the starting lines of whose auto biography

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Mikhail Kalashnikov

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___________ is a marketing term for the Monday

after Black Friday which was invented by shop.org. This

was created to persuade people to shop online and the

recent trends showed that is it one of the biggest online

shopping day of the year.

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Cyber Monday

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This phrase is a Korean neologism that refers to a

lifestyle associated with a district of Seoul. It entered the

Collins dictionary as word of the year for the month of

November and it also entered Guinness World records.

Identify the phrase.

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Gangnam Style

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