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 QUIZ-2

[1] A PhD as an educational qualification. He was Director - Reserve Bank of India (1976-1980), Director - Industrial Development Bank of India (1976-1980), Governor - Reserve Bank of India (1982-1985). Recently had a heart surgery that put him in the news. Very active in the 2009 Lok Sabha Elections. Name this intellectual national leader.


[a]Dr. P. Chidambaram
[b]Dr. Manmohan Singh
[c]Dr. P. V. Narasimha Rao
[d]Dr. T. N. Seshan

[2] Eleventh Prime Minister of the Republic of India. He was noted as being the only Prime Minister who could not speak Hindi. From South India. Identify.


[a]P. V. Narasimha Rao
[b]Morarji Desai
[c]I. K. Gujral
[d]H. D. Deve Gowda

[3] Regarded as one of the best orators in the Indian Parliament. A Prime Minister of India. A bachelor throughout. Identify.

[a]Lal Bahadur Shastri
[b]A. B. Vajpayee
[c]Jayaprakash Narayan
[d]None of the above

[4] He was first Non-Gandhi/Nehru dynasty Prime Minister of India to complete 5 years. He could speak 17 languages including some European languages. Credited with the start of India's Economic Liberalization. Choose his full name from the following:

 

[a]Peddapura Vishnu Narasimha Raoh
[b]Penukonda Vishweshawara Narasimha Rao
[c]Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao
[d]Puttaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao


[5] Identify

[a]Vishnu Purushottam Singh
[b]Vishwanath Pratap Singh
[c]V. V. I. P. Singh
[d]Virpur Prakash Singh



[6] It is because his mother and other prominent congress leaders put pressure on him, Rajiv Gandhi entered Indian politics. He was not inclined towards it personally. But where and as what was Rajiv working before he formally entered politics?

[a]Indian Airlines as a Professional Pilot
[b]All India Radio as Managing Director
[c]An Italian Aerospace company as a General Manager
[d]Academy of Commercial Pilots as a Trainer

[7] The first Non-Congress Prime Minister of India. He is the only person to receive the highest civilian award from both India and Pakistan - The Bharat Ratna and Nishaan-e-Pakistan. He was also noted for his staunch advocacy of unorthodox medical treatments like the consumption of one's own urine. Identify.

[a]Gulzarilal Nanda
[b]V. P. Singh
[c]Dilip Kumar
[d]Morarji Desai

[8] Which ministry did Indira Gandhi - one of India's most notable and controversial political leaders - obtain to start her political career in the year 1964.

[a]Defence Minister
[b]Home Minister
[c]Minister for Information and Broadcasting
[d]External Affairs Minister

[9] He was the acting Prime Minister of India twice; once after the death of Jawaharlal Nehru in 1964 and again in 1966 after Lal Bahadur Shastri's death. On both occasions he acted for slightly less than a month, can you name this politician?

 

[a]Gulzarilal Nanda
[b]M Karunanidhi
[c]C Rajagopalachari
[d]Morarji desai

[10] Third Prime Minister of India. Of course, we know his popularly accepted name. We ask you to choose from the following his birth name. Only correct answer will fetch you a point.



[a]Lal Bahadur Pandey
[b]Lal Bahadur Srivastava
[c]Lala Bahadur Singh
[d]Lal Bahadur Sharma

QUIZ 1

1. We all know that the FIFA World Cup theme song was sung by Shakira. In which country was she born?

                       Ans: Colombia


2. What is the official name of the ball used in FIFA world Cup 2010?

Ans: Jabulani

3. What is the theme of the year of biodiversity?
Ans: “Many Species,One planet , One future”

4. In which country would you find the musical instrument Vuvuzela?

Ans: South Africa




5. India has been ranked as a “Tier II watch list” country in the 2010 Trafficking in Persons(TIP) report stating that the country do not fully comply with the TVPA minimum standards. What does TVPA stand for?

Ans: Trafficking Victims Protection Act


6. Who is re-elected to the post of president of Swimming Federation of India (SFI)?

Ans: Digamber V. Kamat (Goa Chief Minister)


7. Recent researches suggest that the AIDS fighting antiretroviral drug combination given to pregnant and breastfeeding women can prevent vertical HIV transmission (Transmission to infants). HAART is a term very much related in this context. Expand HAART.

 Ans: Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy


8. Which part of the body is used by Harbour Seal to track fishes?

Ans: Whiskers


9. The Portuguese Nobel laureate who wrote the famous book ‘The Blind’ passed away recently. He was a member of the Portuguese Communist Party. He was honoured with the pinnacle of literature ‘The Nobel prize’ in 1998. Name him.

Ans: Jose Saramago


10. Japanese researchers created a baby robot with 600 sensors attached around its body to stimulate the behaviour and development of a real infant. Name it.

Ans: Noby (Nine month Old Baby)


11. In which place would you find the ‘Jawara’ people

ans: Andaman


12. Who was honoured with the inaugural Classical Tamil Award instituted by the Tamil Nadu government?

Ans: Asko Parpola
Works: Corpus of Indus Seals and Inscriptions, his magnum opus is Deciphering the Indus Script.

13. Which single celled organism has the major role in causing deaths due to malarial infection?

Ans: Plasmodium Falciparum

14. Who wrote the controversial The Gospel according to Jesus Christ which was denied the acknowledgement for an award in Portugal? This incident led to the exile of the author.

Ans: Jose Saramago

15. June 20 is celebrated as?

Ans:World Refugees Day across the globe.


16. Who wrote the book Jewish Portraits, Indian frames

ans: Joel Silliman


17.The year 2010 is declared as what by UNO?

Ans: Year of Biodiversity

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APPLE 4G KAMAL lol

The only reason this gets a mention today is that it ought to be the name of a song about the iPhone 4 which, it turns out, has a rather frustrating idiosyncrasy. Were this to be summed up in a lyric written by Ms Avery, it might run as follows (in the smooth jazz style):
With your warm embrace so light, and your gentle touch so deft
Promise me you’ll never let me fall.
Just hold me on the right, don’t hold me on the left,
‘cause if you do I’ll drop the bloody call.
The problem, it seems, is the location of the antenna on the new model (queued for this week by a substantial number of devotees) is located on the bottom left hand side of the phone. When held in the left hand for a call, the antenna is covered and the call drops. This should be a pretty serious problem for Apple, whose response is simply to advise the people who queued all day to get their hands on the new phone just not to hold it in that way. Even by Apple’s standards this is breathtakingly dismissive.

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At its Uplinq developer event in San Diego on Wednesday, Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs took some time out to talk about the various projects in which the firm is involved, and how he sees the investments panning out.

Qualcomm’s antipathy towards WiMAX is well known and Jacobs confirmed that the firm’s recent spectrum purchase in the Indian Broadband Wireless Access auctions was a deliberate bid to block the progress of the alternative 4G technology in favour of LTE.

India had been seen as the last significant opportunity for WiMAX and Jacobs said this assessment was justified. “I really believe that [the BWA] spectrum was all headed for WiMAX,” he said. “Our big bet is on LTE and we wanted to make sure that there was a place for LTE in India. We were concerned that if both of those bands had gone to WiMAX it would have helped to reinvigorate that ecosystem,” he said.

Jacobs said that there are no other markets or regions where Qualcomm’s management feels motivated to make similar strategic spectrum purchases. The size and growth potential of the Indian market made it unique, he said, especially when the relative paucity of the spectrum auctioned by the Indian Government was taken into account.

Nonetheless, Jacobs said, Qualcomm is not shy about participating in spectrum auctions where it sees opportunities. In particular, he said, the firm looks to tranches of spectrum that may not have headline appeal to other organisations. “We like to find a piece of spectrum that other people don’t think is valuable and create a piece of technology to make it valuable,” he said.

An obvious example is the firm’s MediaFLO mobile video technology which is offered by carrier partners AT&T and Verizon in the US, as well as directly by Qualcomm subsidiary FLO TV. But uptake of the service is known to be a source of disappointment among Qualcomm’s senior executives and Jacobs voiced an intention to significantly redefine the firm’s role in the MediaFLO technology play.

“We’re continuing to talk to other players to see if there’s an opportunity to partner up, or sell it,” he said. “There are all sorts of possibilities that could happen. It’s not likely that it will stay as it is today, with cable TV content getting sold primarily through cellular operators. Probably we’ll have a new mixture of technologies and partners, and possibly someone else running the service,” he said.

One opportunity that he said remained to be explored for the MediaFLO technology is a role as a datacasting technology. Media rich content including digital magazines would be much more effectively distributed over a system that is unaffected by the number of recipients, he said.

2010 is the inaugural year for the Uplinq event, which has evolved from Qualcomm’s Brewfest devcon event. The fact that the firm now has significant interests in the success of other mobile operating systems necessitated the shift in pitch, Jacobs said, but the firm remains very much committed to the Brew Mobile Platform, he added.

BMP is being positioned by Qualcomm as the mobile platform of choice in the mass market feature phone segment, where it will likely go up against Symbian as well as Android, which is proving popular for Qualcomm’s Snapdragon platform. But Jacobs suggested there would be no conflict of interests and that both operators and consumers were keen for a choice in the OS space.

Two years ago, Jacobs said, he had been convinced that BMP was heading for a default position at the low end of the handset market but demand from a range of carriers has brought about a shift in the platform’s fortunes.