What is the Cuban ballroom dance with pronounced rhythmic movements called "cha-cha" popularly known
as ?
A : Mambo
What is " Six Days Memory " ?
A : M. F. Hussain once had drawn 6 pictures in 6 days, at 19th floor of Tata centre.But he destoyed them after
the 6th day. This incident is called so.
What is Beer Raid in corporate world ?
A : To release a company's share, so that it's value decreases.
The country gets its name from the Portugese word for Shrimp.Which one is this?
A : Cameroon
What was Bhagat Singh's stated pupose of throwing the bomb ?
A : To make the deaf hear.
Aurangzeb was intersted in only one field of arts. Which ?
A : Calligraphy (Art of handwriting).
Earlier known as, " Mrs. Monks noarding house". How is it better known today ?
A : Oberoy Grand hotel, Kolkata.
What is known as cattle class syndrome?
A : Deep Vein Thrombosis or in commom man's term jetlag.
On the Richter scale, how many times more powerful is a 6.0 earthquake than a 5.0 ?
A : 32 times.
When an Elvis Presley stamp was issued in 1993, fans deliberately mailed letters with the stamp to non-existent
addresses. Why did they do that?
A : So that they would be sent back with the �Return To Sender� post-mark.Return To Sender was an Elvis song.
Aviva Life Insurance is a Joint Venture between CGU
of the UK and Which Indian Company ?
A : DABUR
Which campaign is the most succesful one of Everest ad agency ?
A : Digen Verma campaign.
Topics Round
By Dhiman Ghosh (CSE II)
Cyber
What does the no. 80586 refer to ?
A : Pentium processor.
Why do we commomly see a folder named 1033 in Windows directories ?
A : It is Microsofts reference no. for U.S. english.
Solar System
What type of star is the sun ?
A : Yellow Dwarf.
What is the biggest satellite in the solar system ?
A : Ganymede.
Words
In old days, movies was shown continuously. The forthcoming attractions reel was spliced onto the end of the
last reel of the movie. What word was derived from this practice ?
A : Trailer. For a person who arrived on time or a little early, the coming attractions would seem to appear
before the feature, even though technically it was at the end.
Which word is derived from the name of Greek Goddesses who used to attract men through music ?
A : Siren.
Movies
Connect the movies : Two Gentelman's Sharing & Karmayoddha.
A : Cricketers made appearances in these movies. Gary Sobers and Kapil Dev.
Escape To Victory was based on which Hungarian movie ?
A : To Halftime In A Hell.
Feluda Stories
What is the name proposed by Jatayu, for the novel, Jato Kando Kathmandu-te ?
A : Om Moni Padme Humicyde.
What is the name of the first film based on Lalmohan-babu's story ?
A : Jet Bahadur.
Expand - A.B.C.D.(referring to Feluda)
A : Asia's Best Crime Detector.
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