BUSINESS FACTS OF INDIA

KEY PERSONS:


AT & T-Bell Labs - President, Arun Netravalli

Lucent Technologies - Chief Scientist, Arun Netravalli

Hewlett Packard - GM, Rajiv Gupta

Adobe Systems - CEO, Shantanu Narayen

Founder and Creator of Hotmail - Sabeer Bhatia

Creator of Pentium chip - Vinod Dahm

CitiBank - CEO, Victor Menezes

Mckensey - CEO, Rajat Gupta

Stanchart - CEO, Rana Talwar

Sun Microsystems - Co-founder, Vinod Khosla

FACTS:

36% of NASA employees are Indians

34% of Microsoft employees are Indians

38% of doctors in America are Indians

28% of IBM employees are Indians

12% of scientists in America are Indians

17% of Intel employees are Indians

13% of Xerox employees are Indians

More than a million Indians are millionaires

INTERESTING FACTS:-"INDIA"

The Indian city of Varanasi, also known as Benares, is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world today.

Bhaskaracharya calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the Sun (5th century) as 365.259756484 days.

India is the world's premier center for diamond cutting and polishing. Nine out of every 10 stones sold in the world pass through India.

The world's first university was established in Takshashila in 700 BC.

The art of navigation was born in the river Sindh 6000 years ago. The very word 'Navigation' is derived from the Sanskrit word 'Navgatih'.

The place value system or the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.

India is the only country that is home to 20 million migrants from its neighbouring countries.

India has the largest population of street children in the world. At least eighteen million children live or work on the streets of urban India.

India leads the world with the most murders (32,719), with Russia taking second at 28,904 murders per year.

India has one of the world’s highest rates of Abortion.

INTERESTING FACTS:-"ANIMALS"

• A horse weighing approximately 1,200-pounds, eats approximately seven times it's own weight, in a year. That amounts to almost 8,400-pounds of food. 
• A cow can give far more milk than a human can consume their lifetime. Almost 200,000 glasses full of milk! 
• On an average, a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times, per minute.
• An ostrich’s brain is smaller than its eye.
• The donkey’s eye placement helps it see all its four feet at a time.
• It would take just one night for a mole to dig a tunnel measuring 300 feet in length. 
• The hippopotamus’s skin is protected by its own pink oily secretion known as ‘Pink sweat’.
• Armadillos sleep for an average of 18.5 hours, a day
• A Bear have 42 teeth.
• There are no vocal chords in a giraffe.

www.factsaboutanimals.net

PERSONALITY QUIZ 1:ALEXANDER THE GREAT

The young Alexander soon established himself, put down a Babarian rebellion, then savagely attacked which Greek city?
Thebes


In this year Alexander crossed the Hellespont, and began his invasion of Persia?
334 B.C.


 How old was Alexander when he became king?
20 years


In 325 B.C., Alexander turned for the long road home, but decided to cross this pitiless desert?
 The Makran


Which city was captured after seven month siege?
 Tyre


What was the original name of Olympias?
Myrtale


What was the name of the elite Theban group whom Alexander defeated at Chaeronea?
Sacred Band


Where did Alexander's first battle with the Persians take place?
Granicus


Alexander married the daughter of which one of the four Paraetacene barons?
Oxyartes


 What was the name of Alexander's heavy cavalry?
Companions


How many times did Darius offer to make a peace settlement with Alexander?
Three


 By what name do we now know Afghanistan’s second largest city, founded by Alexander The Great in 4BC?

know about Places

Which was built first?
A. the Eiffel Tower
B. the Pyramids at Giza
C. the Roman Coliseum
D. the cathedral at Notre Dame
E. the Mesa Verde cliff dwellings
 
The huge stone statues of Easter Island were carved by which of the three major societies of Oceania? Polynesia
 
The Kaaba is a small building sacred to Islam. Embedded in the southeast corner of the Kaaba is the Black Stone. This stone is ...a meteorite

As one of the British queen's residences, it is the largest inhabited castle in the world. Name it.
 Windsor Castle
 
The Wailing Wall is a relic of the Temple of Herod, destroyed in the year 70 A.D. This wall is in what city?
 Jerusalem

William Shakespeare's Globe Theater was in the shape of a(n) ...
Octagon

The eastern entrance to the Panama Canal lies in which ocean?
Pacific
 
Grand Coulee Dam, the largest concrete structure in the U.S., backs up the waters of what river?
Columbia

What is the Scottish city on the river Clyde?
Glasgow

What British colony, adjoining southern Spain, is at the entrance to the Mediterranean?
Gibraltar

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 10:

1. What does “chiaroscuro” mean in painting?

                                     Light and shade

2. Name the country that lifted ban on Books of Aristotle, Shakespeare and Dickens on February   11, 1968?

                                         China

3. For whose armies were canned food developed to feed?

                                           Napoleon's army

4. Who built the World’s first submarine?

                                          Comelius Van rebbel 

5. Who is a “vintner”?

                                     A Wine Merchant

6. What was the title used by the rulers of the German Empire which ended in 1918?

                                         Kaiser

7. Who is known as the “Man of a thousand faces”?

                                          Lon Chaney

8. In psychiatry, what is “algophobia”?

                                        Morbid fear of pain

9. Name the chief god in ancient Irish mythology?

                                          Dagda

10. Name the official residence of the President of Italy?

                                           Quirinal Palace.

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 9:

1.      Under What pseudonym did English        writer Charles Dodgson  write his Novels?

                         

                         Lewis Carroll

2.      Which Country did Portuguese  navigator Pedro Alvares Cabral discover and name “Terra das anta Cruz”?

                               Brazil

3.      What is an integrated battle field?

                            

                          War area involving nuclear,chemical and      conventional weapons. 

4.      In 2980 B.C., Memphis was the capital of which Republic?

                             Egypt

5.      Name the only English Pope, who was born as Nicholas Breakspear?

                                Adrian IV

6.      What is “ Cheiroplasty” ?

                      Plastic surgery of the Hand

7.      Who is considered as the founder of Psychoanalysis?

                           

                             Sigmund Freud

8.      What was the name of the craft which carried men to the surface of the moon?

                   

                               Apollo-11

9.      Name the Piccasso painting which depicts the horrors of War?

                                Guernica 

10.  Which city had the old name “Krung Thep”?

                                  Bangkok

CRICKET :--UNKNOWN HISTORY

What is the highest first wicket partnership record for INDIA in one day International?

                188 between Srikanth and Ravi shastri v/s England at      Cuttack,1984-85

                             

Who is the only player of Chinese Descent to play Test Cricket?

                 Ellis Achong of the West Indies

In which Test Were no-balls and Wides debited to blowers for the first time in Australia?

                First Test between Australia and Pakistan in 1983-84

What was England's Headley variety best known for?

                    He established a First Class record of 10 wkts. for 10 runs v/s Notting-hamshire for Yorkshire in 1932

Which cricketer who lost his arm in the First World War,became a TEST umpire?

                Frank Chester

Who holds the Test record for most innings before being out for Zero?

               Clive Lloyd-58 innings 

 

How many Indian blowers have taken more than 100 wickets in one day International?

                  Two.Kapil Dev and Ravi Shastri

Who scored a double century in a Test and was then dropped for 7 years?

                    England's Bill Edrich 

 

Which three cousins have captains Pakistan in Tests?

                       Javed Burki , Majid Khan and Imran Khan

What is the Distance between the popping crease and the Stumps?

                                       4 feet

 

Name the first three cricketers declared out for "Handling the Ball" in Tests?

          Mohinder Amarnath,Mohsin Khan and Desmond Haynes

Against which country did Geoff Boycott make his Test Debut?
                       Australia in 1964 at Trent Bridge

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 8:

1. 
   
   
   Which Region of the Southern Germany is called BAYEM in German?
   Bavaria
   
   
2. 
   
   
   In which Country would you find AINU,a native race?
   Japan
   
   
3. 
   
   
   Name the Greek poet who Drew up the list of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
   Antipater of Sidon
   
   
4. 
   
   
   What are freshwater fish that Spawn(Breed) in the sea called?
   Catadromous
   
   
5. 
   
   
   In which country did ICE HOCKEY originate?
   Canada
   
   
6. 
   
   
   How is Greco-Roman Wrestling different from the freestyle?
   Greco-Roman Wrestling prohibits any holds below the Waist.
   
   
7. 
   
   
   Name the main through-valley in the ALPS,connecting ITALY with AUSTRIA?
   The Brenner Pass
   
   
8. 
   
   
   What is a “Portmanteau Word”?
   A word in which sounds of two words are combined (Smoke+Fog-Smog).
   
   
9. 
   
   
   French mathematician and philosopher Rene Descartes,based his philosophy on “COGITO ERGO SUM”.what does it mean?
   “I think therefore I am”.
   
   
10. 
    
    
    With what sport are golden fleece,snow knight and Grundy associated?
    Derby race (names of horses)

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 7:

1. 
   
   
   Which South American Islands are Famous for giant Tortoises?
                     The Galapagos Islands
   
   
2. 
   
   
   The Fur of which Rodent is known as “nutria”?
                            The coypu
   
   
3. 
   
   
   Which Deer is Called the “paddy-Field Deer” in Sri Lanka?
                 Hog Deer. It feeds on growing rice.
   
   
4. 
   
   
   Which Indian Ocean Island is the Habitat of The Lemurs, Lorises and Aye-ayes?
                           Mauritius
   
   
5. 
   
   
   What sort of “milk” do pigeons feed on their Nestlings? 
            A “milk” secreted from the lining of the crop.

6. 
   
   
   The IBEX is a wild goat. What is an IBIS?
                    A Wading bird.
   
   
7. 
   
   
   Which poem by Matthew Arnold is based on a Persian National Epic?
                 Sohrab and Rustum
   
   
8. 
   
   
   What is a MONODY?
                A poem of Mourning
   
   
9. 
   
   
   In speech,What is Hyperbole?
                 Exaggeration without Intent to Deceive
   
   
10. 
    
    
    What name was given to the German lighting war in World War II?
                                  Blitzkrieg