Increase Your General Knowledge

Qustions:


1. What programming language is GOOGLE developed in?


2. What is the expansion of YAHOO?


3. What is the expansion of ADIDAS?


4. Expansion of Star as in Star TV Network?


5. What is expansion of "ICICI?"


6. What does "baker's dozen" signify?


7. The 1984-85 season. 2nd ODI between India and Pakistan at Sialkot - India 210/3 with Vengsarkar 94*. Match abandoned. Why?


8. Who is the only man to have written the National Anthems for two different countries?


9. From what four word expression does the word `goodbye` derive?


10. How was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu better known?


11. Name the only other country to have got independence on Aug 15th?


12. Why was James Bond Associated with the Number 007?


13. Who faced the first ball in the first ever One day match?


14. Which cricketer played for South Africa before it was banned from international cricket and later represented Zimbabwe ?


15. The faces of which four Presidents are carved at Mt.Rushmore?


16. Which is the only country that is surrounded from all sides by only one country (other than Vatican )?


17. Which is the only sport which is not allowed to play left handed?



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Answers:


1. Google is written in Asynchronous java-script and XML, or its acronym Ajax .


2. Yet Another Hierarchy of Officious Oracle


3. ADIDAS- All Day I Dream About Sports


4. Satellite Television Asian Region


5. Industrial credit and Investments Corporation of India


6. A baker's dozen consists of 13 items - 1 more than the items in a normal dozen


7. That match was abandoned after people heard the news of Indira Gandhi being killed.


8. Rabindranath Tagore who wrote national anthem for two different countries one is our 's National anthem and another one is for Bangladesh- (Amar Sonar* *Bangla)


9. Goodbye comes from the ex-pression: 'god be with you'.


10. Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu is none other Mother Teresa.


11. South Korea .


12. Because 007 is the ISD code for Russia (or the USSR , as it was known during the cold war)


13. Geoffrey Boycott


14. John Traicos


15. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln


16. Lesotho surrounded from all sides by South Africa .


17. Polo.

Nice to know...

Nice to know...


1. MOPED is the short term for 'Motorized Pedaling'.
2. POP MUSIC is 'Popular Music' shortened.
3. BUS is the short term for 'Omnibus' that means everybody.
4. FORTNIGHT comes from 'Fourteen Nights' (Two Weeks).
5. DRAWING ROOM was actually a 'withdrawing room' where people withdrew after Dinner. Later the prefix 'with' was dropped..
6. NEWS refers to information from Four directions N, E, W and S..
7. AG-MARK, which some products bear, stems from 'Agricultural Marketing'.
8. JOURNAL is a diary that tells about 'Journey for a day' during each Day's business.
9. QUEUE comes from 'Queen's Quest'. Long back a long row of people as waiting to see the Queen. Someone made the comment Queen's Quest..
10. TIPS come from 'To Insure Prompt Service'. In olden days to get Prompt service from servants in an inn, travelers used to drop coins in a Box on which was written 'To Insure Prompt Service'. This gave rise to the custom of Tips.
11. JEEP is a vehicle with unique Gear system. It was invented during World War II (1939-1945). It was named 'General Purpose Vehicle (GP)'.GP was changed into JEEP later.
12. Coca-Cola was originally green.
13. The most common name in the world is Mohammed..
14. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
15. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
16. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row ! of the keyboard.
17. Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!
18. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
19. It is impossible to lick your elbow.
20.. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
21. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
22. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
23. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history.
o Spades - King David
o Clubs - Alexander the Great,
o Hearts – Charlemagne
o Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
24. Horse Statue in a Park…
• If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
• If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle
• If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
25. What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common? Ans. - All invented by women.
26. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
27. A snail can sleep for three years.
28. All polar bears are left handed.
29. Butterflies taste with their feet.
30. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
31. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
32. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
33. Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
34. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
35. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
36. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
37. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
38. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
39. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
40. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
41. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
42.If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.

Knowledge Test

1. Jawaharlal Nehru was the _______ of Indira Gandhi's Father. ?
2. Make a grammatically correct sentence by using the verb "IS" immediately after the word "I"
3. I am having two coins of Indian currency in my pocket, the total value of which comes to 75 paisa. But mind you, one of the coins is
not a fifty paisa coin. How it is possible?
4. What is taken from you before it is given to you?
5. Even though it belongs to you, usually others use it, What?
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1. "NAME"
2."I" is a pronoun. or "I" is the 9th letter of the English Alphabet.
3.I said "ONE" of the coins, not "NONE". So they are 50 and 25 paisa coins.
4.Your Photo
5.Your Name.

IIM's Placement Sessions

Recently a company had participated in IIM's Placement Sessions. They asked some interesting questions to students during recruitment.

Here are some of them:-


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1. There is one word in the English language that is always pronounced
incorrectly. What is it?

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1. The word "incorrectly"

2. A man gave one son 10 cents and another son was given 15 cents.
What time is it?


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2. 1:45. The man gave away a total of 25 cents. He divided it between
two people. Therefore, he gave a quarter to two.


3. A boat has a ladder that has six rungs, each rung is one foot
apart. The bottom rung is one foot from the water.
The tide rises at 12 inches every 15minutes. High tide peaks in one
hour. When the tide is at it's highest, how many rungs are under
water?


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3. None, the boat rises with the tide. Googly ;-)



4. There is a house with four walls. Each wall faces south. There is a
window in each wall. A bear walks by one of the windows. What color is
the bear?


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4. White. If all the walls face south, the house is at the North pole,
and the bear, therefore, is a polar bear.

5. Is half of two plus two equal to two or three?

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5. Three. Well, it seems that it could almost be either, but if you
follow the mathematical orders of operation, division is performed
before addition.
So... half of two is one. Then add two, and the answer is three.
6. There is a room. The shutters are blowing in. There is broken glass
on the floor. There is water on the floor. You find Sloppy dead on the
floor. Who is Sloppy? How did Sloppy die?

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6. Sloppy is a (gold)fish. The wind blew the shutters in, which
knocked his goldfish-bowl off the table, and it broke, killing him.


7. How much dirt would be in a hole 6 feet deep and 6 feet wide that
has been dug with a square edged shovel?


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7. None. No matter how big a hole is, it's still a hole: the absence of
dirt.


8. If I were in Hawaii and dropped a bowling ball in a bucket of water
which is 45 degrees F, and dropped another ball of the same weight,
mass, and size in a bucket at 30 degrees F, both of them at the same
time, which ball would hit the bottom of the bucket first?

Same question, but the location is in Canada ?


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8. Both questions, same answer: the ball in the bucket of 45 degree F
water hits the bottom of the bucket last. Did you think that the water
in the 30 degree F bucket is frozen? Think again.

The question said nothing about that bucket having anything in it.
Therefore, there is no water (or ice) to slow the ball down...


9. What is the significance of the following: The year is 1978,
thirty-four minutes past noon on May 6th.


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9. The time and month/date/year American style calendar are 12:34, 5/6/78.


10. If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks in the
other field, how many haystacks would he have if he combined them all
in the center field?


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10. One. If he combines all of his haystacks, they all become one big stack.
11. What is it that goes up and goes down but does not move?


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11. The temperature.