General Quiz #1

Aight, here’s our first quiz. Please leave your answers as comments. You wont be able to view them till the answers are published. And as always, no googling/bingin’/etc :)

1) Identify this gentleman and the picture he is holding

Identify 1

2) This one’s a sitter. Connect

Connect 2 (a)Connect 2(b)

 

3) Jerry Rao is the CEO of mphasis and ex-chairman of NASSCOM. His uncle “X” authored a book “A better India, a better world”. Identify “X”.

4) “X” is an upside-down cardboard box with a dial on the side that could be set to whatever the user wished to be turned into. But only “Y” and “Z” can see whatever they turned into, so all the other people still see “Y” as a kid. “Y” was named after a 16th century theologian John “Y” and “Z” was named after a 17th century philosopher Thomas “Z”.
What is “X”?

5) Something cute originated from this cartoon in a newspaper. What is it?

Put Funda

6) “Barking Dogs” was used as an idiom for sore feet. Muir, the first sales manager of “X” claimed that his new ___ were so comfortable that they could “quiet barking dogs”. Identify the company ”X”.

7) “X” is the home of a famous football club. But it is probably more famous for being the HQ of the Fabbrica Italiana Automobil Torino which also manufactures aircraft and tanks. Identify “X”

 8) What is “X” ? 
Sharapova (101 “X”)
Monica Seles (93.2 “X”)
Serena Williams (88.9 “X”)
Davenport (88 “X”)
Venus Williams (85 “X”)

9) Put Funda

PF (a) PF (b)

10) This is a picture of Ambrose Everett Burnside – who was an American soldier, railroad executive, inventor, industrialist, and politician from Rhode Island, serving as governor and a U.S. Senator. Something famous is named after him. What?

What?

Happy Quizzin!!!