YNU xiii

prateek bhatt samant

 1.Give a connect

 

• First books to be sold Amazon and Flipkart

 2.Who ?

___ went on to win a scholarship to study at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and earned three degrees in three years - a Ph.D. and two master's degrees At the age of 22, ___ is the youngest person in the history of the Fletcher School to be awarded a doctorate.The  doctoral thesis, "Reasons of State", was a required reading in courses on Indian foreign-policy making.

• Hint: Founded the Quiz Club at St. Stephen’s, DU

• Shashi Tharoor

 3. Name the company

In 1836 the brothers Eugène and Adolphe ___ took over an abandoned foundry at Le Creusot, which allowed them to participate in the industrial revolution. The company's main focus was on the steel industry, working on train tracks, ships and various other types of heavy machinery. 

In the first part of the 20th century, ___ associated itself with Westinghouse Systems. The group began manufacturing electric motors and locomotives. After the Second World War, the armaments businesses were abandoned in favor of electrical engineering, and iron and steel works. The company remained in this sector until the early 1980s.

Today, the company has grown into a world leader in active energy management solutions

 

Schneider Electric

4. What ? (Specific answer)

 

 

Alfred Nobel's will which stated that 94% of his total assets should be used to establish the Nobel Prizes.

 5. Who?

Born in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany, X was a US-rated Chess Master and one of the highest ranked under-21 players in the country. X studied 20th century philosophy as an undergraduate at Stanford University. An avowed libertarian, he founded The Stanford Review, now the university's main conservative/libertarian newspaper. X went on to received his B.A. in Philosophy from Stanford in 1989 and a J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1992. X then clerked for Judge J.L. Edmondson of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals and from 1993 to 1996, traded derivatives for Credit Suisse Group.

• Hint : Famous in the world of tech startups, as a founder, and , also an investor.

 

Peter Thiel

 6. X & Y ?

XY is a technology-led design services company that was created as a joint venture between the X group and Y, which produced mainframe computers. However, Y went out of business in the early 1990s owing to the shift in consumer preferences across the world - mainframes took a backseat with the advent of Personal Computers (PCs). The X group retained the Y name as part of the X group of companies. Some of its projects include commercials for Coke, Thums Up, Cheetos, Onida etc. and movies like Rocket Singh, Drona, Jodhaa Akbar, Taare Zameen Par, Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna, Veer Zaara etc.

 

Tata Elxsi

 7. Who?

"It is the Germans who are responsible for the fact that I became a fabricator of arms. If not for them, I would have constructed agricultural machines. If someone asks me how I can sleep at night knowing that my arms have killed millions of people, I respond that I have no problem sleeping, my conscience is clean. I constructed arms to defend my country."

• Kalashnikov

8. Who ? What ?

1.     "Opening"2.     "Being Stupid"3.     "Running"4.     "Trouble At Home"5.     "Rubiks Cube Taxi"6.     "Park Chase"7.     "Linda Leaves"8.     "Night At Police Station"9.     "Possibly"10.     "Where's My Shoe"11.     "To The Game/Touchdown"12.     "Locked Out"13.     "Dinosaurs"14.     "Homeless"15.     _______16.     "Welcome X"

 

Chris Gardner

9. What ?

The design is unusual in that the blade is 33% shorter than that of a conventional one and the handle is 43% longer. Stuart Law, the former Australian Test player, called it "a half-brick on a stick".

• The Mongoose cricket bats

 10. Give a connect

 

• Women at the helm of banks in India

 11. Who about whom, and why ?

"It makes me wonder why someone would do that. The person who lives in there should be concerned about what he sees around him and can he make a difference. If he is not, then it is sad because India needs people to allocate some of their enormous wealth to finding ways to mitigate the hardship that people have. We are doing so little about the disparity. We are allowing it to be there and wishing it away."

 

Ratan Tata in reference to Mukesh Ambani's multi-storeyed residence Antilla in south Mumbai.

 12. What ?

Y was first announced on June 1, 2009 at E3 2009 under the code name "Project Natal". Following in X's tradition of using cities as code names, "Project Natal" was named after the Brazilian city of Natal as a tribute to the country by Brazilian-born director Alex Kipman, who incubated the project. The name Natal was also chosen because the word natal means "of or relating to birth", reflecting X's view of the project as "the birth of the next generation of home entertainment". The marketing campaign You Are the Controller, which aimed at reaching new audiences, included advertisements on Kellogg's cereal boxes and Pepsi bottles.

• Microsoft Kinect

 13. Name the companySince antiquity, a site along the ___, in the Andalusian Province of Huelva in Spain has been mined for copper, silver, gold, and other minerals. Approximately 3000 BC, Iberians and Tartessians began mining the site. After a period of abandonment, the mines were rediscovered in 1556 and the Spanish government began operating them once again in 1724.However, Spain's mining operations there were inefficient, leading the government to sell the mines in 1873 at a price later determined to be well below actual value. The purchasers of the mine were a syndicate consisting of Deutsche Bank, Hugh Matheson, and railway firm Clark, Punchard and Company. At an auction held by the Spanish government for sale of the mine on 14 February 1873, the group won with a bid GB£3,680,000. The bid also specified that Spain permanently relinquish any right to claim royalties on the mine's production. Following purchase of the mine, the syndicate launched the _____ Company, registering it on 29 March 1873.

The river has flowed red since antiquity due to acid mine drainage.

• The Rio Tinto Company

 14.

In 1949 ___ began producing the now famous interlocking bricks, calling them "Automatic Binding Bricks". These bricks were based largely on the patent of Kiddicraft Self-Locking Bricks, which were released in the United Kingdom in 1947. ___ modified the design of the Kiddicraft brick after examining a sample given to it by the British supplier of an injection-molding machine that the company had purchased. The bricks, originally manufactured from cellulose acetate, were a development of traditional stackable wooden blocks that locked together by means of several round studs on top and a hollow rectangular bottom. The blocks snapped together, but not so tightly that they required extraordinary effort to be separated.

 

 Lego !

 15.___ (genus Dacelo) are large to very large (total length 28–42 cm/11–17 in) terrestrial kingfishers native to Australia and New Guinea.

___ are best known for their unmistakable call, which sounds uncannily like loud, echoing human laughter — good-natured, but rather hysterical, merriment in the case of the renowned Laughing ___ ; and maniacal cackling in the case of the slightly smaller Blue-winged ___ . They are generally not closely associated with water, and can be found in habitats ranging from humid forest to arid savanna, but also in suburban and residential areas near running water and where food can be searched for easily.

 

Kookaburra

 16.

Year appointed     Name                             Speciality1664                 Isaac Barrow                     Classics and mathematics1669                 Isaac Newton                     Mathematics and physics1702                 William Whiston                Mathematics1711                 Nicholas Saunderson        Mathematics1739                 John Colson                      Mathematics1760                 Edward Waring                 Mathematics1798                 Isaac Milner                       Mathematics and chemistry1820                 Robert Woodhouse          Mathematics1822                 Thomas Turton                 Mathematics1826                 George Biddell Airy           Astronomy1828                 Charles Babbage             Mathematics and computing1839                 Joshua King                     Mathematics1849                 George Gabriel Stokes     Physics and fluid mechanics1903                 Joseph Larmor                 Physics1932                 Paul Dirac                         Physics1969                 James Lighthill                 Fluid mechanics1979                 Stephen Hawking             Theoretical physics2009                 Michael Green                 Theoretical physics

It is widely regarded as one of the world's most prestigious academic posts. The post was founded in 1663 by Henry __, who was Cambridge University's Member of Parliament from 1639–1640, and was officially established by King Charles II on January 18, 1664.

 

Lucasian Professor of Mathematics