1. Which company owns India's leading sweetener brand sugar free?

2. Which famous company was founded in 1985 following the merger of Houston Natural Gas and
Inter North of Omaha, and was one of the fastest growing companies in the world in the last decade?

3. Which was India's first-ever free Internet service provider, which started operations in 1999?

4. With which company has Pepsi tied up to market a ready-to- drink range of iced tea internationally?

5. Which automobile tycoon built one of the world's tallest skyscrapers at the height of the American
Depression in 1929?

6. Which famous personality recently resigned from the board of the controversial dotcom Tehelka.com
in 2001?

7. The book ‘Only the Paranoid Survive’ focuses on which famous techno company?

8. What was the significance about the purchase of a kilo of lychees on the French island of Reunion,
located in the Indian Ocean?

9. When he founded his company in 1939 along with his partner Dain in San Francisco's Bay Area, he
effectively created the trend, which led to the creation of Silicon Valley decades later. He was the CEO of
his company till 1978 and died of natural causes in 2001. Who are we talking about here?

10. Which company has been associated with sponsoring different events from the Olympics to the
Nobel Prize. Its chairman, Kun Hee Lee was also a member of the International Olympic Committee?

11. With which international restaurant chain would you associate Hollywood stars Sylvester Stallone,
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis?

12. Kia Motors was a large automobile manufacturer in Korea until taken over in the 1990s. Which
company owns it now?

13. Which business group owns the brand Kirin, the largest selling beer in Japan?

14. Which country is home to Rolls Royce?

15. The name was adopted by the group of seven major industrial nations established in 1985 to discuss
the world economy, comprising the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, and
Japan is G7. Name the missing country?

16. Big Blue is IBM, but who is Big Yellow?

17. This shoe tycoon´s visiting cards carry the title ´Senior Shoe Salesman´. Name the person referred to.

18. Which brand did Farook Engineer the cricketer model for?

19.who was voted CEO of the millenium?

20. Rajiv Menon being the director and rediff vision the producer for which product video

21. What is the meaning of the word MOTOROLA?

22. What is the logo of Indian railways?

23. In which British tax haven are 11 of Dhirubhai Ambani’s companies registered?

24. In 2001 John Koegh of Australia filed a patent for "Circular transportation facilitation device". What
is this?

25. What was launched in 1929 by the London Rubber company and derived its name from the qualities
of "durability, reliability and excellence"

26. Which company used the following slogan to promote their brands 'Axor', 'Pharo' and 'Rendezvous':
"With 'aqua' in our middle name, it's hardly surprising we draw our inspiration from water"?

27. Avinash Bajaj & Suvir Sujan, 2 Harvard Busines School classmates started this hugely popular
website. Which website is this?

28. Popcorn industries suffered heavy loss in early 1950's.What was the reason? .

29. What are missionware?

30. The CEO of Wilshire Associates is a very famous man, but not as the usual businessman. Who is he?

31. State Bank of India was previously known as what?

32. Which company had insured the World Trade Center (WTC)?

33. "Let Truth Prevail" is the punch line of which newspaper and it is published by whom?

34. Which company has the patent for the CDMA technology?

35. Which Japanese electronics company started by manufacturing calculators but came off the market
due to diminishing returns. It now regrets it as one of their biggest mistakes which kept them out of the
computer business. Which company are we talking about?

36. These companies are collectively known as the Chaebols in South Korea. Name them

37. Expand NASDAQ

38. Which car indigenously made in India was originally adopted from the "Vauxhall Victor" (Vauxhall is
the British form of Opel), a British model?

39. What is common to Kapil Dev, Lisa Ray and Leander Paes in the context of brand endorsement?

40. What is common to the brands Rolex and Hallmark?

41. Which company was previously known as the Galvin Manufacturing Company?

42. Which biz leader's name means "enlightened prosperous rice fields"

43. Which company now owns the following car brands: Jaguar, Volvo, Aston Martin, Mazda, Land
Rover, Lincoln?
44. What nickname was given to the day when over £100 billion was wiped off the value of shares in
the city of London?

45. What product was originally named KdF Wagon (or Strength Through Joy Car) but was later on
changed by Hitler?

46. This brand appeared in the original black and white version of the Tintin adventure 'The Black
Island". It was later replaced by "Loch Lomond" in the colour version. Name the brand?

47. The sports company Spalding promoted what major change in Lawn tennis to facilitate T. V.
viewership?

48. Percy Holmes and Herbert Sutcliffe had a huge partnership for Yorkshire vs Essex (cricket match)in
1932. According to legend, what did this give rise to?

49. In 1978, Shudhabardhak bati was transformed into what?

50. In 1958, what did Dan Carney and Frank Carey of Wichita, Kansas do to pay for their college fees?

51. Early in his career, Kishore Kumar modeled for a particular ad - the only product he ever modeled
for. Name the product.

52. Who owns the registered trademark Lycos?

53. Which company's motto is - "Where the people meet the people"?

54. In which field of human enterprise was the ‘marble’ shaped invention of Hiram Codd, along with
dozens of other contraptions, replaced by the 'crown' shaped invention of William Painter?

55. Name the brand launched by the movie "Gone with The wind"

56. Who were the first company to sponsor Man United's shirts?

57. Which Swedish car manufacturer once admitted price fixing in Britain?

58. In marketing terminology, who are known as the “Backseat Consumers”?

59. Which structure has a river at one end and a graveyard at the other?

60. The Japanese Prime Minister Tanaka and Prince Barrow of Netherlands were involved in which
bribery scandal in 1974?

61. An organization with more than one million members in over 150 countries, it has no rules or entry
requirements. Members, many of whom use only first names, cannot contribute more than $1000 to
the organization. Which is this organization?

62. What was started in 1922 in a shop below an illegal bar in Greenwich Village, New York, with a
capital of 5000 US Dollars?

63. Which product was advertised as "99.44% pure, it floats

64. What is the daily profit and loss statement system that Marwari companies in India follow called?

65. "Let the dance begin” was the ad-line for the launch of which product?

66. In the world of Sports, what is boot money?

67. Which fast food chain is named after a character from the comic strip featuring Popeye?

68. Who is supposed to have said the following and to whom "Do you want to spend the rest of your life
selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world"?

69. Kiran Seth is the founder of which organization?

70. What war or clash in the twentieth century came to be known as the “cartographic war”?

71. Why are the "Shatabdi" series of trains so called?

72. Who coined the term "Hinduism" to refer to the motley assortment of sects spread across India,
with somewhat similar beliefs and practices?

73. What did Melville de Mellow do for over seven hours without a break that made him a national
celebrity?

74. Why was 26 January selected as the Republic Day of India?

75. What did a Muslim pilgrim called Babu Budan introduce into India in 1695?

76. Which is the only teetotal state in the Union of India?

77. What is the name of d 1st civilian transport aircraft developed by HAL?

Saras

78. What national institution is located at Feroze Jeejeebhoy Towers?

79. Who took over Alexander the great in Egypt?

80. Discovered in the early 1980's by Brian Skiff and Edward Boswell, how are the asteroids 4147, 4148,
4149 and 4150 collectively known as ?

81. Where did the Great fire of London break out in 1666?

82. Who was the tyrant leader of the Khymer Rouge whose reign of terror killed some 3 million people
in Cambodia in the 1970's?

83. Where did the burglary that led to the resignation of an American President take place?

84. What political position did Ronald Reagan hold before becoming President of the United States?

85. The composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in

86. If Cynthia Cooper, Coleen Rowley and Sherron Watkins were the most recent, who was the first?
87. Which British duo were the first people to fly across the Atlantic Ocean non-stop?

88. Aboard which US warship did the Japanese sign their surrender in World War II?

89. Who was the only US president to be a University professor?

90. What was called 'Operation Polo' by the Indian army?

91. An English clergyman who emigrated from Cambridge to New England left half his fortune and his
library of 300 books to the college of New Towne. This was renamed in his honour. Name the college.

92. Subedar Khudad Khan was the first Indian recipient of which award?

93. What was kept on the top of the Eiffel Tower during WW I to detect approaching bomber aircraft?

94. In the Great Exhibition of 1851 at Hyde Park in London, engineer, George Jennings started a facility
that was a new concept at that time. It became very popular and is found everywhere today. What?

95. Who was the only U.S. president to receive a patent for an invention (although it was never used),
and what was the invention?

96. The first attempt to measure this was by Galileo, using people on two distant hills. Ole Roemer tried
to do this by studying the movement of Jupiter's satellites. Hypolite Fizeau and Focault both designed
apparatus to measure it. What?

97. When it was originally designed/prepared by its inventor he called it a Convenience Food - and ate it
when he was too busy gambling to leave the table for a meal. What is it called now, after its inventor?

98. The 13th century brothels of Paris were the first to have what, following a royal order that they
should use something to demarcate themselves from normal houses?

99. .Alexander Graham Bell brought a remarkable invention to the bedside of dying president James A.
Garfield. What was it and why did it fail?

100. What invention of the confectioner George Smith was named after a famous race horse of the early
20th century?

101. A British official, Henry Martin, observed an invention he believed to of great use to aircraft
navigators as it worked equally well at low altitudes and high altitudes. This was such a success that he
formed a company The Miles-Martin Company along with the inventor for selling the invention. What
was the invention?

102. What did Immanuel Nobel, Alfred Nobel's father invent?

103. A polymer was invented by Dr. Roy Plunkett and first used as an electric insulator. An earnest
French angler tried it on his fishing line to prevent it from tangling. His wife's suggestion led to its best
known use today. What?
103. Mary Phelps Jacob wanted to have the freedom to dance comfortably. What did she make to allow
her to dance comfortably?

104. " This day relenting God; Hath placed within my hand; A wondrous thing and God be praised At his
command seeking his secret deeds with tears and toiling breath ; I find thy cunning seeds O million
murdering death; I know this little thing , A myriad men will save ; O death where is thy sting , Thy
victory O grave " . Identify the poet.

105. What did a certain James Marshall, a carpenter by profession, do on the 24th June 1848 that
triggered a famous event in the history of America? What was this famous event (that gave birth to a
city)?

106. KPCB and Morgan Stanley assisted this start-up to go public in 1995. The start-up launched a
Revolutionary product. Our lives haven't been the same since. Identify the company or the product.

107. What was created in Feb '02 by the merger ofAceralia of Spain, Unisor of France and Arbed of
Luxemberg?

108. What's slackware in IT parlance?

109. Connect: Abraham Lincoln and Cognizant Technology Solutions.

110. What owes its origins to the blue agave found in a town in the western Mexican state of Jalisco?

111. Whose epitaph reads: "A tomb now suffices for whom the world was not enough”?

112. Franklin Roosevelt called it the 'sacred cow’; Harry Truman called it 'Independence' and Eisenhower

called it 'The Columbine' How do it know it as?

113. Whose was the shortest performance to win an acting Oscar?

114. What's Ylem (in physics or rather astrophysics)?

115. Shortly after the erection of the Berlin Wall, President Kennedy visited Berlin (West Berlin) and
made a historic speech. What are the most famous words in that speech?

116. In IT parlance what's a Heisenbug?

117. This band received a nomination in the heavy metal category for the Grammy Awards. They
performed one of their hit numbers live at the show, but the award went to Jethro Tull. The band didn't
seem to care, though; they added a sticker to their album reading "Grammy Award LOOSERS". Which
band?

118. ________ was not only a great speech maker, hiswit was also legendary. In the House of Commons
a ladyMP, angry with _______, said 'If I were married toyou, I'd put poison in your coffee'. _________
replied 'If you were my wife, I'd drink it'. Another female MP, when seeing ________ intoxicated, said
'_______you're drunk' to which ________ replied 'Bessie you'reugly. And tomorrow I shall be sober'.
Who is being referred to?

119. Dr.Manmohan Singh was a Finance Minister before he became Prime Minister of India. Who was
the first Finance Minister who later became President of India?
119. In the comic series, Dennis the Menace, what is Dennis’s last name?

120. This famous temple derives its name from the palm tree which is abundant in the region in which it
is built. This was built by King Chandravarman, founder of the Chandela Dynasty, when his mother
appeared in his dreams and asked him to build such a temple. Originally 85 temples were built, but of
these, only 22 survive. Which famous religious landmark in India are we talking about?

121. This is an old invention, and yet, it came into proper shape and form only in the 1920s. The Aar
Valley in Switzerland is the area where this world famous invention is industrialized, thus putting it on
the world map for this invention. An Englishman, John Harwood obtained a patent for this product.
What is it?

122. What were the series of holy wars between the 11th and 13th centuries to recover the Holy
Sepulchure in Jerusalem called?

123. I was buried in High Gate Cemetry in North London on 17 March 1883. My gravestone carries the
engraving, “Workers of all lands unite”. Who am I?

124. Which small metropolitan borough on the Thames River in London housed the Royal Observatory
till 1946?

125. Which popular comic character’s classmate is Susie Derkins?

126. Sheepsfoot, clip point, spey, americanised tanto, ulu are some of its types. What is it?

127. This computer term was created when its author, Mike Muuss, named it after the pulses of sound
made by sonar. Which term? Clue: think the internet.

128. The coiner of this computer term named this concept after his trip to Hawaii. He had named it after
the "quick" shuttle buses at Honolulu Airport, purely for sentimental reasons. This was the first Hawaiian
term he learned on his first visit to the islands! Now this term means “speed” and is used in the world of
internet, where one can edit a web-page.

129. World Nations: A Cambridge student Choudhary Rahmat Ali coined the name of this country. He
devised the word as an acronym of the different states or regions around the country and published it
on 28 January 1933 in the pamphlet "Now or never". However, there is another story as well as pertains
to the name of this country: the Persian meaning of the name translates to “the land of the pure”.
Which country’s name is this? Clue: ends with –stan;

130. A device used commonly in all offices was the central “character” in the movie, “office Space”, in
which it was the prized possession of office worker Milton Waddams. The movie is all about his feelings,
when his boss Bill Lumbergh confiscated his prize possession. Swingline was the name of the company,
which featured on this product, and it hadn’t actually begun manufacturing the RED colored product as
shown in the movie. But popularity grew so much for this red color, that the company was forced to
offer it in the year 2004. WHICH PRODUCT IS THIS?
131. The five-member group consisting of Nick Carter, Howie Dorough, Brian Littrell, A.J. McLean and
Kevin Richardson forms which popular Music band?

132. Which fictional series of French comic books did Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge translate into
English (from French)?

133. Which literary piece begins thus (more in a philosophical way), ‘To be born again,’ sang Gibreel
Farishta tumbling from the heavens, ‘first you have to die. Ho ji! Ho ji! To land upon the bosomy earth,
first one needs to fly. Tat-taa! Taka-thun! How to ever smile again, if first you won't cry? How to win the
darling's love, mister, without a sigh? Baba, if you want to get born again...’? Clue: think controversial
writer.

134. Which literary classic revolves around the tragic love story of two central characters, Heathcliff and
Catherine?

135. Where are ice-hockey players (puckers!) sent for committing fouls?

136. What does the abbreviation YMMV stand for?

137. Why is Cape Three Points, in the Gulf of Guinea, Ghana known as the `land nearest nowhere'?

138. Rumble In The .... You've all heard it. Who or what is a borborygmus?.

139. To kill which demon did Vishnu take the avatar of Varaha?

140. What does a quine do (think computers)?

141. What's Japanese for "single number"?

142. Forever with chuckers, cricket was never a gentleman's game. Who invented over-arm bowling?

143. What was the first website to feature a banner ad?

144. What famous techno company was founded by Husband-Wife duo of Leonard Bosack and Sandra
Lerner in 1984?

145. What did claude shannon design in 1904?

146. This 1902 invention was nicknamed ´Noisy Serpent´. Name the invention?

147. Who are the (now not that famous) founders of NavinMail?

148. Who sang the song start me up for launch of Windows 95.

149. Who developed the ´@´ sign?

150. Dr. Feng Hsuing Hsu was in the news in 1997. For what?

151. Who was the co-founder of apple computers?

152. What is the colour of the black box found in airplanes?

153. When engineer David Bradley said "I may have invented it, but Bill Gates made it famous" what was
he referring to?

154. They were called the "Traitorous Eight" and the “Fair Children". What did they start?

What is common to Daytona, Chicago, Cairo and Memphis?

155. Who are known as Inky, Pinky, Blinky and Clyde?

156. The name ' dinosaur' comes from two Greek words. What do they mean?

157. Which was the largest carnivore ever known on earth?

158. The Chinese call fossilized dinosaur teeth 'dragon's teeth'. What are they used for?

159. What was Krakatoa?

160. Americans call it a faucet. What do the British call it?

161. What is measured on the Beaufort scale?

162. If an American footballer talked about his 'zippers' what would he mean?

163. What is the pirate's flag with the skull and cross-bones called?

164. What is the full form of EXIDE?

165. Which is the first stamp to be issued in the world and when was it issued?

166. What do climbers call a peak higher the 914 m (3,000 ft)?

167. Which bird is the international symbol of happiness?

168. Why do American footballers paint black marks across their cheeks?

169. First human to space walk was

170. The original poem was: “The wind is mild, the sun is warm – The water is clean, the vegetation lush
” which was shortened to the single word wind-water, and has now entered the English language. What
word?

171. In Delhi college slang what are "g-jabs" and "c-bats"?

172. The value of a diamond is decided on 4 C's. Two of them are carat and clarity. What are the other
2?

173. What is common to Abar Khabo, Dilkhosh, Rose-Cream, Basant Bahar and Baadshah?

174. Who are nicknamed the "Sandwich Generation"?

175. Which country changed its name because it was tired of being placed permanently between Italy
and Jamaica in international gatherings?

176. Which countries name in the native language means "Big Village"?
177. Which organization was previously called the Office of Strategic Studies and it still exists?

178. The Pakistani army in addition to its other responsibilities manufactures and markets cornflakes.
Under what brand name?

179. In the army, the rank badges worn on the shoulders are stars. In the navy they are called
epaulettes. What are the cloth rank badges worn by the Air Force officers called?

180. What invention of the confectioner George Smith was named after a famous race horse of the early
20th century?

181. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower cited four weapons that helped most to win the Second World War.
One was the C47 Skytrain / Dakota Transport. What were the other three?

182. About what logo did its designer Peter Scott, remark: 'We wanted an animal that is beautiful and
one loved by many people in this world for its appealing qualities. We also wanted an animal that had
impact with black and white printing to save money on printing costs?

183. Death of 8 month old Matthew Eapen caused a sensation. But the manner in which the verdict was
delivered is a first. Why?

184. What was Operation Grand Slam?

185. What is the name of Colombia's airline?

186. What is the name of Russia’s airline?

187. One who collects autographs is called?

188. One who collects flags is called??

189. One who collects compact discs is called?

190. Which US president shares his name with a famous comic character?

191. In Chinese cooking, what is the significance of wolf's hearts and dog's lungs?

192. In humans, the sex of a child is determined by a combination of chromosomes. How is the sex of a
baby crocodile determined?

193. Where would you find a "dry bible"?

194. If a resident of Hyderabad is called Hyderabadi and a guy from Bangalore, a Bangalorean, what is a
resident of Sydney called??

195. If the President of the USA stays in the White House, which country's President stays in the Blue
House?

196. What do you get if you count the number of times a cricket chirps in one minute, subtract it by 40,
then divide it by 4 and finally add 50?

197. How long did the Hundred Years War last?

198. Which country makes Panama hats?

199. From which animal do we get cat gut?

200. In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution?

201. What is a camel's hair brush made of?

202. The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal?

203. What was King George VI's first name?

204. What color is a purple finch?

205. Where are Chinese gooseberries from?

206. Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini banned which cultural activity because it was an expression of an
'inferior race'?

207. Altogether 634 Victoria Cross medals were awarded during World war 1, the maximum number for
any war. One hundred and eighty two each (the second highest number) were awarded during the
Second World War and for which other conflict?

208. These two musicians met nearly 50 years ago as actors in a junior school play. One of them was the
White Rabbit, the other, the Cheshire Cat. The play was Alice in Wonderland. Name the musicians

209. About what did a Soviet President say this: 'Some people say these objects are due to the excessive
consumption of in the United States of scotch whisky. They are, I think due to the activities of a soviet
Discus thrower practicing for the Olympics and quite unconscious of his strength'.?

210. In 1930s, the popular dance numbers -'an old fashioned locket' and 'Our bungalow of dreams' were
recorded for Columbia Records on the piano by a famous sportsman. Who was he?

211. Rudyard Kiplng's chauvinistic poem 'White man's Burden' was actually addressed to The US
congress, urging it to conquer and annex a country. Which country?

212. His last words before his death on 9th October 1967 reportedly was "Please tell my wife to remarry
and try to be happy'. Who was he?

213. Who introduced the rupee coin in India?

214. Which very popular author once used the penname 'Mahatama sri guru paramananda guru
swamiji' while writing for Vanity Fair magazine?

215. When Maruti Udyog made its millionth car, who did they gift it to?

216. The 61st Amendment to the Indian constitution allows some special opportunities for young
people. What was this?

217. What is the official anthem of the European union?

218. How is Baudhayana Sulba Sutra better known as?

219. Which company’s logo was actually called Volney and lived at Memphis Zoo?

220. Who lives at 1313 Webfoot Walk, Duckburg, Calisota?

221. Where will you find The Mount of Jupiter and The Girdle of Venus?

222. What do the letters EMI stand for?

223. Which two toys are named after the children of Ruth and Elliot Handler, the founders of Mattel?

224. Which comic strip character has its home in the seaport of Sweetwater?

225. What does the term ‘Hyundai’ mean

226. About which car was the following said: ‘The people can have it in
any colour as long as it is black.

227. Which country started off the Industrial Revolution?

228. Francisco Pereria de Moura (1925 - 98) was the founder of modern
economics in -------

229. Which famous pair of brothers were the first to fit a motor vehicle with tyres with inner tubes in
1885; a name today synonymous with automobile tyres?

230. Which famous Bollywood actress has started a business venture of marketing high-priced candles
under the label, The Faraway Tree?