THURSDAY THRILLER

(26TH JUNE, 2014)

- Rajesh Jayaram
Q1
 X attended St. Columba School, Delhi before
entering Doon School in Dehradun.
 X worked at the Monitor Group, a
management consulting firm in London
before establishing the Mumbai based BPO
firm Backops Services Pvt. Ltd.

 Identify X
ANSWER
 Rahul Gandhi
Q2
 Only two national flags in the world that
have heptagram or seven sided star on them.

 Identify the two countries?

 ANSWER

Australia and Jordan

Q3
 Red = Drama
 Orange = Fiction
 Yellow = Miscellaneous
 Green = Crime Fiction
 Dark Blue = Autobiographies
 Purple = Essays
 Cerise = Travel and Adventure
 Grey = World Affairs

 What am I talking about?

ANSWER
 Colour codes of Penguin Paperback Covers
Q4
 The best finish by a debut team in the FIFA
World Cup is of Uruguay in 1930 and Italy in
1934 when they won World Cup on debut.

 But after 1934, name the two countries

which have secured third place on their FIFA
World Cup debut?
ANSWER
 Portugal and Croatia
Q5
 In April 2014, I&B ministry announced the
national film awards for 2013. The film “Ship
of Theseus” was voted the Best Feature Film.
The lead actor of this movie Neeraj Kabi
whose performance as Jain-monk was much
lauded.
 Kabi also appeared in a TV project aired on
Rajya Sabha TV beginning Mar 2014 that
portrays events related to one of India’s most
significant political chapter in its modern
history. What Project and Role does Kabi
play?
ANSWER
 Samvidhaan, director Shyam Benegal’s series
about making of Indian Constitution. Neeraj
Kabi plays M.K. Gandhi
Q6
 Which is Brazil’s largest TV Broadcast
Network? Half the population of Brazil tunes
in to it each day.
ANSWER
 Rede Globo or Globo Network or simply
Globo
Q7
 Under what private label is Flipkart
launching a Tablet to compete with likes of
Kindle?
ANSWER
 Digiflip
Q8
 In May 2014, Pope Francis visited the Middle
East, meeting with leaders such as Israeli PM
Benjamin Netanyahu. At one point, the two
men seemed to have minor argument
reported to have gone as this –
 Netanyahu said - Jesus was here in this land.
He spoke “X”. The Pope corrected him saying
“Jesus spoke Y”
 What two languages were being referred as X
and Y?
ANSWER
X  Hebrew
Y  Aramaic
Q9
 In early 1900s, the US National Weather
Service used a certain convention that was
copied by early aviation
 As airline services exploded in 1930s, towns
without weather stations also needed to
added to this group. Some bureaucrat
proposed a convention that solved the need
but thereby caused lot of grief to cities such
as Los Angeles and Portland while departing
from original convention.
 What convention changed in 1930 and how
did these two cities overcome the problem?
ANSWER
 2-letter Airport codes became 3-letter
Airport codes
 LA and PD simply added a meaningless X to
their airport code giving LAX, PDX
Q10
 A tropical rainforest plant native to
rainforests of southern Mexico and Columbia,
its scientific name Monstera deliciosa
 Some of the reasons attributed to how they
look is an evolutionary adaptation to resist
hurricane winds, better temperature
regulation or water to run through the plants
down to its roots and camouflage.

 What are these plants popularly called?

ANSWER
 Swiss Cheese Plants
Q11
 What is common to Nita Ambani, Nawaz
Gautam Singhania, Bina Modi, Sarala Birla
etc?
ANSWER
 All are wives of promoters who have been
inducted to the boards to meet guidelines
regarding women directors
Q12
 When this person passed away on 21st Nov 1970,
the news was first announced in the Kannada
news of AIR and the day was declared a holiday.
 A plant known as Prima Vera of Mexico which has
unique quality of blossoming once a decade was
planted on the spot where he was cremated.
 By strange coincidence, it blossomed in 1988, the
centenary of his birth and on 28th February the
day designated as National ______ Day.

 Name the person and the day?

ANSWER
 Sir C V Raman – Inside Raman Research
Institute

 National Science Day

Q13
 In 2011, this country stopped import of any
cars except of the electric type. In its bid to
eventually become a “Zero Emission”
country, It signed a deal with Nissan in 2014
to supply its “Leaf” electric cars for all
government cars and taxis. Nissan will also
supply about fifty charging stations which
should cover entire country.

 Which Country?
ANSWER
 Bhutan
Q14
 X is a book written by Y about which Anna
Hazare commented:

“This book is a manifesto for our times & for

the anti-corruption movement, and for an
effective model for the nation.”

Id X and Y?
ANSWER
 Swaraj by Arvind Kejriwal
Q15

Who are these temples dedicated to?

ANSWER
Q16
 Before Android announced that its latest
version would be code named KitKat, Indians
had launched an online campaign saying that
the version should be named with something
related to India as Android was growing big
time in India.

 What was the codename suggested?

ANSWER
KAJU KATLI