1.The Abel prize was instituted to reward excellence in which field excluded by Alfred Nobel in the prizes he founded?

2.Which famous football club was originally known as Dial Square? 3.The Encyclopedia Britannica said this once, "A public toilet, where you would not know who used it last". Who are they referring to? 4.The company was started way back in 1971 with a paid up capital of Rs 50 lakh. The company then named Maschinefabric Polygraph (India) had a technical collaboration with Veb Polygraph, Germany. However the collaboration came to an end in 1991 post the unification of Germany. The company was re-christened to its present name in 1992. It was named after the founders father Manubhai Shah who came to Mumbai from a small village near Baroda in 1918-19 and set up a retail business of stoves, batteries and petromaxes. How do we know this company today? 5.When Vahid Berenjian, a Swede of Persian descent met Akbar Khwaja in Bangalore in 1994, a new brand was born. After a successful venture in India, the brand will make its first foreign foray in Kuwait in February 2007 and Bangladesh in June 2007. Which brand? 6.If its Dacia for Romania, Somaca for Morocco, RDB for Brazil, Avtoframos for Russia, Sofasa for Columbia, Saipa & Iran Khodro for Iran, who (which company) is it for India? 7.In the good olden days, cinema theatres had an additional reel in the beginning to make sure that latecomers did not miss out much of the movie itself. Later, this reel was shifted to another position. What is this reel called?

8.This was a software invented to protect the old computer monitors from the phosphor burns that were caused by static images. What software? 9.In April 1978 McKinsey's John Larson decided to ask a colleague to step in at the last minute to make a presentation on some research he'd done. The presentation led to what? 10.Topically speaking, what in hells name is the Beckham rule? 11.His last words before his death were reportedly "I'm about to face the greatest umpire of all and He knows I am innocent." D.B Sweeney played this person in the movie Eight men out and Ray Liotta portrayed this person in the movie Field of Dreams. Who is this person? 12.Isabella Eugenie Boyer (18411904) was born in Paris to French and English parents. Isabella married Isaac Merritt Singer, the founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Co., in New York, in 1863 when Isaac was 52 and Isabella was 22. Isabella was still a striking lady when she met this sculptor . He asked her to be his model - for what? 13.At about 2:00 AM, on February 5th, 1958, a B-47 bomber collided in midair with an F-86 fighter plane. The F-86 crashed after the pilot parachuted out. The B-47 was damaged but still operational. The crew made three unsuccessful attempts to land at Hunter Air Force Base in Georgia. The crew then requested permission to jettison a bomb in the hold of the aircraft. Permission was granted and the bomb was jettisoned at 7,200 feet (2,200 m) while traveling about 200 knots (370 km/h). The crew did not see an explosion upon impact. They then managed to land the B-47 safely at Hunter Air Force Base. What's so significant about this? 14.December 11, 2006: Sun Microsystems released the latest installment intheir popular Java programming language line today, Java Standard Edition 6.0. Though this release, codenamed "___________", is not as drastic a departure from its predecessors as version 5.0, Sun reports more features, and noticeably better performance. In addition, the new release promises to support easier databases, and has integrated its graphics rather seamlessly with both Windows and the GTK. What is the code name?

15.Airports are identified by 3 letter codes - BOM for Bombay, CDG for Charles deGaulle airport in Paris, etc. Now, FFA is a small airstrip owned by the US National Parks Service, a mile west of Kill Devil Hills, a small town in North Carolina. What is so special about the airport, and how / why did it get its airport FAA code "FFA"? 16.Frantisek Janasek was a Czech engineer and inventor (who developed, among other things, an improved type of hand grenade). In 1929, he licensed technology from a German company "Wanderer", which had stopped production around then, and along with a British engineer GW Patchett, built something that was cheap, and very popular in Europe during the 1930s, and then continued in India from the 1960s till the late 1980s. What was this? 17.An easy, and tasty question to end the quiz with. Souvlaki (or Gyros) in Greece, Tacos al Pastor in Mexico. what is

it called in Arabia (and it is known by the same name in India)? 18.Since 1975, outstanding artists from all over the world have been designing these. The 15 exhibits which have thus far been presented in the Collection include works by well-known artists such as Frank Stella, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, A.R. Penck, David Hockney and Jenny Holzer. They reflect the developments in art history with regard to fine art, design and technology and are displayed worldwide in major museums such as the Paris Louvre, the Royal Academy in London, the New York Whitney Museum of Modern Art, Venice's Palazzo Grassi, Sydney's Powerhouse Museum and the Guggenheim Museums of New York and Bilbao. Now these on a world tour to be displayed at important locations from French Louvres to The Rajpath in India. What are we? 19.Colonial taverns kept their spirits (rum, brandy, whiskey, gin, applejack) in casks, and as the liquid in the casks lowered, the spirits would tend to lose both flavor and potency, so the tavern keeper would have an additional cask into which the tailings from the low casks could be combined and sold at a reduced price. What is the name for these drinks?

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