Quiz 2014 Part III

Q 1

Connect three photos to arrive at a historically

significant civil structure that stands in all its

glory as a tribute to the triumph of one man's

indomitable spirit and his determination not indomitable spirit and his determination not

to be defeated by circumstances.

A 1

Brooklyn Bridge

Persons in pic Father ,Son, Daughter-In-Law.

Bridge was completed despite various difficulties.

Salute to Emily Warren Roebling who was Salute to Emily Warren Roebling who was

determined to stand by her husband in all

circumstances

For further reading Pls refer

http://academictips.org/blogs/determination-and-

persistence/

A 1

Brooklyn Bridge

Q2

• What’s the significance of the book / Author?

A2

Norman Cousins's enormously influential best-selling book illustrates the concept of the holistic health principle: that the human mind is capable of promoting the body's potential for healing itself even when faced with a seemingly hopeless itself even when faced with a seemingly hopeless medical predicament.

Link for further info

http://www.laughingdiva.com/how-laughter-therapy-cured-norman-cousins-of-a-life-threatening-form-of-arthritis/

Q3

The person in picture Salvino D'Armate (1258-

1312) is credited with inventing what?

A3

Eyeglasses

Q4

Identify from clues (Patent of something we see

while

commuting)

A4

Traffic signal

Garrett Augustus Morgan the inventor in pic

Q5

Lady Rosetta is a specialist crisping variety,with high dry matters and low reducingsugars. It has early crop maturity and issuitable to quality crisp production eitherfresh or from short term storage. Moderate tofresh or from short term storage. Moderate tohigh yields of uniform, round tubers with lowoutgrades, with good all-round diseaseresistance.

What is Lady Rosetta ?

A5

• Potato Variety

• used by a lot of commercial chip companies

Q6

Unfortunately this was its slogan sometime back.

Going Beyond Expectations

Whose ?Whose ?

A6

• Malaysian Airlines

• Malaysia Airlines's 'Going Beyond Expectations' slogan was to brand itself internationally by heavily promoting its service excellence from late heavily promoting its service excellence from late 1990s to 2007. The slogan was changed to 'MH Malaysian Hospitality' to emphasize the hospitality of its cabin crew instead of the airline's extensive network and its premium cabin and economy class cabin products with the roll-out of the Business Transformation Plan in 2008.

Q7

Its description is as follows

� All mechanical, electrical and software security features areprovided to ensure the integrity of the data

� It is independent of mains power and operates on a special powerpackpack

� It is tamper-proof and error free

� It incorporates a microprocessor that has ‘burnt-in’ software codewhich cannot be altered or retrieved

� All the data is recorded on non-volatile dual redundant memorychips and can be retained for over 6 months even when the powerpack is removed

What are we talking about ?

A7

EVM Electronic Voting Machine

Q8

These are the 2 malayalam movies ,which were

remade into Bollywood superhits.Which Hindi

Movies?

Katha Parayumpol (English: As

the Story is Told)

A8