Business and Economy
“World’s local Bank” is the tagline of a popular firm in the financial sector. Identify this firm headquartered in London.
Answer: HSBC
HSBC Holdings plc is a British multinational investment bank and financial services holding company.
Which is the only team to play in every soccer World Cup tournament?
Answer: Brazil.
The 21 World Cup tournaments have been won by eight national teams. Brazil have won five times, and they are the only team to have played in every tournament.
Which space agency has confirmed the presence of water on the surface of the moon?
Answer: NASA
NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) has confirmed the presence of water on the sunlit surface of the moon.
The water particles have been discovered in Clavius Crater, one of the largest craters of moon visible from Earth. The crater is located in the Moon’s southern hemisphere.
Which mountain peak is traditionally known as Sagarmatha?
Answer: Mt. Everest
The Nepali name for Everest is Sagarmāthā (सगरमाथा) which means "the Head in the Great Blue Sky" derived from सगर (sagar) meaning "sky" and माथा (māthā) meaning "head" in the Nepali Language.
What is the connection between Dev Patel, the actor and the writer Vikas Swarup?
Answer: Slumdog Millionaire
Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 British drama film that is a loose adaptation of the novel Q & A (2005) by Indian author Vikas Swarup, telling the story of 18-year-old Jamal Malik from the Juhu slums of Mumbai. The movie starred Dev Patel as Jamal, and filmed in India. The film was directed by Danny Boyle.
Which is the first country to introduce GST?
Answer: France
France Launched GST in 1954, Britain launched in 1973,Japan Launched GST in 1989 and USA still has not implemented GST.
Name the athlete with the most number of medals in the Olympic history.
Answer: Michael Phelps
He won 28 medals (out of which 23 were gold).
Apart from Spitz, Matt Biondi (USA, eight golds) and Jenny Thompson (USA, eight golds), no other swimmer worldwide has managed more than six gold medals in total.
What was Tesla's first car?
Answer: The Roadster
Tesla Inc started its stint with the Roadster model in 2008. The company aimed to commercialise the usage of electric vehicles and make people move towards a greener path. It was built from the body-shell of a Lotus Elise and came with a range of more than 245 miles (390 kilometres).
It is now available in four models.
When scientists discovered a new fragment of matter in 1973, they named it the “X Particle” in honour of a leader who fought against racial inequality and later became his country’s first president. Who was the leader X it was named after?
Answer: Mandela
South African anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela, who was imprisoned for 27 years for his civil rights activism, inspired people throughout the world. When scientists discovered a new fragment of matter in 1973, they named it the “Mandela Particle” in honor of the leader. In addition to the nuclear particle, Mandela has a species of spider, a prehistoric woodpecker, and hundreds of street signs and boulevards named after him.
Who was known as`Carpet Sahib’?
Jim Corbett is known as such in the Uttarakhand region where the National park is situated.
'Savdhan Rahein, Safe Rahein' is a public awareness campaign on financial fraud risks. Name the company which launched this campaign.
Answer: Bajaj Finserv
The Bajaj Finserv launches 'Savdhan Rahein, Safe Rahein', across digital and social media platforms, to educate customers and the public at large on financial fraud risks and how to stay protected.
Who scored the most points in NBA (National Basketball association) history?
Answer: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is an American professional basketball player who played 20 seasons in the National Basketball Association for the Milwaukee Bucks and the Los Angeles Lakers.
What is the scientific name for northern lights?
Answer: Aurora borealis
Between late September and late March, Northern Norway is dark from early afternoon until late morning, and the northern lights frequently soar across the sky. The aurora borealis is explained by advanced physicists who specialise in the field of magnetohydrodynamics. The aurora appears as lights in the sky produced when atoms and molecules in the upper atmosphere are hit by high energy electrons.
Name all the states that are collectively known as the Seven Sisters of India.
Answer: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura
The Seven Sister States is a popular term for the contiguous states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura prior to inclusion of the state of Sikkim into the North Eastern Region of India. The sobriquet 'Land of the Seven Sisters' was coined to coincide with the inauguration of the new states in January 1972 by Jyoti Prasad Saikia, a journalist in Tripura, in the course of a radio talk show.
What was the real name of Saki?
Answer: Hector Hugh Munro
Hector Hugh Munro, better known by the pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture.
Which Multinational Insurance company has Airtel Payments Bank partnered with?
Answer: Bharti AXA Insurance
Axa S.A. (styled as AXA) is a multinational insurance firm. In India they operate in the name of Bharati AXA.
Which Indian player turned down the offer to endorse Cola drinks?
Answer: Pullela Gopichand
Gopichand, not only a player but also a super coach in badminton, decided against endorsing Cola drinks back in 2002. Such an offer came after he won the prestigious All England Championship in 2001.
Which defence test was code named ‘Operation Smiling Buddha’?
Answer: Second Pokhran Nuclear Test
The test was code named 'Smiling Buddha' and conducted on May 18, 1974. The name was chosen because the test was conducted on Buddha Purnima that year. “The Buddha has finally smiled” was the message conveyed by Raja Ramanna, the director of India’s premier nuclear research institute Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
According to a government minister, why is Indonesia going to move its capital from Jakarta?
Answer: It’s sinking, Rising Sea Levels
Like many coastal cities around the world, Jakarta is dealing with sea-level rise. But Indonesia’s biggest city also has a unique problem: Because of restricted water access in the city, the majority of its residents have to extract groundwater to survive. And it’s causing the city to sink. Today, Jakarta is the world’s fastest-sinking city, sinking by an average of 1-15cm a year. Almost half the city now sits below sea level.
Which Tamil Novel is based on the Partition of 1947?
Answer: Alai Osai
Translated in English with the same name by GS Iyer.
Alai Osai is a reflection of Kalki’s (Kalki Krishnamoorthy), personal political belief system. It observes the Partition and describes the mindset of people during that era. The author had visited the Hindu refugee camps in Delhi to depict the emotions of people driven out of their land that is currently known as Pakistan. This is the first major work in Tamil that gives adequate coverage to the issues of Partition. Kalki considered Alai Osai, which was serialized in Kalki in 1948-49 and published as a book in 1963, as his best. The novel won him the Sahitya Akademi award posthumously in 1956.
Ferruccio Lamborghini, an Italian business magnate found the company Lamborghini Trattori in 1948. What kind of vehicle did the company originally produce before their shift to luxury sports cars and SUVs?
Answer: Tractors
Because of the WWII experience, when Ferruccio got home he started piecing together tractors out of spare parts. People loved them, and his tractor business took off overnight.
They're no longer part of the same company, but Lamborghini Trattori are still designed by the same firm that created the Gallardo and the Maserati MC12. They range in price from $30,000 to over $300,000.
Which Australian women’s team captain holds the record for scoring first-ever double-century in ODIs?
Answer: Belinda Clark
Belinda Jane Clark is an Australian international cricketer and sports administrator. A right-handed batter, she served as the captain of the national women's team for eleven years and was a member of triumphant World Cup campaigns in 1997 and 2005
Which country has developed the world’s first floating nuclear plant?
Answer: Russia
On 14 September 2019, Russia completed the world's first floating nuclear power plant. It is about 5,000 kilometre long. The floating nuclear power plant is named ‘The Akademik Lomonosov’. It will start operating by the end of the year from Pevek, the autonomous district of Chukotka. It will provide energy for around 1, 00,000 people and also power oil platforms.
In March of 2011, the Tohoku Earthquake, which was one of the biggest ever recorded, occurred off the coast of Japan. It caused a horrendous tsunami to develop which then hit the Japanese mainland. The tsunami caused the emergency safeguards at one of Japan's biggest nuclear power plants to fail, creating massive hydrogen explosions, the release of radiation, and nuclear meltdowns in three separate reactors at this site. Where Was the Japanese Nuclear Disaster?
Answer: Fukushima
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster was a 2011 nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Ōkuma, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. The event was primarily caused by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. It was the most severe nuclear accident since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.
Which country banned `Alice in Wonderland’?
Answer: China
China banned it in 1931 because animals should not use human language.