Answers : Delight Of Quzzing 1

Q1
Which is the oldest engineering company in India which is still
operating?

Ans -Jessop & Co. Ltd. in Kolkata.

Q2
Madonna and her partners, Guy Oseary and Ronnie Dashev, teamed up with Warner Brothers in the late 1990s to form a recording label.
Name it.

Ans- Maverick


Q3
"Temasek Holdings" is an Asia investment company headquartered in Singapore. What does the "TEMASEK" mean or stand for?

Ans-It was the name of an early city on the site of modern Singapore.

Q4
Under what brand name did Bayer sell morphine in the early part of the 20th century?

Ans- Heroin

Q5
An island nation sold its right on the suffix .tv to California based M/s Idealab for a period of 10 years at a reported consideration of $ 50 million. Name the island nation.

Ans -Tuvalu

Q6
What was created from the debris of the 1944 Bombay Dock explosion of the ship Stikine?

Ans Nariman Point

Q7
What is the connection between a character in the Harry PotterBooks and the settlement in South Africa where Mahatma Gandhi

Ans- Phoenix

Q8
What television show has a weekly audience of over 1 billion, and holds the world record in the Guinness Book of World records for the maximum audience ever?

Ans- Baywatch

Q9
2005 is the centenary year of Albert Einstein's relativity theory and also the year in which he released all his four papers on the principles of relativity. However, he had released the papers in German. Which two men translated these papers from German to English?

Ans- Two Indians! SN Bose and Megnath Saha

Q10

The official currency of Botswana is called PULA. The people of
Botswana named it themselves, to indicate something which was very
precious to them. What was the meaning of PULA?
Ans -Water