Thursday 20 October 2011

Quiz 30: Answers

1. In a 2005 study of 127 world cities, the Economist Intelligence Unit ranked the city first (in a tie with Vancouve, Canada) for quality of life.  This assessment was mirrored by the Mercer Survey in 2009 and 2010. Which city we are talking about?
                                Vienna
2.  Identify?         

      
Ed Stafford. On 9 August 2010, he became the first person to walk the entire length of the Amazon River

3.   Identify both the buildings?
                                The Shanghai World Financial Centre and (left) and the Jin Mao Tower (right)

4.  Which chain of Hotels are conferred the award of “Greenest Luxury Hotel Chain in the World”?
                                ITC Hotels
5.  Armaan Ebrahim is sponsored by JK Tyre, Amaron, Red Rooster Racing and by whom? (clue: another Sportsman)
                                Foundation of Indian cricketing star Yuvraj Singh (Yuvraj Singh Foundation).

6. The plot and characters are loosely based on the author's observations of her family and neighbors, as well as on an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936, when she was 10 years old. British librarians ranked the book ahead of the Bible as one "every adult should read before they die". Which book we are talking about?

                                                “To Kill a Mocking Bird” by Harper Lee

7.  He was also the only musician to bring along two Bharat Ratna recipient singers, Smt Lata Mangeshkar and Pandit Bhimsen Joshi for a Hindi bhajan (devotional song) album Ram Shyam Gun Gan. Whom we are talking about?

                                                Shrinivas Khale

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