Saturday 26 November 2011

Quiz 60 : Answers


Q1. It is listed as the 9th largest private company in the US by Forbes. Jim Turley is the CEO Chairman of this company. Alvin and Theodore were the two founders and the motto is “Quality in everything we do”. Name this organization.

                                Ernest and Young

Q2. Ward Cheney, John hay Whitney, Paul Mellon and Andrew Mellon were the four founders of this magazine. Ray Chelstowski is the publisher and Tina Brown is the editor. Its first issue was launched on 17th February 1933. Name this magazine.

                                Newsweek

Q3.  It is 39.6 metres (130 ft) tall, including its 9.5 metres (31 ft) pedestal, and 30 metres (98 ft) wide. It weighs 635 tonnes (625 long,700 short tons), and is located at the peak of the 700-metre (2,300 ft) Corcovado mountain in the Tijuca Forest National Park overlooking the city. This was sculpted by Paul Landowski. Which one we are talking about?

                                Christ the Redeemer  
 Q4.  Identify

Sharbat Gula. She is the Afghan woman who was the subject of a famous photograph by journalist Steve McCurry

Q5.  With a blog, a Facebook page, and many You Tube videos, he had been described as the "Bin Laden of the Internet". Who?

                                Anwar al-Awlaki.

 Q6.  Identify the businessman?


                                Harland “Colonel” Sanders. Founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken Company

Q7.  In 2005, he opened the first exhibition of his drawings, located in Moscow. His reasoning for showing the drawings then was, "I am 72 years old and I wanted to present my drawings this year before disappearing from this planet. I have not shown them to anyone except Salvador Dali 30 years ago who told me to keep going." Which fashion designer we are talking about?

                                Paco Rabanne
 

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