Question 29

X was a French jurist, poet and author. He has many publications to his credit such as ‘Political History of the United States’, ‘United States and France’  and ‘Memoirs of Franklin’. He is most well remembered however as the intellectual creator of the Statue of Liberty in the New York harbour and its lesser known twins in Paris, and Luxembourg Garden.

Question 28

X is a free Microsoft Security Software scheduled for release later this year. It is codenamed Morro and is said to be replacing Microsoft’s paid version called Windows Live OneCare. What is X?

Question 27

X are known as the Devil’s bones. X consist of pips, different in number, marked on each of their faces. Terms such as ace, duce, trey, cater, cinque and sice were once used in correlation with them. X come in various forms such as Crooked X, Loaded X, cheat X, Shaved X, Iced X etc. What is X?

Question 26

X was a New Zealand mountaineer and explorer. On 29 May 1953 at the age of 33, he and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers known to scale the summit of Y. They were part of the ninth British expedition to Y, led by John Hunt. Moreover, X is famous for being the first man to have stood on both the poles(North and South) and on the summit of Y. Name X and Y.

Question 25

X was bought by Peter Minuit  in 1626 from native Indian people in exchange for trade goods worth sixty guilders, often mistakenly said to be worth twenty-four dollars. It can be converted to modern currency by comparing bread prices etc. and amounts around $1000 nowadays. What is X?

Question 24

Because of its vast dimensions, X is sometimes called The River Sea. At no point is X crossed by bridges This is not because of its huge dimensions. In fact, for most of its length, X’s width is well within the capability of modern engineers to bridge. However, the bulk of X flows through tropical rainforests, where there are few roads and even fewer cities and hence there is no need for bridges. What am I referring to?

Question 23

This extremely fast-growing service was created in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, who described it thus – ‘The working name was just “Status” for a while. It actually didn’t have a name. We were trying to name it, and mobile was a big aspect of the product early on…we looked around in the dictionary for words…and we came across the word  X  and it was just perfect. The definition was “a short burst of inconsequential information”. X won a Webby Award this year for the category “Breakout of the Year.” What is X?

Source: TCS Qualifiers.

Question 22

X is known as ‘La Gioconda’. It is a portrait painted in oil during the Italian Renaissance. The work is currently owned by the government of France and is on display at the Louvre in Paris. X is named for Lisa del Giocondo, a member of the Gherardini family of Florence and Tuscany and the wife of wealthy Florentine silk merchant Francesco del Giocondo. The painting was commissioned for their new home and to celebrate the birth of their second son, Andrea. Name X?

Question 21

Who was the famous French seer or prophet who lived between 1503 and 1566. He predicted the great fire of London, the coming of Luis Pasteur, General Franco and the civil war in Spain and most remarkably that an Austrian named Hister(Hitler) would lead Germany in a great war, but would eventually be defeated.

Question 20

What article of dress or clothing comes in the following forms:  ‘Domino’, ‘Cardinal’, ‘Pelegrine’, ‘Mantle’, ‘Dolman’ and ‘Inverness’?