1.---- was an enthusiastic owner of sports cars, including a Ferrari. There are several versions of why ----- started his own company, all of them involving a conflict between himself and Enzo Ferrari. ----- went to meet Enzo Ferrari at the Ferrari factory to complain about the quality of the clutch in his Ferrari 250 GT. Enzo Ferrari sent him away telling him to go and drive tractors because he was not able to drive cars. ---- went back to his factory, had his Ferrari's clutch dismantled and realized that the clutch manufacturer was the same who supplied the clutches for his tractors. In his warehouse he found a spare part which he thought suitable, and when it was installed the problem was solved. Who are we talking about..? (Given ample of clues..).
Ans. Lamborghini.
2. Douglas Engelbart received patent US3541541 on November 17, 1970 for an "X-Y Position Indicator for a Display System". How do we commonly know this patent as..?
Ans. The mouse.
3.This phrase has been derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb. Which phrase?
Ans. Rule of Thumb.
4.On September 12th, 2001, the day after the September 11th terrorist attacks against New York City and Washington, DC, a person posted a message on his website that included the passage: "Many families have been devastated tonight. This just is not right. They did not deserve to die. If someone did this to get back at Bush, then they did so by killing thousands of people who DID NOT VOTE for him! Boston, New York, DC, and the planes' destination of California — these were places that voted AGAINST Bush!" Who posted this message?
Ans. Michael Moore (Director of Fahrenheit 9/11).
5.Which famous phrase (clue: linked to creativity) originated from a puzzle where one has to connect 9 dots arranged in a square grid with 4 straight lines drawn continuously, without your pen leaving the paper?
Ans. Thinking out of the box.
6. The Architecture of the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Dubai is unique in a way, i.e the structure/layout of the building represents something. What..?
Ans. When viewed from the top, the building represents Dubai written inArabic.
7.What is the claim to fame of the line below..? (along with many other dialogues) ----"Bridget is my age and lives across the street. For the first twelve years of my life, these qualifications were all I needed in a best friend. But that was before Bridget's braces came off and her boyfriend Burke got on, before Hope and I met in our seventh grade Honors classes"
Ans. Original passages from which Kavya Vishwanathan has been accused ofcopying. (Plagiarism).
8.Celine Dion - "A new day has come"-- whats the controversy?
Ans. First Cd to come with copy protection i.e., it cannot be played or copied on the PC.
9.When ____ was a Stanford research project, it was nicknamed BackRub because the technology checks backlinks to determine a site's importance. Identify it... (Very famous and people use it often).
Ans. Google.
10.Wolfsburg is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located on theRiver Aller, northeast of Braunschweig (Brunswick). The city is very young, since it was planned by the Nazis in order to build a town for the workers of ______?
Ans. Volkswagen Factories.
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