Quotes - India

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, 

without which no worthwhile scientific discovery 

could have been made.
Albert Einstein.

 
India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of

human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother 

of legend and the great grand mother of tradition.
Mark Twain. 

 
If there is one place on the face of earth where all 

dreams of living men have found a home from the 

very earliest days when man began the dream of 

existence, it is India .
French scholar Romain Rolland. 

 
India conquered and dominated China culturally

for 20 centuries without ever having to send a 

single soldier across her border.
Hu Shih
(former Chinese ambassador to USA ) 

Facts - India

1. India never invaded any country in her last 1000 years of history. 

2. India invented the Number system. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.

3. The world's first University was established in Takshila in 700BC. 

More than 10,500 students from all over the world 

studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda 

built in the 4 th century BC was one of the 

greatest achievements of ancient India in the 

field of education.

4. According to the Forbes magazine, Sanskrit is the 

most suitable language for computer software.
 

5. Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans.
 

6. Although western media portray modern images of India 

as poverty striken and underdeveloped through political corruption, 

India was once the richest empire on earth.
 

7. The art of navigation was born in the river Sindh 5000 years ago. 

The very word 'Navigation' is derived from the Sanskrit word 

NAVGATIH.
 

8. The value of pi was first calculated by Budhayana, and he explained 

the concept of what is now k! nown as the Pythagorean Theorem. 

British scholars have last year (1999) officially published that Budhayan's 

works dates to the 6 th Century which is long before the European 

mathematicians.
 

9. Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India . Quadratic equations 

were by Sridharacharya in the 11 th Century; the largest numbers the 

Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Indians used

numbers as big as 10 53.
 

10. According to the Gemmological Institute of America, 

up until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds to the world.
 

11. USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century-old 

suspicion amongst academics that the pioneer of wireless 

communication was Professor Jagdeesh Bose and not Marconi.
 

12. The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra.
 

13. Chess was invented in India .
 

14. Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and 

health scientists of his time conducted surgeries like cesareans, 

cataract, fractures and urinary stones.. Usage of anaesthesia 

was well known in ancient India .
 

15. When many cultures in the world were only nomadic forest 

dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan 

culture in Sindhu Valley ( Indus Valley Civilisation).
 

16. The place value system, the decimal system was developed 

in India in 100 BC.

Cocktail03

1. What programming language is GOOGLE developed in?

Ans: Ajax

2. What is the expansion of YAHOO?

Ans: Yet Another Hierarchy of Officious Oracle

3. What is the expansion of ADIDAS?

Ans: All Day I Dream About Sports

4. Expansion of Star as in Star TV Network?

Ans: Satellite Television Asia Region

5. What is expansion of "ICICI?"

Ans: Industrial credit and Investments 

Corporation of India

6. What does "baker's dozen" signify?

Ans: A baker's dozen consists of 13 items - 

1 more than the items in a normal dozen

7. The 1984-85 season. 2nd ODI between India and Pakistan 

at Sialkot - India 210/3 with Vengsarkar 94*. 

Match abandoned. Why?

Ans: That match was abandoned after people 

heard the news of Indira Gandhi being killed.

8. Who is the only man to have written the 

National Anthems for two different countries?

Ans: Rabindranath Tagore

9. From what four word expression does the 

word `goodbye` derive?

Ans: God be With You!

10. How was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu better known?

Ans: Mother Teresa

11. Name the only other country to have got 

independence on Aug 15th?

Ans: South Korea

12. Why was James Bond Associated with the Number 007?

Ans: ISD Code for Russia

13. Who faced the first ball in the first ever One day match?

Ans: Geoffrey Boycott

14. Which cricketer played for South Africa before 

it was banned from international Cricket and later

represented Zimbabwe ?

Ans: John Traicot

15. The faces of which four Presidents are carved at Mt.Rushmore?

Ans: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, 

Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln

16. Which is the only country that is surrounded from 

all sides by only one country (other than Vatican )?

Ans: Lesotho surrounded from all sides by South Africa
 

17. Which is the only sport which is not allowed 

to play left handed?

Ans: Polo

Personalities

Bill Gates founder and chairman of Microsoft, has literally changed the work culture of the world in the 21st century, by simplifying the way computer is being used. He was the world's richest man for more than one decade. However, in the 1970's before starting out, he was a Harvard University dropout. The most ironic part is that, he started a software company (that was soon to become Microsoft) by purchasing the software technology from "someone" for only $US50 back then.
 
Abraham Lincoln received no more than 5 years of formal education throughout his lifetime. When he grew up, he joined politics and had 12 major failures before he was elected the 16th President of the United States of America.
 
Isaac Newton was the greatest English mathematician of his generation. His work on optics and gravitation made him one of the greatest scientists the world has even known. Many thought that Isaac was born a genius, but he wasn't! When he was young, he did very poorly in grade school, so poor that his teachers became clueless in improving his grades.
 
Ludwig van Beethoven, a German composer of classical music, is widely regarded as one of history's supreme composers. His reputation has inspired ? and in many cases intimidated ? composers, musicians and audiences who were to come after him. Before the start of his career, Beethoven's music teacher once said of him "as a composer, he is hopeless". And during his career, he lost his hearing yet he managed to produce great music ? a deaf man composing music, ironic isn't!
 
Thomas Edison who developed many devices that greatly influenced life in the 20th century. Edison is considered one of the most prolific inventors in history, holding 1,093 U.S patents to his name. When he was a boy his teacher told him he was too stupid to learn anything. When he set out on his own, he tried more than 9,000 experiments before he created the first successful light bulb.
 
The Woolworth Company was a retail company that was one of the original five-and-ten- cent stores. The first Woolworth's store was founded in 1878 by Frank Winfield Woolworth and soon grew to become one of the largest retail chains in the world in the 20th century. Before starting his own business, Woolworth got a job in a dry goods store when he was 21. But his employer would not let him serve any customer because he concluded that Frank "didn't have enough common sense to serve the customers".
 
By acclamation, Michael Jordon is the greatest basketball player of all time. A phenomenal athlete with a unique combination of grace, speed, power, artistry, improvisational ability and an unquenchable competitive desire. Jordan single-handedly redefined the NBA superstar. Before joining NBA, Jordan was just an ordinary person, so ordinary that was he was removed from the high school basketball team because of his "lack of skill".
 
Walter Disney was American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and animator. One of the most well-known motion picture producers in the world, Disney founded a production company. The corporation, now known as The Walt Disney Company, makes average revenue of US $30 billion annually. Disney started his own business from his home garage and his very first cartoon production went bankrupt. During his first press conference, a newspaper editor ridiculed Walt Disney because he had no good ideas in film production.
 
Winston Churchill failed the 6th grade. However, that never stopped him to work harder! He strived and eventually became the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. Churchill is generally regarded as one of the most important leaders in Britain and world history. In a poll conducted by the BBC in 2002 to identify the "100 Greatest Britons", participants voted Churchill as the most important of all.
 
Steven Spielberg is an American film director. He has won 3 Academy Awards and ranks among the most successful filmmakers in history. Most of all, Steven was recognized as the financially most successful motion picture director of all time. During his childhood, Spielberg dropped out of junior high school. He was persuaded to come back and was placed in a learning-disabled class. He only lasted a month and then dropped out of school forever.
 
Albert Einstein was a theoretical physicist widely regarded as the most important scientist of the 20th century. He was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect in 1905 and "for his services to Theoretical Physics". However, when Einstein was young, his parents thought he was mentally retarded. His grades in school were so poor that a teacher asked him to quit, saying, "Einstein, you will never amount to anything!"
 
In 1947, one year into her contract, Marilyn Monroe was dropped by 20th Century-Fox because her producer thought she was unattractive and could not act. That didn't deter her at all! She kept on going and eventually she was recognized by the public as the 20th century's most famous movie star, sex symbol and pop icon.
 
John Grisham's first novel was rejected by sixteen agents and twelve publishing houses. He went on writing and writing until he became best known as a novelist and author for his works of modern legal drama. The media has coined him as one of the best novel authors even alive in the 21st century.
 
Henry Ford's first two automobile companies failed. That did not stop him from incorporating Ford Motor Company and being the first to apply assembly line manufacturing to the production of affordable automobiles in the world. He not only revolutionized industrial production in the United States and Europe, but also had such influence over the 20th century economy and society. His combination of mass production, high wages and low prices to consumers has initiated a management school known as "Fordism". He became one of the three most famous and richest men in the world during his time.
 
Soichiro Honda was turned down by Toyota Motor Corporation during a job interview as "engineer" after World War Two. He continued to be jobless until his neighbours starting buying his "home-made scooters". Subsequently, he set out on his own to start his own company. Honda. Today, the Company has grown to become the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer and one of the most profitable automakers - beating giant automaker such as GM and Chrysler. With a global network of 437 subsidiaries, Honda develops, manufactures and markets a wide variety of products ranging from small general-purpose engines and scooters to specialty sports cars.
 
Akio Morita, founder of giant electric household products, Sony Corporation, first product was an electric rice cooker, only sold 100 cookers (because it burned rice rather than cooking). Today, Sony generates US$66 billion in revenue and ranked as the world's 6th largest electronic and electrical company.

Tech 02 (Microsoft Special)

1. What company made the first computer to run Microsoft software?

Ans: Altair

2. Who was the father of Hypertext?

Ans: Ted Nelson

3. What is the Yellow Book ?

Ans: Specifications for Computer Data CD

4. What is the expansion of DAT?

Ans: Digital Audio Tape

5. Whose nickname is Trey ?

Ans: Bill Gates

6. What is Bill Gates full name?

Ans: William Henry Gates III

7. How old was bill Gates when he founded Microsoft?

Ans: 19

8. Where was Microsoft first located?

Ans: Albuquerque, New Mexico

9. In 1980, Microsoft released a version of UNIX. What was it called?

Ans: XENIX

10. On what did Bill Gates spend $30.8m in a 1994 auction?

Ans: Leanardo Da Vinci Writings

11. A version of which traditional game did Bill Gates make 

in his first ever computer program?

Ans: Tic Tac Toe

12. What is the name of the default MS Office assistant?

Ans: Clippy

Literature01

1) Who was the author of the famous storybook 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'  ?

Ans :Lewis carroll

2) How many lines does a sonnet have?

Ans : 14

3) Which was the first book of the harry potter series ?

Ans :HP and the philosopher's stone

4) What nationality was Robert Louis Stevenson, writer of 'Treasure Island'?

Ans : Scottish

5) Who is the author of the book " The adventures of Tom Sawyer" ?

Ans : Mark Twain

6) Who is the author of "malgudi days"?

Ans : K.R. Narayan

7) Who is the author of the book "50 yrs of struggle" ?

Ans : Nelson Mandela

8)  Who wrote the novel Pride and Prejudice?

Ans: Jane Austen

 
9) Who wrote the book "A Tale of Two Cities" ?

Ans : charles Dickens

10)  Who wrote the poems, "On death" and "Women, Wine, and Snuff?"

Ans : Johen Keats

11)  Who wrote "Ten Little Niggers" ?

Ans: Agatha christie

Cocktail02

1) Which is India’s largest company in terms of 

annual turnover ?

Ans : Indian Oil Corporation Limited

2) 2. Which is the most profitable organization in 

terms of bottomline ?

Ans : ONGC

3) Which IT company was first listed in the Nasdaq ?

Ans : Infosys technologies
4) "We are building a new technology company" is the 

tagline of which company ?

Ans : LENOVO

5) "Like. No. Other." is the tagline of which company ?

Ans : SONY

6) " What the web can be" is the tagline of which company ?

Ans : macromedia 
7) Vodafone have ZOOZOOS ad their current ambassador. 

Prior to them who was the brand ambassador ?

Ans: Irfan Khan

8)  IDEA goes with X as their brand ambassador.Guess the "x"

Ans : Abhishek Bachan

9)  BSNL ditched "y" for Deepika Padukone as the 

brand ambassador. Guess the "y"

Ans : Preity Zinta