Answers to Neuron Asphyxia

1. “Tejasvinavadhithamastu” or “May learning illumine us both, the teacher and the taught” is the motto of which Indian university?

**2. Raphael Gray, a teenage Welsh hacker calling himself 'Saint of eCommerce'
cracked numerous computer networks and gained access to more than 2300
credit card numbers. His best-known stunt, however, was using Bill Gates' own
credit card number to mail order the Microsoft chairman a large shipment of
what?

3. If the Metre, the Kilogram, the Second, the Ampere, the Kelvin, and the Candela are six of the seven basic units of measurement in the SI system, what is the seventh?

4. She was born in Copenhagen in Denmark, which is where her father was stationed at the time. They later returned to their hometown of Mangalore. She would go on to make her movie debut in the film “Aishwarya” opposite Kannada superstar Upendra. Who?

5. Dear Socks, Dear Buddy: Kids' Letters to the First Pets, An Invitation to the White House: At Home with History, It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us. Whose books? Her name means ‘cheerful’ in Latin.

6. The Chicxulub is a famous asteroid about which paleontologists are more interested than astronomers. Why??

7. In ancient Persia what is the combination of the King and the Castle called?

**8. What is the following, the algorithm for?
v Continue traveling in the same direction while there are remaining requests in that same direction.
v If there are no further requests in that direction, then stop and become idle, or change direction if there are requests in the opposite direction.

9. Which Australian Test Captain declared with himself 334* because he didn't think he deserved to pass Don Bradman's test high score?

**10. Which 1998 Bollywood movie was marketed with the tagline?
"0% cloth, 100% love"?






1. CUSAT
2. Viagra
3. Moles
4. Deepika Padukone
5. Hillary Rodham Clinton
6. Chicxulub is the name of the asteroid that's believed to have killed the dinosaurs some 60 million years ago.
7. Shahrukh
8. Elevator
9. Mark Taylor
10. Jeans









11. Which famous product, at its launch, was called "Stevie's little wonder"?
12. Which famous lyricist, born in 1954 January 3 to M.V. Krishnan and M.K. Kalyani in Thrissur district has penned about 100 popular Malayalam songs?
He wrote the famous lines:
Oru nimisham tharoo
Ninnilaliyan,
Oru yugam tharoo
Ninneyariyan...

13. Who created both Winamp and Gnutella?

14. Which film production company owned by Shahrukh Khan and Juhi Chawla has produced many hits like Asoka?

15. What would you get by crossbreeding a bloodhound and a mastiff?

16. This personality was the author of the greatest work in Italian in 19th century. The work was the three-volume magnum opus ' Betrothed'. He was also considered literary figurehead of Risorgimento (a la Mayakovsky). Verdi's 'Requiem' was dedicated to him. Who?

17. Technology for Innovators is punch line of which IT company?

18. The MIT students calculated my speed to be around 1046 km/sec. The total load weight involved in my transfer is 321000 tonnes. 214000 living organisms of the same species are involved in my transfer. I have 918 million destinations to reach in 31 hours across 24 time zones visiting 822.6 destinations per second. Who or what am I?

19. Although I conceived and designed the first electronic spreadsheet, I never made a dime from it. Who am I?

20. What is the subject of Edwin Arnold's book "Light of Asia"?




11. I POD nano
12. Sathyan Anthikkad
13. Justin Frankel
14. "Dreamz Unlimited"
15. The hound of Baskervilles.
16. Alessandro Manzoni
17. Texas Instruments
18. Santa Claus
19. Dan Bricklin
20. Buddha’s life





21. Windows 3.x versions have it Black.
Xbox has it Green.
Vista (and some versions of 98) have it Red.
NT, 2000, XP, 9x have it Blue.
What?

22. Who is the player to have played maximum matches in the Davis cup?

**23. This fretless instrument is also called chitra veena. One of its most famous exponents is the young prodigy N Ravikiran. What am I talking about?

24. Who served as the acting Secretary-General of the UNO until Trygve Lie was elected in 1946?
** 25.Which player holds the record for the lowest score in the US Masters Golf Championship?

26. According to Ian Chappell, "…………." originated from Adelaide, South Australia in the 1963-1964 or 1964-1965 Sheffield Shield season. A cricketer who swore in the presence of a woman was called a …………….. from singer Percy ………… whose song When a Man Loves a Woman was popular at the time. Fill in the first blank.

27. Where can you see the families the Marshes, the Broflovskis, the Tweeks, the Cartmans, the McCormicks, and the Stotches?

28. After receiving his high school diploma at the age of 15, the home schooled _______ started planning a novel which he would enjoy reading himself.____ ____ never intended that the novel be published. However, after finishing re-drafting the story he gave it to his
parents, who decided to self-publish it. A further year was spent proofreading and editing the novel, in addition to creating a cover and map of Alagaësia.

29. In October 1963 at the ceremony to mark the dedication of this Project to the Nation, the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru said- "This has been built with the unrelenting toil of man for the benefit of mankind and therefore is worthy of worship. May you call it a Temple or a Gurdwara or a Mosque, it inspires our admiration and reverence”. Which project are we talking about?

30. “In the announcement of the 2005 Physics Nobel Prize, the Swedish Royal Academy has chosen R.J. Glauber to be awarded half of the prize. The prizewinners are chosen by the Royal Academy, but no one has the right to take my discoveries and formulations and ascribe them to someone else!”
"The correct formulation of the quantum mechanical treatment of optics was carried out by me in my paper in 1963. In that I showed that every state can be represented in the diagonal form... This diagonal representation is valid for all fields.”
“Give unto Glauber only what is his.”

A letter written to Nobel Prize committee by an eminent India born scientist who did path-breaking research in a particular area of Physics. Name the scientist who has been nominated for Nobel Prize six times.







21. Screen of Death
22. Nicola Pietrangeli
23. Gottuvadyam
24. Gladwyn Jebb
25. Tiger Woods
26. Sledging
27. South Park
28. Christopher Paolini
29. Bhakra Nangal
30. ECG Sudarsan





31. This current Head of State suffered a retinal detachment after being kicked in the head during an end-of-term rugby union match at his old school. He was left blind in his left eye, despite treatment including several operations and lying in a darkened room for weeks at a time. He has since been fitted with an artificial eye.
Who ?

32. "If you come to a fork in the road, take it." "You can observe a lot by just watching." "So many unforgettable moments, you can't remember 'em all."
Whose are these words?

33. She received a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Madras Christian College in 1974, and immediately entered the PGDBA program at the IIM-C. She was admitted to Yale School of Management in 1978 for a master's degree in Management. Among her friends are former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who describes her as a "wild New York Yankees fan.” She lives in Greenwich, Connecticut with her husband, Raj Kishan, and their two daughters. Who is she?

34. What was named after Charles ………………, an attorney from New York? He had nothing at all to do with the carving of the monument. He was a tourist who happened to be riding by and asked the name of the mountain. A guide teased him by saying it didn't have a name, but from now on they'd call it ………………………. . The name stuck! He later donated money toward carving the mountainside.

35. Which opera by Giuseppe Verdi was premiered on this day in 1853 and literally means “The Woman Who Strayed”?

36. The Moving Pixels Company, owned by graphic designer Manish Bardia was in the news in December 2007. Besides other contributions, its biggest claim to fame was a product mass-manufactured in China by a US-based toy manufacturer, which was used to seek mass attention. What was this ‘product’?

37. By 1861, this product, produced in USA enjoyed higher sales abroad than in USA. Salesmen had to customise the machine because the tribesmen wanted it noisier, saying, 'Good iron makes loud noise.' Mahatma Gandhi called it 'one of the few useful things ever invented'. Name the machine.

38. What is the first line of dialogue Amitabh spoke in Reshma Aur Shera?

39. This event made headlines in most of world’s newspapers except for the Soviet news agency Pravda whose main story on the day was about 25 years of Polish socialism. Which event?

40. "I was sitting writing at my text book, but the work did not progress; my thoughts were elsewhere. I turned my chair to the fire, and dozed. Again the atoms were gamboling before my eyes. This time the smaller groups kept modestly in the background. My mental eye, rendered more acute by repeated visions of this kind, could now distinguish larger structures of manifold conformations; long rows, sometimes more closely fitted together; all twisting and turning in snake-like motion. But look! What was that? One of the snakes had seized hold of its own tail, and the form whirled mockingly before my eyes. As if by a flash of lightning I woke;... I spent the rest of the night working out the consequences of the hypothesis. Let us learn to dream, gentlemen, and then perhaps we shall learn the truth."
These are words by a famous scientist on one of his discoveries. Who is the scientist?




31.Gordon Brown
32. Yogi Berra
33. Indra Nooyi
34. Mt. Rushmore
35. La traviata
36. Modi mask
37. The Sewing Machine
38. AB played a mute person in R&S.
39. Mans Landing on moon
40. Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz discovering the structure of Benzene




the cut-off of the quiz was 12. the top score was 21.5.