Limca Book of Records Quiz Delhi 2011

It was originally posted on gyaan.in

1)new delhi is home to 2 unesco world heritage sites one being the qutub minar what is the other?

Answer--Humayun's Tomb

2)to which country does the world's longest-serving current (royal) head of state belong?

Answer--Thailand

3)what is the p in http?

Answer--Protocol

4)Polar bears hibernate.True or False.

Answer--False

5)which Nobel prize has been given continuously since its inception(no year in which noone received the prize)

Answer--Nobel prize for Economics

6)who holds the record for the most no. of sixes in Champions League T20?

Answer--Virat Kohli

7)Sir William Herschel disovered which planet using a handheld reflecting telescope in 1781?

answer--uranus

8)Who is the current leader of the opposition in Rajya Sabha?

Answer--Shri Arun Jaitley

9)This is the year of the____________________(chinese calendar)?

Answer--Rabbit or Hare

10)Buzz Aldrin has a Guest appearance in which 2011 action film?

Answer--Transformers Dark of the moon

11)Which color derives its name from the Greek word for "Indian dye"?

Answer--Indigo

12)Identify--

(the image given was different and a lot more difficult to identify)

Answer--Novak Djokovic

13)Which famous play by Shakespeare has the lines--"In sooth, I know not why I am so sad."? 

Options--Merchant of venice,as you like it,macbeth

Answer--Merchant of Venice

14)Identifying voice--

Answer was Jairam Ramesh

15)Identify---

Answer--Kate or Catherine Middleton or Duchess of Cambridge

16)my first and middle name is Kisan Baburao--

Answer--Anna Hazare

17)Identify the flower--

Answer--Daffodils

18)Salman Khan's production hosue is known as SKBH with Sk being evident but what is BH?

Answer--Being Human

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I will post more as i remember now come questions from Finals--

1)First non governmental organisation to join Twitter--

Indian Post

2)Identify

First Telephone made by Alexander Graham Bell(prototype)

3)Which character from well know triology of novels goes to Albert Mission School?

Swami from Swami and Friends by Rk Narayanan

4)Who bowled the first ball in the world cup?(maybe for india)

Madan Lal

5)THe Danjon Scale is used to meaure what natural phenomena with L=0 being Very dark almost invisible and L=4 being Very bright copper-red or orange?

Lunar Eclipse

6)Reykjavík is the world's Northernmost capital which is the Southernmost?

Wellington,New Zealand

7)First t20 international match was held between asutralia and england.Serious or joking.

Answer-Joking(Australia and New Zealand)

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Results--

1st New era public school

2nd Springdales Public School

AQAD 425

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The iconic corporate logo used by Shell and the Nazis

By John Donovan

In 1904, the scallop shell or pecten replaced Shell Transport’s first marketing logo. In various forms it has remained in use ever since, becoming one of the best known corporate symbols in the world.
The above information is taken from the: “The beginnings“, which forms part of a shell.com online feature – “Our history” – covering Shell from its inception to the new millennium. A whole page is devoted to “The History of the Shell logo“ and there is more information on a downloadable document: “The History behind the Shell emblem,” in which this slogan appears:

“The Shell emblem – or Pecten – remains one of the greatest brand symbols of the 20th Century”

The authors of this judiciously selected online history have unsurprisingly neglected to mention the Nazi association with the pecten.
It was used by the German subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, Rhenania-Ossage, in the years before and during World War 2, when the company was in partnership with the notorious IG Farben, the German chemical company which produced synthetic gasoline by hydrogenation. IG Farben had championed the hydrogenation process since the 1920′s.
By 1939, synthetic gasoline covered nearly a third of oil consumption in Germany. Shell had a one-third stake in the Politz hydrogenation works.
Hermann Goering, a close friend of the Nazi leader of Royal Dutch Shell, Sir Henri Deterding, was commander of the German air force and in charge of the four-year plan to raise synthetic gasoline output to fuel Nazi military ambitions.
Following Hitler’s annexation of Austria and Czechoslovakia, Shell Group managing directors sanctioned Rhenania-Ossag taking over the Shell companies in those countries.
The Nazis continued to use the Shell pecten logo in Germany after the appointment of a Verwalter (administrator) for Rhenania-Ossag in January 1940. The Verwalter appointed a Shell Dutch Nazi general manager, J. H. W. Rost van Tonningen to a new pro-German board. He had previously held the post of Shell Group technical inspector visiting installations in Italy, Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, and Romania. Rost had developed a keen interest in fascism, joining the Dutch Nazi party. He was on one occasion suspended from work because of his political allegiance, before being reinstated, probably due to the influence of his brother, a prominent leader of the Dutch Nazi movement. Many employees of Royal Dutch Shell in Germany and the Netherlands were Nazis.
Hauptmann Eichardt von Klass, the former research director of Rhenania-Ossag, was appointed in January 1940 as Verwalter to manage Royal Dutch and had full powers to act on behalf of the concern in occupied Europe.

After the end of World War 2, Royal Dutch Shell regained control of Rhenania-Ossag and retained some of the same management who had helped to fuel the Nazi war machine.
Shell rehired former Shell employees who had been involved as Nazi party members in forced labor programs. Robert Finn, a senior employee of Rhenania-Ossag involved in the forced labor programme as a member of the Nazi party, became a director of a Shell Chemical company in Germany after the war.
Directors of IG Farben, which had used slave labor and supplied Zyklon-B gas to the Nazi death camps, were found guilty of war crimes.
The Shell pecten was used by the German Shell operating company Rhenania-Ossag, before, during, and after World War 2. No other global brand logo is as closely associated with the Nazis.

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