How are these animals related to the world of technology?
Tag: Generalknowledge
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Jean _____ was a French diplomat and scholar, in 1560 & introduced a plant in the French court initially for medicinal purposes. This introduction gave rise to a culture associated with the plant and its eventual dissemination and popularization throughout Europe.
Name the plant and tell in what way the French diplomat’s name was immortalized later by Carl Linnaeus?
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During Marco Polo’s visit to India, he came across a plant that looked like dates, also known as ‘tamar‘ in Arabic.
It was also referred to as ‘Tamar-ul-Hind’, or Date from India.
What do we call it today?
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In the 1800s, with Britain’s Industrial Revolution in full swing, English workers and craftsmen began to find themselves in increasingly tight competition with the advanced mechanization and factories that enabled mass production of goods, combined with underhanded labor practices implemented by the top bosses in control of those factories to squeeze out as much product as possible.
Naturally, some of them expressed their resentment by going on a violent rampage against the machines that were destroying their livelihoods. Most legendary of these was “X”, who as the tale would have it, smashed two knitting frames in “a fit of passion” — an action that would result in his name being used for the entire movement. The name is still used today to refer to individuals who find themselves particularly opposed to modern technology and its ubiquity.
Who is X?
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The restaurant chains Moti Mahal recently filed a lawsuit against Daryaganj for the use of their tagline.
What does the tagline say, which has become contentious?
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Santa Maria delle Grazie (“Holy Mary of Grace”) is a lovely, if initially unassuming, 15th-century terracotta-stone church and convent located in Milan, Italy. While every brick of the church is rightly regarded as an architectural and artistic jewel, there’s something special about the north wall in the dining hall that led to the building’s designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
On the night of August 15, 1943, an Allied aerial strike partly destroyed the site — that north wall was one of the few left standing, having been protected since the start of World War II by sandbags and scaffolding.
Why is that wall so important?
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In 2020, L&T bagged the construction contract for the project & given the significance decided to give its services for free. Tata Consulting Engineers was brought in for its project management services.
The overall project is estimated to cost Rs 1800 crore and is said to be built without the use of any steel or concrete.
Which project am I talking about?
[90]
X is:
-the name of author Ian Fleming’s Jamaican estate, now a major hotel and resort, located right next to the aptly named James Bond Beach,
-the name of the first James Bond film to not be based on any of Fleming’s James Bond novels, named after the estate,
-part of the name of the videogame based on the film, often regarded as one of the greatest videogames ever made.
Name X.
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There is a trend of, technology reaching a larger audience faster. One way to measure this is to look at the time taken to reach 100 million users. Which service launched in 2023 broke all previous records & reached 100M users in just 5 days?
| Rank | Platform | Launch | Time to 100M Users |
| 1 | ? | 2023 | 5 days |
| 2 | ChatGPT | 2022 | 2 months |
| 3 | TikTok | 2017 | 9 months |
| 4 | 2011 | 1 year, 2 months | |
| 5 | 2010 | 2 years, 6 months |
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One of these is not like the others — which one, and why?
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X is a small town in Swiss Alps with a population of about 12,000 residents. The town is known for its skiing activities & great climate recommended by authors like RL Stevenson & Arthur Conan Doyle.
However, the town is more in the news for an annual event in which around 2700 people from various nations come & have discussions.
Identify the town.
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The Spanish city of Bilbao, on the Bay of Biscay, has two official languages – one is, quite obviously, Spanish. The other language, last of its kind, bears no relation whatsoever to Spanish or any other modern European language. What language is this?
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Decode the clues and connect them to a common theme:
Sesame + Jaggery
Capricorn Festival
A dish whose name means ‘to boil over’
[84]
What is the common thread here?
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Which sport are these 4 trophies connected to? Can you name all of them?
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1879 turned out to be a damn good year for chocolate, when chocolatier Rodolphe Lindt supposedly (possibly accidentally) left a chocolate mixer running over a weekend and came back to realize he’d created a chocolate that tasted far smoother and richer than ever before, owing to the cocoa butter mixing evenly over granules of cocoa.
What is this process called (and why’s it called that)?
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This company was originally called Yadi Electronics, named after the Yadi Road in Guangdong, China where it was started. Later, the character ‘Bi’ was added so that it can get an alphabetical listing advantage at trade shows.
The company today is a world leader in a category, which is set to disrupt a 100+ year old industry.
Identify the company.
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As a way to make their product stand out from the competition, one of the founders of this company would sign each finished product package to imply that it had been personally inspected and was the real deal.
With increasing demand, they designed a stylized, enhanced version of the signature in bright red, multiple iterations of which have served as the iconic logo for the company — up until very recently, when it was split into two entities, one of which now bears the full name of the founder and an expanded version of the logo.
What (former) company?
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The Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act introduced in 1998 increased copyright duration for works of corporate authorship to 95 years from publication or 120 years after creation, whichever end is earlier.
The law was seen as targeted step to by a corporation from letting one of their biggest characters from entering into the public domain. So much so that the law is sometimes referred to as _____ _____ Protection Act – named after the character.
In 2024, this character has finally entered public domain.
Name the character & the corporation behind it.
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Myth has it that this article of clothing made from cotton, silk, or satin is traditionally never to be washed. Time and use turn the initially white fabric yellow, then brown, and finally black with dirt and sweat. These colors would represent the level of proficiency of the wearer.
In reality, this color categorization system is a fairly modern invention, and tradition has nothing to do with it.
What are we talking about?