HTNI #47

It is a rare type of natural disaster in which carbon dioxide suddenly erupts from deep lake water, suffocating wildlife, livestock and humans. Such an eruption may also cause tsunamis in the lake as the rising CO2 displaces water. Only two such instances have been recorded in history -- Once in 1984 in Cameroon at Lake Monoun and the other being at the neighbouring Lake Nyos in 1986. What are these types of explosions called?


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This is the Mascot of the FIFA Women's World Cup 2011 , named Karla Kick. Only Tezeshwar got this right.

HTNI #46

The Emblem for this event, designed by advertising agency WVP , was presented by Steffi Jones and shows a stylized stadium with stripes in the national colours of Germany ( Black , Red , and gold) with a pictogram of the trophy in the upper right corner. The mascot for the event was developed by GMR marketing and represent the important attributes of passion , fun and dynamics. Which event and what is the name of the mascot?

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Delhi Cottom Mills -- or DCM.. only the Biz God Prashanth got this right.

HTNI #45

From the Brink of Bankruptcy is a new book by Vinay Bharath Ram about a company that he headed during the 1990s. Which compan'y story is it?

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Sergio Tacchini -- the Sports Clothing designer is the correct answer.

Emil and Ramki get it right.

HTNI #44

He became a professional Tennis player at the age of 17, and became the Italian Tennis Champion defeating the pre-eminent Italian Player of his time Nicola Pietrangeli. He is however better known as the founder of a company formerly known as Sandys S.P.A. Who is this person?



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This was the first time a Landlocked country had won the America's Cup. Thus the 2007 America's Cup was held in Valencia after Alinghi auctioned the rights to host the America's Cup from Switzerland.


Only Ramki got this.

HTNI #43

In 2003 , The alinghi SUI -64 , a yacht owned by Societe Nautique de Geneve challenged the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron for the America's cup and won the races as well. This however resulted in a first for the America's Cup in 2007. What first occurred in 2007 and why?

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Mussolini

Santhosh , TriviaStar , Ramki got it right.

HTNI #42

Identify this person , who worked for L'Avveniere Del Lavoratare in Switzerland and was arrested by the Bernese Police because of his advocacy of a violent general strike,

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TRON -- stands for Trace On and was famous due to the release of TRON Legacy Movie. Ramki got this right.

HTNI #41

This 4 letter command in the basic language is  used primarily for debugging line-numbered BASIC GOTO and GOSUB statements. In text-mode environments such as the TRS-80 or MS-DOS/IBM PC-DOS, it would print the current line number which was being executed, on-screen. It is the abbreviation that indicates that Debugging/ Tracing is switched on. What is the 4 letter command and why was it in news in 2010?



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Fred and Ginger was the original proposed name -- After Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Only Aditya got this.

HTNI #40

The Dancing House , is the nickname given to the Nationale-Nederlanden building in downtown Prague designed by Frank Gehry and Vlado Milunic in 1992. However, what was the original name proposed for the building?

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Chuck Yeager was the answer. The first person to break the sound barrier. Balaji and Murthy got it right.

HTNI #39

His surname is the anglicized form of the Dutch/German/Scandinavian word for hunter. A US Airforce Test pilot and WWII veteran , he was assigned as the advisor to the Pakistan Air Force during the 1971 Indo-Pak war. Who was this person?

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The album is titled Diamond Music as it served as the music for Debeers Commercials over the years. Only Sourabh Got it.

HTNI #38

This is a cover of a classical piece named Palladio from an Album by Karl Jenkins Named Diamond Music. Why was the album named Diamond Music and where would one have heard the original version?

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Tepco


Mahendra, Kaushik and Aravind got it right.

HTNI #37

Identify this company that has recently been in news for all the wrong reasons from its logo

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Jaypee International Circuit -- Indian GP
2008 bscit, gopi , pscpscss, sourabh , appuchin , anantha , Vishnu , Ramki get it right..

HTNI #36

Which race track is this ? :)

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Blood in the water Polo match between USSR and Hungary ( semifinals) at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. The person depicted in the ppicture is Ervin Zador.


Answered by Sourabh, Respectful Disagreement , Matter Mani , Arun R , Vishnu , appuchin and Conga.

HTNI #35

Freedom's fury was a 2006 documentary produced by Lucy Liu and Quentin Tarantino and narrated by Mark Spitz.  What is the documentary about and who is depicted on the dvd cover?

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Homage to Pink Floyds Live at Pompeii Video.. Divya and Appuchin get it right.

HTNI #34

This video by the Beastie Boys -- features a slow horizontal tracking video that is a homage to another famous music video/film. Which band are they paying a homage to?





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Disney's Fantasia -- Only Sourabh got it.

HTNI #33

Featuring 6 pieces of music.. Allegro Non Troppo an Italian Film parodies which famous film released almost 40 years before this?

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Tim Armstrong about AOL's acquisition of  Huffington Post. Vivita and Sourabh get it right..

HTNI #32

Posting for the sake of Posting a question :) Just been a long time...


This was the explanation given for a recent acquisition. Who about which acquisition?

Women account for 80 percent of domestic purchases, 80 percent of purchases are done locally, and 80 percent of purchases are influenced in some way by “influencer crowds.” So expect to see us acquire or develop a lot more content targeted at “women, local, and influencers.”


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Lloyds Building
Appuchin , Sourabh , Vishnu , Konga , "When I was in London" -- Divya answer it right.

HTNI #31

The Bell of the "Tease" can be found in this building. What is this building and what is the most famous artifact inside it?

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The Cat Concerto ( Tom & Jerry)


Sourabh, appuchin , vidya get it right.

HTNI #30

What starts with a Rhapsody composed in 1847 and dedicated to count Laszlo Teleki , moves on to Atchison , Topeka and the Santa Fe -- a 1946 song by Judy Garland -- and finishes with the playing of a scale?

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Meerkat -- Vidya, Ramkumar , Divya , appuchin and sourabh get it right.

HTNI #29

Timon , a character in the Lion King is a small mammal that belongs to the mongoose family. The name for this species is a loanword from Afrikaans and is a dutch word meaning “Lake Cat”, but these animals neither belong to the cat family nor are they attracted to lakes. It is therefore considered that it might be an adaptation of a derivative of the Sanskrit word meaning monkey. What is the name of this creature?

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Only ND got it... We would have heard the music recently in the airtel ads.

HTNI #28

This is a question from a quiz that I recently attended.

Where would you have recently heard a piano piece by Ludovico Einaudi called I Giorni?




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As Sourabh 'succintly' put it -- "Watson, named after IBM's founder, Thomas J. Watson, is an artificial intelligence program developed by IBM designed to answer questions posed in natural language. It has been developed as part of the DeepQA research project.It is scheduled to compete on the television quiz show Jeopardy! as a test of its abilities; the competition will be aired in three Jeopardy! episodes running from February 14–16, 2011."


Tezeshwar, Sourabh , Appuchin , Kaushik get it right.


Check out this clip of Watson going up against humans in a mock up.