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These questions are extracted from KQA Maha Quizzer 2012. All the rights are held by the minds behind creation of this wonderful set of questions
1. Arising out of the 1973 oil crisis, it started in a series of informal meetings at the White House Library between officials from the US, the UK, Germany, Japan and France, and was informally known as the Library Group. Its official name has changed slightly as more members were added. How do we currently know it?
Ans. G8
2. By introducing the British edition of which magazine in 1916 did Conde Nast become the first publisher of an overseas edition of an existing magazine?
Ans. Vogue
3. His namesake company's video cameras accompanied the Apollo 11 crew and captured the Moon walk for viewers on Earth. Name the American entrepreneur who ironically was awarded the IEEE’s Edison Medal in 1911.
Ans. George Westinghouse
4. Random forests, naïve Bayesian estimators, RESTful services, gossip protocols, eventual consistency, data sharding, anti-entropy, Byzantine quorum, erasure coding, vector clocks … walk into certain _______ meetings, and you may momentarily think you’ve stumbled into a computer science lecture” – so starts a 2010 letter to shareholders of which company?
Ans. Amazon.com
5. Known as “berline” or “berlina” in some parts of mainland Europe, its common name comes from the Italian for a “carried chair”. The first of its kind was the Renault Voiturette Type B. What is the common name?
Ans. Sedan
5. In 1924, a brilliant physics student Adriano _______, achieved fame with his experimental radio connection between Italy and America, using a short wave device of his own design. Encouraged by the success of this experiment, the family established the "Società Scientifica Radio Brevetti _________ ". The surname survived as his other brothers found fame after the release of the motorbike Cucciolo. What surname?
Ans. Ducati
These questions are extracted from KQA Maha Quizzer 2012. All the rights are held by the minds behind creation of this wonderful set of questions
1. Arising out of the 1973 oil crisis, it started in a series of informal meetings at the White House Library between officials from the US, the UK, Germany, Japan and France, and was informally known as the Library Group. Its official name has changed slightly as more members were added. How do we currently know it?
Ans. G8
2. By introducing the British edition of which magazine in 1916 did Conde Nast become the first publisher of an overseas edition of an existing magazine?
Ans. Vogue
3. His namesake company's video cameras accompanied the Apollo 11 crew and captured the Moon walk for viewers on Earth. Name the American entrepreneur who ironically was awarded the IEEE’s Edison Medal in 1911.
Ans. George Westinghouse
4. Random forests, naïve Bayesian estimators, RESTful services, gossip protocols, eventual consistency, data sharding, anti-entropy, Byzantine quorum, erasure coding, vector clocks … walk into certain _______ meetings, and you may momentarily think you’ve stumbled into a computer science lecture” – so starts a 2010 letter to shareholders of which company?
Ans. Amazon.com
5. Known as “berline” or “berlina” in some parts of mainland Europe, its common name comes from the Italian for a “carried chair”. The first of its kind was the Renault Voiturette Type B. What is the common name?
Ans. Sedan
5. In 1924, a brilliant physics student Adriano _______, achieved fame with his experimental radio connection between Italy and America, using a short wave device of his own design. Encouraged by the success of this experiment, the family established the "Società Scientifica Radio Brevetti _________ ". The surname survived as his other brothers found fame after the release of the motorbike Cucciolo. What surname?
Ans. Ducati
When five terrorists stormed the Pan Am Flight-73 at Karachi airport and took control of the aircraft, the first act that Neerja did was to shout "hijack", enabling the pilots and some other crew members to escape from the aircraft so that the plane could not be forcibly flown. She hid the passports of the passengers on the flight so that the hijackers could not differentiate between American and Non-American citizens. She laid down her life while shielding three children from the bullets fired by the terrorists. 
