Biz Bytes #6

1. Epinephrine is commonly known as?
2. It is a French public multinational industrial conglomerate that is mainly known for nuclear power; it also has interests in other energy projects. It was created on 3 September 2001, by the merger of Framatome and Cogema. Its main shareholder is the French owned company CEA, but the German company Siemens also retains 34% of the shares of its subsidiary which is in charge of building the European Pressurized Reactor. Identify the company?
3. The concept incorporates infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and software as a service (SaaS) as well as Web 2.0 and other recent technology trends which have the common theme of reliance on the Internet for satisfying the computing needs of the users. Examples of SaaS vendors include Salesforce.com and Google Apps which provide common business applications online that are accessed from a web browser, while the software and data are stored on the servers. Which concept?
4. According to legend, the city was founded by Lord Shiva, around 5,000 years ago, thus making it one of the most important pilgrimage destinations in the country. It is one of the seven sacred cities of Hindus. Many Hindu scriptures, including the Rigveda, Skanda Purana, Ramayana, and the Mahabharata, mention the city. It is generally believed to be about 3,000 years old. It was a commercial and industrial centre famous for its muslin and silk fabrics, perfumes, ivory works, and sculpture. The celebrated Chinese traveller, Xuanzang, attested that the city was a centre of religious, educational, and artistic activities, and that it extended for about 5 km along the western bank of the Ganges. Which is the holy city?
5. It was founded in 2002, as a discussion board for students taking the Common Admission Test (CAT). What started off as an alternative to other staid bulletin boards for CAT takers is now the largest and most comprehensive MBA-centric website in India. Today, this online community boasts of active members who have made it to the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), XLRI-Jamshedpur, FMS-Delhi, SP Jain and other top B-schools in India, as well as B-schools abroad including Harvard, Wharton, Stanford, Oxford, Duke-Fuqua, Chicago GSB and many others! Which discussion board?
6. Which place is called as Berlin Wall of Asia?
7. Which is the shortest highway in the Indian Highway network?
8. Which was the first ISO 9005 certified city in India?
9. He’s regarded as the father of television quiz shows in India. He’s an English literature graduate from Delhi’s St. Stephen’s College. Has a company names Synergy Communications, which produces quiz shows for television channels. Name this icon?
10. It was designed by Siva S Aittili and Nikhil A Jadhav. It is described as “With a length of 3.1 metres, width of 1.5 metres and height of 1.6 metres, with adequate ground clearance, it can effortlessly manoeuvre on busy roads in cities as well as in rural areas” and about the engine “It has a rear-wheel drive, all-aluminium, two-cylinder, 623 cc, 33 PS, multi point fuel injection petrol engine. This is the first time that a two-cylinder gasoline engine is being used in a car with single balancer shaft.” Which magical creature am i talking about?
11. What is an equatorial ridge?
12. Chris Broderick is the current lead guitarist for which popular American band?
13. Which all countries were the founding members of the EU?
14. What began as a military attack on Egypt by Britain, France, and Israel beginning on 29 October 1956?
15. Who replaced Marc Ravalomanana as Madagascar’s new President?
16. Which celebrity, married to Jack Tweed, died today in Essex, UK?
17. Which player became the 3rd richest in IPL auctions of 2009 after Mumbai Indians franchise acquired him for US$ 950,000?
18. Which university in the world is said to employ more Nobel Prize laureates than any other institution?
19. Who was the last person to be guillotined in France? It happened on 10th September, 1977.
20. Formerly known as Willingdon Hospital, this in New Delhi has 984 beds. The hospital was originally founded, with only 54 beds, in the early 20th century by the British Raj for their government staff. In 1954, in the newly independent India, control of the hospital transferred to the Central Government’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The hospital is spread over 30 acres and is one of the most prestigious Central Government hospitals because of its well-positioned location, a seventy-one bed Nursing Home for Central Government Health Scheme beneficiaries, and extensive subspecialty care. The hospital also boasts round the clock emergency services and has current plans for the construction of a Doctor’s Hostel on its free land. In a year hospital provides services to about 12 lakhs patients as OPD cases, admits about 46,000 patients in Indoor and about 1.5 lakhs patients are attended in the Emergency. Similarly about 5,000 CT Scan, 1.70 lakhs X-Ray cases, 28 lakhs laboratory tests and about 17,000 Ultrasound are done. Hospital conducts about 9,000 Major and 40,000 Minor operations during a year. Which hospital?

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