"Choose the highest ideal and live your life upto that. Look at the "ocean" and not at the wave." - Swami Vivekananda
Today is his 150th Birth Anniversary, and also the National Youth Day in India.
1. Rene Descartes came up with this theory by looking at a fly walk across a tiled ceiling. He was a french mathematician and philosopher who used the name Cartesius in Latin. Which theory are we talking about?
Answer: Theory of Co-ordinate Geometry
2. Name the three wheeler below.
Answer: "HyAlfa" (Produced by Mahindra and Mahindra, it is the world's first hydrogen powered three wheeler. It was showcased at the Auto Expo 2012 which concluded yesterday (11-01-2012).)
3. What is displayed in the picture below?
Answer: It is the world's lightest material (It is an ultralight metallic microlattices. It is mainly composed of air and a very minute amount of Nickel Phosphorous.)
4. Which was the first hotel in India to have refrigeration , laundry, all-day dining restaurant and the first 24-hour coffee shop? It was also the first building in its city to be lit by electricity.
Answer: Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, Mumbai. (It was converted into a six hundred-bed hospital during the World War I)
5. Identify the person below.
Answer: Nitin Nohria (He is the 10th and the current dean of Harvard Business School. He is the first Indian origin dean and only the second dean to be born outside United States.)
DID YOU KNOW?
The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are so radioactive that they are capable of setting of an alarm at a nuclear reactor.
Today is his 150th Birth Anniversary, and also the National Youth Day in India.
1. Rene Descartes came up with this theory by looking at a fly walk across a tiled ceiling. He was a french mathematician and philosopher who used the name Cartesius in Latin. Which theory are we talking about?
Answer: Theory of Co-ordinate Geometry
2. Name the three wheeler below.
Answer: "HyAlfa" (Produced by Mahindra and Mahindra, it is the world's first hydrogen powered three wheeler. It was showcased at the Auto Expo 2012 which concluded yesterday (11-01-2012).)
3. What is displayed in the picture below?
4. Which was the first hotel in India to have refrigeration , laundry, all-day dining restaurant and the first 24-hour coffee shop? It was also the first building in its city to be lit by electricity.
Answer: Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, Mumbai. (It was converted into a six hundred-bed hospital during the World War I)
5. Identify the person below.
DID YOU KNOW?
The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are so radioactive that they are capable of setting of an alarm at a nuclear reactor.
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