Winner of
'IAmAGenius' - November'12
Brij Gupta,
MBA, USMS,
GGS Indraprastha University,
New Delhi,
India.
'IAmAGenius' - November'12
Brij Gupta,
MBA, USMS,
GGS Indraprastha University,
New Delhi,
India.
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Every month long 'IAmAGenius' contest has 3 Levels for a participant go through successfully to emerge as a likely winner of the contest. The question pattern of the 3 Levels are as given below. |
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| 1. | Our food supply depends worldwide on a mere 20 staple crops. The fourth in this list first arrived in Europe in the 17th century. They were considered disgusting and were blamed for starting outbreaks of leprosy and syphilis. In 1720 in America, they were believed to shorten a person's life. This crop is Potato Onion Garlic Raddish |
| 2. | Before the development of the practical incandescent, electric light, he had to invent the parallel circuit, a durable light bulb, an improved dynamo, the underground conductor network, the devices for maintaining constant voltage, safety fuses & insulating materials, and light sockets with on-off switches. He is Thomas Edison James Jules Thompson-Houston J P Morgan |
| 3. | Sudden numbness or weakness of the face, arm or leg, especially on one side of the body, confusion, trouble speaking or understanding, trouble seeing in one or both eyes, trouble walking, dizziness, loss of balance or coordination, severe headache with no known cause are some of the symptoms when one has had a Heat Stroke Heart Attack Pneumonia Blood Cancer |
| 4. | No passport or visa is required to travel to this place that rarely experiences snow or has a rainfall because of its frigid air temperatures. This zone of peace has had no wars fought in its soil and no sovereign country ruling it. As all time zones converge here, a nearby country's time is officially followed here. This place is Greenland Antartica Artic region Siberia |
| 5. | Until 1995 there were believed to be only four phases of matter: gas, liquid, solid and plasma. Then it became five phases -- atoms in a super-cold vapour. At few billionths of degree above absolute zero, the wave lengths of atoms overlapped and behave in the same manner, creating a super atom. The fifth phase is Bose-Einstein condensate Zero energy Absolute phase Carl Weiman Phase |
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| 1. | The Hour hand and Minute hand of a Clock meet every 65 minutes. How much time is gained or lost? 5/11 minutes gain 5/11 minutes lost 6/11 minutes gain 6/11 minutes lost |
| 2. | Earth-Moon plane is tilted against the Earth-Sun plane. Without this tilt, there would be an eclipse every two weeks, alternating between lunar eclipses and solar eclipses. This tilt is about 5 degrees 10 degrees 15 degrees 20 degrees |
| 3. | Water stimulated with electrical current gathered from the cars battery produces HHO that helps as fuel in running a car. HHO is produced on demand and is directly introduced in to the engine’s combustion chamber to ignite. HHO is commonly known as Brown Gas Liquid Hydrogen Water Fuel Hydrogen Peroxide |
| 4. | Ostrich, Eagle, Birdie, Knock-down, Albatross, Dimple, Zinger, Ace, Stymie, Sweet-spot, Dog balls, Slice, Chunk, Explosion, Hook, Pitch, Shamble, Zinger, Whiff, Tempo are some of the terms used in which sport Golf Carrom Bridge Judo |
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| 1. | Earth travels around the sun at 29.77km/s and rotates around its axis at around 450m/s. It completes one full rotation around its axis in 23 hours 56 minutes 04. 09053 seconds. But it has to revolve around for about another 3 minutes and 56 seconds before the sun seems to be back in the same place in the sky that it was in exactly the day before. So how many times does Earth actually revolve around itself in a year (365.25 days) 366.25 366.75 367 367.50 |
| 2. | Hacky and Wacky write codes such that a US 1 Cent gets into their 'Our Bank' account every time the 87,000 credit card customers of 'Use Me Bank' use their 'Use Me Bank' credit card. On an average if every 'Use Me Bank' credit card is used once in two days, what would be Hacky's 60% share in US Dollars from the accumulated Hacky and Wacky's 'Our Bank' account for the whole of the June month? USD 7830 USD 15660 USD 52200 USD 10440 |
| 3. | Bribery is an act implying money or gift given that alters the behaviour of the recipient in ways not consistent with the duties of that person. A person takes oath of eradicating bribery from her society and starts by herself not accepting bribe all her life from day 1. She also converts 2 new people like her everyday from the next day onwards. If every person who has taken this oath keep converting 2 new people everyday after their first day, how long would it approximately take to rid bribery from a country of 1 billion population completely? 30 days 100 days 2 days 10 days |