Quest-ions

"I swear by Apollo, the healer, Asclepius, Hygieia, and Panacea, and I take to witness all the gods, all the goddesses, to keep according to my ability and my judgment, the following Oath and agreement:

To consider dear to me, as my parents, him who taught me this art; to live in common with him and, if necessary, to share my goods with him; To look upon his children as my own brothers, to teach them this art..."

What art? What is this?

ANS:Hippocratic Oath

The No "I-Don't-Know-Zone".

In 1946, 20 people met in a burned-out store in Tokyo to form a company – the Tokyo Telecommunication Engineering Corporation. One of its founders, Masaru Ibuka, wanted to create a product that would be useful to the general public. What is the company known as today? 

ANS:Sony

The Angry Buddhist

__X__ didn't have a very stable childhood. He was put up for adoption by his biological mother, who went on to become a speech language pathologist. His biological father is a Syrian political science professor.

He went to Reed College, when he decided to visit India to "find himself". He came back a Buddhist with his head shaved and wearing traditional Indian clothing. During this time, he experimented with psychedelics, calling his LSD experiences "one of the two or three most important things he had done in life".

He will forever be remembered as an indelible author of the technological age.

Identify X.

ANS:Steve Jobs,the founder of Apple Company.

Pop goes the Weasel

Sugar, Gum Base, Glucose Syrup, Dextrose, Natural and Artificial Flavours, Glycerin, Soy Lecithin, Aspartame (5.4 mg/)Acesulfame-Potassium (3.6 mg)Hydroxylated Soy Lecithin, Colour (contains Tartrazine)

What? 
Explain.

ANS:Wrigley's Juicy Fruit

Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio installed the first bar code scanning equipment. The first product to be scanned using a UPC bar code was a 10 pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit gum. This pack of gum is now on display at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.

                                                             

Those are the ingredients of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit.

Can't Think of a name

George de Mestral named his invention X which is a portmanteau of the two French words velours, meaning 'velvet', and crochet, or 'hook' 



Id 'X'

ANS:Velcro

The Irene Man

Knowledge of Literature — Nothing. 

Knowledge of Philosophy — Nothing.

 Knowledge of Astronomy — Nothing. 

Knowledge of Politics — Feeble.

 Knowledge of Botany — Variable. Well up in belladonna, opium and poisons generally. Knows nothing of practical gardening.

 Knowledge of Geology — Practical, but limited.

 Knowledge of Chemistry — Profound.

 Knowledge of Anatomy — Accurate, but unsystematic. 

Knowledge of Sensational Literature — Immense. He appears to know every detail of every horror perpetrated in the century. 

Is an expert singlestick player, boxer and swordsman. Has a good practical knowledge of British law.


 Who? 

ANS:Sherlock Holmes

Cleanliness is Close To Godliness

During World War One, large reserves of a particular commodity accumulated in Karnataka because they could not be exported to Europe. On the advice of Sir M Visweshwariah, Nalvadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar, the Maharajah of Mysore established a factory in 1916 to manufacture what brand of products?

AMS:Mysore Sandal Soap