Posts Tagged ‘Quiz’

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Srinivasa Ramanujan: Quiz

  1. What lie did the British mathematician Hardy give to the Scotland Yard once in order to save Ramanujan from an arrest? 2. What famous inequation did Hardy give once regarding Ramanujan and another famous mathematician David Hilbert? 3. Among other places around the world what is also there at the IISc, Bangalore; Defence [...]

Published by on April 3rd, 2012 at 12:04 am
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Diligimus Cognition (We Love Knowledge) (3)

1.The name of this particular company is is derived from the names of two elements osmium and  tungsten as both these elements were commonly used for lighting filaments at the time the company was founded. Identify the company. 2. Cover Page of a book on the life of? 3.You know what to do.[The pic towards which all [...]

Published by on November 23rd, 2011 at 05:11 pm
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Diligimus Cognition (We love knowledge) (2)

1.  Yes, it has been cropped and edited; yet its all there in for you to tell what it is. So,just tell me what it is (as simple as that)? 2. Born near Edinburgh in Scotland, “X” lived for her entire life at the place of her birth. In course of her life,she gave birth to six progenies [...]

Published by on September 14th, 2011 at 12:09 am
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Diligimus Cognition (We love knowledge) (1)

Q1:- This word is believed to be drawn from an Arabic word which originally meant a fine powder of Antimony produced by distillation. In his translation of John of Vigo in 1543, Bartholomew Traheron introduces this word as a term used by "barbarous" (Moorish) authors for "fine powder”. Later, the word came to refer to any fluid [...]

Published by on August 22nd, 2011 at 01:08 am
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New Quiz Section

We are bringing out a new Quiz Section called "Diligimus cognition" (which means we love the knowledge) by Salik Miskat Borbora, one of our consulting editors. Salik is a highly respected quizzer in Assam and will be mainly posting questions about science, technology and mathematics. The first post in this section will be posted in [...]

Published by on August 5th, 2011 at 06:08 pm