general knowledge Online Quiz - 2587

Keshopur is a town located in Bihar state. It is not in Goa (coastal state), Kerala (south India), or Madhya Pradesh (central India).

Akot is a city in Maharashtra state, which is not listed among the options (Jammu and Kashmir, Kerala, Bihar). Therefore 'None of these' is the correct answer.

Kanyakumari is located in Tamil Nadu at the southernmost tip of mainland India. It is not in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, or Kerala - hence 'None of these' is correct.

Satna is a city in Madhya Pradesh, located in the Vindhya region. It is not in Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, or Uttaranchal (now Uttarakhand).

Shimla is the capital city of Himachal Pradesh in northern India. It is not in Uttarakhand (formerly Uttaranchal), Uttar Pradesh, or West Bengal.

Reducing energy use has the greatest impact because it directly cuts greenhouse gas emissions from power generation and industry - the largest contributors to global warming. Recycling and composting help reduce waste but have less immediate climate impact. Planting trees sequesters carbon over decades, not years.

Dimanche is the French word for Sunday. Mardi is Tuesday, Jeudi is Thursday, and Lundi is Monday. Sunday is considered the last day of the week in most calendars.

Cadbury-Schweppes was the full corporate name when Dairy Milk was established. Option A (Cadbury alone) is arguably more correct for current ownership, but the question appears to expect the historical full corporate name. Options C and D have spelling errors.

Hershey has the license to manufacture and distribute KitKat in the United States. Nestle owns the KitKat brand globally but the US market is an exception due to a historical licensing agreement. Nidar and Lotte are other confectionery companies.

Bar One is manufactured by Nestle. It was originally a Cadbury product but is now under Nestle ownership. Meiji is a Japanese company, and Masterfoods (now Mars) produces different chocolate brands.

Bournville is a Cadbury brand, so Cadbury-Schweppes (the historical corporate name) is the manufacturer. Mars makes Snickers and Milky Way, and Nestle owns KitKat and Aero. Option B 'lon' appears to be incomplete or a typo.

Cherry Blossom is manufactured by Lowney's Chocolates (a Canadian company that became part of Hershey). Chase Candy is unrelated, Nestle makes different chocolate brands, and Mars produces M&Ms and Snickers.

Crunch is a Nestle product featuring crisped rice in milk chocolate. Cadbury owns different brands, Lotte is a Korean company, and Adams and Brooks is a smaller US confectioner. The HTML entity in the name represents the accent in Nestle.

Steve Jobs was the CEO and co-founder of Apple Inc., not AT&T. AT&T is a telecommunications company that has been led by different executives (Randall Stephenson, then John Stankey). Steve Jobs never held any leadership position at AT&T.

Francisco D'Souza served as CEO of Cognizant Technology Solutions from 2007 to 2019, leading the company through significant growth and expansion. Jerald G Fishman was CEO of Analog Devices, Sunil Bharti Mittal founded Bharti Airtel, and John Chambers led Cisco Systems.

N Chandrasekaran has been the CEO of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) since 2017, after serving as COO and earlier roles. He's a prominent leader in India's IT industry. Srinivasan M and Chanda Kochhar are associated with other companies, while Jack Dorsey founded Twitter.

Shantanu Narayen has been the CEO of Adobe Systems since 2007, leading the company's transition to cloud-based services and creative software. He's an Indian-American business executive. TCS is led by N Chandrasekaran, Dell had Michael Dell, and AT&T has its own leadership.

Ole Römer first measured the speed of light in 1676 by observing the timing of Jupiter's moon Io. Einstein worked on relativity, Newton on classical mechanics, and Galileo on astronomy and physics but didn't measure light speed.

Alexander Oparin proposed the theory of chemical evolution of life in his 1924 book 'The Origin of Life', suggesting organic molecules could form from inorganic precursors. Darwin proposed natural selection, Lamarck proposed inheritance of acquired characteristics, and Haeckel worked on embryology and evolution.