General Knowledge: Inventions and Headquarters

Lewis Waterman invented the first practical fountain pen in 1884, solving the ink flow problems that plagued earlier pen designs and making fountain pens reliable writing instruments.

Henry Greathead (also spelled Great Head) invented the first lifeboat in 1790, designed to rescue people from shipwrecks. His invention featured a self-righting design and was specifically built for heavy sea conditions.

Google's headquarters (the Googleplex) is located in Mountain View, California, USA. Redmond is Microsoft's headquarters, Santa Clara is home to Intel, and Cupertino is Apple's headquarters.

Microsoft's global headquarters is located in Redmond, Washington, where it moved in 1986. The other options are all California cities that house other major tech companies (Oracle, NVIDIA, etc.).

SAP was founded and is headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, where it remains today. The other options are locations of other major tech companies (NVIDIA, IBM, various tech hubs).

Accenture's global headquarters is located in Dublin, Ireland. The company moved its tax domicile from Bermuda to Ireland in 2009. The other options are locations of other major tech companies (SAP, NVIDIA, various Silicon Valley firms).

Intel's headquarters is located in Santa Clara, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley. The other options are locations of other major tech companies (IBM in Armonk, Apple in Cupertino, various in Redwood City).

Shashi Tharoor is the Member of Parliament from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala (since 2009, with a brief interruption). He has never represented Bellary, Guna, or Ahmedabad. This is a factual political/government question.

Sonia Gandhi has served as a Member of Parliament from the Rae Bareilly constituency in Uttar Pradesh. She has been a long-standing representative of this constituency since 2004. While she has family connections to Amethi, her own parliamentary seat is Rae Bareilly.

Manmohan Singh was a Member of Parliament representing Assam in the Rajya Sabha (Upper House), not a Lok Sabha constituency. None of the listed places (Chandigarh, Jalandhar, Ranchi) were his parliamentary constituency.