Friday 16 : Join Together like Vodafone-Idea!!

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1. This is a screenshot of picture from MS Dhoni's recent retirement announcement video.The first Test in this series in January 2008 was marred by the infamous Monkeygate scandal where off-spinner Harbhajan Singh was handed a three match ban by ICC for allegedly racially abusing Andrew Symonds. India lost first 2 tests very badly, won the third and draws the last test match. Where was this 3rd test match organised which India won and shown in the picture?

a.) Melbourne
b.) Adelaide
c.) Sydney
d.) Perth

d.) Perth

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2. Devprayag is a town in Tehri Garhwal district in the state of Uttarakhand, India, and is one of the Panch Prayag (five confluences) of two rivers(materially) and three rivers(mythological) meet and take the name Ganga. The picture given below is of the two material rivers that meet at Dev Prayag. The left one is clear whereas the river on the top is slightly muddish in appearance.

Identify the river on the left.

a.) Saraswati
b.) Bhagirathi
c.) Alakhnanda
d.) Yamuna

b.) Bhagirathi

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3. Odeo was initially created as a podcasting platform right around the time that Apple launched iTunes podcasting. Needless to say, going up against Apple, and the large runaway success that the iTunes podcasting platform became, wasn’t a recipe for success. The team saw the writing on the wall and decided to look to other ideas, other solutions, one of which eventually became X.
Identify X

a.) Reddit
b.) Spotify
c.) Twitter
d.) Stackoverflow

c.) Twitter

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4. Vodafone and Idea recently announced its new unified brand identity by renaming all its products under a new name and logo “Vi”.

Which company designed and rebranded its logo?

a.) Inbound Labs
b.) Salted Stone
c.) Wolff Olins
d.) Zebra

c.) Wolff Olins

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5. The Dragon spacecraft by SpaceX of Elon Musk is the only spacecraft currently flying that is capable of returning significant amounts of cargo to Earth and is the first private spacecraft to take humans to the space station. The Dragon capsule had its first test flight in 2010 and it carried an X into orbit.
Identify X

a.) Wheel of Cheese
b.) Garlic Bread
c.) Tesla Car
d.) Macbook

a.) Wheel of Cheese

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- @bhikr