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1. A motor vehicle industry has its headquarters located in Detroit with around
1,80,000 employees. The company has been on the Fortune 500 list for 24 years
since the ranking’s 1955 debut. What is the birth year of the current CEO of this
company who started working in the automobile industry at just 18 years old
checking fender panels and inspecting hoods to pay for her college tuition ?

2. The 82nd Academy Awards ceremony took place on Sunday, March 7, 2010 at the
Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center. What is the birthplace (5 letter
word) of the Director of the movie (released in 2009) which bagged the Academy
Award for the Best Actress ?

3. A trust which was started by Sahushri Shantiprasad Jain and his family in 1961
felicitates a deserving Indian with the highest literature award of India. The first
awardee got this award in the year 1965. The awardee won the prize for his
collection of poems in Malayalam. What is the name of his wife who was from an
ancient Nair family- Purathu Veedu in Thiruvanchikulam?

4. In the year 1999 Arjuna Award was won by two players for the sports – Kabaddi.
What is the name of the player whose birthplace has the antipole co-ordinates as -
31.379444, -104.615278 ?

5. Intel has a micro-processor family with code-names Conroe , Kentsfield , Yorkfield

released in the year 2006,2007,2008 respectively. It encompasses a range of Intel's
consumer 64-bit x86-64 single-, dual-, and quad-core microprocessors based on the
Core microarchitecture. What is the max. CPU clock rate of the dual core belonging
to this family?

6. In 1936 Berlin Olympics , India won a hockey match where Dhyan Chand single
handedly defeated a country after which he was offered citizenship of that country
, a high post in military and a chance to play for the national side.However, major
Dhyan Chand declined the offer. What is the national flower of that country?

7. In September 2009, India’s ISRO using its Moon Mineralogy Mapper detected
water on the surface of the moon for the first time. The discovery was made by
Nasa’s payload on board by which instrument.