Q.896

Today's question is a VIZual

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Q.895

Five people from India, by virtue of being under the age of eighty on a certain date, qualified to participate in this event. They are:

• Oswald Gracias from Mumbai
• Telesphore Placidus Toppo from Ranchi
• Ivan Dias from the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
• George Alencherry from Ernakulam
• Baselios Cleemis from Thiruvananthapuram

In what?

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These are cardinals who are part of the electoral college to elect the next Pope.

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Q.894

This three-time Nobel Peace Prize Laureate is celebrating its sesquicentennial i.e. 150 years of existence in 2013, and marked its founding day on February 17th. Two of the five founders were doctors (Louis Appia and Theodore Maunoir), one was a General (Guillaume-Henri Dufour) and one a lawyer (Gustave Moynier). The fifth, a businessman, also won a Nobel Peace Prize.

Which organisation?

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The International Committee of the Red Cross; the fifth was Jean Henri Dunant. The ICRC website has a great timeline detailing their significant contributions to humanity; sadly, it also serves as a chronicle of conflict.

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Q.893

This week's IZzie

In February 2013, Google unveiled their laptop product, the latest in their Chromebook series. These laptops run Chrome OS, their cloud-based operating system.

The name chosen for this laptop is a fundamental term associated with display screens and may be in part a reference to the high resolution screen that it comes with. What name?

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"Pixel". Here's more from PCMag.com.

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Q.892

The magazine announced its list for 2013. A glance at the top ten reveals this country-wise distribution: Mexico (1), The United States (5), Spain (1), Hong Kong/Canada (1), and France (2). Continuing to be on top of the charts is Mexico.

What list and who is on top?

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This is Forbes' annual list of the world's wealthiest people. Carlos Slim of Mexico has been heading the charts for the last couple of years.

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At their third screenwriters conference held in late February 2013, the Film Writers Association, a Mumbai-based association, felicitated Manohar Shyam Joshi. Joshi (who passed away in 2006) was remembered for his contribution to Indian television.

Which two pioneering TV serials (considered the first two soap operas on Doordarshan) is he famous for having written?

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"Hum Log" and "Buniyaad". More on the Sahitya Akademi winning author here.

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Q.890

Which Turbaned Tornado announced his retirement from competition and took part in his last race at the Hong Kong Marathon in February 2013? (He ran a 10km race there.)

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Fauja Singh, the centenarian marathon runner. "Turbaned Tornado" is the name of his biography.

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