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1. He is a Parsi born in Bombay. His father was the founder of the Bombay Symphony Orchestra. He initially intended to become a doctor, but veered towards music in his teens. Until 1991, he was the director of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Earlier in 1962, he was simultaneously the conductor for Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. Name the man.
2. He was also a Parsi, but was born in Zanzibar. Named Farokh Balsara, he went to school in India but left for England when he was 16. Here he became a legendary rock-star with a famous band. By what name do we know him better?
3. His father Nani Gopal left Calcutta to escape persecution by the British for his revolutionary activities. He grew up in Philadelphia and studied at MIT. While at MIT, he did not find "realism of a live performance" in a music system he purchased. So he conducted extensive research and developed his sound systems. Later he started a company under his own name that developed speaker and music systems. One of the products of the company is the Wave music system. Who is this person who started his own brand of sound systems?
4. His uncle, Sir CV Raman discovered the Raman Effect and was awarded a Nobel Prize. Following his uncle's footsteps, he turned to physics, more specifcally, astrophysics. He published 'The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes' in 1983 and was awarded the Nobel Prize in the same year. He is known for his 'Limit'. How do we know him?
5. Sabeer Bhatia is the name of this Indian-born. He sold his innovation to Bill Gates for $400 million. This idea of his spawned a communication revolution! What did he sell to Bill Gates?
6. A B.Ed. from Delhi University, Vinod Dhamn was a vice president in AMD and was in charge of the K6 processor. Earlier, he worked for National Cash Register and then moved to a firm where he was in-charge of a project that revolutionized personal computing. What did he and his team in this firm develop in 1990?
7. He was born in Mandanapalle, India in 1895 and died in 1986 in Ojai, California. As a kid, he was inducted into the Theosophical Society who saw in him as their World Leader and Saviour. At the age of 30, he abandoned the Theosophical Society after a spiritual awakening, and started his own mission that preached a spirituality detached from any existng faith or belief. Who was this Guru?
8. He was born in Pondicherry, India but grew up in Pennsylvania. His first movie as a director was Wide Awake (1998). His movies are about ordinary people with extraordinary abilities, often super-natural and occult.
9. He was born in Madras (Now Chennai), India in 1968 to an Indian Moslem father and an English mother. As a boy, he took to cricket following his father, who was a member of the Madras Cricket Club. Years later, this tempermental cricketer was made the captain of England's cricket team and despite his Indian roots, he became the symbol of the re-established English pride in the game.
10. A Bachelor of Science from Madras Christian College, She also has management degrees from IIM Kolkata and the Yale School of Management. This woman worked in some of the best companies ranging from BCG to ABB to Motorola, before ending up as the president and chief financial officer of PepsiCo. Who?
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