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1. Who is the world's highest paid CEO?
a) Steve Jobs
b) Reuben Mark
c) Warren Buffet

2. Who is the world's topmost venture capitalist?
a) Vinod Khosla
b) David Strohm
c) Promod Haque

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The correct answer is Promod Haque.
Promod Haque, the New Delhi-born managing partner of Norwest Venture Partners, is the topmost venture capitalist in the world in 2004, according to the Forbes Midas List. Haque was in the second spot last year. Vinod Khosla, founder of Sun Microsystems takes the second place in the list. The Forbes Midas list ranks the world's top ten venture capitalists.
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Promod Haque, the New Delhi-born managing partner of Norwest Venture Partners, is the topmost venture capitalist in the world in 2004, according to the Forbes Midas List. Haque was in the second spot last year.
Vinod Khosla, founder of Sun Microsystems takes the second place in the list. The Forbes Midas list ranks the world's top ten venture capitalists.

3. Which is the world's fastest supercomputer?
a) NEC's SX-8
b) IBM's Blue Gene/L
c) NASA's 'Project Columbia'

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The correct answer is NEC's SX-8.
Japanese electronics giant NEC Corp's SX series model 'SX-8' is the world's most powerful vector supercomputer with a peak processing performance of 65TFLOPS (one trillion floating point operations per second).
IBM's recently unveiled Blue Gene/L supercomputer can process at speeds of 36 teraflops, surpassing Japanese 'Earth Simulator' which has a speed of 35.86 teraflops.
The Unites States space agency NASA's supercomputer dubbed 'Project Columbia' has achieved sustained performance of 42.7 trillion calculations per second (teraflops).
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Japanese electronics giant NEC Corp's SX series model 'SX-8' is the world's most powerful vector supercomputer with a peak processing performance of 65TFLOPS (one trillion floating point operations per second).
IBM's recently unveiled Blue Gene/L supercomputer can process at speeds of 36 teraflops, surpassing Japanese 'Earth Simulator' which has a speed of 35.86 teraflops.
The Unites States space agency NASA's supercomputer dubbed 'Project Columbia' has achieved sustained performance of 42.7 trillion calculations per second (teraflops).

4. Which nation has the largest national debt?
a) India
b) Russia
c) Brazil

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The correct answer is Brazil.
Brazil is the country with the largest national debt at $232,004 billion. Russia is second with a debt of $183.601 billion, while Mexico ranks third with a debt of $159.959 billion. China has a national debt of $154.599 billion, while India's national debt stands at $104,232 billion.
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Brazil is the country with the largest national debt at $232,004 billion. Russia is second with a debt of $183.601 billion, while Mexico ranks third with a debt of $159.959 billion. China has a national debt of $154.599 billion, while India's national debt stands at $104,232 billion.

5. Which company makes the world's costliest cellphones?
a) Ericsson
b) Vertu
c) Vodafone

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The correct answer is Vertu.
The handcrafted phones manufactured by Vertu, a unit of cellphone giant Nokia, are the world's most expensive cellphones. A Vertu Signature collection cellphone costs a cool $32,000 (Rs 14.72 lakh)! The cheapest Vertu phone is the leather-clad Ascent model that cost only $4,700 (Rs 216,000).
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The handcrafted phones manufactured by Vertu, a unit of cellphone giant Nokia, are the world's most expensive cellphones. A Vertu Signature collection cellphone costs a cool $32,000 (Rs 14.72 lakh)! The cheapest Vertu phone is the leather-clad Ascent model that cost only $4,700 (Rs 216,000).

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