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In this series, we bring to you a collaboration with Qwizzeria, a Swiss-based knowledge consulting company that uses quizzes, information, and gamification for team building, learning and to provide knowledge transfer solutions. Look forward to monthly quizzes and enrich your knowledge of little-known facts about India and Switzerland in the Matter-of-facts. Happy learning!
Matter-of-fact of the week #138:
In 2018, ex-pat chef Garima Arora became the first Indian woman to win a Michelin star. This was...
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Matter-of-fact of the week #137:
Fribourg lies above the River Sarine which is considered as the proverbial ‘fried potato...
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Matter-of-fact of the week #136:
During the British Raj, a pundit was an official post in the Supreme Court. It referred to an...
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Matter-of-fact of the week #135:
A Swiss chocolate was at the heart of a political scandal in 1995 in Sweden when Mona...
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Matter-of-fact of the week #134:
Solibacillus is a spore-forming bacteria and one of its species Solibacillus kalamii found in an...
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Matter-of-fact of the week #133:
According to David Parlett’s ‘The Oxford guide to card games’, the card game...
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Matter-of-fact of the week #132:
Ira Levin’s “A Kiss Before Dying” novel won the 1954 Edgar Award for Best First...
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Matter-of-fact of the week #131:
Dufourspitze is the highest peak of Monte Rosa and is located between Valais, Switzerland, and...
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Matter-of-fact of the week #130:
Mola Ram was an Indian painter, who was instrumental in setting up the Garhwal branch of the...
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Matter-of-fact of the week #129:
Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer born in France to Swiss parents and was one of the six...
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Matter-of-fact of the week #128:
Among Bengalis, there is a battle between Ilish (Hilsa fish) and Golda Chingri (Jumbo prawn)...
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Matter-of-fact of the week #127:
The Brunswick monument was built in 18979 in Geneva to commemorate Charles II, Duke of Brunswick...
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Matter-of-fact of the week #126:
The Indian biochemist Dr. Yellapragada Subbarow discovered the anti-cancer drug Methotrexate, one...
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Matter-of-fact of the week #125:
Swissair was the national airline of Switzerland and was formed from a merger between Balair and...
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Matter-of-fact of the week #124:
One from the good old times! If you grew up watching and listening to Doordarshan’s...
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Matter-of-fact of the week #123:
Rado, the Swiss watch company is credited with the first marketed scratchproof watch, and their...
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Matter-of-fact of the week #122:
Rabindranath Tagore was the first Asian ever to win a Nobel Prize. He won it in 1913 for...
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Matter-of-fact of the week #121:
BATA, a global footwear company had its humble beginnings in Zlin (today Czech Republic) in 1894....
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Matter-of-fact of the week #120:
In 1977, after the exit of Coca-Cola and PepsiCo from the Indian market, Gold Spot was one of the...
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Matter-of-fact of the week #119:
Albert Hofmann, a Basel chemist working with Sandoz Laboratories accidentally discovered a...
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Matter-of-fact of the week #118:
Bishnoi is a community that is found mostly in the north and northwestern regions of India. They...
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Matter-of-fact of the week #117:
Elisabeth Kopp became the first woman from Switzerland to be elected into the Federal council in...
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Matter-of-fact of the week #116:
Asian Paints was established on February 1, 1942, by Champaklal H. Choksey, Chimanlal N. Choksey,...
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Matter-of-fact of the week #115:
In 2008, Lausanne became the first Swiss city and replaced Rennes, a northwestern city in France...
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Matter-of-fact of the week #114:
At 5.30 AM, on the morning of August 15, 1947, Poornam Vishwanathan announced to the country that...
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Matter-of-fact of the week #113:
Many have asked as to what is CH. Well, for starters it is Confoederatio Helvetica. Helvetica is...
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Matter-of-fact of the week #112:
Kiran Rao is a distinguished film producer, screenwriter and filmmaker was born into a royal...
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Matter-of-fact of the week #111:
The Irishman Charles Barrington owned and trained a racehorse, ‘Sir Robert Peel’ that...
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Matter-of-fact of the week #110:
In Southern India and Sri Lanka, as per the Oxford Dictionary, an exclamation expressing distress,...
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Matter-of-fact of the week #109:
The Strasbourg Monument which stands on the Centralbahnplatz in Basel was created by Frederic...
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Matter-of-fact of the week #108:
Old Monk, one of the popular rum brands is a product of Mohun Meakin Brewery (earlier Solan...
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Matter-of-fact of the week #107:
Ma Anand Sheela was born Sheela Ambalal Patel in Baroda, Gujarat. She is well-known to the world...
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Matter-of-fact of the week #106:
In the summer of 1897, Pratap Singh (younger son of the Maharaja of Jodhpur) impressed the...
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Matter-of-fact of the week #105:
The Battle of Bern is the ‘affectionate’ name given to the quarter-final clash of the...
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Matter-of-fact of the week #104:
Best Boy by Ira Wohl won the 1979 Oscar for Best Documentary. The Oscar Award for this movie was...
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Matter-of-fact of the week #103:
If you have wandered around Zurich and observed the names of a few establishments there is a...
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Matter-of-fact of the week #102:
From the Ocean to the Sky – it is a book written by Sir Edmund Hillary (remember from the...
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