Quiz of 03.04.02 By Saayan Mitra and Niraj Agarwal
Dry Round
By Niraj Agarwal
Where is "Monalisa" now?
A : Louvre Museum,Paris
Connect-double loops-radia
loops-arches-whorles-ulna loops
A : Fingerprints
What did john jaques a sports manufacturer
register in 1901 in America and later sold it to parker brothers
A : Ping Pong
Claim
to fame - Mariam Shakebar-16 yr old girl
A : presented the first show on Kabul TV after a six year Taliban Blackout
"At the end of the day you have to create
wealth and not distribute poverty"-whose pearls of wisdom
A : Narayanamurthy
Fictional character whose horse is
Rosinante
A : Don Quixote
Claim to fame of Belka
& Strelka
A : dogs sent to space after Laika
Who were dismas &
gestas
A : 2 criminals crucified with christ
What did Peter Kramer & Lou Ottens
invent at Philips
A : Compact Disc
Neel Darpan- first political drama -story
about atrocities heaped on workers in Bengal-led to the British foundation of an
institution which still exists today
A : Censor Board
"Matchmakers to the
nation"
A : Times Matrimonials
By Saayan Mitra
Hurbert Booth, an Englishman, once fell face down on the floor with
a handkerchief in his mouth, it so happened that he sucked hard and
discovered that the hanky had trapped all the dirt. This supposedly
led him to invent the vacuum cleaner. In 1901 he gave it the look
in the form of a large, horse-drawn, petrol-driven unit which was
parked outside the building .
to be cleaned with long hoses being fed through the windows.
Louis the xiv's wife started fashion for slender waist 13 inches
Grandson of Tiberius Roman emperor caligula made his horse senator
janis joplin about jimi hendrix " damn he beat me to it" . 'it' refers to death
due to drug abuse .
Pall Mall first street lighting 1807 gas lights
James ritty of dayton, ohio 1879 bell sound cash register john patterson in 1884
improved the idea by adding paper , charles kettering made it electric
parachute jump for the first time in 1797 was done by andre garnerin from balloon
captain albert berry made it in st. louis usa 1912 from aeroplane
On March 11, 2001, two astronauts, Colonel James S. Voss and Colonel
Susan J. Helms, spent 8 hours and 56 minutes putting equipment into
the International Space Station the longest space walk in the history
of the shuttle program (the question can be put in an interesting way !)
The most one-sided game in american football history took place in
Atlanta on October 7, 1916, when Georgia Tech defeated Cumberland
College, 222-0.Incredibly and mercifully the second half was
shortened by 15 minutes!
Who is famous for wearing Versace's famous safety pin dress to a
film premier? Liz Hurley
Easter Island discovered on Easter day 1722
Ralph Bakshi directed the animated version of "The Lord of The Rings " .
'Common To' Half-Round
By Saayan Mitra
common to sovereign crown, mark noble angel farthing groat
A : 17th century english coinage
common to Angelio Schiavio (Italy ) , Oldrich Nejedly ( Czech)
Edmund Cohen ( Germany ) . A : Scorer of 4 goals in 1934 finals .
common to Tom Hanks , Springsteen , Mark Knofler A : Philadelphia
triangle tam tam , castanet maracas woodbrock A : percussion instruments
tuscan,ionic doric corinthian , composite A : trends of greek architecture
vtol stol estol sstol A : vertical , short ,extemely short and super short
take of and landing aircrafts
Words Half-Round
By Saayan Mitra
filibuster A : 17th century pirates , used by Haddock
funambulist A :tight rope walker .
Carousel A : revolving belt in airport where luggage is loaded, merry go rounds
ides of month - ancient roman calender A :15th of March, May , july
October , 13th of other months
Army of frogs just as parliament of crows
A british property owner exploited tenants in slum in 1963 .
This kind of exploitations are termed Rachmanism after him .
French finance minister Etienne de Silhouette , had a harsh way of collecting taxes
in 1759 , silhouette comes from that .
Cyber Half-Round
By Niraj Agarwal
WYSIWYG
A : what you see is what you get
Asia largest technopark
A : Technopark,Kerala
SIM in mobiles
A : Subscriber Identifying Module
TTFN & TOU
A : Tata for now , Thinking of You
Who is Raymond D Findlay (head of
organisation/institute)
A : Director of IEEE
MIDI
A : Musical Instrument Digital Interface
Biz Half-Round
By Niraj Agarwal
In videography what is the name given to
spotting beautiful faces in the crowd (often females) in the coverage of a
sporting event
A : Virgins' tour
Asha bhonsle first time ever lending voice to a
hindi ad commercial
A : Rasna
Official beer of Manchester United
club
A : Budweiser
Pele -considered to endorse a product in
brazil-what?
A : Viagra
star tv & balaji - sueing
which company for copyright infringement & plagiarism?
A : Procter & Gamble for their Tide ad
Hostess of "The weakest Link"
A : Anne Robinson
Current Affairs Round
By Niraj Agarwal
connect
Ajay Devgan- Visaal Goswami & Bobby Deol
A : All 3 are playing Bhagat Singh in different movies
Captain of indian hockey team which won
the junior world cup
A : Gagan Ajit Singh
Connect Sylvia
Nassar-Oscars
A : She wrote the biographyb of John Nash
Rupak Manush-what did he do recently
A : setup the org. LOVE and asked the Mayor for an exclusive love park in Calcutta
Claim to
fame of Harish Bharti a lawyer in California
A : won a $10 million case against McDonalds in the Veg Scam
Official ad agency of Indian army
A :AP Lintas
TCS is joining hands with whom for a $250 million
contract
A : GE
'Catchlines' Round
By Niraj Agarwal
Every Bit is pure
music
A : Seagrams' 100 Pipers
For managing tomorrow
A : Business Today
Redefining fashion
A : Provogue
Your second skin
A : Monte Carlo
because you are worth it
A : L'Oreal Paris
take a different route
A : Samsonite
We live to deliver
A : FedEx
'Its not how you play the game its how the game plays you'
A : Spy Game
'Leave no man behind'
A : Black Hawk Down
'The way the world lives'
A : KenStar
'We deliver anything anywhere'
A : GATI
'Zero compromise'
A : Carrier
'Expect more'
A : Nikon
TOPICS Round
By Saayan Mitra
T-Terrorists
In 1972 Olympics a terrorist group named Black September attacked
Israeli Athletes .
Israeli commandoes rescued a hijacked aircraft in one of the swiftest operations
from which airport during Idi Amin's regime ?
A : Entebbe
O-Olympics
In Seol 1988 Taekwondo was introduced in the Olympics
Still recovering from Grave's disease Gail Devers of USA won the
100 metre gold in Barcelona Olympics .
P-Pink Floyd
The album released in 1987 was called " Momentary lapse of reason "
There was a rift between Gilmour and Waters and the latter left the
band . Gilmour and Mason tried to realease an album and ran into
legal battles with Waters for the use of the name " Pink Floyd" as
it was essentially formed by Roger Waters in 1967 . Then after re-
uniting they released an album and referred to the past conflict as
a momentary lapse of reason .
The 1967 song Arnold Layne by Syd Barett , incidentally Pink Floyd
first single was a hit but was banned by the BBC as it depicted a
person as a crossdresser .
I - Inventions
Jonathan Scobie , a baptist minister invented something in 1869 in
Yokohama .Necessity is the mother of invention and his invalid wife
served as the necessity . The invention was the rickshaw .
in 1948 a Swiss engineer by the name of George de Mestral was
climbing over mountains in the Swiss Alps. The views were great,
but he kept getting seedpods called burrs stuck on his clothing.
And they wouldn't come off! After 8 years velcro was invented by him
C - Cars and related personalities
bentley - most famous le mans winners . ettore bugatti described them as
fastest lorry in the world in 1924 .
lord Nuffield in 1934 , knighted in 1928 , originally bicycle repairer
in Oxford . His company produced first car in 1913 - William Morris .
S-Syndrome
Medically this is refered to a neurocirculatory asthenia.
People faking chest pain in the face of imminent trouble or danger
are said to be suffering from Da Costa's Syndrome or
'Soldier's Heart'. The name soldiers heart comes from the
World War when some soldiers in the British Army declared
'chest pain' when duty demanded that they report to the front.
It is a psychological behavior usually seen in kidnapping and
hostage cases, where the hostages develop a liking towards the
kidnappers and their cause. First noticed in 1973, when four
hostages in a bank robbery in Stockholm, Sweden, after six days
of captivity refused to testify against their captors, raised money
for their legal defense, and one of the hostages eventually became
engaged to one of her captors. This behavior was termed the
'Stockholm Syndrome'.
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