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General Quiz

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“If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions”

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• ____ ____ is an online black market which operates as a Tor hidden service, such that online users are able to browse it anonymously and securely without potential traffic monitoring. It is an underground website, sometimes called the "Amazon.com of illegal drugs" or the "eBay for drugs”. It was operated by "Dread Pirate Roberts" (named after the fictional character from The Princess Bride), and around 70% of its 10,000 products were illegal drugs.

• On 2nd October 2013, it was shut down by the FBI but a ____ ____ 2.0 surfaced in November.

• FITB

A

• Silk Road

3. Logo of???

4• Which UNESCO World Heritage Site is being described in this poem ?

• “It seems no work of Man's creative hand, by labour wrought as wavering fancy planned; But from the rock as if by magic grown,eternal, silent, beautiful, alone! Not virgin-white like that old Doric shrine,where erst Athena held her rites divine; Not saintly-grey, like many a minster fane,that crowns the hill and consecrates the plain; But rose-red as if the blush of dawn, that first beheld them were not yet withdrawn; The hues of youth upon a brow of woe, which Man deemed old two thousand years ago, match me such marvel save in Eastern clime, a rose-red city half as old as time.”

• Hint : A recent Bollywood movie had a song that was shot at this place.

A

• Petra, Jordan

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• If we exclude all run outs, this becomes the most common dismissal recorded in Test cricket scorecards. What ?

A

• b Murlitharan

6.• Connect (non exhaustive)

Answer

• All possess eidetic memory.

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• One day in 1945, Percy Spencer, an American engineer was standing in front of an active radar set when he noticed the candy bar he had in his pocket had melted. Spencer was not the first to notice this issue, but he was the first to investigate it. What did he invent as a result of this observation ?

A

• Microwave Oven

8*.Fans of which club and what is this protest for?

Coventry City.Match: Coventry City vs Arsenal.The agitation is because Coventry plays their home games at Northampton which is 35 miles away which has been a matter of great fury for the supporters.

9.South Park adaptation of which Band???

Jonas Brothers

10*. Of all the 106 Test Cricket Venues in the world, there is only a single stadium which has a number in its name.

Give the name of the stadium and the city where its located.

Sector 16 stadium Chandigarh

11.Give me the brand which is blanked out in this pic...at one point of time it ruled India for almost a decade

12*.The longest word in English is the chemical name for the protein ____ ____.It is 189,819 characters long.Methio……………………….. Lserylisoleucine.What word is this?

Hint: Entertainment world.

TinTin

13.What was the date when we saw this GD?

4th November Shakuntla Devi’s birthday.

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15*.ID.

Rakesh Khurana, new dean of Harvard, effective July 1, 2014.

16.Connect:

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18*.Madonna – who is the main subject of the opening dialogue in movie X – liked the film a lot but refuted Y’s interpretation of her song, “Like a Virgin.” She gave him a copy of her Erotica album, signed “To Y. It’s not about d**k, it’s about love. Madonna.”

X was named "Greatest Independent Film of all Time" by Empire magazine.

Give me Y.

19.There was a controversy

with this Time

magazine cover. What?

Devil Horns.

20.Theory of what??

Let V(b,w) be the expected additional runs for the rest of the innings when b (legitimate) balls have been bowled and w wickets have been lost, and let r(b,w) and p(b,w) be, respectively, the estimated expected runs and the probability of a wicket on the next ball in that situation.We can then write,V(b,w) =r(b,w) +p(b,w) V(b+1,w+1) +(1-p(b,w)))V(b+1,w)Since V(b*,w)=0where b* equals the maximum number of legitimate deliveries allowed in the innings

WASP (Winning And Score Prediction)

21.ID the tv series.

22.The X Awards were first held on 21st March, 1954 at Metro Theatre. It was originally called The Clares Awards after critic Clare A Mandy and had over 20,000 people poll for the nominees. To celebrate the 25th year of the awards the statues were made in silver and to celebrate the 50th year the statues were made in gold. Id X.

Answer

Filmfare Awards

23*.It is said that in the film 'Halla Bol' a character was inspired from a real life character and incidence. Where one famous artist X was brutally killed while performing on the play of the same name. He left a legacy after him and people still remember him. the role of X was played by Y.

Who is been spoken of?

Safdar Hashmi, who died during the Ghaziabad Municipal Elections. Played by Pankaj Kapur in the movie.

24.Lord Krishna gave Srimad Bhagwad Gita only to Arjuna and the entire world was in suspended animation at that time. With divine vision (and ear, both given by Vedav Vyasa) at the Hastinapura palace also listened Sanjaya.One more heard the running voice commentary through Sanjaya (the king Dhritarashtra).

But there was one more listener present in the field.Who??