general quiz 2015 , december

X  was a French-born Indian aviator and business tycoon. He became India's first licensed pilot in 1929.

In 1983, he was awarded the French Legion of Honour 

and, in 1992, India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna.

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His first adventure was to the USSR,

Second adventure to the Congo And the third to the USA. Identify this cartoon character,

and what's the relevance of Congo in his travels.

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My dear friends, let me tell you today about your fatherland: Belgium

X born as Robert Allen Zimmerman, is an American singer, songwriter.

Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when his songs chronicled social unrest,.

His early songs such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changing'" became anthems for the American  civil rights and anti-war movements

When Ivo goes back with the urn, the urn;Studds, Steel, Read and Tylecote return, return;The welkin will ring loud,The great crowd will feel proud,Seeing Barlow and Bates with the urn, the urn;And the rest coming home with the urn.

Where will you find the above verses?

X- What I most admire about your art, is your universality. You don’t say a word, yet the world understands you!

Y- True. But your glory is even greater! The whole world admires you, even though they don’t understand a word of what you say.

This was the purported response of two famous people of the last centuary when people started applauding them.Identify X and Y

X- CHARLIE CHAPLAIN

Y- EINSTEIN

They cheer me because they all understand me, and they cheer you because no one understands you

Whose birth is depicted in this Amar Chithra Katha

Halal refers to the Islamic religious laws regarding food consumption,

What are the Jewish laws regarding the same known as ??

KOSHER- from the  Hebrew term kasher, meaning "fit" ( fit for consumption )

This a set of photographs of Barack Obama at various iconic locations on various dates. Identify the place or

occasion.

Inside Nelson Mandela’s prison cell in South Africa.

Obama seeing his Nobel Peace Prize medal for the first time.

Which one among the current Nobel prizes is not one of the prizes that Alfred Nobel established in his will in 1895?

Even though it has become one of the most memorable images of the twentieth century, President Nixon once doubted the authenticity of my photograph when he saw it in the papers on June 12, 1972.

That moment thirty years ago will be one Kim Phuc and I will never forget. It has ultimately changed both our lives.“

Pulitzer price winning photographer X about his famous photo Y , IDENTIFY

The Terror Of War (photo) Nick Ut – photographer Kim Phuc – Napalm girl

X is a multinational video hosting service owned and operated by a joint venture of Universal Music Group(UMG),  Google,  Sony Music Entertainment (SME), and Abu Dhabi Media and based in New York City.

X hosts music videos from two of the "big three" major record labels, UMG and SME. 

These awards were founded by Sergey Brin (Google), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) and Jack Ma (Alibaba founder), Yuri Milner etc.

Committees of previous laureates choose the winners from candidates nominated in a process that’s online and open to the public.

Laureates receive $3 million each in prize money almost 3 times of the Nobel Prize.

A term Coined by Dr. Howard J. Bennett in The New England Journal of Medicine in, 2003 – this condition is intended to denote a generalized headache usually arising from reading gigantic volumes of books sitting uninterrupted for long hours of time.

The condition is named after a certain institution in a highly popular series of modern literature, which most of have undoubtedly read. What is this condition?

Hogwarts Headache.

The following names are examples of aptronyms. What is an aptronym? Usain Bolt – Jamaican Sprinter Russel Brain – Neurologist Margaret Court – Tennis Player Jim McGovern – Politician

Aptronyms are names that are suited to a person’s character/occupation

Where and what does this represent?

Rajiv Gandhi memmorial at Sreeperumbathur

Identify this iconic building and architect?

Falling water house

Frank Lloyd Wright

Identify this Iconic building form the poster

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Identify the Architect of these famous bulidings

Frank Gehry

What is common to all of these apart from being vegetables /plant products

Cashew Tomato Maize Tobacco Papaya Rubber

Products from the new world – Americas

Uhuru Kenyatta --President of Kenya Joseph Kabila, the current President of the

Democratic Republic of Congo Megawati Sukarnoputri, the former

President of Indonesia Bashar al-Assad, the current President of

Syria John Quincy Adams, the 6th President of

the USA Who is the latest addition to this list in

2015

Justin Trudeau son of Pierre trudeau