Here Comes the SunTHE GENERAL QUIZ

I I M R A I P U R

RULES

ó There are 6 questionsó Questions 1-3 are CW and 4-6 are ACWó Each Question carries 10 mark( pass or direct)ó Quizmaster’s decision is finaló Remember the name of the round.

TEAM-1

In 1937, after the Japanese invasion of China, the communist GeneralZhu De requested Jawaharlal Nehru to send Indian physicians to China.Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, the President of the Indian NationalCongress, made arrangements to send a team of volunteer doctorsand an ambulance by collecting a fund of Rs 22,000 on the All-Indian China Day and China Fund days on July 7-9.___________________was one of five Indian physicians dispatched to China to provide medical assistance during the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1938. Besides being known for his dedication and perseverance, he has also been regardedas an example for Sino-Indian friendship and collaboration.

Id?

THE ANSWER IS

TEAM 2

In Times Square on V.J. Day I saw a sailor running along the street grabbingany and every girl in sight. Whether she was a grandmother, stout, thin, old, didn't make a difference. I was running ahead of him with my Leica lookingback over my shoulder but none of the pictures that were possible pleased me.Then suddenly, in a flash, I saw something white being grabbed. I turned around and __________________

What happened next?

THE ANSWER IS

TEAM 3

X a village on the Swedish islandof Resarö, inVaxholm Municipality in theStockholm archipelago. X means literally Outer Village.So what?

THE ANSWER IS

Lending its name to a famous quarry where many rare earth mineralshave been discovered, the small village has been the inspiration for naming the chemical elements yttrium (Y), ytterbium (Yb), terbium (Tb) and erbium (Er).Gadolinium(Gd) (named after gadolinite, which is named after Professor Johan Gadolin), holmium (Ho) (from the Latin name forStockholm),scandium (Sc) and thulium (Tm) (Thule is an old Latin word for the Nordic countries) all trace their origin to the Ytterby quarry.

some Western sources claimed that Gagarin, during his space flight,had made the comment,__________________However, no such words appear in the verbatim record of Gagarin'sconversations with the Earth during the spaceflight.In a 2006 interview a close friend of Gagarin, Colonel Valentin Petrov,stated that Gagarin never said such words, and that the phrase originatedfrom Nikita Khrushchev's speech at the plenum of theCentral Committee of the CPSU, where the anti-religious propaganda was discussed.

What?

TEAM 4

THE ANSWER IS

“ I don’t see any GOD up here”

TEAM 4 (again)

Funda?

THE ANSWER IS

TEAM 3

What is it?

THE ANSWER IS

TEAM 2

Ye kya ho raha hai?

THE ANSWER IS

The russian superstition of peeing on the tyre of the bus in which they arriveBefore take off.

Connect

TEAM 1

THE ANSWER IS

“ all three mean I Don’t Know” in their native languages

TEAM 1

One day, after finding that a transducer was wired wrong, the engineer cursed thetechnician responsible and said, "If there is any way to do it wrong, he'll find it.“I was born at Edwards Air Force Base in 1949 at North Base.

Ask the question?

THE ANSWER IS

How did murphy’s law originiate?

TEAM 2

I am a slang term for a minor stock character of an adventure drama who diesviolently soon after being introduced in order to dramatize the dangerous situation experienced by the main characters. The term originated with fans of thescience fiction television series Star Trek

Id?

THE ANSWER IS

Who are the “ red shirts”?

TEAM 3

It was a large cannon used by Royalist forces to defend Colchester in 1648. The weapon, mounted on the church tower of St. Mary-at-the-Wall and expertly fired by a Royalist gunner named “One-eyed” Jack Thompson,successfully held off the Parliamentarians (or Roundheads) for eleven weeksbefore succumbing to a direct hit

ask me a question?

THE ANSWER IS

“ who is humpty dumpty”

TIE-BREAKERS

I mean a cognitive bias that causes people to overestimate their positive qualities and abilities and to underestimate their negative qualities, relative to others

I am also a fictional town in the U.S. state of Minnesota, said to have beenthe boyhood home of Garrison Keillor.

Id?

THE ANSWER IS

“ lake wobegon effect”

Id this man?

SPORTS

the phrase_______refers to a married middle class woman who lives in thesuburbs and has school age children. she is portryed in the media asbusy overburdened and driving a minivan. she is also portrayed as puttingthe interests of her family most importantly her children, ahead of her own.

What?

THE ANSWER IS

BUSINESS

It is the oldest company in the United States which still makes its original product, and is the oldest continuously operating manufacturer in North America. It is theonly US company which produces both firearms and ammunition domestically,and is the largest US producer of shotguns and rifles.

The company though is known for its other product that started as a spin off.But is eponymous to the company. You still find it waiting at a government office.

What?

THE ANSWER IS

ENTERTAINMENT

though X was born in mikawa province, he often returned to iga,home of the ___ family. he was extremely skilled spearman, tactician andswordsman,. the village of yagyu along the kyoto nara border was home to a venerable school of a sword technique._____ fought in his first war at 16 and died in 1596of natural causes.

And this is entertainment question…….

THE ANSWER IS

LITERATURE

First appearance of?

THE ANSWER IS

TRIVIA

the four goldberg brothers Lowell, Norman, Hiram, and Max invented and developed the first automobile a/c. on july 17 1946 the temprature in detroit was97 f. the brothers walked into henry ford's office, and sweet talked his secretary into telling him that the gentleman hd the most exciting innovation.henry was curious. they refused to meet him an asked him to come to the parking lot. the temp was about 130 f. they turned on the a/c. the old man now exicted offered 3 million for the patent.the brothers refused and said a 2 million + a recognition label" the goldberg air conditioner". now ford was not

read for this, after two hours of haggling, they finally agreed at 4 million and a new naming convention ... what??

THE ANSWER IS

“ ever wonderd why car a/c speed is called“Lo”“ Norm”“ Hi”“Max”

MYTHOLOGY

WHAT?

THE ANSWER IS

NRI

X(born May 26, 1946 in Bombay) is an Indian-American engineerwho is a pioneer of digital technology including HDTV andMPEG4. He conducted seminal research in digital compression, signal processing and other fields. X has been President of Bell Laboratories and Chief Scientist for Lucent Technologies.

ID?

THE ANSWER IS

“ ARUN NETRAVALLI”

ARTS

seurat

“ I thought it is a normal picnic”- put fundae

THE ANSWER IS

“recreation of seurat’s famous workSunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte”

AND IN THE END……

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