Beginner’s Quiz™By Siddharth Prathap

About me & The Quiz

• - 9th standard @ The PSBB Millennium School.• - Crazy about Barcelona & Chelsea (You might

find questions on them!)• The QM’s decision is final.• We will have 3 rounds.• That’s it

Round 1Infinite Bounce

1.

•Which device is manufactured jointly by Bharat Electronics Limited, Bangalore and Electronics Corporation of India Limited, Hyderabad?

Electronic voting machines

2.• “X" is a song recorded by Boney M. and included on their debut album Take the Heat off Me. It was a 1976 hit and a staple in disco music and Boney M.'s first UK hit.• It was the second Boney M. single, released in May

1976 without making any major impact at first. It wasn't until a spectacular performance on the Musikladen TV show in September that the single became a hit, topping most European charts.• This song features in the recent ad of “Y”. Id X & Y

3.• Nalanda University (also known as University of Nalanda) is

the name of a proposed university in Rajgir, near Nalanda, Bihar, India. The first academic session is set to start from 2014.

• Originally the university was established in the 5th century AD by Gupta Kings.

•  Who is the Chancellor and Chairman of the Governing Board of Nalanda University?

Amartya sen

4.

• This virtual currency was introduced in May this year by a company to oversee transactions. The company hopes to make it easier to make purchases using these coins without worrying about handing over more cash to the company. The coins would never expire and there are no fees associated with it. Which company?

Amazon.com

5.•Give Funda• 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.

The Ashes

6.• X was born in Vilassar de Mar, Catalonia. • He supported FC Barcelona since childhood and went to his first match when

he was nine months old with his grandfather. • He began his club football career with CE Mataro. His first coach Senor Blai,

reportedly did not select X for matches against Barcelona in an attempt to hide him from their scouts. This tactic was unable to withstand for long, and Mataro gave in and allowed X to train with Barcelona one day per week. Eventually he joined Barcelona's academy full time. His initial training was as a defensive midfielder. Although he was a prolific scorer, sometimes scoring more than 30 goals a season in the youth team, he never managed to play a first team game at Camp Nou.

• During his time at Barcelona's youth academy, X idolised Barcelona's number four and then-captain Josep Guardiola, who would later give his shirt as a consolation when X's parents divorced. ID X.

Cesc Fabregas

7.Give Funda

Holographic Technology

8.

Logo of….

lego

9.•Id X• X was named by an engineer at the firm Codenomicon, a

Finnish cybersecurity company, which also created the logo, and launched the domain X.com to explain the bug to the public.

• According to Codenomicon, Neel Mehta of Google's security team first reported the bug to OpenSSL, but both Google and Codenomicon discovered it independently.

• Codenomicon reports April 3 as their date of discovery of the bug and as their date of notification of NCSC-FI (formerly known as CERT-FI) for vulnerability coordination. Mehta also congratulated Codenomicon, without going into detail.

Heartbleed

10.

•If Akshata is the first child, Rohan the last, who or what according to the father, is the middle child?

Infosys (according to N.R.Narayanamurthy)

Round 2Infinite Pounce

1.

•Connect

Baghpat (Charan Singh)

Rae Bareilly (Indira)

Ballia (Chandrashekhar)Phulpur (Nehru)

Allahabad (Shastri)

Lucknow (Vajpayee)

Amethi(Rajiv)

Fatehpur (VP Singh)

Sabarkantha (G Nanda – Acting)

Surat (Morarji)

Andhra – Nandyal – PVN Rao

Karnataka – (Rajya Sabha) – Deve Gowda

Bihar – (Rajya Sabha) – Gujral

Assam – (Rajya Sabha) – Manmohan Singh

PLACES FROM WHERE PRIME MINISTERS OF INDIA ENTERED PARLIAMENT.

2.

Whose hand?

Becks

3.X, formerly known as the Ellice Islands, is a Polynesian island nation located in the Pacific Ocean, midway between Hawaii and Australia. It comprises three reef islands and six true atolls spread out between the latitude of 5°to 10° south and longitude of 176° to 180°, west of the International Date Line.

How is this country related to the India media?

Tuvalu

• Picture in NS

4.

Why did this song make the news recently?

Fifa world cup

5.

•“Other Side of Me” is the autobiography of this popular author and creator of the TV series ‘I Dream of Jeannie’?

Sidney Sheldon

6.

Minimalist poster of….

Hey Ram

7.

Childhood photo of…..

Virat kohli

8.This was probably the first-ever India –specific marketing campaign. Put together by Lintas, the famous advertising firm, the campaign familiarized the Palm tree logo. The campaign also featured the innovative packaging – a square tin and a round tin in a distinctive green and yellow combination. The product itself is still known by its brand name.For which Indian product was this campaign launched by Lintas?

Dalda

9.

Minimalist poster of….

Psycho

10.i. London to Suez ii. Suez to Bombay (Mumbai) iii. Bombay to Calcutta (Kolkata) iv. Calcutta to Hong Kong v. Hong Kong to Yokohoma vi. Yokohama to San Francisco vii. San Francisco to New York City viii.New York to London In terms of 19th century adventure time - what will be i to viii = ?

The proposed schedule in Jules Verne's classic Around the World in

Eighty Days.

Round 3Written Round

1.• X was a Cherokee-class 10-gun brig-sloop of the Royal Navy. The vessel,

constructed at a cost of £7,803, was launched on 11 May 1820 from the Woolwich Dockyard on the River Thames. In July of that year she took part in a fleet review celebrating the coronation of King George IV of the United Kingdom, and for that occasion is said to have been the first ship to sail under the old London Bridge.

• X became one of the most famous ships in history after it’s second survey.

• Id X

2.

• X’s came comes from a Dakota word for "clear water". It is also known as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes“.

X is the 12th biggest in size and the 21st most populous of the U.S. States.Xis known for its relatively mixed social and political orientations and its high rate of civic participation and voter turnout. It ranks among the healthiest states, and has a highly literate population. The large majority of residents are of Scandinavian and German descent. Id X.

3.

Connect

4.• Deep Blue was a computer developed by IBM. In 1997, the

machine, with human intervention between games, won the second six-game match against X by two wins to one with three draws. X accused IBM of cheating and demanded a rematch. IBM refused and retired Deep Blue. X had beaten a previous version of Deep Blue in 1996.

• Id X.

5.

Domingo Felipe Jacinto i Domènech, 1st Marqués de Dalí de Pubol

Whose full name?

6.

• ____________ came through La Masia, the Barcelona youth academy, after an early emigration from his birthplace, and impressed from an early age. _______ made his first-team debut in 2002, aged 18. _________ began playing regularly during the 2004–05 season and has remained in the side ever since. _________ was an integral part of the Barcelona side in 2009, the only time a club has achieved six titles in one season. ____________ is considered to be one of the best footballers of his generation.

7.

Which country’s emblem?

8.Pokhran-II refers to the series of five nuclear bomb test explosions conducted by India at the Indian Army's Pokhran Test Range in May 1998. It was the second nuclear test since the first test, code-named Smiling Buddha, had been conducted in May 1974.To commemorate the first of the five tests that were carried out on that day has been officially declared as ____________________ in India . The day was officially signed by the then Prime Minister of India. The day is celebrated by giving awards to various individuals and industries in the field of science and industry.

Correct your papers

1.• X was a Cherokee-class 10-gun brig-sloop of the Royal Navy. The vessel,

constructed at a cost of £7,803, was launched on 11 May 1820 from the Woolwich Dockyard on the River Thames. In July of that year she took part in a fleet review celebrating the coronation of King George IV of the United Kingdom, and for that occasion is said to have been the first ship to sail under the old London Bridge.

• X became one of the most famous ships in history after it’s second survey.

• Id X

Hms Beagle

2.• X’s came comes from a Dakota word for "clear water". It is also

known as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes“. X is the 12th biggest in size and the 21st most populous of the U.S. States.Xis known for its relatively mixed social and political orientations and its high rate of civic participation and voter turnout. It ranks among the healthiest states, and has a highly literate population. The large majority of residents are of Scandinavian and German descent. Id X.

minnesota

3.

Connect

Mercedes Benz

4.

• Deep Blue was a computer developed by IBM. In 1997, the machine, with human intervention between games, won the second six-game match against X by two wins to one with three draws. X accused IBM of cheating and demanded a rematch. IBM refused and retired Deep Blue. X had beaten a previous version of Deep Blue in 1996.

• Id X.

Gary Kasparov

5.

Domingo Felipe Jacinto i Domènech, 1st Marqués de Dalí de Pubol

Whose full name?

Salvador Dali

6.

• ____________ came through La Masia, the Barcelona youth academy, after an early emigration from his birthplace, and impressed from an early age. _______ made his first-team debut in 2002, aged 18. _________ began playing regularly during the 2004–05 season and has remained in the side ever since. _________ was an integral part of the Barcelona side in 2009, the only time a club has achieved six titles in one season. ____________ is considered to be one of the best footballers of his generation.

Andrés Iniesta

7.

Which country’s emblem?

Thailand

8.Pokhran-II refers to the series of five nuclear bomb test explosions conducted by India at the Indian Army's Pokhran Test Range in May 1998. It was the second nuclear test since the first test, code-named Smiling Buddha, had been conducted in May 1974.To commemorate the first of the five tests that were carried out on that day has been officially declared as ____________________ in India . The day was officially signed by the then Prime Minister of India. The day is celebrated by giving awards to various individuals and industries in the field of science and industry

National Technology Day

May 111. HMS Beagle, the ship that will take

Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage, is launched.

2. Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. State.

3. Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.

4. Deep Blue, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.

5. Salvador Dalí, Spanish painter (b. 1904) is born6. Andrés Iniesta, Spanish

footballer (B.1984) is born7. Siam officially changes its name

to Thailand for the second time. The name had been in use since 1939 but was reverted in 1945.

8. National Tecnology Day is observed on May 11.