IISc Quiz Club

Quiz 9

1. She was nicknamed THE GROCER’S DAUGHTER because she actually was the daughter of a grocer . But , this nickname was apt because of another reason . This was that her predecessor Edward Heath was nicknamed GROCER . Who am i talking about ?

Answer

British PM Margaret Thatcher

2. Connect

Answer.

The Bond Film Octopussy Pooja Bedi(Daughter of Kabir Bedi), Prakash Amritraj(Son of Vijay Amritraj) Title Track of Octopussy(“All time high’)

3. The origins of ______ go back to the early 1890s where, like many long-established car manufacturers, the company started out with the manufacture of bicycles.It was 1894, and Václav Klement, who was a bookseller by trade in Mladá Boleslav, which was then part of Austria-Hungary, was unable to obtain the right spare parts to repair his German bicycle. Klement returned his bicycle to the manufacturers, Seidel and Naumann, with a letter, in his native tongue, asking for them to carry out repairs, only to receive a reply, in German, stating: "If you would like an answer to your inquiry, you should try writing in a language we can understand". A disgusted Klement, despite not having any previous technical experience, then decided to start his own bicycle repair shop, which he and Václav Laurin opened in 1895 in Mladá Boleslav. Identify the company founded by Václav Klement and Václav Laurin.

Answer

Skoda Auto

4. Who about what? “ I think it is timeless because it's about making love in the

summertime. There is a slight misconception it's about a year, but it's not. It has nothing to do about a year , it has to do with a sexual position”

Answer

Bryan Adams on the hit single “Summer of 69”

5.What are : Conroe, Merom, Penryn, Nehalem, Moorestown, Lynnfield, Prescott?

Answer

Intel Microprocessors(code names)

6.The transliteration of this organisation’s motto is ‘Dragon Sleeping Never Tickle’. Id the organisation and its motto

Answer

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry“Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus”

7.This figurine was a result of a 13 year affair between Lord Montague of Beaulieu and his secretary Eleanor Thornton. Montague was so infatuated with Thornton that he asked her to model for this iconic emblem. A mutual friend, Charles Sykes, who was an artist and sculptor, crafted a figure of her in fluttering robes. Name the figurine

Answer

The Spirit of ecstasy

8. This lady did it in the 1969 film “Aradhana” and 35 years later her son did the same thing in the film “Parineeta”. What did they both do ?(No points for guessing the names of the mother and/or son)

Answer

Both of them shot for a song on the scenic Darjeeling Himalayan Railway(‘Mere sapnon ki rani’ & ‘Kasto mazaa’)

9.This Senegalese-American hip hop and R&B singer-songwriter's real name is Aliaune Damala Bouga Time Puru Nacka Lu Lu Lu Badara _______ Thiam. Fill in the blank.

Answer

Akon

10.

This famous public school located in Ajmer was founded by Richard Southwell Bourke in 1875.The founder also happened to be the only viceroy to be assassinated in India. Name the school.

Answer

Mayo College

11.This phrase, usually attributed to Arthur Conolly, has been used to describe the rivalry and strategic conflict between the British Empire and the Russian Empire for supremacy in Central Asia. The concept was introduced into mainstream consciousness by British novelist Rudyard Kipling in his novel Kim (1901)." Which phrase?

Answer The Great Game

12. He is perhaps the only winner of a Best Actor Oscar to have acted in a Bollywood masala(mainstream) movie. He played the role of Sir John Locksley, the world’s greatest jewel thief, who invites several rival thieves to his island estate. He explains that he is dying, and wants his greatest treasure, a ruby, to go to a worthy successor. Name the actor and the film(Hindi title).

Answer

Rex Harrison, Shalimar

13.This business man began to develop a business as a young boy, selling matches to neighbors from his bicycle. He found that he could buy matches in bulk very cheaply from Stockholm, sell them individually at a low price and still make a good profit. From matches, he expanded to selling fish, Christmas tree decorations, seeds and later ball-point pens and pencils. He is currently the owner of one of the largest home products retailer and is also the richest European. Name him and his company.

Answer

Ikea, Ingvar Kamprad

14.Microsoft’s reply to Apple’s Ipod

Answer

Zune

15. Identify the writer“Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs. What is going on in Palestine today cannot be justified by any moral code of conduct. The mandates have no sanction but that of the last war. Surely it would be a crime against humanity to reduce the proud Arabs so that Palestine can be restored to the Jews partly or wholly as theirnational home. The nobler course would be to insist on a just treatment ofthe Jews wherever they are born and bred. The Jews born in France are French in precisely the same sense that Christians born in France are French.

If the Jews have no home but Palestine, will they relish the idea of beingforced to leave the other parts of the world in which they are settled?Or do they want a double home where they can remain at will? This cry for thenational home affords a colorable justification for the German expulsion ofthe Jews.”

Answer

Mahatma GandhiPublished in ‘The Harijan’26-11-1938.