Quiz

Soumya Sarkar

December 10, 2014

Infosys, Hyderabad

Identify him.

• His grandfather Brigadier Gurdayal Singh was a reputed army engineer who had fought against the Japanese, in Burma, during World War II. The GCF (Gun Carriage Factory) in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh has the ‘Gurdayal Gun’ an artillery gun named after the Brigadier, since he had designed it.

• His maternal grandmother was Dutch and is sometimes credited for his Greek God looks.

• He is a successful Bollywood actor but found fame earlier in a different field.

ARJUN RAMPAL

Name the service• __________ is a global broadcast data startup currently being

incubated by the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF), a United States-based impact investment fund and non-profit organization established in 1995.

• It’s goal is to provide free access to content from the Internet through geostationary and Low Earth Orbit satellites, made available effectively to all parts of the world…….FREE

Outernet

Why the delay?• Bridgemanite an extremely

dense magnesium iron silicate, is the most abundant mineral on earth• Scientists believe that about

70 percent of Earth’s lower mantle, or about 36 percent of the planet's total volume, is made of it.• This mineral was known to

geologists since 1946 but was named formally only in 2014

According to the International Mineralogical Association, a

mineral cannot be given a name before the physical proof of its

existence is obtained.This mineral was found in a meteorite that crashed to earth recently. On

the Earth it is found 670 kilometers below the surface.

“I am not here to defend myself or neither am I here to blame somebody, but to tell you the truth.” “First of all, the other

day what happened was I was not made to rehearse thoroughly, then I did not know most of the dignitaries present at this

prestigious event. Five minutes before the event started, the instruction mike stopped working. Producer did not have any way to tell me who’s coming next, that was one big mistake.

Yes, I did make mistake. I apologize for the same,”

Whose words?

Aayenah Pahuja• The Doordarshan anchor

who made one blunder after the other, while covering IFFI (International Film Festival of India) at Goa

What is the “well-known” Arabic

word for 'The Island' or 'The

Peninsula'

Al Jazeera

Alec Guinness, Robert Carlyle, Anthony Hopkins and Ian McKellen have all played which 20th century historical figure

Adolf Hitler

Which country has the coldest

capital city in the world?

MongoliaCapital Ulan Bataar’s average annual temperature is only -2.6 C

In August 2007, a series of anti-government protests started in Myanmar.

The immediate cause of the protests was mainly the unannounced decision of the ruling party to remove fuel subsidies, which caused the price of diesel and petrol to

suddenly rise as much as 66%, and the price of compressed natural gas for buses to increase fivefold in less than a week.

What were the protest called by the world media?

The Saffron Revolution

This European Space Agency mission

shares it’s name with a pre-Italian

Renaissance painter who could draw

perfect circlesName the mission or the painter

GiottoGiotto di Bondone, known as Giotto, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence in the late Middle Ages.

He had observed Halley's Comet in 1301 and was inspired to depict it as the star of Bethlehem in his painting Adoration of the Magi.

What was the original purpose of building the crown of the

Empire State Building?

Airship Dock

Little Worms, Cooking Pot, Little

Tongues, Butterflies and Little Pies

These are English translations of what?

Pasta

• Vermicelli• Lasagne• Linguine• Farfalle• Tortellini

Omkara (2006, Hindi), Maqbool

(2003, Hindi), _______ (2014, Hindi)

and Angoor (1982, Hindi)Identify the missing one and the link between them

Adaptations of Shakespearean

Plays

Omkara (Othello)

Maqbool (Macbeth)

Haider (Hamlet)

Angoor (Comedy of Errors)

Fishbeds are the mainstay of India. India

also has Fulcrums, Flankers and

Floggers as well as Candids, Clines and

Mainstays and Midas(es)What are we talking about?

NATO reporting names of

Russian Military Jets

Fishbed – MiG 21

Fulcrum – MiG 29

Flanker –Su-30

Flogger – MiG 27

Candid – Il-76

Cline – An-32

Mainstay – Beriev A50

Midas – Il-78

What did Barrack Obama do

during his state visit to Ireland in

2011 that the Queen refused to

during her visit?

He drank a Guinness

He directed a film that Ronald Reagan even quoted the film in his 1986 State of the Union Address. In 2007, the Library of Congress selected this film for preservation in the National Film Registry, and in June 2008 the American Film Institute's special AFI's 10 Top 10 designated the film as the 10th-best film in the science fiction genre.

He was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1991 and Sweden's Karolinska Institutet gave him a honoris causa doctorate for his work in advocating a cure for Parkinson's disease.

Gave his voice to Stuart Little

Which movie and Who ?

Michael J. Fox Back to the Future

A professor from MIT, Y. W. Lee, bet his life savings on this

scientist’s effort and that’s how the dream of the son of an

Indian political dissident who was raised in Philadelphia came

true.

Who was the scientist?

Amar Gopal Bose

Founded in the 1880’s, this clothing company

owns brands like Tommy Hilfiger, Calvin Klein,

IZOD, Arrow, Timberland.

Its name however, comprises of its most

famous brand yet.Name the company

Philip - Van Heusen

Which famous prime minister was

dubbed “Atilla the Hen”?

Margaret Thatcher

Liaoning, Charles de Gaulle, Vikramaditya,

Giuseppe Garibaldi, Admiral Kuznetsov,

Juan Carlos, George H.W. Bush, Ronald

Reagan, Harry S. Truman, John C. StennisCONNECT?

Aircraft Carriers

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty

and blue, was the ______. I put up my thumb and

shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the

_____. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very

small?Fill in the blank

Earth

Connect with one word

Matador

The largest ____ , according to the Guinness World Records, was held at the Flanders Expo Halls in Ghent, Belgium, on 11 December 2010 with 2,280 participants. The winning team Café

De Kastaar from Leuven was composed of Marnix Baes, Erik Derycke, Eric Hemelaers, Bart

Permentier and Tom Trogh.

Q U I Z

In 1972, on April12, the first programme of the “_____ _____ _____" went on air with the legendary

Hamid Sayani, and later his brother Ameen Sayani. Soon it became the most popular

English programme on Vividh Bharati. Teams of three students each from 52 schools from

Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata and Chennai participated.

What?

The Bournvita Quiz Contest

It was 20 years later in June 1992 that it aired first on Zee TV with Derek O’ Brien anchoring.

Lockeed Martin’s advance aerospace project is called >>

What is Boeing’s called?

Phantom Works

This country refused a seat on the UN

Security Council for the UN’s alleged inaction

in the Syrian conflict. This is a first in world

history where a country refused a UNSC seat.

WHICH COUNTRY?

Maria Sharapova runs a

confectionery business that sells

premium lollypops, candies,

gummies, etc etc.UNDER WHAT BRAND?

Sugarpova

Once upon a time in America (circa 1900),

which extremely expensive edible product,

known then as 'Albany Beef', was sold for a

penny a pound and was often used in saloons

like salty beer nuts today ?HINT: Iran is the largest producer of this product today followed by

Russia.

Caviar

Whenever I ask about Pepsi-Cola or Coca-Cola, people

immediately say it is an American or European drink. This is not

true. The kola is African. They have taken the cheap raw

material from us. They produced it, they made it into a drink,

and they sell it to us for a high price. Why are Pepsi-Cola and

Coca-Cola expensive? Because they have taken our kola,

produced it, and sold it back to us. We should produce it

ourselves and sell it to them.Whose golden words?

Muammar Gaddafi

This royal is the President of the ______ Dachshund Club. Yet he revealed in 2006 that he loved dogs…..grilled or sautéed.

Prince Henrik

DENMARK

ISOBAR – Denoting places with same atmospheric

pressure

ISOTHERM – Denoting place with same temperature

ISOHYET - ????

Places with same RAINFALL

This Benedictine monk has probably made the

greatest personal contribution in making

Champagne. So much so that one of the most

famous of Champagnes is named after him.

NAME HIM

Dom Perignon

2012 saw Coca-cola being sold

again in which Asian country for

the first time in 60 years?

Myanmar

Whom did George Harrison

(Beatles) call the Grandfatehr of

World Music?

Ravi Shankar

Ushuaia is a port city in Argentina.

What is it better known as?

Southermost City in the World

The alcohol in Brazils national

drink Caipirinha is called Cachaca.

Cachaca is fermented what?

Sugarcane

What did Barack Obama show US

television viewers on the 27th of

April 2011?

This was in response to lot of speculation among general public and the media on his legitimacy for the

top job

His birth certificate from Hawaii

Zuccotti Park in New York became the

center of a famous protest movement that

began on September 17, 2011 against

social and economic inequality worldwide.WHICH

Occupy Wall Street

Which is the world’s newest

country

South Sudan

A briefcase follows the American

President everywhere they travel. It

contains nuclear launch codes that

authorizes nuclear launchesWHAT IS THE MORE COMMON TERM FOR IT IN THE MEDIA?

Nuclear Football

These medals were awarded to whom

Chernobyl disaster Clean Up

Workers

Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, the revolutionary hero,

took part in guerrilla wars in Cuba, Peru,

Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua,

Honduras and El Salvador and was killed

fighting Bolivian troops, but what nationality

was he?

Argentine

The Persian word Shahenshah

means “King of Kings”. Who was

the first King to be called with this

title?

Ardashir I in 180 AD

Which American writer who could speak

Chinese before she learned English won the

Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938 for her

great work set in China: The Good Earth

Pearl S. Buck

Brad Pitt was banned from

entering China because of his role

in which film?

Seven Years in Tibet

The Warren Commission theory that there

was a single shooter in JFK’s assassination

was blown by a film shot by a private

citizen named Abraham Zapruder. Why?THIS GAVE RISE TO THE VARIOUS CONSPIRACY THEORIES

SURROUNDING HIS DEATH

It showed shots coming from

almost diametrically opposite

directions

This island is the third largest in the

Balearic Islands off Spain’s southern

coast is globally known for its nightclubs

and trance music.Identify

Ibiza

Which fictional character apart

from Sherlock Holmes, apparently

plunged to his death at the

Reichenbach falls?

Professor Abraham Van Helsing

Traditionally on which three

holidays do Americans consume

the most amount of food. NEED ALL THREE, ESPECIALLY THE THIRD

Christmas Day, Thanksgiving Day

and Superbowl Sunday.

This whisky brand born in 1988 was created

with the “… idea was to provide a feel of high

status to a product that was priced low,”

This is the largest whisky brand in the world in

terms of volume sales

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