Mixed Bag QuizBy

Rahil Sur2nd year EEE

#Session 18

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1)Chinni Krishnan was in the pharma business, and he was his youngest son. After his father’s death in 1982, the business was taken over by his elder brothers. He went his own way, founded a new company to compete with his brothers, naming the first product as well as the company (the changed name in 1998) after his father. In 1992, he overtook his brothers to become the largest player in South India. Name the company and the first product it launched.

ANSWER

• Cavin Kare and Chik Shampoo

2) This painting by Georg von Rosen represents a certain mythological figure. This manifestation of this character was acknowledged by a literary giant as the inspiration for his own character. Identify both the mythical figure and the character thus inspired

ANSWER

• Gandalf and Odin

3)When Nawab Wajid Ali Shah was dethroned by the British, he was made to shift to Kolkata and live on a meagre pension from the British. Accustomed to a regal lifestyle, he found it difficult to maintain his eating habits and as the story goes he made a modification to his favourite dish, which explains its current form. What aspect of Kolkata food can be thus explained?

ANSWER

• Nawab’s favourite dish was Biriyani. Since it was difficult for him to maintain his lifestyle he introduced Potatoes in the Biriyani and till date biriyani of Kolkata has Aaloo in it

4) Mother India was India’s submission to the Oscars in 1958. Apart from making the film shorter to satisfy the world audience, there was also another change made to the pre-title sequence of the movie, because the film makers thought it would increase the chance of their winning the Oscar. So what the change that was made?

ANSWERThe hammer and sickle logo of Mehboob Studios was removed. They didn’t want the judges to biased due to perceived communist leanings.

5) This temple in Devadhanam, a locality in Trichy, is dedicated to the deity shown below. This deity, however, is also installed in a separate shrine close to the sanctum sanctorum in a more well known form. The deity holds an axe, symbolizing the destruction of all desires, a rope to indicate his willingness to rescue anyone from the mire of vasanas, and the lotus symbolizing that all can achieve the supreme state of self-realization. This is the only temple, to the best of our knowledge, where the faithful can worship this deity in this form. ID this deity or the other form

PS: Picture in Next Slide

ANSWER

• Adivinayaka - The deity is Vinayaka (Ganesha) prior to getting his elephant head

6) In an electric guitar, a vibrating string is magnetized by a fixed magnet within the pickup, inducing an alternating voltage across its coils. However, wire coils pick up electromagnetic interference and this is reproduced by the pickups as a constant hum or buzz. This is eliminated by another coil wound in the opposite direction. When the signals from both coils are summed together, usually by connecting the coils in series, the hum cancels out. What have we just described, in layman terms?

ANSWER

• Humbucker or Humbucking Pickup

7) On June 30, 1959, he landed at Delhi on an official tour, but was received only by a Protocol officer since he had no official government position.His meeting with Nehru at Teen Murti Bhavan was warm but peppered with conversational nuggets such as these: “Mr Prime Minister, what is your opinion of Communist China?” Nehru listened with an absent expression, and answered, “Mr Comandante, have you tasted one of these delicious apples?” “Mr Prime Minister, have you read Mao Tse-tung?” “Ah, Mr Comandante, how pleased I am that you have liked the apples.”The rest of his India travels were uneventful, but he is recorded to have been gifted a Khukri by Nehru, to which he reciprocated with a box of ______ _____. Who? What gift

ANSWER

• CUBAN CIGARS,CHE GUEVARA

8) Whose debut film was an English Language film “Epistle” released in 1961 ?

The film was produced by Shankar Giri, son of former president of India V V Giri

ANSWER

• JAYALALITHA

9) Names that came up were Neeru Deshpandey and Gunjan Gundaniya, but Mayank Shah put all the folklore to rest.“It's actually an illustration by an Everest creative back in the 60s. People have created their own stories about ______ and assigned names of their own accord and others just caught onto them, a lethal combination of rumour and grapevine.”What is this all about?It’s one of the largest selling products of the world, if the number equivalent to its annual sales is kept end to end, 192 is the number of times it can go around the world. What ?

ANSWER

• PARLE-G KID

10) It’s 45 foot tall and 350 feet long. It was originally created in 1923 as an advertisement for a local real estate development company “_________” Land, it was one of the largest advertisement boards of that era. How do we know it better ?

ANSWER

• HOLLYWOOD

11)Name this tributary of Zaire river in Congo

ANSWER

EBOLA RIVER

12) In 1938, Hungarian-born ____ László József patented his invention for the first time in Paris, which was named '___', after him. He filed a second patent along with his brother György in 1943 for a newer, improved version. These newer instruments were widely distributed to pilots of of the Royal Air Force by the British government. Argentina celebrates Inventor's Day on September 29 every year in honor of the inventor's birth anniversary. How do we know his invention?

ANSWER

• Biro, inventor of ball point pens

13)This is how it looks like from inside. What is it ?

ANSWER

• Darth Vader’s Mask

14)The aviator you see was known to have pioneered first combat aircrafts which had forward firing machine gun fitted to the aircraft’s wing called “Interrupter Gear”.

How is the aviator immortalized in the world of sports.

ANSWER

• ROLLAND GARROS OR FRENCH OPEN

15) Connect

ANSWER

• "PayPal Mafia" is a term used to indicate a group of former PayPal employees and founders who have since founded and developed additional technology companies such as Tesla Motors, LinkedIn, Palantir Technologies, SpaceX, YouTube, Yelp, and Yammer.

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