Trivandrum Quizzing League Presents

The Monthly set 1

CONVO 50

Research and Compilation

Arunkumar B

A set of 50 conventional questions which will give an Idea about your area of strength and weakness

Hope I Did complete Justice to my intentions

There will be 50 questions in the set please take an Effort to read through the questions completely and try to sent me the Answers @ arunkumarsctce@gmail.com

Thank you

1. Starting with a sitter

According to Hindu Mythology Who’s Wives are Budhi and Siddhi ?

2. "You know, the most amazing thing happened to me tonight. I was coming here, on the way to the lecture, and I came in through the parking lot. And you won't believe what happened. I saw a car with the license plate ARW 357. Can you imagine? Of all the millions of

license plates in the state, what was the chance that I would see that particular one tonight? Amazing!“

The number ARW 357 became a celebrity not because of any of its scientific or mathematical importance but Just because Mr. X Quoted about it like that. Id Mr. X

*3. Who wrote the book “The Emperor’s New Mind” in which he argues that the human consciousness is non algorithmic and thus it cannot be modeled as a digital Turing machine made computer rather Quantum

mechanics plays a large part in determining the state of mind.

He was in the limelight about an year ago.

4. 1540s, a medical word for "excess of body fluid," is derived from Greek term for "fullness," or "be full" . Figurative meaning "too much, over fullness in any respect" is first recorded 1700.

What si the Good Word ?

5. Who Owns and operates the Sam’s Club Retails ?

6. Identify the animal.

7. Which Italian author wrote “The name of the Rose”

8. Id the Print AD

*9. What is Reichsmark ?

10. Which is the River that runs through silent valley ?

11. What is the type of mushroom and who is carrying it ( General Answer )

12. After the Death of Duk Koo Kim in a Boxing Match Against Boom Boom Manchini in the 14th Round in the world championship bout in 1982 what revolutionary change in boxing matches

did boxing commission introduce in1983 ?

13. Identify.

14. Which international organization's logo is inspired from this flower ?

15. He is sitting in a valuable treasure’s Replica. Jus Gimme in What he is sitting ?

16. This Phrase describes the business practice of registering a merchant ship in a sovereign state different from that of the ship's owners, and flying that state's civil ensign on the ship. Ships are registered like this to reduce operating costs or avoid the regulations

of the owner's country. The closely-related term open registry is used to describe an organization that will register ships owned by foreign entities.

Give the Phrase indicating a very opportunistic practice

17. Where is it? What is it ?

18. What is named after a governor of Louisiana?

19. What is this ?

20. What is this and who is the polymath who did path breaking findings on the inscriptions to decypher this

*21. His name is William Semille. He was given 200 pounds by two gentlemen named Colin Macfarquhar, a bookseller and printer, and Andrew Bell, an

engraver, both of Edinburgh to do something which became a milestone in history of learning . What was he asked to do ?

22. “He is the ruler of the heavenly kingdom which is the inspiration to the mythical place mentioned in the novel The Lost

Horizon” Id Him and the kingdom.

23. Identify this man who is with Robert De Niro playing Jake Lamotta. The Fact is that the man is also a boxer who is in the boxing hall of fame

*24. This Book is also featured in a famous painting by Rembrandt. Identify the book and the painting and the

Author of the book.

25. What is the unique practice they followed while playing golf at earlier times the short form of the practice resulted in the

name GOLF ?

26. Identify

27. What do you mean by the roman Question ?

28. The Kentucky Derby, The Belmont Stakes And the Preakness stakes together makes the

_________

29. This is the place where a famous literary group used to meet which Building can you see it and what was the

name of the group ?

*30. One was a correspondent of Petrarch and the other is a Painter What collection of tales connect these two people ?

31. The largest Gothic Building in the country which is a prominent tourist attraction. Which country which city

and what purpose does the building serve ?

32. Give the connect.

33. Identify Him.

*34. What is it ? Who Designed it and What is unique about it ? Clue the first step towards integrity.

35. X means "Way of the Warrior", is a Japanese code of conduct and a way of the samurai life, loosely

analogous to the concept of chivalry. It originates from the samurai moral code and stresses frugality, loyalty,

martial arts mastery, and honor unto death.

36. A common theory is that the idiom comes from a method of execution such as hanging, or perhaps

suicide, in the Middle Ages. A noose is tied around the neck while standing on an overturned vessel. When the

pail is kicked away, the victim is hanged. What Idiom/Phrase ?

37. Put Funde.

38. The biggest legend in through breed horse Racing. ID The Horse

39. Id the logo.

40. As simple as you think. Who worked as a life guard before He became a film star ?

41. Id the Album.

42. One of the moist brutal activity common during the period of civil war and afterwards is named after this

person. Give both his name and the inhumane practice.

43. They were the subject of a Denzel Washington movie Id them

44. In Norse mythology, a Y ("chooser of the slain") is one of a host of female figures who decide who will die in battle. Id Y

45. Connect to a theatre style. Clue is Politics Marxism and Aristotle.

46. Somebody took inspiration from this tripod telescope to create some thing. What was that he created and who took the inspiration ?

Clue. Readymade

47. What you can see is the oldest ____ ?

48. Connect

49. What is his name and what did he create ?

*50. From Geography

A Y is an exposed, often rocky element of a ridge, mountain, or peak not covered with ice or snow within (or at the edge of) an ice field or glacier. The term is typically used in areas where a

permanent ice sheet is present. Y serves as landmark reference points in glaciers or ice caps and are often named.

Id the Y