Kennis-The General Quiz

KENNIS- The General Quiz
RESEARCHED,COMPILED AND PRESENTED BY
Sijo Varghese and Akash T

Before we begin
1.The finals will consist of 4 rounds.
2.All the teams are requested to keep a tab on the scores
3.Quiz master's decision will be final
Good luck to all the teams on stage!

Ignition
7 QUESTIONS
Pounce/Bounce
+10/-5

#1
Batterie Pommern, also known as Lange
Max, was the world's biggest gun in 1917,
during World War I.
This gun was modified to shoot
from Koekelare (Belgium) to X (France)
which is about 50 km away.
The name of this place X literally means
'church in the dunes'.
Which Place?.

#2
Mahesh Chandra Banerjee was a X player from Bengal, whose games survive
through the writings of John Cochrane.
Cochrane, who had defeated every player in England had been searching for
some worthy opponents.
In the autumn of 1848, a member of the Calcutta X club heard of a Brahmin in a
village who had never been beaten at X.
He found an opportunity of meeting him, played him, and lost. It was stated
that the man, 'Moheschunder Bannerjee, a Brahmin', of about 50, hardly knew
the European rules of X; yet his play was presumably under European rules.
Which game?.

#3
These constructions are called “Merumats”.
A Merumat symbolizes Mount Meru, the mythical mountain of god.
The earliest merumat was probably erected during the reign of King Prasat
Thong (1629–1656), and modelled after Angorvat.
The construction of this has been a big event and a labour intensive endeavour
because it is a showcase of supreme quality Thai architecture.
What are Merumats?

Tombs for the Thai Kings similar to Pyramids

#4
Ravish Malhotra - born in Lahore is a retired Air
Commodore of the Indian Air Force.
He was an Air Force test pilot also the Air Officer
Commanding of Hindon Air Force Station near
Delhi.
In 1982, he was chosen to train for spaceflight in
the Soviet Union's Intercosmos program.
Malhotra was awarded the Kirti Chakra in 1984.
Rather than above achievements, why is he
famous for?

He served as the backup pilot for Rakesh Sharma
on Soyuz T-11.

#5
Roger Federer joined this record club
during his first-round match at the
Wimbledon-2017 against Ukraine's
Alexandr Dolgopolov.
He joined Goran Ivanisevic and Ivo
Karlovic since 1991, when the ATP World
Tour began tracking this statistic.
What unique record is held by these 3
players?

#6
KIBBUTZ - literally meaning "Gathering
or Clustering" is a collective
community that was traditionally based
on agriculture. The first kibbutz,
established in 1909, was Degania.
It was formed by a group of young who had
previously worked draining nearby swamp-
land for the purpose of agriculture and
human inhabitable who now wanted to
build a community for themselves.
Kibbutzim began as utopian idea.
In which country would you able to find
Kibbutz type of settlement ?

#7
The word Y is coined by Diana Vreeland,
editor-in-chief of Vogue Magazine in 1965.
She coined this word to describe the youth-
led fashion and music movement of the
swinging sixties, which saw baby boomers
reject the traditional values of their parents.
ID Y

2nd Frontier
7 QUESTIONS
Pounce/Bounce
+10/-5

#1
Hundreds of people visit
this tomb every year and many
of them leave objects which
highlights the art, such as cans
of Campbell's soup and Coca-
Cola bottles.

#2
She is often referred to as the
“Steel Magnolia” or “Iron Lady”.
Dalia Grybauskait is the President
of her country since 2009.
Which Country?

#3
Built by Quli Qutb
Shah in 1525.
Which structure is
this?

#4
The Greenpeace activists
put mask as part of wider
protest at "dangerous"
levels of air pollution.
Whose statue - situated
outside Arsenal's Emirates
stadium?

#5
This Art Museum is an architectural
landmark, comprised of three
buildings.
The War Memorial Center (1957), the
Kahler Building (1975) by David
Kahler; and the Quadracci Pavilion
(2001) was created by Spanish
architect Santiago Calatrava?

#7
Andy Murray paraded the
Wimbledon trophy in front of
the statue of a person after he
won the wimbeldon.
Id whose statue?

Dry Round
7 QUESTIONS
Pounce/Bounce
+10/-5

#1
What is the pecularity among these
postal stamps?

#2
27 feet high and 15 feet
wide structure tributed
to whom?

#3
Spiritual leaders in Egypt have called
upon Arabs to boycott the use of a
brand as they believe it is associated
with this personality.
They have also claimed the product
which is made in the US by Procter
and Gamble, has a Star of David as
part of its label

Ariel Sharon is the former prime minister of Israel
Answer: Ariel

#4
He was a leading American ornithologist ,
an expert on the birds of the Caribbean .
His name was appropriated by a writer for
his character in 1953.
The writer who was a keen bird
watcher living in Jamaica , was familiar
with this person's book-”Birds of the West
Indies ” .
He chose the name of its author for the
hero of his novel published in 1953 . ?

#5
The theorem states that if Equilateral
triangles are constructed on the sides of
any triangle , either all outward or all
inward, the centres of
those equilateral triangles themselves form
an equilateral triangle.
The triangle thus formed is called the inner
or outer X triangle .
The difference in area of these two triangles
equals the area of the original triangle.
After whom is this theorem is named after??

#6
The term was used as a cultural icon of
World War II, representing the women who
worked infactories and shipyards
during World War II , many of whom
produced munitions and war supplies.
It was first used in 1942 in a song of the same
name written by Redd Evans and John
Jacob Loeb?

#7
He was a Ugandan hurdler and the
first Olympic champion from his country.
His nephew is international footballer David
Obua , and his brother Lawrence
Ogwang competed in the long jump and triple
jump at the 1956 Olympics.
At the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, he
surprised the world by becoming the first man to
run the 400m hurdles in under 48 seconds.
His career was strangled by Amin’s dictatorship
and the African nations’ boycott of the 1976
Montreal Olympics Games.?

Short visual Connect
4 questions and 4 Answers will lead
you to a single connection.

#1
In 1920, she helped to found the American Civil Liberties
Union (ACLU). She travelled to over 40 countries. She met
every U.S. President from Grover Cleveland to Lyndon B.
Johnson and was friends with many famous figures,
including Charlie Chaplin and Mark Twain.
On September 14, 1964, President Lyndon B.
Johnson awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom,
one of the United States' two highest civilian honors. In
1965 she was elected to the National Women's Hall of
Fame at the New York World's Fair.

#2
She was named Mangte Chungneijang at birth which means “prosperous” in her local
dialect.
Nicknamed "Magnificent Mary"- On 26 April 2016, Kom was nominated by
the President of India as a member of the Rajya Sabha.
She was honored with the Padma Bhushan—the third highest civilian award in
India—in 2013

#3
He was a general of the Maratha
Empire in India.
He served as Peshwa (Prime Minister) to the
fifth
Maratha Chhatrapati (Emperor) Shahu from
1720 until his death and was possibly the finest
cavalry general ever produced by India.
Died on 28 April 1740, at the age of 39
Who?

#3
X was the daughter of Gandharv Sen, the king of the Singhal kingdom. She
became close friends with a talking parrot named Hiraman. G S ordered the bird
to be killed.
The parrot flew away to save its life, but was trapped by a bird catcher, and sold
to a Brahmin.
The Brahmin bought it to local king Ratan Sen.
The parrot greatly praised X's beauty in front of Ratan Sen, who became
determined to marry X.
Guided by the parrot and accompanied by his 16,000 followers.Ratan Sen
reached Singhal after crossing the seven seas.
Gandharv Sen married X to Ratan Sen, and also arranged 16,000 women of
Singhal for the 16,000 men accompanying Ratan Sen.

2005 Movie, Black -
draws inspiration
from Helen Keller's life

•
Mary Kom-Produced by
Sanjay Leela Bhansali

2015 Movie – Baji Rao
Mastani
Directed and produced by

Padmavat
-Directed and produced by

Hence the connect was- Movies Directed or Produced by
Sanjay Leela Bhansali.

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