yagna dhruva 2016 Quiz

1. YAGNA DHRUVA QUIZ

2. FIRST DRY ROUND

3. 1.What was the name of his company?
• A Hungarian immigrant, Wilhelm Fried Fuchs settled
in New York in the late 19th century. A combination of
the stock market crash, a car accident injury, and
government antitrust action forced him into a
protracted seven-year struggle of the company he
formed. He also attempted to bribe the judge and
got thrown in jail .
• He finally gave up and retired from his business in
1936. No Hollywood producers came for his funeral.

4. And the answer is

6. 2. Identify their second channel
• Their second youtube channel contains just 3
videos and the about page says –
• “This is _______ main youtube channel ka
garib chota bhai. Because every Salman needs
a Sohail.”
• The garib chota bhai has more than 1.2 million
hits though.

7. And the answer is

9. 3.Why is it famous?
• Théâtre de Liège is a theatre in liege, Belgium.
• In July 2015 , a local designer who designed
the logo for this theater sued someone for
allegedly plagiarizing his logo. Whom did he
sue?
• Image follows

11. And the answer is

12. Tokyo 2020 Olympics

13. 4. What does this denote?
• Since this system of correction was
implemented in 1972, 26 ________have been
inserted, the most recent on June 30, 2015 at
23:59:60 UTC.
• Without such a correction, time reckoned
by Earth's rotation drifts away from atomic
time because of irregularities in the Earth's
rate of rotation.
• Image follows.

14. 4. What does this denote?

15. And the answer is

16. Leap second

17. 5. Commemoration of what?

18. And the answer is

19. The original selma walk of 1965

20. 6. Why did it bomb?
• United Passions is a 2014 English-language French drama film
starring Tim Roth, Gérard Depardieu, and Sam Neill, and is
directed by Frédéric Auburtin. It premiered at the Cannes Film
Festival on 18 May 2014.
• The film was released in North America on 5 June 2015,
grossing a mere $918 in its opening weekend.
• FIFA provided £16m of the film's £19m budget.
• Who does Tim Roth play in the film?

21. And the answer is

22. The creation of FIFA. One week after
the film released, top FIFA officials
were arrested.

23. 7. Find the missing film
• The films listed below have been cited by a variety of
notable critics in varying media sources as being among
the worst films ever made.
• 1979 - Caligula
• 1997 – Batman & Robin
• 2004- Catwoman
• 2007 - ?????
• 2008 – Disaster movie
• 2014 – Humshakals

24. And the answer is

26. 8.According to Internet memes,
______are like Jesus. They are the
real icons of saving.
What are we talking about?

27. And the answer is

28. The Floppy disk

29. 9.

30. And the answer is

31. Vittal Mallya Road

32. 10. What epic moment is this?

33. And the answer is

34. What is the score???

35. First ever accident of a driverless
car.

36. 11.Fill in the blanks.
• In Which Annie Gives it Those Ones is a 1989
Indian TV film with screenplay byArundhati
Roy (who also acts in the film), direction
by Pradip Krishen, and starring Arjun Raina as
the title character, along with Roshan
Seth and _________. This film was the
recipient of two National Awards in 1989.

38. And the answer is

39. This guy!!!

41. 12. On 21st May 2010, as a homage to the 30th
anniversary of X, google featured a doodle.
Though wildly popular, it is estimated to have
cost the world economy 120 million$. Id
X/Doodle?

42. And the answer is

43. Google introduced a playable Pacman
Doodle which was estimated to have taken
up 4,819,352 hours of employee time,
costing the economy an estimated
$120,483,800.

44. 13. X was ranked No1 in the Forbes Fictional 15-
a listing of the richest Fictional characters. X’s
net worth was estimated to be “ infinite”. But
after receiving countless letters protesting his
selection, he was dropped from the list since
2006. Id X?

45. And the answer is

46. Forbes had to drop Santa Claus after getting
bombarded by letters from outraged children
insisting that he is real and not a fictional Character.

47. 14.LifeSpring Hospitals, is an Indian hospital chain,
which provides low cost maternity care to women
from the low-income group in Hyderabad. It was
established in 2005 as a 50-50 joint
venture between Acumen Fund, a U.S.-based
nonprofit global venture philanthropy fund and
an Indian Public sector Company (X). It currently
operates 12 hospitals in Hyderabad and plans to
expand to 100 hospitals across India in the next 5
years. Id the Indian Company (X) ?

48. And the answer is

49. HLL- Headquartered in your neighborhood .

50. 15. These guys are famous in silicon Valley as
the ?

51. And the answer is

52. • PayPal Mafia: PayPal Mafia" is a term used to indicate a group of
former PayPal employees and founders who have went on to start wildly
successful ventures. The name became famous after this photoshoot for
the Fortune Magazine , in which they dressed up as members of the
Mafia.
• Back row from left: Jawed Karim, co-founder Youtube; Jeremy
Stoppelman CEO Yelp; Andrew McCormack, managing partner Laiola
Restaurant; Premal Shah, Pres of Kiva; 2nd row from left: Luke Nosek,
managing partner The Founders Fund; Kenny Howery, managing partner
The Founders Fund; David Sacks, CEO Geni and Room 9 Entertainment;
Peter Thiel, CEO Clarium Capital and Founders Fund; Keith Rabois, VP BIz
Dev at Slide and original Youtube Investor; Reid Hoffman, Founder
Linkedin; Max Levchin, CEO Slide; Roelof Botha, partner Sequoia Capital;
Russel Simmons, CTO and co-founder of Yelp
• Missing from the pic is Elon Musk , founder of Tesla and Space X

53. 16.This is the Golden Disc carried by the Voyager, the 1st
spacecraft to cross into the interstellar space. Id the funda
behind this image etched on the record

54. And the answer is

55. • It is a “we are here” map , which shows the location
of our solar system with respect to 14 Pulsars. The
binary code defines the frequency of the pulses.
• There were concerns that this information
shouldn’t be included , as it may jeopardize our
safety.

56. 17. The Wikipedia logo which was changed in 2010 met with
protests for dropping the character from a unique language ,
from its logo. Id this language?

57. And the answer is

58. Klingon !!

59. 18. Connect

60. And the answer is

61. Micromax
• On the left is “Micromax” a mutant superhero
in the Marvel Comic World with the power to
increase, decrease or redistribute his body
mass, allowing for dramatic size change.
• Asin is married to Rahul Sharma- the Co-
founder of Micromax Mobiles.

62. 19.He was the the founder and chairman of Internet
Users Community of India (IUCI) ,played a major role
in setting up internet organisations like the Ethical
Hackers Association and was also one of the first in
the country to operate a website at
www.junglee.org.in The once-compulsive smoker
said famously on a video podcast that “the mouse
took my cigarette away”. Id this Multifaceted
Personality?

63. And the answer is

64. Shammi Kapoor

65. 20. A collaboration of walt disney and
whom?

67. Salvador Dali