Lourde School at Kottayam conducts annual quizzes to unearth best of talent and also inculcate the importance of reading newspapers.Kids just love being part of the annual show

1. LOURDE
INTER CLASS QUIZ
-July 2013

2. FORMAT OF THE QUIZ
IIINNNDDDIIIAAA RRROOOUUUNNNDDD World Panorama Breaking news
DIRECT
ROUNDS
Fastest Finger VISUAL ROUND
Buzzer
Rounds

3. INDIA ROUND

4. QUESTION 1
“I had failed to realize my dream of becoming
a pilot. It is only when we are faced with
Failure do we realise that we have the
resources within us.We only need to find them
and move on with our lives are lines of newly
released book “ My Journey: Transforming
Dreams into Action"
Who is the Author of the book

5. QUESTION 2
”India is the cradle of the Human race,the birthplace
of Human speech,the mother of History ,the
grandmother of legend and the great grand mother
of tradition.Our most valuable and most instructive
materials in the history of the man are treasured in
India only''
Which American humorist, journalist, lecturer, and
novelist said these words.

6. QUESTION 3
Leander Paes at the Age 40 this year
won the US 2013 open Doubles
crown? Who was his doubles partner
for the event

7. QUESTION 4
In India it officially denotes
the end of the Republic day
festivities and is conducted
on January 29th.
The three bands of Army,Navy
and Airforce in a ceremony at
Raisina hills perform and
march in front of the
President?What is the
ceremony called

8. QUESTION 5
C V Raman and APJ Abdul Kalam were
the first 2 scientists to get the BHARAT
RATNA,Who is the third Scientist to get
the Bharata Ratna

9. QUESTION 6
IN November 2013,The Indira Gandhi
Prize for 2013 for Peace ,Disarmament
and development was announced.Who is
the recipient of the Prize?

10. Audience 1
She won the Pulitzer Prize for her debut collection of
short stories, Interpreter of Maladies (1999). Her first
novel Namesake was adopted into a film by the same
name and later won many awards,Her latest work The
LOWLAND was in the shortlist for the BOOKER
prize.Identify the writer

11. Audience 2
Name the current chairman of the TATA
group of companies

12. Audience 3
Who took over as the 24th chief of the Air staff from Air
chief marshall NAK Browne on December 31st

13. Answers
1. APJ Abdul Kalam
2. Mark Twain the writer of books like the Tom Sawyer and
Huckleberry finn
3. Radek Stepanek from Czech republic
4. Beating retreat
5. CNR Rao for his contribution on Solid state and structural
chemistry
6. Angela Merkel
Audience
1 Jhumpa Lahiri
2 Cyrus Pallonji Mistry
3 Arup Raha

14. WORLD
PANORAM
A

15. QUESTON 1
What is Saphire in Thai Called?

16. QUESTION 2
Who won the Nobel prize for
Literature this year

17. QUESTION 3
Queens Baton Relay came to India in
October first week before the
commonwealth games?Where is the
next Commonwealth games going to be
held?

18. QUESTION 4
Who was re elected as the
Zimbabwe's president for the
fifth time in August 2013.He has
been ruling the country ever since
Independence in 1980

19. QUESTION 5
Which New Zeleand Batsman
scored the fastest ONE Day
century recently

20. QUESTION 6
Ms Megan Young won
the Miss world 2013
title.Which country
does she belong to?

21. Audience QUESTION
Name the creator of
the two popular comic
strips of Phantom and
Mandrake the
Magician?

22. Audience Question
What is the most widely used quantitative
measure or a Scale of the magnitude of an
earthquake, devised in 1935 by an American
seismologist called?

23. Audience Question
Which nation will be hosting the 2020
Summer Olympics?

24. Answers
1) Phailin
2) Alice Munro, Canadian short story writer
3) Glasgow,Scotland
4) Mr. Robert Mugabe
5) Corey Anderson,36 balls
6) Philipines
AUDIENCE QUESTION
1) Falk lee born as Leon Harrison gross
2) Richter scale
3)Tokyo

25. ROUND 3

26. Question 1
Who was sworn in on December
14th as Madhya Pradesh Chief
minister for the Third term?

27. Question 2
Where will you find the Bay of
Rainbows?

28. Question 3
Who received the European
Unions Sakharov Human rights
prize for 2013 on November 23rd?

29. Question 4
Who will be the chief Guest at
this years Republic day parade?

30. Question 5
Pierre Deligne from Belgium was
awarded the 2013 ABEL prize?In
which field is ABEL prize given

31. Question 6
Who has been named as the
TIME magazine person of the
year?

32. Au dience Question
Who took the Oath of office of
Chief Minister in Chattisgarh on
December 12th

33. Answers
1)Shiv Raj singh
2)On the moon.it was where Chinas Lunar probe: Jad
rabbit landed
3)Malala Yousafzai
4)Japanese Prime minister Shinzo Abe
5)Mathematics...Deligne got it for contributions to
Algebraic Geometry
6)Pope Francis
Audience
Raman singh

34. Fastest Finger first

35. QUESTION 1
Amīr Khusro,one of India's greatest
Persian-language poets,is considered
the Father of this form of
Music.Identify the music.

36. QUESTION 2
What programme launched in Saudi
Arabia classifies the country's private
firms into four categories based on
percentage of Saudi employees ?

37. QUESTION 3
It has been mandatory from Jan 1,2013
by Ministry of Consumer affairs to label
every food item with GM containing
GM food items.What does GM stands
for?

38. QUESTION 4
Who is the current Chief justice of
India who was sworn on
July 19,2013 as the 40th Chief
Justice of India?

39. QUESTION 5
If you are travelling with your parents in
your Christmas vacation through places
like Bhagalpur,Purnia,Motihari and
Darbhanga which Indian state will you
be in ?

40. QUESTION 6
Name the person who was conferred
with Bharata Ratna in 1992
posthumously but due to controversy
the award was withdrawn?

41. QUESTION 7
Name the Indian Born American Biochemist
who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine for
research that helped to show how the
nucleotides in nucleic acids, which carry the
genetic code control the cell's synthesis of
proteins.

42. QUESTION 8
Who won the Ladies Singles title at
Wimbeldon in 2013?

43. QUESTION 9
Bimal Jalan,Y V Reddy,D Subbarao..Who is
the latest in the list

44. QUESTION 10
Identify

45. AUDIENCE QUESTION
Name the 2 national languages of
Srilanka

46. AUDIENCE QUESTION
In which country is the Baikonoaur
cosmodrome

47. AUDIENCE QUESTION
Over 70% of one horned rhinos are found
in which national park?

48. 1) Qawwali
2) NITAQAT.This program classifies countrys pvt firms into 4 categories
Premium(more than 40%),green(12-39%),yellow(7-11% ) and Red(0-6%)
3 Genetically modified
4Justice Palanisamy Sathasivam
5 Bihar
6 Subhash Chandra Bose
Answers
7 Hargobind Khurana
8 Marion Bartoli
9 Raghuram Rajan;the present RBI governor
10 The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which won
the Noble peace prize.
Audience
1) Sinhala and Tamil 2) Kazakhsthan 3)Kaziranga

49. ROUND 4-
VISUAL ROUND
Get set on the Buzzer

50. Question 1
Identify the Person from
the clue

51. Baden powell

52. Question 2
IDENTIFY
THE FAMILY

53. SOUND OF MUSIC VON TRAPP FAMILY

54. Question 3
Whats common to the following

55. Answer
All woman heading various banks Arundhati
bhatacharya recently appointed as SBI
MD,Chanda kochar ICICI MD,Shubalkshmi
Pandsa Allahabad bank,Vijaylakshmi Iyer-
Central Bank

56. Question 4)Identify

57. Uday Kumar the person who created
the Rupee symbol

58. Question 5) Identify the person

59. Bachendri Pal: The first Indian Woman on
everest

60. Question 6-Identify the Writer

61. YANN Martel

62. Question 7
 Identify the singer

63. Ans 7
Manna Dey

64. Question 8
 Identify the Scientist

65. Ans 8
Jayant Narlikar is
an Indian
astrophycist who
proposed the
steady state
technology

66. Question 9
 Identify the boy

67. Ans 9
Minon : Child artist
from kerala who
got the National
film award for
best child artist
in 2012 for the
film 101
chodyangal

68. Question 10
 Identify

69. Ans 10
Farooque Sheikh

70. Audience
IDENTIFY

71. Audience
Subedar
Major Vijay
Kumar
AVSM, SM (19 August
1985 - ) is a sport shooter
from India. He won the
silver medal in the
individual 25-metre rapid
fire pistol event at the
2012 Summer Olympics

72. Audience
Identify the
Girl

73. Louise
brown:
The first
Test tube
baby

74. ROUND 6

75. Clue 1: This Physist won the 1983 Nobel prize
was born in Lahore but is a citizen of America
Clue 2 :He is a nephew of CV Raman
Clue 3 He gave the theory that White Dwarf Star
cannot grow beyonf a mass 1.4 times than that
of the Sun.

76. Subrahmanyan Chandrashekhar

77. Clue 1 :Political activist, feminist, poet-writer, and the first Indian
woman be appointed an Indian state governor of United
Provinces now Uttar Pradesh
Clue 2 Her first volume of poetry, The Golden Threshold (1905),
was followed by The Bird of Time (1912), and in 1914 she was
elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
Clue 3 She became the first Indian woman president of the
National Congress—having been preceded eight years earlier
by the English feminist Annie Besant

78. Sarojini Naidu

79. Clue 1 : In 2010 the Movie SOCIAL Network,Directed by David
Fincher about the finding of one of the largest visited website
created lot of controversy
Clue 2 : He along with Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes founded
a popular website where Harvard students entered their own
information and photos into a template that they devised
Clue 3 The site was mainly aimed at students entered their own
information and photos into a template that they devised

80. Mark Zuckerberg

81. CLUE 1- This Mumbai born British writer became the first
writer from the Indian Sub Continent in post colonial era to
be awarded Knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II
Clue 2: In 1993 his book won the booker of Boker prize.
Clue 3: For Nearly 7 years ,Iranian Fundamentalists
pronounced a Death sentence on him for Blasapheming
Islam

82. SALMAN RUSHDIE

83. Clue 1: Polish-born French physicist who caried the surname
Skłodowska
Clue 2 : The first element to be discovered by she and her
husband through radio chemical analysis, was called
polonium after homeland Poland
Clue 3 She is the only woman to win the Nobel award in two
different fields.

84. Marie Curie

85. Clue1: This Indian actor who has won a record 8 filmfare awards.He
was born in 1965 to Muslim parents of Pathan descent in New
Delhi, India.His father, Taj Mohammed Khan, was an Indian
independence activist from Peshawar, British India.
Clue 2: He started his acting career with roles in tV serials like
Dil Dariya ,Fauji and Circus
Clue 3 He has his own production company called Dreams
Unlimited which was later changed to Red chillies
entertaintment.He has also hosted the Indian version of “
Who wants to be a millionaire”

86. Shah Rukh Khan

87. CLUE 1 : A former prime minister of India was born in Gwalior to
Krishna And Krishna Devi .He earned a masters degree in
political science from the Victoria College (now Laxmibai
College) and DAV College, Kanpur.
Clue 2 : He is well-known for being a poet, eminent journalist, and
has published a book of poetry. He was one amongst founder
members of Jana Sangh and was the Minister of External affairs
in Cabinet of Morarji desai
Clue 3 : He is also the first ever Indian to address the UN general
assembly in Hindi

88. Atal Behari Vajpayee

89. ..a quizzing venture
• Started as Quizmaster in ‘Quest ‘a club in Wadia
college Pune where the most passionate quizzers
had trivia as their four square meals
• In 2010, rediscovered the passion at a summer
school camp in kerala
• 30 quizzes at school, college, business schools
followed in the next 4 years….
• Helped me to improve as a quizzer also.Won the
ultimate TATA Crucible Kochi round last year.
• Work as Brand manager for living in Malayala
Manorama handling the ULTIMATE encyclopedia..
Manorama Yearbook

90. Contact me for
conducting any school
level,college
level,management
quizzes or for simpling
sharing your passion for
quizzing
nitin suresh
Ph:09895395096
suresh.nitin@gmail.com @quizcendo