Intercollegiate quiz.Pulsating at close contest.Next year promises to be tougher as the inaugral one was a cake walk for the winners from University college,Trivandrum
2. Q1
โข There is this famous Swedish scientist and
engineer W who perhaps is better known to the
world for laying the foundations of X. A famous
playright Y once said - โ I can forgive W for
having invented Z, but only a fiend (enemy) in
human form could have invented Xโ. Incidentally
scientist W, was quite multi-talented. He also
authored a prose tragedy in four acts based on
the life of Beatrice Cenci partly inspired by PB
shelly.Identify W,X,Y,Z
3. โข Answer W: Alfred Nobel
โข X: Nobel prize
โข Dynamite Z:
โข Y:George Bernard Shaw
4. Q2
โข She is the only person in the world to have
been married to the Presidents of two
different nations and thus being the First Lady
of two different Nations.Name the lady
5. Ans2 Graรงa Machel-- third wife of former South African
President Nelson Mandela and the former widow of
the late Mozambican President Samora Machel
6. Q3
โข Sanjiv Mehta, a Mumbai-born entrepreneur who
completed the process of buying the this
company in 2005 from the "30 or 40" people who
owned it. The formal start of the Company is
usually dated back to 1600 when Britain's Queen
Elizabeth I granted a group of merchants a
charter under the name 'The Company of
Merchants of London Trading into the --------Now,
the brand sells luxury gift sets, teas, coffees, jams
and other goods inspired by its history?
8. Q4
โข Itโs usually said that the human tongue can
detect only four basic tastes: sweet, sour,
bitter and salty, and that all tastes are
combinations of these. In recent years some
researchers have added a fifth taste, umami
(which is a pleasant savory taste) to the other
four, though western food scientists are
divided about whether it really exists or not.
What ingredient is usually used to provide the
umami ?
10. Q5
โข What name is used in Bible for the final battle
between the Good and the evil,at the end of
the world
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11. Armageddon (from Ancient Greek: แผฯฮผฮฑฮณฮตฮดฯฮฝ
Harmagedลn,[1][2] Late Latin: Armagedลn[3]) will be, according to the Book of
Revelation, the site of a battle during the end times, variously interpreted as
either a literal or symbolic location. The term is also used in a generic sense to
refer to any end of the world scenario
12. Q6
โข When Indian forces drove away the Portuguese from
this colony, it became in the eyes of international law,
an independent country. The residents of the colony
requested the Government of India for administrative
help. Mr. K.G. Badlani, an officer of the Indian
Administrative Service (IAS) was sent as the
administrator. In 1961, Mr. Badlani was, for one day,
designated the Prime Minister of the โcountryโ, so that,
as Head of State, he could sign an agreement with the
Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, and formally
merge the โcountryโ with the Republic of India. Identify
this former Portuguese colony
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16. Q8
โข What is common to the Goan feni, Tirupathi
ladoos, Mysore silk and Darjeeling tea?
17. Ans 8
โข AnswerAll these are Geographical Indication (GI)
patented . A geographical indication (GI) is a
name or sign used on certain products which
corresponds to a specific geographical location or
origin (e.g. a town, region, or country). The use of
a GI may act as a certification that the product
possesses certain qualities, is made according to
traditional methods, or enjoys a certain
reputation, due to its geographical origin.
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18. Q9
โข Who was the first Indian in independent India
to win a medal in an Individual Olympic
event?
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19. Ans 9
โข Answer KD Jadhav won independent Indias
first Olympic medalist,with bronze at 1952
helsinki games in freestyle wrestling
20. Q10
โข The Apu Trilogy is a trilogy consisting of three
Bengali films directed by Satyajit Ray: Pather
Panchali (Song of the Little Road), Aparajito
(The Unvanquished) and Apur Sansar (The
World of Apu).Who created The original music
for the trilogy?
22. Q11
โข She won the Junior National Lawn Tennis
Championship in 1966 and the Asian Lawn
Tennis Championship in 1972. She won the
presidents Galantary award in 1979. She is the
Winner of Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1994.
A non fiction feature film on her life, Yes
Madam, Sir, has been produced by Australian
film maker, Megan Doneman?Who is the
person
24. Q12
โข Montichiari is a town and comune in the
province of Brescia, in Lombardy,in Italy. It
received the honorary title of city with a
presidential decree on December 27, 1991.On
its territory there are the
"GabrieleDAnnunzio" airport and the fair
center"Centro Fiera del Garda". This town has
an indoor volleyball court. What is its name?
28. Q14
โข Johnson & Johnson employee Earle Dickson
invented this for his wife Josephine, who
frequently cut and burned herself while
cooking.[2] The prototype allowed her to dress
her wounds without assistance. Dickson
passed the idea on to his employer, which
went on to produce and market the product
Which product
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32. Q16
โข It was an ancient seaport and an Urban
centre.Kerala Council for Historical Research
(KCHR) suggest that the location of the
disappeared port could have been at
Pattanam, a small town 2 km north of North
Paravur, Ernakulam district and 9 km south of
Kodungallur.It is referred to as
Murachipattanam in Valmiki's
Ramayana.Name the port which is now in
News?
36. Q18
โข What message did Julius Caesar send to Rome
after winning the Battle of
Pharnaces?Variations of this is used in
Music,Art,Literature,art and entertainment
even now
โข
37. โข veni vidi vici in latin which means ..I came,I
saw,I conquered
38. Q19
โข An IFS officer his debut Novel โQ and Aโ
became international best seller and the 2008
film based on it won 10 oscar nominations out
of which it won 8 awards ?.
โข
โข Identify the novelist
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40. Q20
โข 20 Addor Gopalakrishnan movie which depicts
the story of decline of feudal system in kerala
and how the lords were unable to adjust to
the changed situation.The lords refuse to
change their mindsets getting trapped in their
own homes?It won the National award for
best malayalam film Name the film
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44. Q22
โข Left-arm unorthodox spin bowlers use a wrist
hand action to spin the ball which turns from
off to leg side of the cricket pitch. The
direction of turn is the same as that of a
traditional right-handed off spin bowler;
however, the ball will usually turn more
sharply due to the spin being imparted
predominantly by the wrist.What is it
popularily called
46. Q23
โข 23 In India, it officially denotes the end of
Republic Day festivities. It is conducted on the
evening of January 29, the third day after the
Republic Day. It is performed by the bands of
the three wings of the military, the Indian
Army, the Indian Navy and the Indian Air
Force. The venue is Raisina Hills and an
adjacent square, Vijay Chowk. What is the
event
48. Q24
โข Beautiful mind a hollywood oscar winning
movie made in 2001 is about an American
mathematician whose works in game theory,
differential geometry, and partial differential
equations have provided insight into the
forces that govern chance and events inside
complex systems in daily life.Name him
53. โข According to tradition,if a Hindustani classical
raga has a prefix Miyan like Miyan ki Todi,
Miyan ki Malhar, Miyan ki Mand, Who is the
composer
64. โข This was a political movement for reformation
within the Communist Party of the Soviet
Union during the 1980s (1986), widely
associated with Soviet leader Mikhail
Gorbachev and his glasnost (meaning
"openness") policy reform?How do we know
this restructuring movement?
74. In the Who s who round we will have 3 clue
30 marks for answering in clue 1,20 in clue
2 and 10 in clue 3.
No passing in Who s who round.
Overall time 45 secs including giving of
clues.So goto next clue if
you donโt know the answer
Round 3 Whoโs who
75. โข Clue 1:He was born to a Bengali Hindu Brahmin family of
Santiniketan,West Bengal and his name was given By
Rabindranath Tagore
โข Clue2 The Indian economist work โPoverty and Famines:
An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation (1981), a book in
which he argued that famine occurs not only from a lack of
food, but from inequalities built into mechanisms for
distributing food.
โข Clue 3 His Book Argumentative Indian challenges the myth
that west has exclusive access to the values that lie at the
foundation of rationality and reasoning, science and
evidence, liberty and tolerance, and of course rights and
justice
76. โข His father was a midfielder in the bronze medal-
winning Indian field hockey team at the 1972
Munich Olympics and mother captained the
Indian basketball team in the 1980 Asian
basketball championship
โข Clue 2 He is making a debut in Ashok Kohli's
Rajdhani Express, a socio-political thriller. As per
reports he plays a terrorist in the film.
โข Clue 3 He beat Fernando Meligeni to win the
bronze medal,in ATLANTA olympics
77. โข Another student from Shantiniketan,he started
his career as a visualiser in an ad agency doing
cover of Jawaharlal Nehru's Discovery of India
โข Clue 2 His first movie which literally translated
means Song of the Road [1] is a novel written by
Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay and won critical
acclaim
โข Clue 3 An honorary Oscar was awarded to him
weeks before his death, which he received in a
gravely ill condition.
78. โข 1 Indian-American astrophysicist was a nephew of CV
Raman.
โข Clue 2 He worked in distinct periods worked in various
areas including stellar structure, theory of white
dwarfs, stellar dynamics, theory of radiative transfer,
quantum theory of the negative ion of Hydrogen,
hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic stability
โข Clue 3 He won the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics for key
discoveries that led to the currently accepted theory
on the later evolutionary stages of massive stars
79. โข Austrian-born American management consultant, educator,
and author who conducted political audit": a two-year
social-scientific analysis of the GM corporation
โข Clue 2 He taught that management is โa liberal art,โ and he
infused his management advice with interdisciplinary
lessons from history, sociology, psychology, philosophy,
culture and religion.[2] He also believed strongly that all
institutions, including those in the private sector, have a
responsibility to the whole of society which he wrote in the
book Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices
โข Clue 3 he invented the concept known as management by
objectives
90. โข
โข Q3 Maria Irudayam is a two-time World
Champion and nine time national champion in
his sporting discipline. He is the Only person
to be awarded the Arjuna Award in his sport.
Which sport does he play
113. โข In 1977 who became the first person to address the UN General assembly in Hindi
โข Answer: AB Vajpayee
โข 2 Which party was formed by Subhash Chandra bose in 1939 after his break from
Congress
โข Ans Forward Bloc
โข 3 What toy is named after the daughter of Ruth and Eliot handler,the founder of
mattel
โข Answer:Barbie
โข 4 Who was Indias first Union Minister for Information technology
โข Answer Pramod Mahajan
โข 5 Which provision in indian constitution guarantees a special status to J and K
โข Article 370
โข 6 Who captained the Indian under 19 side that won the world cup in 2000
โข Mohammed Kaif
114. โข
โข Which word In japanese means planting in Tray
โข Bonsai
โข Who is the only Pakistan national to win bharat Ratna
โข Answer Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
โข Which Indian cricketer has the name drawn from hindu mythology which is the collective name of
twins Dasra and natya
โข Answer:Aswin
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โข What name is given to professional who analyses election trends and predicts results
โข Answer PSephologist
โข In which logo will you find a panda named Chi Chi
โข WWF
โข
โข What word Descri bes the time of the year when day and night are of equal length
โข Ans Equinox
115. โข Which crop is traditionally used in Russia to Distill Vodka
โข Answer Potato
โข Which religious dignitary wears the fishermans ring?
โข Answer Pope
โข Who signed the Tashkent Declaration along with SHastri in 1966
โข Answer Ayub Khan
โข What is the electoral symbol of Sharad Pawar led Nationalist Congress
party
โข Ans Clock
โข 5)Which was the first Asian Country to host Summer Olympics
โข Ans Tokyo in 1964
โข 6 What indoor game was invented by James Naismith Naismith in 14
to provide an "athletic distraction to bunch rowdy college kids
โข Answer:Basket ball
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116. โข
โข What has been taken from Mundaka Upanishad as national motto of India
โข Ans Satyamev Jayate
โข 2 By what name did Abdul Kadar act in Films
โข Ans Prem Nazir
โข 3 Name Mamootys Autobiography
โข Ans Chamayngal Illathe
โข 4 Which Indian Business woman was named as most powerful business woman
for second year in succession by Fortune magazine
โข Answer Chanda Kochar of ICICI
โข 5 Who was Awarded a special Oscar in 1928 for writing acting and directing the
film CIRCUS
โข Charlie Chaplin
โข 6 According to the 1998 Guinness Book of World Records, this song is the most
recognized song in the English language and in 1998 Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
bought the the copyright of this song for 5 million dollars.Which song
โข Answer Happy birthday to you