The first inter club quiz of Kerala part 2

1. Kimothi
Clubbani
part 2
I Quiz
presents

2. 25 Questions
Questions 10 and 20
are star questions
which will be
considered in case of a
tie

3. 1.In the Savoy Hotel in Mussoorie In 1911, a Miss
Frances Garnett-Orme, a 49-year-old spiritualist,
came to stay with her companion from Lucknow,
Miss Eva Mount Stephen , also a spiritualist. One
morning after Miss Mount Stephen had returned
to Lucknow, Miss Frances was found mysteriously
dead, an autopsy revealed that she’d been
poisoned with prussic acid, a cyanide-based
poison.
Apparently, Rudyard Kipling had written to X
urging him to write a story about a “murder by
suggestion”. Though X never visited to
investigate, he mentioned it to Agatha Christie
and the detective story The Mysterious Affair at
Styles was the result.
Name X

4. 2.Airbus have came up with the first 3D printed aircraft which stands for
Test of High-tech Objectives in Reality.
The aircraft is completely 3D printed, except the electrical elements, which
are built from a substance called polyamide.
By which popular character the aircraft is named?

5. 3.In the Soviet era ,Ussuri
beach near the naval port
of Vladivostok in the east
was dumped with
truckloads of broken
vodka bottles and cracked
porcelain .
But now the place is a
tourist attraction due to
something that
happened over the years.
What happened?

6. 4.What do these four flowers represent?

7. 5.Mata Amritanandamayi and M.S. Faizal Khan , Pro
Chancellor of Noorul Islam University are the two in a list of
four exclusive Malayali achievers.
Identify the other two in the list.

8. 6. This is a liqueur flavoured with
the dried peel of the laraha citrus
fruit.
It comes from an island in the
southern Caribbean Sea where the
sailors affected with scurvy used to
get down for cure.
This liqueur often added with a
colour is a popular mix for cocktails.
Name the liqueur

9. 7.This song was originally written by
Shyamlal Parshad Gupta.
The Indian National Congress adopted the
song as the official flag song in 1924 and
it was first sung at the Jallianwala Bagh
Martyrs' Day on 13 April 1924 by Sarojini
Naidu.
Later, the song was featured in the film,
Azadi ki Raah Par, released in 1948.
Identify the song.

10. 8.Cadbury of Birmingham, Fry's of Bristol and Rowntree's and Terrys of
York were the three top selling chocolate manufactures of Britain.
The move into chocolate began with cocoa drinks in the 19th Century as a
reaction against the perceived misery and deprivation caused by alcohol
by the religious group in which the founders of these three companies
belong .
The other advantage in business was their reputation for honesty and
reliability running parallel with their quest for justice, equality and social
reform.
Identify the religious group.

11. 9. Sardar K M Panicker was the first
President of Kerala sahitya academy
as well as an Indian novelist,
journalist, historian, administrator
and diplomat.
However people in Kerala know his
nephew better because of his
literary as well as other
contributions.
Identify the person

12. 10.The Malayalam singer
Jayachandran said in an
interview:
“ I once heard a Bhajan by X
starting with the word Y.
I later found out that Y is
the name of X’s Father.
So I decided to name my
son Y.”
Identify X and Y.

13. 11. Resembling a twisted
teardrop, the fig-shaped
design is of Persian origin.
But its western name derives
from the town of X, in West
Scotland, a centre for textiles
where this designs were
produced.
In India it is called mango
motif also.
Name X.

14. 12.Devageetha
(ദേവഗീത) written
by Changampuzha
Krishna Pillai is based
on which famous
work?

15. 13.His official name was Singanalluru Puttaswamayya Muthuraju.
He won the National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer in
1992 for the song "Naadamaya" from the movie Jeevana Chaitra.
He is also credited for being the only Indian actor who stayed away
from acting the vicious acts of drinking, smoking and uttering
swear words in all the roles he performed in his long spanning
career of close to 50 years and 220 movies.
How do we better know him?

16. 14.Kainchi Dham Ashram in
Nainital, Uttarakhand was built in
1964 with a Hanuman temple.
However , recently it was in news
because X told Prime minister
Narendra Modi in USA that he
visited this place on advice of Y.
Identify X and Y

17. 15.Mr Burger, a burger
chain in Australia, is now
offering ten people the
chance to get their hands
on free burgers for life.
You’ll just have to do one
tiny thing.
What?

18. 16.“Letters From Rosemary an
upcoming movie tells the heart
breaking story of “Rosemary”
Kennedy, sister of John F Kennedy
who had personally suffered
intellectual disabilities.
What world event is said to be
inspired from her which was
started by her sister Eunice
Kennedy?

19. 17. X was 3rd in google search for India
in 2016.
People are debating over her existence
and wondering whether she is real or
not.
Name X who appeared in tweets of
celebrities in connection with
demonetisation.

20. 18.Name the digital
application platform , a
brainchild of Infosys co-
founder and former CEO
Kris Gopalakrishnan, which
chronicles the History of
Indian Information
Technology sector.

21. 19.Kingfisher Towers-
Residences at UB City,
was in news recently as
the home of India's
flamboyant business
tycoon, Vijay Mallya.
What is this building
popularly called?

22. 20.Bechdel Test named
after the American
cartoonist Alison Bechdel,
(in whose comic strip
Dykes to Watch Out For it
first appeared in 1985
)checks the portrayal of
women in popular fiction.
On what basis the test is
being done?

23. 21. Lukla Airport, is a small airport in eastern Nepal. The
airport is popular because Lukla is the place where most
people start the climb to Mount Everest Base Camp.
The airport is now named after Tenzing–Hillary.
History Channel in 2010 rated it as ___________.

24. 22.Valmik Thapar the Indian
naturalist, conservationist and
writer recently came up with a
book called ____, A Celebration
of Indian Birds.
Its name sound similar to an
auto biography by a very famous
Indian of a different field.
Name it.

25. 23.Movie director
Hansal Mehta (of
Aligarh and
Shahid)came up with a
10-minute-long video
tribute titled ' Reach For
The Stars‘ recently .
Whom is he paying
tribute?

26. 24.Virachand Raghavji ____was a Jain scholar who
represented Jainism at the first World Parliament of
Religions in 1893.
A barrister by profession, he worked to defend the
rights of Jains, and wrote and lectured extensively
on Jainism, other religions, and philosophy.
He participated in Pune session of Indian National
Congress in 1895 as a representative of Bombay
state.
A drama based on his life, _____ Before_____ was
performed 200 times throughout the world.
Fill in the blanks. (One word)

27. 25.Khao Ping Kan is an island in Thailand.
It is popularly called after a character of fame because
this place was featured in one movie in 1974.
Name it.

29. 1.In the Savoy Hotel in Mussoorie In 1911, a Miss
Frances Garnett-Orme, a 49-year-old spiritualist,
came to stay with her companion from Lucknow,
Miss Eva Mount Stephen , also a spiritualist. One
morning after Miss Mount Stephen had returned
to Lucknow, Miss Frances was found mysteriously
dead, an autopsy revealed that she’d been
poisoned with prussic acid, a cyanide-based
poison.
Apparently, Rudyard Kipling had written to X
urging him to write a story about a “murder by
suggestion”. Though X never visited to
investigate, he mentioned it to Agatha Christie
and the detective story The Mysterious Affair at
Styles was the result.
Name X

30. Sir Arthur
Conan
Doyle

31. 2.Airbus have came up with the first 3D printed aircraft which stands for
Test of High-tech Objectives in Reality.
The aircraft is completely 3D printed, except the electrical elements, which
are built from a substance called polyamide.
By which popular character the aircraft is named?

32. THOR
Test of High-tech Objectives in Reality

33. 3.In the Soviet era ,Ussuri
beach near the naval port
of Vladivostok in the east
was dumped with
truckloads of broken
vodka bottles and cracked
porcelain .
But now the place is a
tourist attraction due to
something that
happened over the years.
What happened?

34. The glass pieces were smoothened by the waves and
now the beach is full of smooth glass pebbles

35. 4.What do these four flowers represent?

36. They are the national symbols of the United
Kingdom’s constituent countries (England,
Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland)

37. 5.Mata Amritanandamayi and M.S. Faizal Khan , Pro
Chancellor of Noorul Islam University are the two in a list of
four exclusive Malayali achievers.
Identify the other two in the list.

38. V K Krishna menon and Sashi Taroor
People who spoke in UN General assembly

39. 6. This is a liqueur flavoured with
the dried peel of the laraha citrus
fruit.
It comes from an island in the
southern Caribbean Sea where the
sailors affected with scurvy used to
get down for cure.
This liqueur often added with a
colour is a popular mix for cocktails.
Name the liqueur

40. Blue Curacao

41. 7.This song was originally written by
Shyamlal Parshad Gupta.
The Indian National Congress adopted the
song as the official flag song in 1924 and
it was first sung at the Jallianwala Bagh
Martyrs' Day on 13 April 1924 by Sarojini
Naidu.
Later, the song was featured in the film,
Azadi ki Raah Par, released in 1948.
Identify the song.

43. 8.Cadbury of Birmingham, Fry's of Bristol and Rowntree's and Terrys of
York were the three top selling chocolate manufactures of Britain.
The move into chocolate began with cocoa drinks in the 19th Century as a
reaction against the perceived misery and deprivation caused by alcohol
by the religious group in which the founders of these three companies
belong .
The other advantage in business was their reputation for honesty and
reliability running parallel with their quest for justice, equality and social
reform.
Identify the religious group.

45. 9. Sardar K M Panicker was the first
President of Kerala sahitya academy
as well as an Indian novelist,
journalist, historian, administrator
and diplomat.
However people in Kerala know his
nephew better because of his
literary as well as other
contributions.
Identify the person

47. 10.The Malayalam singer
Jayachandran said in an
interview:
“ I once heard a Bhajan by X
starting with the word Y.
I later found out that Y is
the name of X’s Father.
So I decided to name my
son Y.”
Identify X and Y.

48. Lata Mangeshkar Dinanath Mangeshkar

49. 11. Resembling a twisted
teardrop, the fig-shaped
design is of Persian origin.
But its western name derives
from the town of X, in West
Scotland, a centre for textiles
where this designs were
produced.
In India it is called mango
motif also.
Name X.

50. Paisley

51. 12.Devageetha
(ദേവഗീത) written
by Changampuzha
Krishna Pillai is based
on which famous
work?

53. 13.His official name was Singanalluru Puttaswamayya Muthuraju.
He won the National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer in
1992 for the song "Naadamaya" from the movie Jeevana Chaitra.
He is also credited for being the only Indian actor who stayed away
from acting the vicious acts of drinking, smoking and uttering
swear words in all the roles he performed in his long spanning
career of close to 50 years and 220 movies.
How do we better know him?

54. Rajkumar

55. 14.Kainchi Dham Ashram in
Nainital, Uttarakhand was built in
1964 with a Hanuman temple.
However , recently it was in news
because X told Prime minister
Narendra Modi in USA that he
visited this place on advice of Y.
Identify X and Y

56. Mark Zuckerberg and Steve jobs

57. 15.Mr Burger, a burger
chain in Australia, is now
offering ten people the
chance to get their hands
on free burgers for life.
You’ll just have to do one
tiny thing.
What?

58. Officially change your name to
Burger(Mr./Mrs.)

59. 16.“Letters From Rosemary an
upcoming movie tells the heart
breaking story of “Rosemary”
Kennedy, sister of John F Kennedy
who had personally suffered
intellectual disabilities.
What world event is said to be
inspired from her which was
started by her sister Eunice
Kennedy?

61. 17. X was 3rd in google search for India
in 2016.
People are debating over her existence
and wondering whether she is real or
not.
Name X who appeared in tweets of
celebrities in connection with
demonetisation.

62. Sonam Gupta.
The writing on the notes went viral in social
media.

63. 18.Name the digital
application platform , a
brainchild of Infosys co-
founder and former CEO
Kris Gopalakrishnan, which
chronicles the History of
Indian Information
Technology sector.

65. 19.Kingfisher Towers-
Residences at UB City,
was in news recently as
the home of India's
flamboyant business
tycoon, Vijay Mallya.
What is this building
popularly called?

66. Whitehouse in the sky

67. 20.Bechdel Test named
after the American
cartoonist Alison Bechdel,
(in whose comic strip
Dykes to Watch Out For it
first appeared in 1985
)checks the portrayal of
women in popular fiction.
On what basis the test is
being done?

68. The Bechdel test asks whether a work of fiction
features at least two women or girls who talk to
each other about something other than a man or
boy.

69. 21. Lukla Airport, is a small airport in eastern Nepal. The
airport is popular because Lukla is the place where most
people start the climb to Mount Everest Base Camp.
The airport is now named after Tenzing–Hillary.
History Channel in 2010 rated it as ___________.

70. The most dangerous airport in the world

71. 22.Valmik Thapar the Indian
naturalist, conservationist and
writer recently came up with a
book called ____, A Celebration
of Indian Birds.
Its name sound similar to an
auto biography by a very famous
Indian of a different field.
Name it.

73. 23.Movie director
Hansal Mehta (of
Aligarh and
Shahid)came up with a
10-minute-long video
tribute titled ' Reach For
The Stars‘ recently .
Whom is he paying
tribute?

75. 24.Virachand Raghavji ____was a Jain scholar who
represented Jainism at the first World Parliament of
Religions in 1893.
A barrister by profession, he worked to defend the
rights of Jains, and wrote and lectured extensively
on Jainism, other religions, and philosophy.
He participated in Pune session of Indian National
Congress in 1895 as a representative of Bombay
state.
A drama based on his life, _____ Before_____ was
performed 200 times throughout the world.
Fill in the blanks. (One word)

77. 25.Khao Ping Kan is an island in Thailand.
It is popularly called after a character of fame because
this place was featured in one movie in 1974.
Name it.