This document summarizes the rules and questions for an open general quiz hosted by Kunal Sarma. It contains 17 multiple choice questions about topics like movies, video games, companies, and characters. The correct answers are provided after each question. Participants are instructed not to look up answers online and only one answer is allowed per person.
3. There are 17 questions
Anyone who wants to answer may raise
their hand and say it out loud. Only one
answer per person.
The correct answers will be declared at
the end of each question.
No googling of course. Let’s keep it
clean.
Keep calm and let’s quiz!
4. Q.1 X is the most efficient basket shot. X is a
crowd pleaser. Perhaps it is the most popular
NBA contest during the NBA all
star weekend. Michael Jordan's leaping ability
, illustrated by performing X , earned him the
nicknames "his airness".
Name X
6. Q.2
• It is well over 120 years old but one of the
youngest major cities in the world
• It has the largest acute hospital in the world
• It is the world's biggest man made forest,
with over 10 million trees.
• It is the world's largest city not built on a
coastline
• 40% of the planet's human ancestor fossils
have been discovered here
• It is now more popularly known as "jozi"
8. Q.3 Approximately 750000 people were arrested for
in 2012 according to the FBI's annual Uniform C
comprising about half (48 percent ) of all drug ar
that's one X arrest every 42 seconds.
Out of the total arrests for X law violation, more t
for simple possession, not sale or manufacture.
arrest for X possession every year than for all vio
combined!
10. Q.4 X and Y, as hungry as ever, venture into the swamp
There they meet swamp resident Lila who asks them
ingredients to finish her stew.
X and Y set off with the gang to solve two mysteries
collecting the ingredients.
The ingredients they find vary from chili's to mushroo
It is the sequel to a video game published by
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.
Name X , Y and the video game.
12. Q.5 100 million people have played XY.
Its daily players could fill 80 of the world's largest s
W made $775 million dollars in its first five days.
If you put together the life long sales of ' Avatar ',‘T
‘The Avengers' , the three highest grossing movies
of all times, they still don't quite make the $6 billion
made by the time W came out.
14. Q.6 The use of the X was first introduced in Germany
set of national radio regulations, effective April 1,
These regulations introduced three new Morse co
including the X.
In 1906, at the second International Radiotelegrap
in Berlin, Article XVI of the regulations adopted Ge
(distress signal) as the international standard, rea
"Ships in distress shall use the following signal: · ·
at brief intervals".
16. Q.7 Its founders made 45 billion each. Sequoia capit
made $2.4 billion. at acquisition, it is worth 2 stap
each employee here has created as much value
Washington Post did in 137 years. In the last 9 m
they have added 1 million users each day!
NASA's 2014 budget: $17bn , its budget : $ 19 bn
18. Q.8
• X makes 40% of all publications sold in jap
• X are the sources for a huge number of hit
videos and TV shows.
• Osamu Tezuka , creator of “astro boy”, cre
150000 pages and revered in japan as " T
23. Q.10 It has been in use for more than 160 years - lo
other electrical system. Initially it was used for telegra
Hamburg and Cuxhaven.
It had three historical versions- The American, The Co
The current ITU standard.
26. Q.11 Amongst many meanings of X, three
• X is the state of being disregarded or forgott
• X is an imaginary place for lost or neglected
• X is also a Caribbean dance in which dance
while leaning backwards under a bar .
29. Q.12 Several countries can lay claim to b
to use puppets. One of these places
where little figures were used to ente
children and parents.
Who was the first marionette, or "little
named after?
30. Virgin Mary
The female name of Marion is a
diminutive form for Mary - the word
"marionette" means "little Mary".
33. Q.14 It ranks up with the Nike “swoosh” or NB
Created in 1977, the logo was the handiwork of
an art director at Regis Mckenna. About the sign
Of Z, he says as follows-
"Anyway, when I explain the real reason why I d
Z it’s kind of a let down. But I’ll tell you. I design
z for scale, so people get that it was an X and n
Also it was kind of iconic about taking a Z out of
Something that everyone can experience.
What is X and Z?
36. Q.15 Connect
• J is a strange character, someone that young readers seem to
to, and one that older readers think is a pompous ass.
There is a strong element of a 1940s-style chivalry in his cha
which today is seen simply as condescending.
• D in the first book, pretty much takes a back seat for the most
But in later books D takes a more active role, constantly jum
in and backing up J like any good younger brother should!
• G is arguably the most interesting character of the four, and c
the most popular as far as fans are concerned.
She's feisty, obstinate, brave, strong-willed as well as strong
an excellent swimmer and impressive in a small rowing boat,
loyal as can be, and quite foolish at times.
37. • A is a wimp. She's domesticated, loves setting up
(while camping out in caves and on the moors), li
the cooking and washing up, and generally lives t
• T is just a dog, and a mongrel at that—but what a
several steps farther and make the villains tie eac
lock themselves in a room, and then recover the s
a lost cave full of treasure, and finally go off to the
38.
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40. Q.16 In X , the presence of Y in a scene signifies an
or assassination attempt.
Although the production designer claims the “fru
brighten up an otherwise darkly shot film , this c
sequence ( Y followed by death ) occurs far too
many times throughout the three movies for it n
been done intentionally.
43. Q.17 I began as a character in Elzie Segar's da
“Thimble Theater”.
The Fleischer brothers Max and Dave turned
me into a cartoon in the early 30's.
I have a pet called “ Eugene the jeep ” who is m
My nephews are : peepeye. poopeye. pipeye. p
My good friend Wimpy is famous for his phrase
“i will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger to
Who am I ?