AN ENTERTAINING GK QUIZ, MANY ANSWERS CAN BE WORKED OUT FROM THE QUESTIONS

2.  ,Countries in dark green currently use it-
kuwait iraq jordan bahrain, libya ,
algeria, tunisia, serbia and macedonia
 Countries in light green previously used it
– sudan, south yemen, iran, croatia..

7.  Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Iran, Iraq,Kuw
ait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia,
UAE and Venezuela.
 Indonesia left OPEC in 2009

8.  There are several opinions on the origin of
the name of this state-
 It is widely believed that X takes its name
from the 36 pillars of the devi temple there
 The old state had 36 feudal territories
 Another view, is that X is the corrupted
form of the word which means Raj or
"Empire of the Chedis”

9.  CHATTISGARH
 CHATTIS - 36

10.  The Mullaiperiyar dam, the subject of so
much controversy in recent times, is
located in Kerala, but has been leased
to Tamil Nadu after a 1886 treaty
between the then Travancore State and
the Madras Presidency.
 For how many years is this lease?

12.  X is a proposed particle physics research
project to primarily study Y in a 1,300
meters (4,300 ft) deep cave near Bodi
west hill in Theni, Tamil Nadu.
 When completed, X will house the world's
most massive magnet, four times larger
than the 12,500-tonne magnet in the
CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.

13.  X– India
Based Neutrino Observatory (INO)
 Y- NEUTRINO

15. The earliest unequivocal use of
a glyph, or symbol, for zero -- is
a stone inscription in a temple
at Gwalior, India, dated 876
CE

16.  Tarangini Mitra loved to pirouette. To
dance by spinning on one foot came
naturally to her. On one of her school
functions, her talent was spotted by a
certain Mr. Padmasee, a reputed ad film
maker who approached her mother and
said “We just want her to do the spin, like
she does so gracefully. The small twist
would be counterbalanced by a jingle.
She does the move, packs her bags, gets
the cheque and leaves. Think of it, she’s
going to be the first ________”.

18.  The logo illustrates the central idea of X,
as articulated in "The X Way" – "man living
in harmony with man, man living in
harmony with nature, and man living as
part of nature.“
 As a graphic, this logo is a "rebus" or
visual pun. On the one hand, it depicts a
tree,
 On the other hand, it shows interlinked
figures of the people who have come
together to create this in sept 2014

20.  NALANDA UNIVERSITY
 CHANCELLOR – AMARTYA SEN
 BIHAR
 THE IDEA OF REVIVNG NALANDA WAS
PROPOSED BY APJ ABDUL KALAM

21.  The general ideas on the creation of the
seal for this Indian government
organisation were as follows:
› the seal should emphasize the
Governmental status, but not too
closely;
› it should have something Indian in the
design;
 For this purpose, various seals were
examined and sketch of Tiger and Palm
Tree, was found most suitable.
 Identify the organization.

23.  The following cartoon by Hindustan Times
when The Orbital Sciences Corporation’s
Antares rocket exploded was meant as
reply of which now infamous cartoon by
a US daily

25.  Mahesh Chandra Mehta, a famous lawyer, filed
a case before the Supreme Court of India in
1984 to shut down the Mathura Refinery, owned
by Indian Oil corporation. This case went on for
15 years and in 1999, the Supreme Court instead,
ordered the closure of 53 Iron foundries and 107
other factories near Delhi leading to the
unemployment of around 300, 000 people. This
led to protests and other cases being filed.
Finally, the Supreme Court ordered these
industries to use compressed natural gas instead
of coal and coke. This case however attracted
the attention of the world press and the
industries drew criticism from the likes of Bill
Clinton and others. Give the Reason/the issue

27.  “You can almost feel the night as the
chirp of crickets surrounds you. The city's
sunk in deep sleep. In the distance, one
can hear the hum of a factory. Into this
soundscape, a slow hissing seeps in and
grows strong. As the lethal orchestra ends,
one can hear a human voice gasping for
breath.”
 The exhibit by Samar Singh opened to
the public at exactly 12.05am IST
representing the intervening night of
December 2 and 3, when the event
occurred 30 years ago
 -EXHIBIT ABOUT WHAT ?

29.  These are the ancient Runic alphabets ,
two are marked separately.
 How do we see these two today very
commonly

31.  You will be shown a list of something
 Identify what's the list about
 Give the missing one

32.  2004- Tamil
 2005 – Sanskrit
 2008 – Telugu
 2008 – Kannada
 2013 – Malayalam
 2014 -??

33.  ODIYA – 6th classical language in India

34.  The Rath Yatra in Jagganath temple has
given rise to an English term meaning-
 “Literal or metaphorical force regarded
as mercilessly destructive and
unstoppable” as a reference to the
Ratha Yatra temple car, which was
reputed to crush devotees under its
wheels.
 The word can be compared to the use
words like steamroller or battering ram to
mean something overwhelming.

37.  ‘X Y X’, shouted the English
engineer, Mr W L Lake, at his men
as they watched elephants
emerging out of the dense forest
with oil stains on their feet". This is
possibly the most distilled – version
of the legend explaining the siting
and naming of XY where the first
oil well in Asia was drilled

39.  The work in India on X starts roughly a
week ahead of presenting it with a
customary 'Halwa ceremony' in which
Halwa is prepared in large quantity and
served to officers and support staff
involved.
 They remain isolated and stay in the
office until X is over .
 This ceremony is performed as a part of
the Indian tradition of having something
sweet before starting an important work.
What impotant work ?

41.  One of the myth about this dish is that
it originated in the kitchen
of Thanjavur ruler Shahuji during the
19th century from the southern Indian
state of Tamil Nadu. Shahuji trying to
make a dish called amti, experimented
with pigeon peas instead of mung
bean, and the court named it X after
the guest of the day, Sambhaji,
second emperor of the Maratha
Empire.

42. Sambar

43.  His ancestors, known for
their Sanskrit scholarship, originally hailed
from Malwa(Ujjain), Madhya Pradesh
and hence came to be known as ---

44.  He became the President of the Indian
National Congress in 1909 and 1918
 He played an important part in the
removal of untouchability and in giving
direction to the Harijan movement. The
Harijan Sevak Sangh was founded at a
meeting in 1933 at which he presided.[11]

45.  The slogan "Satyameva Jayate" is also
a legacy given to the nation by him
as the President of the Indian National
Congress in its session of 1918 at Delhi,
 The "Mahamana" title was conferred
to him by Mahatma Gandhi

46.  X is most remembered as the founder
of Banaras Hindu University (BHU) at
Varanasi in 1916 , the largest
residential university in Asia and one of
the largest in the world,[3

48.  The --- were two winds or storms that are
said to have saved Japan from two
Mongol fleets under Kublai Khan, these
were the first events where the typhoons
were described as "divine wind" as much
by their timing as by their force.
 The same word was used for suicide
attacks by military aviators from
the Empire of Japan against Allied naval
vessels in the closing stages of the Pacific
campaign of World War II, designed to
destroy warships more effectively than
was possible with conventional attacks

51.  Warner Bros owns a catalog of about 6,000 feature
films in a library that last year helped generate nearly
$4 billion in licensing fees
 The shortlist of films that drive much of the library's
value include "The Wizard of Oz," "A Christmas Story,"
"Caddyshack" and another film that had an
unsuccessful run at the box office when released, but
has over the years proved to be a great hit.
Apparently, In the days of videocassettes, this was the
top rental of 1995.
 Why the film didn't make any money during it's
theatrical run is attributed to a variety of reasons -
Lack of female roles,- - it's title with a religious
connotation- - or probably being overshadowed by
three of the biggest hits/ most iconic films of the
decade releasing in the same year.
 What film?

53.  Movies that supposedly
overshadowed Shawshank were
 Forrest Gump, Jurassic Park and Pulp
Fiction.
 All released in the same month

54.  The word X referred originally to one who
attended a horse for his employer, that is,
a horse groom.
 Hence Like constable andmarshal, also
originally stable staff,X became the title of a
subordinate official in a royal court or noble
household
 But, today the word finds itself on the other
side of the divide from constable and
marshal. It is most often used to describe a
hired guard or minion of a master criminal.
 What word whose equestrian reference
comes from the old English word hengest
meaning male horse?

56.  X is a vocal group created by German
record producer Frank Farian. Originally
based in Germany, the four original
members of the group's official line-up
were singers Liz Mitchell and Marcia
Barrett, Maizie and Y
 Farian selected the name X based on an
Australian tv detective named Napoleon
Bonaparte
 I dentify X and additional 5 points for Y

58.  X is located in wooded hills 100 km north-
northwest of Washington, D.C.,
in Catoctin Mountain Park ] It is officially
known as Naval Support Facility
Thurmont and is technically a military
installation
 First known as Hi-Catoctin, Franklin
Roosevelt renamed it "Shangri-La“
 X received its present name fromDwight
D. Eisenhower, in honor of his father and
his grandson

61.  Karan Singh, is a member of the Rajya
Sabha and has authored several
books - Hinduism,Essays on Hinduism
etc . He was born in
Cannes France in 1931.
 The question is, who
 was his father?

62.  Hari Singh signed the Instrument of
Accession on 26 October 1947,
acceding the whole of his princely state
Kashmir including Jammu, to
the Dominion of India.

63.  In the Imerial library of Paris, X had access
not only to the rich collection of Sanskrit
manuscripts but also to the Sanskrit books
which had up to that time been issued
Culcutta presses.
 He spent five years of laborious study,
almost living in the libraries of Paris, and
unmoved by the sorrounding turmoils,
including Napoleon's escape,
the Waterloo campaign and
the Restoration.

64.  was a German linguist known for
extensive comparative work on Indo-
European languages.

65.  When Richard Linklater was asked
about how he felt after filming
‘Boyhood’, at The Sundance Film
Festival.
 He replied with the name of another
Oscar-winning movie that also
referenced the time taken to film his
movie.
 Which movie?

67.  Harald Gormsson was a King of Denmark
and Norway. 958AD – 986AD
 Harald erected the Jelling stones ,And his
biography is summed up on the stones as-
 “The Harald who won the whole of
Denmark and Norway and turned the
Danes to Christianity”
 because he unified Denmark and Norway
 How is he remembered very commonly
today –due to something in the field of
communications and technology

68.  Harald "Bluetooth" Gormsson
 The Bluetooth logo consists of the runic
alphabets for his initials, H - and B -
 The Bluetooth communications protocol is
named after the king, because he unified
Denmark and Norway much like the
technology whose goal was to unify
computers and cellular phones
 Harald must have had a conspicuous bad
tooth that has been blue/ black,
 -

70.  Mulvantrai Himmatlal X, was an
Indian cricketer who is best known for his
record setting opening partnership of 413
runs, with Pankaj Roy, in 1956, a record that
stood for 52 years
 X caused controversy in 1947/48 on India's
tour of Australia, when he ran out Bill Brown -
X broke the wicket at the non-striker's end
during his run-up while the batsman at that
end was out of his ground. He had done the
same thing to Brown in an earlier game also.
 But his running out of Brown infuriated the
Australian media, and running someone out
in this way is now referred to as “X” - ing

71.  X = Mankad , Vinoo Mankad
 Mankading
 Four other instances of 'Mankading' have
taken placed in Test matches.
 The latest one was
 by KapilDev against
 Peter Kirsten in 92-93

72.  X wrote his famous theorem in the margin
of a copy of Arithmetica & he noted that
he had a proof but it was too large to fit in
the margin, so he didn’t write it.
 It is among the most notable theorems in
the history of mathematics & the proof
remained elusive for 358 yrs
 Y came across this theorem on his way
home from school when he was 10 years
old &he decided to be the first person to
prove it and he did it after 30 yrs
 Identify X ,the Theorem ,and additional 5
points for Y

73.  X= Pierre De Fermat, Fermats Last
Theorem
 Y= Andrew Wiles

74.  The proof is over 150 pages long and
consumed seven years of Wiles' research
time
 For solving Fermat's Last Theorem, Wiles
was knighted.

75.  Larry Hillblom was studying law
at University of California, Berkeley's in the
late 1960s and had little money.
 Hillblom put up a portion of his student
loans to start the company, bringing in his
two friendsAdrian Dalsey and Robert Lynn
as partners, They shared a Plymouth
Duster that they drove around San
Francisco to pick up documents & then
rushed to the airport to book flights using
a relatively new invention, the credit
card.
 Described is the Begining of a world
market leader company ??

76.  DHL Express – Dalsey Hillblom, Lynn

77.  Black Mirror is a British television series
that examines modern society,
particularly with regard to the
unanticipated consequences of new
technologies. The director describes the
theme as -- If technology is a drug ,and it
does feel like a drug – then what, are the
side-effects? This area – between delight
and discomfort – is where Black Mirror, is
set
 What does Black Mirror refer to or
REPRESENT- - a very common feature of
todays life??

78. The 'black mirror' of
the title is the one
you'll find on every wall
in the palm of every
hand: the cold, shiny
screen of a TV,a monitor
a Smartphone

79.  X is a fictional place described in the
1933 novel Lost Horizon by British
author James Hilton. Hilton describes X
as a mystical, harmonious valley,
gently guided by a lama, enclosed in
the western end of the Kunlun
Mountains.
 X has become synonymous with any
earthly paradise, and particularly a
mythical Himalayan utopia – a
permanently happy land

85.  The Kindertransport is a rescue
mission that took place during the
nine months prior to the outbreak
of the Second World War.
The United Kingdom took in nearly
10,000 predominantly Jewish
children from Germany, Austria,
www.kindertransport.org

86.  X-- is one of the few artists to have
been inducted into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame twice. He was also
inducted into the Songwriters Hall of
Fame and the Dance Hall of Fame as
the first and only dancer from pop and
rock music.
 Other awards include13 Grammy
Awards,
 as well as the Grammy Legend Award

88.  X was intended to boost the demand for
cars, and thus for car tires. It contained
useful information for motorists, including
maps, hotels and petrol stations
 Subsequently it has come to represent
something entirely different and its
publication in france sparks a media
frenzy which has been compared to that
for annual Academy Awards for films &
speculation is rife, and media discuss
who might lose, and who might gain a Y.

90. Marshal Georgi Zhukov was a famous Russian
war hero.
When Eisenhower introduced ______ to Zhukov,
the Russian liked it. But he also knew how Stalin
would react if one of his generals was seen
with ________ an American imperialist symbol.
The folks at ________ were as accommodating
as could be. A chemist removed the caramel
color, and they put it in a clear bottle with a
white cap and red star. The first shipment of
White ______ had 50 cases.