3. Guess the slogans
Each upcoming slide relates to a political slogan.
Identify the slogan and the creator and/or the movement
during which the slogan was made.
+10 for each slogan and maker/event
13. Tum mujhe khoon do main tumhe aazadi dunga - Subhash
Chandra Bose
Jai javaan jai kisan - Lal Bahadur Shastri
Swaraj is my birthright, and I shall have it - Bal Gangadhar
Tilak
We can do it! - During WWII in the US
Keep calm and carry on - WWII, UK
Sarfarosh ki tammanah ab hamare dil mein hain - Bhagat
Singh
India Shining - BJP campaign after 2004
Simon go back - Protest against the simon commision
19. The men in the above pictures are Alberto
Ascari, James ”Jim” Clark and Sebastian Vettel
(Left to Right)
What is the connection?
20. Only 3 drivers to have completed a
‘Grand Chelem’(Grand Slam) in
consecutive races.
21. This operating system, developed by Be Inc, founded by
Jean-Louis Gassée, former Apple CEO, was the main
competition to Steve Job’s NeXT’s NeXTSTEP when Apple
was looking for an operating system to replace its aging
Mac OS.
Though now discontinued, it has been open sourced and
lives on as a community project called Haiku.
It is famous for it’s quick boot times and refreshing user
interface.
What am I talking about?
23. This symbol, in wide use recently, was historically used as
an abbreviation in Spanish and Portuguese for “arroba”, a
unit of weight equivalent to 25 pounds.
It’s first modern use was by Ray Tomlinson, a computer
scientist, who was looking for a symbol not in use in other
places to use in his program. “The symbol would probably
have gone the way of the cent sign on keyboard if not for
my using it”, says he.
What is the symbol am I talking about?
25. This small city in Croatia on the Adriatic Sea is a UNESCO
world heritage site and it’s said that it’s one of the 10 best
preserved walled cities.
It’s famed for its cathedral and the path to it.
We know this place better as some place from a fictional
land.
(pic on next slide)
What am I talking about?
30. This baboon (pic on next slide) was transferred to a zoo in
Kent (UK) from another zoo overseas.
After his introduction to the zoo, his caretakers had to learn
a new language.
Why?
34. X’s father was a Southern Baptist Minister. In order to afford
the move to Los Angeles, X worked up to five jobs at a
time, including Pizza Hut delivery boy and giant frog mascot
for a radio station. After graduating high school, the aspiring
actor drove out to LA with a few thousand bucks in his
pocket. X also worked as a movie theater usher at
Universal Studios in Hollywood prior to having success as
an actor. X also hosted WWE RAW in March, 2014. X is
well known for his role in the hit TV Show Y for which he
won 3 Emmys for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.
ID X & Y.
39. X= Bob Houghton.
These are the only 4 British Football
Coaches to have coached the Indian
Football Team
40. I have received your new book against the human race,
and thank you for it. Never was such a cleverness used in
the design of making us all stupid. One longs, in reading
your book, to walk on all fours. But as I have lost that habit
for more than sixty years, I feel unhappily the impossibility
of resuming it. Nor can I embark in search of the savages of
Canada, because the maladies to which I am condemned
render a European surgeon necessary to me; because war
is going on in those regions; and because the example of
our actions has made the savages nearly as bad as
ourselves.
Who sent this letter to whom? Hint : You’ve probably seen
both their names in a book of quotes
41. Answer -
Rousseau sent it to Voltaire
Both were great thinkers of the Enlightenment Age.
42. X’s name originally was Y. Y had to devote attention to
army duties, and could not find enough time for practice.
While his regiment rested at night, he practised alone on
the field with a ball and a stick. While they rested, his army
mates could hear him hitting the ball at night. This was how
Y became X because he used to practise the game under
moonlight. Former Aussie cricketer Sir Donald Bradman
met X in 1935. After watching him play, Bradman
remarked "He scores goals like runs in cricket".
Who is this X(and Y)?
44. The animated television series X started in 1969.During its
four decade broadcast history,X has received two Emmy
nominations.The August 3, 2002, issue of TV Guide
featured its list of the 50 Greatest Cartoon Characters of all
time, in which X was placed twenty-second.
Older teenagers and adults have admitted to enjoying X
because of presumed subversive themes which involve
theories of drug use and sexuality, in particular that one of
the character is a user of marijuana and one is a lesbian.
ID X
45. Answer -
Scooby Doo
The Warner Bros' initial Scooby-Doo feature film in 2002 depicted Shaggy as a
marijuana addict and Velma a lesbian.
46. From the perspective of the officials why
was the recent Oval Test Match between
India and England in the history books?
47. Answer-
It was the first time in Test Match history that both
on field umpires(Kumar Dharmasena and Paul
Reiffel). The third umpire(Tim Robinson). The
reserve umpire(Neil MAllender) and the Match
Referee(Ranjan Madugalle) were all former Test
Cricketers.
48. He’s the creator of some of the most popular and influential
games and franchises in modern times, like Mario (Super
Mario 64, Super Mario Bros), Donkey Kong, the Legend of
Zelda, Star Fox and the Wii series.
He currently handles the Nintendo Entertainment Analysis
and Development branch, which manages many of
Nintendo’s top selling titles.
Who is he?
50. He was born near Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland.
He became a greengrocer. His whisky was popular locally.
He called it ‘<his name>’s Kilmarnock.
His son had apprenticed with a tea merchant in Glasgow,
and there learned the art of blending tea. When he returned
to take over the business from his ailing father, he used
those skills to create Old Highland Whisky, the blend that
made his whisky famous.
Incidentally, he was a teetotaller.
Who am I talking about?
52. Before the Statue of Liberty was gifted to the USA by the
people of France, her architect, Auguste Bartholdi, had very
different plans for her.
Where was the Statue of Liberty supposed to stand
originally?
53. Answer -
At the mouth of the Suez Canal
Instead of the Germanic features she has now, she was
supposed to be clothed in Muslim robes and have Arabic
features.
56. Kit Kat bars are licenced by Nestle all over the world except
in the U.S.
Which is the brand that has the licence to produce Kit Kat
bars in the United States?
60. The US had the space shuttle program.
The British cancelled the HOTOL.
The Chinese dream of the Shenlong Space Plane.
Even the Indians made concepts of AVATAR.
What did the Russians almost succeed in making?
62. He was his fan. He was a scientific genius. He was
synthesizing an antidote to his idol’s only weakness in his
lab when disaster struck. The reaction caused an explosion
that set the lab on fire. His idol came and saved him,
inadvertently blowing chemicals on his head that caused
him to permanently lose his hair. He misunderstood his
idol’s intentions and he became his idol’s bitter enemy.
Who am I talking about?
64. This exam will be taken by almost 8.8 million high school
seniors who wish to pursue tertiary (undergraduate)
education in China. There is no age restriction for it. The
exam is administered over two or three days. Three
subjects - Chinese, Mathematics, and one foreign language
- usually English are compulsory, and six other subjects are
optional. It can only be taken once in a year. It’s notorious
for it’s open-ended essay questions. For most Chinese with
no political connections, these 3 days decide what their life
will be.
What is this exam called?
67. Answer-
Qutubuddin Aibak who started
the construction of Qutub Minar
died while playing Polo at
Lahore when his horse fell and
he was impaled on the saddle.
68. This app is believed to have more than 30 million monthly
users, and late last year, it reportedly turned down multi-
billion acquisition offers from Facebook and Google.70% of
it's users are women.There’s apparently a version of this
app for kids under age 13 too .This app was originally
called Picaboo.It’s been found that 50 percent of all
smartphone users in Norway use this app.
Id the app
70. The CSV worm did it’s rounds on the internet in 2009,
affecting almost 10 million slides before it was stopped. It
changed the pages of microsoft.com, apple.com and other
popular websites by corrupting the CSS code that is used
for styling.
What were the effects of this worm?
72. This rather unusual epidemic occurred near the village of
Kashasha on the shores of Lake Victoria in Tanganyika
(now Tanzania), near its border with Uganda, in 1962.
It began in a mission-run boarding school for girls with three
girls, and spread haphazardly, affecting 159 girls.
Symptoms lasted from a few hours to 16 days. The school
was forced to shut down.
After the school was shut, the epidemic spread to nearby
villages. The school reopened, only to be shut. Around
1000 people were affected. The school was sued for this.
What was the disease?
74. She was born in Aberdeen, Scotland and raised at
Lickleyhead Castle in Aberdeenshire, her family's 15th-
century ancestral seat. Her father is Sebastian Arbuthnot-
Leslie, the Aberdeenshire Chieftain of Clan Leslie, and her
mother is Candida Mary Sibyl "Candy" Leslie (née Weld),
great-granddaughter of Simon Fraser, 13th Lord Lovat (a
descendant of Charles II). Her parents own the 12th-
century Warthill Castle in Aberdeenshire.
She’s famous for another reason. Who is she?
76. All of India follows the Indian Standard Time (the IST), but
provisions in labour laws allow the Central and State
governments to define and set the local time for a particular
industrial area.
These provisions are put to effect in one place, and they
follow a different timezone than the rest of India.
What is this place, and what is the time zone called?
77. Answer -
The tea plantations of Assam
The time zone is called bagan-time, which is one hour
ahead of IST.
