conducted at ma college of engg

1. WEEKLY QUIZ
Q M - A B H AY
MACE Quiz Club

2. 1.
• Connect
• 22nd January 2008- 16729
• 11 Feb 2008- 16630
• 17 March 2008- 14809
• 24 October 2008- 8701
Need two connects

3. • Sensex
• 2008 Economic recession

4. 2.
FITB and what list
1) _____________
2) Harry and Meghan

5. • Jennifer Aniston
• List of fastest 1 million follower instagram account

6. 3.
Connect the pairs

7. • Oyo- Rithesh Agarwaal, Ola- Bhavish Agarwaal
• Tencent- Huateng Maa, Alibaba- Jack Maa
• Being Human- Salman Khan, Khan academy- Salman Khan
• Ventures founded by same surname people.

8. 4.
• In 2011, noted Huffington Post blogger Dan Mirvish noted a correlation between the frequency
of news pertaining to a certain celebrity X, and the stock of a company Y, even though the
fields in which X & Y operate are far apart.
• Whenever news about X or their work hit the internet, fancy trading computers running fancy
algorithms buzzes around, causing the stock prices of Y to go up.
• What/who are X & Y?
Source: SlideShare

9. • Anne Hathaway
• Berkshire Hathaway

10. 5.
• “Behave Yourself, India. The Youth are Watching” is some 5-6 year
old ad campaign in both print and Television by a famous, Indian media.
• The series of ads directly mocked the political scenario then
• Following is one among the ads from the campaign
• Identify the media

12. • The Hindu

13. 6.

14. • He got Nobel in Physics

15. 7.
• X Syndrome is when you daydream about yourself being
in another life as much as or even more than you pay
attention to your real life. The name comes from a short
story “The Secret Life of X” published in 1939 written by
James Thurber where the main character X thinks up
exciting scenarios for himself in his head when he's
bored.
• There is a movie directed & starred by Ben Stiller named
after the book and based on the same released in 2013,
where his Character X suffers from the syndrome.

16. • Walter Mitty Syndrome

17. 8.
• What is blanked out from the picture?

18. • Nothing is banked out.
• The black seen is the most darkest man made object ever made. Its
called Vantablack

19. 9.
• In June of 1963, Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk Thích Quang
Duc did a remarkable act. The act was done in protest to the South
Vietnamese Diem regime’s pro-catholic policies and discriminatory
Buddhist laws.
• “No news picture in history has generated so much emotion around the
world as that one”. Photographer Malcolm Browne captured the scene,
and the stark black and white image quickly became an iconic visual of
the turbulent 1960s.
• What did the monk do for a iconic incident?

20. • He burned himself

21. 10.
Given is a photograph taken atop
the steelwork of 30 Rockefeller
Plaza, during the construction of
the Rockefeller Center, in
Manhattan, New York City, United
States on September 1932.
The picture has been named one
of the 100 most influential photos
in history by time magazine.
What’s the picture called?

22. • Lunch atop a skyscrapper

23. 11.
• Identify this prominent Indian personality who passed away recently.

24. • Ram Jethmalani- Indian lawyer and politician
• He served as India's Union minister of law and justice, as chairman of the
Indian Bar Council, and as the president of the Supreme Court Bar
Association.
• He was noted in the Indian legal fraternity for his forte in criminal law and
high-profile civil cases.

25. 12.
• Match them to any of their sports biopic originals

26. • Will Smith- Mohammed Ali in “Ali”
• Farhan Akthar- Milkha singh - “Bhaag Milka Bhaag
• Priyanka Chopra- Mary Kom
• Irrfan Khan- Paan Singh Tomar”

27. 13.
She is the 15th riches person in the
world and also holds the title of the
“Richest Women in the World”,
according to the 2019 forbes world
billionare’s list, with a fortune of $49.3
billion..
She is the granddaughter of Eugene
Schueller (an inventor of hair dyes)
who is the founder of the company Y.
Identify X and Y

28. • X- Francoise Bettencourt Meyers
• Y- L’Oreal

29. 14.
• Identify the logo

30. • CERN

31. 15.
• In photography, X is the aesthetic quality of blur produced in he ou of
focus parts of an image produced b a lens.
• X has been defined as the way the lens renders out of focus points of
light.
• X occurs for part of the scene that lie outside the depth of field.
Photographers sometimes deliberately use a shallow focus technique o
create images with prominent out of focus regions
• Image follows

33. • The Bokeh Effect

34. 16.
• X is now busy in the Hindi remake of the hollywood movie Y where the
cental character of is played by Z when he was 28. When asked about the
remake X replied “I’m hopeful the audience will easily resonate with his
character, citing that he is lovable, and has a different way to look at
things.”
• When asked about whether it is a challenge to portray the character when
X is above 50, he replied ‘Aamir mentions each running shot in the original
film was around 30 seconds, so that is not a problem at all’
• Identify X, Y, Z and the remake movie name

35. • X- Aamir Khan
• Y- Forrest Gump
• Z- Tom Hanks
• Lal Singh Chaddha

37. 17.
• Maverick filmmaker Christopher Nolan says The Dark Knight Rises is the
biggest story he has ever told. And filling an arid expanse of his vast
canvas is India's spectacularly desolate X in Rajasthan's Jodhpur.
• A scene from The Dark Knight Rises follows.
• Identify X

39. • Mehrangarh Fort