The reserve tiebreaker questions for The Quiz Company Online Quiz 2020 conducted on Zoom during the coronavirus pandemic. Hosted by Ashwin Arun and Tamoghna Chakraborty. Researched by Swapnil Das, Ahir Ghosh, Urmi Maitra, Sabarno Sinha, Tamoghna Chakraborty and Ashwin Arun for The Quiz Company.

1. 1
ID the monument

2. AND THE ANSWER IS…

3. ANSWER
Bibi ka Maqbara built by Aurangzeb in
Aurangabad.

4. 2
Flipkart started off in flat number 610 of a
housing society in Bangalore. What did they do
to immortalise the number?

5. AND THE ANSWER IS…

6. ANSWER
Big billion day on 6th October every year

7. 3
Name the city and the airport where you would
find this.

8. AND THE ANSWER IS…

9. ANSWER
Liverpool, John Lennon International Airport

10. 4at, took out
this ad in the LA
times?
Who, and
for what
reason,
took out
this full-
page ad in
the LA
times?

11. AND THE ANSWER IS…

12. Zlatan Ibrahimović after
joining LA Galaxy from
Manchester United in
2018.

13. 5
Which world-famous professor was offered a
post of Vice Chancellor at the University of
Travancore (now Kerala) in 1937 for a monthly
salary of Rs.6000?
He politely refused and joined Princeton
University in the USA instead.

14. AND THE ANSWER IS…

15. ANSWER
Albert Einstein

16. 6
X is the largest consumer of fireworks in the
world, and the second largest consumer of
explosive devices, right after the US military.
They launch their fireworks using compressed
air instead of gunpowder. ID X.

17. AND THE ANSWER IS…

18. ANSWER
Disney World

19. 7
X
Gati
Nivar
Burevi
Tauktei
Arnab
Yaas
Rajani
X is already completed.
ID X and what bigger list are these a part
of?

20. AND THE ANSWER IS…

21. ANSWER
X- Nisarga
These are some of the names of the upcoming
cyclones, currently in the list of names
submitted by countries surrounding Northern
Indian ocean.

22. 8
The West Bengal Police Training Academy in
Barrackpore is India’s oldest cantonment. On 8th April,
1857, this same location was privy to an event of
immense historical significance for India. What was this
event?

23. AND THE ANSWER IS…

24. ANSWER
Mangal Pandey’s hanging

25. 9
Ubuntu was the first OS to update itself to have
this feature. Subsequently, Microsoft, Android
and iOS made this facility available. Related to
India. What facility?

26. AND THE ANSWER IS…

27. ANSWER
Rupee symbol

28. 10
A famous individual X, who is better known for his contributions
in a field other than acting, played the role of another historically
famous individual Y in the 2006 movie, ‘The Prestige’. Identify X
and Y.

29. AND THE ANSWER IS…

30. ANSWER
• X- David Bowie
• Y- Nikola Tesla