mithun sharing his collection of quizzes which were left over in his laptop. this is something i have prepared for my own learning or for conducting some quiz in hyd or bglr between 2005 and 2011

1. Mr. ______ Gagalbhai was born in a different era, in
1873, to a weaver of Ahmedabad
With goods hanging from their shoulders, both
father and son would scour the countryside in
search of buyers
Along with Chandulal Mahadevia, a friend, and
Arthur Shorrock, an Englishman who knew some
British textile-machinery manufacturers in
Lancashire, he took over the management of a
small mill in Ahmedabad, and named it the
Shorrock Mill.

2. AND THE ANSWER IS

3. MAFATLAL

4. A sher/shayari in Urdu contains 2 lines. SO what
is the name given to poetry in Arabic which
consists of 4 lines and derives its name from the
Arabic 'arbaa' meaning Four

5. AND THE ANSWER IS

6. RUBAIYAT
rUBAAI is Arabic for "quatrain", and is used to
describe a Persian quatrain, or itsderivative
form in English and other languages. The plural
form of the word RUBAIYAT describe a
collection of such quatrains

7. What is so named because it is located three miles
downriver from Middletown, Pennsylvania

8. 3 mile Island

9. They are garden terraces around the Shrine of
the Báb on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel. They
are one of the most visited tourist attractions in
Israel.
The architect is Fariborz Sahba from Iran
The terraces represent the first eighteen disciples
of the Báb, who were designated "Letter of the
Living"

10. AND THE ANSWER IS

11. TERRACES OF BAHAI, Or
Hanging Gardens of Haifa

12. The architect of
terraces of
Bahai/hanging
gardens of Haifa is
Fariborz Sahba from
Iran
He is also the chief-
editor of Varqá,
What is his third claim
to fame?

13. "The Murders in the Rue
Morgue" (1841), and The
Moonstone (1868) are the
primary competitors for what?

14. FIRST DETECTIVE NOVEL

15. AND THE ANSWER IS

18. Only two known photographs (or
even copies) of who/why?

19. And the answer is

20. BAHA'ULLAH
There are two known photographs of Bahá'u'lláh.
Outside of pilgrimage, Bahá'ís prefer not to view
his photo in public, or even to display it in their
private home
Born Mírzá usayn-’Alí Núrí his name meansḤ
'"Glory of God"'

21. , he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see
him, and they also which pierced him: and all
kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him.
Even so, Amen." (Rev. 1:7 KJV)
"But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass
___________(the glory of the Lord),
are changed into the same image from glory to
glory ___________even as by the Spirit of the
Lord…."
"For then we saw through a glass, darkly; but now
face to face."
-- 2 Cor.13:18; 1 Cor. 13:12 KJV

22. _________ a male-sperm descendent of King
David, fulfills prophecy for the second coming of
Christ in the potency of the "everlasting Father"
seated upon the Throne of King David which is
to last forever (John 14:6; Isaiah 9:6-7)
For over 2300 years, the throne line of King David
passed down as a legal inheritance from father
to son in the Davidic Kings of the ancient family
line known as Badustaniyan and Bawand

23. And the answer is

24. BAHA'ULLAH

25. Le Chevalier C. Auguste _________ is not a
professional detective and his motivations
for solving the mysteries throughout the
three stories change. Using what the author
termed "ratiocination", _________ combines
his considerable intellect with creative
imagination, even putting himself in the
mind of the criminal But the character's
name seems to imply duping or deception
The character Porfiry Petrovich in
Dostoevsky's novel Crime and Punishment
was influence

26. DUPIN

27. mathematician, astronomer,
philosopher and poet. He also
wrote treatises on mechanics,
geography, and music.
Recognized as the author of one
of the most important
treatises on algebra before
modern times as reflected in
his Treatise on Demonstration
of Problems of Algebra giving
a geometric method for
solving cubic equations by
intersecting a hyperbola with
a circle
He is thought to have been born
into a family of tent makers
and hence his name.

28. And the answer is

29. OMAR KHAYYAM

30. Back to the old time before radio communication
was developed, military used Morse code to
communicate.
From the earliest days of wireless communication,
the Morse code letter R (dit-dah-dit) has been
used to indicate 'O.K. -- understood.
When radio communication came to replace the
old technology, the letter "R" was still used to
represent the "yes." However, military faced
difficulty to pronouce the letter "R" especially in
critical situation.

31. And the answer is

32. ROGER THAT

33. This English rock band formed in 1976 in Greater
Manchester was initially called X In reference to
the song "Warszawa" by David Bowie.
tHEIR later name they took from 'The House of
Dolls' 1955 novella by Ka-tzetnik 135633. The
novella describes "Y", which were allegedly
groups of Jewish women in the concentration
camps during World War II who were kept for
the sexual pleasure of Nazi soldiers.

34. And the answer is

35. JOY DIVISION
Early name was WARSAW

36. With the subtitle 'SAGA Of an american family' X
tells the story of Kunta Kinte, an 18th-century
African, captured as an adolescent and sold into
slavery in the United States, and follows his life
and the lives of his descendants in the U.S.
down to Y
Brought up on the stories of his elderly female
relatives―including his Grandmother Cynthia,
whose father was emancipated from slavery in
1865― Y purported to have traced his family
history back to "the African," Kunta Kinte,
captured by slave traders in 1767. For
generations, each of Kunta's enslaved

40. As early as 1914, a Carnegie Endowment report on the
Balkan Wars points out that village-burning and
_________ had traditionally accompanied Balkan
wars, regardless of the ethnic group in power.
However, the term "_________" was probably used
first by Vuk Karadžić, to describe what happened to the
Turks in Belgrade when the city was captured by the
Karadjordje's forces in 1806.[13] Konstantin Nenadović
wrote, in his biography of the famous Serbian leader
published in 1883, that after the fighting "the Serbs, in
their bitterness (after 500 years of Turkish occupation),
slit the throats of the Turks everywhere they found
them, sparing neither the wounded, nor the woman,
nor the Turkish children

41. ETHNIC CLEANSING

42. About what band name did the founder later
explained that the name derived "from the idea
of a pistol, a pin-up, a young thing, a better-
looking assassin". Not given to modesty, false
or otherwise, he added, "[I] launched the idea in
the form of a band of kids who could be
perceived as being bad.

43. SEX PISTOLS
SID VICIOUS

45. Latin for "auspicious" or "lucky" X is the
protagonist of a classic German legend. Though
a highly successful scholar, he is dissatisfied,
and makes a deal with the devil, exchanging his
soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly
pleasures.
The adjective ______ian, are often used to
describe an arrangement in which an ambitious
person surrenders moral integrity in order to
achieve power and success: the proverbial
"deal with the devil". The terms can also refer to
an unquenchable thirst for knowledge
The story was popularised in England by

46. Rembrandt's depiction of X

47. And the answer is

48. FAUST
Dr.Faustus

50. X is a demon featured in German folklore. He
originally appeared in literature as the demon in
the Faust legend, and he has since appeared in
other works as a stock character version of the
Devil himself
In the 1725 version which was read by Goethe, X is
a Devil in the form of a greyfriar summoned by
Faust in a wood outside Wittenberg.
X is also the name of one of the three "Prime Evils"
on the PC game Diablo II

51. Delacroix's Depiction of X

52. And the answer is

53. MEPHISTOPHELES

54. This is a term invented to describe one possible result of a
severe nuclear meltdown in which molten reactor core
components penetrate their containment vessel and
building. The term is misleading, since molten material
from such an event could not melt through the crust of
the Earth and reach ----------------------
The dangers of such a hypothetical accident were
popularized by the 1979 film, The China Syndrome
starring Jane Fonda.
The film was released on 16 March 1979, 12 days before
the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in Dauphin
County, Pennsylvania- which helped later in the ticket

55. And the answer is

56. CHINA SYNDROME