mithun sharing his collection of quizzes/ppts 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. might even contain some strays of ppts from other quizzes i visited/tried

1. 9th Feb 2011

2. • Sir Narandas Desai started this in Ahmedabad in 1892 with
what he had owned in South Africa. He did a commendable
job that even Mahatma Gandhi had praised him once.
• Its logo is A SYMBOL OF CO-EXISTENCE AND HARMONY.
• Of the X and Y in the brand logo X symbolises the bold,
affluent and influential segment of the society and Y,
represents the submissive, not so rich and commoners.
• What are we talking about?

3. And the answer is

4. Wagh Bakri Chai
• Wagh-Tiger
• Bakri-Goat

5. • What name, meaning "quills" in Italian, are
used to refer to tubes of pasta that have
angled ends resembling pen nibs. They are
available smooth or ridged (rigate).

6. And the answer is

7. Penne

8. • The word ______ is reminiscent of the Italian
verb riavvolgere ("to wrap"), though the two
words are not etymologically
connected.[citation needed] The word may
also be a diminutive of Italian dialectal rava, or
turnip. Similar in appearance to German
Maultaschen, ______ are usually smaller.

9. And the answer is

10. RAVIOLI

11. • _________ was founded in Molsheim, France (Germany at
that time) as a manufacturer of high performance
automobiles by Ettore ______, an Italian-born, described as
an eccentric genius.
• The company struggled financially, and released one last
model in the 1950s, before eventually being purchased for
its airplane parts business in the 1960s.
• Today the name is owned by Volkswagen Group

12. And the answer is

14. • Isaac Asimov relates a joke in his Treasury of
Humor (1971) that claims that
__________challenged Rudolf Virchow to a
duel. As the challenged party had the choice
of weapons, Virchow chose two sausages, one
of which had been infected with cholera.
___________is said to have called off the duel
at once

15. And the answer is

16. Otto Von Bismark

17. • This weird term was coined by Thomas Carlyle
in 1858,[5] relates to Robert _______captain
of a British merchant ship, who did this in the
parliament following the boarding of his
vessel by Spanish coast guards in 1731. This
affair and a number of similar incidents
sparked a war against the Spanish Empire,
ostensibly to encourage the Spanish not to
renege on the lucrative asiento contract
(permission to sell slaves in Spanish America)

18. And the answer is

19. Jenkin’s Ear