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. 
Mike Arena, an American journalist, found in 1993 that Ivan
Istochnikov and his dog Kloka disappeared on October 26, 1968,
with signs of having been hit by a meteorite.Mexico's Luna Cornea
magazine ran an issue number 14 (January/April 1998) with photos,
and a story explaining the tragic and as-yet-untold truth

NASA radio monitoring service intercepted conversations between
Pavel Popovich and Vitali Sevastyanov and a control center. The
conversations appeared to originate from something that was
launched on November 10, 1968

Andrei Mikoyan was reportedly killed together with a second crew
member in an attempt before 1969

2. And the answer is

3. Lost Cosmonauts

The cosmonauts who purpotedly travelled to
space/went to moon, before Gagarin or
Appolo , but were killed in voyage

4. 
What 3 fundamental particles get their name
from greek translations of:

"fine, small, thin"

”Intermediate”

”heavy”

5. And the answer is

6. LEPTONS, MESONS AND
BARYONS

7. IDENTIFY/What is happening

8. And the answer is

9. United Artists

DW Griffith

Mary Pickford

Charlie Chaplin

Douglas Fairbanks

10. 
XY derives from a fighting style using a side-
sword with a Y in the off-hand, which was
applied with much "Xing and making a noise on
the Y"

A Y (French bouclier 'shield', ) is a small shield,
15 to 45 cm (6 in to 18 in) in diameter, gripped
in the fist;

11. 
XY is a term that emerged in the 16th century
and has been used for rough, noisy and
boastful swordsmen ever since

Later the name XY (like Gunslinger) became
common for an archetype and the accordant
special film genre

12. And the answer is

13. Swash - Buckler

14. 
Name the railway air brake inventor George
_______ who bought Tesla’s technologies and
who developed them into what became the
multinational _________company.

15. WESTINGHOUSE