The document discusses a quiz competition between Tamal Majumder and Sutanu Banerjee. It contains 27 multiple choice questions on topics like history, geography, science, pop culture and current events. For each question, the presenters provide an answer and move on to the next question. The questions cover a wide range of topics to test general knowledge.
3. Question 1:
• X was born on January 15, 1926 in a small village of Maharashtra.
X is best known as an Olympian who won a bronze medal at the
1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. Before the selection for
Helsinki Olympics, X alleged that nepotism among officials
prevented X from getting selected for the Olympics. X was one of
the first athletes from India to win a medal in the Olympics. In
2010, a sports venue at the Indira Gandhi Sports Complex in New
Delhi was named in X’s honor. ID X
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9. Question 3:
• The X species of animal once ranged throughout the entire stretch of the
Indo-Gangetic Plain, but excessive hunting and agricultural development
reduced their range drastically to 11 sites in northern India and southern
Nepal. In 2015, a total of 3,555 X are estimated to live in the wild. A steatite
seal, popularly known as Pashupati Seal was discovered at the Mohenjo-daro
archaeological site in 1928–29 of the Indus Valley Civilization. It has a
human figure at the center seated on a platform and the human figure is
surrounded by four wild animals: an elephant and a tiger to its one side, and
a water buffalo and an X on the other. X is also the organizational logo for
Assam Oil Company Ltd. What is X?
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12. Question 4:
• X served in five consecutive Cricket World Cup finals
from 1992 to 2007. He was widely known for his long
deliberations before making decisions, for which he
earned the nickname "Slow Death“. Before joining this
trait, he was a football player and referee, a high school
mathematics teacher and a sports coach. X has a record
of officiating all the test playing nations at least once
whereas X is also popular or victimized by the Indians for
the horrendous LBW of Sachin Tendulkar in 2003. ID X.
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18. Question 6:
• X was born on 1st October 1945 in Paraukh village in the
Kanpur Dehat district, Uttar Pradesh. X’s father Maikulal
was a landless Kori who ran a small shop to support his
family. Before entering politics, X was a lawyer for 16
years and practiced in the Delhi High Court and the
Supreme Court until 1993. X was elected and became a
lok sabha MP from the state of Uttar Pradesh in April
1994. He served a total of twelve years, two consecutive
terms, until March 2006. Identify X.
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21. Question 7:
• X is famous multinational company with acting headquarters located in
Lausanne, Switzerland. The organization has a retail presence of over 5200
retail stores in more than 70 countries and production facilities in 18
countries. In 1914, with the outbreak of World War I, the company had a
significant development due to military orders. From 1914 to 1918 the
number of X’s employees increased ten times. The company opened its own
stores in Zlín, Prague, Liberec, Vienna and Pilsen, among other towns. After
1930, the company had decided to allocate plots for their 7500 employees in
a small hamlet near Kolkata and that place is named after the company. Id
the company.
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24. Question 8: ID the movie, name of the
song/Hindi movie with a song inspired from
this tune
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25.
26. Answer: The Godfather, Speak Softly, Love/
Akele Hum Akele Tum
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27. Question 9:
• X is a domestic market conglomerate founded in late twentieth
century decades in Ahmedabad and currently has a revenue of
3.550 crores with more than 15000 employees. In November,
2007, X purchased the American raw materials company Searles
Valley Minerals Inc. - making it among Top-7 Soda Ash
manufacturer in the world. The founder used to make deliveries in
cycle in earlier days whereas there are 2 million retail outlets in the
entire country in 2017. We have seen Sangita Bijlani and Sonali
Bendre among the few of the brand ambassadors of this
company. Identify X.
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30. Question 10:
• X is an American technology and retail entrepreneur, investor, computer
scientist, and philanthropist. X’s diversified business interests include
aerospace and newspapers. X is the founder and manufacturer of Blue
Origin with test flights to space which started in 2015, and plans for
commercial suborbital human spaceflight beginning in 2018. In 2013, X
purchased The Washington Post newspaper. A number of other business
investments are managed through X’s Expeditions. When stock markets
opened on July 27, 2017, X suddenly became the title holder of something
but lost that title after four hours. Identify X.
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33. Audience:
• X was part of "Danish India" from 1755 to
1845.The hot humid climate of the area suited the
textile industry and the local land was well known
for its cotton and silk weaving. The Danish
obtained the parwana by paying fifty thousand
rupees in cash to Nawab Alivardi Khan, along with
many gifts, acquiring three bighas of land on the
riverfront. ID X.
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38. Answer: Mario Götze scoring in 2014 WC Final
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39. Question 12:
• X is a type of emergency vehicle that has a quick responding
provision which can increase survival rates for patients suffering
cardiac arrest according to some perception. In WWI, the allied
force army used X for the first time to help the sick and wounded
people at the front. The British Red Cross Society used an 8 bhp
(6 kW) NUT with a double decker facility like the US version. X
was launched in Bengaluru India on April 16, 2015. Volunteer X
operator Karimul Haque of Lataguri received the Padma Shri
award in 2017 for his service in Dooars. We can loosely connect
this service with a scene of ‘Three Idiots’. What is X
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42. Question 13:
• X was created by American psychologist and writer William Moulton
Marston. Marston drew a great deal of inspiration from early feminists, and
especially from birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger to create X. Hippolyta
is the mother of X and X was created during World War II; the character was
initially depicted fighting Axis military forces as well as an assortment of
colorful super villains, although over time her stories came to place greater
emphasis on characters, deities, and monsters from Greek mythology. Gloria
Steinem, Lynda Carter and Keri Russell acted in the character of X. On
October 21, 2016, the United Nations sparked controversy by naming X as
"UN Honorary Ambassador for the Empowerment of Women and Girls"
but dropped after two months from UN Ambassador following a petition.
ID X.
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51. Question 16:
• X is a proposed mode of passenger and/or freight transportation,
first named as such in an open-source vactrain design released by
a joint team from Tesla and SpaceX. Elon Musk's version of the
concept, first publicly mentioned in 2012. Gene Roddenberry's
follow-on to Star Trek, Genesis II, used a very similar concept –
called a "subshuttle" in the program – to move characters from
place to place quickly. The ‘Orcapod’ is the first proposed design
entry of X in India. Workbench Projects is Bengaluru's first
Fablab makerspace, having 5000 sq ft of creative space right
under the Halasuru Metro Station to create the first X in India. ID
X.
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57. Question 18:
• X (Thai, meaning "agate“ or ‘Star of the sea’) was a
strong catastrophe that caused widespread impacts by
devastation and severe flooding across Sri Lanka,
Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bangladesh, Myanmar
and Northeast India in May 2017. X reached peak
strength with maximum sustained winds of 110 km/h (70
mph). X caused damage that reached to Rs.131 crore
(USD $20 million) in northeastern states of India.
Identify X.
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60. Question 19:
• X is a beam bridge in India that connects Assam and Arunachal Pradesh
over the Lohia river of Assam. At 9.15 kilometers (5.69 mi) in length, it is the
longest bridge in India. With rapid movement of India's defense assets in
mind following incursions by the Chinese Army, the X Bridge has been
designed to handle the weight of 60-tonne (130,000-pound) tanks such as
the Indian Army's Arjun and T-72 main battle tanks. Construction began in
November 2011 as a public-private partnership with Navayuga Engineering
Company, with an expected completion in 2015. However, due to
construction delays and cost increases, the bridge's completion date was
pushed into 2017. Identify X.
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72. Question 21:
• X is an Indian mountaineer and the first woman in the world who scaled the
summit of the Mount Everest twice in a season (and also just within 5 days). It is
also the fastest double ascents of the tallest crest by a woman. This 32 year old
mountaineer is from Bomdilla, headquarters of West Kameng district, Arunachal
Pradesh - the state that holds most north-eastern position of India. Before
marriage, she used to live in Gohpur, Sonitpur district, central Assam, and her name
was Deepa Kalita. Her husband, Tsering Wange, is the president of the All
Arunachal Mountaineering and Adventure Sports Association. After taking the
blessings of 14th Dalai Lama, she began her Everest climbing expedition from
Guwahati on April 2, 2017. She took 38 days schedule for acclimatization at the
Everest Base Camp (at 17,600 ft) and started her main journey on April 4. At 9.15
am on May 16 along with 17 other climbers, she climbed up to the mountaintop and
unfurled the Indian National Flag. ID X.
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75. Question 22:
• NASA have named a new organism discovered by them — a form of
bacteria that has been found only on the International Space Station (ISS)
and has not been found on earth. Researchers at the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory (JPL), the foremost lab of NASA for work on interplanetary
travel, discovered the new bacteria on the filters of the International Space
Station (ISS) and named it to honour the late person, who was a renowned
aerospace scientist. The bacteria has not characterized fully but there are
hints that the new bug could be a key source for chemicals that can help
protect against radiation damage. This bacteria is named after a famous
person. Just name the person or the bacteria.
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76.
77. Answer: A.P.J Abdul Kalam/ Solibacillus kalamii
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78. Question 23: ID the film and music director of
this version
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79.
80. Answer: Bose: The Forgotten Hero/ A.R. Rahman
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90. Question 27:
• X is a type of malicious software from cryptovirology that threatens to
publish the victim's data or perpetually block access to it unless some money
is paid. While some simple X may lock the system in a way which is not
difficult for a knowledgeable person to reverse, more advanced malware uses
a technique called cryptoviral extortion, in which it encrypts the victim's files,
making them inaccessible, and demands a financial payment to decrypt them.
X is difficult to trace because it uses digital currencies such as Ukash and
Bitcoin as payment, making tracing and prosecuting the perpetrators difficult.
ID X.
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99. Question 30:
• The X (Neofelis nebulosa) is a wild cat occurring from the
Himalayan foothills through mainland Southeast Asia into China.
Since 2008, it is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List. Its
total population is suspected to be fewer than 10,000 mature
individuals. The X is the state animal of the Indian state of
Meghalaya. The Rukai people of Taiwan considered the hunting
of X a taboo. In the 1970s the print of Rama Samaraweera's
painting X was a best-seller in the USA. In this year, X has
become somehow important for the sports spectrum of India.
What is X.
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105. Question 31:
• The origin of X is a well-known chant 3.1.6 from
the Mundaka Upanishad. This was popularized and
brought into the national lexicon by Pandit Madan
Mohan Malaviya in 1918. Mick Jagger, one of the
founder members of the "Rolling Stones" is
somehow related to X. Recently a famous TV show
was based on the name of X. ID X.
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108. Question 32:
• ANI Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Is operating under the
trade name X. X is an Indian company, mostly working
through an online platform with more than 6000
employees. Bhavish Aggarwal and Ankit Bhati founded
X on 3rd December 2010 in Mumbai, but the
headquarter is now shifted in Bangalore. X's technology
came under criticism for various times regarding the
security of its mobile app. Recently X have made
collaboration with with Indus OS , Yupp TV and some
other partners for better services. ID X.
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