PPT of All Goa inter-school General Knowledge Quiz - Finals conducted at Wagle High School, Mangeshi-Goa as part of Golden Jubilee celebrations. QM: Ameya Mardolkar

1. Email: ameya.mardolkar@gmail.com

2. Format
• 30 questions on the grid between you and glory
• Infinite bounce (+10/0)
• First Strike (+10/-10)
• Direction of quizzing reverses every 6 questions
• Quiz-Master’s decision is final and binding

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5. Q1. Identify this person who is in the news recently.

6. A1. Hardik Patel
Hardik Patel is a leader of patidar caste, He raised voice against injustice
being done by Gujarat Government to Patidar caste and other General
category castes by the system of reservation which only exist in India. He is
campaigning for the inclusion of the Patel caste in the Other Backward
Class (OBC) category in order to qualify for reserved quotas in education
and government jobs.

8. Q2. X is an organic compound that contains only chlorine, fluorine and
carbon, produced as a volatile derivative of methane and ethane. They are
also commonly known by the DuPont brand name Freon. Many of these
compounds have been widely used as propellants, and solvents among
other usages. The manufacture of such compounds has been however
phased out by the Montreal Protocol.

9. A2. CFCs (ChloroFluoroCarbons)

11. Q3. X is a rare blood group also known as Hh. This blood phenotype was
first discovered in India, by Dr. Y.M. Bhende in 1952. People who has this
phenotype can donate to any member of the ABO blood group system, but
they cannot receive any member of the ABO blood group system's blood,
but only from other people who have X phenotype. This very rare
Phenotype is generally present in about 0.0004% (about 4 per million) of
the human population, though in some places locals can have occurrences
in as much as 0.01% (1 in 10,000) of inhabitants and 1 in a million people in
Europe. Name this rare blood group named after a Indian metropolis.

12. A3. Bombay Blood Group

14. Q4. Why is the name of this man,
an American civil engineer and
former faculty member of
Pennsylvania State University’s
engineering department, in the
news in Goa?

15. A4. Louis Berger
It is the construction firm involved in allegedly bribing Churchill Alemao and
Digambar Kamat in the multi-crore JICA scam.

17. Q5. X is a polymer made of hexamethylenediamine and adipic acid, which
gives it a total of 12 carbon atoms in each repeating unit, and its name. X is
frequently used when high mechanical strength, great rigidity, and good
stability under heat is required. It is used for ball bearing cages, electro-
insulating elements, pipes, profiles and various machine parts.
Clue: This polymer made the headlines in Goa in the mid-90s, after a
manufacturing plant for this was proposed to be set up at Keri Ponda.

18. A5: Nylon 6,6

20. Q6. We are all very familiar with Facebook and its blue scheme. However
the blue scheme was not randomly chosen but there is a specific reason
behind picking it. Apparently, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg
suffers from X medical condition and thus ‘Blue’ is the colour he can best
see which explains the blue scheme. What medical condition?

21. A6: Red-Green Colour blindness

23. Q7. Lasalgaon is a census town in Nashik District in the Indian state of
Maharashtra. It famous for Ahilyadevi Holkar's fort located in the center of
the city built in the 17th century. However Lasalgaon has been in news
recently for entirely different reason. What is it Asia's No. 1 Market of
what?

24. A7: Onions

26. Q8. Depicted in the picture below are different types of X. What?

27. A8: Types of Microscopes
Optical
Transmission Electron Microscope
Scanning Electron Microscope
Scanning Probe Microscope
Atomic Force Microscope
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
Scanning Near-field Optical Microscopy

29. Q9. What in this world is:
• A character played by Boman Irani in the movie ‘3 Idiots’
• A type of malicious computer program
• A parasitic agent that is smaller than a bacterium and that can only
reproduce after infecting a host cell
• Name of many music bands, songs, video game et al

30. A9: Virus

32. Q10. Identify this famous Goan personility

33. A10: Manohar Parrikar
Former Chief Minister of Goa and the current Union Defence Minister

35. Q11. His step-brothers Nitin and Ajit and step-sister Savita were actually
the children of his aunt (elder sister of his mother). This famous sports
personality was the born when his father married the younger sister of
his first wife after her death at very young age, as was the custom back
then in some parts of the country.

36. A11: Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar

38. Q12. Ethanethiol, commonly known as ethyl mercaptan, is a colorless gas
or clear liquid with a distinct odour which I am confidently everyone of us
must have smelled. In what situation you must have come across it?

39. A12: Gas leaks
added to otherwise odourless gaseous products such as liquefied
petroleum gas (LPG) to help warn of gas leaks

41. Q13. Connect

42. A13: Pro Kabaddi league
The Pro Kabaddi League (PKL) is a professional kabaddi league in India.
Teams include Bengal Warriors, Bengaluru Bulls, Dabang Delhi, Jaipur Pink
Panthers, Patna Pirates, Puneri Paltan, Telugu Titans, U Mumba

44. Q14. Below you see the logo of an Indian eyewear online portal founded
by Peyush Bansal along with Amit Chaudhary and Sumeet Kapahi in
November 2010. Name it.

45. A14: Lenskart

47. Q15. one of the classification of prokaryotic cells is
Cocci,
Bacilli,
Spirochaete,
Vibrio.
What is the basis of this classification?

48. A15: Based on Shape
Cocci – spherical
Bacilli – rod-shaped
Spirochaete – spiral-shaped
Vibrio – comma-shaped

50. Q16. This is a video of rendition of the soundtrack by the Indian Jam
Project. Soundtrack of which movie is this based upon.

51. A16: Harry Potter

53. Q17. What was the end result of this process? What first?

54. A17: Dolly
a female domestic sheep, and the first mammal to be cloned from an adult
somatic cell, using the process of nuclear transfer.

56. Q18. After being driven to ‘mass eradication’ in the 1970s, the last
members of this species are located in captivity in Atlanta and at Russia
apparently for research purposes. Their existence has been a subject of
controversy ever since. Name this deadly species (common name would
do).

57. A18: Small Pox Virus
Last few laboratory samples of the deadly virus are preserved, apparently
for research.

59. Q19. This pharmaceutical company headquartered at Mumbai was setup
by a goan, Gracias Saldanha. He named after his two sons, Mark and
Glenn, in 1977 with Rs 100,000 and three employees. Give me the name.

60. A19: Glenmark

62. Q20. This is a board that one sees at all
airports in India and enlist all the
persons who are exempted from
security checks. There was one
‘controversial’ person enlisted at the
bottom for over 10 years until the
current government took him off
recently. Which controversial person?

63. A20: Robert Vadra
Husband of Priyanka Gandhi, Son-in-law of Sonia Gandhi

65. Identify this international cricketer
whose achievement are as follows:
• Only bowler in cricketing history to
take four wickets in four consecutive
balls.
• Only bowler in cricketing history to
take three hat-tricks.
• Only bowler with two World Cup hat
tricks.
• Also holds the record for most
wickets taken in a single IPL season.

66. A21: Lasith Malinga

68. Q22. X was a Portuguese Renaissance Sephardi Jewish physician and
naturalist. He was a pioneer of tropical medicine. He sailed for India in
1534 as Chief Physician aboard the fleet of the Viceroy Martim Afonso de
Sousa. He travelled with the Viceroy on various campaigns, then, in 1538,
settled at Goa, where he soon had a prominent medical practice. He was
physician to the Nizam Shahi dynasty of Ahmadnagar, and concurrently to
several successive Portuguese Viceroys and governors of Goa.
Clue: Panjim Municipal Garden is named after him.

69. A22: Garcia De Orta

71. Q23. The birds that you see are referred to as Wood Breaker, Glass Jaw, Egg
Beater, Maching, Kamikaze. What modern day rage would connect these
birds?

72. A23: Angry Birds

74. Q24. IUCN is an international organization that supports scientific research,
manages field projects globally and brings governments, non-government
organizations, United Nations agencies, companies and local communities
together to develop and implement policy.
The organization publishes the IUCN Red List, which assesses the
_________ _______ of species. You would see this very often when you
access the wikipedia page for any animal. What does it indicate?

75. A24: Conservation Status
indicates whether the group is extant (members of it are still alive) and
how likely the group is to become extinct in the near future.

77. Q.25: What you see here
is classification of regions
of India into different
numerical codes. What
does this numbering
signify?

78. A25: Pincodes

80. Q.26: Google Doodle on ‘March 14th’ 2010. Commemorating what?

81. A26: Pi Day
Pi day is celebrated on 14th of March each year

83. Q27. X is a clothing brand that makes
ovre-sized clothing. It is well-loved by
the hip-hop community. This guy in
this picture was nicknamed X as he
was extremely fat and overweight as a
teenager that no other brand of
clothing would fit him and he used to
wear X clothes all the time. Identify
the brand and the person.

84. A27: Arjun Kapoor a.k.a FUBU

86. Q28. The logo below symbolizes is a partnership between social
networking services company Facebook and six companies
(Samsung, Ericsson, MediaTek, Opera Software, Nokia and Qualcomm) that
plans to bring affordable access to selected Internet services to less
developed countries by increasing efficiency, and facilitating the
development of new business models around the provision of Internet
access.

87. A28: Internet.org

89. Q29. Actinomycetes are a type of filamentous bacteria found in soil which
thrive when conditions are damp and warm. However when dry conditions
prevail, these form spores/cysts. Upon contact with moisture (which acts
like an aerosol) these spores burst open resulting in what?
This phenomenon is named after the fluid that is supposed to be flowing in
the veins of Greek Gods.

90. Ans: Petrichor
The smell of the earth after it rains.

92. Q. 30: This bronze statue was recently
unveiled and is located outside Paris'
Pompidou Museum. It is the work of
sculptor Adel Abdessemed. Who are the
two people represented in it and what
‘famous event’ does it represent?

93. A30: Zinedine Zidane head-
butting Marco Materazzi
In the 2006 World Cup final, which Italy won on penalties

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