1. The great gift of the human imagination
is that it has no limits or ending.
- Jim Rohn
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2. The Quiz Club, AIT Pune
Quiz 2
Tarun Sharma
22nd Jan 2012 2
3. 1.
1989: Todd Woodbridge
1990: Christo van Rensburg
1991: Derrick Rostagno
1992: Goran Ivanisevic
1996: Richard Krajicek
2001: Roger Federer
2002: George Wastl
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4. 2. These are a series of viral videos featuring a scene
of Adolf Hitler ranting in German, from a 2004 movie. The
original English subtitles have been removed and mock
subtitles added to give the appearance that Hitler is ranting
about a number of modern topics, such as the negative
reaction to the 2009 movie Star Trek, iPad, Facebook, why
Chicago lost the bid for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games,
the US bailout, the 2009 rift within Formula One and FIFA's
refusal to ban the vuvuzela.What are these videos termed
as? Or gimme the name of the movie.
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6. 4.
A ____a____ is an
image combining a photograph of
a cat with text intended to
contribute humour. The text is
often idiosyncratic and
grammatically incorrect, and its
use in this way is known as
“____b____" or "kitty pidgin".
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7. 5. ” These kids have
been getting crazy
amount of press the last
few days! But I know
what you’re all thinking…
What the hell? I thought
she would have been
hot?! Little shorts, butt
hang’n out… All kinds of
possibilities. What a let
down.” Identify this
couple.
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8. 6. X was born as_______ Suresh Modi in Montclair, New Jersey, the son of
Asmita, a fragrance evaluator for a perfume company, and Suresh Modi, an
engineer. Both of his parents are Gujarati immigrants from India. He has stated
that stories of his grandparents marching with Mahatma
Gandhi for Indian independence were a significant influence on his interest in
politics. _______ was an advocate for Barack Obama's presidential campaign in
2007 and 2008 and a member of Obama's National Arts Policy Committee. In
early 2009,_______ was offered the position of Associate Director of the White
House Office of Public Engagement in the Obama administration, which he
accepted. He says that he derived his professional name, ______, as a lark:
"Almost as a joke to prove friends wrong, and half as an attempt to see if what I
was told would work (that anglicized names appeal more to a white-dominated
industry), I put ________ on my resume and photos." His callbacks rose by 50
percent. . He has gone back to using his birth name.
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9. 7. This guy was a founding
member of Vital Signs, the leading
pop band of Pakistan for a decade.
He made waves in mid 2007 with
his film score for Shoaib Mansoor's
debut film Khuda Kay Liye. In 2008
he created something which has
been billed as one of the more
significant imports from Pakistan.
a)Identify the guy.
b)What did he create?
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10. 8. . "Out of a Rainbow“
At the steelworks in Bolton they are finishing building the last girder for the Olympic stadium.
Two drops fall out of the molten-steel, and once cooled are picked up by a man named
George. The day happens to be George’s retirement day so he signs the finished girder and
cycles home. He gets home to his wife and grandchildren as they give him his retirement
cake. Later when everyone else is asleep he decides to make a gift for his grandchildren out
of the steel drops. The next day George and his wife give their grandchildren the steel
___A___ and ___B___. The two children take the mascots up to the attic and place them on
the windowsill when a rainbow forms going through the house. The rainbow brings ___A___
and ___B___ to colour and to life where they learn sports from the children, posters and the
TV. ___A___ and ___B___ realise their names from books and trophies before leaving on
the rainbow. The story ends with: “And then suddenly the rainbow is back. ___A___ and
___B___ know that it’s time to go: their journey has just begun: so many adventures to have,
so many people to tell. But they will meet again; in ___C___, in 2012. They’ll be there, You’ll
be there, the whole world will be there.”
This is the story of how A and B were created and is a part of the series documenting the
travails of A and B.
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11. 9. The _____ ____ problem is a probability puzzle loosely based on the American
television game show Let's Make a Deal and named after the show's original host.
Contestants need to choose the right door from several to
get prizes.
Standard version:
Suppose you're on a game show and you're given the choice of three doors [and
will win what is behind the chosen door]. Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats
[unwanted booby prizes]. The car and the goats were placed randomly behind the doors
before the show. The rules of the game show are as follows: After you have chosen a door,
the door remains closed for the time being. The game show host who knows what is
behind the doors, now has to open one of the two remaining doors, and the door he opens
must have a goat behind it. If both remaining doors have goats behind them, he chooses
one [uniformly] at random. After the host opens a door with a goat, he will ask you to
decide whether you want to stay with your first choice or to switch to the last remaining
door. Imagine that you chose Door 1 and the host opens Door 3, which has a goat. He then
asks you "Do you want to switch to Door Number 2?" Is it to your advantage to change
your choice?
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13. 11. The __________________ is a stock character in Western films,
but the term usually applies specifically to the character played by Clint
Eastwood in Sergio Leone's "Dollars Trilogy."
A Fistful of Dollars
For a Few Dollars More
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The character's distinctive appearance consists of a battered brown hat
with a telescope crown, pale blue shirt, dark blue jeans, tan boots, a
sheepskin vest, and a patterned sarape, or "poncho." He is generally
portrayed as an outsider, a mercenary or bounty hunter, or even
an outlaw. He is characteristically soft-spoken and laconic. The
character is an oft-cited example of an anti-hero, although he has a soft
spot for people in deep trouble.
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14. 14.
Shot in the scenic locales of Ooty, which Hindi
song was the first to be shot in slow motion ?
The music for the song was composed
by Jatin-Lalit and lyrics were penned by Majrooh
Sultanpuri.
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15. 15. What began thus:
To Boddah
Speaking from the tongue of an experienced simpleton who
obviously would rather be an emasculated, infantile complain-ee. This note
should be pretty easy to understand.
…………...............................................................................................
............................................................................................................................
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16. 14.
In February 1974, England was battling France in a crucial
rugby match at Twickenham Stadium in London. Over
53,000 fans were at the game, including many British
royals, and all of them were treated to something
previously unseen and unheard of. What happened for the
first time on that day ?
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17. 15.
He is known as Michael Souris in France, Miki Kuchi in
Japan, Miguel Ratoncito in Spain, and Muse Pigg in Sweden.
Who ?
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18. 16.
The books have been criticized for their derivative
nature. The two most commonly discussed sources are Star
Wars (because of numerous similarities in the plots) and The
Lord of the Rings (because of the setting, elven[ and dwarven
races, the language and character, maps and place names).
Even many positive reviews note that the work pulls strongly
from the conventions of fantasy, in character, dialogue and
concepts. Which series??
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19. 17.
______________ is an American alternative rock band originally
formed in 1994 by Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl as a one-man project following
the dissolution of his previous band. The band got its name from the UFOs and
various aerial phenomena that were reported by Allied aircraft pilots in World
War II, which were known collectively as _____________ .
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20. 18.
"I'd rather be smart than a movie star." An
actress with dual American and Israeli citizenship , she
has a BA in psychology from Harvard and can speak
English ,Hebrew, French , Japanese ,German, and
Arabic. She got invited to Columbia to speak to a class
on terrorism and antiterrorism after portraying an
anarchist in one of her movies. Who??
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21. CHARACTERS:
1. I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to
show them a world without you. A world without rules and controls, without
borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible.
2. Life is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're gonna get.
3. All I have in this world is my balls and my word, and I don't break them for no-
one.
4. I give hope to men. I keep none for myself.
5. I can tell you the license plate numbers of all six cars outside. I can tell you that
our waitress is left-handed and the guy sitting up at the counter weighs two
hundred fifteen pounds and knows how to handle himself. I know the best
place to look for a gun is the cab of the gray truck outside, and at this altitude, I
can run flat out for a half mile before my hands start shaking. Now why would I
know that? How can I know that and not know who I am?
6. Ta-da !
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22. 7. All I wanna do is go the distance. Nobody's ever gone the distance with
Creed, and if I can go that distance, you see, and that bell rings and I'm still
standin', I'm gonna know for the first time in my life, see, that I weren't just
another bum from the neighborhood.
8. My name is _____ Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the
North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor,
Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife.
And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.
9. It's not the years, honey - it's the mileage.
10. A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans
and a nice Chianti.
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23. 19.
Where would you find arches, loops, double
loops and whorls?
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24. 20.
According to his 87 year old mother, "Gurudev
Rabindra Nath Tagore himself blessed "my son and
prophesied that one day he would turn out to be an
extraordinary man. He had named him ' the one who
deserves immortality." Who?
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25. 21. Which legendary English batsman of yesteryear was
Gen Zia-ul-Haq's military instructor at one time?
(hint- he even played Ranji Trophy for the Holkars)
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