Quizlings Feb 2015 part2

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Feb 2015 Part 2
Transcribed by Balaji Kasiraj

#1)US Dwight D. Eisenhower was
on his official plane when a
commercial flight in the same
airspace as the President’s plane
shared the same call sign, causing
much confusion.
What resulted from this?

#2)Caltech scientist Kip Thorne
helped with a movie script last
year.
Kip Thorne's name featured in a
bet in a movie this year.
( going by India release dates)
Name both movies
By-abhishek u

Answer:
Interstellar and Theory of
Everything

#3)These are members of the family
'Sturnidae', or what we call Mynah in
India. In many parts of the world they
form huge flocks like shown in the
picture. Such flocks are called what?
Pic in next slide->

Answer: Murmuration (of starlings)

#4) 466453 .com is a Google-
owned domain name used by their
SMS system. Why 466453?
From:Md Irfan

Answer: It spells out google on a
phone keypad

#5)Which hobby or pastime of
Sherlock Holmes is reflected here?
(has been blanked out)
Pic in next slide->

#6) During his baseball career,
what jersey number did Michael
Jordan sport?

Answer:45 (in baseball and for a
short while in Basketball!!...of
course he mostly used 23 in
Basketball)

#7) The painting by Cristiano Banti
depicts a trial on charges of heresy,
an act which was acknowledged to
be a mistake centuries later. Who is
the subject of the inquisition?
From-Ramesh Athreya
Pic in next slide->

#8) Which animated character's
surname is apparently Marquez?
(voiced for long by Peru born
Kathleen Herles)

#9) Though its predecessor is
better known, the Lorenz was a
successor and vast improvement to
what?

Answer: The German Enigma
cipher machine

#10) What is the name of the
human-like inhabitants of the land
of the Houyhnhnms, discovered by
Captain Lemuel Gulliver in 1711?
from -Prasoon Bopche

#11)Which Government service for
communication was in operation in
Odisha till about 2005 and is still
apparently used by its police force
during emergencies?
From- Md Irfan

#12) In Hindu mythology, Jaya and
Vijaya are the two demigod
gatekeepers of Lord Vishnu. For
insulting the Kumaras, they are cursed
to take three births as Lord Vishnu's
enemies on Earth. First as
Hiranyakashipu and Hiranyaksha.In
their second life they were born as
Ravana and Kumbhakarna.
Who were they born as the third time?

Answer: Sisupala and Dantavakra

#13) "The Dresden atrocity, tremendously
expensive and meticulously planned, was so
meaningless, finally, that only one person on the
entire planet got any benefit from it. I am that
person. I wrote this book, which earned a lot of
money for me and made my reputation, such as
it is. One way or another, I got two or three
dollars for every person killed. Some business
I'm in".
ID the the book written by the author, known for
satire, humour and science fiction, partially
based on experiences as a POW.

Answer: Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt
Vonnegut

#14) What connects Taranjeet
Singh Bhatia, Ritika Singh and
Shraddha Prasad ?
From- Hindol Heroic Hazra

Answer: Indians selected for mars trip

#15)The Jade Emperor (to facilitate
something he was was working on)
summoned all the creatures onEarth
to participate in a race.
1) who won first place? Who was last?
2) who were in the middle?
From-Rajiv Rai

Answer:
This is the Chinese zodiac. Rat came
first, by, what most conservative folks
will call, cheating (hitched a ride on
the ox and then jumped off last
minute). Pig was last, very distracted.
Ox, tiger, dragon, rabbit, snake etc
were the other 10

#16)What are Sylvester Da Cunha
and Eustace Fernandez best known
for creating ?

#17)"Revolution" was an American
post-apocalyptic science fiction
television series. The show takes place
in the post-apocalyptic near-future of
the year 2027, 15 years after the start
of a worldwide, permanent electrical-
power blackout in 2012.
What is the second "o" in "Revolution"
stylized as ?

Answer:
Steve Jobs as Eustace Tilley from
the New Yorker

#19)Two parts:
Identify the
person
featured in this
artwork. While
at it, explain
how his work
is aptly
represented in
the art work

Answer: Suraj Menon and Atishay
Sehgal

#20) What four letter word could
connect the two politicians?

Answer:Bibi
Benazir..and nickname for Netanyahu

#21) 2 violins, 1 viola and a cello
together commonly form what?

#22) After Coca-Cola was forced
out of India in the 1970's, a brand
named 77 replaced it. Why was
this brand called 77?

Answer: To commemorate the
defeat of the Congress Party by the
Janatha Party (corrected) in 1977

#23) James Moriarty, Holmes's arch
enemy is a professor of what?

#24) A Puritan Minister left his
library of four hundred books to a
certain college in his will. The
grateful college promptly named
the college after him. Which
college?

#25) Who
usually
appears in
public dressed
like this, with
her face
obscured?

#26) Connect the person on the left to
the bestselling book on the right

Answer:
Ross Perot. The book documents
his successful attempt to rescue of
his employees from Iran

#27) Which product (and brand) did
Mahatma Gandhi describe as 'one of
the most useful things ever invented?'

#28) One sure shot way of listing all a
country's neighbours would be to start
somewhere on the national border and go
all the way around clockwise, listing out
the neighbours till you come back to the
same point.Do that with Vietnam and you
get Cambodia, Laos and China. Perfect.
Now try this with South Africa and you get
Namibia,Botswana, Zimbabwe,
Mozambique and Swaziland. Right, oops,
wrong. Which country did I miss and why?

Answer:
San Marino and Vatican City.

#29) Which brand is named for a
wrestler in antiquity who won
many victories in the most
important athletic festivals of
ancient Greece and is believed to
have run a marathon with a young
cow on his shoulder?

#30) The demand for shark fins in
China dropped by some 50% last
year after the Chinese Government
took what step?

Answer: They banned Shark fin soup
from official banquets

#31) The name of which mythical
creature is used to denote a Silicon
Valley start-up company that
reaches a $1 billion valuation?

#32) Who or what is a Lessepsian
migrant?

Answer: Its like a migration of
marine species across the Suez
canal from the Red sea to the
Mediterranean sea.

#33) Identify the person whose photo
has been used in this anti-smoking ad..

#34) Which country has the longest
name with alternating vowels &
consonants ?
(example Mali , Peru etc)

#35) This is a punctuation mark
designed for use especially at the end
of an exclamatory rhetorical question.
Example : 'You call that a hat?!'"
What is it called?

#36) Essentially a confederation, it was
one of the largest and one of the most
populous countries of 16th- and 17th-
century Europe. It goes by many
names but the best known one
incorporates the names of two present
day European nations both part of the
EU today.
Name the entity
Pic in next slide->

The Polish–Lithuanian
Commonwealth, formally the
Kingdom of Poland and the Grand
Duchy of Lithuania

#37) Who refused a Nobel Peace
prize on the grounds that when
awarded, peace had not yet been
achieved in his country?

#38) Which non-SI unit, first
named in 1910, bears a surname,
though the commission which
agreed on this name never
declared as to which person it was
specifically named for ?

#39) In Pro wrestling who or what
is a 'Baby Face?

#40) Cover art
for the 10th
anniversary
edition of
which 2002
book? it was
also made into
an acclaimed
film in 2009

#41) The Brelfie is more than a fad. Its
a sort of rebellion against FB and
(mostly western) social norms.
what specifically do Brelfies depict?

Answer: A selfie taken while
breastfeeding.

#42) 'Reunion'
photo. Who are
these people?

Answer: The kids from 'The Sound
of Music'

#43) Which
band's
legendary
album is
being re-
released to
mark its 40th
anniversary?

Answer: Led Zeppelin.. Album is
Physical Graffiti

#44) From a 1920s interview of
George Mallory. What is the iconic
blanked out retort?

#45) The name of which Australian
geographical feature essentially
means 'No trees?'

#46) Regards the Gymnastics floor
exercise competition, what is the
difference between the events for the
men and the women?

Answer: No Music for male event

#47) In the 1956 novel by Dodie Smith,
the crime involved 97 juveniles. In the
movie version 5 years later (and its
1996 remake), to simplify the story,
this number was increased to 99.
What are we talking about?

Answer: The movie 101 Dalamations

#48) Name the
film..and the
structure in
the
background

The Dark Knight Rises
Mehrangarh fort

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