WEEKLY THEME QUIZ JOURNEY - MIXED BAG: 27.12.2020

1. Mixed Bag Quiz
Compiled by- PG Quizhouse (Partha Gupta)
Date: 27th December, 2020
Time: 10 pm onwards
Hello, this is your quiz-friend Partha Gupta. Over the years I have conducted
so many quiz contests and got your illustrious presence and appreciation. In
this grim situation of Lockdown due to Covid- 19, I have started an online quiz
series in my Facebook page titled ‘Theme Quiz Journey’ which has been going
on since 10th May, ‘20 the birthday of ‘Father of Indian Quiz’- Neil O’Brien.
So, today I am going to place a Mixed Bag Quiz (10 qsn.) in my FB link:
https://www.facebook.com/partha.gupta.56. Time- 10 pm. onwards. Plz give your
answer only through WhatsApp-7687842417 or SMS-9830318721 or in my
Messenger. Answering time- 1 hour.
So friends, gear up to answer the questions as the earliest!

2. Mixed Bag Quiz
This handout picture taken on May 16, 2018 and released on April 22, 2019
by Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Plasma Physics, shows the
Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) device.
What do the Chinese call it?

3. Mixed Bag Quiz
These two ladies made history when they
piloting the same commercial plane together
on 8th November, 2020. Captain Suzy
Garrett has been a pilot for over 30 years.
She shared the cockpit with first officer
Donna Garret. Both of them are currently
employed with SkyWest Airlines in the US.
In what way, they have become
the first pair in aviation history?

4. Mixed Bag Quiz
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5. Mixed Bag Quiz
Why Subedar Shailendra Mohan
of the Indian Army’s Garhwal
Scouts Unit, came in news in 2020?

6. Mixed Bag Quiz
a) ‘X’ played on his high school football team as both wide
receiver and halfback on the team.
b) He has two German shepherds named- Champ and Major.
c) In December 1972, his wife Neilia and their one-year-old
daughter Amy were killed in a road accident.
d) After losing his wife and daughter in the car accident, he
took oath as US Senate leader at his sons' hospital bedsides.
e) At 29, he was one of the youngest people ever elected to the
United States Senate.
f) He is the second Catholic president in US history.

7. Mixed Bag Quiz
Identify this film maker.
This award-winning British filmmaker won several laurels including
Cinéfondation for short film at the Cannes Film Festival, BAFTA.
He directed the documentary film Senna (2010), based on Ayrton
Senna which won the BAFTA Award for Best Documentary, the
BAFTA Award for Best Editing and the World Cinema Audience
Award Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival 2011. He
filmed Amy (2015), based on singer Amy Winehouse, which has
become the highest-grossing documentary of all-time in the UK and
also won him an Oscar and Grammy Award in 2016.

8. Mixed Bag Quiz
The introduction of an Independent Director,
who must be female was approved by the
ICC Full Council in June, 2017 as part of
wide-ranging constitutional change aimed at
improving the governance of cricket.
Who is the first independent
female director of ICC?

9. Mixed Bag Quiz
This is the first of its
kind and got the worst
film award, the Razzies’
38-year history in 2018.
Can you identify this movie?

10. Mixed Bag Quiz
In 2000, ‘X’ bet Gordon Kane of the University of
Michigan $ 100 that the Higgs-Boson, a subatomic
particle-would never be found. In 2012, Higgs-Boson
was confirmed and ‘X’ paid off the $100 wager!
Identify ‘X’.

11. Mixed Bag Quiz
While playing for Mohun Bagan against Bengal Nagpur Railways
(BNR) at the Kalighat ground on 24th March, 2018 Wriddhiman Saha
scored an unbeaten 102 off just 20 balls. His innings had 14 sixes and
four boundaries apart from two singles. Wriddhiman finished the
match in the seventh over hitting medium pacer Aman Prosad for six
sixes. With this performance, Wriddhiman broke the previous record
of 21-ball century which was made on November 2, 1931.
Whose record did Wriddhiman break?

12. Mixed Bag Quiz