quiz conduct by me on 15/02/2013

1. QUIZ
ON

2. QUIZ MASTER
SANKENDU SUTRADHAR

3. MINIMAL ROUND

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9. EXCHANGE YOUR SHEET

10. ANSWERS

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16. InFiNiTe bOuNcE

17. rULeS
1.DON’T WASTE TIME YOU ALL KNOW THE
RULES

18. CLOCKWISE

19. 1
• Title of article: Acquired growth hormone deficiency and
hypogonadotropic hypogonadism in a subject with repeated
head trauma, or X goes to the neurologist.
• Results: The research team successfully identified 50
significant losses of consciousness. Of these, 43 incidents
involved head trauma with loss of consciousness representing
grade 3 concussions. X sustained 26 concussions resulting
from a blow with a blunt object. The most frequently used
object was a club (8 times). Other causes for the subject's loss
of consciousness included bullet injury (3), chloroform
poisoning (3), explosions (4), car accidents (3) and falls (2).
• Id X. Also explain what the research team wanted to
Visual in next
slide

22. Why Tintin does not grow old?

23. 2
Photograph of a family holiday. Name the person who has been circled?

26. 3
It is believed that the 16 yr old son of King Hima was doomed
to die on the fourth day of his marriage by a snake-bite. So, on
that day, his worried wife lighted innumerable lamps all over
the place. She also laid all the ornaments and lots of gold and
silver coins in a big heap at the entrance of her husband's
room. She went on telling stories and singing songs through the
night. When Yama -arrived there in the guise of a Serpent, the
dazzle of those brilliant lights blinded his eyes and he could not
enter the Prince's chamber. So he climbed on the heap of the
ornaments and coins and sat their whole night listening to the
melodious songs. In the morning, he quietly went away. So
what is celebrated as a result of this?

28. • The wife saved her husband and since
then this day ofcame to be known as
the day of "Yamadeepdaan" and lamps
are kept burning throughout the night
in reverential adoration to Yama, the
god of Death – Being the 13th day – it
is called - Dhanterase

29. 4
Id the person

31. Elvis priesly

32. 5
What the unique about this 3 temple?

34. All three Temple dedicated to Duryadhan

35. 6
In 2003, writer Peter Milligan announced that
_______________ would be joining the X-Statix, an X-
Men spin-off team. In an interview with The Guardian,
Milligan noted that "________________ exerted a
strange, mysterious power from beyond the grave," so
why not turn that into a mutant power?
________________ was set to appear in a storyline
cheekily titled "_________ Another Day." where
________'s zombified body would join the X-Statix and
thwart assassination attempts. Marvel however never
published ____________'s appearances. After a huge
outcry, Marvel redacted the story. Milligan replaced
__________ with Henrietta Hunter, a European popstar.

38. Princess Diana

39. 7
Sometime in July of 2011, Agnello Dias, chairman and co-founder of TapRoot India,
a Mumbai-based ad agency telephoned director Ram Madhvani.
"Are you free? What's up?" he asked.
Dias is a former JWT man and has worked on the famous Nike ad, and the Aman ki
Aasha and Lead India campaigns among others. Madhvani is an award-winning
director who made the Happydent ad that won a bronze and a silver lion at Cannes
in 2006.
And yet when the two met up, neither had the slightest idea that they were about
to create what is arguably one of the most talked-about commercial of the year. By
the second week of August they had shown it to the X, the founder, chairman and
Group CEO of ______________. The ad had a catchy score, a great script and a bunch of
70 young actors -- some of them still students -- exuding tremendous energy from
shot one. After watching the video, X said, "Let's take it on air." There were no cuts,
no changes, no extra suggestions. So just like that, on August 18, __________'s latest
commercial was launched. Within days, the ad featuring practically no known face,
went viral.

41. Airtel Har Ek Friend Zaroori Hota Hai Ad
Campaign

42. 8
X’s first ever Twitter post, sent in
February 2009, reads “I’m 01100110
01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001
01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100
01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001
00001010.”
Id X and/or what the binary meant

44. I’m feeling lucky” by Google.

45. 9
• At first, it was an orange 1969 BMC Mini MK II (registration RNT
996H), but this was destroyed in a crash. Following this, the car
was a 1976 – 1980 model (registration SLW 287R), Austin
Citroen Green in colour with a satin black bonnet.
• The Mini also had a number of innovative security measures.
For example, ________ used a bolt-latch and padlock, rather
than the lock fitted to the car, and removes the steering wheel
instead of the key. These formed a running joke in several
episodes, at one point deterring a car thief.
• In some episodes _______ has a long-running feud with the
unseen driver of a light blue Reliant Regal Supervan III
(registration GRA 26K), which will usually get turned over,
crashed out of its parking space and so forth by __________.
This conflict originated in the first episode, when the Reliant's
driver held the Mini up on the way to an examination, and
subsequently became another running joke throughout the
series.

47. Mr.Beans Car

48. 10
Whose tattoo and its significance ?

50. • Angelina Jolie
• The coordinates of the kids that she
adopted

51. 11
Which gaming product’s name was inspired from this PS3 joystick ?
explain?(5+5)

53. • X-BOX 360
• Cross mark- X
• Square -Box
• Circle -360

54. 12
An American inventor reportedly spent $1
million in developing a product and patented
this product in 1965. This product has ability to
function in extraordinary environments like
zero gravity, underwater, in temperatures
ranging from -30 to 250 degrees Fahrenheit.
- The unique utility of this product provoked
NASA to order 400 examples of it and use it for
the Apollo program.just id product?

56. The pens to be used in space, as mentioned
in 3 Idiots

57. 13
Even though this currency note can’t be used inside Pakistan. It (next
slide) is printed by the State Bank of Pakistan every year.put funda?

60. 14
What is the significance of this mountain in the world of business?

63. 15
Once an essential accessory for men, they were originally
intended to help Persian soldiers secure their stance to shoot the
bow and arrow effectively.They were adopted by the European
aristocracy as a result of the diplomatic missions of Persia's Shah
Abbas I, aimed at forging links with Western Europe to help him
defeat his great enemy, the Ottoman Empire. They were especially
popular with Louis XIV, who used them to hide his
shortcomings.However, with the advent of the Enlightenment
movement and the Great Male Renunciation, they totally fell out of
favour after the French Revolution. They were re-adopted by
pornographers in the early and mid 20th century, and it is this
association with pornography that is believed to have led to their
re-acceptance by the public, this time by women. What are we
talking about?

65. high heel

66. Long Visual Connect

67. +100 , -50

68. +90 , -45

69. +80 , -40

70. +70 , -35

71. +60 , -30

72. +50 , -25

73. +40 , -20

74. +30 , -15

75. +20 , -10

76. +10 , no negetive

79. Nobel Winner from India or
Indian Born
Ronald Ross MedicineForeign citizens born in India
1907 Rudyard Kipling Literature Foreign citizens born in India
1913 Rabindranath Tagore Literature Citizen of India
1930 C.V. Raman Physics Citizen of India
1968 Har Gobind Khorana MedicineForeign citizens of Indian origin
1979 mother teresa Peace Foreign born citizen of India
1983 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Physics Indian born American
citizen
1998 Amartya Sen Economic Sciences Citizen of India
2001 V.S.Naipaul Literature Trinidadian born British citizen of
Indian descent
2009 Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Chemistry Indian born
American Citizen Citizen of India

80. ANTI CLOCKWISE

81. 1
“There he sits like a dragon in his cave, like a thousand
fingered puppet master, like the heart of the heart of
darkness, orchestrator of all the secret music of the
under-spheres, the arch- villain, the dark capo,
Moriariter than Moriarty, Blofelder than Blofeld, not just
Godfather but Gonefartherest, the dada of all dada. His
name is carefully chosen to avoid offending any of the
country’s communities; it’s neither Muslim nor Hindu,
Parsi nor Christian…”
About whom did Salman Rushdie write the above
words in The Moor’s Last Sigh?

84. 2
While studying in a renowned Institution, 'X' qualified to try for a transfer
scholarship at Cal Tech, widely considered the world's most competitive
scholarship. The transfer scholarship is rarely won, One among the
toughest exam u can ever attend. 'X' was the only applicant in the entire
world that year to get a passing score above 60. The next highest score
was 20 points below.
Launched ‘Y’ in 90’s, in the first hour, it had 100 subscribers. By mid-
1998, the company Picked subscribers at the rate of 1.25 lakh a day! In
just over two years, the company's user base was faster than any media
company in history. Faster than CNN, Faster than BBC. Identify ‘X’ & ‘Y’.
visual in next slide

87. Sabbir Bhatia and Hotmail

88. 3
Auguste Antoine Piccard (28
January 1884 – 24 March 1962) was
a
Swiss physicist, inventor and expl
orer. Born in Basel, Switzerland.
He became a professor
of physics in Brussels at the Free
University of Brussels in 1922. He
had interest in ballooning.Once X
said about him:
“Y is a reduced scale Piccard, as
the real chap was very tall. He had
an interminable neck that sprouted
from a collar that was much too
large... I made Y a mini-
Piccard“.Solve for X and Y

90. • X- Herge
• Y- Prof.Calculus

91. 4
This Indian practice is ancient, going back to
around 400 to 750 BC. The actual mention
appears in the Ayodhya Kanda, (the second
book of the Ramayana), in Sarga (section) 103.
Bharata has gone to ask the exiled Rama to
come back and rule the kingdom. Bharata tries
many arguments, none of which work, at which
point he decides to do a -----.
What practice ?

93. Hunger strike

94. 5
The Dongria Kondha are indigenous tribal groups of India. They live in
Orissa, a state in Eastern India. Vedanta Resources, a UK based mining
company, is threatening the future of this tribe as their home the
Niyamgiri Hill is rich in bauxite. The bauxite is also the reason there are so
many perennial streams. The tribe's plight is the subject of a Survival
International short film narrated by actress Joanna Lumley.
In a case of life seeking to imitate art, the tribe appealed to X to help them
stop Vedanta, reckoning that the author of the film Y, which deals with a
similar subject, would understand their plight. An advertisement in Variety
magazine said: "Appeal to X. Y is fantasy … and real. The Dongria Kondh
tribe in India are struggling to defend their land against a mining
company hell-bent on destroying their sacred mountain. Please help the
Dongria.“
Name X and Y

96. X=James cameron
Y=Avatar

97. 6
• He was born in Uganda, and his current
residence is in San Francisco.
• He is owner of a bungalow worth $ 3.5
million, with a heated swimming pool and
maple wood flooring in the living room.
• He owns a 6496 cc Lamborghini.
• His business card reads- Vice President,
Rockledge Corporation.

99. Chatur Ramalingam

100. 7
Id the Singer?

102. Lady Gaga

103. 8
A 360 degree view of which iconic location?
next slide

106. Windows Bliss wallpaper

107. 9
WHAT IS SHOWN IN THIS IMAGE

109. The Aerial view of New York city just
after the 9/11 incident

110. 10
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic,
systemic inflammatory disorder that may affect
many tissues and organs, but principally
attacks synovial joints. The process produces
an inflammatory response of the synovium
(synovitis) secondary to hyperplasia of
synovial cells, excess synovial fluid, and the
development of pannus in the synovium.
Who is the most famous sufferer of this from
the world of sports ?

113. 11
ID the subject of this ad

115. depicting mergers and acquisitions.

116. 12
• where:
• W = Weighted
• R = average as a number from 0 to 10 (mean)
• v = number of votes
• m = minimum votes required
• C = the mean vote across the whole report
(currently 6.7)
• This formula is used for what?

118. IMDB movie ranking

119. 13
What is so special about this statue of Ganesha,

121. This is a statue of
Ganesha worshipped in
the female form, as
Ganeshani or Vainayaki in
Uchi Pillaiyar Koyil at
Trichy.

122. 14
Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera (born April 4, 1957)
nicknamed "El Chapo"for his 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) stature
in an organization named after the Mexican Pacific
coast state of Sinaloa where it was initially formed. He
became Mexico's top ranked in something in 2003 after
dethroning Osiel Cárdenas. In November 2010, Joaquín
Guzmán was regarded as the 60th of 68 most powerful
people in the world by Forbes Magazine.He was also
listed by Forbes as the world's 937th richest man.
Much like Osiel, he became the top of a list after May
2nd,2011 which has kept him in the news.Why?

124. • May 2nd 2011, Osama Bin Laden died
and
• he became the most wanted man in the
• world by Interpol and FBI.

125. 15
What can be found at
41° 43' 55" N, 49° 56' 45" W?'