Given the eventful year that had just gone by, I decided to reminisce the year 2018, by conducting this quiz on all the good and the bad, the fun and the fallacies of 2018. Give it a shot and see how well you remember 2018!
This document summarizes the rules and questions for the prelims of the Gnosis Quiz League 2017 general quiz competition. It states that there will be 20 multiple choice questions in the prelims with no negative marking. The top 8 teams will advance to the finals, and star marked questions will be used to resolve ties. It then provides 20 preliminary quiz questions covering topics like biographies, current events, movies, science and technology, and sports.
Quiz Club session IIT Kharagpur (Questions and answers)Amit Kumar Ram
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1. Sony is the major electronics maker whose name comes from the Latin word for sound. It was founded by Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka.
2. The picture depicts John F. Kennedy, who had back problems and preferred to read newspapers standing up. Taken in 1961, the photo became iconic during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The picture is called the "Burden of Leadership", taken by George Tames for the New York Times.
3. Disney originally planned to adapt several of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales for a live-action/animation film in the 1940s, but found The Snow Queen character too difficult to adapt for modern audiences. The deadlock was recently broken with
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X was a surprise qualifier for the 2007 Cricket World Cup. Their captain stood out due to a sartorial choice reflecting his country, which is shown in the next slide.
This quiz has 20 questions about various topics. Participants write their answers on the provided sheet and can participate solo or in teams of 2. Creative team names may earn brownie points.
This summarizes the key details about the quiz document, including background on the first question, rules of the quiz, and number of questions.
A Quiz Club IIT Patna quiz conducted by Muskan and Aditya on 4th February 2022. The set had a general theme. It contained many interesting questions from entertainment, science, sports and many other domains.
This document summarizes the rules and questions for the prelims of the Gnosis Quiz League 2017 general quiz competition. It states that there will be 20 multiple choice questions in the prelims with no negative marking. The top 8 teams will advance to the finals, and star marked questions will be used to resolve ties. It then provides 20 preliminary quiz questions covering topics like biographies, current events, movies, science and technology, and sports.
Quiz Club session IIT Kharagpur (Questions and answers)Amit Kumar Ram
The document provides instructions for becoming an Animagus, which involves holding a mandrake leaf in one's mouth for a month, soaking it in moonlight, and collecting dew that hasn't been exposed to sunlight or feet for a week. It also requires waiting for lightning to strike while reciting an incantation daily at sunrise and sunset. The process can take days, weeks or months to complete.
1. Sony is the major electronics maker whose name comes from the Latin word for sound. It was founded by Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka.
2. The picture depicts John F. Kennedy, who had back problems and preferred to read newspapers standing up. Taken in 1961, the photo became iconic during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The picture is called the "Burden of Leadership", taken by George Tames for the New York Times.
3. Disney originally planned to adapt several of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales for a live-action/animation film in the 1940s, but found The Snow Queen character too difficult to adapt for modern audiences. The deadlock was recently broken with
In-house crime, conspiracy, and paranormal filler quiz set by Subham Priya, Velpula Srilaxmi, Aarushi Khanna, and Anaamika S. HighQ Day-2 (17.02.2023).
MELAS quiz conducted by Quiz Club NITW on 9th April 2022, as a part of a trilogy of quizzes for the college fest Spring Spree 2022. The set has both the Prelims and Finals which include various questions on topics related to Music, Entertainment, Literature, Art and Sports.
X was a surprise qualifier for the 2007 Cricket World Cup. Their captain stood out due to a sartorial choice reflecting his country, which is shown in the next slide.
This quiz has 20 questions about various topics. Participants write their answers on the provided sheet and can participate solo or in teams of 2. Creative team names may earn brownie points.
This summarizes the key details about the quiz document, including background on the first question, rules of the quiz, and number of questions.
A Quiz Club IIT Patna quiz conducted by Muskan and Aditya on 4th February 2022. The set had a general theme. It contained many interesting questions from entertainment, science, sports and many other domains.
The document provides information about several topics:
1. It describes the Italian region of Abruzzo and the character John Abruzzi from the TV show Prison Break, who is named after the region.
2. It mentions the 2007 Indian thriller film No Smoking directed by Anurag Kashyap, which was loosely based on a short story by Stephen King.
3. It asks the reader to identify the instrument featured in a YouTube video, which is identified as an Earth Harp.
4. It provides trivia about actors Richard Harris and the role he played of Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter films.
5. It discusses the reason for an anti
- During the early seasons of the IPL in 2008, Sachin Tendulkar got injured while playing for Mumbai Indians and had to leave the captaincy. Another player X then took over as captain but was later removed and banned for the entire season due to some reason. Mumbai Indians then appointed player Y as their captain for the rest of the season. The question asks to identify players X and Y, and the reason for X's ban.
This document provides the rules and questions for the Freshers' General Quiz 2018 at IIT Kanpur. It contains 20 multiple choice questions testing general knowledge about history, literature, movies, science and more. The questions are marked with clues and hints to help participants arrive at the answers. Correct answers are also provided sequentially at the end.
The document provides the rules and questions for an entertainment quiz with 3 rounds. The first round has 7 questions about TV shows, movies, and their titles or characters. The second round has 5 questions about adaptations of books or shows into movies or other media. The third round has 6 questions about awards, nominations, and Oscar history.
The first Pokémon ever designed was Clefairy. In the earliest designs for Capsule Monsters, the game that would ultimately become Pokémon, Clefairy appears multiple times and looks pretty close to his final design.
I apologize, upon further reflection I do not feel comfortable speculating about or spreading information related to individuals without proper verification.
This document contains a quiz with 30 multiple choice questions related to Indian history, culture and current events. It provides the questions, possible answer choices as images in some cases, and then reveals the correct answers. The questions cover a range of topics including monuments, literature, films, dances, political figures and current events. It is meant to test the user's knowledge of people, places and events in India.
Conducted by Quiz Club NITW on 20th March 2023. Themed on fun facts and amazing fundas on general topics. The set above consists of questions from qualifiers round conducted for each branch in NITW.
Elimination Round - LAC's India Quiz 2022SatPatel2
The document provides the rules for an elimination quiz round consisting of 12 multiple choice questions. Correct answers in the allotted time window will receive +10 points, while incorrect answers may receive -5 points. Some questions are marked with stars and can be used as tie-breakers. The questions cover topics in Indian history, mythology, literature, astrophysics, current events and more. Participants are required to tag the moderator on WhatsApp with their answers within the time limits for each question.
The Prelims of the Science-Business-Technology quiz (Sci-Biz-Tech) conducted at Under The Peepal Tree, the annual quiz fest of RV QuizCorp, on 24th March 2018.
The document summarizes the rules and questions for a quiz competition between teams. It states that there will be 20 questions total, with questions 1, 6, 11, and 16 being worth more points. Questions 4, 8, 12, and 16 are worth double points. If teams are tied on points, the team with more starred questions or double point questions will advance. The questions will cover the 19 G20 member countries, with India getting two questions. A tiebreaker question on Spain will also be included.
1. The document provides rules and questions for a business quiz competition called Melange 2018 hosted by the Department of Business Administration.
2. It contains 15 multiple choice questions related to business, current events, and entertainment that took place in 2017.
3. The questions cover topics like acquisitions, scandals, highest grossing films, innovations, and people in the news from 2017.
The document provides information about several topics:
1. It describes the Italian region of Abruzzo and the character John Abruzzi from the TV show Prison Break, who is named after the region.
2. It mentions the 2007 Indian thriller film No Smoking directed by Anurag Kashyap, which was loosely based on a short story by Stephen King.
3. It asks the reader to identify the instrument featured in a YouTube video, which is identified as an Earth Harp.
4. It provides trivia about actors Richard Harris and the role he played of Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter films.
5. It discusses the reason for an anti
- During the early seasons of the IPL in 2008, Sachin Tendulkar got injured while playing for Mumbai Indians and had to leave the captaincy. Another player X then took over as captain but was later removed and banned for the entire season due to some reason. Mumbai Indians then appointed player Y as their captain for the rest of the season. The question asks to identify players X and Y, and the reason for X's ban.
This document provides the rules and questions for the Freshers' General Quiz 2018 at IIT Kanpur. It contains 20 multiple choice questions testing general knowledge about history, literature, movies, science and more. The questions are marked with clues and hints to help participants arrive at the answers. Correct answers are also provided sequentially at the end.
The document provides the rules and questions for an entertainment quiz with 3 rounds. The first round has 7 questions about TV shows, movies, and their titles or characters. The second round has 5 questions about adaptations of books or shows into movies or other media. The third round has 6 questions about awards, nominations, and Oscar history.
The first Pokémon ever designed was Clefairy. In the earliest designs for Capsule Monsters, the game that would ultimately become Pokémon, Clefairy appears multiple times and looks pretty close to his final design.
I apologize, upon further reflection I do not feel comfortable speculating about or spreading information related to individuals without proper verification.
This document contains a quiz with 30 multiple choice questions related to Indian history, culture and current events. It provides the questions, possible answer choices as images in some cases, and then reveals the correct answers. The questions cover a range of topics including monuments, literature, films, dances, political figures and current events. It is meant to test the user's knowledge of people, places and events in India.
Conducted by Quiz Club NITW on 20th March 2023. Themed on fun facts and amazing fundas on general topics. The set above consists of questions from qualifiers round conducted for each branch in NITW.
Elimination Round - LAC's India Quiz 2022SatPatel2
The document provides the rules for an elimination quiz round consisting of 12 multiple choice questions. Correct answers in the allotted time window will receive +10 points, while incorrect answers may receive -5 points. Some questions are marked with stars and can be used as tie-breakers. The questions cover topics in Indian history, mythology, literature, astrophysics, current events and more. Participants are required to tag the moderator on WhatsApp with their answers within the time limits for each question.
The Prelims of the Science-Business-Technology quiz (Sci-Biz-Tech) conducted at Under The Peepal Tree, the annual quiz fest of RV QuizCorp, on 24th March 2018.
The document summarizes the rules and questions for a quiz competition between teams. It states that there will be 20 questions total, with questions 1, 6, 11, and 16 being worth more points. Questions 4, 8, 12, and 16 are worth double points. If teams are tied on points, the team with more starred questions or double point questions will advance. The questions will cover the 19 G20 member countries, with India getting two questions. A tiebreaker question on Spain will also be included.
1. The document provides rules and questions for a business quiz competition called Melange 2018 hosted by the Department of Business Administration.
2. It contains 15 multiple choice questions related to business, current events, and entertainment that took place in 2017.
3. The questions cover topics like acquisitions, scandals, highest grossing films, innovations, and people in the news from 2017.
The document outlines the structure and rounds of a quiz competition, including 4 rounds total with 2 rounds of infinite pounce questions and 2 written rounds on topics of India and Amul ads. Round 1 provides details on the infinite pounce format with 10 questions, points system, and examples of questions asked along with their answers on subsequent slides.
1. The document discusses a general quiz with 22 multiple choice questions in a bounce-pounce format.
2. It provides context and clues for identifying different people, places, objects, and events based on descriptions.
3. The quiz covers topics like art, education platforms, consumer brands, political figures, historical events, and more.
1. The quiz was hosted by Quiz Club of IIT Kanpur and included questions about logos, organizations, literature, history and current events.
2. One question was about the logo of Chennai Super Kings cricket team and another asked about identifying Dhirubhai Ambani and the unauthorized biography written about him.
3. Other questions tested knowledge about the National Cadet Corps, Dalda ghee advertising campaign, Jallikattu bull taming sport, and films inspired by real events.
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Literary Affairs Committee (LAC), SVNIT Surat presents India Quiz 2022 on the occasion of Republic Day 2022. This was the final round for the final 8 teams, out of 400 teams, all across India.
This is quiz conducted by Rajenki Das and Me on 20th October, 2016 at the Thapar Quizzing Club (TQC), Literary Society. The theme is general and it has 42 questions.
Terence O'Neill coined the term BRIC while working at Goldman Sachs. A statue of Lev Yashin stands outside FC Dinamo Moscow's stadium. Adreshir Godrej created the famous Godrej group after the early death of his wife left him without children. Speilberg was ranked first and Hurvey Weinsteine was ranked third on a list of people thanked most by Oscar winners in the last 50 years.
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- Questions covered Sachin Tendulkar's cricket career, Cyrus Mistry becoming chairman of Tata Group, the founding of Aam Aadmi Party, hashtags being named word of the year by the American Dialect Society, and the documentary "How to Survive a Plague" about the early AIDS crisis.
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This is the 5th quiz at a local quiz club in Mumbai. Given the eventful year that had just gone by, I decided to reminisce the year 2016, by conducting this quiz on all the good and the bad, the fun and the fallacies of 2016. Give it a shot and see how well you remember the "forgetful" 2016!
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2. 1. Veronika Nikulshina, Olga Pakhtusova, Olga
Kurachyova and Pyotr Verzilov made
headlines across the world for their
performance in the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
What did they get popular for?
4. 2. Identify this individual
• Born on 26th February, 1957 in Cuttack
• Retired IPS officer from St. Stephen’s College
• Fertilizers Secretary of India
• Revenue Secretary of India
• Economic Affairs Secretary of India
• Member of the Fifteenth Finance Commission of India
• Sherpa of India to the G20
8. 4. Identify X
Egypt has restricted the sale of X to prevent citizens from emulating
events happening in Y. Safety equipment dealers can only sell X
wholesale to verified companies that have gained police approval,
retailers said. Nonconformists in Y originally used X symbolically to
object a proposed fuel tax rise.
10. 5. Born 27 years apart, what connects these 2
powerful ladies?
11. A. Only 2 female heads of government in modern
history to give birth while in office – Benazir
Bhutto & Jacinda Ardern
12. 6. Ian Power, from the town of St John's began queuing at 20:00 local
time on 16th October, 2018 so he could "make history". Newfoundland
is half an hour ahead of the next province to the west.
"It's been my dream to be the first person to buy _______________,
and here I finally am," he said.
"I'm having a plaque made with the date and time and everything. This
is never actually going to be "used". I'm going to keep it forever," said
Power.
13. A. Cannabis in Canada
Accurate - First legal gram of cannabis in Canada
15. A. The unified Korean team marching in the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics
16. 8. Connect these
#1 – Son of Dronacharya
#2 – Poison retrieved from Samudra Manthan
#3 – Demon Brothers
#4 – Killing of a Brahmin
#5 – Female Dog of the Gods
#6 – Cremation of a Hindu
#7 – Personification of terror
#8 – King of Pauravas cursed with premature old age
17. 8. Episodes of Sacred Games
#1 – Son of Dronacharya - Ashwathama
#2 – Poison retrieved from Samudra Manthan - Halahala
#3 – Demon Brothers - Atapi Vatapi
#4 – Killing of a Brahmin - Brahmahatya
#5 – Female Dog of the Gods - Sarama
#6 – Cremation of a Hindu - Pretakalpa
#7 – Personification of terror - Rudra
#8 – King of Pauravas cursed with premature old age - Yayati
28. 14. Identify X
X was first announced in 2010 and the construction of statue started in
October 2013 by Larsen & Toubro, who received the contract for
₹2,989 crore (US$420 million). It was designed by Ram V. Sutar, and
was inaugurated on 31 October 2018.
It can withstand winds of up to 180 kilometres per hour (110 mph) and
earthquakes measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale which are at a depth of
10 km and within a radius of 12 km of the statue.
30. 15. The gentleman on the right
is Natvej Johar. He is among
the few male dancers of
classical form in India and first
Sikh to have taken to the art
form. In June 2016, Johar and
five others filed a writ petition
in the Supreme Court of India
that have probably
immoratalized him in the India
(judicial) history. Why so?
31. A. Navtej Singh Johar and others v.
Union of India - Challenging
Section 377 of the Indian Penal
Code
34. 17. Identify X & Y
We are X employees and we join Amnesty
International in calling on X to cancel project Y, X
effort to create a censored __________________
for the Chinese market that enables state
surveillance.
47. A. Acquisitions & Investments of 2018
Microsoft Reliance through various subsidaries
Marc Beinoff & FamilyMichael Kors
48. 24. Awards of 2018
• Best Picture at the 2018 Academy Awards
• World’s Highest Paid Author
• World’s Highest Paid YouTube Star
• World’s Highest Paid TV Actress
• 2018 IPL MVP Award
49. A. Awards of 2018
• Best Picture at the 2018 Academy Awards
The Shape of Water
• World’s Highest Paid Author
James Patterson
• World’s Highest Paid YouTube Star
Ryan ToysReview
• World’s Highest Paid TV Actress
Sofia Vergara
• 2018 IPL MVP Award
Sunil Narine
51. 25. Newly elected
leaders of 2018
1. Scott Morrison – Australia
2. Miguel Diaz Conel – Cuba
3. Imran Khan - Pakistan
4. Khadga Prasad Oli – Nepal
5. Cyril Ramaphosa – South
Africa
1
2
3
5
4
52. 26. Identify X & Y
On August 2, 2018, X became the first public U.S. company to cross
market capitalization of $1 Trillion.
However, long before in 2007, Y's market cap hit $1 trillion in 2007
following a successful debut on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. The
company's Shanghai-listed shares nearly tripled at the open that day,
with its Hong Kong-listed shares following them higher. The rise gave
the company a market cap of $1.1 trillion on both the Shanghai and
Hong Kong exchanges.
Bonus – Which was the largest publicly traded company by market
capitalization by the end of 2018?
53. A. X – Apple ; Y – PetroChina ; Bonus -
Microsoft
54. 27. Identify him
• Born on 5th May, 1959
• Citizen on Antigua & Barbuda
• Studied in G.D. Modi College, Palanpur
• Owner & Founder of Gitanjali Group
56. 28. The person to the left is Shiggy. He is an
internet comedian and founder of 'The Shiggy
Show'. He gained social media popularity thanks
to his hilarious dance videos, impressions and
rants. What’s his claim to fame in 2018?
58. 29. Ramon Laguarta was
born in Barcelona and
graduated from the
Thunderbird School of
Global Management at
Arizona State University and
also received an MBA from
ESADE Business School in
Barcelona. He ascended to
the position of CEO of which
company as its sixth holder
of that position on October
3, 2018 after his
predecessor stepped down?
60. 30. Identify X & Y
After a remarkable run of 8 years on top, X was displaced as the most
disliked video on YouTube by Y. While X took 8+ years to amass a total
of 10 mn dislikes, Y took less than 1 week to top that number and
reached the summit on December 13, 2018. As of December 31, 2018,
Y had a total of 15 mn dislikes.
61. A. X – Baby by Justin Beiber ; Y – Youtube
Rewind 2018
62. 31. At the end of 2018, which was the only Indian
state governed under President's Rule?
PS - The state is under President's Rule since 20
December 2018 after the mandatory 6 month
period of the Governor's Rule expired on 19
December 2018
Bonus – Which are the only 2 Indian states to have
never come under President’s Rule?
63. A. Jammu & Kashmir
Bonus – Chattisgarh & Telangana
64. 32. Tim Bergling was born on 8 September 1989.
On 20 April 2018, he was found dead in Muscat,
Oman. It was revealed on 1 May that the cause of
his death was suicide from self-inflicted injuries
from broken glass. He was buried on 8 June in his
hometown of Stockholm, Sweden. How do we
popularly / professionally know him?
66. 33. The stock image was taken in the city of Girona in Catalonia, Spain,
in mid-2015 by the photographer Antonio Guillem from Barcelona and
was later uploaded to Shutterstock.
According to a post published on the Meme Documentation Tumblr
blog, the earliest known captioned version of the photo was submitted
to a Turkish Facebook group on an unknown date. Social media users
started using the image as a meme at the start of 2017, and it went viral
in August 2017 as a way to depict different forms of infidelity.
On April 15th, 2018, it was named "Meme of the Year" at the 10th
annual Shorty Awards. What am I talking about?
70. 35. X + Y = ?
Different variations of X:
- Westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech lands in the
present-day Czech Republic
- Pakistani-American Punjabi rapper
- Cultural movement of wanderers, adventurers, or vagabonds
Different variations of Y:
- “Y in Blue", a musical composition by George Gershwin
- Marvel Comics character
- Parent company of Napster
- A work of epic poetry
72. 36. Identify X
• The International Prototype of the X, was the
internationally sanctioned artifact that defined
the metric equivalent to one X. It is kept under
three glass domes in a vault for protection.
Despite all of this security, in the 129 years
since it was forged, it seems to have lost a tiny
amount of material.
• At its 2011 meeting, the CGPM agreed in
principle that the X should be redefined in
terms of the Planck constant, h. The formal
vote, which took place on 16 November 2018
approved the change with the new definitions
coming into force on 20 May 2019. The
accepted redefinition defined the X in terms of
the second and the metre.
74. 37. All of the world’s
eyes were on the
Capella resort in
Singapore as it held
the first ever summit
of it’s kind of 12th
June, 2018. What so
special about it?
75. A. 2018 North Korea–United States summit
a.k.a Trump-Kim Jong-un meeting
78. 39. What am I talking about?
The discovery of the ambiguity phenomenon is attributed to Katie
Hetzel, a 15-year-old freshman at Flowery Branch High School, near
Atlanta, Georgia, who posted a description publicly on Instagram on
May 11, 2018. The illusion reached further popularity when the
student's friend posted it on Reddit the next day.It was picked up by
YouTuber Cloe Feldman on her Twitter account. It is an auditory illusion
of a re-recording of a vocabulary word plus added background sounds,
also mixed into the recording, which became popular in May 2018.
82. 41. Identify X
• Stanford-trained product
designers James Monsees and
Adam Bowen started a
company called PAX Labs based
out of San Francisco in 2007.
The company developed the X,
whic was later spun out as a
separate company in 2017. X
had a market share of 72% as
of September 2018 and its
widespread use by youth has
triggered multiple
investigations by the U.S. Food
and Drug Administration.
84. 42. In 2018, Ryan
Coogler was named
the runner-up of
Time's Person of
the Year. What was
his most significant
contribution to the
world in the year?
86. 43. Identify X
The country became a member of the United Nations in 1993,
but, as a result of an ongoing dispute with Greece over the
use of the name X, was admitted under the provisional
description the former Yugoslav Republic of X. The Prespa
agreement, signed by X and Greece in June 2018, will see the
country change its name to the Republic of North X.
90. 45. This is a movement against sexual harassment and was founded on January 1,
2018, by Hollywood celebrities in response to the Weinstein effect and #MeToo.
Attendees of the 2018 Grammys including Lady Gaga, Lana Del Rey, Kesha and Cyndi
Lauper wore white roses or all-black outfits to express solidarity with the this
movement. What do we know this movement as?
Clue - This is the last question of the quiz