The General Quiz held at Sheiling House School, Kanpur on 8th July, 2017.
This is our first upload in a long time. Do watch it and enjoy it.
All SlideShare users are advised to download the quiz for referring to the A/V questions. Quite a few of them are present in the quiz.
QUIZCON 2023
TECHNO INDIA SALT LAKE
PRELIMS:
OPEN INDIA QUIZ: A QUIZ ON OUR MOTHER NATION, ABOUT ITS HERITAGE, GEOPOLITICS, HISTORY, ECONOMY AND CULTURE.
BY SHOUNAK BASU, AHANA SARKAR, KRISHNENDU KARMAKAR AND RITAM ROY.
The second episode of Season 7 - "The Stoopid Quiz", was conducted successfully on 25th August 2022. This was the first quiz with sophomores as quizmasters this season and hosted by the nervous duo - Sahil Agrawal & Prabhat . The quiz had 4 rounds in total, 2 of them being Pounce and Bounce, and two written rounds.
General Quiz conducted by Quiz Club IIT Jodhpur. Quiz includes questions from domains like sports, general knowledge, current affairs, technology, media and entertainment.
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.
QUIZCON 2023
TECHNO INDIA SALT LAKE
PRELIMS:
OPEN INDIA QUIZ: A QUIZ ON OUR MOTHER NATION, ABOUT ITS HERITAGE, GEOPOLITICS, HISTORY, ECONOMY AND CULTURE.
BY SHOUNAK BASU, AHANA SARKAR, KRISHNENDU KARMAKAR AND RITAM ROY.
The second episode of Season 7 - "The Stoopid Quiz", was conducted successfully on 25th August 2022. This was the first quiz with sophomores as quizmasters this season and hosted by the nervous duo - Sahil Agrawal & Prabhat . The quiz had 4 rounds in total, 2 of them being Pounce and Bounce, and two written rounds.
General Quiz conducted by Quiz Club IIT Jodhpur. Quiz includes questions from domains like sports, general knowledge, current affairs, technology, media and entertainment.
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.
Freshers' Quiz-Finals||Inductions Quiz||QM:Shreyas, Anand, Druva, Haaziq, Sav...BITS Goa Quiz Club
Not the earliest, but it's finally here!
The Fresher's Quiz 2023 ! ❤️
👪Teams of 1/2/3
🗓️Date: Today, 26th Sep
⌛Time: 6.30PM
📍Location: LT 1
Do not forget to REGISTER on the FORM given in the QR code before coming to the event!
Get pens! No pre-Reqs!
Come for a fun night of quizzing and all the best for the inductions! 🍻😎
A Quiz Club IIT Patna Quiz conducted by Rishabh and Khushi on 3rd November 2021. There was a dose of everything, be it India, History, Music or anything else! The quiz had P&B rounds, Written rounds, Long Connect and finally ended with a Special round.
Business Science and Technology Quiz conducted by Quiz Club NITW in collaboration with ECE Association NITW for Technozion '22.
Quizmaster: Aabhaas Dasgupta
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The India Quiz conducted by Quiz Club NITW on 26th of January to mark the occasion of our 75th Republic Day. There is no shortage of intriguing facts, stories and happenings when it comes to India and this quiz puts you through the same with a wide variety of questions. The above set consists of both Prelims as well as the Finals.
India Quiz by Rashmeet Kaur at Quiz Forum, AMU Quiz Club.
Rashmeet is pursuing Law at Aligarh Muslim University and is interested in India, Mythology and polity.
This Orientation Quiz was held in January 2022 and set by Shiva as part of our orientation session 2022 . The set was meticulously compiled and hosted by the QM.
Quintessence is the Quizzing Society of Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi. The society has been active for 10 years and has been actively holding Intra quiz sessions and quizzes for both school and college students in the circuit.
Sacred Games - Popular Indian Myth Quiz - 22 Jan 2024aravindanil
Sharing "Sacred Games - The Popular Indian Myth Quiz" to mark the occasion of Ayodhya Ram Mandir's inauguration today.
This is a short fun quiz - with a good mix of questions from different popular cultures - Movies, Music, Literature, Sports, etc... Take a look!
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).
Freshers' Quiz-Finals||Inductions Quiz||QM:Shreyas, Anand, Druva, Haaziq, Sav...BITS Goa Quiz Club
Not the earliest, but it's finally here!
The Fresher's Quiz 2023 ! ❤️
👪Teams of 1/2/3
🗓️Date: Today, 26th Sep
⌛Time: 6.30PM
📍Location: LT 1
Do not forget to REGISTER on the FORM given in the QR code before coming to the event!
Get pens! No pre-Reqs!
Come for a fun night of quizzing and all the best for the inductions! 🍻😎
A Quiz Club IIT Patna Quiz conducted by Rishabh and Khushi on 3rd November 2021. There was a dose of everything, be it India, History, Music or anything else! The quiz had P&B rounds, Written rounds, Long Connect and finally ended with a Special round.
Business Science and Technology Quiz conducted by Quiz Club NITW in collaboration with ECE Association NITW for Technozion '22.
Quizmaster: Aabhaas Dasgupta
India Quiz-26th January 2024, Quiz Club NITWQuiz Club NITW
The India Quiz conducted by Quiz Club NITW on 26th of January to mark the occasion of our 75th Republic Day. There is no shortage of intriguing facts, stories and happenings when it comes to India and this quiz puts you through the same with a wide variety of questions. The above set consists of both Prelims as well as the Finals.
India Quiz by Rashmeet Kaur at Quiz Forum, AMU Quiz Club.
Rashmeet is pursuing Law at Aligarh Muslim University and is interested in India, Mythology and polity.
This Orientation Quiz was held in January 2022 and set by Shiva as part of our orientation session 2022 . The set was meticulously compiled and hosted by the QM.
Quintessence is the Quizzing Society of Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi. The society has been active for 10 years and has been actively holding Intra quiz sessions and quizzes for both school and college students in the circuit.
Sacred Games - Popular Indian Myth Quiz - 22 Jan 2024aravindanil
Sharing "Sacred Games - The Popular Indian Myth Quiz" to mark the occasion of Ayodhya Ram Mandir's inauguration today.
This is a short fun quiz - with a good mix of questions from different popular cultures - Movies, Music, Literature, Sports, etc... Take a look!
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).
Conducted on the sixth of March 2018 for OSA Student Chapter, the Northcap University, Gurugram. This was one of the first quizzes of this pattern to be conducted in the university, so the questions have been kept relatively simple and lots of hints were given.
NOTE: Please give due credit if you are re-using any of the questions
Here are my slides of the General Quiz for lone-wolves at Reverberate Quiz Festival 12th season at Government Medical College, Kozhikode. This quiz festival went on to receive the biggest quiz festival title in the world.
Hope you enjoy the set!
Special congrats to the winners:
1st: Midhun V Zachariah
2nd: Shameem Abdulkhader
3rd: Bindu Ambat
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Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
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2. RULES
(BECAUSE WE NEED THEM)
• Quizmasters are not Gods. But they are your seniors. So, it is
your moral duty to obey them.
• There are 30 questions in all. No tie-breakers because we wont
need them.
• Don’t get tensed up with the questions. All are workable
enough.
• There is no typo in the quiz. Neither is there any negative
marking.
• All illogical answers are acceptable. Just no counter-questions.
• Everything on a slide is there for a reason. Be observant enough.
• Due to lack of time, no extra time will be allotted. Max. 20
seconds per question. We shall breeze through them again in
the end.
3. Q1. FOR STARTERS
• He grew up in Maharashtra’s Talegaon Rohi, a village that is
perennially drought prone. His father, a well digger, died in
2011 and that was when he decided to earn a stable living. In
December 2011, he went for Army’s open recruitment drive and
breezed through all the physical tests. During his stint in the
army, someone told him about the sport. His initial interest in
the sport was solely driven by cash prizes he could send home
to help his ailing mother. He was very much in news in the
recent Olympics. Name him
4. Q2. PADHARO MHARE DESH!
• While this small town is known for its sarees, handicrafts and a
lot of other things locally, the rest of India calls it the ________
capital. The roots of this phenomenon trace their origin back to
a certain V.K. Bansal. He was then an employee of JK Synthetics
who lived in the JK housing colony. In 1981, he discovered that
he was suffering from muscular dystrophy. As a degenerative
disease, it would eventually leave him unfit for his job. And rest
as they say is history. Which city is this, which transformed
completely due to this gentleman?
5. Q3. PREITY REDUNDANT?
HUH!
• Actress Preity Zinta along with Ex Special Forces Australia agent
Anthony Moorhouse recently launched her women's safety
service. This service provides emergency response at the press
of a button. Name this service that might remind you of
something that used to keep Karna safe.
6. Q4. YOU WATCHED
TAKESHI’S CASTLE, EH?
• This image is from a Dorkly post compiling deviant art
picturisations of popular characters as Samurais.
What character(s) are depicted here?
7. Q5. BOOKWORMS
• "The Seige: 68 hours inside ___ ___ ____" is a book by Adrian Levy
and Cathy Scott-Clark published in Oct 2013 and the winner of
CWA Nonfiction Dagger Award. The book talks about this
tragedy that rocked the nation during which hundreds were
held hostage as shots rang out and an enormous fire raged. The
final count declared that thirty-one people were dead and
numerous injured. The book specifically lauds the courageous
actions of individuals like Mallika Jagad, Bob Nichols, and Binny
Kang. FITB with the name of this architectural marvel which was
designed by an Indian architect, Sitaram Khanderao Vaidya and
completed in 1903.
9. Q7. YE TERA MANN, YE MERA
MANN!
• First aired on October 3rd, 2014 which programme has become
a major sourece of revenue for AIR? While the usual ad slots
sold for Rs 500 per 10 seconds, a 10 second ad slot for this
programme cost Rs 2 lakh. Which programme or broadcast?
10. Q8. PRABHU JI, RAKSHA
KARNA!
• This railway station is situated in the Raigad District of
Maharashtra between the railway stations Rasayani and Jite. The
station is amidst hills and greenery which makes it visually
attractive and it is situated in a curve which makes it possible to
look at the whole train. What is its claim to fame?
11. Q9. CONNECT EM’ ALL!
• what connection do the following celebrities have in
common: Osama Bin Laden, Whitney Houston, Paul
Walker, Muammar Gaddafi, Steve Jobs, Robin
Richard Attenborough?
12. Q10. #GUESS_IT
• Reportedly a jocular coinage by a Bell Labs supervisor in the
early 1960s, from octo-(“eight”), with reference to its eight
points, + -thorpe (after 1912 Olympic medallist Jim Thorpe). In
cartography, the octothorpe is a traditional symbol for village:
eight fields around a central square. What is an octothorpe
commonly known as?
13. Q11. TOTAL KANPURIYA!
• The story began in 1936 when Ratanlal Jain tried to make
something at his home in Kanpur. A home-counter was also set
up by his family members for selling purpose. 30 years later, a
company named Ashok & Co. was established by Praksh Chand
Jain. The flagship brand of this company attracted worldwide
attention last year and made many of it’s connoisseurs
‘‘shaken’’. Identify the brand
14. Q12. WORLD AT ARMS
• X became famous for being the site of a left-wing poor peasants
uprising in 1967, which began with the "land to tiller" slogan, an
uprising continuing to this day
• The “X" incident was triggered on 25 May 1967 at Bengai Jote
village in X when the police opened fire on a group of villagers who
were demanding their right to the crops at a particular piece of
land. The firing killed 9 adults and 2 unknown children.
• The CPI(ML) have put up busts of Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Charu
Majumderon that piece of land. The spot has Bengai Jote Primary
School next to it. There is a memorial column erected that has the
names of the people who died during the police firing.
16. Q14. CAN YOU GUESS THIS?
• “You See The Whole Country Of The System
Is Juxtaposition By The Haemoglobin In The Atmosphere
Because You Are Sophisticated Rhetorician
Intoxicated By The Exuberance Of Your Own Publicity”
• Where have we all heard these words? Who is the famous
speaker?
17. Q15. KITKAT BREAK BANTA
HAI!
• This Oddly shaped Kitkat meme was posted in Early November
in 2016 in response with something similar and iconic ,
changing its shape to something which this spaced out bar of
Kitkat is trying to portray.
• Parody of what?
18. Q16. GONE TRIPPIN’
• X WAS FOUNDED BY AN ALUMNUS OF IIMA. IT WAS
LAUNCHED IN THE US MARKET IN 2000 TO CATER TO THE
OVERSEAS INDIAN COMMUNITY FOR THEIR US-TO-INDIA
TRAVEL NEEDS. IDENTIFY X.
19. Q17. WE JUST CAN’T LEAVE
SCIENCE!
X is often considered the "Father of India's nuclear program”.
Saddam Hussain invited the scientist X to his office and told him:
"You have done enough for your country; don't go back. Stay
here and take over our nuclear programme. I will pay you
whatever you want." X was shocked and scared by the Iraqi
proposal. He reportedly could not sleep that night, worried that
he might never see his homeland again. He took the next flight
out.
ID X
20. Q18. JUST BEING REBELS
• After Operation Blue Star in Punjab , the final examinations of
Punjab Univesity were postponed. Irshad Kamil led a group of
students demanding a month's notice as preparation. He made
banners saying, "_______ _______" and went about raising this
slogan. He used these lines in a bollywood film.
21. Q19. THE WORLD OF
BAAHUBALI AND RAJAMOULI
X Research Foundation(KaReFo) aims
To spread awareness and inculcate among individuals and
institutions, a passion for research in language computing.
To function as a resource centre for training, research,
and consultancy, in the field of language computing and language
literacy
To invent and design new modes of imparting language education
and to enhance existing modes of language education.
ID the founder of KaReFo known for popularising Lyrical Engineering
in recent times.
(Points also for guessing the use in either of the two Baahubali
movies.)
22. Q20. PRABHU JI HI BACHA
PAAYENGE TUMKO BACCHA
Non-exhaustive list of what?
Cheetah
Garuda
Nav Shakti
Pushpak
Pawanhans
Kirtimaan
Sukanya
Indraprastha
Deshbandhu
23. Q21. POORA LAGAAN
WASOOLNA PADEGA
Benson, Flynn, Wesson, North, Yardley, Russell, Harrison, Brooks,
Willis, Burton, and Smith made up the opposing XI.
Who captained the representative Indian side?
27. Q25. THE BEAUTIFUL GAME
• This version of a popular sport started in Uruguay in 1930. In
Brazil, this version developed on the streets of São Paulo, and,
eventually, a rule book was published.
• The sport began to spread across South America, and its
popularity ensured that a governing body was formed under
the name of FIFUSA in 1971, along with the World
Championships.
• The first World Championships were held in Río de Janeiro,
with hosts Brazil crowned champions ahead of Paraguay.
Which version ?
28. Q26. BEING RELIGIOUS
• Govinda’s is a chain of pure vegetarian restaurants, found in
different cities around the world, offering a variety of cuisines
such as Indian, Italian, Mexican, Chinese and Thai. Which
International owns this chain?
29. Q27. THE GREAT RED
• Back in 2013, This company launched an ad campaign by
launching 61 URLs commencing with "ahh.com" and
culminating with an epic
"ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
hhhhhhhhhhhh.com." Each site was a variation of “ahh,” ranging
from two Hs all the way to sixty Hs in the URL. All of the sites
had a series of videos, games, and nightmare fuel that
populated a series of websites that could all be traced back to
ahh.com. It’s called the “Ahh Effect” campaign. This campaign
was mainly targeted towards teens who the company hoped to
engage and was considered a success after reaching 4 million
hits.
• Whose Ad Campaign was this
31. Q29. MAIN HOON DON!
• Australia is the only team, and Bradman the only captain, to win a five-match test
series after losing the first two Tests which happened during the 1936-1937 Ashes.
In the third test of the series which is known for Bradman’s 270 (375), a
performance that Wisden rated in 2001 as the best Test match innings of all time. ,
Australia who were 2-0 down started off bad despite playing on a batting
conducive pitch. On Day 2 due to heavy rains the pitch turned very sticky and
damp favouring bowling so Bradman declared so as to get England to bat. England
too declared early on the same after conceding a lead.
However, Bradman came up with a unique solution to counter England’s early
declaration and to tackle the damp pitch which was a major success.
What solution did Bradman come up with?
34. Q1. FOR STARTERS
• He grew up in Maharashtra’s Talegaon Rohi, a village that is
perennially drought prone. His father, a well digger, died in
2011 and that was when he decided to earn a stable living. In
December 2011, he went for Army’s open recruitment drive and
breezed through all the physical tests. During his stint in the
army, someone told him about the sport. His initial interest in
the sport was solely driven by cash prizes he could send home
to help his ailing mother. He was very much in news in the
recent Olympics. Name him
36. Q2. YOU WON’T BELIEVE IT!
• While this small town is known for its sarees, handicrafts and a
lot of other things locally, the rest of India calls it the ________
capital. The roots of this phenomenon trace their origin back to
a certain V.K. Bansal. He was then an employee of JK Synthetics
who lived in the JK housing colony. In 1981, he discovered that
he was suffering from muscular dystrophy. As a degenerative
disease, it would eventually leave him unfit for his job. And rest
as they say is history. Which city is this, which transformed
completely due to this gentleman?
38. Q3. PREITY REDUNDANT?
HUH!
• Actress Preity Zinta along with Ex Special Forces Australia agent
Anthony Moorhouse recently launched her women's safety
service. This service provides emergency response at the press
of a button. Name this service that might remind you of
something that used to keep Karna safe.
40. Q4. YOU WATCHED
TAKESHI’S CASTLE, EH?
• This image is from a Dorkly post compiling deviant art
picturisations of popular characters as Samurais.
What character(s) are depicted here?
42. Q5. BOOKWORMS
• "The Seige: 68 hours inside ___ ___ ____" is a book by Adrian Levy
and Cathy Scott-Clark published in Oct 2013 and the winner of
CWA Nonfiction Dagger Award. The book talks about this
tragedy that rocked the nation during which hundreds were
held hostage as shots rang out and an enormous fire raged. The
final count declared that thirty-one people were dead and
numerous injured. The book specifically lauds the courageous
actions of individuals like Mallika Jagad, Bob Nichols, and Binny
Kang. FITB with the name of this architectural marvel which was
designed by an Indian architect, Sitaram Khanderao Vaidya and
completed in 1903.
45. • Harry , Hermione and Ron from Harry Potter and the cursed
child
46. Q7. YE TERA MANN, YE MERA
MANN!
• First aired on October 3rd, 2014 which programme has become
a major sourece of revenue for AIR? While the usual ad slots
sold for Rs 500 per 10 seconds, a 10 second ad slot for this
programme cost Rs 2 lakh. Which programme or broadcast?
48. Q8. PRABHU JI, RAKSHA
KARNA!
• This railway station is situated in the Raigad District of
Maharashtra between the railway stations Rasayani and Jite. The
station is amidst hills and greenery which makes it visually
attractive and it is situated in a curve which makes it possible to
look at the whole train. What is its claim to fame?
50. Q9. CONNECT EM’ ALL!
• what connection do the following celebrities have in
common: Osama Bin Laden, Whitney Houston, Paul
Walker, Muammar Gaddafi, Steve Jobs, Robin
Richard Attenborough?
52. Q10. #GUESS_IT
• Reportedly a jocular coinage by a Bell Labs supervisor in the
early 1960s, from octo-(“eight”), with reference to its eight
points, + -thorpe (after 1912 Olympic medallist Jim Thorpe). In
cartography, the octothorpe is a traditional symbol for village:
eight fields around a central square. What is an octothorpe
commonly known as?
54. Q11. TOTAL KANPURIYA!
• The story began in 1936 when Ratanlal Jain tried to make
something at his home in Kanpur. A home-counter was also set
up by his family members for selling purpose. 30 years later, a
company named Ashok & Co. was established by Praksh Chand
Jain. The flagship brand of this company attracted worldwide
attention last year and made many of it’s connoisseurs
‘‘shaken’’. Identify the brand
56. Q12. WORLD AT ARMS
• X became famous for being the site of a left-wing poor peasants
uprising in 1967, which began with the "land to tiller" slogan, an
uprising continuing to this day
• The “X" incident was triggered on 25 May 1967 at Bengai Jote
village in X when the police opened fire on a group of villagers who
were demanding their right to the crops at a particular piece of
land. The firing killed 9 adults and 2 unknown children.
• The CPI(ML) have put up busts of Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Charu
Majumderon that piece of land. The spot has Bengai Jote Primary
School next to it. There is a memorial column erected that has the
names of the people who died during the police firing.
60. Q14. CAN YOU GUESS THIS?
• “You See The Whole Country Of The System
Is Juxtaposition By The Haemoglobin In The Atmosphere
Because You Are Sophisticated Rhetorician
Intoxicated By The Exuberance Of Your Own Publicity”
• Where have we all heard these words? Who is the famous
speaker?
63. Q15. KITKAT BREAK BANTA
HAI!
• This Oddly shaped Kitkat meme was posted in Early November
in 2016 in response with something similar and iconic ,
changing its shape to something which this spaced out bar of
Kitkat is trying to portray.
• Parody of what?
65. Q16. GONE TRIPPIN’
• X WAS FOUNDED BY AN ALUMNUS OF IIMA. IT WAS
LAUNCHED IN THE US MARKET IN 2000 TO CATER TO THE
OVERSEAS INDIAN COMMUNITY FOR THEIR US-TO-INDIA
TRAVEL NEEDS. IDENTIFY X.
67. Q17. WE JUST CAN’T LEAVE
SCIENCE!
X is often considered the "Father of India's nuclear program”.
Saddam Hussain invited the scientist X to his office and told him:
"You have done enough for your country; don't go back. Stay
here and take over our nuclear programme. I will pay you
whatever you want." X was shocked and scared by the Iraqi
proposal. He reportedly could not sleep that night, worried that
he might never see his homeland again. He took the next flight
out.
ID X
69. Q18. JUST BEING REBELS
• After Operation Blue Star in Punjab , the final examinations of
Punjab Univesity were postponed. Irshad Kamil led a group of
students demanding a month's notice as preparation. He made
banners saying, "_______ _______" and went about raising this
slogan. He used these lines in a bollywood film.
71. Q19. THE WORLD OF
BAAHUBALI AND RAJAMOULI
X Research Foundation(KaReFo) aims
To spread awareness and inculcate among individuals and
institutions, a passion for research in language computing.
To function as a resource centre for training, research,
and consultancy, in the field of language computing and language
literacy
To invent and design new modes of imparting language education
and to enhance existing modes of language education.
ID the founder of KaReFo known for popularising Lyrical Engineering
in recent times.
(Points also for guessing the use in either of the two Baahubali
movies.)
73. Q20. PRABHU JI HI BACHA
PAAYENGE TUMKO BACCHA
Non-exhaustive list of what?
Cheetah
Garuda
Nav Shakti
Pushpak
Pawanhans
Kirtimaan
Sukanya
Indraprastha
Deshbandhu
75. Q21. POORA LAGAAN
WASOOLNA PADEGA
Benson, Flynn, Wesson, North, Yardley, Russell, Harrison, Brooks,
Willis, Burton, and Smith made up the opposing XI.
Who captained the representative Indian side?
83. Q25. THE BEAUTIFUL GAME
• This version of a popular sport started in Uruguay in 1930. In
Brazil, this version developed on the streets of São Paulo, and,
eventually, a rule book was published.
• The sport began to spread across South America, and its
popularity ensured that a governing body was formed under
the name of FIFUSA in 1971, along with the World
Championships.
• The first World Championships were held in Río de Janeiro,
with hosts Brazil crowned champions ahead of Paraguay.
Which version ?
85. Q26. BEING RELIGIOUS
• Govinda’s is a chain of pure vegetarian restaurants, found in
different cities around the world, offering a variety of cuisines
such as Indian, Italian, Mexican, Chinese and Thai. Which
International owns this chain?
87. Q27. THE GREAT RED
• Back in 2013, This company launched an ad campaign by
launching 61 URLs commencing with "ahh.com" and
culminating with an epic
"ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
hhhhhhhhhhhh.com." Each site was a variation of “ahh,” ranging
from two Hs all the way to sixty Hs in the URL. All of the sites
had a series of videos, games, and nightmare fuel that
populated a series of websites that could all be traced back to
ahh.com. It’s called the “Ahh Effect” campaign. This campaign
was mainly targeted towards teens who the company hoped to
engage and was considered a success after reaching 4 million
hits.
• Whose Ad Campaign was this
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Playboy Magazine
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• Australia is the only team, and Bradman the only captain, to win a five-match test
series after losing the first two Tests which happened during the 1936-1937 Ashes.
In the third test of the series which is known for Bradman’s 270 (375), a
performance that Wisden rated in 2001 as the best Test match innings of all time. ,
Australia who were 2-0 down started off bad despite playing on a batting
conducive pitch. On Day 2 due to heavy rains the pitch turned very sticky and
damp favouring bowling so Bradman declared so as to get England to bat. England
too declared early on the same after conceding a lead.
However, Bradman came up with a unique solution to counter England’s early
declaration and to tackle the damp pitch which was a major success.
What solution did Bradman come up with?