Bibha Goswami Memorial Open Quiz Competition

Acclaimed as one of the
greatest novelists in English
literature Joseph Conrad’s
works includes Almayer's
Folly, An Outcast of the
Islands, Heart of Darkness, Lord
jim, The Shadow Line etc. One of
his popular book “Suspense: A
Napoleonic Novel” is set in
Genoa in early 1815.
Why this book is much peculiar?

This is the last novel of Conrad which
remained unfinished, was published
posthumously and as the name
suggests readers will always be in
suspense as the book is unfinished..

2) ______ was coined by J. B. H. Savigny,
which is a phenomenon of experiencing
seeing light, without light actually entering
the eye when we rub our close eyes. This
term is almost similar to a colorless ,
flammable and toxic gas which was shown
in Breaking Bad,used by Walter White to
attack some gangsters.
Fill the blanks..

Phosphene (and that chemical
compound is Phosphine)

In a certain book the writer transformed William
Congreve's original line “Music has charms to
soothe a savage breast” to “Music is said to
"calm a wild bosom.” and Keats' ,“A thing of
beauty is a joy forever” to “A charming thing is
a joy always”, for a special reason.
Which book and who’s the writer ?

Gadsby by Ernest Vincent Wright

This innovative graphic designer died on May
14,2014 in Manhattan. Once he described his most
famous creation as “Stark white letters torn and
seemingly pasted together against a black
background to resemble a ransom note — was
intended to illustrate typographically the homicidal
madness of the protagonist.”
What’s his famous creation?

He is Tony Palladino who designed the
typographic titles for Robert Bloch’s novel
Psycho which was later adapted by
Hitchcock.

Who will be in the
blank picture ? ?
?
?

Sania Mirza..They are her mixed doubles partner
while winning Grand Slam title.

This tweet is credited for the reveal of
what ?

J.K. Rowling is Robert Galbraith..

Once he said -“We had only one cow for the
entire family and we had to divide the milk
among five people. Sometimes my mother
would feed us peanuts with the milk. That was
our only food for the whole day.”
He was often asked by his teacher to stand
outside the class because he asked 'difficult
questions' in mathematics. He was twice
rewarded with a double promotion – from class 1
to class III and from VI to VIII.
Who’s this college dropped out scientist am I
talking about?

Shifting from analogue to digital systems or
digitization of Cable television..

Marvel created this character in honor of
Anthony Smith, a hard-of-hearing 4-year-old
comic book fan who refused to wear hearing
aids because according to him, "superheroes
don't wear hearing aids."
Name this character

 German call them Kampfwagen
 Arabians -- Dabbāba
 In Italian, it is known as “Carro Armato"
 Norway uses the term Stridsvogn
 Japanese uses the term Sensha
What is its common name ?

 After their break-up this band performed together
three times only. The first time was at X's wedding
in 1979, the second was when they were
inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame in
1993, and the third was in 2005 when they
reunited to play 4 shows.
 But now we will never have the fortune to witness
them together for what reason?

One of the members of Cream band,
Jack Bruce died yesterday..

Craig MacTavish is a former ice hockey player who
played center for 17 seasons in the National Hockey League with
the Boston Bruins, Edmonton Oilers, New York Rangers,
Philadelphia Flyers and St. Louis Blues, winning the Stanley
Cup four times.
In August 1979, then president of the National Hockey
League (NHL), John Ziegler announced something which helped
him to earn his unique claim. What was the announcement and
his claim to fame?

Wearing headgear in hockey match was
made compulsory after the
announcement and thus he became the
last NHL player to play without the
helmet..

Anant Khasbardar of Kolhapur, Maharashtra
has won the logo design contest and Bhagyasri
Sheth of Rajkot, Gujarat emerged successful in
the contest for tag line, defeating Total 1,636
people for logo and 5,168 for the tag line.
Logo and tagline of what ?

Agni, Aakash, Bijli, Jal, Lehar, Megh,
Sagar, Vayu
How can you connect these words ?

These are contributions from India to
the cyclone name

Winner of the Bronze Star Medal, Army Commendation
Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Iraq Campaign
Medal and Global War On Terrorism Service Medal, despite
using a weapon, she is Captain Pratima Dharm.
What’s her claim to fame ?

She is the first Hindu Indian priest of
the United States Army..

All the paintings are based on the
epic poem “The Faerie Queene”
by Edmund Spenser

She along her husband live with X. X’s
diet exclude sugar as it was made
through the exploitation of indentured
labourers. He was also against drinking
milk as he thought its only for
children,not suitable for adults. Being
fed up with X’s concern with what not
to eat, she told X that A man should be
judged by what came out of his mouth
not what he put in it..
Identify both of them..

Millie Polak and Mahatma Gandhi..
She kept Gandhi’s campaign in South Africa
running while Gandhi and her husband Henry
Polak was in prison..

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, master of woodblock
printing and painting drew this series of
paintings (1885–1892). How commonly this
series of painting is known as ?

One Hundred Aspects of the Moon

This brand was founded in 1902 by Chr. Bjelland
& Co. It was given special royal permission to use
X’s name and likeness on a line of sardine
products.
X ruled the United Kingdoms of Norway and
Sweden from 1872 until 1905.To this day, this
brand remains the only brand in Norway with a
“Royal Permission.”
Which brand ?

King Oscar brand named after King Oscar II

Since at least the mid-15th century
this term was the name of a very
narrow window in a fortified castle
that an archer could shoot arrows
through without exposing himself to
enemy fire. Thus, it was a small gap
in a stone wall exploited by a
warrior to gain an advantage. But
now we use this term in a different
field.
Give me the word

Loophole
(an inadequacy in a system, such as
a law or security)

X, a world famous politician freaks out in confined
spaces and is much more comfortable remaining
outdoors in a tent than checking into a hotel.
While attending a United Nations General Assembly
meeting in 2009, he tried to set up his tent in New
York city in several different locations. At last
Donald Trump offered him some land to use..Who’s
X ?

___________________ is the common name of a
proclamation endorsed by prominent German scientists,
scholars and artists, declaring their unequivocal support
of German military actions in the early period of World
War I. Some llines from this are as follows-
 It is not true that Germany is guilty of having caused this
war
 It is not true that we trespassed in neutral Belgium
And it ended with “For this we pledge you our names
and our honor”
Ernst Haeckel was one of them.
Fill in the blanks..

X was the Mongol capital during Genghis
Khan’s reigns and became known as the
empire of the steppe.
X is also a Turkic term meaning black gravel.
The name was first applied by local traders
but,the Early European travellers,
including William Moorcroft and George
Hayward, started using the
term Muztagh (meaning, "Ice Mountain") for
the range.
Give me X

“In ______ did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree :
Where ______,the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.”
This is a excerpt from the famous poem Kubla
Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Just fill in the blanks with two geographical
objects

With a dedicated indoor area of 1.76 million square
meters, what is the world’s largest building measured by
floor space ?

What is so peculiar about this film and give me
the name of a classic adventure novel with
the help of this movie title..
(Video is removed)

“Around The World” was India's first film to be
released in 70mm and the novel is Around the
World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

During World War II, In Blackett Strait Japanese
destroyers Amagiri hit and destroyed a patrol torpedo
boat PT-109 where X was also got injured. He along his
crew swam to this particular island.
Though informally it is known as Plum Pudding Island, the
correct local name is Kasolo Island. But how is it more
popular ?

The X is a New Zealand professional rugby
union team based in Dunedin that compete
in Super Rugby. The team represents the North
Otago, Otago and Southland unions. Theytake
their name from the Scottish immigrants that
helped found the Otago, North Otago,
and Southland regions in the 1840s and 1850s.
X is also a person from the Scottish mountain
range.
Why this term is circulating these days ?

North East United FC is nicknamed as
The Highlanders..

This phrase is used in many countries including
India also.
The earliest recorded use of the phrase in New
Zealand was as the title of a poem written
by Thomas Bracken titled “God Defend New
Zealand”. Later John Joseph Woods gave music to
it and was declared the country's national hymn in
1940, and made the second national anthem of
New Zealand along with God Save the Queen in
1977.
Name the phrase and the Indian state.

Psychohistory is a fictional science which
combines history, sociology,
and mathematical statistics to make general
predictions about the future behavior of very
large groups of people, such as the Galactic
Empire. It depends on the idea that, while one
cannot foresee the actions of a particular
individual, the laws of statistics as applied to
large groups of people could predict the
general flow of future events.
Who created this branch for which famous
book ?

Barry Commoner was an American biologist,
college professor, ecologist and politician. He
is known for four laws of ecology, published
in ”The Closing Circle” which are as follows –
 Everything is connected to everything else.
 Everything must go somewhere
 Nature knows best
 _____________________________
What was the last law ? (This phrase is now
used in various field)

There is no such thing as a free lunch/There ain't
no such thing as a free lunch

Despite being skilful in seven forms of Indian classical
dance - Manipuri, Bharatnatyam, Kathakali, Mohiniattam,
Sattriya Nritya, Kuchipudi and Odissi, she is most
acknowledged all over India as a pioneer in the revival
and international projection of the Mahari (Devadasi of
the Shri Jagannatha temple at Puri, Orissa) tradition of the
Odissi style. She was also the first woman to have been
taught the sacred Sattriya Nritya of Assam.
Who is she and her famous grandfather ?

Ritha devi and Lakshminath Bezbaroa

A famous event was first reported in 1757
by Giuseppe Baretti in his book “The Italian
Library” as --
“The moment he was set at liberty, he looked
up to the sky and down to the ground, and,
stamping with his foot, in a contemplative
mood, said, Eppur si muove, that is,________.”
This phrase was really spoken by him or not will
always remain a mystery though it was also
found inscribed in a painting also.
Who is he and what’s the phrase?

Galileo Galilei and the phrase was
“Yet it moves” which was a reference to
the fact that the earth will always move no
matter what is believed by us which means
simply fact is fact..

This is 433 Eros, S-type near-Earth asteroid , the second-largest
near-Earth asteroid after 1036 Ganymed. It was
discovered in 1898 and was the first near-Earth asteroid
discovered.
Craters on Eros are named after some famous lovers..
Which two Indian characters have craters named after
them ?

Hampi traditionally known as Pampa-kshetra,
Kishkinda-kshetra or Bhaskara-kshetra is
derived from Pampa, which is the old name of the X
River on whose southern banks the city is built. Over
the years, it has also been referred to as Vijayanagara
and Virupakshapura (from Virupaksha, the patron
deity of the Vijayanagara rulers). This place is
a UNESCO World Heritage Site for the the ruins
of Vijayanagara.
Just give me the current name of the Pampa river.

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