Question set from the first meetup of Pragya - Quiz club of UEM Kolkata. The set has been prepared by Nivesh Dave, and hosted by Nivesh and myself.

3. QUESTION 1
• THIS IS ONE OF THE 2 BIGGEST RIVERS IN THE
TINY STATE OF GOA , ALONG WITH THE ZUARI.
IT EMPTIES ITSELF INTO THE ARABIAN SEA
NEAR PANAJI (PANJIM) , WHICH IS THE
CAPITAL OF GOA , WHAT IS THE NAME OF
THIS RIVER ?

4. QUESTION 2
• A MUSEUM STANDS ON A BEACH OF VIZAG ,
IT IS THE ONLY ONE OF IT’S KIND IN ASIA .
ONLY THE USA , UK AND RUSSIA HAVE SUCH
MUSEUMS . IT WAS A MOVABLE THING
BEFORE IT GOT DECOMMISIONED IN
FEBRUARY 2001 . WHAT AM I TALKING ABOUT
HERE ?

5. QUESTION 3
• NAME THE OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

6. QUESTION 4
• IN WHAT WAY THE NAMES , THE NINA ,
THE PINTA AND THE SANTA MARIA IS
ASSOCIATED WITH CHIRSTOPHER
COLUMBUS ?

7. QUESTION 5
• IDENTIFY THE MONUMENT

8. QUESTION 6
• CANADA’S NATIONAL WINTER SPORT IS
UNDERSTANDABLY , ICE HOCKEY , WHAT
IS CANADA’S NATIONAL SUMMER
SPORT?

9. QUESTION 7
• WHICH FAMOUSLY OUTSPOKEN ATHLETE SAID
:-
“I AIN’T GOT NO QUARREL WITH
THEM VietCong . NO VietCong EVER
CALLED ME A N****”

10. QUESTION 8
THE PLAYING SURFACE IN THIS SPORT CAN BE
MADE OF ANY MATERIAL AS LONG AS IT
ANSWERS TO THIS SPECIFICATION :
A STANDARD BALL DROPPED ONTO IT FROM A
HEIGHT OF 12 INCHES MUST BE REBOUND TO
A HEIGHT OF 9-10 INCHES . WHICH SPORT IS
THIS ?

11. QUESTION 9
• CITIED UNDER RULE NO. 33 OF CRICKET , THE
MOST RECENT ‘VICTIM’ OF THIS RULE WAS IN
AN ODI IN 2015 , WHEN CHAMU CHIBHABHA
WAS GIVEN OUT AGAINST AFGHANISTAN.
OTHER NOTABLE VICTIMS INCLUDE STEVE
WAUGH , MOSHIN KHAN , MICHAEL
VAUGHAN AND MOHINDER AMAMATH .
WHAT AM I TALKING ABOUT ?

12. QUESTION 10
IDENTIFY THIS LEGENDARY BOXER .

13. QUESTION 11
WHAT IS THE CAPITAL OF SAN
MARINO ?

14. QUESTION 12
IN 1513 , SPANISH EXPLORER PONCE DE
LEON , SEEKING THE MYTHICAL
“FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH” , DISCOVERED
AND NAMED WHAT ?

15. QUESTION 13
WHAT IS THE LARGEST COUNTRY IN THE
WORLD WITHOUT RIVERS ?

16. QUESTION 14
WHERE WOULD YOU FIND THE
MATHEMATICAL BRIDGE ? WHY IS IT
NAMED SO ?

17. QUESTION 15
goo.gl IS THE OFFICIAL URL SHORTNER
FROM GOOGLE . WHICH PLACE HAS THE
DOMAIN - gl?

18. QUESTION 16
X IS AN EXTRA SPECTRAL COLOUR , MEANING
THAT IT IS NOT FOUND IN THE VISIBLE
SPECTRUM OF LIGHT . RATHER IT IS
PHYSIOLOGICALLY AND PSYCHOLOGICALLY
PERCEIVED AS THE MIXTURE OF ______ AND
______ WITH THE ABSENCE OF ______ .
NAME THE COLOUR .

19. QUESTION 17
X IS A VILLAGE ON THE SWEDISH ISLAND OF
RESARO , IN VAXHOLM MUNICIPALITY IN THE
STOCKHOLM ARCHIPELAGO .
THE NAME OF THE VILLAGE MEANS “OUTER
VILLAGE”
THE VILLAGE HOLDS A SPECIFIC RECORD WITH
RESPECT TO THE PERIODIC TABLE . NAME THE
VILLAGE .

20. QUESTION 18
A DEFINING FEATURE OF LIFE IN OUTER SPACE
IS X . THE FIRST KNOWN USE OF X IS BY JACK
BLINDER IN 1938 AND HE ACTUALLY REFERS
TO THE ‘X’ STATE OF THE CENTRE OF THE
EARTH’S CORE .WHAT IS X ?

21. QUESTION 19
A PIECE OF WOOD GIFTED BY THE ROYAL
SOCIETY , WAS FLOWN TO THE
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION IN 2010 AND
THEN RETURNED BACK TO EARTH . THIS
CREATED QUITE A BUZZ AT THE TIME . WHAT
WAS THIS ALL ABOUT ?

22. QUESTION 20
IT IS DEFINED AS THE AESTHETIC EFFECT OF A
SOFT OUT OF FOCUS BACKGROUND WHEN
YOU SHOOT A SUBJECT , USING FAST LENS ,
AT THE WIDEST APRETURE . THE TERM COMES
FROM THE JAPANESE WORD ______ WHICH
MEANS BLUR . NAME IT.

23. QUESTION 21
WHICH COMPANY MADE A PARTNERSHIP
WITH RAEES (SRK MOVIE) TO MAKE AN AD
CAMPAIGN OUT OF A FAMOUS DIALOUGE
FROM THE FILM ?

24. QUESTION 22
WHO WON THE BALLON D’OR 2019 ?

25. QUESTION 23
NAME INDIA’S FIRST DEDICATED
DEFENSE SATELLITE .

26. QUESTION 24
THE US INVENTOR DOUGLAS ENGELBART ,
WHO WAS THE FATHER OF THE COMPUTER
_____ DIED ON 3RD JULY 2013 AT AGE OF 88 .
FILL IN THE BLANKS.

27. QUESTION 25
NAME THE FIRST EVER WOMAN
CHAIRMAN OF SBI .

28. QUESTION 26
WHAT IS THE MOTTO OF HOGWARTS
SCHOOL OF WITCHCRAFT AND
WIZARDARY ?

29. QUESTION 27
X IS A SUPERHERO APPEARING IN MARVEL WHO
MADE HIS DEBUT IN TALES OF SUSPENSE #39.
HE WAS CREATED BY STAN LEE AT THE HEIGHT OF
COLD WAR AND INITIALLY HE WAS ,MOSTLY A TOOL
FOR HIM TO EXPLORE COLD WAR THEMES
X WAS CREATED BY STAN LEE ON A DARE HE MADE
TO HMSELF TO MAKE THE RADERS LIKE THIS
CHARACHTER DESPITE THE CONTRADICTING
STORYLINE .
NAME X.

30. QUESTION 28
LEGENDARY ARTIST ANDY WARHOL IS CREDITED
TO HAVE MADE THE FIRST MOVIE ON X IN 1964 .
IT WAS TITLED X DRACULA . HOWEVER ANDY
HAD NOT SOUGHT OUT PERMISSION FROM THE
COMPANY TO MAKE A X MOVIE . THE FILM WAS
THOUGHT TO BE LOST BUT A 2006
DOCUMENTARY ‘JACK SMITH AND THE
DESTRUCTION OF ATLANTIS’ SHOWED A TON OF
CLIPS FROM THE MOVIE .
NAME X .

31. QUESTION 29
THIS FICTIONAL CHARACHTER’S NAME IS A
PORTMANTEAU OF TWO WORDS , THE FIRST
BEING THE SOUND OF AN ELECTRIC SPARK
AND THE SECOND BEING THE SOUND MADE
BY A MOUSE .
NAME THE CHRACTER .

32. QUESTION 30
X IS AN AMERICAN SERIES OF SHORT FILMS
CREATED IN 1940 . X HAS BEEN ACCUSED OF
FEATURING RACIAL STEREOTYPES .AFTER
EXPLOSIONS , FOR EXAMPLE CHARACTERS WITH
BLASTED FACES WOULD RESEMBLE
STEREOTYPICAL BLACKS , WITH LARGE LIPS AND
BOW-TIED HAIR. THE CHARACTER MAMMY TWO
SHOES IN THE SERIES IS A BLACK MAID AND HAS
A RODDENT ISSUE.
NAME THE SERIES X .

34. ANSWERS(1-15)
1 . THE MANDOVI RIVER ALSO KNOWN AS GOMTI
2. A SUBMARINE MUSEUM , INS KURSURA COMMISSIONED IN THE INDIAN NAVY AS ITS FOURTH
SUBMARINE ON DECMBER 18 1969
3. NONE 
4. THE NAME OF THE THREE SPANISH SHIPS GIVEN TO HIM BY QUEEN ISABELLA
5. HAWA MEHAL , JAIPUR
6. LACROSSE
7. MUHAMMAD ALI
8. TABLE TENNIS
9. HANDLING THE BALL (DISMISAL TYPE)
10 . HAWA SINGH
11. SAN MARINO
12. FLORIDA
13. SAUDI ARABIA
14. CAMBRIDGE UK , IT IS NAMED SO BECAUSE IT IS SIMPLY MADE WITH WOOD AND THE LAWS
GEOMETRY
15. GREENLAND

35. ANSWERS (16-30)
16. MAGENTA
17. YTTERBY , FOUND 4 ELEMENTS AND NAMED THEM YTTRIUM (Y) , YTTERBIUM (Yb) , ERBIUM
(Er) AND TERBIUM (Tb)
18 . ZERO GRAVITY
19 . NEWTON’S APPLE TREE
20 . BOKEH EFFECT
21 . EXIDE , “BATTERY NAI BOLNE KA , SIRF EXIDE BOLNE KA”
22 . LIONEL MESSI
23 . GSAT – 7
24 . MOUSE
25 . ARUNDHATI BHATTACHARYA
26 . “DRACO DORMIENS NUNQUAM TITILLANDUS
“NEVER TICKLE A SLEEPING DRAGON”
27. TONY STARK
28 . BATMAN
29 . PIKACHU
30 . TOM AND JERRY