1. A writer named X will make his film debut in an upcoming Vishal Bhardwaj film based on one of X's short stories. X previously collaborated with Bhardwaj on a film based on one of X's stories.
2. In 1791, a Dublin theater owner introduced a made-up word into common usage within 24 hours by hiring street urchins to write it on walls around Dublin.
3. South Sudan was chosen as the name for the new country that was being formed from Sudan.
The MASALA Quiz (Finals)- NSIT Quiz Fest 2015nsitqc
The MASALA (Movies, Sitcoms, Literature) Quiz (Finals) at the NSIT Quiz Fest 2015, conducted by the NSIT Quiz Club from 20th-22nd March. See the videos and audios for the questions here- http://goo.gl/Cv1yzP
The MASALA Quiz (Finals)- NSIT Quiz Fest 2015nsitqc
The MASALA (Movies, Sitcoms, Literature) Quiz (Finals) at the NSIT Quiz Fest 2015, conducted by the NSIT Quiz Club from 20th-22nd March. See the videos and audios for the questions here- http://goo.gl/Cv1yzP
Finals from Abhimanyu, an inter-college Freshers Quiz, organised by the NSIT Quiz Club on October 15th 2013.
Comprised of 4 Rounds, based on Dante Alighieri Divine Comedy- The Forest, Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso- with scoring system based on the nature of the round.
LnD QuizSoc Meet 2 on 28/2/16, General Quiz conducted by LnD.
Disclaimer: All questions are original. Any resemblance whatsoever to other questions of similar kind is purely coincidental.
This quiz was held on 13th November 2021 as day event of Conoscenza, the annual quizzing fest of Quintessence. This Gen Quiz was hosted by Aishani &Nitesh. The set was meticulously prepared by the team of Conoscenza.
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.
Finals from Abhimanyu, an inter-college Freshers Quiz, organised by the NSIT Quiz Club on October 15th 2013.
Comprised of 4 Rounds, based on Dante Alighieri Divine Comedy- The Forest, Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso- with scoring system based on the nature of the round.
LnD QuizSoc Meet 2 on 28/2/16, General Quiz conducted by LnD.
Disclaimer: All questions are original. Any resemblance whatsoever to other questions of similar kind is purely coincidental.
This quiz was held on 13th November 2021 as day event of Conoscenza, the annual quizzing fest of Quintessence. This Gen Quiz was hosted by Aishani &Nitesh. The set was meticulously prepared by the team of Conoscenza.
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.
THE MAINS OF THE INDEPENDENCE DAY QUIZ WAS HELD ON THE 15TH DAY OF AUGUST, 2015.
TOP 8 TEAMS FROM THE PRELIMS TOOK PART IN THE MAINS.
ROUND 1 - CHAK DE! INDIA
(PLACE : TOWN CENTRE, JIAGANJ, MURSHIDABAD, W.B.)
The preliminary round of Qriosity - the general quiz for college students held as part Silhouettes 2016 at the Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, prepared and presented by Anmol Dhawan & Pranjal Gupta.
2. 1 .X,a writer ,will make his maiden foray on the big screen with a cameo in VishalBhardwaj's forthcoming film “Y", based on his short story.X had earlier collaborated with him in the 'The Blue Umbrella (film)' which was also based on X’s story. The story was recommended to VishalBhardwaj by his wife. ID X
4. 2 .In 1791 a Dublin theater owner named James Daly made a bet that he could introduce a word into the language within twenty-four hours. He then went out and hired a group of street urchins to write the word ____, which was a nonsense word, on walls around the city of Dublin. Within a day, the word was common currency and had acquired a meaning (since no one knew what it meant, everyone thought it was some sort of test) and Daly had some extra cash in his pocket.
8. 3 . The Republic of Kush, the Nile Republic, Azania, Equatoria,Wunjubacel, and even Juwama - an acronym for Juba, Wau and Malakal were proposed as its name.But what was chosen finally?
12. *4. Artist and scholars believe that the X painting style to have originated sometime during the tenth century AD. its known for its simple yet vivid expression in form and figures .They are named after the ancient tribes who settled at the foot of Western Ghat range in Maharashtra.These tribal people, who survive on forest produce and worship nature, have carved an international niche for themselves by virtue of their artistry. What originated as a domestic ritual of ceremonial beautification is now revered as a folk art of immense value. identify X
14. 5. In case you desire to rejoice in the blossoms of early years, the fruits of age advanced In case you want to have something that charms, something that is enchanting In case you want to call both heaven and earth by a common name I refer you to the ________, and thus I describe these all“ –Johann von Goethe. Italian Franco Alfano also composed an opera, named La leggenda di ________. Norwegian musician Amethystium wrote a song called "Garden of _________.” Which Indian work?
16. 6. About what logo did its designer Peter Scott, remark: 'We wanted an animal that is beautiful and one loved by many people in this world for its appealing qualities. We also wanted an animal that had impact with black and white printing to save money on printing costs ?
20. 8.In a laboratory at University of Cambridge, the coffee pot (see the pic) was located in one of the rooms, to which people working in the lab used to come to have a sip. But very often the trips to the coffee pot used to become useless, as it was found to be empty. This problem was solved by the invention of a new technology. Guess!!!
23. 9. The term was first used by Joseph Goebbels, in a manifesto published in the German newspaper Das Reich in Feb 1945, but gained public notoriety in Winston Churchill’s “Sinews of Peace” speech. “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic _____________has descended across the Continent”
25. 10. This is a description from HowStuffWorks.com: A piston fires. The next piston fires at 315°. There is a 405° gap. A piston fires. The next piston fires at 315°. There is a 405° gap. And the cycle continues.
27. 11.Where would you have found Buck coming back from Hawaii, Caitlin Roran throwing a surprise party, Susan planning to have sushi and Nathan Wood barbeque on Saturday?
29. 12.This product was supposedly made at the behest of the Nazis when the ingredients for the actual product were scarce during wartime. It was named so when the company employees were asked to think of a name and they led their imagination run wild.
31. *13.He was born into an aristocratic family in Lithuania in 1933 and was orphaned, along with his little sister Mischa, in 1944 when invading German and Soviet forces storm the family estate. Shortly thereafter, they were captured by a band of Nazi deserters. Which fictional villain am I talking about?
33. 14. 11th-century Hoysala king Veeraballa while on a hunting expedition, lost his way in the forest. Tired and hungry, he came across a poor old woman who served him boiled beans. The grateful king named the place something literally meaning the town of boiled bean which has eventually led to its current name. Identify
36. 15.It had its origin in India and was called Mokshapat. Believed to be created by the 13th century poet saint Gyandev, it was used to reperesent virtues and vices, to teach Hinduism and Hindu values to children. Virtues: In the original game 12 th position was faith, 51 was Reliability, 57 was Generosity, 76 was Knowledge, and 78 was Asceticism Vices 41 st position was for Disobedience, 44 for Arrogance, 49 for Vulgarity, 52 for Theft, 58 for Lying, 62 for Drunkenness, 69 for Debt, 84 for Anger, 92 for Greed, 95 for Pride, 73 for Murder The last position represented Nirvana or Moksha. What?
38. 16.The very earliest known examples of the graphic are attributed to Harvey Ball, a commercial artist in Massachusetts. He devised the face in 1963 for an insurance firm that wanted an internal campaign to improve employee morale. Ball never attempted to use, promote or trademark the image; it fell into the public domain in the United States before that could be accomplished. As a result, Ball never made any profit for the iconic image beyond his initial $45 fee.The figure has become iconic throughout the world. Which figure?
40. 17.The Swedish newspaper Afton Dagbladet carried this picture of Kristin Enmark and Birgitta Lundblad in 2003 to mark the 30 th anniversary of the June 1973 event that made them sort of famous. What are we talking about?
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43. 18. Which famous location in Mumbai is named after Khurshed Framji ______ , also known as Veer ______, a Parsi member of Indian National Congress, who was famous for his proposal to reclaim the land from the sea in the year 1940? One time mayor of Bombay, he complained of a communalist bias to the party high command, after being passed over for the post of Chief Ministership of Bombay Presidency. He was later expelled from the Congress party due to his vociferous but unsubstantiated charges.
47. *20. X used ancient Sanskrit terminology in his descriptions of natural phenomena. As early as 1891 X described the universe as a kinetic system filled with energy which could be harnessed at any location. His concepts during the following years were greatly influenced by the teachings of Y . After meeting Y and after continued study of the Eastern view of the mechanisms driving the material world, X began using the Sanskrit words Akasha, Prana, and the concept of a luminiferous ether to describe the source, existence and construction of matter.
51. 22. Google founder Sergey Brin wrote on his blog: "Today, whenever you use a piece of technology, there is a good chance a little bit of X is behind it." As Google emerged from Stanford, Brin wrote: “X remained a friend and advisor as he has with many people and startups since. Of all the faculty at Stanford, it is with X that I have stayed the closest and I will miss him dearly. Yet his legacy and personality lives on in the students, projects, and companies he has touched."
53. 23.The ____ ___ ____ _______ phenomenon was first considered by Aristotle. It appeared in non-academic literature for the first time in Anton Chekhov’s short story, “A horsey name”. According to scientific research, most of us experience the phenomenon for the first time around the age of 6. It then becomes a weekly occurrence but the frequency increases with age. The two competing theories to explain this phenomenon are the blocking hypothesis and the incomplete activation hypothesis. What?
55. 2 4. X is an American businessman and is the president and chief executive officer of First Allied Corporation, a holding company for his varied business interests, most notably in the food processing industry. He holds controlling stakes in Y, and owns the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, a National Football League team in Tampa, Florida, United States. He is more famous for his ownership of Y.
57. 25. “X” claimed that he would signal “Y" that he desired a meeting by placing a flowerpot with a red flag on the balcony of his apartment. When “Y” wanted a meeting he would make special marks on page twenty of X's copy of The New York Times; he would circle the page number and draw clock hands to indicate the hour. They often met "on the bottom level of an underground garage just over the Key Bridge in Rosslyn," at 2:00 a.m. The garage is located at 1401 Wilson Boulevard…Identify “X” and “Y”
59. 26.X was an was an English polymath -an outstanding sportsman, politician, diplomat, academic, teacher, writer, editor and publisher.His achievements on the sporting field included representing England at both cricket and football, an FA Cup Final appearance for Southampton F.C. and equalling the then world record for long jump. He also reputedly turned down the throne of Albania
61. *27. The notorius Burma-Siam railway built by Commonwealth,Dutch and American prisoners of war was a japanese project driven by the need for improved communications to support the large Japanese army in Burma.An estimated 13000 PWs and 80000 to 100,000 civilians died in the course of the project , chiefly forced labour brought from malaya and Dutch East indies, conscripted in Siam and Burma. What is this famous section of Burman railways?