Every year, TMC Quiz Club organizes a Freshers' Quiz to introduce the fun world of Quizzing to the new batch of students. This is the prelims round of the Freshers' Quiz which was set by George Zacharia . College: Government Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram Check out my Youtube Channel : Super Medico - https://www.youtube.com/c/supermedico

1. ALPINE SKI HOUSE
Freshers
2018
QUIZ
SFI
Medical College
Unit, Trivandrum
Hosted by,
Gayathri S Iyer (Finals)
George Zacharia (Prelims)
Prelims

2. PRELIMS
QUESTIONS SET BY , GEORGE
ZACHARIA

5. Q1) (TRIANTA)
• The youngest winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine
and Physiology, Sir Frederick Grant Banting died
from injuries following an air crash near
Newfoundland in 1941. What was his contribution ,
which helps millions globally?

6. ANSWER
•Insulin

7. Q2) (TRIANTA)
•What is the name of Twitter’s Blue
Bird Mascot?

8. ANSWER
•Larry

9. QUESTION 3
• It has visited over 20 countries across the world and the
members run 600 million kilometers per day. Their speed is
about 99km/hr which is twice that of Ussain Bolt’s speed.
The leader is Jake. He was caught in the act of applying
graffiti to a metro railway site.
• What am I talking about?
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10. ANSWER •Subway Surfers
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11. QUESTION 4
• When the song X was released, it
was found to have same lyrical
rhythm as of “No Scrubs” song,
released by “TLC” in 2014.
• As a result of this finding, the the
composers of "No Scrubs", Kandi
Burruss, Tameka "Tiny" Cottle, and
Kevin "She'kspere" Briggs, were
awarded co-writing credits in X.
• Identify the song X.
• (Listen to “No Scrubs” on the next
slide)

14. ANSWER
• Shape
of You

15. QUESTION 5
• The film, "Chalo Jeete Hein" was about a boy, called X, in
post-independence Vadnagar, who gets impressed by a
book by Swami Vivekanand that said those live who wish to
serve others. The boy, the film suggested, was destined to
serve the nation.
This movie was screened for the president and also soon
for the Parliament and the World premiere on Star Network
on July 29th 2018.
Whose life is this film loosely based on?

17. ANSWER
• Narendra Modi

18. QUESTION 6
•Where can you find this devil?

19. ANSWER
• Manchester United Logo

20. QUESTION 7
• When a poster of
an Indian film was
released in 2015,
critics claimed it to
be copied citing
this poster of
1998 American
Movie, “Simon
Birch”. Identify
the Indian Movie.

21. ANSWER
•Bahubali: The
beginning
•(Points for
Bahubali also)

22. QUESTION 8
• In the final scene of Avengers, Iron Man tells about a
Food Item and suggests if everybody can go and try it
at a joint.
• Identify this famous food item.

23. ANSWER •Shawarma

24. QUESTION 9*
• Indian Goulash
• Boiled Lentils
• Tamarind Soup
• Ash gourd and red beans in coconut milk
• Pumpkin and red beans in grated coconut gravy
• Pasta pudding
• Okra in spicy yoghurt sauce
• Connect

25. ANSWER •Sadhya

26. QUESTION 10*
•Where will you find this world
famous design?

27. ANSWER
•Oreo• The circle topped with a two-bar cross in which the
word “OREO” resides is a variant of the Nabisco
logo, and is either “an early European symbol for
quality” or a Cross of Lorraine, as carried by the
Knights Templar into the Crusades. The Oreo’s a
dot with four triangles radiating outward either
resumbles a four-leaf-clover or the cross pattée,
also associated with the Knights Templar, as well
as with the German military and today’s
Freemasons.
•

28. QUESTION 11*
•What is this conch/
shanku/shell called?
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29. ANSWER
•Sree Padmanabha’s
Shanku

30. QUESTION 12*
• 1) The topographical layout and the architectural designs were
prepared by J.A. Ritchie from Bombay.
• 2) It was inaugurated in 1951. During the Asian flu pandemic in
1950s it emerged as the principal institute in isolation and
surveillance of the virus.
• 3) The second Chancellor of this institute was Dr. Axel J Hojer, was
a Swedish physician from Karolinska Institute and the Director
General of Swedish Medical Board
• 4) The founder of the college, was a microbiologist and did his
MBBS from Madras Medical College. The Auditorium in this
institute is named after him.
Identify this Indian Institution

31. ANSWER
• Trivandrum Medical College

32. QUESTION 13**
• Airports normally run 24/7 round the year. But there is one airport in
the whole world that closes for about 5 hours twice every year for an
event, in what they say, where “Modernity meets Tradition”.
A NOTAM(Notice to Airmen) is issued atleast a week in advance
internationally to make changes in flight timings and schedules.
Name this International Airport or Identify the City.

33. ANSWER • Thiruvananthapuram
International Airport
• The flight operations to and from the airport here would come to a halt for five hours
when "Aarattu," the ritual bath procession of temple idols, passes through its runway
on the final day of the 10-day 'Painkuni' and 'Alpassi" festivals (celebrated during the
Tamil months of Painkuni and Alpassi months respectively) of the shrine.

35. QUESTION 14**
•Identify this personality.

36. ANSWER
• Daniel John
Cunningham
(Full Points for
Cunningham)

37. QUESTION 15**
• With a thousand longing eyes, I waited,
The one who flew away from me,
Bird, sweet bird,
Bird, sweet bird.
• Did the breeze shower you with kisses,
Did the little dragonfly play the Tambooru
Did the peacock inside you wave it's blue feathers?
• The yellow flower that bloomed in my memory.
Life's joy which flew away from me.
• With a thousand longing eyes, I waited,
The one who flew away from me,
Bird, sweet bird,
Bird, sweet bird.
• This is the English translation of
something. Identify.

39. ANSWER
• With a thousand longing eyes, I waited,
The one who flew away from me,
Bird, sweet bird,
Bird, sweet bird.
• Did the breeze shower you with kisses,
Did the little dragonfly play the
Tambooru
Did the peacock inside you wave it's
blue feathers?
• The yellow flower that bloomed in my
memory.
Life's joy which flew away from me.
• With a thousand longing eyes, I waited,
The one who flew away from me,
Bird, sweet bird,
Bird, sweet bird.
• Aayiram
kannumai
song

40. WAIT FOR THE
RESULTS

41. ALPINE SKI HOUSE
Freshers
2018
QUIZ
SFI
Medical College
Unit, Trivandrum
Hosted by,
George Zacharia and Gayathri S Iyer