G8 - QT 8002 - Trcsivia Hour Quiz 1.ppsx

Trivia Hour 1
Let's Play a Quiz
GRADE 8 QT 8002

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a few quiz questions

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Play the quiz
as teams of
three
members each
One point per
question; part
points at the
teacher’s
discretion
Take guesses
and don’t pass.
Good quizzers
always try to
guess.

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Joe, Kevin, and Nick formed a pop-
rock band in 2005 and their first
song was ‘Please be mine’. In 2013,
they broke up.
The band came got back together
and released a song in 2019. It
became #1 on the Billboard Hot
100.
What is the name of the band?
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Jonas Brothers
Priyanka Chopra is married to Nick Jonas

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2
This state in Northeast India is known as the ‘land of
blue mountains’. Its name is a combination of two
words and means ‘place of the highlander’.
Which state that is named after a tribal group?

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Mizoram

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This is retired Squadron Leader Dick
Churchill who passed away in 2019. He was
99 years old.
He was the last surviving member of the
Great Escape team. The Great Escape
refers to the escape of 76 airmen from Nazi
prisoner camp in 1944 during
_____ ___ __.
Fill in the blanks.
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World War II

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4
She posted her first Instagram post in 2019.
It features a 19th
century letter from Charles
Babbage written to her great-great-
grandfather, Prince Albert.
Who is this, who passed away in 2022?

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Queen Elizabeth II

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5
The leather toys made in this Madhya Pradesh town
are very well known and have been given a
Geographical Indication (GI tag).
Which city?

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Indore

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This Google doodle is celebrating 30 years of the _____
_____ ___. Tim Berners-Lee, an English scientist,
invented it in 1989.
_____ ____ ___ is a computer network that connects
computer around the world.
Fill in the blanks.
(both sets of blanks are the same)

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World Wide Web

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This is Kylie Jenner. She is a model, media
person, and businesswoman. In 2019, when
she was 21-years-old, she was included in the
Forbes list of richest people.
She also overtook Mark Zuckerberg to get a
certain title held by him previously. He was
23-year-old when he was given this title.
What title by Forbes was given to her?
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World’s youngest billionaire
(This record was overtaken. The youngest
billionaire on the planet is a German named Kevin
David Lehmann, who was just 18 years old)

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Who is this Spanish tennis player
who in 2022, became the youngest
man to be ranked world no. 1 after
winning the US Open singles title. He
was just 19-years-old!
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Carlos Alcaraz

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9
Indian Air Force inducted four CH-47F (I) Chinook
helicopters in 2019. These helicopters are used in
rescue missions. The company that manufactures
these helicopters is based in USA and is well known
for manufacturing other planes and helicopters.
Which company?

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Boeing

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10
This is a painting by Banksy. The painting is titled
Devolved Parliament and features chimpanzees in the
_______ Parliament.
Banksy painted it to mock the government’s vote to
leave the European Union.
Which parliament is mocked in this painting?

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UK / Britain

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Dick Fosbury was an American ____ ______ who
revolutionised a sport with a technique called the
"Fosbury Flop.“
Unlike the traditional "straddle" method used before
him, he approached the bar with his back facing it and
arched his back while kicking his legs over the bar one
at a time. This technique allowed him to go farther up
and became the standard method used in the sport
today.
Which sport?

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High jump
Fosbury passed away in
2023 RIP

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Pinaki Chandra Ghose was India’s
first anti-corruption official who
headed the ______.
Pradip Kumar Mohanty, pictured
here, is the second and the current
chairperson of this committee.
Which anti-corruption authority have
they headed?
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Lokpal

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Scientists recently discovered the
world's oldest astrolabe, an
astronomical instrument. It belongs to a
Portuguese explorer who used it on his
second voyage to a South Asian country
in the fourteenth century.
Who owned this astrolabe?
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Vasco da Gama

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In 2019, the director of Avengers: Endgame, Joe Russo,
came to India to promote the film. In an interview he
mentioned that the climax of Avengers: Age of Ultron
was inspired by a Rajinikanth film.
Russo said “in one of the final scenes, all the Ultrons
were supposed to form a large Ultron and Avengers were
set to fight that but the sequence got cut for time. It was
this close.”
Which Rajinikanth movie?

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This country’s capital was renamed from
its old name to Nursultan in 2019. This
was done to pay tribute to the country’s
former president Nursultan Nazarbayev.
In 2022, it was changed back to the older
name.
Which country, the largest landlocked
country in the world?

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A google employee from Japan, Emma
Haruka Iwao set a new world record when
she calculated 31 trillion digits of a ratio.
It took her 170 TB of data, 25 virtual
machines, and 121 days to calculate it.
What ratio?
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This app, used to create and share
short videos, is owned by the
Chinese company ByteDance. It
was banned in India in 2019.
Which is this app?
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The Old French word peon, meaning ‘foot-soldier’,
gives us a word widely used in a particular sport. Due
to its low value, the word is also used to refer to
someone who is easily manipulated or sacrificed for a
larger purpose, like it happens in the sport.
Which is this word?

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19
The Town Hall in Amritsar has become the home to a
museum dedicated to the memory of _________.
This initiative was taken by The Arts and Cultural
Heritage Trust to come up with a museum that will
consist of memories, oral histories, any objects or
documents that were transported during this process
that killed more than a million people.
What is the museum about?

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20
Which American singer-actress became the most
followed female celeb on Twitter with more than 400
million followers?

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