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Trivia Hour 2
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GRADE 8 QT 8004

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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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These two buildings are the the Retreat Building in
Mashobra, Shimla and the ___________ Nilayam in
Bolarum, Hyderabad.
If these are part of a set of three,
which is the more famous residence?
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Rashtrapati Bhavan
These are the three residences of the President of
India

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These two are the logos of two book publishing houses
owned by Random House publishing company. One
publishes children’s books and the other publishes non-
fiction books.
Name both by looking at the birds in their logos.
Name the parent company, whose logo also has a bird.
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Puffin & Pelican
Penguin Random House

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He won a National Film Award for Best
Actor for his portrayal of a revolutionary
in the 2002 movie
The Legend of ______ _____.
Who’s the actor?
Which revolutionary did he play?
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Ajay Devgn
Bhagat Singh

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What is this scientific property called, where the
water’s outer boundary acts as if it were a stretched
elastic membrane?

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Surface Tension

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This is a sea made up of methane, and is
found on the largest moon of the second-
largest planet in our solar system.
Name both the moon and the planet.
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Titan
Saturn

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Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
is the largest administrative division of
which country that shares its border with India?
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China

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Author Amitav Ghosh in his novel River of Smoke writes
about a specialty of Xinjiang thus:
“these were small triangles of pastry, stuffed usually with
minced meat: baked in portable Uighur tandoors they
were sold…”
How is this food item known to us?

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Samosa

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Changi Airport has the world’s tallest indoor waterfall
in its
ten-floor structure that connects three terminals. It
also features a “rainforest” with over 900 trees, bought
from across the world.
Where is the Changi airport?

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Singapore

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According to legend, Bucephalus was a wild horse
that no one could tame, but this great ruler was
able to tame it.
Bucephalus became his trusted steed and is said
to have carried him through many battles. In fact,
the horse was so important to him that he
founded a city named after it called Bucephala,
which was located in what is now Pakistan.
Whose horse was Bucephalus?

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Alexander the Great

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Tennis greats Andre Agassi and Roger Federer were
invited in 2005 to play a friendly game on this court
built on a helipad.
The match took place on the helipad of a hotel, on
top of which Dubai building?

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Burj al Arab

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This 1993 book by Michael Crichton was made
into a movie directed by Steven Spielberg
which was released in 1993.
Identify the book.
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Jurassic Park

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In the picture is the flag of a large US State. It is called
the Last Frontier State and it is not connected to
mainland USA.
Which state?
What does the big star on top represent in the flag?
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Alaska
North star/ Pole star/ Polaris
It is used for navigation in the Northern
Hemisphere

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Aten is the disk of the sun in ancient
Egyptian mythology. Pharaoh
Amenhotep IV made Atenism the
state religion. He also changed his
name to reflect this.
How is Amenhotep IV
better known to us?
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Akhenaten

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NASA astronaut Scott Kelly spent nearly a year on
the International Space Station. When he came
back to Earth, his body had undergone a lot of
changes – decrease in body mass, swelling in
blood vessels, changes in eye shape, etc.
Scientists also studied the biology of a man who
was genetically nearly identical to him, and who
remained on Earth, and compared the bodily
changes of the two.
Who was this person genetically
nearly-identical to Scott?

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A fossorial animal is one that is adapted to _______ and
mostly lives underground. Some fossorial animals are
badgers, naked mole-rats, and ground squirrels.
Another word that is derived from the same root of
fossorial is fossil, which means the remains or
impression of a dead plant or animal embedded in
rock and preserved.
Taking fossil as a clue, tell what word fills the blank.

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This gifted musician was writing his own
compositions when he was only six years old.
He wrote his first opera, Mitridate Re di Ponto,
when he was only 14 years old.
A 1984 movie called Amadeus, which won the
Oscar best picture award, was a fictionalised
version of his life.
Who was this prodigy from Salzburg?

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India's largest IT services company signed a deal with
India Post to transform it into a multi-service digital
hub and modernise the delivery of mail and packages.
The company is also one of the largest employers in
the world.
Which company that is part of the Tata Group?

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Which parable from the Bible is
depicted in this artwork by Dutch
painter Vincent van Gogh?
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