General Quiz (Prelims) | Elixir '12 was conducted at Thapar University, Patiala sometime in October 2012.

1. General Quiz 1
RULES
The Quizmaster is GOD!
25 Questions!
Top scorer from each year qualifies onstage.
Instant disqualification if you abuse the Quizmaster or
throw objects at him!
And YES! Bribing the quizmaster is bound to reap
benefits!
Good Luck!

2. xkcd parody of which very famous short
story?

3. The Gift of the Magi

4. Who?
“Gold,
as
a
precious
metal,
carries
a
lot
of
posi3ve
vibra3ons
and
it
has
guarded
me
throughout
my
life.
And,
it
keeps
me
in
a
happy-­‐go-­‐lucky
mood
all
the
3me,
which
is
essen3al
in
my
line
of
work.”

5. Bappi Lahri

6. Ad for?

7. Lego

8. Minimalist poster for?

10. What?

12. Id?

13. Google Glasses!

14. The place of his birth was an important garrison town for the
East India Company forces. Located on the Grand Trunk
Road, it is now a well connected industrial center. His dad
represented United Provinces in Ranji Trophy. He played most
of his cricket in a town about 55 miles east-southeast of
London, famous as a pilgrimage destination for Christians.
Last year he was one of the recipients of the Sitara-e-Imtiaz.
And he allegedly is the only man to have witnessed both Brian
Lara's innings of 501 not out vs. Durham and Hanif
Mohammed's 499 in Karachi. ID.

15. Bob Woolmer

16. Don Bradman had once remarked about a
team "they score goals like we score runs in
cricket". Which team?

17. The Indian Hockey team under
Dhyan Chand

18. The
head
of
which
organiza3on’s
3tle
is
“Chief
Lizard
Wrangler”?

19. Mozilla

20. In
the
dark
blue
sky
you
keep
And
oHen
through
the
curtains
peep,
For
you
never
shut
your
eye,
Till
the
sun
is
in
the
sky,
_______________________
Fill
in
the
blank,
which
is
also
the
name
of
a
famous
poem.

21. Twinkle
Twinkle
LiKle
Star

22. Their
real
name
is
1st
Special
Forces
Opera3onal
Detachment
–
_________
(Airborne)
(1st
SFOD-­‐D
(A)).
It
is
known
in
the
Pentagon
officially
as
the
Combat
Applica3ons
Group.
What?

23. Delta
or
Delta
Force

24. This
is
a
graph
depic3ng
what
in
the
world
of
sports?

25. The
baUng
average
of
Sir
Donald
Bradman

26. This
phrase
was
first
used
by
the
London
Times
on
28
December,1937-­‐”Who
can
think
without
horror
of
what
widespread
war
would
mean,waged
as
it
would
be
with
all
the
new
________________?”
The
original
reference
is
to
aerial
bombing
of
ci3es,which
had
become
a
reality
that
year
in
the
Spanish
Civil
War.
What
term?

27. Weapons
of
Mass
Destruc3on

28. "The
Striding
Man
Society"
is
a
members
club
for
consumers
of
this
product,
a
key
marke3ng
feature
of
which
is
the
Striding
Man
logo.
Every
type
of
this
product
has
a
different
colour.
The
other
iden3fying
characteris3c
of
this
is
the
label,
which
is
applied
at
an
angle
of
24
degrees.
The
angled
label
means
the
text
on
the
label
can
be
made
larger
and
more
visible.
What
product?

30. In
Renaissance
Florence,
it
was
fashionable
for
ladies
to
shave
their
eyebrows
off.
This
has
most
famously
been
incorporated
in
what?

31. The Mona Lisa

32. Dedicated to whom?

33. Carlos Santana

34. Y : Saved from the X.
Y : In Nacht und Eis.
1913 : Atlantis.
1929 : Atlantic.
1943 : X.
1953 : X.
1958 : A Night to Remember.
1964 : The ___________ Molly Brown.
1966 : Rendezvous With Yesterday. (The Time Tunnel : Episode 1)
1979 : X.
1980 : Raise the X.
1981 : Time Bandits.
1983 : Voyagers of the X. (Voyagers! : Episode 15)
1995 : X.
1996 : X.
1996 : No Greater Love.
1997 : X.
1997 : The Chambermaid.
1999 : The Legend of the X.
2001 : X - The Legend Goes On.
2003 : Ghosts of the Abyss.
2004 : In Search of the X.
2010 : X Part II.
2012 : X.
2012 : X - Blood and Steel.
ID X and the year Y.

35. Titanic
1912

36. Doodle based on?

37. Halloween

38. What has been blanked out?

39. When Sachin made his debut

40. Which Hollywood film was released as
Chakravyuh in Hindi?
NOTE: Not the Prakash Jha movie! :P

41. Inception

42. This is a product that is using a type of screw that no
customer’s
screwdriver fits? The five-pointed 'pentalobular' fixing
is currently being fitted
to some of the company's products, a typical case of
"screw you"!!!!
Name the company.

43. Apple

44. Romer got these values 7.5 and 22.5.. X
thought that system was the soul of
elegance ..so he cockeyed up another system
just removing the fractions and multiplying
these numbers by 4.he did some more even
uncanny manipulations to get what we have
now... X?

45. Daniel Fahrenheit.

46. What has been blanked out?

47. Scrodinger’s Cat

49. Nirma

50. In an interview to the Indian Express in November
2011, he said :“After Operation BlueStar in Punjab,the
final examinations were postponed.led a group of
students demanding a month’s notice as preparation.
We made banners saying,“___ ___”. and went about
raising this slogan.”
He used these lines in a film...Which lines was he
talking about??

51. SADDA HAQ