quiz by Naveen & Bhushan on 17th October, 2014 [Varsha, '14]

2. 1) “We believe passionately in the power of ideas to change
attitudes, lives and ultimately, the world. So we're building
here a clearinghouse that offers free knowledge and
inspiration from the world's most inspired thinkers, and
also a community of curious souls to engage with ideas
and each other.”
Whose mission statement is this?

4. 2)

5. Indus script and rongo – rongo

6. 3) ID this formula

7. Tupper’s self referential formula

8. 4) A is a paradoxical situation from which an individual
cannot escape because of contradictory rules.
This term was coined by Joseph Heller in his 1961 novel of the
same name, which describes absurd bureaucratic constraints on
soldiers in World War II.

10. 5) What do you call the dot that tops a lowercase "i" and "j“. The
word also means "a very small or minute part."

11. A tittle

12. 6)

14. 7) Spot this place
A Hollywood trilogy is shot at this place.
One was released on 14th Dec. 2012, the
second film on 13th Dec. 2013 and the final
one is to be released on Dec. 17th 2014!

16. The Hobbit, New Zealand

17. 8) The Apollo 11 astronauts placed a plaque on the moon that
reads, "Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the
moon, July 1969 A.D. We came in peace for all mankind.“
Which American president’s signature is on this plaque.

18. Richard Nixon

19. 9) “If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe
then man would only have four years of life left. No
more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no
more animals, no more man.”
Alternately
“If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth,
man would have no more than four years to live.”

21. 10) A supertall skyscraper named Torre Generali was to be the
tallest in latin America when completed in 2003. On clear days
the upper floors afforded view of both the Pacific Ocean and
Caribbean Sea. Name the country in which this structure was
scheduled to be build but never materialised.

23. “ I am depressed … without phone … money for rent … money for
child support … money for debts … money!!! … I am haunted by
the vivid memories of killings and corpses and anger and pain …
of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often
police, of killer executioners…I have gone to join Ken if I am that
lucky. ”
11)

24. Kevin Carter

25. 12) There is an African story of a creature A that
explains the phenomenon of how his name became
attached to the whole corpus of tales:
Once there were no stories in the world. The Sky-
God, Nyame, had them all. A went to Nyame and
asked how much they would cost to buy. Nyame set a
high price:
A must bring back Onini the Python, Osebo the
Leopard, the Mmoboro Hornets, and Mmoatia the
dwarf.
A handed his captives over to Nyame. Nyame
rewarded him by making him the god of all stories.

26. Anansi, the spider

27. 13) This company was started in 4th Sept.
1998. by an American business magnate and
computer scientist.
The logo of the company was not centered
until 2001.
Interestingly, it also rents goats, from a
company called ‘California Grazing’. The
company said it is “a lot cuter to watch than
lawn mowers.”
Its first ever tweet is displayed in the picture.

30. 14) The began as a club for an elite group of academics
and wealthy patrons interested in travel. On January 13, 1888, 33
explorers and scientists gathered at the Cosmos Club, a private
club then located on Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C., to
organize "a society for the increase and diffusion of geographical
knowledge.“
Gardiner Greene Hubbard became its first president and his son-
in-law, Alexander Graham Bell, succeeded him in 1897.

32. 15) Connect

33. Hans Zimmer

34. 16) “The Pride and Sorrow of Chess”

36. 17) Where was this image taken and by whom?

37. Challenger Deep, James Cameron

38. 18)

40. 19)

41. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

42. 20) Where do you find these?

44. 21) What does the y axis represent?

45. His Weight!

46. 22) The Football War, also known as the Soccer War or 100 Hour
War, was a brief war fought by 2 countries in 1969. The existing
tensions between the two countries coincided with rioting during
one of the qualifying rounds of the 1970 FIFA World Cup, hence the
name.
Which countries fought this war?

47. Honduras and El Salvador

48. 23)

49. The boon and curse!!!

51. 24) "Perhaps some future deep space explorers will catch up
with , our first interstellar envoy, and reflect on how
this intrepid spacecraft helped enable their journey."
— John Grunsfeld, NASA's associate administrator for science in
Washington
Fill in the blank

53. 25) Identify the language.

54. Hawaiian Language

55. 26)

56. Ig Nobel Prize 2000-
For levitating a frog
Nobel Prize 2010-
Graphene

57. 27)

60. 28)

61. Wimbledon 2010
Match Timings:
22nd June 2010, 6.13 pm - 9.07 pm
23rd June 2010, 2.05 pm – 9.09 pm
24th June 2010, 3.40 pm – 4.47 pm
Total time of play: 11 hrs. 5 min.
Points:
6–4, 3–6, 6–7(7–9), 7–6(7–3), 70–68

63. 29)

65. 30) Connect

66. Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award