The document contains questions from an open quiz competition. It includes questions about historical figures, inventions, movies, and other trivia topics. The questions would require looking up facts and details to determine the right answers.
Phoenix ‘15 is a document that contains various trivia questions and word puzzles. It begins with 10 multiple choice questions about the origins and meanings of words and phrases. This is followed by a section on science, business, and technology that includes trivia about Nintendo Wii, the Concorde airplane, and Scrabble words. The document ends with a picture puzzle section containing visual riddles and connections between images.
The document provides the rules and questions for a general quiz competition. It includes 20 multiple choice questions across various topics like history, pop culture, science and more. The rules state there are 20 questions with opportunities to gain or lose points through bouncing and pouncing on questions. Team noise above a certain level will result in point deductions and the Quiz Master's decision is final.
Round 1 of the game show involves animals that are part of Ubuntu operating system version names. These include koalas, salamanders, lynxes, narwhals, yaks, and pangolins.
Round 2 is called "Long Connect" and involves identifying animals based on clues. All the animals are part of Ubuntu version names.
Round 3 is called "Anticlockwise" and involves identifying censored information, creating emoji representations, identifying popular gaming websites, the meaning of the word "spam," solving invasive python problems using "Judas snakes," and a Facebook fact-checking partnership with a German organization.
General Quiz (Elims + finals), Srijan 2014, Jadavpur UniversityChazz
The document contains the questions and rules for "The General Quiz" trivia competition hosted by Srijan in 2014. It lists 30 questions about topics ranging from literature to history to sports. Participants were instructed to mark their answer sheets for questions marked with an asterisk to break ties. The questions would be used to determine the top 8 teams to advance to the finals.
The third edition of Whose Session Is It Anyway, nobody's least favourite quiz is marked by... well, nothing very new. Another set of interesting questions, with a focus on pop culture and contemporary events.
Phoenix ‘15 is a document that contains various trivia questions and word puzzles. It begins with 10 multiple choice questions about the origins and meanings of words and phrases. This is followed by a section on science, business, and technology that includes trivia about Nintendo Wii, the Concorde airplane, and Scrabble words. The document ends with a picture puzzle section containing visual riddles and connections between images.
The document provides the rules and questions for a general quiz competition. It includes 20 multiple choice questions across various topics like history, pop culture, science and more. The rules state there are 20 questions with opportunities to gain or lose points through bouncing and pouncing on questions. Team noise above a certain level will result in point deductions and the Quiz Master's decision is final.
Round 1 of the game show involves animals that are part of Ubuntu operating system version names. These include koalas, salamanders, lynxes, narwhals, yaks, and pangolins.
Round 2 is called "Long Connect" and involves identifying animals based on clues. All the animals are part of Ubuntu version names.
Round 3 is called "Anticlockwise" and involves identifying censored information, creating emoji representations, identifying popular gaming websites, the meaning of the word "spam," solving invasive python problems using "Judas snakes," and a Facebook fact-checking partnership with a German organization.
General Quiz (Elims + finals), Srijan 2014, Jadavpur UniversityChazz
The document contains the questions and rules for "The General Quiz" trivia competition hosted by Srijan in 2014. It lists 30 questions about topics ranging from literature to history to sports. Participants were instructed to mark their answer sheets for questions marked with an asterisk to break ties. The questions would be used to determine the top 8 teams to advance to the finals.
The third edition of Whose Session Is It Anyway, nobody's least favourite quiz is marked by... well, nothing very new. Another set of interesting questions, with a focus on pop culture and contemporary events.
This document contains a transcript of questions and answers from an online quiz. Some key details include:
- The quiz covered a wide range of topics from history, science, pop culture, and current events.
- Questions included identifying movies involving a Caltech scientist, the meaning behind a Google domain name, and the inspiration for the Amul girl mascot.
- Answers ranged from people like Galileo to concepts like the Chinese zodiac to brands like Milo cereal.
- The quiz showcased the participants' broad general knowledge across many domains.
The document appears to be a quiz on science and engineering topics. It contains 20 multiple choice questions on subjects like astronomy, physics, chemistry and notable scientists. The last 4 questions form a connect round related to NASA's Great Observatories space telescopes, including the Spitzer Space Telescope, Chandra X-Ray Observatory, Compton Gamma Ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope.
This document contains the questions and answers from the preliminary round of the Kuching Regional I-Quiz 2016 trivia competition. It provides 30 multiple choice or short answer questions across various topics, with point values assigned. The top 6 scoring teams will advance to the finals. The questions cover subjects like sports, science, history, pop culture and more.
The document provides a transcript of a quiz competition with questions and answers on various topics ranging from films and celebrities to history, geography and science. Some of the questions have names or details redacted. The quiz covers a wide range of trivia knowledge in a multiple choice format.
The document discusses different types of hanging methods - short drop, standard drop and long drop. It also mentions Winston Churchill winning the Nobel Prize in 1953 for Literature.
Sweden has advertised itself on AirBNB to attract more tourists by describing Swedish nature as a home with amenities like eating berries from the ground, sleeping under the stars, and swimming freely in lakes. Before electronic sensors, miners would carry canaries into coal mines since the birds would show signs of dangerous methane gas before humans could detect it, originating the phrase "canary in a coal mine". In 2005, an ancient seed from the Judean date palm, which had gone extinct in the 14th century, was successfully germinated and named Methuselah after the oldest person in the Bible.
The document contains 25 multiple choice questions from a general quiz. It includes questions about the origins of companies and products like Velcro, Popcorn, and Olive Garden. It also includes questions that ask to identify people, movies, paintings, and other figures based on descriptions of their backgrounds and accomplishments.
The document provides the rules and questions for a general quiz. It contains 21 multiple choice or fill in the blank questions on topics like history, art, movies, and pop culture. The questions range from identifying people, places, and things to explaining concepts and relationships. The rules state there are no time limits, bonuses are available, and the quiz master's decisions are final.
School Quiz - Prelims - Oakridge International School - 2014Sree Nihit M
This document appears to be the preliminary round questions for a quiz competition at Oakridge International School titled "Treasure Fest Brainwave". It provides the format and rules for the preliminary round which will consist of 25 multiple choice questions, with no negative points and star marked questions used as tie-breakers. The top 6 teams will advance to the finals.
This document announces a school quiz competition with general rules. It explains that the prelims will consist of 25 questions with internal tiebreakers. The top 6 teams will advance to the finals regardless of house. Scoring is based only on correct answers with +1 point and no penalty for incorrect answers. It then provides 25 sample questions covering topics like history, science, geography and current events to familiarize participants with the question format and difficulty for the prelims round.
1) The document discusses a Polandball finals competition with 18 questions about various historical and current events.
2) It provides the questions, answers, and context around political gestures made by Swiss soccer players against Serbia, the annexation of Goa by India, the origins and collaborations of Olodum music, the introduction of the Euro currency and Greece's role, a punishment method used by the Thai police, criticism of a Gandhi statue, the opening of the first McDonalds in Russia, the origins of the Doomsday Clock, films featuring the song "Bella Ciao", a vaccine revolt in Brazil, the Munich Massacre, the Tianamen Square Tank Man photograph, tributes to healthcare
This document summarizes a general quiz with various rounds of questions on diverse topics. The quiz consists of direct questions worth 10 points and indirect questions worth 5 points. Clues are only provided for questions with no objections. Long visual connects provide 4 visual clues worth 20, 15, 10, and 5 points respectively for identifying the connection between the clues. The quiz master's decision is final. The document concludes by thanking the organizers and others for inspiring the quiz, and dedicating the quiz to a cockroach killed last night.
This quiz provided by Major Francis Monogram I contains 7 questions connecting Sir Isaac Newton to various people, events, and concepts. The safety slides provide additional context about Newton's interests in alchemy, mercury, the Priory of Sion, and his belief that the world would not end before 2060. It is revealed that the number of questions, 7, refers to the 7 deadly sins, and Newton had his own version consisting of 47 sins. The opening picture depicts Newton as having superhuman abilities, and the quiz connects various aspects of his life and work.
YUVA 2017 is hosting a general quiz with 20 questions, including 5 starred tiebreaker questions. No phones are allowed. The document provides the questions and answers to a quiz on various topics like people, symbols, science fiction, and more. Slide images are included to illustrate some of the questions. The quiz covers subjects from history, pop culture, science and geography.
The document provides details about several unrelated topics:
1) It mentions John Lennon finding solace in his recording studio where he encountered Che Guevara, rumored to influence his artistic production.
2) It describes the town of Monmouth in Wales becoming the first "Wikipedia town" where all notable places, people, flora and fauna have been cataloged with QR codes for visitors to scan.
3) It discusses Chris Hughes, the co-founder of Facebook who helped organize Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign and is now the executive director of Jumo nonprofit and a shareholder in The New Republic magazine.
The document summarizes the origins of the game badminton. It states that a game called "jeu de volant" was played in Europe. When British officers brought this to Poona, India, they added a net and called it the "Poona game". Retired officers later brought this game to England. At a party hosted by the Duke of Beaufort, the game was played and enjoyed. It was then called the "X game". In 1877, the Bath X Club was formed and developed the official rules of the game. The game is now known as badminton.
This document contains a quiz with 8 questions and their answers. The rules are that players get +10 points for a correct answer and can bounce, or pass, to another player for a chance to answer. On a bounce, players get +10 for a correct answer but -5 for an incorrect answer. Players cannot bounce to themselves. The questions cover topics like famous dishes, sound devices, foot surgery procedures, trademarks, phrases, maps, structures, and artworks.
This document contains a quiz with 7 mapping questions and their answers. It then describes a follow up round with 16 questions arranged in a grid, covering various topic intersections like Hollywood/Secrets and Lies, Art/Paranormal, etc. Teams take turns choosing and answering questions for points, with an option to "pounce" and steal the question if the other team answers incorrectly.
The document is a quiz with 40 multiple choice questions covering topics like film studios, countries, historical figures, inventions, sports, and more. It provides the questions but not the answers. The questions vary in difficulty and come from diverse topics to test general knowledge.
This document contains a transcript of questions and answers from an online quiz. Some key details include:
- The quiz covered a wide range of topics from history, science, pop culture, and current events.
- Questions included identifying movies involving a Caltech scientist, the meaning behind a Google domain name, and the inspiration for the Amul girl mascot.
- Answers ranged from people like Galileo to concepts like the Chinese zodiac to brands like Milo cereal.
- The quiz showcased the participants' broad general knowledge across many domains.
The document appears to be a quiz on science and engineering topics. It contains 20 multiple choice questions on subjects like astronomy, physics, chemistry and notable scientists. The last 4 questions form a connect round related to NASA's Great Observatories space telescopes, including the Spitzer Space Telescope, Chandra X-Ray Observatory, Compton Gamma Ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope.
This document contains the questions and answers from the preliminary round of the Kuching Regional I-Quiz 2016 trivia competition. It provides 30 multiple choice or short answer questions across various topics, with point values assigned. The top 6 scoring teams will advance to the finals. The questions cover subjects like sports, science, history, pop culture and more.
The document provides a transcript of a quiz competition with questions and answers on various topics ranging from films and celebrities to history, geography and science. Some of the questions have names or details redacted. The quiz covers a wide range of trivia knowledge in a multiple choice format.
The document discusses different types of hanging methods - short drop, standard drop and long drop. It also mentions Winston Churchill winning the Nobel Prize in 1953 for Literature.
Sweden has advertised itself on AirBNB to attract more tourists by describing Swedish nature as a home with amenities like eating berries from the ground, sleeping under the stars, and swimming freely in lakes. Before electronic sensors, miners would carry canaries into coal mines since the birds would show signs of dangerous methane gas before humans could detect it, originating the phrase "canary in a coal mine". In 2005, an ancient seed from the Judean date palm, which had gone extinct in the 14th century, was successfully germinated and named Methuselah after the oldest person in the Bible.
The document contains 25 multiple choice questions from a general quiz. It includes questions about the origins of companies and products like Velcro, Popcorn, and Olive Garden. It also includes questions that ask to identify people, movies, paintings, and other figures based on descriptions of their backgrounds and accomplishments.
The document provides the rules and questions for a general quiz. It contains 21 multiple choice or fill in the blank questions on topics like history, art, movies, and pop culture. The questions range from identifying people, places, and things to explaining concepts and relationships. The rules state there are no time limits, bonuses are available, and the quiz master's decisions are final.
School Quiz - Prelims - Oakridge International School - 2014Sree Nihit M
This document appears to be the preliminary round questions for a quiz competition at Oakridge International School titled "Treasure Fest Brainwave". It provides the format and rules for the preliminary round which will consist of 25 multiple choice questions, with no negative points and star marked questions used as tie-breakers. The top 6 teams will advance to the finals.
This document announces a school quiz competition with general rules. It explains that the prelims will consist of 25 questions with internal tiebreakers. The top 6 teams will advance to the finals regardless of house. Scoring is based only on correct answers with +1 point and no penalty for incorrect answers. It then provides 25 sample questions covering topics like history, science, geography and current events to familiarize participants with the question format and difficulty for the prelims round.
1) The document discusses a Polandball finals competition with 18 questions about various historical and current events.
2) It provides the questions, answers, and context around political gestures made by Swiss soccer players against Serbia, the annexation of Goa by India, the origins and collaborations of Olodum music, the introduction of the Euro currency and Greece's role, a punishment method used by the Thai police, criticism of a Gandhi statue, the opening of the first McDonalds in Russia, the origins of the Doomsday Clock, films featuring the song "Bella Ciao", a vaccine revolt in Brazil, the Munich Massacre, the Tianamen Square Tank Man photograph, tributes to healthcare
This document summarizes a general quiz with various rounds of questions on diverse topics. The quiz consists of direct questions worth 10 points and indirect questions worth 5 points. Clues are only provided for questions with no objections. Long visual connects provide 4 visual clues worth 20, 15, 10, and 5 points respectively for identifying the connection between the clues. The quiz master's decision is final. The document concludes by thanking the organizers and others for inspiring the quiz, and dedicating the quiz to a cockroach killed last night.
This quiz provided by Major Francis Monogram I contains 7 questions connecting Sir Isaac Newton to various people, events, and concepts. The safety slides provide additional context about Newton's interests in alchemy, mercury, the Priory of Sion, and his belief that the world would not end before 2060. It is revealed that the number of questions, 7, refers to the 7 deadly sins, and Newton had his own version consisting of 47 sins. The opening picture depicts Newton as having superhuman abilities, and the quiz connects various aspects of his life and work.
YUVA 2017 is hosting a general quiz with 20 questions, including 5 starred tiebreaker questions. No phones are allowed. The document provides the questions and answers to a quiz on various topics like people, symbols, science fiction, and more. Slide images are included to illustrate some of the questions. The quiz covers subjects from history, pop culture, science and geography.
The document provides details about several unrelated topics:
1) It mentions John Lennon finding solace in his recording studio where he encountered Che Guevara, rumored to influence his artistic production.
2) It describes the town of Monmouth in Wales becoming the first "Wikipedia town" where all notable places, people, flora and fauna have been cataloged with QR codes for visitors to scan.
3) It discusses Chris Hughes, the co-founder of Facebook who helped organize Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign and is now the executive director of Jumo nonprofit and a shareholder in The New Republic magazine.
The document summarizes the origins of the game badminton. It states that a game called "jeu de volant" was played in Europe. When British officers brought this to Poona, India, they added a net and called it the "Poona game". Retired officers later brought this game to England. At a party hosted by the Duke of Beaufort, the game was played and enjoyed. It was then called the "X game". In 1877, the Bath X Club was formed and developed the official rules of the game. The game is now known as badminton.
This document contains a quiz with 8 questions and their answers. The rules are that players get +10 points for a correct answer and can bounce, or pass, to another player for a chance to answer. On a bounce, players get +10 for a correct answer but -5 for an incorrect answer. Players cannot bounce to themselves. The questions cover topics like famous dishes, sound devices, foot surgery procedures, trademarks, phrases, maps, structures, and artworks.
This document contains a quiz with 7 mapping questions and their answers. It then describes a follow up round with 16 questions arranged in a grid, covering various topic intersections like Hollywood/Secrets and Lies, Art/Paranormal, etc. Teams take turns choosing and answering questions for points, with an option to "pounce" and steal the question if the other team answers incorrectly.
The document is a quiz with 40 multiple choice questions covering topics like film studios, countries, historical figures, inventions, sports, and more. It provides the questions but not the answers. The questions vary in difficulty and come from diverse topics to test general knowledge.
An quiz meet was held with 17 multiple choice questions covering topics like Swahili phrases, classical music, inventions, logos, geography, etymology, folklore, sports drinks, human evolution, awards, and fictional tweets by historical figures. The document provides the questions and answers to test participants' knowledge across various domains.
This document contains the questions and answers from 5 rounds of a quiz competition called the Sardar Patel Quiz Club Quiz 5. The rounds cover topics like literature, famous people, geography, history, and general knowledge. The document tests the ability to identify words, people, events, inventions and their significance from different clues and contexts.
This General Quiz was held on 27th February,2021 and hosted by Adarsh and Dolphin for Chakravyuh,2021, the annual quizzing fest of Quintessence.
Quintessence is the Quizzing Society of Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi.
The document contains a 40 question quiz with visuals on various topics ranging from architecture, movies, history, science and more. It includes questions about the Genbaku Dome in Hiroshima, a tennis player who hit a record serve, the nickname of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, and the inspiration for the Tower of Babel. Various answer options are provided in visual form on subsequent slides.
This document outlines the rules for an upcoming quiz competition between teams. It states there will be 15 questions worth varying points, with questions 10-15 being worth more points each. Ties will be broken by the scores on the higher point questions and if still tied, by a question countback. A total of 21 points are needed to qualify for the finals, with the top 6 teams advancing. The quizmaster is described as the dictator rather than god over the quiz.
Radar.
The incident was that he was pulled over by police for speeding, as radar was now being used for traffic enforcement as well as military/defense purposes.
The document discusses ships flying flags from multiple nations to deceive other vessels into thinking they were allies. However, the rules of engagement required that ships hoist their true flag before firing upon another ship. This gave rise to the popular phrase "Show your true colours." The summary identifies the key details about flag deception from the passage and the phrase that arose from revealing one's true flag before combat.
The document discusses various trivia questions related to literature, history, and pop culture. Some key details include:
- Question 1 asks to fill in the blanks of a famous Shakespeare quote from Hamlet.
- Question 2 refers to the retractable roof design of the Beijing National Stadium, also known as the "Bird's Nest."
- Multiple questions reference famous historical figures like Diego Rivera, Roger Federer, and Philippe Petit.
- Other questions mention fictional characters like Buzz Lightyear and code names for atomic bombs.
This document contains the rules and questions for an online quiz game called "Jisko Aana Hai Aao Quiz". The quiz contains multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank style questions across various categories. Players can earn points for correct answers and lose points for incorrect answers. The document lists 10 sample questions from the quiz along with their correct answers.
This document contains questions from the 2010 Columban Open Quiz competition in Group B quarter finals. The questions cover a wide range of topics including history, pop culture, science, and current events.
The document discusses a general quiz with 20 multiple choice questions. It includes questions about famous people like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Winston Churchill, inventions like the artificial heart, places like Mohenjo-daro, and concepts like the Panenka kick in soccer. The document provides the questions and sometimes repeats them, but does not include the answers.
Prelims with Answers- The Everything (General) QuizAmol Agrawal
This document contains 15 multiple choice questions from a quiz competition. It provides the questions, clues or context for identifying the correct answer, and finally reveals the answer. Some of the questions require identifying a person, event, concept or thing based on descriptions or details provided. Others involve matching descriptions to known terms, people or events. The document is formatted with questions numbered 1 through 15 along with clues and answers given under each question.
The document provides the rules and questions for a general quiz competition. It states there will be 25 multiple choice questions with points awarded for each part of the answer. No negative marking is applied. Mobile devices cannot be used to search for answers. The top 6 teams will qualify for the finals. It then lists 25 questions across a variety of topics, with the task being to provide the name, term or answer identified by each question.
Generally Asking-The General Quiz,PRELIMS(HighQ'20 at Gargi College)
Group c prelims
1. The Columban Open Quiz 2010<br />Group C Prelims<br />SCHOOL : REG. NO. : TIME : 20 minutes <br />TEAM NAME :<br />Q1 A 7thcentury Italian monk used to reward children who memorized their prayers with salted treats that resembled arms twisted in prayer. What treat did he invent?<br />Ans:<br />Q2 During the period of the princely state accession, due to a state wide referendum, the court of Junagadh (in present day Gujarat) faced collapse. The Dewan of Junagadh, Sir __________ decided to invite the Government of India to intervene. Junagadh became a part of the Indian state of Saurashtra until 1 November 1956, when Saurashtra became part of Bombay state.<br /> <br />Ans:<br />Q3 In 1943, US Navy mechanical engineer Richard James was trying to find ways to support and stabilize sensitive instruments aboard ships in rough seas. His subsequent unrelated invention was given its name from a dictionary by his wife, and has also found use as a teaching tool, mobile radio antenna and a Space Shuttle experiment. What?<br />Ans:<br />Q4 He was born in January 2008 in Wermouth, England. He also goes by the surname der Krake. Various explanations have been offered, saying that brightness as well as an object's size, shape, and orientation create a potential bias in his controversial ability. Who?<br />Ans:<br />Q5 This construction group is the leading contractor for machine supply for the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium renovation. It is the oldest construction company in India. Its chairman and namesake has a net worth of $5.93 billion, is the single largest shareholder in Tata Sons, is the second richest Irish citizen and is known for his media shyness. Who/what company?<br />Ans:<br />Q6 What is still in use only in the United States, Burma, Belize and Liberia, where it is preferred for non-scientific use over the other system in use by the rest of the world?<br />Ans:<br />Q7 The University of Florida American football team credited the Robert Cade led research team’s X with their first Orange Bowl win over the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets in 1967. Yellow Jackets coach Bud Carson, when asked why they lost, replied: quot;
We didn’t have X. That made the difference.quot;
What is X?<br />Ans:<br />Q8 In which movie did Heath Ledger make his final appearance?<br />Ans:<br />Q9 A frequently circulated story claims that Fleischer's choice of Y to give X strength was based on faulty calculations of its iron content. In the story, German scientist Dr. E. von Wolf misplaced a decimal point in an 1870 measurement of Y's iron content, leading to an iron value ten times higher than it should have been. The popularity of X helped boost sales of Y. Y consumption increased a whopping 33 percent in the United States between 1931 and 1936 as X gained popularity, saving the Y industry in the 1930s. Identify X and Y.<br />Ans:<br />Q10 The project's completion coincided with the global financial crisis of 2007–2010, and with vast overbuilding in the country; being mired in debt from its huge ambitions, the government was forced to seek multi-billion dollar bailouts from its neighbor. Subsequently, in a surprise move at its opening ceremony, it was renamed ________, said to honor President bin Zayed Al Nahyan for his crucial support. Fill in the blank.<br />Ans:<br />Q11 ________ was born in Las Vegas, Nevada, to Emmanuel quot;
Mikequot;
B. Aghassian and Elizabeth quot;
Bettyquot;
(née Dudley). His father is an Iranian of Armenian and Assyrian ethnicity who represented Iran in boxing at the 1948 and 1952 Olympic Games before immigrating to the United States. ________’s mother, Betty, is a breast cancer survivor.<br />Ans:<br />Q12 Robert Chesebrough founded the Chesebrough Manufacturing Company to produce X. he travelled around New York State demonstrating his miracle product. In front of an audience he would burn his skin with acid or an open flame, then spread X on his injuries while demonstrating past injuries, healed, he claimed, by his miracle product. Chesebrough earned knighthood in 1883. Upon knighting him, Queen Victoria extolled his product's usefulness, proudly claiming that she quot;
used X every day.quot;
Chesebrough believed that X not only helped in healing but also led to rejuvenation and claimed his long healthy life of 96 years to be the result of using X everyday. Identify the miracle product X.<br />Ans:<br />Q13 In 1921, Dr. John A. Larson, developed a machine to record blood pressure, pulse and respiration. Give the name of this machine.<br />Ans:<br />Q14 If the Ballon d’Or corresponds to the FIFA World Cup, then the David Dixon Award corresponds to what?<br />Ans:<br />Q15 Identify the ritual:<br /> Leader: Ringa pakia! Slap the hands against the thighs! <br /> Uma tiraha! Puff out the chest. <br /> Turi whatia! Bend the knees! <br /> Hope whai ake! Let the hip follow! <br /> Waewae takahia kia kino! Stomp the feet as hard as you can!<br /> Leader: Ka mate, ka mate 'I die, I die! <br /> Team: Ka ora' Ka ora' I live, I live!<br />Ans:<br />Q16 In the world of television, how do we better know Voice Input Child Identicant?<br />Ans:<br />Q17 Vinson Massif : Antarctica :: ___________ : Africa.<br />Ans:<br />Q18 He holds the Lucasian Professor chair, a position once held by Isaac Newton. His bestselling book remained on the British Sunday Times bestsellers list for a record-breaking 237 weeks. He is also the best known patient currently of Lou Gehrig’s disease. Who?<br />Ans:<br />Q19 On October 5, 2009, Luigi Garlaschelli, professor of organic chemistry at the University of Pavia, announced that he had made a full size reproduction of X, using only medieval technologies. Garlaschelli placed a linen sheet over a volunteer and then rubbed it with an acidic pigment. He then added blood stains, scorches and water stains to replicate the original. The image on the reproduction, non peer-reviewed, would closely match that of X with differences explained as the result of natural fading over the centuries..But according to noted sindonologist Giulio Fanti, professor of mechanical and thermic measurements at the Padua University, quot;
the image in discussion does not match the main fundamental properties of X, in particular at thread and fiber level but also at macroscopic level.quot;
Identify X<br />Ans:<br />Q20 Originally introduced as the New Yardbirds, the group named themselves after Keith Moon and John Entwistle, drummer and bassist for The Who, respectively, suggested that a possible supergroup containing themselves, Jeff Beck, and the group’s guitarist would go down like a , a term Entwistle had used to describe a bad gig. The group deliberately dropped the 'a' at the suggestion of their manager, Peter Grant, to prevent “thick Americans” from mispronouncing the name.<br />Ans:<br />Q21 This 1947 invention resulted out of a Hungarian-born physicist's efforts at improving the resolution of electron microscope images. Pictures of a toy-train and a bird were transformed using this technology in 1962 - its first successful application. It was given a name derived from the Greek words for 'complete' and 'message'. What?<br />Ans:<br />Q22 This feat was first achieved in 1875 and was not repeated till 48 years later. It is often described as a battle of brain and brawn against tide and temperature. Statistics released by the CSA, the governing body, reveal that only about 7% of those who attempt this feat are able to complete it. What feat are we talking of? <br />Ans:<br />Q23 The Fujita Scale, designed by Theodore Fujita has points ranging from F0 to F6. These points represent the situations Moderate, Significant, Severe, Devastating, Incredible and Inconceivable. The lowest point on this scale covers damage to chimneys and signboards while Incredible includes such things as cars turning into spinning missiles. The scale is used to measure a natural phenomenon that derives its name from the Latin word for thunder. What?<br />Ans:<br />Q24 Pushpa Kamal Dahal assumed a name meaning the 'Fierce One' before initiating an armed struggle based out of Thabang in 1996. What name did he/she assume?<br />Ans:<br />Q25 The name derives from the Abri de __________ (French: rock shelter of ___________) near the commune of Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil in southwest France, where the first specimen was found. They were the first early modern humans (early Homo sapiens sapiens) of the European Upper Paleolithic in Europe. The earliest known remains of __________-like humans have been dated to 35,000 years before present.<br />Ans:<br />Q26 The name for it is derived from the Greek phrase meaning ‘under one’. Conventionally used in yoking two words or two halves of the same word separated by lineation. Also used in compound nouns when they perform an adjectival function. What?<br />Ans:<br />Q27 Traditionally, the last person to finish this is called the Lantern Rouge or the red lantern (because it hangs off the back of a train). What are we talking about?<br />Ans:<br />Q28 Where would you find the Malleus, Incus and Stapes?<br />Ans:<br />Q29 Karl Friedrich Louis ___________ served in the dangerous role of local tax collector in the German town of Apolda, and ran the dog pound. With access to dogs of many breeds, he aimed to create a breed that would be ideal for protecting him during his collections, which took him through many bandit-infested areas. He set out to breed a new type of dog that, in his opinion, would be the perfect combination of strength, loyalty, intelligence and ferocity.<br />Fill in the blank.<br />Ans:<br />Q30 Who was the co-author of The Communist Manifesto alongside Karl Marx?<br />Ans:<br />Q31 Where will you find the following (where is underlined for a reason):<br />Direhorse (or Pa'li), Mountain Banshee (or Ikran), Great Leonopteryx (or Toruk), Hammerhead Titanothere (or ’Angtsìk), Hexapede (or Yerik), Prolemuris Thanator (or Palulukan), Viperwolf (or Nantang), Helicoradian (or Loreyu), Obesus rotundus (or Rumut), Pseudocycas altissima (or Tsyorina'wll), The Hometrees (or Kelutrel), The Tree of Souls (or Ayvitrayä Ramunong), The Tree of Voices (or Utral Aymokriyä), Woodsprites (or Atokirina’) ?<br />Ans:<br />Q32 They are fictional megastructures (radii: 8000 km) and superweapons in the eponymous series. They are referred to as quot;
Installationsquot;
by their AI monitors, as Sacred Rings by the Covenant, and are collectively referred to as quot;
the Arrayquot;
by their creators, the Forerunners, who built the rings to contain and study the Flood, an infectious alien parasite. The rings also act together as a weapon of last resort; when fired, the rings kill any sentient life capable of falling prey to the Flood, starving the parasite of its food. What?<br />Ans:<br />Q33 Douglas Engelbart at the Stanford Research Institute invented the first prototype in 1963, with the assistance of his colleague Bill English. Although called a bug, English later named it _______ with reference to the wire that came out from it. <br />Ans:<br />Q34 Fill in the blanks - Hatchand Bhaonani Gurumukh ___________ ___________. (Hint- Think current affairs)<br />Ans: <br />Q35 A cricket ground in Pakistan was renamed after him in 1974 because of a rousing speech he delivered at a meeting of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) in favour of Pakistan pursuing nuclear weapons. Who?<br />Ans: <br />-------- Audio-visual questions --------<br />Ans 36:<br />Ans 37:<br />Ans 38:<br />Ans 39:<br />Ans 40:<br />