This document provides the rules and questions for a quiz being conducted by Dr. Pabitra Kr. Mani. The quiz has two rounds that proceed in clockwise and anticlockwise directions. The first round consists of sections on literature, science, and audio rounds. The second round consists of sections on sports, miscellaneous topics, and an audiovisual round. Questions are worth 10 points each with a 5 point bonus and no negative marking. Participants have 30 seconds to answer each question and the quiz master's decision is final.

1. Concorrenza-2014
Quiz-2014
Dr. Pabitra Kr. Mani
Assoc. Professor,
Agril. Chemistry and Soil Science,
Mohanpur, Nadia, W.B.-741252
cell: 09477465968
e mail: pabitramani@gmail.com

2. Rules
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1st round clockwise and 2nd round anticlockwise
1st round consists of
Literature
 Science
 Audio round
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2nd round
Sports
 Miscellaneous
 Audio visual round
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Each question 10 points, Bonus : 5 points, no negetaive
marking,
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Time allowed to answer :30 secs
Quiz master’s decision is final
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3. Literature

4. 1
What is common to the following books;
Continent of the cerci
Autobiograhy of unknown Indian
A passage to England
Thy Hand, Great Anarch ! (1987)
Hinduism: A Religion to Live by
The East is East and West is West

7. 2
Being and Nothingness
L'étre et le néant (1943)
• Existentialism is a
Humanism /
He was awarded the 1964
Nobel Prize in Literature but
refused it, saying that he
always declined official
honors and that "a writer
should not allow himself to
be turned into an institution"

8. Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre
was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist,
screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary
critic.
Jean-Paul Sartre (middle) and Simone de Beauvoir (left)
meeting with Che Guevara (right) in Cuba, 1960

9. 3
Identify the map shown.
1

10. Malgudi Days is a
collection of short
stories by R. K.
Narayan published
in 1943 by Indian
Thought
Publications.
The book was
republished
outside India in
1982

11. 4
Connect

12. The
Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown

13. 5

14. Richtersveld Mountain
in
Chander Pahar

15. 6
Who wrote the
book
Life Divine

16. 7
This is a representation of which iconic character in
English literature at Watchet, Somerset?
16

17. The Ancient Mariner.
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18. 8
8.
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a
novel by Charles Dickens, set
before and during the French
Revolution.
Which are the two cities the
novel refers to?
18

19. London
and
Paris
19

20. Science

21. 1
• MgFeTi2O5 is a mineral named
ArmAlColite.
• Where was it first discovered?
How does it get its name?
21

22. On the moon
ARMstrong, Aldrin COLlins
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23. 2
23

24. 3

25. 4
Google doodle commemorating what?
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26. Water being found on the moon.
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27. 5
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28. 6
John Bardeen
Linus Carl Pauling
Frederick Sanger
Connect and complete
.
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29. ANSWER
A quiz by Apratim Mukhopadhyay

30. Multiple Nobel laureates and Marie Curie.
A quiz by Apratim Mukhopadhyay

31. 7
• Nicknames include "frozen smoke", "solid
smoke", "solid air" or "blue smoke" owing
to its translucent nature and the
way light scatters in the material.
• Lightest material ever.
• What is it?

34. Graphene
Aerogel
Aerogel is a synthetic porous ultralight material derived from a gel, in which
the liquid component of the gel has been replaced with agas. The result is a solid
with extremely low density[1] and low thermal conductivity. Nicknames include
"frozen smoke",[2] "solid smoke", "solid air" or "blue smoke" owing to
its translucent nature and the way light scatters in the material; however, it feels
likeexpanded polystyrene (Styrofoam) to the touch.
Aerogel was first created by Samuel Stephens Kistler in 1931, as a result of a bet
with Charles Learned over who could replace the liquid in "jellies" with gas
without causing shrinkage.

35. Doodle commemorating whom?

36. 8
Minimalist
Poster

42. Audio

43. Miscellaneous

44. 
1
X is best known for the Bhoo-dan movement
(Bhoo-Land, Dan-Gift).
He is considered as a National Teacher of India and
the spiritual successor of Mahatma Gandhi.
In 1958, V was the first recipient of the
international Ramon Magsaysay Award, which is
often considered Asia's Nobel Prize for Community
Leadership.
He was awarded the Bharat Ratna posthumously
in 1983.
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45. Vinoba Bhave

46. 2
Albert Korda took a photograph of a
certain person in 1960. Later Jim
Fitzpatrick, an Irish artist created a
portrait based on this photograph in
1968.
This portrait became very iconic in the
20th century.
This image was also voted as “the image
of the 20th century” in an online poll.
Who was the person who featured in
this image?

47. Che Gueverra

48. 3

50. 4
Josephine MacLeod (Jaya), Mrs. Sara Bull
(Dhiramata), Swami Vivekananda and Margaret Noble (Sister

51. Swami Vivekananda wrote of Calve:
'She was born poor but by her innate talents, prodigious labour and diligence, and after wrestling against much
hardship, she is now enormously rich and commands respect from kings and emperors....The rare combination
of beauty, youth, talents, and "divine" voice has assigned Calve the highest place among the singers of the
West. There is, indeed, no better teacher than misery and poverty. That constant fight against the dire poverty,
misery, and hardship of the days of her girlhood, which has led to her present triumph over them, has brought
into her life a unique sympathy and a depth of thought with a wide outlook.'
"[He] truly walked with God, a noble being, a saint, a
philosopher and a true friend. His influence upon my spiritual
life was profound [...] my soul will bear him eternal
gratitude". ---- EMMA
Emma Calve came to be considered the greatest Carmen of her day and sang it at all the
opera houses. She then toured the principal cities of Europe, meeting with acclaim
wherever she went.
A woman, who made her fame inculcating to audiences the opposite of Vivekananda's
message of chastity, she nevertheless struck up a friendship with the monk and if
Vivekananda encouraged her to be less promiscuous in her appearances on stage, as far
as is known, she never recorded it.

52. 5
Where was this photograph clicked?

53. At the top of the Statue of Liberty.
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54. Alec Guinness
David Bamber
Bruno Ganz
Connect……
6
Robert Carlyle

55. All Played
Adolf Hitler:
Sir Alec Guinness, Hitler: The Last Ten Days.
David Bamber, in Valkyrie
Robert Carlyle, in Hitler: Rise of Evil
Bruno Ganz, in Der Untergang( The Downfall)
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56. 7
Q9.Identify the person sitting with Dilip Kumar. There have
been two movies based loosely on his rise, while a third
movie is set to be released this year.

57. 8
Y S Rajasekhara Reddy
connect
Dorjee Khandu

58. A13
•
•
•
•
GMC Balyogi
Madhavrao Scindia
OP Jindal
Andhra Pradesh cm Y S Rajasekhara Reddy
Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Dorjee
Khandu
• All politicians who died in a plane crash

59. Sports

60. 1
Connect. (What is X? )
 Hurling
X
 Bandy X
 Box X
 Broomball X
 Deck X
 Air X
 Floor X
 Floor
X
 Roller X
 Nok X
 Ringette X
 Rinkball X
 Underwater X
 Unicycle X

61. These are forms of Hockey.
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X= Hockey

62. 2 Whose logo?
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63. 3
 Vishal Ladwa is a 23 year old Indian origin player
at Manchester University.
Though the sport is not very popular in England, he managed
to form a team at whatever
institute he went to. Thus
Making the sport quite
popular in English Universities
. Due to his passionate
approach to the sport he
is called ‘David Beckham
of X’. to cap it all he has now
been named as English
X team Captain.

64. 4
Give funda, what is this advert about?

65. Michael Vaughan accused VVS
Laxman of using vaselin on his bat to
avoid detection by hotspot

66. 5
LCC

67. Old Father Time - Lord's Cricket Ground, St
John's Wood Road, London, UK
Lord's Cricket Ground is the home of cricket in England as
well as being the home to Middlesex Cricket Club. The
weather vane is located on the Mound Stand on the
south eastern side of the ground and has been resident
at the ground since 1926. The weather vane shows Old
Father Time with his scythe over his shoulder, a walking
stick and his familiar straggly beard. He is in the act of
removing a bail from a set of cricket stumps. A cricket
ball sits on the "wicket" towards the pointer. There is
some ornate scrolled iron work beneath Old Father Time
where the compass points are located. The weather vane
is painted black apart from the scythe, the cricket ball,
the direction pointer and the compass directions.

68. 6
TECHNIQUES ASSOCIATED WITH
WHICH SPORT ?
 Punching
 Knee flipping
 Back Pivot
 Back Roller
 Beam
 High Siding
 Dump
 Truck
 Taco
 Biner
 Troying
 Pirouette

69. White water Rafting
Rafting or white water rafting is the
challenging recreational outdoor activity of
using an inflatable raft to navigate a river o
other bodies of water. This is often done
on white water or different degrees of
rough water, in order to thrill and excite the
raft passengers., evolving from individuals
paddling 10 feet (3.0 m) rafts with doublebladed paddles to multi-person rafts
propelled by single-bladed paddles and
steered by a tour guide at the stern.

70. 7
BS

71. Victory for the fairer sex?
Did Billie Jean King win the 'battle
of the sexes' fair and square or
was the match thrown by
Bobby Riggs to settle gambling ..

72. 8

73. Bob Woolmar

74. Audio-Visual

76. Special round

77. Identify.
1
A quiz by Apratim
Mukhopadhyay

78. Salvador Dali
and Walt Disney.

79. 2
Identify this painter cum art dealer who is considered as
greatest forger of the painting history.
Jesus Among the Doctors

80. 3
Seal of X

81. 4

82. 5

83. 6
A portrait in the
Parliament House.
Who is the
painter ?

84. 7

87. Gregor John Mendel

88. Thank You !!

89. 6
What is this award ?
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90. Complete the series and put the funda
SG

91. ID PAINTING AND THE ARTIST.

94. The Fermi
paradox
(Fermi's
paradox or
Fermi-paradox)
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95. The Fermi paradox (Fermi's paradox or
Fermi-paradox) is the apparent
contradiction between high estimates of
the probability of the existence of
extraterrestrial civilizations and the lack
of evidence for, or contact with, such
civilizations
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