The document discusses Arjun Rampal, an Indian actor who found fame earlier in a different field besides Bollywood. Some key details provided about Rampal include: - His grandfather was a reputed army engineer who designed an artillery gun named after him. - His maternal grandmother was Dutch, which some credit for his "Greek God looks." - He found fame in a different field before becoming a successful Bollywood actor.

1. Quiz
Soumya Sarkar
December 10, 2014
Infosys, Hyderabad

3. Identify him.
• His grandfather Brigadier Gurdayal Singh was a reputed army engineer who had
fought against the Japanese, in Burma, during World War II. The GCF (Gun
Carriage Factory) in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh has the ‘Gurdayal Gun’ an artillery
gun named after the Brigadier, since he had designed it.
• His maternal grandmother was Dutch and is sometimes credited for his Greek God
looks.
• He is a successful Bollywood actor but found fame earlier in a different field.

4. ARJUN RAMPAL

5. Name the service
• __________ is a global broadcast data startup currently being incubated by the
Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF), a United States-based impact
investment fund and non-profit organization established in 1995.
• It’s goal is to provide free access to content from the Internet through
geostationary and Low Earth Orbit satellites, made available effectively to all
parts of the world…….FREE

6. Outernet

7. Why the delay?
• Bridgemanite an extremely dense
magnesium iron silicate, is the most
abundant mineral on earth
• Scientists believe that about 70 percent
of Earth’s lower mantle, or about 36
percent of the planet's total volume, is
made of it.
• This mineral was known to geologists
since 1946 but was named formally
only in 2014

8. According to the International Mineralogical
Association, a mineral cannot be given a
name before the physical proof of its
existence is obtained.
This mineral was found in a meteorite that crashed to earth recently. On the Earth it is found 670
kilometers below the surface.

9. “I am not here to defend myself or neither am I here to blame somebody, but to
tell you the truth.” “First of all, the other day what happened was I was not made
to rehearse thoroughly, then I did not know most of the dignitaries present at this
prestigious event. Five minutes before the event started, the instruction mike
stopped working. Producer did not have any way to tell me who’s coming next,
that was one big mistake. Yes, I did make mistake. I apologize for the same,”
Whose words?

10. Aayenah Pahuja
• The Doordarshan anchor who made
one blunder after the other, while
covering IFFI (International Film
Festival of India) at Goa

11. What is the “well-known” Arabic word for
'The Island' or 'The Peninsula'

12. Al Jazeera

13. Alec Guinness, Robert Carlyle, Anthony Hopkins and Ian McKellen have
all played which 20th century historical figure

14. Adolf Hitler

15. Which country has the coldest capital city in
the world?

16. Mongolia
Capital Ulan Bataar’s average annual
temperature is only -2.6 C

17. In August 2007, a series of anti-government protests started in Myanmar.
The immediate cause of the protests was mainly the unannounced decision of the
ruling party to remove fuel subsidies, which caused the price of diesel and petrol
to suddenly rise as much as 66%, and the price of compressed natural gas for
buses to increase fivefold in less than a week.
What were the protest called by the world media?

18. The Saffron
Revolution

19. This European Space Agency mission shares it’s
name with a pre-Italian Renaissance painter who
could draw perfect circles
Name the mission or the painter

20. Giotto
Giotto di Bondone, known as Giotto,
was an Italian painter and architect from
Florence in the late Middle Ages.
He had observed Halley's
Comet in 1301 and was
inspired to depict it as the
star of Bethlehem in his
painting Adoration of the
Magi.

21. What was the original purpose of
building the crown of the Empire State
Building?

22. Airship Dock

23. Little Worms, Cooking Pot, Little Tongues,
Butterflies and Little Pies
These are English translations of what?

24. Pasta
• Vermicelli
• Lasagne
• Linguine
• Farfalle
• Tortellini

25. Omkara (2006, Hindi), Maqbool (2003,
Hindi), _______ (2014, Hindi) and Angoor
(1982, Hindi)
Identify the missing one and the link between them

26. Adaptations of Shakespearean Plays
Omkara (Othello)
Maqbool (Macbeth)
Haider (Hamlet)
Angoor (Comedy of Errors)

27. Fishbeds are the mainstay of India. India also
has Fulcrums, Flankers and Floggers as well as
Candids, Clines and Mainstays and Midas(es)
What are we talking about?

28. NATO reporting names of
Russian Military Jets
Fishbed – MiG 21
Fulcrum – MiG 29
Flanker –Su-30
Flogger – MiG 27
Candid – Il-76
Cline – An-32
Mainstay – Beriev A50
Midas – Il-78

29. What did Barrack Obama do during his state
visit to Ireland in 2011 that the Queen
refused to during her visit?

30. He drank a
Guinness

31. He directed a film that Ronald Reagan even quoted the film in his 1986 State of
the Union Address. In 2007, the Library of Congress selected this film for
preservation in the National Film Registry, and in June 2008 the American Film
Institute's special AFI's 10 Top 10 designated the film as the 10th-best film in the
science fiction genre.
He was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1991 and Sweden's Karolinska
Institutet gave him a honoris causa doctorate for his work in advocating a cure for
Parkinson's disease.
Gave his voice to Stuart Little
Which movie and Who ?

32. Michael J. Fox Back to the Future

33. A professor from MIT, Y. W. Lee, bet his life savings on this scientist’s effort and
that’s how the dream of the son of an Indian political dissident who was raised in
Philadelphia came true.
Who was the scientist?

34. Amar Gopal Bose

35. Founded in the 1880’s, this clothing company owns brands
like Tommy Hilfiger, Calvin Klein, IZOD, Arrow, Timberland.
Its name however, comprises of its most famous brand yet.
Name the company

36. Philip - Van Heusen

37. Which famous prime minister was dubbed
“Atilla the Hen”?

38. Margaret Thatcher

39. Liaoning, Charles de Gaulle, Vikramaditya,
Giuseppe Garibaldi, Admiral Kuznetsov, Juan
Carlos, George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan,
Harry S. Truman, John C. Stennis
CONNECT?

40. Aircraft Carriers

41. It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was
the ______. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my
thumb blotted out the _____. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt
very, very small?
Fill in the blank

42. Earth

43. Connect with one word

44. Matador

45. The largest ____ , according to the Guinness World Records,
was held at the Flanders Expo Halls in Ghent, Belgium, on
11 December 2010 with 2,280 participants. The winning team
Café De Kastaar from Leuven was composed of Marnix
Baes, Erik Derycke, Eric Hemelaers, Bart Permentier and
Tom Trogh.

46. Q U I Z

47. In 1972, on April12, the first programme of the “_____ _____
_____" went on air with the legendary Hamid Sayani, and
later his brother Ameen Sayani. Soon it became the most
popular English programme on Vividh Bharati. Teams of
three students each from 52 schools from Mumbai, Delhi,
Kolkata and Chennai participated.
What?

48. The Bournvita Quiz Contest
It was 20 years later in June 1992 that it aired first on Zee TV with Derek O’ Brien anchoring.

49. Lockeed Martin’s
advance aerospace
project is called >>
What is Boeing’s called?

50. Phantom Works

51. This country refused a seat on the UN Security
Council for the UN’s alleged inaction in the
Syrian conflict. This is a first in world history
where a country refused a UNSC seat.
WHICH COUNTRY?

52. Maria Sharapova runs a confectionery
business that sells premium lollypops,
candies, gummies, etc etc.
UNDER WHAT BRAND?

53. Sugarpova

54. Once upon a time in America (circa 1900), which extremely
expensive edible product, known then as 'Albany Beef', was
sold for a penny a pound and was often used in saloons like
salty beer nuts today ?
HINT: Iran is the largest producer of this product today followed by Russia.

55. Caviar

56. Whenever I ask about Pepsi-Cola or Coca-Cola, people immediately say it is an
American or European drink. This is not true. The kola is African. They have taken
the cheap raw material from us. They produced it, they made it into a drink, and
they sell it to us for a high price. Why are Pepsi-Cola and Coca-Cola expensive?
Because they have taken our kola, produced it, and sold it back to us. We should
produce it ourselves and sell it to them.
Whose golden words?

57. Muammar Gaddafi

58. This royal is the President of the
______ Dachshund Club. Yet he
revealed in 2006 that he loved
dogs…..grilled or sautéed.

59. Prince Henrik
DENMARK

60. ISOBAR – Denoting places with same atmospheric pressure
ISOTHERM – Denoting place with same temperature
ISOHYET - ????

61. Places with same
RAINFALL

62. This Benedictine monk has probably made the
greatest personal contribution in making Champagne.
So much so that one of the most famous of
Champagnes is named after him.
NAME HIM

63. Dom Perignon

64. 2012 saw Coca-cola being sold again in
which Asian country for the first time in 60
years?

65. Myanmar

66. Whom did George Harrison (Beatles) call
the Grandfatehr of World Music?

67. Ravi Shankar

68. Ushuaia is a port city in Argentina. What is it
better known as?

69. Southermost City in
the World

70. The alcohol in Brazils national drink
Caipirinha is called Cachaca. Cachaca is
fermented what?

71. Sugarcane

72. What did Barack Obama show US television
viewers on the 27th of April 2011?
This was in response to lot of speculation among general public and the
media on his legitimacy for the top job

73. His birth certificate
from Hawaii

74. Zuccotti Park in New York became the center of
a famous protest movement that began on
September 17, 2011 against social and
economic inequality worldwide.
WHICH

75. Occupy Wall Street

76. Which is the world’s newest country

77. South Sudan

78. A briefcase follows the American President
everywhere they travel. It contains nuclear
launch codes that authorizes nuclear launches
WHAT IS THE MORE COMMON TERM FOR IT IN THE MEDIA?

79. Nuclear Football

80. These medals were awarded to whom

81. Chernobyl disaster Clean Up Workers

82. Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, the revolutionary hero, took part in
guerrilla wars in Cuba, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica,
Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador and was killed fighting
Bolivian troops, but what nationality was he?

83. Argentine

84. The Persian word Shahenshah means “King
of Kings”. Who was the first King to be
called with this title?

85. Ardashir I in 180 AD

86. Which American writer who could speak Chinese
before she learned English won the Nobel Prize
for Literature in 1938 for her great work set in
China: The Good Earth

87. Pearl S. Buck

88. Brad Pitt was banned from entering China
because of his role in which film?

89. Seven Years in
Tibet

90. The Warren Commission theory that there was a
single shooter in JFK’s assassination was blown
by a film shot by a private citizen named
Abraham Zapruder. Why?
THIS GAVE RISE TO THE VARIOUS CONSPIRACY THEORIES SURROUNDING HIS DEATH

91. It showed shots coming from almost
diametrically opposite directions

92. This island is the third largest in the Balearic
Islands off Spain’s southern coast is globally
known for its nightclubs and trance music.
Identify

93. Ibiza

94. Which fictional character apart from
Sherlock Holmes, apparently plunged to his
death at the Reichenbach falls?

95. Professor Abraham
Van Helsing

96. Traditionally on which three holidays do
Americans consume the most amount of
food.
NEED ALL THREE, ESPECIALLY THE THIRD

97. Christmas Day, Thanksgiving Day and
Superbowl Sunday.

98. This whisky brand born in 1988 was created with the “… idea
was to provide a feel of high status to a product that was
priced low,”
This is the largest whisky brand in the world in terms of
volume sales

99. Officer’s Choice