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Quiz Meet Ankan Bansal 3/6/2012
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.
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- 2. Q1. This is aSwahili phrase that can be translated literally as “There are no worries”. In 1980, the Kenyan band Them Mushrooms released the Swahili song “Jambo Bwana” (“Hello Mister”), which repeats the phrase in its refrain. A few years later the German group Boney M. covered the song. The Play Station 3 game Afrika was renamed to this in its Asian release. The phrase was made popular by a Walt Disney animated movie.
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- 5. Q2. The Ride ofthe Valkyries is the popular term for the beginning of Act III of Die Walküre (1870), the second of the four operas by X. Id X.
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- 8. Q3. In an interviewX said- "The flush toilet may have been the most civilized invention ever devised, but the Y is the next most important" Identify 'X' & 'Y' X was inventor of Y
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- 17. Q6. What Is commonto the following: Dal Lake(Kashmir) Gaube Lake (French Pyrenees) Lake Chad (Chad) Lake Nyassa (Malawi/Mozambique) Lake Tahoe (Nevada/California) Lake Hayq (Ethiopia)
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- 19. Tautological names -all of them essentially mean “lake” (or rather “lake lake”).
- 20. Q7. There are twoprimary contexts from which this 9 letter word may have arisen. One is that of the courtier, and the other is that of the soldier. Either way, the word may have come from the term for small instruction-cards. Such things were given at different times to people being presented at royal courts. They were also given to soldiers billeted with ordinary citizens in various parts of Europe. What word is this?
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- 23. Q8. 'Sleepy John' isa Czech folk legend which tells the story of a useless fellow who can do nothing but sleep. He happens to land in the king's court due to magic, where the court is discussing the strange disappearance of the Queen every night. The Queen wears out a dozen pairs of shoes every night, yet no one has ever been able to follow her. Sleepy John announces that he'll follow her and find her secret. He uses his magic to track her down, and discovers that she sneaks out of the palace every night to attend a feast in Hell and ends up dancing with the devil till her dozen pairs of shoes are worn out. John is rewarded with half the kingdom by the King for tracking her exploits, and the Queen is swallowed by the earth. Where did most of us come across this story, in a slightly different form?
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- 26. Q9. A recent $45million deal has caused a great furore. This deal is for product placement in an upcoming movie. Fans say that this is proof that corporate commerce has left nothing sacred and the franchise shouldn’t tamper with a thing so closely associated with it. Explain.
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- 28. The next Bondmovie „Skyfall‟ will have Bond drinking Heinekin instead of the trademark martini.
- 29. Q10. X is awell-known idiom in theatre which means “good luck”. It is typically said to actors and musicians before they go on stage to perform. The expression reflects a theatrical superstition in which wishing a person “good luck” is considered bad luck. Among professional dancers, the traditional saying is not X, but “merde”, the French word for “shit”. Opera singers use “Toi Toi Toi”, an idiom used to ward off a spell or hex, often accompanied by knocking on wood, and onomatopoeic, spitting.
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- 32. Q11. This termwas first used in speech in 1873. It was first used in print in 1876, in Putnam's Magazine. One of the earliest books to use the word was The Home and Farm Manual, written by Jonathan Periam in 1883. In that work, Periam used the term several times to denote an ill-bred and ignorant, but ostentatious, man from the city. The term is generally used to denote an individual, typically male, particularly somebody well dressed or who has never lived outside a big city.
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- 35. Q12. Robert Cade,Dana Shires, Harry James Free, and Alejandro de Quesada were the medical researchers at the University of Florida who created the original _____ in 1965. The Florida ****** football coach, Ray Graves, was frustrated with the performance of his players during the hot summer football practices, and asked the team doctor, one of Cade‟s associates, for his insight. Cade and his research team came across the unique mix of water, sodium, sugar, potassium, phosphate and lemon juice that is now known as _____ in honor of the football team, the ****** The football team credited _____ with their first Orange Bowl win over the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets in 1967, and the drink became an instant phenomenon. The Yellow Jackets coach Bud Carson, when asked why they lost, replied: "We didn‟t have _____. That made the difference.” What is the blank?
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- 38. Q13. Homo floriensis isa possible species of extinct human found on the island of Flores in Indonesia. The first set of remains to be found, LB1, has an estimated height of 1.06m, and a brain volume of 23 cu in. What was the nickname given to Homo floriensis.
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- 41. Q14. The X areannual awards created by Wendy Northcutt who holds a degree in biology from Berkley. The nominees for this award must meet five criteria: 1. Candidate must be dead or rendered sterile. 2. Candidate must have exhibited astoundingly stupid judgment. 3. Candidate must be the cause of one’s own demise. 4. Candidate must be capable of sound judgment. 5. The event must be verifiable. Past winners include a man who jumped out of a plane to film skydivers without a parachute on, a woman who crashed through a window and fell to her death trying to demonstrate that the window was unbreakable and a man who tried to fake his own death to claim the insurance and actually ended up killing himself.
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- 43. Darwin Awards Named inhonour of Charles Darwin, these commemorate “those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it.”
- 44. Q15. Fictional Tweets. Following aresome fictional tweets which famous historical figures may have tweeted had Twitter been present in their time or had they been alive today. Identify whose words these may have been.
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