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.
1. Quizlings – Quizician for Teenagers
https://www.facebook.com/groups/Quizlings/
Feb 2015 Part 2
Transcribed by Balaji Kasiraj
2. #1)US Dwight D. Eisenhower was
on his official plane when a
commercial flight in the same
airspace as the President’s plane
shared the same call sign, causing
much confusion.
What resulted from this?
4. #2)Caltech scientist Kip Thorne
helped with a movie script last
year.
Kip Thorne's name featured in a
bet in a movie this year.
( going by India release dates)
Name both movies
By-abhishek u
6. #3)These are members of the family
'Sturnidae', or what we call Mynah in
India. In many parts of the world they
form huge flocks like shown in the
picture. Such flocks are called what?
Pic in next slide->
14. #6) During his baseball career,
what jersey number did Michael
Jordan sport?
15. Answer:45 (in baseball and for a
short while in Basketball!!...of
course he mostly used 23 in
Basketball)
16. #7) The painting by Cristiano Banti
depicts a trial on charges of heresy,
an act which was acknowledged to
be a mistake centuries later. Who is
the subject of the inquisition?
From-Ramesh Athreya
Pic in next slide->
23. #10) What is the name of the
human-like inhabitants of the land
of the Houyhnhnms, discovered by
Captain Lemuel Gulliver in 1711?
from -Prasoon Bopche
25. #11)Which Government service for
communication was in operation in
Odisha till about 2005 and is still
apparently used by its police force
during emergencies?
From- Md Irfan
27. #12) In Hindu mythology, Jaya and
Vijaya are the two demigod
gatekeepers of Lord Vishnu. For
insulting the Kumaras, they are cursed
to take three births as Lord Vishnu's
enemies on Earth. First as
Hiranyakashipu and Hiranyaksha.In
their second life they were born as
Ravana and Kumbhakarna.
Who were they born as the third time?
29. #13) "The Dresden atrocity, tremendously
expensive and meticulously planned, was so
meaningless, finally, that only one person on the
entire planet got any benefit from it. I am that
person. I wrote this book, which earned a lot of
money for me and made my reputation, such as
it is. One way or another, I got two or three
dollars for every person killed. Some business
I'm in".
ID the the book written by the author, known for
satire, humour and science fiction, partially
based on experiences as a POW.
33. #15)The Jade Emperor (to facilitate
something he was was working on)
summoned all the creatures onEarth
to participate in a race.
1) who won first place? Who was last?
2) who were in the middle?
From-Rajiv Rai
34. Answer:
This is the Chinese zodiac. Rat came
first, by, what most conservative folks
will call, cheating (hitched a ride on
the ox and then jumped off last
minute). Pig was last, very distracted.
Ox, tiger, dragon, rabbit, snake etc
were the other 10
37. #17)"Revolution" was an American
post-apocalyptic science fiction
television series. The show takes place
in the post-apocalyptic near-future of
the year 2027, 15 years after the start
of a worldwide, permanent electrical-
power blackout in 2012.
What is the second "o" in "Revolution"
stylized as ?
51. #24) A Puritan Minister left his
library of four hundred books to a
certain college in his will. The
grateful college promptly named
the college after him. Which
college?
59. #28) One sure shot way of listing all a
country's neighbours would be to start
somewhere on the national border and go
all the way around clockwise, listing out
the neighbours till you come back to the
same point.Do that with Vietnam and you
get Cambodia, Laos and China. Perfect.
Now try this with South Africa and you get
Namibia,Botswana, Zimbabwe,
Mozambique and Swaziland. Right, oops,
wrong. Which country did I miss and why?
61. #29) Which brand is named for a
wrestler in antiquity who won
many victories in the most
important athletic festivals of
ancient Greece and is believed to
have run a marathon with a young
cow on his shoulder?
73. #35) This is a punctuation mark
designed for use especially at the end
of an exclamatory rhetorical question.
Example : 'You call that a hat?!'"
What is it called?
75. #36) Essentially a confederation, it was
one of the largest and one of the most
populous countries of 16th- and 17th-
century Europe. It goes by many
names but the best known one
incorporates the names of two present
day European nations both part of the
EU today.
Name the entity
Pic in next slide->
80. #38) Which non-SI unit, first
named in 1910, bears a surname,
though the commission which
agreed on this name never
declared as to which person it was
specifically named for ?
98. #47) In the 1956 novel by Dodie Smith,
the crime involved 97 juveniles. In the
movie version 5 years later (and its
1996 remake), to simplify the story,
this number was increased to 99.
What are we talking about?