TGIX aug 2010

QUIZPrepared ByHIMA M.ANN NEETHU JOHNALAN PAUL JOY

It is a small village near the city of Shivamogga in Karnataka, southern India. It is on the bank of the Tunga River. In recent times, it has become known for Sanskrit learning. Most families in this village use Sanskrit as their daily language.Another notable feature in the village is the study of Vedas and Vedanta. The vedanta school in the village is closely associated with Holenarsipura Trust and is supposed to be one of the rare schools where Shankara Vedanta is taught as it was originally enunciated by Shankara.Name the village.

X was the name given by Y to his estate in Jamaica. Y claimed a number of origins for the name of the estate including tribute to Carson McCullers' novel and Operation X, a contingency plan Y himself developed during World War II in case of a Nazi invasion of Gibraltar through Spain. In 1956 British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden and his wife Clarissa spent a month at X after Eden's health collapsed in the wake of the Suez Crisis. Eighteen years later, the estate's name was the title of a film.

Which Indian film was officially selected to compete in the 'Un Certain Regard’(A Certain Look) category at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.?

Udaan produced by Sanjay Singh, Anurag Kashyap and Ronnie Screwvala and directed by Vikramaditya Motwane.

Carlos Slim ,is a Mexican businessman, philanthropist and the chairman and CEO of Telmex, Telcel and AméricaMóvil. As of April 2010, he is the wealthiest person in the world with a net worth of around US$60.6 billion.

Identify the organisation which the picture given below is associated with?

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, commonly abbreviated ASEAN

Orson WellesSergei YutkevichVishalBharadwajDirectors of the movie based on the play Othello in English, Russian ,Hindi.

Sandra BullockList of recipients Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress

It is a branch of bifurcation theory in the study of dynamical systems; it is also a particular special case of more general singularity theory in geometry. It was originated with the work of the French mathematician René Thom in the 1960s, and became very popular due to the efforts of Christopher Zeeman in the 1970s. Name the branch?

Identify this sports personality

Nadia Elena Comăneci . Romanian gymnast, winner of three Olympic gold medals at the 1976 Summer Olympics, and the first gymnast ever to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event. She is also the winner of two gold medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics

X is defined by prolonged differences in Pacific-Ocean surface temperatures when compared with the average value. The accepted definition is a warming or cooling of at least 0.5 °C (0.9 °F) averaged over the east-central tropical Pacific Ocean. Typically, this anomaly happens at irregular intervals of 2–7 years and lasts nine months to two years.X is Spanish for "the boy" and refers to the Christ child, because periodic warming in the Pacific near South America is usually noticed around Christmas

1. X was established in 1945 as Y, at the initiative of C. P. Ramaswami Iyer . Following violent resentment against the dictatorial rule of Sir. C.P.Ramaswamy Iyer, it no longer credits his role. Instead, it now credits the Maharaja His Highness Sree Chitra Tirunal Balarama Varma as the founder, though the Raja had little to do with the founding. Although the government put up only 25% of the capital, it undertook government treasury work and foreign exchange business, apart from its general business. Its registered office was at Madras.It provides a range of products, which includes the products aimed at Keralites who are working abroad. Identify X & Y

X:STATE BANK OF TRAVANCOREY:TRAVANCORE Ltd

2.X(born May 31, 1965) is an American actress, author and model, born in New York. X began her career as a model in 1966, at the age of 11 months. Her first job was for Ivory Soap, shot by Francesco Scavullo. X was 8 years old when she posed nude for the first time. At the age of 10, she was paid $45 USD to appear in Playboy.

Eileen Ford, founder of the Ford Modeling Agency, said of X: "...She is a professional child and unique. She looks like an adult and thinks like one .“In early 1980, the 14-year-old X was the youngest fashion model ever to appear on the cover of the top fashion publication Vogue magazine. Later that same year, X appeared in controversial print and TV ads for Calvin Klein jeans. The TV ad included her saying the famous tagline, "You want to know what comes between me and my Calvins? Nothing."

When she was 12 years old, she played a child prostitute of her age in Louis Malle's Y. At age 16, she had already worked for 16 years and had made more money than the President of the United States.

Brooke Christa Camille Shields

3.X is an American business magnate and inventor. He is well-known for being the co-founder and chief executive officer of Y. X also previously served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, following the acquisition of Pixar by Disney.In the early 1980s, X was among the first to see the commercial potential of the mouse-driven graphical user interface which led to the creation of the Z. After losing a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985, X resigned from Y and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in the higher education and business markets. Y's subsequent 1996 buyout of NeXT brought X back to the company he co-founded, and he has served as its CEO since 1997. He remained CEO and majority shareholder until Pixar Animation Studios acquisition by the Walt Disney Company in 2006. X is currently a member of Walt Disney Company's Board of Directors.ID X .Not necessarily Y and Z

X:Steven Paul "Steve" Job Y:APPLE

José Luis ChilavertParaguayan former football.

Four of his international goals were scored during Paraguay's qualification for the 2002 FIFA World Cup

He was a three-time IFFHS World's Best Goalkeeper award winner.5.X was a Thai politician who briefly served as the Prime Minister of Thailand and Minister of Defense in 2008, as well as the leader of the People's Power Party in 2008.

As X was a holder of the political position as a Prime Minister, he was under the subject of Section 267 of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand (2007) prohibiting the Prime Minister and Ministers from having any position in a partnership, a company or an organization carrying out business with a view to sharing profits or incomes or being an employee of any person. However, X, who acknowledged the purpose of such Section so well, still worked for the Face Media Co., Ltd. as emcee of two cookery shows, Chim Pai Bon Pai (Tasting and Grumbling) and YokKhayong Hok Mong Chao (All Set at 6am), and ceased from such works just when the ECT received a complaint concerning the case.

Samak Sundaravej25th Prime Minister of Thailand6. X was the first Asian who have crossed the English Channel. He was born on 16th November 1930 in Purulia (West Bengal). He was a lawyer by profession, a barrister of Kolkatta High court.In 1966, he established 5 important records and became an extra ordinary salt water swimmer. In 1958 X swam across the English Channel, in 1966 he crossed the Palk strait, followed by Gibralter Dar-E-Daniyal, Wasphorus and Panama. He thus established the record of swimming the longest distance. He is a matchless swimmer, having swam more than 600km in sea/ocean water. In 1959 he was awarded "Padma Shree" and in 1967 "Padma Bhushan". He brought glory to his motherland by creating records and earning a place in Guinness Book of World Record.

For Your Eyes Only Ian Fleming.

Carl LewisBen JohnsonLeroy BurrellDonovan BaileySprinters in 1980s-90s who set a time below 10.00 secondsfor 100 m race

9.ID HISTORIC BOOKWhat qualifies as perhaps the longest overdue library book in history found its way back to Washington and Lee University’s Leyburn Library in February, when the first volume of W.F.P. Napier’s four-volume set, X, was returned to the shelves after an absence of 52,858 days.A Union soldier named C.S. Gates took the book from Washington College, as it was then called, on June 11, 1864, when General David Hunter and his army of West Virginia raided the area and looted the college’s buildings.Gates, however, thought he was exacting revenge on Washington College’s next-door neighbor, the Virginia Military Institute, which was set on fire by the raiding party. A note signed by Gates and inscribed in the book reads: “This book was taken from the Military Institute at Lexington Virginia in June 1864 when General Hunter was on his Lynchburg raid. The Institution was burned by the order of Gen Hunter. The remains of Gen. Stonewall Jackson rest in the cemetery at this place.”ID X

History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of FranceMike Dau returns the long-lost volume to W&L technical services director Laura Turner

10:) ID X initially worked at the London design agency TangerineX is the designer of the famous product Y one of X's most recognized industrial designs. .X was elected as the most influential cultural icon in U.K beating Z .X was the winner of the Design Museum's inaugural Designer of the Year award in 2002, and won again in 2003. In 2004, he was a juror for the award In 2008 X was awarded the MDA Personal Achievement award.ID X, Y AND Z

Jonathan "Jony" Paul IveIPOD PowerBook G4, MacBook, unibody MacBook Pro,iPod, iPhone, and iPad.

11.CONNECTSCORING+25,-15+15,-55,0

Alif Laila (Thousand Nights) is a TV series based on the stories from The Arabian Nights. Films (Pvt. Ltd.). It was. The first season was aired on DD National and the second SAB TV. It proved to be a great success and achievement for its producers and broadcasters. Much of the credit of its success goes toRamanand Sagar. This was one of his greatest works. Shah Nawaz one of the lead actors played different roles in the series. Byomkesh Bakshi is a fictional detective in Bengali literature created by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay. The advocate-turned-littérateur Bandyopadhyay was deeply influenced by Sherlock Holmes of Arthur Conan DoyleBharat Ek Khoj is a 53 episode television series that dramatically unfolds the 5000 year history of India from its beginnings to the coming of independence in 1947. It is a series of explorations into the different periods of Indian history and was made in 1988 by the writer, director and producer Shyam Benegal. The serial is based on a book written by the historian and the first Prime Minister of independent India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, titled The Discovery of India.This series was telecast on Doordarshan. The starcast included Om Puri and Roshan Seth.

SALMA SULTHANA .SURABHI- RenukaShahane and Siddharth Kak

1. ‘X’ holds the record for the highest number of individual Oscars awarded. In his lifetime he received a total of 26 Oscars. Who is ‘X’?

2. Which newspaper came up with this classic football headline?

3. If you said “Pontiff visited Syria.”,Who would you be referring to?

4. Which of JRD’s board members, who also drafted the Bombay plan, went on to become the first Finance minister of independent India?

ANS: Australia, France, Germany,Greece - have hosted the summer Olymics twice

6. Rearrange these letters to give the name of an Oscar winning movie, A 1980 American drama film that marked the directorial debut of Robert Redford. PROPER DAILY ONE

7. On 28 September, 1988, all newspapers in India observed a one day strike against which proposed bill?

ANS: ANTI-DEFAMATION BILL

8. What form of wind instrument was named after its inventor, Antoine Joseph?

ANS: SAXOPHONE (FROM ANTOINE JOSEPH SAX)

9. What former British colony does this coin come from?

10. What is the full form of MHOW, the cantonment town in Madhya Pradesh?

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