1. ______ ____ is a movie directed by
Srilankan movie maker Sanjeewa
Pushpakumara. It was the first short film to be
producd by a film festival, International Film
Festival Rotterdam.
Flying Fish
2. X is the author of Y, one of the
international bestsellers in 2003
which was appeared in the theatre in
2006 by Ron Howard.
Y featured Z, a religious iconology
and symbology professor in Harvard
University. Y had one ancestor and
two heirs. The last part was written in
2013.
X, Y and Z ?
X = Dan Brown
Y = The Da Vinci Code
Z = Robert Langdon
3. Some of the considered names for
thisproduct/brand were:
iCUCyrix
iamfastest
GenuIn5
SWIFFT
RADAR1
Finally , the name _____ was adopted.
PENTIUM
4
It was 1894, and 26-year old Václav Klement, a
bookseller, was unable to obtain spare parts to
repair his bicycle. Klement returned his bicycle to
the manufacturers, Seidel and Naumann, with a
letter, in Czech, asking for them to carry out
repairs, only to receive a reply, in German, stating:
"If you would like an answer to your inquiry, you
should try writing in a language we can
understand". A disgusted Klement, despite not
having technical experience, decided to start a
bicycle repair shop, which he and Václav Laurin
opened in 1895. Which company was born
henceforth?
5. Saraswatichandra, starring
Nutan and Manish, won
the National Film Awards in
the Best Cinematography & Best
Music Director categories in 1969.
As per official records, what is so
special about this movie?
Last Bollywood movie to be made in
black and white.
6. Traveler's diarrhea is the most common
illness affecting travelers. It is defined as
three or more unformed stools in 24 hours
passed by a traveler, commonly accompanied
by
abdominal cramps, nausea, and bloating. Its
diagnosis does not imply a specific organism,
but Escherichia coli is the most commonly
isolated pathogen.
There are a number of colloquialisms for
travelers' diarrhea, such as “Montezuma's
revenge”, “Aztec two step”, “Pharaoh's
Revenge”. What is the Indian colloquialism for
this disease?
1. Identify the game
Bats: 25" to 26" long, 2¼" diameter, maximum
weight 17 to 20 ounces
Balls: typically appear identical to baseballs
but are slightly softer to reduce injuries: 9" to
9½" around, 4 to 6 ounces weight, with a
molded core or sponge rubber center.
Footwear: Casual footwear such as tennis
shoes. In some cases, baseball cleats.
Tee Ball / T ball
2. Id the last one (till date) of this collection
safety slide
Clyde
3.
3. Id.
4. Doodle is a tribute to whom?
Octavio Paz
5. Made in _________?
6. X is known in Burmese as
Thurathadi, Tipitaka in Medaw
language, Biancaitian In Chinese
and Benzaiten in Japanese. By
which name we better known X ?
Saraswati
 Inspired by the groundbreaking work of Friends
Without Borders, an International NGO, these
two leading dailies started this campaign on 1st
January, 2010 to spread peace among the citizens
of these two South Asian neighbours.
 Name this campaign.
1
Aman Ki Asha
2
This is a toy used to pacify crying babies in
Spain. What is it’s significance to modern
day football?
3
Founded in 1889, X’s first product was handmade hanfuda cards.
By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses,
such as a cab company, a love hotel, a TV network and a food
company. Eventually, it entered its current business becoming one
of the most influential in the industry and third biggest company in
its home country, Japan with a market value of more than $85b.
According to X's Touch! Generations website, the name “X"
translated to English means "Leave luck to Heaven“
ID X.
4
Kenya took the first major stand on this issue
back in 1989 by torching 12 tons of this material.
The country's president, Daniel Arap Moi, lit the
flames himself. It was November, 2013 when the
United States finally got into the act. It pulverized
six tons of this material, a stock pile accumulated
over 24 years. China soon followed suit and it is
expected that Hong Kong will also destroy its
stock pile (at 28 tons, it is the largest stockpile
known).
What material?
5Tribute to which day?
Nowruz on March
21 is the first day in
Persian calendar.
6
A famous Indian temple’s name is
derived from a Sanskrit word of a
sweet fruit whose scientific name is
Phoenix Dactylifera? Identify the
name of the temple?
Identify both the fruit and temple
Khajuraho
Khajur fruit or Date palm
1
Kesarbai Kerkar
2Connect
Franz Ferdinand
3
An ad film made in 2005 for Air Deccan
held the then record for the longest ad
ever to be telecast on Indian television. The
ad titled The Old man and the Sky was
meant to mirror the emotions of millions
of Indians who could now fly at Re 1.
Which national award winning actor played
The Old Man in this ad?
4
5
6
David Copperfield
X was reformed in January 2007, when X
reorganized its automobile business, and
traces its history back to 1899 when the
first, X automobile, was produced. Really X
was the largest automobile manufacturer in
Italy.
Id X.
1
FIATFabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino
2Which company derives its name
from the name of the league?
………..League was an
alliance of trading cities
and their guilds that
established and
maintained a trade
monopoly along the coast
of Northern Europe, from
the Baltic to the North
Sea and inland, during the
Late Middle Ages and
early modern period
(c.13th–17th centuries)
Lufthansa
3
Operated by Karnataka Tourism, which luxury
‘service’ has been named after this structure found in
the Vitthala Temple at Hampi?
Golden Chariot
4
The parker brothers print about $50 billion
money each year. Till date they may have
printed $ 3 trillions. For what purpose are
these money used ?
5
X is powered by an ordinary 6 volt alkaline
battery manufactured by Bharat Electronics
Ltd., Bangalore and Electronic Corporation
of India Ltd., Hyderabad. This design
enables the use of X throughout the
country without interruptions because
several parts of India do not/or have erratic
power supply.
X??
Electronic voting machines (EVMs)
6……………………produced some of the earliest
motorcycles in 1903
These were two cylinder machines with French
engines made by Antoine, which were marketed by a
garage in Chelsea in London - one of the first
motorcycle dealerships in the UK
The motorcycle failed to impress the military
authorities, despite optional accessories including a
sidecar complete with Maxim machine gun
This venture was not a success. After the WWI they
decided to continue to develop the in-line four engine
- but in a new car called the 'Deemster' and they
never returned to motorcycle production
Today, it is a major competitor to a company acquired
by P & G recently
Randall
Munroe
1.Ingredients : Sucrose, Corn Syrup, Flavoring
50/-25
2. 45/-22.5
3. 40/-20
4.
35/-17.5
5. 30/-15
6. 25/-12.5
7. 20/-10
8.
15/-5
9.
10/-5
10. 5
Lollipop
Stuart Binny
Pusa ( It is the place where the HQ of
ICAR and National Physical
Laboratory )
Idly
Sambar
Hans Raj (The person is Hans Raj
Bhardwaj, Hon’ble Ex-Governor of
Kerala )
Aryan
Rajadhani
Bahadur
തവളക്കണ്ണൻ
And finally the connect is all are the names
of Rice Varieties
1Id the sport.
2. Left led to Right being called X.
Man on right, X?
Hermann Maier
‘Herminator’
3Born on March 2, 1944 in Tunisia, X’s World
Cup career spanned five matches including
an appearance in a Round of 16 match
between Denmark and Spain. However, all
these distinctions faded into irrelevance due
to what X claimed was an adverse reaction
to the treatment X was receiving for a latent
haemorrhoidal condition which caused X’s
medium-distance vision to suddenly
become unfocused, causing X to miss Y. X,
Y?
Ali Bin Nasser (X), the referee who missed Maradona’s
“Hand of God” goal in the Estadio Azteca at the 1986
World Cup (Y).
That X headed the sporting reform of his
country is difficult to believe. Despite his
undeniable brilliance on the field, he's not
necessarily considered particularly wise off
it. The law, named after X, sought to
modernize the country's sports industry.
Salient features include:
- forcing professional sports clubs to
observe business law and pay tax within
two years.
- allows clubs to organise their own
leagues, breaking the monopoly of official
4
What method well-known to
sports fans was used for
the first time in a rugby
union match in the
Heineken Cup semi-final
which saw the Leicester
Tigers beat the Cardiff
5
6
Al
la
n
T
o
ur
in
g
 This is a street food
common in Cape Town,
South Africa, which was
supposed invented by
Rashaad Pandy one night
in 1976, when he tried to
feed some day laborers
after he had sold out of
fish
 It was named after a
famous 1925 novel, today
widely regarded as a
paragon of the Great
American Novel, and a
literary classic.
 The Great Gatsby
 ( Gatsby will also be
accepted )
X, Y and the mirror and the
light are 3 entities in news
which involve an ancestor
of this Englishman whose
body was subjected to a
symbolic posthumous
execution in 1661.
Identify X and Y.
X Y
Thomas Cromwell Trilogy by Hillary Mantel
There are four mandatory constitutional duties in South
Korea - taxes, education, labour and military service being
Olympic medal winners or Gold medalists in the Asian
Games. X supposedly performed his military service from
2003-2005, but was later accused of not doing it properly. X
filed a litigation against the military authorities in an effort to
block his re-conscription. However he lost his appeal and
was eventually re-drafted into the military in December 2007.
This was supposedly the first such incident in Korean
History. Who is X.
The Telecommunications Regulatory
Commission (TRC)of Sri Lanka recently
announced its plan to establish The Sri
Lanka Space Agency by signing an MOU
with Surrey Satellite Company Ltd in UK to
launch its first geostationary satellite. The
satellite will be named after an
internationally renounced visionary. Who is
this person or after whom will this satellite
be named?
Arthur C Clarke
He was the author of the best-selling book,
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective
People. Other books he authored include
First Things First, Principle-Centered
Leadership, and The Seven Habits of Highly
Effective Families. This prominent author
died recently due to complications from a
fall, having lost control of his bicycle on a
steep road two years before. Who was he?
Stephen Covey
(full name:Stephen Richards Covey)
He is the subject of a biography titled “The
Most Dangerous Man in the world” by
Andrew Fowler. He is none other than
Julian Assange, the editor –in –chief and
founder of WikiLeaks website. In August
2012, Assange was granted political asylum
by Ecuador, resulting in a tense diplomatic
standoff between U.K. and the Latin
American Country. Who is the current
President of Ecuador who is in the news
due to Julian Assange affair?
Rafael Correa
According to local belief, shepherd Buta
Malik was once given a bag full of Coal by a
Saint. To his utter surprise, he found the bag
was full of gold coins. He went back to thank
the Saint but couldn’t find him. Instead, he
found an Ice-structure inside a cave.
Which holy place was thus discovered by
Buta Malik?
Amarnath Cave
NASA’s Space Shuttle Program ended
after 30 years with the final mission of
STS 135 of Shuttle Atlantis in July 2011.
What you see is the crew of the final
Space Shuttle mission. It comprises of
veteran astronauts Pilot Doug Hurley,
mission Specialists Sandy Magnus and Rex
Waldheim plus, of course, the mission
commander. Who is the Commander of
the final Space Shuttle Mission?
1. Id the male singer
2. This song is an advertisement of
which corp.
Samsung
3. Id the conductor.
Zubin Mehta
4. Whose voice
Na Mo
5. Id. the film
Chettathi (1965 )
The Padmavyuha - iQuiz
The Padmavyuha - iQuiz
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The Padmavyuha - iQuiz

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    1. ______ ____is a movie directed by Srilankan movie maker Sanjeewa Pushpakumara. It was the first short film to be producd by a film festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam.
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    2. X isthe author of Y, one of the international bestsellers in 2003 which was appeared in the theatre in 2006 by Ron Howard. Y featured Z, a religious iconology and symbology professor in Harvard University. Y had one ancestor and two heirs. The last part was written in 2013. X, Y and Z ?
  • 12.
    X = DanBrown Y = The Da Vinci Code Z = Robert Langdon
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    3. Some ofthe considered names for thisproduct/brand were: iCUCyrix iamfastest GenuIn5 SWIFFT RADAR1 Finally , the name _____ was adopted.
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    4 It was 1894,and 26-year old Václav Klement, a bookseller, was unable to obtain spare parts to repair his bicycle. Klement returned his bicycle to the manufacturers, Seidel and Naumann, with a letter, in Czech, asking for them to carry out repairs, only to receive a reply, in German, stating: "If you would like an answer to your inquiry, you should try writing in a language we can understand". A disgusted Klement, despite not having technical experience, decided to start a bicycle repair shop, which he and Václav Laurin opened in 1895. Which company was born henceforth?
  • 19.
    5. Saraswatichandra, starring Nutanand Manish, won the National Film Awards in the Best Cinematography & Best Music Director categories in 1969. As per official records, what is so special about this movie?
  • 21.
    Last Bollywood movieto be made in black and white.
  • 22.
    6. Traveler's diarrheais the most common illness affecting travelers. It is defined as three or more unformed stools in 24 hours passed by a traveler, commonly accompanied by abdominal cramps, nausea, and bloating. Its diagnosis does not imply a specific organism, but Escherichia coli is the most commonly isolated pathogen. There are a number of colloquialisms for travelers' diarrhea, such as “Montezuma's revenge”, “Aztec two step”, “Pharaoh's Revenge”. What is the Indian colloquialism for this disease?
  • 28.
    1. Identify thegame Bats: 25" to 26" long, 2¼" diameter, maximum weight 17 to 20 ounces Balls: typically appear identical to baseballs but are slightly softer to reduce injuries: 9" to 9½" around, 4 to 6 ounces weight, with a molded core or sponge rubber center. Footwear: Casual footwear such as tennis shoes. In some cases, baseball cleats.
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    Tee Ball /T ball
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    2. Id thelast one (till date) of this collection safety slide
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    4. Doodle isa tribute to whom?
  • 43.
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    5. Made in_________?
  • 47.
    6. X isknown in Burmese as Thurathadi, Tipitaka in Medaw language, Biancaitian In Chinese and Benzaiten in Japanese. By which name we better known X ?
  • 49.
  • 52.
     Inspired bythe groundbreaking work of Friends Without Borders, an International NGO, these two leading dailies started this campaign on 1st January, 2010 to spread peace among the citizens of these two South Asian neighbours.  Name this campaign. 1
  • 54.
  • 55.
    2 This is atoy used to pacify crying babies in Spain. What is it’s significance to modern day football?
  • 58.
    3 Founded in 1889,X’s first product was handmade hanfuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company, a love hotel, a TV network and a food company. Eventually, it entered its current business becoming one of the most influential in the industry and third biggest company in its home country, Japan with a market value of more than $85b. According to X's Touch! Generations website, the name “X" translated to English means "Leave luck to Heaven“ ID X.
  • 61.
    4 Kenya took thefirst major stand on this issue back in 1989 by torching 12 tons of this material. The country's president, Daniel Arap Moi, lit the flames himself. It was November, 2013 when the United States finally got into the act. It pulverized six tons of this material, a stock pile accumulated over 24 years. China soon followed suit and it is expected that Hong Kong will also destroy its stock pile (at 28 tons, it is the largest stockpile known). What material?
  • 64.
  • 66.
    Nowruz on March 21is the first day in Persian calendar.
  • 67.
    6 A famous Indiantemple’s name is derived from a Sanskrit word of a sweet fruit whose scientific name is Phoenix Dactylifera? Identify the name of the temple? Identify both the fruit and temple
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    3 An ad filmmade in 2005 for Air Deccan held the then record for the longest ad ever to be telecast on Indian television. The ad titled The Old man and the Sky was meant to mirror the emotions of millions of Indians who could now fly at Re 1. Which national award winning actor played The Old Man in this ad?
  • 82.
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  • 90.
  • 94.
    X was reformedin January 2007, when X reorganized its automobile business, and traces its history back to 1899 when the first, X automobile, was produced. Really X was the largest automobile manufacturer in Italy. Id X. 1
  • 96.
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    2Which company derivesits name from the name of the league? ………..League was an alliance of trading cities and their guilds that established and maintained a trade monopoly along the coast of Northern Europe, from the Baltic to the North Sea and inland, during the Late Middle Ages and early modern period (c.13th–17th centuries)
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    3 Operated by KarnatakaTourism, which luxury ‘service’ has been named after this structure found in the Vitthala Temple at Hampi?
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    4 The parker brothersprint about $50 billion money each year. Till date they may have printed $ 3 trillions. For what purpose are these money used ?
  • 106.
    5 X is poweredby an ordinary 6 volt alkaline battery manufactured by Bharat Electronics Ltd., Bangalore and Electronic Corporation of India Ltd., Hyderabad. This design enables the use of X throughout the country without interruptions because several parts of India do not/or have erratic power supply. X??
  • 108.
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    6……………………produced some ofthe earliest motorcycles in 1903 These were two cylinder machines with French engines made by Antoine, which were marketed by a garage in Chelsea in London - one of the first motorcycle dealerships in the UK The motorcycle failed to impress the military authorities, despite optional accessories including a sidecar complete with Maxim machine gun This venture was not a success. After the WWI they decided to continue to develop the in-line four engine - but in a new car called the 'Deemster' and they never returned to motorcycle production Today, it is a major competitor to a company acquired by P & G recently
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    1.Ingredients : Sucrose,Corn Syrup, Flavoring 50/-25
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    Pusa ( Itis the place where the HQ of ICAR and National Physical Laboratory )
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    Hans Raj (Theperson is Hans Raj Bhardwaj, Hon’ble Ex-Governor of Kerala )
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    And finally theconnect is all are the names of Rice Varieties
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    2. Left ledto Right being called X. Man on right, X?
  • 146.
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    3Born on March2, 1944 in Tunisia, X’s World Cup career spanned five matches including an appearance in a Round of 16 match between Denmark and Spain. However, all these distinctions faded into irrelevance due to what X claimed was an adverse reaction to the treatment X was receiving for a latent haemorrhoidal condition which caused X’s medium-distance vision to suddenly become unfocused, causing X to miss Y. X, Y?
  • 149.
    Ali Bin Nasser(X), the referee who missed Maradona’s “Hand of God” goal in the Estadio Azteca at the 1986 World Cup (Y).
  • 150.
    That X headedthe sporting reform of his country is difficult to believe. Despite his undeniable brilliance on the field, he's not necessarily considered particularly wise off it. The law, named after X, sought to modernize the country's sports industry. Salient features include: - forcing professional sports clubs to observe business law and pay tax within two years. - allows clubs to organise their own leagues, breaking the monopoly of official 4
  • 153.
    What method well-knownto sports fans was used for the first time in a rugby union match in the Heineken Cup semi-final which saw the Leicester Tigers beat the Cardiff 5
  • 156.
  • 163.
  • 164.
     This isa street food common in Cape Town, South Africa, which was supposed invented by Rashaad Pandy one night in 1976, when he tried to feed some day laborers after he had sold out of fish  It was named after a famous 1925 novel, today widely regarded as a paragon of the Great American Novel, and a literary classic.
  • 166.
     The GreatGatsby  ( Gatsby will also be accepted )
  • 167.
    X, Y andthe mirror and the light are 3 entities in news which involve an ancestor of this Englishman whose body was subjected to a symbolic posthumous execution in 1661. Identify X and Y.
  • 169.
    X Y Thomas CromwellTrilogy by Hillary Mantel
  • 170.
    There are fourmandatory constitutional duties in South Korea - taxes, education, labour and military service being Olympic medal winners or Gold medalists in the Asian Games. X supposedly performed his military service from 2003-2005, but was later accused of not doing it properly. X filed a litigation against the military authorities in an effort to block his re-conscription. However he lost his appeal and was eventually re-drafted into the military in December 2007. This was supposedly the first such incident in Korean History. Who is X.
  • 173.
    The Telecommunications Regulatory Commission(TRC)of Sri Lanka recently announced its plan to establish The Sri Lanka Space Agency by signing an MOU with Surrey Satellite Company Ltd in UK to launch its first geostationary satellite. The satellite will be named after an internationally renounced visionary. Who is this person or after whom will this satellite be named?
  • 175.
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    He was theauthor of the best-selling book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. Other books he authored include First Things First, Principle-Centered Leadership, and The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Families. This prominent author died recently due to complications from a fall, having lost control of his bicycle on a steep road two years before. Who was he?
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    He is thesubject of a biography titled “The Most Dangerous Man in the world” by Andrew Fowler. He is none other than Julian Assange, the editor –in –chief and founder of WikiLeaks website. In August 2012, Assange was granted political asylum by Ecuador, resulting in a tense diplomatic standoff between U.K. and the Latin American Country. Who is the current President of Ecuador who is in the news due to Julian Assange affair?
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    According to localbelief, shepherd Buta Malik was once given a bag full of Coal by a Saint. To his utter surprise, he found the bag was full of gold coins. He went back to thank the Saint but couldn’t find him. Instead, he found an Ice-structure inside a cave. Which holy place was thus discovered by Buta Malik?
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    NASA’s Space ShuttleProgram ended after 30 years with the final mission of STS 135 of Shuttle Atlantis in July 2011. What you see is the crew of the final Space Shuttle mission. It comprises of veteran astronauts Pilot Doug Hurley, mission Specialists Sandy Magnus and Rex Waldheim plus, of course, the mission commander. Who is the Commander of the final Space Shuttle Mission?
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    1. Id themale singer
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    2. This songis an advertisement of which corp.
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    3. Id theconductor.
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