1. The Shit, Fir Se Online Quiz
#PrideForever #HailQutopia
2. Q1.
Morgan Andrew Robertson was a well-
known American author of short stories
and novels and the self-claimed
inventor of the periscope.
His suddenly rose to fame with his
short novel called Futility, 14 years
after its first publication(1898).
What is so special about this Novel?
3. Answer
• This story features an enormous British
passenger liner called the SS Titan, which,
deemed to be unsinkable, carries an
insufficient number of lifeboats. On a
voyage in the month of April, the Titan hits
an iceberg and sinks in the North Atlantic,
resulting in the loss of almost everyone on
board.The book was published fourteen
years before the actual Titanic hit an
iceberg on the night of April 15, 1912 and
sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic.
5. Answer
• "Pillars of Creation" is a photograph taken
by the Hubble Space Telescope of
elephant trunks of interstellar gas and dust
in the Eagle Nebula, some 7,000 light
years from Earth. They are so named
because the gas and dust are in the
process of creating new stars, while also
being eroded by the light from nearby
stars that have recently formed
6. Q3.
• Its been 26 years since the fall of Berlin
wall. However, East and west Germany
could still be divided on a certain factor,
when viewed from space.
What? Give me the Funda.
7. Answer.
West Berlin is home to most of
the commercial and shopping
districts, they’ve fully converted
to the more modern electric
lighting. In East Berlin a fifth of
the street lights in the German
capital are gas-powered,
yielding a softer illumination
8. Q4
• Tuvalu , formerly known as the Ellice
Islands, is a small Polynesian island
nation located in the Pacific Ocean,
midway between Hawaii and Australia.
• The tiny island-nation , receives a yearly
payment of almost $4 million for doing
nothing at all.
• Funda?
9. Answer
• This is the money that the Tuvalu
government receives from royalties from
the country's domain name, .tv!
10. Q5.
• Fight Club, a David Fincher movie, needs
no introduction.
However what many people don't know is
that a certain "thing", which represents a
certain "company" has been present in all
the scenes of the movie.
What? Which company?
Any one will give you points.
12. Q6.
• Ashok Kumar.
This name has two extremities.
• One is of course, the legendary Ashok
Kumar, one of the finest actor our country
has ever seen.
The other "Ashok Kumar" is considered to
be very unfortunate.
Who is this other Ashok Kumar?
13. Answer
• Any unknown male dead body found in
India is called as Ashok Kumar, so as to
make further proceedings easy.
14. Q7.
• Paraguay is a landlocked country in
central South America.
The flag of Paraguay was adopted in
1842.
• Each side of the flag consists of three
equal, horizontal bands: red, white, and
blue, with an emblem centered in the
white band.
• However, its flag has something unique
about it.
What?
15. Answer
• The emblem on the obverse side is the
national coat of arms of Paraguay: a
yellow five-pointed star surrounded by a
green wreath capped by the words
REPUBLICA DEL PARAGUAY, all within
two concentric circles);
• The emblem on the reverse side is the
seal of the treasury (a yellow lion below a
red Phrygian cap and the words Paz y
Justicia ("Peace and Justice").
16. Q8.
• Facebook, the King of Social Networks
has a very unique feature about the
password it accepts.
What is this feature, which of course many
people aren't aware of?
17. Answer
• You will still be logged in if you enter your
password with each character in its
inverse Case.
For eg: If you password is AsdfG, you can
even log in by entering aSDFg.
18. Q9
• Anton–Babinski syndrome was featured in two-part episode of the
television series House M.D., titled "Euphoria", although it was
ascribed to primary amoebic meningoencephalitis, a disease that
usually does not cause the syndrome in real life.
• The syndrome features prominently in the Rupert Thomson novel
The Insult. It is also mentioned in the science fiction novel
Blindsight, by Peter Watts.
• It is mentioned frequently as "Anton's _______" as one of the
primary metaphors in Raj Patel's The Value of Nothing.
• In Lars von Trier's film Dogville, the character Jack McKay acts as if
he is suffering from this.
What exactly is this syndrome?
19. Answer
• It is rare symptom of Brain Damage,
where a person goes Blind, but doesn't
know about.
If you ask a person suffering from this
syndrome anything visual, he will make up
things and when you say that they are
wrong, they will start giving Excuses.
20. Q10
• India has in all four mint factories that mint
coins. Also, there are fine symbols that we
usually ignore to look at on coins. These
coins are symbol of the mint factory where
they come from.
Give me the symbols along with the mint
factories.
+5 for each correct pair.
Question closes when I get all the 4 pairs,
or, no one gives this question a shit.
21. Answer
• Every coin has a symbol just under the
year of the coin.
• Mumbai- A small Diamond.
• Kolkata- Nothing
• Hyderabad- A small star
• Noida- A small dot
