YE 2012. Version 4.0

   „Anything that's worth
having is sure enough worth
         waiting for!‟

Now, that the wait is over, let’s
       have some fun.
Quiz Master.
I am Gopalakrishnan.
Doing my UG in Production Engineering in PSG Tech.




  Risky business.
  Seat belts on.
  Let us battle it out.
INFY BOUNCE.
 10 questions.
 Clockwise.
 A perfect +10 for the correct answer.
 No negatives.
1.
This is a proposed single-seater sports car racing
series. The inaugural season is planned for the 2012
season. The races will be held in India, Qatar,
Bahrain and UAE. What am I talking about?

Clues if all teams agree.
2.
 Gobind Behari Lal, Geeta Anand, Jhumpa Lahiri,
 __________. Connect and complete the list.
Siddhartha Mukherjee. Indian
Recipients of the Pulitzer Prize
3.
 He was born in 1954 as Rangaraj Subbiah. He
  resided in Ram Nagar and did his schooling in
  Suburban School and graduated in Botany at the
  Government Arts College.
 He is currently based in Chennai and claims to be a
  great fan of Dr. M.G.Ramachandran.
 His son does the same profession he does.
 ID the person.
Namma ooru! Sathyaraj!
4. Google doodle for?
Mark
Twain’s
176th
birthday
anniversary!
5.
 Who is the acting Governor for the
 State of Kerala?
H.R.Bharadwaj, who took the additional charge as
the Governor of Kerala.
6.
 Nowroji Saklatwala (1934-38) was the first Non-X
 chairman of X group of companies. When Y takes
 over by the end of 2012, he‟ll be the second. Identify
 X and Y.
Who else! Cyrus Mistry
7. It is a sister city of Toledo in Ohio, US and
Esslingen in Stuttgart, Germany. ID the city.
Namma ooru Coimbatore!
8.
 During a campaign in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh,
 Indira Gandhi was quoted saying, “If I die today,
 every drop of blood will invigorate this nation!”
 When did she say this?
On October 30, 1983.

The next day, she was shot dead.
9.The noun form of X comes from a Mythological

  Scandinavian monster.
 In English, X refers to a fishing technique.
 The contemporary use of X is alleged to have
  appeared in the 1980s, but documented only in
  1992.
 Recently popular.
TROLL!
10.
 American pitcher Gaylord Perry‟s manager once
 joked, “ "They'll put a man on the moon before he
 hits a home run!”, during the 1963 season. What
 happened later?
Just hours after Armstrong landed on the moon,
on July 20,1969, Perry hit his first and last home
run.
AUDIENCE!
AUDIENCE!
INFY BOUNCE-
                     1
 10 questions.
 Clockwise.
 A perfect +10 for the correct answer.
 No negatives.
1.



Which „word‟ is the latest addition to Oxford dictiona
Kolaveri
2.


X, a major coffee company chain has tied up
Y, a famous Indian business house to launch
services in India. ID X and Y
Tata Global Beverages
3. Old logo for?
AUDI
4. Connect
Operation Geronimo.


                     Geronimo.
Osama Bin Laden was shot dead and it was the name given
5.



All over the world people use t9 mode for
What is the full form of t9?
Text on 9 keys, developed by Tegic commu
6.



Which is the Longest train service in Ind
Vivek Express
Dibrugarh ,Assam to Kanyakumari ,
Tamilnadu for a huge 4286 km
7.

Collectively know as “Arab Spring” has sprea
countries in the Arab League
Which country did it start in?
Tunisia
8.



USA is the World‟s Largest Economy followe
China in 2nd place

Which country occupies the 3rd?
INDIA!
Japan was the third. But was replaced
  by India post the tsunami disaster
9.



With reference to World Finance
expand “OWS”
Occupy Wall Street
10.


Which actor wanted to join
Indian Youth Congress but was rejected?
Who else!Vijay!
AUDIENCE
 Belinda Clark

Sachin Tendulkar

_______?_______
AUDIENCE

How many times has Brazil won the Olympics fo
AUDIENCE!
Jeopardy!
 Rules
3 topics. Each topic has 6 questions.
Each team gets to choose 1 question.
When you choose the question, you choose your
 points!
AUDIENCE
AUDIENCE
AUDIENCE




What movie is the celluloid adaptation of Facebook’s story?
INFY BOUNCE.
 Tock Tick Tock Tick (Anti-clockwise)
 +10
 No negatives
1.
 How many times has India won the Hockey World
 Cup?
2. Put funda
Hand mit Ringen (Hand with Rings): print
of Wilhelm Röntgen's first "medical" X-
ray, of his wife's hand, taken on 22
December 1895
3.
Paul McCartney was thought to be dead. He proved it
wrong with this!



It is the only original UK Beatles album sleeve to show
neither the artist name nor the album title on its front
cover.
4. ID the occasion.
Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao getting a child through Surrogacy
5.
 He served the IAF between 1964 and 1972 and was
 a recipient of 8 medals in his career. He joined
 hands with Jaypee Group to form JPSK Sports
 Private Ltd. ID the person.
Suresh Kalmadi
6
 Beginner‟s method, optimized beginner‟s method,
    Ortega‟s method, Waterman‟s method. What am I
    talking about?
Methods to solve Rubik’s cube
7
 ID the songwriter/guitarist with whom Metallica
    worked in collaboration to release their latest album
    on October 31, 2011?
8
 In 2007, India and US signed a pact under which
    India exchanged X for Harley Davidson motorbikes
    from US. Identify X.
9
 On 24 April 1973, when his son was born, Ramesh
    decided to name his son X as a dedication to a
    musician Y wit h the same first name.
    Identify X and Y. Part points.
10.
 When Li Na won the French Open in 2011, she was
 hailed as the first Asian to have won a GrandSlam.
 Really? If not, who did it first?
SPORTS….

30/-15       25/-12       20/-10


  20/-10
                              18/-9
                 25/-12
X is the father of Y.
X is an athlete who competed in 1960 Rome Olympics. X’s
history is being made into a movie to be released soon.
Y is a golfer. ID X and Y
X- Milkha Singh, the flying Sikh
     Y- Jeev Milkha Singh
25/-12
Marco Simonicelli & Dan Wheldon.

Both were race drivers who lost their lives in 2011.
20/-10
Timeless Test
 The match took place for 10 days. Longest Test match
 ever played
20/-10

 Wimbledon:
  2010 – 683 minutes, 215 aces.
 2011 – 123 minutes, 16 aces.

  What am I talking about?
John Isner- Nicholas Mahut @ Wimbledon
25/-12
 Luis Figo (POR)
 Ronaldo (BRA)
 Saviola (ARG)
 Bernd Schuster (GER)
 Luis Enrique (ESP)
 Robert Prosinecki (CRO)
 Gheorghe Hagi (ROM)
 Michael Laudrup (DEN)

 What unique Record do they hold?
The only players to have played for both Barcelona and
Real Madrid
18/-9
 A few contemporaries of Sir Don Bradman gathered
 somewhere in Sydney on the 4th of August 2008 to
 celebrate the legendary batsman's birth centenary - a
 good 23 days before his actual birth centenary day i.e
 27th of August 2008. Why was that particular date
 chosen and not his actual birthday?
Don Bradman’s average is 99.94. So they paid tribute by
celebrating his 100th Birthday 99.94 years after his birthday
…Entertainment…
30/-15     25/-12       20/-10


  20/-10
                            18/-9
               25/-12
30/-15
 X beat her ex-husband to win the Academy Award for
 the Best Director. Identify X
Katherine Bigelow, for The Hurt Locker
18/-9
 While receiving the Academy Award in his deathbed,
 X said, “As a small schoolboy, I was terribly interested in cinema,
 became a film buff, wrote to Deanna Durbin, got a reply, was delighted.
 Wrote to Ginger Rogers, didn’t get a reply. Then I wrote a twelve-page
 letter to Billy Wilder after seeing Double Indemnity. He didn’t reply
 either. Well, there you are!”
 1983: Bhanu Athaiya
  1992 :X
 2009: AR Rahman , AR Rahman and Gulzar, Resul
  Pookutty .
25/-12. Identify the epic Tamil movie that is inspired by this movie.
25/-12
Connect
John Lennon.
20/-10
 Thangachi Munnetra Kazhakam a.k.a. All India
 Latchiya Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam. Parties started
 by whom?


 Known for his Kural TV fame.
T R Rajendar
20/-10
Connect
 Nargis Dutt
 Lizzy Priyadarshan
 Kushboo
 Nayantara
 Julia Roberts
 George Harrison
Actors/Actresses who converted to Hinduism
Current Affairs
30/-15     25/-12       20/-10


  20/-10
                            18/-9
               25/-12
30/-15
PIPA & SOPA
25/-12
* Jimmy Connors
* Ivan Lendl
* Guillermo Vilas
* Andre Agassi
* Stefan Edberg
* John McEnroe
* Ilie Natase
* Brian Gotfried
   _____________.
Complete and connect the list.
Roger Federer. Completed 1000 ATP matches
25/-12
Padma Vibhushan
• Shri K G Subramanyan
• Late Shri Mario De Miranda
• Late (Dr.)Bhupen Hazarika
• Dr. Kantilal Hastimal Sancheti
• Shri T V Rajeswar
Samoa Times, the newspaper
                20/-10
catering to people of the
Independent State of Samoa did not
publish the newspaper on December
30, 2011. Why?
Samoa skipped 30th Dec 2011. Change
of Dateline!
The first documented use of the
                  20/-10
term X as it is understood today was in
2003 in a blog entry posted in the
aftermath of its creation and happening.
X was added to the 11th edition of
the Concise Oxford English Dictionary in
2004 where it noted it as an "unusual and
pointless act“. Identify X.
FLASHMOB!!!!
18/-9
X was 6 years old when he watched as two of
his cousins died due to a landmine left behind
by the Royal Italian Army. This influenced X‟s
views towards Italy and colonial powers.

Although he was only of the rank of a
Lieutenant, he was often referred as a
„Colonel‟. Later, when his Political party
conferred upon him the honorary rank of a
„Major General‟, he still wanted to be known
as the Colonel. Identify X.
Muammar Gaddafi

Young Expressions 2012 Quiz Finals

  • 1.
    YE 2012. Version4.0 „Anything that's worth having is sure enough worth waiting for!‟ Now, that the wait is over, let’s have some fun.
  • 2.
    Quiz Master. I amGopalakrishnan. Doing my UG in Production Engineering in PSG Tech. Risky business. Seat belts on. Let us battle it out.
  • 3.
    INFY BOUNCE.  10questions.  Clockwise.  A perfect +10 for the correct answer.  No negatives.
  • 4.
    1. This is aproposed single-seater sports car racing series. The inaugural season is planned for the 2012 season. The races will be held in India, Qatar, Bahrain and UAE. What am I talking about? Clues if all teams agree.
  • 6.
    2.  Gobind BehariLal, Geeta Anand, Jhumpa Lahiri, __________. Connect and complete the list.
  • 7.
  • 8.
    3.  He wasborn in 1954 as Rangaraj Subbiah. He resided in Ram Nagar and did his schooling in Suburban School and graduated in Botany at the Government Arts College.  He is currently based in Chennai and claims to be a great fan of Dr. M.G.Ramachandran.  His son does the same profession he does.  ID the person.
  • 9.
  • 10.
  • 11.
  • 12.
    5.  Who isthe acting Governor for the State of Kerala?
  • 13.
    H.R.Bharadwaj, who tookthe additional charge as the Governor of Kerala.
  • 14.
    6.  Nowroji Saklatwala(1934-38) was the first Non-X chairman of X group of companies. When Y takes over by the end of 2012, he‟ll be the second. Identify X and Y.
  • 15.
  • 16.
    7. It isa sister city of Toledo in Ohio, US and Esslingen in Stuttgart, Germany. ID the city.
  • 17.
  • 19.
    8.  During acampaign in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, Indira Gandhi was quoted saying, “If I die today, every drop of blood will invigorate this nation!” When did she say this?
  • 20.
    On October 30,1983. The next day, she was shot dead.
  • 21.
    9.The noun formof X comes from a Mythological  Scandinavian monster.  In English, X refers to a fishing technique.  The contemporary use of X is alleged to have appeared in the 1980s, but documented only in 1992.  Recently popular.
  • 22.
  • 23.
    10.  American pitcherGaylord Perry‟s manager once joked, “ "They'll put a man on the moon before he hits a home run!”, during the 1963 season. What happened later?
  • 24.
    Just hours afterArmstrong landed on the moon, on July 20,1969, Perry hit his first and last home run.
  • 25.
  • 26.
  • 27.
    INFY BOUNCE- 1  10 questions.  Clockwise.  A perfect +10 for the correct answer.  No negatives.
  • 28.
    1. Which „word‟ isthe latest addition to Oxford dictiona
  • 29.
  • 30.
    2. X, a majorcoffee company chain has tied up Y, a famous Indian business house to launch services in India. ID X and Y
  • 31.
  • 32.
  • 33.
  • 34.
  • 35.
    Operation Geronimo. Geronimo. Osama Bin Laden was shot dead and it was the name given
  • 36.
    5. All over theworld people use t9 mode for What is the full form of t9?
  • 37.
    Text on 9keys, developed by Tegic commu
  • 38.
    6. Which is theLongest train service in Ind
  • 39.
    Vivek Express Dibrugarh ,Assamto Kanyakumari , Tamilnadu for a huge 4286 km
  • 40.
    7. Collectively know as“Arab Spring” has sprea countries in the Arab League Which country did it start in?
  • 41.
  • 42.
    8. USA is theWorld‟s Largest Economy followe China in 2nd place Which country occupies the 3rd?
  • 43.
    INDIA! Japan was thethird. But was replaced by India post the tsunami disaster
  • 44.
    9. With reference toWorld Finance expand “OWS”
  • 45.
  • 46.
    10. Which actor wantedto join Indian Youth Congress but was rejected?
  • 47.
  • 48.
    AUDIENCE Belinda Clark SachinTendulkar _______?_______
  • 49.
    AUDIENCE How many timeshas Brazil won the Olympics fo
  • 50.
  • 51.
    Jeopardy!  Rules 3 topics.Each topic has 6 questions. Each team gets to choose 1 question. When you choose the question, you choose your points!
  • 53.
  • 54.
  • 55.
    AUDIENCE What movie isthe celluloid adaptation of Facebook’s story?
  • 56.
    INFY BOUNCE.  TockTick Tock Tick (Anti-clockwise)  +10  No negatives
  • 57.
    1.  How manytimes has India won the Hockey World Cup?
  • 59.
  • 60.
    Hand mit Ringen(Hand with Rings): print of Wilhelm Röntgen's first "medical" X- ray, of his wife's hand, taken on 22 December 1895
  • 61.
  • 62.
    Paul McCartney wasthought to be dead. He proved it wrong with this! It is the only original UK Beatles album sleeve to show neither the artist name nor the album title on its front cover.
  • 63.
    4. ID theoccasion.
  • 64.
    Aamir Khan andKiran Rao getting a child through Surrogacy
  • 65.
    5.  He servedthe IAF between 1964 and 1972 and was a recipient of 8 medals in his career. He joined hands with Jaypee Group to form JPSK Sports Private Ltd. ID the person.
  • 66.
  • 67.
    6  Beginner‟s method,optimized beginner‟s method, Ortega‟s method, Waterman‟s method. What am I talking about?
  • 68.
    Methods to solveRubik’s cube
  • 69.
    7  ID thesongwriter/guitarist with whom Metallica worked in collaboration to release their latest album on October 31, 2011?
  • 71.
    8  In 2007,India and US signed a pact under which India exchanged X for Harley Davidson motorbikes from US. Identify X.
  • 73.
    9  On 24April 1973, when his son was born, Ramesh decided to name his son X as a dedication to a musician Y wit h the same first name. Identify X and Y. Part points.
  • 75.
    10.  When LiNa won the French Open in 2011, she was hailed as the first Asian to have won a GrandSlam. Really? If not, who did it first?
  • 78.
    SPORTS…. 30/-15 25/-12 20/-10 20/-10 18/-9 25/-12
  • 79.
    X is thefather of Y. X is an athlete who competed in 1960 Rome Olympics. X’s history is being made into a movie to be released soon. Y is a golfer. ID X and Y
  • 80.
    X- Milkha Singh,the flying Sikh Y- Jeev Milkha Singh
  • 81.
  • 82.
    Marco Simonicelli &Dan Wheldon. Both were race drivers who lost their lives in 2011.
  • 83.
  • 84.
    Timeless Test  Thematch took place for 10 days. Longest Test match ever played
  • 85.
    20/-10  Wimbledon: 2010 – 683 minutes, 215 aces.  2011 – 123 minutes, 16 aces. What am I talking about?
  • 86.
    John Isner- NicholasMahut @ Wimbledon
  • 87.
    25/-12  Luis Figo(POR) Ronaldo (BRA) Saviola (ARG) Bernd Schuster (GER) Luis Enrique (ESP) Robert Prosinecki (CRO) Gheorghe Hagi (ROM) Michael Laudrup (DEN) What unique Record do they hold?
  • 88.
    The only playersto have played for both Barcelona and Real Madrid
  • 89.
    18/-9  A fewcontemporaries of Sir Don Bradman gathered somewhere in Sydney on the 4th of August 2008 to celebrate the legendary batsman's birth centenary - a good 23 days before his actual birth centenary day i.e 27th of August 2008. Why was that particular date chosen and not his actual birthday?
  • 90.
    Don Bradman’s averageis 99.94. So they paid tribute by celebrating his 100th Birthday 99.94 years after his birthday
  • 91.
    …Entertainment… 30/-15 25/-12 20/-10 20/-10 18/-9 25/-12
  • 92.
    30/-15  X beather ex-husband to win the Academy Award for the Best Director. Identify X
  • 93.
    Katherine Bigelow, forThe Hurt Locker
  • 94.
    18/-9  While receivingthe Academy Award in his deathbed, X said, “As a small schoolboy, I was terribly interested in cinema, became a film buff, wrote to Deanna Durbin, got a reply, was delighted. Wrote to Ginger Rogers, didn’t get a reply. Then I wrote a twelve-page letter to Billy Wilder after seeing Double Indemnity. He didn’t reply either. Well, there you are!”  1983: Bhanu Athaiya 1992 :X  2009: AR Rahman , AR Rahman and Gulzar, Resul Pookutty .
  • 96.
    25/-12. Identify theepic Tamil movie that is inspired by this movie.
  • 98.
  • 99.
  • 100.
    20/-10  Thangachi MunnetraKazhakam a.k.a. All India Latchiya Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam. Parties started by whom?  Known for his Kural TV fame.
  • 101.
  • 102.
    20/-10 Connect  Nargis Dutt Lizzy Priyadarshan  Kushboo  Nayantara  Julia Roberts  George Harrison
  • 103.
  • 104.
    Current Affairs 30/-15 25/-12 20/-10 20/-10 18/-9 25/-12
  • 105.
  • 106.
  • 107.
    25/-12 * Jimmy Connors *Ivan Lendl * Guillermo Vilas * Andre Agassi * Stefan Edberg * John McEnroe * Ilie Natase * Brian Gotfried _____________. Complete and connect the list.
  • 108.
    Roger Federer. Completed1000 ATP matches
  • 109.
  • 110.
    Padma Vibhushan • ShriK G Subramanyan • Late Shri Mario De Miranda • Late (Dr.)Bhupen Hazarika • Dr. Kantilal Hastimal Sancheti • Shri T V Rajeswar
  • 111.
    Samoa Times, thenewspaper 20/-10 catering to people of the Independent State of Samoa did not publish the newspaper on December 30, 2011. Why?
  • 112.
    Samoa skipped 30thDec 2011. Change of Dateline!
  • 113.
    The first documenteduse of the 20/-10 term X as it is understood today was in 2003 in a blog entry posted in the aftermath of its creation and happening. X was added to the 11th edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary in 2004 where it noted it as an "unusual and pointless act“. Identify X.
  • 114.
  • 115.
    18/-9 X was 6years old when he watched as two of his cousins died due to a landmine left behind by the Royal Italian Army. This influenced X‟s views towards Italy and colonial powers. Although he was only of the rank of a Lieutenant, he was often referred as a „Colonel‟. Later, when his Political party conferred upon him the honorary rank of a „Major General‟, he still wanted to be known as the Colonel. Identify X.
  • 116.