Quiz of 03.04.

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By Saayan Mitra and Niraj Agarwal
Dry Round
By Niraj Agarwal
1. Where is "Monalisa" now?
A : Louvre Museum,Paris
2. Connect-double loops-radia loops-arches-whorles-ulna loops
A : Fingerprints
3. What did john jaques a sports manufacturer register in 1901 in America and
later sold it to parker brothers
A : Ping Pong
4. Claim to fame - Mariam Shakebar-16 yr old girl
A : presented the first show on Kabul TV after a six year Taliban Blackout
5. "At the end of the day you have to create wealth and not distribute poverty"-
whose pearls of wisdom
A : Narayanamurthy
6. Fictional character whose horse is Rosinante
A : Don Quixote
7. Claim to fame of Belka & Strelka
A : dogs sent to space after Laika
8. Who were dismas & gestas
A : 2 criminals crucified with christ
9. What did Peter Kramer & Lou Ottens invent at Philips
A : Compact Disc
10. Neel Darpan- first political drama -story about atrocities heaped on workers in
Bengal-led to the British foundation of an institution which still exists today
A : Censor Board
11. "Matchmakers to the nation"
A : Times Matrimonials

By Saayan Mitra
1. Hurbert Booth, an Englishman, once fell face down on the floor with a
handkerchief in his mouth, it so happened that he sucked hard and discovered
that the hanky had trapped all the dirt. This supposedly led him to invent the
vacuum cleaner. In 1901 he gave it the look in the form of a large, horse-
drawn, petrol-driven unit which was parked outside the building . to be
cleaned with long hoses being fed through the windows.
2. Louis the xiv's wife started fashion for slender waist 13 inches
3. Grandson of Tiberius Roman emperor caligula made his horse senator
4. janis joplin about jimi hendrix " damn he beat me to it" . 'it' refers to death
due to drug abuse .
5. Pall Mall first street lighting 1807 gas lights
6. James ritty of dayton, ohio 1879 bell sound cash register john patterson in
1884 improved the idea by adding paper , charles kettering made it electric
7. parachute jump for the first time in 1797 was done by andre garnerin from
balloon captain albert berry made it in st. louis usa 1912 from aeroplane
8. On March 11, 2001, two astronauts, Colonel James S. Voss and Colonel Susan
J. Helms, spent 8 hours and 56 minutes putting equipment into the
International Space Station the longest space walk in the history of the shuttle
program (the question can be put in an interesting way !)
 9. The most one-sided game in american football history took place in Atlanta on
October 7, 1916, when Georgia Tech defeated Cumberland College, 222-
0.Incredibly and mercifully the second half was shortened by 15 minutes!
10. Who is famous for wearing Versace's famous safety pin dress to a film
premier? Liz Hurley
11. Easter Island discovered on Easter day 1722
12. Ralph Bakshi directed the animated version of "The Lord of The Rings " .

'Common To' Half-Round

By Saayan Mitra
1. common to sovereign crown, mark noble angel farthing groat
A : 17th century english coinage
2. common to Angelio Schiavio (Italy ) , Oldrich Nejedly ( Czech) Edmund Cohen (
Germany ) .
A : Scorer of 4 goals in 1934 finals .
3. common to Tom Hanks , Springsteen , Mark Knofler
A : Philadelphia
4. triangle tam tam , castanet maracas woodbrock
A : percussion instruments
5. tuscan,ionic doric corinthian , composite
A : trends of greek architecture
6. vtol stol estol sstol
A : vertical , short ,extemely short and super short take of and landing aircrafts

Words Half-Round
By Saayan Mitra
1. filibuster
A : 17th century pirates , used by Haddock
2. funambulist
A :tight rope walker .
3. Carousel
A : revolving belt in airport where luggage is loaded, merry go rounds
4. ides of month - ancient roman calender
A :15th of March, May , july October , 13th of other months
5. Army of frogs just as parliament of crows
6. A british property owner exploited tenants in slum in 1963 . This kind of
exploitations are termed Rachmanism after him .
7. French finance minister Etienne de Silhouette , had a harsh way of collecting
taxes in 1759 , silhouette comes from that .

Cyber Half-Round
By Niraj Agarwal
1. WYSIWYG
A : what you see is what you get
2. Asia largest technopark
A : Technopark,Kerala
3. SIM in mobiles
A : Subscriber Identifying Module
4. TTFN & TOU
A : Tata for now , Thinking of You
 5. Who is Raymond D Findlay (head of organisation/institute)
A : Director of IEEE
6. MIDI
A : Musical Instrument Digital Interface

Biz Half-Round
By Niraj Agarwal
1. In videography what is the name given to spotting beautiful faces in the crowd
(often females) in the coverage of a sporting event
A : Virgins' tour
2. Asha bhonsle first time ever lending voice to a hindi ad commercial
A : Rasna
3. Official beer of Manchester United club
A : Budweiser
4. Pele -considered to endorse a product in brazil-what?
A : Viagra
5. star tv & balaji - sueing which company for copyright infringement &
plagiarism?
A : Procter & Gamble for their Tide ad
6. Hostess of "The weakest Link"
A : Anne Robinson

Current Affairs Round

By Niraj Agarwal
1. connect Ajay Devgan- Visaal Goswami & Bobby Deol
A : All 3 are playing Bhagat Singh in different movies
2. Captain of indian hockey team which won the junior world cup
A : Gagan Ajit Singh
3. Connect Sylvia Nassar-Oscars
A : She wrote the biographyb of John Nash
4. Rupak Manush-what did he do recently
A : setup the org. LOVE and asked the Mayor for an exclusive love park in
Calcutta
5. Claim to fame of Harish Bharti a lawyer in California
A : won a $10 million case against McDonalds in the Veg Scam
6. Official ad agency of Indian army
A :AP Lintas
7. TCS is joining hands with whom for a $250 million contract
A : GE

'Catchlines' Round
By Niraj Agarwal
1. Every Bit is pure music
A : Seagrams' 100 Pipers
2. For managing tomorrow
A : Business Today
3. Redefining fashion
A : Provogue
4. Your second skin
A : Monte Carlo
 5. because you are worth it
A : L'Oreal Paris
6. take a different route
A : Samsonite
7. We live to deliver
A : FedEx
8. 'Its not how you play the game its how the game plays you'
A : Spy Game
9. 'Leave no man behind'
A : Black Hawk Down
10. 'The way the world lives'
A : KenStar
11. 'We deliver anything anywhere'
A : GATI
12. 'Zero compromise'
A : Carrier
13. 'Expect more'
A : Nikon

TOPICS Round
By Saayan Mitra
 T-Terrorists
1. In 1972 Olympics a terrorist group named Black September attacked
Israeli Athletes .
2. Israeli commandoes rescued a hijacked aircraft in one of the swiftest
operations from which airport during Idi Amin's regime ?
A : Entebbe
 O-Olympics
1. In Seol 1988 Taekwondo was introduced in the Olympics
2. Still recovering from Grave's disease Gail Devers of USA won the 100
metre gold in Barcelona Olympics .
 P-Pink Floyd
1. The album released in 1987 was called " Momentary lapse of reason "
There was a rift between Gilmour and Waters and the latter left the
band . Gilmour and Mason tried to realease an album and ran into legal
battles with Waters for the use of the name " Pink Floyd" as it was
essentially formed by Roger Waters in 1967 . Then after re- uniting
they released an album and referred to the past conflict as a
momentary lapse of reason .
2. The 1967 song Arnold Layne by Syd Barett , incidentally Pink Floyd first
single was a hit but was banned by the BBC as it depicted a person as
a crossdresser .
 I - Inventions
1. Jonathan Scobie , a baptist minister invented something in 1869 in
Yokohama .Necessity is the mother of invention and his invalid wife
served as the necessity . The invention was the rickshaw .
2. in 1948 a Swiss engineer by the name of George de Mestral was
climbing over mountains in the Swiss Alps. The views were great, but
he kept getting seedpods called burrs stuck on his clothing. And they
wouldn't come off! After 8 years velcro was invented by him
 C - Cars and related personalities
1. bentley - most famous le mans winners . ettore bugatti described them
as fastest lorry in the world in 1924 .
 2. lord Nuffield in 1934 , knighted in 1928 , originally bicycle repairer in
Oxford . His company produced first car in 1913 - William Morris .
 S-Syndrome
1. Medically this is refered to a neurocirculatory asthenia. People faking
chest pain in the face of imminent trouble or danger are said to be
suffering from Da Costa's Syndrome or 'Soldier's Heart'. The name
soldiers heart comes from the World War when some soldiers in the
British Army declared 'chest pain' when duty demanded that they
report to the front.
2. It is a psychological behavior usually seen in kidnapping and hostage
cases, where the hostages develop a liking towards the kidnappers and
their cause. First noticed in 1973, when four hostages in a bank robbery in
Stockholm, Sweden, after six days of captivity refused to testify against
their captors, raised money for their legal defense, and one of the hostages
eventually became engaged to one of her captors. This behavior was
termed the 'Stockholm Syndrome'.

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