iitr freshers quiz '16 (finals)

1. HUNGRY FOR MORE??

• PIETRO FERRERO, WHO OWNED A BAKERY IN ALBA, PIEDMONT, AN AREA KNOWN FOR THE PRODUCTION OF HAZELNUTS, SOLD AN INITIAL BATCH OF 300 KILOGRAMS (660 LB) OF "PASTA GIANDUJA" IN 1946. AT THE TIME, THERE WAS VERY LITTLE CHOCOLATE BECAUSE COCOA WAS IN SHORT SUPPLY DUE TO WORLD WAR II RATIONING. SO PIETRO USED HAZELNUTS, WHICH ARE PLENTIFUL IN THE PIEDMONT REGION OF ITALY (NORTHWEST), TO EXTEND THE CHOCOLATE SUPPLY. THIS "PASTA GIANDUJA" WAS ORIGINALLY A SOLID BLOCK, BUT PIETRO STARTED TO SELL A CREAMY VERSION IN 1951 AS "SUPERCREMA".

• IN 1963, PIETRO’S SON MICHELE FERRERO REVAMPED SUPERCREMA WITH THE INTENTION OF MARKETING IT THROUGHOUT EUROPE. ITS COMPOSITION WAS MODIFIED AND IT WAS RENAMED “Y". THE FIRST JAR OF Y LEFT THE FERRERO FACTORY IN ALBA ON 20 APRIL 1964. THE PRODUCT WAS AN INSTANT SUCCESS AND REMAINS WIDELY POPULAR.

• IN 2012, FRENCH SENATOR YVES DAUDIGNY PROPOSED A TAX INCREASE ON PALM OIL FROM €100 TO €400 PER METRIC TONNE. AT 20 PERCENT, PALM OIL IS ONE OF Y'S MAIN INGREDIENTS AND THE TAX WAS DUBBED "THE Y TAX" IN THE MEDIA.

BREAD PE JAM NAHIN YEH LAGA!

Y- NUTELLA

2. X,Y,Z??

• THE JOINT WORK OF THE SCIENTISTS AT LOS ALAMOS RESULTED IN THE FIRST ARTIFICIAL NUCLEAR EXPLOSION NEAR ALAMOGORDO ON JULY 16, 1945. ”X” LATER RECALLED THAT, WHILE WITNESSING THE EXPLOSION, HE THOUGHT OF A VERSE FROM THE BHAGAVAD GITA (XI,12): DIVI SOORYA-SAHASRASYABHAVED YUGAPAD UTTHITAAYADI BHAAH SADRSHI SAA SYAADBHAASAS TASYA MAH’AATMANAAH!

“IF THE RADIANCE OF _____Y_____ WERE TO BURST AT ONCE INTO THE SKY, THAT WOULD BE LIKE THE SPLENDOR OF THE MIGHTY ONE ...”

• X HAD READ THE BHAGAVAD GITA IN THE ORIGINAL SANSKRIT, AND LATER HE CITED IT AS ONE OF THE BOOKS THAT MOST SHAPED HIS PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE.

• FURTHER, THE TITLE OF THE FOURTH STUDIO ALBUM “Y” BY AMERICAN ROCK BAND ”Z” IS A REFERENCE TO THE HINDU SCRIPTURE AND IS FROM THE LINE THAT WAS POPULARIZED BY X, AS MENTIONED EARLIER

YOU REMEMBER BLACK SKIES, AND LIGHTNING ALL AROUND ME?

• X- J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER• Y- A THOUSAND SUNS • Z- LINKIN PARK

3. SHUNYA STHAAN BHARO

• THE COMEDY CENTRAL SHOW DRAWN TOGETHER HAS A CHARACTER NAMED LING-LING WHO IS A DIRECT PARODY OF_______

• LING-LING'S FATHER STATES THAT LING-LING'S FULL NAME IS LING-LING HITLER BIN LADEN SEACREST. HE BATTLES USING VARIOUS SUPERNATURAL POWERS/ABILITIES AND SPEAKS IN PSEUDO-JAPANESE GIBBERISH (OR "JAPOREAN", AS DIGREGORIO CALLS IT) WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES. MOST OF HIS HUMOUR REVOLVES AROUND HIS SOCIOPATHIC DESIRES OR HIS DIFFICULTY ASSIMILATING INTO AMERICAN CULTURE; HE IS OFTEN USED TO JOKE AT ASIAN STEREOTYPES

MORE CLUES?

• LING-LING HAS ASIAN-LIKE EYES HE SEES THINGS AS A MANGA INSTEAD OF THE WAY EVERYONE ELSE DOES. IT WAS REVEALED THAT HE HAD A BAD RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS BATTLE MONSTER TRAINER, GASH (A PARODY OF______ U KNOW THIS ), WHO WOULD NOT ALLOW HIM A CHANCE TO LIVE HIS DREAM OF BECOMING A DANCER; IN RETALIATION, LING-LING SHOT AN ELECTRIC BALL AT GASH AND PROCEEDED TO DISEMBOWEL HIM

4. THE FOLLOWING POLL IS THE OUTCOME OF A MASSIVE POLITICAL DECISION WITH MAJOR CONSEQUENCES FOR A NATION. WHAT?

SCOTLAND VOTE FOR INDEPENDENCE 2014

IT’S NOT BREXIT!

5. X/CONNECT????

• 1. X • 2. MEERA JAIN • 3. AUNTIE MAYA. • 4. UNCLE BHIM. • 5. NALIN OBEROI • 6. HARI OBEROI • 7. AADI • GIVE ME X AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THE LIST. • LIST IS NOT EXHAUSTIVE.

PAVITRA PRABHAKAR/ INDIAN SPIDERMAN

6. IS IT OR IS IT NOT?

• 50 YEARS ON AND THIS INCIDENT STILL DIVIDES OPINIONS.IT IS REGARDED AS ONE OF THE BIGGEST SPORTING CONSPIRACIES-DEFINITELY THE BIGGEST IN FOOTBALL.Y FELT HARD DONE BECAUSE OF THIS AND IT HAS OVERSHADOWED WHAT IS DEFINITELY X'S BIGGEST ACHIEVEMENT.IT HAS LEAD TO A BIG RIVALRY BETWEEN X AND Y.WHICH INCIDENT AM I TALKING ABOUT ??

1966 WORLD CUP WINNING GOAL-THE GOAL THAT WASN'T OR WAS IT?? X-ENGLAND;Y-GERMANY

7.

• “Z” IS A STATUE THAT APPEARS IN ALMOST EVERY CORNER OF THE WORLD. Z IS MOST OFTEN DEPICTED WITH A SET OF SCALES TYPICALLY SUSPENDED FROM HER LEFT HAND AND WEARING A ___________ . SHE IS ALSO OFTEN SEEN CARRYING A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD IN HER RIGHT HAND. SHE OFTEN APPEARS AS A PAIR WITH ANOTHER STATUE, THAT HOLDS A MIRROR AND A SNAKE.

LADY JUSTICE

8. A X IS AN ELEMENT OF ANY PIECE OF FICTION. XS CAN BE FOUND IN MESSAGE BOARDS, ARTICLES, REVIEWS, COMMERCIALS, AND MOVIE TRAILERS.

• THE TERM X WAS INTRODUCED IN THE EARLY DAYS OF THE INTERNET, AND CAME TO PROMINENCE IN NEWSGROUP CONVERSATIONS. IT IS STILL COMMON IN INTERNET ARTICLES AND SOCIAL MEDIA DISCUSSIONS. EARLY RULES OF NETIQUETTE INSISTED THAT X COULD AND SHOULD BE NORMALLY AVOIDED, BUT IF UNAVOIDABLE, IT BE PRECEDED BY A WARNING , OR THE X ITSELF HAS TO BE MASKED SO THAT IT CAN NOT BE VISIBLE TO ANY BUT THOSE KEEN FOR DETAILS.

• AS A RESULT OF THIS LEVEL OF OBJECTION TO X, TROLLS MAY POST THEM PURELY FOR THEIR OWN PLEASURE, FINDING AMUSEMENT IN BELIEVING THEY ARE COMPLETELY RUINING A NARRATIVE EXPERIENCE FOR OTHERS.

WIKIPEDIA HAS X IN ITS ARTICLES WITHOUT GIVING ADVANCE WARNING, ALTHOUGH IT PREVIOUSLY DID PRIOR TO 2006. MATTHEW PRICHARD, THE GRANDSON OF AGATHA CHRISTIE, CRITICIZED WIKIPEDIA FOR GIVING X IN THE PLAY "THE MOUSETRAP". ANDREW JARECKI, THE PRODUCER OF CATFISH, A DOCUMENTARY, ARGUED THAT WIKIPEDIA SHOULD HAVE WARNINGS FOR ARTICLES CONTAINING X.

SPOILERS!!!

9. B AUR S MEIN KAAFI FARAK HAI

• DC ANNOUNCED A SUICIDE SQUAD TAKEOVER FOR THEIR NEWEST REBIRTH RELEASES RECENTLY, INCLUDING FIRST TIME ISSUES OF SUICIDE SQUAD: REBIRTH.

• IN THE PREVIEW PANEL BELOW, X ADMONISHES AMANDA WALLER FOR ALLOWING HARLEY QUINN TOO LONG OF A LEASH AFTER HE SEES A PHOTOGRAPH OF JOKER’S BAE TAKING A BLOODY BITE OUT OF A PRISON GUARD’S CHEEK.

10.

• LAS VEGAS LIES IN RUINS. BURJ KHALIFA HAS BEEN UPROOTED AND RUDELY THROWN BACK AT EARTH. LONDON AND SINGAPORE HAVE BEEN REDUCED TO RUBBLE. PETRONAS TOWERS HAVE BEEN DESTROYED.

• ONLY X AND ITS LANDMARKS CONTINUE TO STAND STRAIGHT IN THE FACE OF AN UNPRECEDENTED ALIEN ATTACK. 

• ACCORDING TO A REPORT, 20TH CENTURY FOX – THE MAKERS OF INDEPENDENCE DAY RESURGENCE – DECIDED NOT TO SHOW ANY PART OF X OR ITS HISTORICAL MONUMENTS BEING DESTROYED IN THE FILM. THEIR REASON, AND WE QUOTE, BEING “WELL, PEOPLE THERE ARE TOO TOUCHY. KEEPING THE SENSITIVITIES OF ALL THE RELIGIOUS GROUPS AND OTHER ACTIVISTS IN MIND, THE MAKERS WERE ASKED TO NOT SHOOT IN X OR PORTRAY ANY PROMINENT MONUMENTS BEING DAMAGED.”

• THE REPORT QUOTES A SOURCE FROM THE PRODUCTION HOUSE SAYING, “THERE WAS ALSO A REQUEST TO ONLY REPRESENT X ON ONE OF THE FILM’S POSTERS, BY SHOWING AN ATTACK ON THE “Y”. BUT THIS TOO WAS REJECTED.”

YEH MERA

INDIA -__-

11. GUESS-KARO-GUESS

• IT IS SAID THAT THE TOWN X GETS ITS NAME FROM THE PHRASE “___-___-___" WHICH IS WHAT THE ENGLISH TOLD THE LABOURERS AS THEY DUG FOR CRUDE OIL. THIS IS POSSIBLY THE MOST DISTILLED – THOUGH FANCIFUL – VERSION OF THE LEGEND EXPLAINING THE SITING AND NAMING OF X. 

• CRUDE OIL WAS DISCOVERED HERE IN LATE 19TH CENTURY. THE FIRST REFINERY WAS STARTED HERE AS EARLY AS 1901. _____ OIL COMPANY WAS FORMED IN 1899 TO LOOK AFTER THE RUNNING OF THE OIL BUSINESS IN THIS AREA.

• X HAS ONE OF THE OLDEST OIL WELL IN OPERATION.

DIGBOI= “DIG-BOY-DIG”

12.

• GOODWEAVE INTERNATIONAL, FORMERLY KNOWN AS RUGMARK, IS A NETWORK OF NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS DEDICATED TO ENDING ILLEGAL CHILD LABOUR IN THE RUG MAKING INDUSTRY. FOUNDED IN 1994, IT PROVIDES A CERTIFICATION PROGRAM THAT ALLOWS COMPANIES THAT PASS INSPECTION TO ATTACH A LOGO CERTIFYING THAT THEIR PRODUCT IS MADE WITHOUT CHILD LABOUR. WHO IS THE FOUNDER OF GOODWEAVE?

KAILASH SATYARTHI

13. USE TOH KIYA HI HOGA TUMNE

• Z IS AN APPLICATION THAT UTILIZES A NEURAL NETWORK AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, CREATED BY ALEXEY MOISEENKOV. IT WAS LAUNCHED IN JUNE 2016 AS A FREE MOBILE APP.

• A WEEK AFTER ITS LAUNCH, THE APP GAINED POPULARITY AND RECEIVED OVER 7.5 MILLION DOWNLOADS AND OVER 1 MILLION ACTIVE USERS AS OF JULY 2016 AND IT BECAME THE LEADING APP AT THE APP STORE IN RUSSIA AND OTHER NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES. ON 19 JULY 2016, THE DEVELOPER LAUNCHED A BETA VERSION OF THE APP FOR ANDROID AND IT CLOSED FEW HOURS LATER BY DEVELOPERS AFTER RECEIVING FEEDBACK FROM ITS USERS. IT WAS LATER RELEASED PUBLICLY ON 24 JULY 2016 ON GOOGLE PLAY. ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE ANDROID VERSION RELEASE, IT RECEIVED OVER 1.7 MILLION DOWNLOADS WITH 50 MILLION PICTURES PROCESSED BY THE APP.

• UNLIKE OTHER APPS WITH SIMILAR FUNCTIONS, Z RENDERS THE IMAGE BY GOING THROUGH DIFFERENT LAYERS AND RECREATE THE IMAGE RATHER THAN INSERTING A LAYER OVER THE IMAGE; TO GIVE IT AN ARTISTIC EFFECT.

14. VISITING PLACES!

•  MAHARISHI MAHESH YOGI HAD AN ASHRAM IN RISHIKESH WHERE HE CHANGED WESTERN ATTITUDES ABOUT INDIAN SPIRITUALITY AND ENCOURAGED THE STUDY OF TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION(TM).

• ALONG WITH THEIR WIVES, GIRLFRIENDS, ASSISTANTS AND NUMEROUS REPORTERS, A CERTAIN GROUP OF “TOURISTS” ARRIVED IN INDIA IN FEBRUARY 1968 AND JOINED THE GROUP OF 60 PEOPLE WHO WERE TRAINING TO BE TM TEACHERS.

• AFTER THIS VISIT TO RISHIKESH, THE CITY CAME INTO LIMELIGHT AND BECAME A POPULAR DESTINATION AMONG THE INTERNATIONAL TOURISTS. 

•  MAHARISHI MAHESH YOGI ASHRAM IS NOW ALSO KNOWN AS THE _______ ASHRAM, IN HONOUR OF THE VISITORS.

THE BEATLES ASHRAM

15.

• AN ESCOPETARRA IS A GUITAR MADE FROM A MODIFIED X, USED AS A PEACE SYMBOL. THE NAME IS A PORTMANTEAU OF THE SPANISH WORDS ESCOPETA (X) AND GUITARRA (GUITAR).

• THE ESCOPETARRA WAS INVENTED BY COLOMBIAN PEACE ACTIVIST CÉSAR LÓPEZ IN 2003 AT A GATHERING AFTER THE EL NOGAL CLUB BOMBING IN BOGOTÁ, WHEN HE NOTICED SOMEONE HOLDING A X LIKE A GUITAR.

• IN 2006, LÓPEZ ACQUIRED AN ADDITIONAL 12 DECOMMISSIONED X FROM COLOMBIA'S PEACE COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE, WITH PLANS TO CONVERT THEM INTO GUITARS AND GIVE THEM TO HIGH-PROFILE MUSICIANS SUCH AS SHAKIRA, CARLOS SANTANA, AND PAUL MCCARTNEY, AS WELL AS POLITICAL FIGURES SUCH AS THE DALAI LAMA. HOWEVER, A MEMBER OF THE DALAI LAMA'S STAFF REJECTED LÓPEZ'S OFFER, CITING THE INAPPROPRIATENESS OF GIVING A X AS A GIFT; LÓPEZ HAS SAID HE WILL TRY TO EXPLAIN HIS PURPOSE MORE CLEARLY.

• THE PRESIDENT OF GUATEMALA WAS PRESENTED ONE ; IN AN EVENT WITH THE MESSAGE "DALE A LA MÚSICA Y NO A LA VIOLENCIA" (MAKE MUSIC AND NOT VIOLENCE).

16. PARODY ON?

AREY LEKE RAHENGE

THE JNU INCIDENT/KANHAIYA KUMAR

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it owes its name to the a Virgen named Bonaira (or the Virgen of the Good Air) that orriginally belonged to the city of Cagliari, in Italy.

"Good Airs" in Spanish. The original settlement was called Ciudad de la Santísima Trinidad y Puerto de Nuestra Señora la Virgen María de los _________________ ("City of the Most Holy Trinity and Port of Saint Mary of the Good Airs"), after the site of the Santa Maria di Bonaria (Saint Mary of the Good Airs) in Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy). The short form “_________________" became the common usage during the 17th century.

It was named by mistake: there’s no river there. The explorer Gaspar de Lemos set sail from Portugal in 1501 and arrived at a huge bay the following January. Thinking the bay was the mouth of a river he named it after the month

Meaning city of prosperity/wealth

it was capital of the then ruler of india (well most parts). Well known for constant change of capitals between delhi and ___________.

Map of which country ??

IT’S RED BLACK GREEN NOT ENTIRE GREEN !

EXCHANGE YOUR ANSWER SHEETS

1.BUENOS AIRES2.RIO DE JANERIO3.DAULATABAD4.CYPRUS5.LIBYA

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_____ Corps Ltd is a multi-armed multimedia corporation founded in London in January 1968 by the members of the Beatles to replace their earlier company (Beatles Ltd) and to form a conglomerate

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Sherlock, named after Sherlock Holmes, is a file and web search tool created by Apple Inc. for the Mac OS, introduced with Mac OS 8.5 as an extension of the Mac OS Finder's file searching capabilities

_____ Corps Ltd is a multi-armed multimedia corporation founded in London in January 1968 by the members of the Beatles to replace their earlier company (Beatles Ltd) and to form a conglomerate

just saying ...this company of beatles had a trademark and name issues with our connect

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2016: Muhammad Ali2016: Bill Campbell (board member and friend)2014: Robin Williams2013: Nelson Mandela2011: Steve Jobs2010: Jerome B. York (board member)2007: Al Gore (board member in honor of his Nobel Peace Prize)2005: Rosa Parks2003: Gregory Hines2001: George Harrison

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In 1986, Apple Launched a Clothing Line

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iTunes Ping, also known simply as Ping, was a software-based, music-oriented social networking and recommender system service developed and operated by Apple Inc. It was announced and launched on September 1, 2010

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Current status Discontinued September 30, 2012

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Breakout is an arcade game developed and published by Atari, Inc.[2] It was conceptualized by Nolan Bushnell and Steve Bristow, influenced by the 1972 Atari arcade game Pong, and built by Steve Wozniak aided by Steve Jobs

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First launched in 1993, the Newton was intended to be a "PDA" – Personal Digital Assistant – and in that sense it anticipated the modern smartphone . It was supposed to analyse and intelligently interpret your personal information in order to organise your life on your behalf.

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