general quiz (19/01/14) iit jodhpur
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General Quiz organised by Quiz Club IITJ on 19th Jan 2014.TRANSCRIPT
GENERAL QUIZ
Identify the TV show.
It is the most watched TV show in Australia. It has aired its Indian version since 2010, three
seasons have been aired till date.
This IIT Bombay alumni is currently an assistant professor at IIT Guwahati. His creativity lies in your pocket. IDENTIFY
this guy and his creativity!!
D. Udaya Kumar
CONNECT!!
Founder of social networking site connectU with Mark Zuckerberg and Divya Narendra
Winklevoss BrothersCameron winklevoss
Tyler winklevoss
This surname, originally used as a ‘royal title’, is derived from a
persian term which literally means ‘child of the ruler’ or ‘child of the
commander’.India have a famous sportstar and a beautiful actress with this surname.
WHICH SURNAME??
I have a dream today!I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with
its vicious racistsone day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to
join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today!
WHO??
Give me a one-person connect.
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev
Ana Ivanovic Gregor MendelDmitri Mascarenhas
This is the circuit map of the largest
Formula One circuit in the
world.The lap distance of this circuit is
the longest in the world.
Identify the country in which this circuit exists.
X is an expendable launch system operated by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). X has attempted
eight launches, its first in 2001, and the latest on Jan 5, 2014. Three launches have been successful, four have
failed, and one was a partial failure.
Give me X.
Not the abbreviation, but the full name
GSLVGeosynchronous
Satellite Launch Vehicle
What so special about this McDonalds??
World’s smallest McDonald’s
Brahma -BrahmastraVishnu - Narayanastra
Shiv - ?????
Parshupat Astra
Who said these words? What record did he make?
“I wish the whole world could see what I see. Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really
are.”
Hint : He made a world record on 14 October 2012.
Felix Baumgartner Set the world record for skydiving an estimated 39 kilometres,
reaching an estimated speed of 1357.64 km/h
Kolaveri di from Movie ‘3’
Govinda’s is a chain of pure vegetarian restaurant, found in different cities
around the world, offers Indian, Italian, Mexican, Chinese and Thai cuisines.
Which international organisation owns this restaurant chain??
International Society for Krishna CONsciousness
He is a British- South African entrepreneur who became the second space tourist, and the first African citizen of free country to travel to space.
YOU MAY HOWEVER KNOW HIM FOR HIS
ASSOCIATION WITH A UNIVERSALLY FAMOUS SOFTWARE PRODUCT.
WHO??WHAT PRODUCT??
Connect:
A famous web framework An album by a 1950’s
band The modern jazz quartet A famous motion film
Who is Amul commemorating?
Paul Walker
X is a Swahili phrase that can be translated literally to mean “no
worries.” Its meaning is similar to English phrase “no problem”.
Don’t Worry, Be Happy! !
This is the expression of the
famous and controversial ‘Z’
equation.
Give me Z and the term on the LHS of the equation.
Hint: N 36.4 million
DRAKE EQUATION
The number of intelligent alien
civilizations with which it is possible to communicate
In computation it was famously called the X bug, or the X problem. It resulted due to
unambiguosly specified date formats, which caused
inconsistencies in digital systems arising due to change
of century.ID X
What does this Google doodle celebrate?
100th anniversaryCrossword puzzles
The phrase originated via a newsletter published by Arlene and Jose Ramos, called .
It was created for the emerging pre-press industry going electronic in the late 1970s.
X describes a system in which content during editing appears very similar to the final product.
ID X
“X” is a multi-tier defensive formation that looks like
a disc when viewed from above. The warriors at each interleaving position would be in an increasingly
tough position to fight. The thirteenth day of Mahabharata War is remembered for the construction
of “X” by Dronacharya.
Name “X”
The first one was sent from Kolkata to Diamond Harbour in 1850.
The last one was sent to Rahul Gandhi.
What am I talking about?
Telegram
GN SSCK
LD HPRS
HO REYU
DF GNRSLB
PH OS FT
DP RAC PQ
What are these a list of??
Quotas in Indian Railway
Identify the logo
The degree
“Medicinae Baccalaureus, Baccalaureus Chirurgiae”
is generally abbreviated and known by the abbreviation to common man.
What is the common name by which it is known?
These species of birds are not naturally the colour they appear but are white.
They eat algae and shrimp which contain pigments called carotenoids which give
them a colour.
Identify them.
Flamingo
X is a city located in the Hazara region of the Khyber province, Pakistan. The city is well known throughout Pakistan for its pleasant
weather, high-standard educational institutions and military establishments. It remains a
popular hill station attracting tourists every year.
The Islamic fundamentalist Y was hiding outside the Kakul Military Academy in X.
Give me X and Y
Abottabad
257885161 - 1 is called M57885161. This number has
17,425,170 digits.
It was founded by GIMPS and was in the news around October 2013.
What is that number presently known for?
It is the largest prime number known.
There is a well known myth about the word ‘X’,which says that in 1791, a Dublin theatre owner
named James Daly made a bet that he could introduce a word into the language within 24 hours. He then went out and hired a group of
street urchins to write the word ‘X’, which was a nonsense word on walls around the city of Dublin. Within a day, the word was common currency and had acquired a meaning(since no one knew what it meant, everyone thought it was some sort of test)
and Daly had some extra cash in his pocket.
ID X.