INTRA HOSTEL GENERAL QUIZ

Prepared By: Deepak Dilipkumar and

Alan John Maniamkot

Quizmaster: Vighnesh Vatsal

1) Fan poster of which movie?

THE PRESTIGE

2) Sir Frederick William Herschel became famous for his discovery of the planet Uranus. His grandson William Herschel, an Indian civil servant too is known for something he invented, which prevents a popular form of duplicity seen in IIT.

Biometric Identification

3) X is a Hungarian inventor, who is world-renowned for a certain invention Y, of which more than 350 million units have been sold. “It is a perfect example of the human mind possibilities to test their scientific rigour and to dominate them.” It is a popular hobbyist object and is used in a World Championship sport.

ID Y.

Erno Rubik

4) Connect

Edvard Munch Paintings

5) The word X gets its name from the carob seed. Carob seeds were used as weights on precision scales because of their reputation for having a uniform weight. It is said that in order to keep uniformity among regional buyers and sellers of Y, a potential customer could retrieve their own carob seeds on their way to the market, to check the tolerances of the seeds used by the merchant. ID X and Y.

Carats of Gold

6) Identify this person

Kamal Hassan

7) X wanted to name his daughter Y. But when a son was born, he named him Markus. Y went on to become a very famous name, after X created a software called Y. However, Y was a name popular in other regions, even before the software came out. For example, one of the largest poems in a south Indian Language is called the Epic of Y. Y shares it’s name with the NYSE listing of a radio company that again shares it’s name with a father figure in Harry Potter. Identify Y.

SiriSirius XM Radio

8) Who owns the "spinners" clothing brand?

Shane Warne

9) Dying of the light Windhaven The Hedge Knight The Sworn Sword Fevre Dream The Armageddon Rag

What does this non-exhaustive list represent?

George R R Martin’s Works

10) Ad for what?

Ad Against Passive Smoking

11) X is a common phenomenon we see in daily life. Wikipedia explains it as follows: “By conservation of momentum, the deflective force on the body is no more or less than a reaction to the deflection that the body imposes on the air-flow. The body "pushes" the air down, and vice versa. As a particular case, a lifting force is accompanied by a downward deflection of the air-flow. It is an angular deflection in the fluid flow, aft of the body.” Where do we commonly observe X?

Ball Games - Swing

12) Who's face has been blanked out?

Pepe

13) X, also known as agrin-like protein (AGRINL) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the EGFLAM gene. It was first described in 2008 in Japan by Shigeru Sato. It helps to carry electrical impulses from the eyes to the brain. What is it's common name?

Pikachurin

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Gwyneth Paltrow

15) Connect these famous Indians.

Madan Mohan Malviya Motilal Nehru

People after which NITs are named

Questions 16-20 have an overall connect, so you need to get at least two of the next five questions right to guess the connect!

16) X is a famous American businesswoman, singer,entertainer and producer. Born to a lower middle class family in 1969, she got her big break when she became a regular on the American sketch comedy series, In Living Colour. She has the distinction of

being the first actress of a certain ethnicity to receive more than $1 million for a movie.

Identify.

Jennifer Lopez

17) “Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.”, he said, in a soothing voice.

ID the speaker.

Morgan Freeman

18) This photo was taken in October, 1941. Identify the place.

Pearl Harbour

19) X stands 13½ inches tall and weighs in at a robust 8½ pounds. Officially named Y, it is better known by its nickname, X. While the origins of the nickname aren’t clear, a popular story has it that upon seeing it for the first time, a certain Margaret Herrick remarked that it resembled her Uncle X. What are we talking about?

Oscar

Connect

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Tom Wilkinson

Tommy Lee Jones

Jim Carrey

Batman Movie villains

21) What was the connect between the last five questions?

Ben Affleck!

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