Karma general quiz

prelims

1.Identify the mount and personalities

• Mount Rushmore ,South Dakota• George Washington• Thomas Jefferson• Theodore Roosevelt• Abraham Lincoln

2.* He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 30 years after he gave the standard interpretation for the probability density function •*•, in Schrödinger’s equation. It was in a letter to him in 1926 that Einstein made his famous remark, often paraphrased as "God does not play dice with the Universe." Who?

• Max Born

3.Connect

• Candle in the wind , is a song by Elton John in the honour of Marilyn Monroe.

4. This Yogic Siddhi helps the sadhaka to see things or events happening at any place in all the three Worlds. This power was used by Sanjay to explain the happenings at the Kurukshetra to Dhritarashtra. Name the siddhi.

• Doordarshan

5. It is the most accurate and comprehensive record of past climate available on the planet. It provides Information from the last 150,000 years about CO2 levels, temperature changes, volcanic activity And solar flares as also unique data on the consequences of human activity since the Industrial Revolution. What are we talking about?

• Antarctica Glaciers

6.*Connect

• Holy Grail. Paul Newman was debuted in the film the silver chalice(Holy grail),in 1954.

• The Last Crusade co-stars Sean Connery as Indiana’s Father, Set largely in 1938, the film has Indiana searching for his father, who was kidnapped by Nazis while looking for the Holy Grail.

• In da vinci code also Holy grail plays major part

7.The seaweed kombu has been used in Japanese cuisine for hundreds of years now. In 1908, the Active ingredient in kombu was isolated and commercial production began shortly after. This active Factor is said to stimulate receptors for umami — the ‘fifth’ taste identified by Ikeda — a savoury,broth-like, meaty flavour, thus signaling the presence of proteins to the digestive system. Identify the active factor.

• AjiNoMoto(Sodium Glutamate)

8.Connect

• Heath Ledger and Peter Finch. Both awarded Academy award posthumously.

• Heath Ledger for The Dark Knight(2008),Best Supporting Actor

• Peter Finch for Network (1976),Best Actor

9.*Polish mathematicians recently pointed out an unforeseen problem with these items. Because they are struck asymmetrically, using different dies that depict national symbols on one side and a standard map and denomination on the other, they may produce faulty results when spun by gamblers. In fact, Belgium's King Albert appeared heads up 140 times, instead of a fair 125, when Polish students spun these coins 250 times. What we are speaking about?

• Euro Coins

10.Identify the animal

• Liger –Born to Male Lion and Female Tiger

11.It’s the rule that Current champs of IPL should conduct the Finals of next season. By the way Rajasthan Royals should conduct the final of IPL second edition. Instead they decided to conduct it in X Stadium. Give reason for change of the location and identify x.

• Mumbai,Wankhade Cricket Stadium. Reason is to get maximum revenue.

12.Who is the Managing Director of Ocher Studios, currently serving the South Indian film industry? Additional information was that this studio was venturing into something new in the South.

• Soundarya Rajinikanth

13.Identify the Personality

• Arthur Hope –Cofounder GCT

14.Which famous poem was first published under the title “Bharat Vidhata” in the Tatvabodhini Patrika in January 1912

• “Jana Gana Mana” Indian National Anthem

15.Citrullus Vulgarius is very popular during the hot summer months in India. What is more common name for it?

• Watermelon

16. Apart from painting what connect Leonardo,Micheal Angelo,Raphael,Donatello?

• Names of The Four Turtle Ninjas

17.’Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity’-Which famous organization holds this motto?

• FBI(Federal Bureau Of Investigation)

18.*Connect -Judith ,Argine ,Rachael ,Pallas

• Queens of Playing Cards

19.The Greeks held four national festivals-the Isthmian, Pythian and Nemean & one more. This one was considered so important that many Greeks dated their historical reckoning from the first such festival held in 776 BC. What was the festival?

• The Olympic Games

20.Identify

• Adolf Hitler

21.*Lee Harvey Oswald was a former United States marine who defected to the Soviet Union but later returned. He was convicted for a crime on 22nd November 1963 in Dallas, Texas. Two days later, he was shot by Jack Ruby on live television. In 1964, he was held responsible for the crime by the Warren Commission. What was Lee Harvey Oswald’s crime?

• Assasination of John F.Kennedy

22.Identify this logo

• CERN-Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (European Council for Nuclear Research)

23. During the East India Company's regime in South India, who were known to the company officers as Conicopolis?

• KannakuPillai(Accountant)

24.The puzzle, known as Number Place in the US, was first published in New York in the late 1970s by the puzzle publisher Dell in its magazine Math Problems and Logic Puzzles. It became immensely popular in the UK in 2005, stimulating international interest. What is its popular name which is also the Japanese for ‘single number’?

• SuDoKu

25.Inspired by a 1953 issue of Space Review: the Journal of the International Flying Saucer Bureau, it debutedin 1989 as a Malibu Comics series created by Tennessee grad Lowell Cunningham. It later became asummer film whose title characters were known by (*) single letters. Name this 1997 film. Starring K and J, played by Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith.

• MIB(Men In Black)

26.Connect

• Malgudi Express

27.Identify this monument and give exact name

• Chichen Itza(Aztec Pyramid)

28.What is the significance of the words " Mr. Watson! Come here! I want you!"?

The words 'Mr. Watson, come here, I want you!' were first uttered into a telephone in Boston,Massachusetts on March 10 1876 by Alexander GrahamBell to his assistant Thomas Watson.

29.Connect

• Benjamin Franklin. First one is Glass armonica invented by him,in slumdog millionaire there comes a question about 100$ bill ,in which Benjamin Franklin pic is present,finally he was one among the five members of US declaration of Independence.