WEEKLY QUIZ- HBTI-KANPUR

Quizmasters

• Harshit Bajpai• Divyansh agrawal• Durgesh pratap singh

1. Connect:

Anjum ChopraIsa Guha

Melanie JonesLisa Sthaleker

1.

Female Commentators for the first time in IPL

2. Identify the incident…..

2.

9/11

3. Alan Stillman opened the first X restaurant in 1965 in New York. He lived in a neighborhood with many airline

stewardesses, fashion models, secretaries, and other young, single people on the East Side of Manhattan

near the Queensboro Bridge, and hoped that opening a bar would help him meet women. At the time,

Stillman's choices for socializing were non-public cocktail parties or "guys' beer-drinking hangout" bars

that women usually did not visit; he recalled that "there was no public place for people between, say, twenty-

three to thirty-seven years old, to meet."Which restaurant did Alan open?

3.

4. Name for fame….

4.

YOUNGEST Marathon Runner“BUDHIA”

5. Minimal for what ???

5.

6. CONNECT

6.

The numbers are the order of US presidents played by the respective

actors.

7. Who’s statue ?

Arnold palmer He is also standing beside it

8. Minimal for what ???

8.

9. ” Its free and always will be…” WHOSE TAGLINE ??

• 10. What is the slogan of google ?

11. Identify the personality.

• 12. In the Nicolas Roeg film Insignificance, set in 1954, we meet four characters who represent iconic figures of the era: Marilyn Monroe, Joseph McCarthy, Joe DiMaggio and ____ ____ who are called The Actress, The Senator, The Ballplayer, and The Professor, respectively. Which real-life person was the basis for The Professor?

13. Which leading Indian MNC has signed up Lionel Messi, a professional footballer, as their Global Brand Ambassador?

Tata motors

14. One of the most powerful women in Chinese media and often called China's Oprah. She is the co-founder of Sun Media. Identify this individual?

Yang lan

• 15. The examinations are split into three levels namely The Knowledge module, Skills module and the Professional module totally making 14 papers. These papers are attempted over a span of three years."I began coaching for examinations in September 2012 and I wrote the final exam in June 2015,as far as my earlier previous exams are concerned, I don't think I performed that well. When it comes to marks, I scored a 8.6 CGPA in grade 10 and an 87 per cent in 12th" said X."As of now, X holds the record for the youngest ACCA affiliate amongst our records," Herriot Fitgerald, the ACCA Academic Advisor Middle East was quoted as saying by the newspaper. Identify X.

• 16. X was born in 20th october 1891 in Bollington, England. He studied at Manchester University under Ernest Rutherford. When World War I broke out in 1914, He was in Berlin working with Hans Geiger. He spent the war in an internment camp for enemy aliens. After the war, He rejoined Rutherford, first at Manchester and then at Cambridge.X and Rutherford hypothesized the existence of a new particle, the Y. In 1932 X devised and performed an experiment that proved the particle existed. He was awarded the Nobel physics prize three years later for his discovery.

16.

X- James chadwick Y- neutron

• 17. Every human language has its own word for the X, and these words are the ones normally used in astronomical contexts. However, a number of fanciful or mythological names for the X have been used in the context of astronomy (an even larger number of ITS epithets have been used in non-astronomical contexts). In the 17th century, the X was sometimes referred to as Proserpina. In technical terminology, the word-stems cynthi- (from Cynthia, an epithet of the goddess Artemis) are sometimes used to refer to the X, as in selenography, selenology, and pericynthion. Identify X.

• 18. 'The worlds most valuable Biscuit' which survived something that happened long time ago, will go under the hammer late this month and is expected to fetch between 8000 - 10000 euro. the cracker which was kept as souvenir by James Fenwick which helped rescue people. It was stored by him in kodak photographic envelope with an original note which read " pilot biscuit from X." 'It is the world's most valuable biscuit', Andrew Aldridge from Henry Aldridge & son auctioneers in wiltshire U.K. said "the cracker will go under the hammer on october 24." ID X and give funda .

• X- Titanic lifeboat 1912

• It survived the sinking of titanic more than a century ago

19. X has opened to record smashing $80 million overseas this weekend. In the UK, the film has taken in an estimated $64 milllion in its first 7 days of release, the biggest opening run in that country's boxoffice history, according to a statement by makers. It took the the mark from harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban which was also released on a Monday and totalled $82 million in 2004. ID X?

• 20. Colleagues of a late researcher noted for his expertise on outer-space collisions came up with an astronomical way to honor his memory. A vehicle carrying an ounce of his ashes slammed into a moon crater at 3,800 mph, riding shotgun along NASA’s Lunar Prospector science craft.He was an American geologist and one of the founders of the field of planetary science. He is best known for co-discovering the Comet X–Levy 9 with his wife Carolyn and David H. Levy.

Eugene Shoemaker

• 21. Connect:

• Theodore C. Freeman (October 31, 1964, aircraft accident)• Charles A. Bassett II (February 28, 1966, aircraft accident)• Elliot M. See Jr. (February 28, 1966, aircraft accident)• Virgil I. Grissom (January 27, 1967, Apollo 1 fire)• Roger B. Chaffee (January 27, 1967, Apollo 1 fire)• Edward H. White II (January 27, 1967, Apollo 1 fire)• Vladimir M. Komarov (April 24, 1967, Soyuz 1 re-entry parachute failure)• Edward G. Givens Jr. (June 6, 1967 automobile accident)• Clifton C. Williams Jr. (October 5, 1967, aircraft accident)• Yuri A. Gagarin (March 27, 1968, aircraft accident)• Pavel I. Belyayev (January 10, 1970, disease)• Georgiy T. Dobrovolsky (June 30, 1971, Soyuz 11 re-entry pressurization

failure)• Viktor I. Patsayev (June 30, 1971, Soyuz 11 re-entry pressurization failure)• Vladislav N. Volkov (June 30, 1971, Soyuz 11 re-entry pressurization

failure)

Plaque with FALLEN ASTRONAUT

• 22. When Yudhishthira crowned himself as the Emperor of Indraprastha and began preparations for a Rajasuya sacrifice. He despatched his brother, Sahadeva to the southern kingdoms to subjugate the rulers to his authority and supremacy. Sahadeva stopped at a place and sent his messengers to X's kingdom. X gratefully accepted Yudhishthira's authority and regarded it as "an act of time." He also sent diverse kinds of jewels, gems, pearls, celestial ornaments and costly apparel to Sahadeva and Yudhishthira. ID X.

Vibhishan

• 23. One of the myths of the origin of this game suggests that Confucius , the Chinese philosopher, developed the game in about 500 BC.

• The myth also claims that Confucius was fond of birds, which would explain its name.

• This game was played with 40 paper cards similar in appearance to the cards used in the game Ya Pei. These 40 cards are numbered 1 to 9 in four different suits, along with four extra flower cards.

Mahjong

24. Connect:• City in Fear (1980), directed by Jud Taylor [a movie]• Raging Angels (1995) [ A Movie]• MacGyver, "Pilot" directed by Jerrold Freedman, and

"The Heist" episodes (1985).[ a television direction]• "Waiting for Tonight" - Jennifer Lopez (1999),

directed by Francis Lawrence. [ A music Video]• Daredevil #338–342, a comics series published by

Marvel Comics: Writer D.G. Chichester• Rolento in the video games Street Fighter X Tekken

and Ultra Street Fighter IV. - Dameon Clarke

Alan Smithee

Director credited whose real directors disowned his/her direction

25. Duryodhan placed his camp on the opposite side of a pond where the Pandavas used to stay. Once, while he was taking bath in that pond, the heavenly princes, named Gandharvas, came to take a bath.Duryodhana could not tolerate this; he had a fight in which the Gandharvas captured him. On the request of Yudhisthir, Arjuna saved Duryodhana and set him free. Duryodhana was ashamed, but being a kshatriya, he asked Arjuna what benediction or boon he would like. Arjuna replied that he would ask for the boon later when he needed it. What was that boon Arjuna asked for later?

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