VT Quiz 2014(General Quiz MAINS)

Date: 31st May, 2014

Venue: SNTI AUDI

INFINITE BOUNCE

He was selected by Time magazine as one of the "2011 Time 100," a list of the "most influential people in the world. During his childhood, His childhood in NewJersey was very limited ,but he wanted to travel and experience other places, but the only way of doing so was through his imagination, and he became a voracious reader.An expert chess player, he also directed chess tournaments for the Continental Chess Association from 1973 to 1976. He actively contributes to his blog, 'Not a Blog'. Otherwise he does not use any social media such as Facebook or Twitter, and still does all his writing on an old DOS machine running Wordstar 4.0. His offi cial fan club is the "Brotherhood Without Banners,

1)

George R R Martin

2)

WHAT HAPPENED ON ON 29 DECEMBER 2013, AT DESCENT OF THE COMBE DE SAULIRE BELOW THE DENT DE BURGIN ABOVE MÉRIBEL IN THE FRENCH

ALPS?

Schumacher Accident

Q 3)

THE F1 CIRCUIT OF A PLACE WHERE JUBILATION IS DONE NOT WITH CHAMPAGNE BUT WITH GRAPE JUICE

Bahrain

Sudhir Kumar Chaudhary is Unemployed, having previously worked for a milk company and trained as a teacher. He is one of three principal roles of a documentary fi lm "Beyond all boundaries" which tells the stories of three diff erent personalities of Indian Cricket.

He “retired” last November. Who is SK Chaudhary?

4)

6)

LOGO OF ?

Hyderabad Hot shots

Rahman personally trained Egyptian singer Maryem Tollar to sing “Y", a song which Rahman wrote while on Hajj in Makkah. After he heard a man near a river who was continually repeating “Y " (water in Arabic), He told Gulzar to incorporate the word into the tune he had created while touring in Toronto, Canada. Y was the fi rst song recorded for the fi lm.

7)

Mayya Mayya from Guru

The size of most Y is 3 3 ⁄8 × 2 1 ⁄8 in (85.60 × 53.98 mm),conforming to the ISO/IEC 7810 ID-1 standard. The concept of using Y in economy was described in 1887 by Edward Bellamy in his utopian novel Looking Backward.

8)

Credit Cards

Legend has it that the term comes from a practise started by the ruler of Mahim Village. Everytime he wanted something accomplished he would ensure the circulation of a plate fi lled with X and betel leaves in a meeting of all able bodied men in the village. The one who picked up the fi rst X from the plate indicated his willingness to do the job.It is also called “Areca”

What?

9)

Supari

10)

AUTHOR?

Arvind Kejriwal

____ is a website created by Randall Munroe who quit NASA.  In 2013, a main-belt asteroid was named after him. However we know him for romance, sarcasm, math, and language.

Q 11)

XKCD

Q 12)

WHAT IS THE 20 POINT AREA CALLED?

BULL

ON PAPER

NAME THEIR BANKS

1

NAME THEIR BANKS

2

NAME THEIR BANKS

3

NAME THEIR BANKS

4

NAME THEIR BANKS

5

NAME THEIR BANKS

6

Arundhati Bhattacharya SBIChanda Kochhar ICICIShikha Sharma Axis BankSubbhalakshmi Panse Allahabad BankMeera Sanyal- RBS & ABN AMRONaina Lal Kidwai- HSBC

INFINITE BOUNCE

Q 1)

WHICH COMPANY?

Tesla Motors

 “ I never dared to break the glass of his house while playing Cricket as I used to be extremely scared of him. “ Virender Sehwag talking about which former childhood neighbor of his from Najafgarh?

Q 2)

SUSHIL KUMAR

Name  the only Bollywood movie till date in which Sachin Tendulkar has made an appearance.

3)

According to legend, It was founded by the God Shiva. This place was also known as Kāśikā (the shining one), Avimukta ("never forsaken" by Shiva), Ānandavana (the forest of bliss), and Rudravāsa (the place where Rudra/Śiva resides). Hiuen Tsiang also visited Varanasi in the 7th century; he named it "Polonisse“. Sushruta, the great surgeon and author of the Sushruta Samhita, the Sanskrit text of surgery also lived in here. The city grew as a place for Authentic Ayurveda and Panchkarma treatment. Many Ayurvedic centers are here.

Q 4)

Varanasi

Q 5)

CHINESE WEBSITES ANALOGOUS TO WHAT?

Weibo

Baidu

Weibo - Twitter

Baidu- Google

_______________ had over ten mil l ion downloads in December 2012 alone.

As of February 7, 2014, ___________, the most popular app on Facebook, had more than 61 mil l ion l ikes on the application

It makes an appearance in Psy's music video "Gentleman As of July 2013, it has been estimated that _________ has about 6.7

mil l ion active users and earns revenue of $633,000 per day in the US section of the iOS App Store alone.[

As of October 2013, __________ is the third most popular free app and the highest grossing app in the  Google playstore.

As of November 2013, the game has been installed 500 mil l ion times across Facebook and iOS and Android devices.

In December 2013, King.com began running advertisements for ______ on Japanese television. Partial ly attributed to these advertisements, in the fi rst week of December 2013, _______ jumped from a posit ion outside the top-100 most-downloaded iPhone  games in Japan to the No. 1 position on December 6, 2013. "On Android, the game jumped from No. 83 on Nov. 30 to the No. 23 on the most-downloaded game on Dec. 4

Q 6)

Candy Crush Saga

Q 7)

IT IS HIS SECOND POSTHUMOUS ALBUM OF PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED TRACKS BY. IT WAS

RELEASED ON MAY 9, 2014. SONY MOBILE USED A SNIPPET OF A SONG IN THEIR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN

FOR THE XPERIA Z2 MOBILE PHONE.

Q 8)

WHICH B SCHOOL?

IIM Lucknow

Q 9)

List of people on board MH 370

The X was a very popular food item during the Mughal period and occupied a unique place in the emblem of the royalty of Oudh under the control of Mughals. During the period, X was also used like a cloth to wipe off the excess oil off the hands after the completion of an oil-rich food laden with meat and fat and hence gets its name

Q 10)

Romali Roti

X is a group of Indian women vigilantes and activists originally from Bundelkhand, Uttar Pradesh, but reported to be active across North India as of 2010.

The X was founded by Sampat Pal Devi as a response to widespread domestic abuse and other violence against women. X members visit abusive husbands and threaten to beat them with laathis unless they stop abusing their wives. In 2008, they stormed an electricity offi ce in Banda district and forced offi cials to turn back on the power they had cut in order to extract bribes. They have also stopped child marriages and protested dowry and female illiteracy.

The group, which the Indian media portray positively, was reported to have 20,000 members as of 2008, as well as a chapter in Paris, France

Q 11)

SahasraraAjnaVishuddhaAnahataManipuraSwadhisthanaMuladhara What are they?

Q 12)

Chakras or healing centres

POLITICS

He has been a member of RSS since childhood. He attended Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial Medical College, Kanpur, where he graduated in 1979 with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery. He earned his Master of Surgery in Otolaryngology (ENT) from the same college in 1983

He is known to be pioneer of Pulse Polio Programme. He launched it fi rst in Delhi, which was then home to 10 per cent of polio cases in India. Being Health minister of state in 1994, on a single day (October 2, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi), he organised the mass immunisation of 1.2 million children. This polio programme was fi rst to be implemented successfully in country.The programme was adopted throughout the whole nation by the GOI.

1)

Dr. Harsh Vardhan

2)

SIDHU WON HIS LOK SABHA ELECTION FROM HIS CONSTITUENCY IN 2004 WITH A BJP

TICKET. WHO CONTESTED FROM THE SAME SEAT IN THIS GENERAL ELECTION BUT LOST?

Arun Jaitly

Who coined “Abki baar Modi Sarkaar?”

3)

PIYUSH PANDEY OF SOHO SQUARE INTEGRATED AGENCY OF OGILVY

Y is member of the Tharavadu heritage, was born in London, to Lily and Chandran.After his parents returned to India, he began his schooling at Montfort School in Yercaud, Tamil Nadu, and Campion School in Mumbai, and attended high school at St. Xavier's Collegiate School in Kolkata.Y subsequently obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from St. Stephen's College in Delhi and went on to pursue graduate studies at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, from where he obtained M.A in 1976, M.A.L.D in 1977 and a Ph.D. in 1979

4)

Shashi Tharoor

She was born in Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu. She graduated from the prestigious Seethalakshmi Ramaswami College, Tiruchirapalli in 1980.She completed her M. Phil in International Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University. She has worked for Pricewaterhouse Coopers as a Senior Manager and for BBC World Service. She is one of the founding directors of Pranava school in Hyderabad.She was a former member of the National Commission for Women.

On May 26, she was sworn in as Minister of State.

5)

Nirmala Sitharaman

In July 2011, he was nominated for one of six seats in the Rajya Sabha from West Bengal by the Trinamool Congress.

Also their spokesperson . Who?

6)

Derek O Brien

TIE BREAKER

Mysore Paints and Varnish Limited is a company located in the city of Mysore, India. It is the only company in India authorised to produce _____.The company is owned and operated by the Government of Karnataka.

He is the elected MP in 2014 Lok Sabha election from Jaipur Rural. He passed out of the National Defence Academy, and since served in the Indian Army where he retired as a Colonel in 2013, before joining politics.

Advertisement by which company in what context?

Q

Oreo’s Tribute to Mars Rover Landing

ANS

First introduced as "Brad's Drink" in New Bern, North Carolina, United States, in 1893 by Caleb Bradham, who made it at his drugstore where the drink was sold. It was later labeled it’s current name, after the digestive enzyme was added. Bradham sought to create a fountain drink that was delicious and would aid in digestion and boost energy

What is the enzyme or the drink’s name?

Q

Pepsi

ANS

The villagers of Chini, a tehsil in Himachal Pradesh, owed allegiance to the Panchen Lama in Tibet, and were ruled by rituals administered by local priests. These included gorasang, a religious service to celebrate the completion of a new house; kangurzalmo, a ceremonial visit to the Buddhist library at Kanam; menthako, ‘where men, women and children climb hills, dance and sing’ and others.

On 25 October 1951, they added a new ritual, becoming the fi rst Indians to do so. What?

Q

Cast votes in General Elections

ANS

I t was around this t ime that she met the guy who would become the inspiration for X . He was 10 years older than her, and he got her interested in traveling, reading fi ction l ike Zadie Smith's White Teeth and writ ing poetry. "He made me an adult . He put me on the road that I 'm traveling on," Y says. "Most of my l i fe was my career, but I had this l itt le side project that was us. And it made me feel real ly normal again, which is just what I needed. Because I was becoming a bit doo-lal ly–a bit f*****' crazy.“

They l ived together for almost a year at her place in London before things started to fi zzle. Toward the end, "We'd just bicker over a cup of tea or the fact that my l ighter wasn't working.“

The morning after things offi cial ly ended, she was at work, sobbing while making Z .

Midway through that project, she found out her ex was engaged. “I was absolutely devastated.” She hasn’t seen anyone since it ended.

Q

X –21Y –AdeleZ –Rolling in the Deep

ANS

In 1948 Bernard Silver came up with a new solution to an inventory management problem packaged food industries and general stores were facing. Their fi rst working system used ultraviolet ink, but the ink faded too easily and was rather expensive.Convinced that the system was workable with further development, Silver’s friend set himself to work on it. His next inspiration came from Morse code, and he formed his fi rst X from sand on the beach. "I just extended the dots and dashes downwards…“

Q

Bar Code

ANSWER

The traditional Snellen chart is printed with eleven lines of block letters. The symbols on an acuity chart are formally known as “optotypes" In the case of the traditional Snellen chart, the optotypes have the appearance of block letters, and are intended to be seen and read as letters. They are not, however, letters from any ordinary typographer's font. They have a particular, simple geometry in which:

the thickness of the lines equals the thickness of the white spaces between lines and the thickness of the gap in the letter "C"

the height and width of the optotype (letter) is fi ve times the thickness of the line.

Only the ten Sloan letters C, D, E, F, L, N, O, P, T, Z are used in the traditional

Snellen chart. The perception of fi ve out of six letters (or similar ratio) is judged to be the Snellen fraction

Q

Ophthalmologist chart

In 1888 X's brother Ludvig died while visiting Cannes and a French newspaper erroneously published X's obituary. It condemned him for his invention of Y and stated Le marchand de la mort est mort ("The merchant of death is dead"). This is said to have brought about his decision to leave a better legacy after his death. Identify X and Y.

Q

Alfred Nobel

ANSWER

WHICH MOVIE HAD THIS COMPANY?

Japanese invasion currency for use in Burma, WW2.

Mistletoe• Fish• Rock oil got from gold (beetroot juice can be

substituted)• Four-leaved clovers of the tamarind tree• Lobster(for flavour)• Strawberry(for sweetnes)• Garlic

INGREDIENTS OF MAGIC POTION (ASTERIX)

The villagers of Chini, a tehsil in Himachal Pradesh, owed allegiance to the Panchen Lama in Tibet, and were ruled by rituals administered by local priests. These included gorasang, a religious service to celebrate the completion of a new house; kangurzalmo, a ceremonial visit to the Buddhist library at Kanam; menthako, ‘where men, women and children climb hills, dance and sing’ and others.

On 25 October 1951, they added a new ritual, becoming the fi rst Indians to do so. What?

CAST VOTES IN A GENERAL ELECTION

When launched in 1993, it targeted the growing youth segment, and was the fi rst product of its kind to be launched in pouch packs, like potato chips.

Its unique shape is also registered under the Indian Designs Act.

Which popular product from the 90s, whose heart continues to beat today, is this?

Why are the 3 Shaivite temples at Draksharamam, Srisailam and Kaleshawaram in the state of Andhra Pradesh trending?

there is a hypothetical "trilinga desa" between these three temples • Trilingadesa is the land between these three temples. From which you get both Telugu and Telangana.

RiniSimon Khanna, an alumna of Jesus and Mary College in Delhi, was also a popular Doordarshannews anchor, beginning her career at All India Radio in 1982. She’s also anchored many specials, such as Republic and Independence Day parades.

An IIT-D alumnus, ShammiNarangaccidentally did a sound-check in the newly-built campus auditorium in 1982. One thing led to another, and he was the face of Doordarshannews-reading in the ‘80s, and is widely believed to have helped raise news-casting standards in India.

Though neither works for PrasarBharatiany more, how do they caution and inform millions every day?

DELHI METRO VOICES

If Pankaj, Nikhil, Shreya, Purvi, Sachin and Fredericks are the junior members, who are the three ranked above them?

Senior Inspector DayaSenior Inspector AbhijeetACP Pradyuman

I t was around this t ime that she met the guy who would become the inspiration forX . He was 10 years older than her, and he got her interested in traveling, reading fi ction l ike ZadieSmith's White Teethand writ ing poetry. "He made me an adult . He put me on the road that I 'm traveling on," Ysays. "Most of my l i fe was my career, but I had this l itt le s ide project that was us. And it made me feel real ly normal again, which is just what I needed. Because I was becoming a bit doo-lal ly–a bit fuckin' crazy.“

They l ived together for almost a year at her place in London before things started to fi zzle. Toward the end, "We'd just bicker over a cup of tea or the fact that my lighter wasn't working. "

The morning after things offi cial ly ended, she was at work, sobbing while makingZ .

Midway through that project, she found out her ex was engaged. “I was absolutely devastated.” She hasn’t seen anyone since it ended.

X –21 Y –Adele Z –Roll ing in the Deep

Bi r thdays of fi ct ional characters such as those appear ing in comic books and movies are genera l ly determined as the day they fi rs t appeared before the publ ic , such as the

publ icat ion or re lease dates . • Two famous fi ct iona l characters share the i r b i r thdays . . . • The fi rs t one, an an imal , was insp i red by Char l ie Chapl in . I t made a debut in an an imated movie in 1928. S ince then, i t has appeared in an imated car toons , movies , comic s t r ips , TV

and even v ideo games. I t fi rs t appeared in co lor in 1935. A h igh ly success fu l character , i t a lso

has a star dedicated to i t on the Hol lywood Walk o f Fame. • The other , a comic s t r ip character , made i ts fi rs t appearance in 1985. I t i s named after a theo log ian who bel ieved in predest inat ion. The character has appeared on merchandise

but never in an imat ion. The comic s t r ip has been featured in over 2 ,400 newspapers wor ldwide and 30 mi l l ion copies o f i ts books have been so ld . • Name the two characters .

MICKEY AND CALVING AND HOBBES

Norma McCorveygot into trouble in Dallas, Texas, in the early 70s. She could get a solution in California, Alaska, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, and of course, nearby Mexico. She got in touch with a lawyer, and soon, a class-action suit was fi led against the district attorney, Henry ____.

They won in the Dallas federal district court, but the state appealed, and the case dragged on ti l l the Supreme Court, where in 1973, they delivered a landmark judgement with a 7-2 majority.

This judgement continues to be debated hotly today, especially every four years. Incidentally, McCorveybecame a born-again Christian sometime in the early 90s, and is now a fervent activist against the very judgement she was on the winning side of! She even campaigned against Democratic Candidate, Barack Obama in 2012 as he stood for re-election.

What judgement are we talking about?

Roe vs. Wade

In 1948 Bernard Silver came up with a new solution to an inventory management problem packaged food industries and general stores were facing. Their fi rst working system used ultraviolet ink, but the ink faded too easily and was rather expensive.Convinced that the system was workable with further development, Silver’s friend set himself to work on it. His next inspiration came from Morse code, and he formed his fi rst X from sand on the beach. "I just extended the dots and dashes downwards…“

BAR CODE

This Greek philosopher is known in India popularly by a diff erent name, often used to refer to an eclectic person, or a maverick. The name changed because the traveling Arabs who came to India with knowledge of the philosopher could not pronounce a particular sound.

AFLATOON, PLATO

Q11 • One great advantage in be ing a h is to r ian to a man l i ke X i s that h i s mere persona l i ty prevents one se l l ing one 's a r t i s t i c sou l fo r go ld . In recent years I have had lucrat ive off ers fo r h i s serv ices f rom theatr i ca l managers , mot ion-p ic ture magnates , the propr ie tors o f one or two w ide ly advert i sed commodi t ies , and even the ed i to r o f the comic supp lement o f an Amer ican newspaper , who wanted h im fo r a "comic s t r ip" . HINT . X knows h is p lace , and i t i s between the covers o f a book . ( X, Y ) • Actua l ly , I wasn ' t aga inst a l l merchand is ing when I s tar ted the s t r ip , but each product I cons idered seemed to v io la te the sp i r i t o f the s t r ip , contrad ic t i t s message, and take me away f rom the work I l oved . I f my synd icate had le t i t go a t that , the dec is ion would have taken maybe 30 seconds o f my l i fe . Who about what? ( , β 퐀

WODEHOUSE, WATTERSON

X was born in Murom, Vladimir region in 1923. In 1941, X was drafted into the Red Army. He fought on

the southern and south-western areas in the 1st and 4th Ukrainian Fronts. He fought for the liberation of Ukraine, Poland, Czechoslovakia. During the war, X was awarded the Order of Patriotic War II degree (1945), Red Star (1944), and the medals "For Courage" (1943), "For Military Merit" (1944), "For Victory over Germany" (1946).

In 1945 X was demobilized from the ranks of the Red Army for health reasons and returned to Moscow. In February 1946, he entered the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute at the Faculty of Physics and subsequently worked on Nuclear and Atomic physics in Moscow.

X created something we all know and respect.

I E IRODOV

Arvind Kejriwal was sworn in as Chief minister of Delhi on 28th December

2013. He is the 7th chief minister of Delhi. So since 1952, there have been

only 7 cms?!?!?

NOT A STATE 1956-1993

COPYRIGHT TRAP ARGLETON

X is a group of Indian women vigilantes and activists originally from Bundelkhand, Uttar Pradesh, but reported to be active across North India as of 2010.

The X was founded by Sampat Pal Devi as a response to widespread domestic abuse and other violence against women. X members visit abusive husbands and threaten to beat them with laathis unless they stop abusing their wives. In 2008, they stormed an electricity offi ce in Banda district and forced offi cials to turn back on the power they had cut in order to extract bribes. They have also stopped child marriages and protested dowry and female illiteracy.

The group, which the Indian media portray positively, was reported to have 20,000 members as of 2008, as well as a chapter in Paris, France

GULABI GANG

The traditional Snellen chart is printed with eleven lines of block letters. The symbols on an acuity chart are formally known as “optotypes" In the case of the traditional Snellen chart, the optotypes have the appearance of block letters, and are intended to be seen and read as letters. They are not, however, letters from any ordinary typographer's font. They have a particular, simple geometry in which:

the thickness of the lines equals the thickness of the white spaces between lines and the thickness of the gap in the letter "C"

the height and width of the optotype (letter) is fi ve times the thickness of the line.

Only the ten Sloan letters C, D, E, F, L, N, O, P, T, Z are used in the traditional

Snellen chart. The perception of fi ve out of six letters (or similar ratio) is judged to be the Snellen fraction

OPHTHALMOLOGIST CHART

Which TV channel’s name is literally “The Island”

AL JAZEERA

“I sometimes feel like the Kurt Cobain of my generation, but people just don't understand me.” Which ‘prolific’ musician’s words are these?

JUSTIN BEIBER

_______ ______ fi rst appears in the book Liber Abaci (1202) by Leonardo of Pisa, known as X. [4] He considers the growth of an idealized (biologically unrealistic) rabbit population, assuming that: a newly born pair of rabbits, one male, one female, are put in a field; rabbits are able to mate at the age of one month so that at the end of its second month a female can produce another pair of rabbits; rabbits never die and a mating pair always produces one new pair (one male, one female) every month from the second month on. The puzzle that he posed was: how many pairs will there be in one year?

FIBONACCI

The X was a very popular food item during the Mughal period and occupied a unique place in the emblem of the royalty of Oudh under the control of Mughals. During the period, X was also used like a cloth to wipe off the excess oil off the hands after the completion of an oil-rich food laden with meat and fat and hence gets its name

RUMALI ROTI

X were green in color until the 1930s before it was realised that the colour brown fi ltered out visible and ultraviolet light that caused adverse reactions. It was found that if you expose ____ to enough sunlight, it becomes ‘skunky’. Chemists at the University of North Carolina and Ghent University in Belgium found that sunlight breaks down alpha acids in hops that react with sulfur to make a chemical that is nearly identical to the smelly chemical that skunks spray.  Nowadays, X that are green in colour are of high quality and are never exposed to sunlight. Id X.

BEER BOTTLES

Nilam - Pakistan Mahasen - Sri Lanka _______ - Thailand Helen - Bangladesh Leher - India

PHAILIN

Who is the only Turkish citizen to win a Nobel Prize?

ORHAN PAMUK

A symbol of mourning, this practice began in the 17th century, to respect the power and prominence of Death by letting its “invisible” banner be higher. What?

HALF MAST

During the days when ships were powered by sail, the captains’ log documented everything that happened during the day. As sickness could spread rapidly on a ship, there were often times when the number of sailors that were ill exceeded the space provided in the log to record their names. On such occasions, the extra names of the sick were recorded in the next column, which was reserved for meteorological information. Thus, it was not unusual for an ill sailor to be listed "_____ ___ ______". Fill in the blanks.

UNDER THE WEATHER

Foreign invaders often used abandoned X's as military cantonments; and the word Y may have come from the large number of X's thus used in the area. Originally Y was the name of a town, which was the medieval headquarters of the Muslim invaders in the region. What town, whose name has now evolved to become the name of the state itself?

VIHARA, BIHAR

17. BOOM-BOOM

In 1888 X's brother Ludvig died while visiting Cannes and a French newspaper erroneously published X's obituary.[2] It condemned him for his invention of Y and stated Le marchand de la mort est mort ("The merchant of death is dead"). This is said to have brought about his decision to leave a better legacy after his death. Identify X and Y.

X-ALFRED NOBELY-DYNAMITE