Prelims ans

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The Answers

1. Whose Signature??

Barack ObamaJimi HendrixTom CruiseLeonardo Da VinciPaul McCartneyNeil ArmstrongNapolean

BonaparteAngelina JolieOprah Winfrey

MaradonaJulius CaesarSylvester StalloneAlbert EinsteinPrince WilliamCharlie ChaplinBill GatesMarie CuriePele

2.What connects them all ?????

*3. ID X and Y Adolf and Rudolf Dassler joined the Nazi Party,

but Rudolf was slightly closer to the party than Adolf. During the war, a growing rift between the pair reached a breaking point after an Allied bomb attack in 1943.

The Dassler factory, used for production of anti-tank weapons during the war, was nearly destroyed by US forces in April 1945, but was spared when Adolf's wife, Käthe, convinced the US forces that the company and its employees were only interested in manufacturing sports shoes.

The brothers split up in 1947, with Rudolf forming a new firm called  X and Adolf forming a company formally registered as ____Y_____.

4. Identify this Theoretical physicist known for his work in the theory of quantum electro-dynamics and the physics of the super fluidity of supercooled liquid helium.

Richard Feynman

*5. Fill up ________ made of  nickel-titanium alloy(aka nitinol)

and a single-crystal titanium ,it has a self-contained environment, ability of flight, assorted onboard weapons systems(proton beams), enhanced strength, and various communications arrays and sensors (such as radar and radio). Furthermore, it typically have multiple power sources including a secondary solar energy collection function in the event that conventional recharging methods are unavailable. 

________ consists of approximately two million grain-of-sand-sized discrete units, which contribute energy and compute power to the entire system. Constructed by using specialized bacteria - the bacteria consume minute amounts of specific metals, then die, leaving a very small amount of iron, or gold, or gallium-arsenide.

Iron man’s armor

6. Mascot of???

2014 Brazil World cup

Fill up  ____________ is a wearable computer with a head-

mounted display (HMD) that is being developed with the mission of producing in the market. It displays information in a smartphone-like hands-free format, that can interact with the Internet via natural language voice commands. The device is capable of revolutionizing the definition of a smart phone and its primary advantage is portability.

A prototype weighed 8 pounds and the device will hit the markets in 2014.

Features: Android 4.0.3 and higher 640×360 resolution 5-megapixel camera, capable of 720p video recording Wi-Fi 802.11b/g 16GB storage

Google Glass

8. ID the car

Pagani Zonda

9. What am I talking about?

Atlanta pharmacist John Pemberton was trying to make a cure for headaches. He mixed together a bunch of ingredients. It only took eight years of being sold in a drug store before the drink was popular enough to be sold in bottles. The recipe is still a closely guarded secret.

10.What is this a picture of?

The pillars of creation from the eagle nebula

*11. Fill in the blankCupcakeDonut ÉclairFroYoGingerbreadHoneycombIce cream sandwichJellybean___________

KEY LIME PIE

*12. Connect

13. Logo of ??

Chennai Metro

14.Which famous American Cartoonist is known for creating the character Garfield??

Jim Davis

15. Identify the person and what is the significance of this picture?

Jawed Karim(co-founder of youtube) and this is the first youtube video “Me at the zoo”.

16. ID the one with the award

17. Identify the phenomenon

Zodiacal lights

Being one of the first of it’s kind, Bob Kane created the first ______ and it’s revolutionary design was based on the Cord 812, with a 185 HP v8 engine.

18. Fill up

The Batmobile

19. Fill in the blanks

_______ was one of the most powerful gods in ancient Egypt and was the Guardian of kingship, creator of all things, the god of wind and was later called the 'King of the Gods'. He is depicted as a man with a ram-head, a ram, or a man wearing a tall ostrich plumed hat.

However, when _________was combined with the sun god Ra he was even more powerful. He was then called _________-Ra.

20. Who is he???

Mexican Businessman-Carlos Slim

21.Connect

Assassin's Creed

*22. Identify X Land formerly belonging to a sports club was offered

to the country’s national sports federation under the only condition that the new stadium should bear the name of ______X______ , one of the clubs most renowned former members who had died 10 years ago. Today, a major sporting event carries his name.

______X______ was a World War I French aviator who escaped a German prisoner-of-war camp only to die a few months later in a plane crash. He was a highly accomplished pilot and became the first man to fly non-stop across the Mediterranean sea from France to Tunisia.

23. Fill up

A theory was proposed in 1964 by ________ which predicted that the whole universe was filled with certain kind of particles which formed the ______ field. All particles in the universe interacted with this field and depending on their level of interaction, a certain fundamental property was determined. More the particle interacts with this field, higher would be the value of this property. It is one of the few standing theories that explains the origin of this fundamental property and is gaining wide popularity in recent times.

Peter Higgs, Higgs field

24. Identify X ______X______ is an alumnus of Indian

Institute of Management Calcutta. Although he originally wanted to be a historian, he initially chose a career in finance because he couldn't afford the former. He had turned into an atheist in the early 1990s but returned to faith soon after. He worked for 14 years in the financial services industry, in companies such as Standard Chartered, DBS Bank and IDBI Federal Life Insurance, before starting his writing career. Forbes India has ranked him #85 in the 2012 Celebrity 100 list.

Amish Tripathi

25. Connect

26. Connect

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Characters from Mario