General QuizTechevince 2016

Rules

• Teams of 2.• No cell phones allowed.• In case of tie, sudden death will come into play.•QM is God.

1.

•IST(Indian Standard Time) is also expanded as X(a phrase) owing to Indian conception about flexibility of scheduled time.

Give X.

Answer

•Indian Stretchable Time

2. Who honoring whom? Also, Id the guy in the picture behind them?

Answer

•Valentina Tereshkova•Neil Armstrong•Yuri Gagarin

3. Connect

Answer

•Played Rama

4.

After X’s election as president, X said to his former colleagues:

Congratulations, comrades. Our forces have succeeded in infiltrating the corridors of power.

Id X.

Answer

•Vladimir Putin

5. Id the style.

Answer

•Dolan Style

6. Id X.

•X appeared in the american magazine, Theatre Arts in the August 1952 issue under the article, “The Biggest Star in the World - and she’s not in Beverly Hills”.

•X was also pursued by Frank Capra to join Hollywood, but her father refused Capra’s offer to do so.

Answer

7. Id X.

•During CWC2015, an ad campaign(Mauka Mauka) created by X(production house), captured the imagination of the nation. It even generated more response videos and reactions on social media, than the match itself.

Answer

•BubbleWrap Films

8.

•More than 50+ movies have been made on works by Stephen King, but there is only one Bollywood adaptation. Directed by Anurag Kashyap with John Abraham as the lead. Give me the adaptation’s name.

No Smoking

9.

•Creation of Adam by Michaelangelo is one of the most famous paintings ever.•This painting inspired the poster for a 1982 classic.•Id the movie.

10.

While simplistic, the movie’s poster is a lesson in retro-cool. It features Uma Thurman lying on a bed and smoking a cigarette while staring seductively at the camera..

•Id the movie, being talked about.

11.

• In November 2013 ,this news was in online media about James Howells, who threw out his hard disk when he was clearing up his desk in mid-summer.

• The hard disk which contained cryptographic key to his e – wallet is said to be Worth $9 Million now (though price can vary with time).

• Give me the funda.

Answer

•Bitcoins

12.

•Give the significance of this image titled Les Horribles Cernettes.

Answer

•They all work at LHC

13. Moving over from Mallya.

•Sula Vineyards was founded by X in 1998. Samant studied engineering at Stanford University and worked at Oracle in San Francisco thereafter. After quitting his corporate job, X established Sula upon his return to India, centring in Nashik.•Now, Nashik is regarded as the wine capital of India.•Id X.

Answer

•Rajeev Samant

14. Catering to popular demand.

Emami sued X for infringement of copyright for one of its products, Y. This was settled in an out-of-court agreement, when the song, which was the bone of contention was allowed to be used by X for promotion of Y.

•Give me Y and the song..

Answer

•Zandu Balm•Munni Badnam

15.

The first idea that popped into his(Singer) head was the poster. Five men on a police line up. The story flowed from that image. Who were these men? What links them? What happens next? After the film was finally shot, there was no doubt that the poster would follow Singer’s original idea: five criminals, one line-up, no coincidence.

•Id the cult classic.