QuantaNITG presents *drumroll* freshers intro quiz

QuantaNITG presents*drumroll*freshers intro quiz

Rules/How to join the club?First and only rule of quiz club is always talk about quiz club(can anyone tell me where that reference is from) Just walk in when were having a quizAll are welcome, we usually have a quiz once a month when maximum people are freeNo entry feeIf you request, we can add you to our WhatsApp group which we use whenever we discuss policy (lol we just joke around really)Well probably be making tsirts/shirts (for which youll have to pay obv, if you want them that is

Q1FLIPKART was started off in a flat whose number was 610, in a housing society in Bangalore. What did they do to immortalize the number?

Held on (6/10)/year

Q2Rocks law or _____s second law states that cost of semiconductor chip fabrication plant doubles every four yearsFITB

MooreGordon Moore, co-founder of intel

Q3It is believed that, X was a large canon, which was used during the English Civil War (1642-1649) in the siege of Colchester(13 June 1648 27 August1648). It was strategically placed on the wall next to St Marys Church. A shot from a parliamentary cannon succeeded in damaging the wall beneath the ground. The Royalists, or Cavaliers attempted to raise X on to another part of the wall, but because the cannon was so heavy that they couldnt place it back. Identify X(try relating it to something which is famous for the same reason)

Humpty Dumpty

Q4Forces from USA went to Iraq but faced a big problem, i.e the sand from the sandstorms would block their guns. So they placed a peculiar order of one million of some product to protect their guns. What did they order to protect their guns?

Condoms

Q5 what is common among the following movies?The world is not enough(1999)Cecil b. demented(2000)Crouching tiger, hidden dragon(2000)Perfect strangers(2003)tacolino(2004)National treasure (2004)Tentacolino(2004)King kong(2005)Kidnap(2008)Red(2010)Highway(2014)

Stockholm syndromeThe person who gets kidnapped falls in love with the kidnapper

Q6 __.______ is an application debugger included with the windows operating system. It is usually named, among other things, dwwin.exe. The original diagnostic name of the tool was Sherlock, the idea being that is would collect error information following a problem. Starting with windows vista __.______ has been replaced by Problem Reports and SolutionsFITB

Dr.Watson

Q7

The last pic was a poem consisting entirely of XismsXisms" are unconventional words, phrases, pronunciations, malapropisms, and semantic or linguistic errors in the public speaking of X. The term has become part of popular folklore and is the basis of a number of websites and published books. It is often used to caricature X. Common characteristics include malapropisms(use of a word in incorrect contexts), the creation of neologisms(new words), spoonerisms(an error in speech or deliberate play on words ), stunt words and grammatically incorrect subjectverb agreement.

Bushisms

Q8 X was started by Ranbir singh and Gurbax singh in 1937 as a distributor for a Japanese company shionogi. The owners now are Shilvinder and Malvinder singh

Ranbaxythe name is a portmanteau of Ranbir and Gurbax

Q9 In Middle English, pygg referred to a type of clay used for making household objects like jars. People also saved money in kitchen pots and jars made of pygg,called pygg jars. By the 18h century, the spelling of pygg had changed and the term pygg jar had evolved to X.

Piggy Bank

Q10 Who is George Lazenby referring to?

Sean Connery(previous James Bond) Bond in the video says,"this never happened to the other fellow"

Q11 Mir Rajan Negi, was the goalkeeping coach of the Indian womens hockey team which won the gold at the 2002 commonwealth games. Where was it held and which character is based on the life of Negi?

Kabir khan in chak de indiamanchester

Q12 In the history of Manchester united, Munich air disaster is considered to be its darkest moment in which so famed busby babes were present on that plane. 20 odd people were killed due to some failure experienced on the plane. They were returning from X after playing with Y. identify X and Y

x= Belgrade y= red star Belgrade

Q13 when Im 80 years old and sitting in my rocking chair, Ill be reading Harry Potter. And my family will say to me, after all this time? And I will say, ______-XFill in the blanks and also give me X

AlwaysX= Alan Rickman

Q14The early days of motor travel took place on primitive roads that were littered with stray horseshoe nails. Punctures (flat tires) were all too common, and required the motorist to remove the wheel from the car, demount the tire, patch the inner tube, re-mount the tire, inflate the tire, and re-mount the wheel.To alleviate this time consuming process, Walter and Tom Davies of Llanelli, Wales, invented the spare tire in 1904. their company, X iron Mongers, had agents distributing the X(which was the device used to alleviate the process even further) to the United States, Belgium, France, and Italy.

Stepney

Q15 The story goes that a Dublin theatre proprietor by the name of Richard Daly made a bet that he could, within forty-eight hours, make up a nonsense word known throughout the city, and that the public would supply a meaning for it. After a performance one evening, he gave his staff cards with the word X written on them, and told them to write the word was the talk of the town, and within a short time it had become part of the language.The most detailed account of this supposed exploit (in F. T. Porters Gleanings and Reminiscences, 1875) gives its date as 1791. the word, however, was already in use by then.What is the word X?

QUIZ

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