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General Quiz 1RULES
The Quizmaster is GOD!25 Questions!
Top scorer from each year qualifies onstage.
Instant disqualification if you abuse the Quizmaster or throw objects at him!
And YES! Bribing the quizmaster is bound to reap benefits!
Good Luck!
xkcd parody of which very famous short story?
The Gift of the Magi
“Gold, as a precious metal, carries a lot of posi3ve vibra3ons and it has guarded me throughout my life. And, it keeps me in a happy-‐go-‐lucky mood all the 3me, which is essen3al in my line of work.”
Who?
Bappi Lahri
Ad for?
Lego
Minimalist poster for?
What?
Id?
Google Glasses!
The place of his birth was an important garrison town for the East India Company forces. Located on the Grand Trunk Road, it is now a well connected industrial center. His dad represented United Provinces in Ranji Trophy. He played most of his cricket in a town about 55 miles east-southeast of London, famous as a pilgrimage destination for Christians. Last year he was one of the recipients of the Sitara-e-Imtiaz. And he allegedly is the only man to have witnessed both Brian Lara's innings of 501 not out vs. Durham and Hanif Mohammed's 499 in Karachi. ID.
Bob Woolmer
Don Bradman had once remarked about a team "they score goals like we score runs in cricket". Which team?
The Indian Hockey team under Dhyan Chand
The head of which organiza3on’s 3tle is “Chief Lizard Wrangler”?
Mozilla
In the dark blue sky you keep And oHen through the curtains peep, For you never shut your eye, Till the sun is in the sky, _______________________
Fill in the blank, which is also the name of a famous poem.
Twinkle Twinkle LiKle Star
Their real name is 1st Special Forces Opera3onal Detachment – _________ (Airborne) (1st SFOD-‐D (A)). It is known in the Pentagon officially as the Combat Applica3ons Group. What?
Delta or Delta Force
This is a graph depic3ng what in the world of sports?
The baUng average of Sir Donald Bradman
This phrase was first used by the London Times on 28 December,1937-‐”Who can think without horror of what widespread war would mean,waged as it would be with all the new ________________?” The original reference is to aerial bombing of ci3es,which had become a reality that year in the Spanish Civil War. What term?
Weapons of Mass Destruc3on
"The Striding Man Society" is a members club for consumers of this product, a key marke3ng feature of which is the Striding Man logo. Every type of this product has a different colour. The other iden3fying characteris3c of this is the label, which is applied at an angle of 24 degrees. The angled label means the text on the label can be made larger and more visible. What product?
In Renaissance Florence, it was fashionable for ladies to shave their eyebrows off. This has most famously been incorporated in what?
The Mona Lisa
Dedicated to whom?
Carlos Santana
Y : Saved from the X.Y : In Nacht und Eis.1913 : Atlantis.1929 : Atlantic.1943 : X.1953 : X.1958 : A Night to Remember.1964 : The ___________ Molly Brown.1966 : Rendezvous With Yesterday. (The Time Tunnel : Episode 1)1979 : X.1980 : Raise the X.1981 : Time Bandits.1983 : Voyagers of the X. (Voyagers! : Episode 15)1995 : X.1996 : X.1996 : No Greater Love.1997 : X.1997 : The Chambermaid.1999 : The Legend of the X.2001 : X - The Legend Goes On.2003 : Ghosts of the Abyss.2004 : In Search of the X.2010 : X Part II.2012 : X.2012 : X - Blood and Steel.
ID X and the year Y.
Titanic 1912
Doodle based on?
Halloween
What has been blanked out?
When Sachin made his debut
Which Hollywood film was released as Chakravyuh in Hindi?
NOTE: Not the Prakash Jha movie! :P
Inception
This is a product that is using a type of screw that no customer’sscrewdriver fits? The five-pointed 'pentalobular' fixing is currently being fittedto some of the company's products, a typical case of "screw you"!!!! Name the company.
Apple
Romer got these values 7.5 and 22.5.. X thought that system was the soul of elegance ..so he cockeyed up another system just removing the fractions and multiplying these numbers by 4.he did some more even uncanny manipulations to get what we have now... X?
Daniel Fahrenheit.
What has been blanked out?
Scrodinger’s Cat
Nirma
In an interview to the Indian Express in November 2011, he said :“After Operation BlueStar in Punjab,the final examinations were postponed.led a group of students demanding a month’s notice as preparation. We made banners saying,“___ ___”. and went about raising this slogan.”
He used these lines in a film...Which lines was he talking about??
SADDA HAQ