Palakkad News Quiz 2014 with answers

GRAND FINALE

..a quizzing venture

• Started as quizmaster in ‘Quest ‘a club in Wadia

college Pune where the most passionate quizzers

had trivia as their four square meals

• In 2010, rediscovered the passion at a

summer school camp in kerala

• 30 quizzes at school, college, business schools

followed in the next 4 years….

• Helped me to improve as a quizzer also.Won the

ultimate TATA Crucible Kochi round last year.

• Works as Brand manager for living in Malayala

Manorama handling the ULTIMATE encyclopedia..

Manorama Yearbook

India Round

- NO Buzzer round just to warm up

- 10 for Direct,-5 for Indirect

India Round

This 14 year old whose

parents are humble daily

wage workers from

Nizamabad, Telangana

was in news for her brave

efforts for being the

youngest woman on Mount

everest.

.Name this inspiring girl

1

India Round

Which indian festival is known as

Shigmo in Goa,Madan Daman

or Kamayan in south India,Dol

Jatra in West Bengal

2

India Round

Which indian festival is known as

Shigmo in Goa,Madan Daman

or Kamayan in south India,Dol

Jatra in West Bengal

3

India Round

Something beautiful for the

god is a book written by

Malcolm Muggeridge? Who

is the subject of the book

4

India Round

5

India round Times of India carried this in Obituary columns

” D.EM O'Cracy beloved husband

of T.Ruth,Father of

L.I.Bertie,Brother of Faith,Hope

and Justice expired on

26 June,1975” .What was the occassion

6

Audience

He was considered the evergreen

Indian hero of Hindi films with

longest period as hero who won

the Dada saheb Phalke award in

2002 and whose Autobiography is

called Romancing with Life

Audience -2

In terms of currency

notes in India,if MG

series is Mahatma

Gandhi series what is AP

series

5

Answers to India Round

1. Malvath Poorna

2.HOLI

3.Mother Teressa

4.First living person in Tinkle

5.Emergency announced

Audience

1 Dev Anand

2. Ashoka Pillar Series

Freedom Movement round

Freedom movement round

# Questions Pass on in a clockwise manner

# 10 for direct answer

# 20 for Pouncing on Direct question given to somebody. You can Pounce on your own direct question also and get additional points

# -10 for Wrong Pounce

# After the wrong pounce question moves in the normal clockwise manner with 5 marks for getting it correct. The team with wrong pounce will not get it again


Rabindranath Tagore renounced

his Knighthood to protest

against which Incident

1


Where in India did Gandhi first

experiment with the principle of

Satyagraha

2


Servants of India Society was

formed in Pune to promote social

and Human development and

overthrow the British rule in India?

Who was the founder of the

servants of india society

3


Who was the Governor General

when Bengal was partitioned in

1905?

4


Who established the

Organization “Khudai

Khithmatgar”

5


Who established the

Organization “Khudai

Khithmatgar”

6

Audience Question

At which session did the

congress proclaim “POORNA

SWARAJ” complete

independence as its goal

Answers to Freedom Movement round

1. Jalianwala Bagh

2.Champaran

3. Gopalkrishna Gokhle

4. Lord Curzon

5. Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan

6.Lahore session

Sports and Entertainment

# Buzzer round

# 10 for getting it correct,-5 for getting it wrong.It will not be passed once wrong answer is given


A Dada Saheb Phalke

recipient,he has directed films

like Ankur,Nishant,Manthan and

Bhumika?Who am I talking

about

1


Jamaican Reggae singer-songwriter,guitarist who achieved international fame .He was a commited to the religious and Political movement of Rastafari.

His Album Exodus was chosen as the greatest Album of 20th century by TIME Magazine

2


Identify the

Award

3


This 16-year-old girl who hails from Punjab clinched a silver medal in the 10m air pistol competition in Glasgow

Name her

4


What is referred to as the “SHAME

of GIJON” in Football

5


What organization

did KIRAN SETH

form which has a

global presence

now in schools and

colleges.The logo is

shown here

6

AUDIENCE Identify this Oscar winner

Answers

1) Shyam benegal

2) Bob Marley

3) Laureus Awards

4) Malaika Goel

5) Fixed match between German and Austria

6) SPIC MACAY

Audience

Bhanu Athaya

CROSS CONNECTIONS ROUND

Cross connections Round

# Buzzer round

# 20 for getting it correct, -10 for getting it wrong

# You have to think differently and identify what connect the visuals

Connect

Freedom is for the educated people who fought for it. We were slaves of the English, now we will be slaves of the educated Indians or the Pakistanis.”

Connect

AUDIENCE CONNECT

AUDIENCE

Answers for Cross connection

1) Ruskin Bond

2) Amartya sen

3) All Are squash player

4) Khushwant Singh

5) All are canadians

6) RK Narayanan

7) All Lok Sabha speakers

8) Time persons of the year

9) All Official Indian nominees for oscar

MIXED BAG

# 8 questions on the buzzer

# 10 for getting it correct;-5 for getting it wrong

MIXED BAG

Where will the headquarters of The BRICS development

bank formed during the recent summit be located ?

1

MIXED BAG

What is the Space centre at Sriharikota in Andhra pradesh used for launching satellites called?

2

MIXED BAG

What did Austrian American

pathologist Karl Landsteiner in

1901 develop that made blood

transfusion a routine medical

practise

3

MIXED BAG

4

Name the Mascot of

Glasgow

commonwealth

games

Mixed bag

Name the Sanskrit word used

by James Cameron as a title

for One of his HIT FILMs?

5

Mixed bag

Which Musician's

Autobiography is called

“Woodwinds of Change”

6

Mixed bag

Who was the first from Kerala

to get the Jnanpeeth award

7

Mixed bag

The book first published in Spanish 1967 in

was was in news in June this year.It is a

story of seven generations of Buendia

Family in the town of Macondo.Throughout

the family the characters are visited by the

ghosts.Name the book and the Nobel

winning Author

8

Audience question

What is the principal performer in Bullfighting who works the capes and usually dispatches the bull with a sword thrust between the shoulder blades called?

Answers

1) Beijing

2) Sathish Dhawan space centre

3)Blood groups

4)Clyde

5) Avtaar

6)Hari Prasad Chaurasia

7) Sankara Kurup

8)Marquez-One thousand years of solitude

Audience

Matadaor

Cryptic clues

Cryptic clues

# On the buzzer

# 15 marks for getting it right without the clue

#10 for getting it with the clue

# -10 for getting it wrong with and without clue

# You can attempt once again for with the clue even if you press the buzzer wrong without a clue

CRYPTIC CLUES

What was founded by Brian Acton and Jan Koum in 2009 with more than 400 million active users and is currently undergoing take over by Facebook

CRYPTIC CLUES

Clue follows...

CRYPTIC CLUES

What was founded by Brian Acton and Jan Koum in 2009 with more than 400 million active users and is currently undergoing take over by Facebook

WHATS APP

Cryptic clue

The only Film Director to

have received the Bharat

Ratna

CRYPTIC CLUES

Clue follows...

Cryptic clue

The only Film Director to

have received the Bharat

Ratna

SATYAJIT RAY

Cryptic clue

Which technology of today is named after a Viking King of 9th century who unified Denmark and Norway

CRYPTIC CLUES

Clue follows...

Cryptic clue

Which technology of today is named after a Viking King of 9th century who unified Denmark and Norway

BLUETOOTH

6 GREAT INDIANS

6 GREAT INDIANS# Buzzer round

1st clue: 20 points

2nd clue: 15 points

3rd clue:10 points

Constant-10 for wrong attempt. You can attempt it even after getting it wrong once

Questions will not appear on slide

Tie Breaker

#On the Buzzer

#If one team answers it wrongly on going for the Buzzer,the other team should answer to become the champion

Tie Breaker-1

RBI has in principle agreed to

give banking licenses to two

applicants IDFC limited and X to

set up banks?What is X

Tie Breaker-2

What is the test

called to tell

computers and

Humans apart to

prevent unwanted

internet bots from

accessing Websites

Tie Breaker-3

How do we better know the latin phrase“id est”

Tie Breaker-4

Give the Japanese word literally meaning empty Orchestra or without voice

Tie Breaker-5

Connect the words

Bloodstained,leapfrog,

watchdog,fashionable,

moonbeam,assasination

Tie Breaker-6

Chad Hurley,Steve Chen and Jawed Kareem

were PAYPAL employees.In the early

months of 2005 Hurley and Chen attended

a dinner party at CHENs apartment.Hurley

and CHEN had experienced difficulty in

sharing Videos.What was born out of this

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