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VT Quiz 2014 (General Quiz)
Date: 31st May, 2014
Venue: SNTI Audi
+1 for each question, unless otherwise mentioned
No negative marking
Mind the Star questions
Quizmaster is GOD.
PRELIMS
He joined Tata Steel as a Graduate Trainee in 1932. With his hard work and dedication for the company He was promoted to the post of General Superintendent in 1954. In 1961 he took over as the General Manager of the company. He became the Director-in-Charge of Tata Steel in 1968. He was the first Managing Director of the organization in 1970 after the abolition of the Managing Agency System. Who?
Q1
This is the world’s first what by Robert Cornelius?
Q2
Logo of?
Q3
______ job is slang for a low -paying, low-prestige dead-end job
that requires few skills and offers very little chance of intra
company advancement. The term comes from the name of the
fast-food restaurant ________but is used to describe any low -
status job – regardless of the employer – where little training
is required, staff turnover is high, and workers' activities are
tightly regulated by managers
Q4
What does this map depict?
*Q5
Who?
Q6
Q7
From a book called Science Ink by Carl Zimmer . It talks about
tattoos inspired by science. What do these 2 examples depict?
Famous wife of Chinese-vietnamese origin who is also a
pediatrician to her colour blind husband
Q8
Wood took a vacat ion f rom his work at Microsof t in 1998
to t rek through the Himalayas .Whi le t rekking, he met a
“ resource d i rector” for the schools in the Annapurna
Ci rcui t o f Nepal , w i th whom he v is i ted a pr imar y school
that contained 450 chi ldren and only a handful o f
books—none age- appropr iate .Upon seeing Wood's
react ion to the lack of books, the school ’s headmaster
suggested, "Perhaps, s i r, you wi l l someday come back
wi th books," which inspired Wood to so l ic i t book
donat ions f rom family and f r iends v ia emai l sent f rom an
Internet cafe in Kathmandu.
A year later, Wood returned to the school w i th 3 ,000
books—al l donated in response to h is emai l appeal to
f r iends and family.Soon thereaf ter, he lef t h is job at
Microsof t ent i re ly to devote h imself fu l l - t ime to Books for
Nepal , a s ide pro ject that would eventual ly form the
foundat ion for Room to Read .
This book was the f i r s t book to be so ld by which on l ine
megastore?
Q9
Who is the only Turkish citizen to win a Nobel Prize?
Q10*
X was born in Murom, Vladimir region in 1923.
In 1941, X was drafted into the Red Army. He fought on the southern and south-western areas in the 1st and 4th Ukrainian Fronts. He fought for the liberation of Ukraine, Poland, Czechoslovakia. During the war, X was awarded the Order of Patriotic War II degree (1945), Red Star (1944), and the medals "For Courage" (1943), "For Military Merit" (1944), "For Victory over Germany" (1946).
In 1945 X was demobilized from the ranks of the Red Army for health reasons and returned to Moscow. In February 1946, he entered the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute at the Faculty of Physics and subsequently worked on Nuclear and Atomic physics in Moscow.
X created something we all know and respect.
Q11
Which TV Channel’s name is literally “The Island”?
Q12
Logo of?
Q13
What are they doing?
Q14
*Q15
MARKETING STUNT BY?
"Animation is a word, a process. In India, people think animation is
cartoon. Avatar was animation, but is not a cartoon. Tintin is completely cartoonistic.
I am creating him, where he has actually performed, it's captured on a camera and
then put into a 3D version. Avatar took seven years and so much budget and a
James Cameron. There was always the insecurity of the unknown, but we have taken
a road never taken in India and broken rules and have completed the film in just a
year and a half."
—in an interview with The Times of India
Q16
Q17
ONLY DISCOVERED BY ACCIDENT IN THE REMOTE FUJA
MOUNTAINS OF INDONESIA ,THIS FROG RESEMBLES A
LITERARY CHARACTER . WHAT IS THIS FROG KNOWN AS?
What was the first sports event to broadcast live on Youtube?
Q18
David Saltzberg is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at
the University of California, Los Angeles. Saltzberg received a
Sloan Fellowship, NSF Career Award, and Department of
Energy Outstanding Junior Investigator Award while an
assistant professor.Saltzberg earned a bachelors degree in
physics in 1989 from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in
physics from the University of Chicago in 1994. From 1995 -97
he worked at CERN in Switzerland. His research interests
include high-energy collider physics and the radio detection of
cosmic neutrinos.
Saltzberg is also known for his work as technical director of Y
adding complex equations and reviewing them.
Q19
*Q20
A VERY FAMOUS BRAND IN TERMS OF
COSMETICS?
Q 21
*Q22
WHO IS HE?
THANK YOU