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?

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