SEULI SEAL QUIZ 2012

THE QUIZMASTER’s DECISION IS FINAL.

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Environment

1. X Y is a global event organized by WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature, also known as World Wildlife Fund) and is held on the last Saturday of March annually, asking households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights and other electrical appliances for one hour to raise awareness towards the need to take action on climate change. X Y was conceived by WWF and The Sydney Morning Herald in 2007, when 2.2 million residents of Sydney participated by turning off all non-essential lights.Following Sydney's lead, many other cities around the world adopted the event in 2008.X Y 2011 took place on March 26, 2011 at participant's local time. X Y 2012 will take place on March 31, 2012 from 8:30p.m. to 9:30p.m.

Earth hour

2.What animal?

Lemur

3.What animal?

Sting ray

4. What Reserves?

Tiger reserves

4. What species of endangered turtles?

Olive Ridley turtles

5.Which tree known for anti malarial drug?

Cinchona for quinine

6.Mythological medicine?

Sanjeevani

Audience

What reptile found in Indonesia?

Komodo Dragon

What mode would you put your computer into to save power?

Vampire Power.mp4

Geography

1.What phenomenon?

Aurora

2.Which mountain peak in Europe?

Matterhorn

Name the place blanked out in the map

3.Which Japanese prefecture in news has been darkened out?

Fukushima

4.Which country?

Italy

5.Which state in India?

Kerala?

6.Which Indian state?

Pangong lake,Ladakh,J&K

Audience

www.iseeindia.com

What is shown here. Can you name

Consisting of Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario

Which country did he belong to?

Che Guevara of Argentina

History

1. X ruled 11 December 1767 – 13 August 1795, also known as the Philosopher Queen, was a Queen of the Malwa kingdom, India. She was born in the village of Chaundi in Jamkhed, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra. She moved the capital to Maheshwar south of Indore on the Narmada River.

She is also famous for her sense of justice. One day, she found her only son, putting poisonous scorpions into the shoes of her subjects resulting in their deaths. She ordered his execution under the elephant feet.

Ahilyabai Holkar

2.Who is this leader?

Lenin

3.He was  Mauryan Emperor Chandragupta ’s counselor.Traditionally, he is also identified by the names Kautilya and Vishnu Gupta, who authored the ancient Indian political treatise called Arthaśāstra.

Chanakya

4.What is going on in the picture?

Boston Tea Party

5. “Sarfaroshi ki Tamanna Ab Hamare Dil main hai

Dekhna hai zor kitna baazuaey kaatil main hai”

Whose words

Freedom Fighter Ram Prasad Bismil

6.Who were the two rulers credited to have built

Qutab-ud-din Aibak and Iltutmish of Slave Dynasty in 12th century

Audience

X is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, designed by Frédéric Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886. A gift to the United States from the people of France, is of a robed figure ,depicting theRoman goddess of freedom, who bears a torch and a upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. A broken chain lies at her feet. The statue has become an icon of freedom and of the United States.Bartholdi was inspired by French law professor and politician Édouard René de Laboulaye, who commented in 1865 that any monument raised to American independence would properly be a joint project of the French and American peoples. 

What was the religion founded by Akbar?

Sports

1. "It is indeed a great honour that I have been considered for honorary Group Captain in the IAF. As an Indian I am proud to be associated with the dynamic force and I shall do my very best to be brand ambassador for the force".

Which sportsperson said these lines?

Sachin Tendulkar

2. The following are various tests done (in serial order) for what?

The Circumference testThe Sphericity testRebound Test (Bounce) testWater Resistance and absorption testWeight Check testLoss of Pressure testShape and Size Retention Test

Testing for FIFA Approved soccer balls.

3. He is the youngest driver to have taken part in an official practice session of a Grand Prix, to score championship points, to lead a race, to secure pole position, and to win a race and has many other “youngest” records in his list. Who is he?

Sebestian Vettel

4. With her performance at the 2011 Australian Open, she became the first player from an Asian country to appear in a Grand Slam singles final. She then went on to win the 2011 French Open singles title, making her the first player from an Asian country to win a Grand Slam in singles. Who are we talking about?

Li Na

5. Which sports goods company is Lionel Messi endorsing here?

AV\Lionel Messi.mp4

Adidas

6. According to Guinness book of world records, which is the most played board game in the world?

Monopoly

Audience

Who said to Dhyanchand “You score goals in hockey field as I score runs on cricket field”.

Who are they?

Since Jan 2006 , which country’s players have been the official squash number ranked player for the maximum number of months? (ie in 73 months since Jan 2006 , which country occupied the #1 rank the maximum times )

Art & Literature

1. The Painting or the artist

Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci

2.It is one of India 's largest selling comic book series, with more than 90 million copies sold in 20 Indian languages. Founded in 1967, the imprint has more than 400 titles that retell stories from the great Indian epics, mythology, history, folklore, and fables in a comic book format. It was created by Anant Pai, and published by India Book House.

Amar Chitra Katha

3.It is a festival taking place in the month of January since 2006. It is held each year in Rajasthan during the month of January, usually in the Hall of Audience and gardens of the Diggi Palace in the city centre, and celebrates excellence in Rajasthani, Indian and International writing.The festival directors are the writers Namita Gokhale and William Dalrymple and is produced by Sanjoy Roy of Teamwork Productions. It is an Initiative of the Jaipur Virasat Foundation founded by Faith Singh,originally as a segment of the Jaipur Heritage International Festival in 2006, and developed into a free-standing festival of literature standing on its own feet in 2008.All events at the festival are free and not ticketed.

Jaipur Literature Festival

4. X  is one of several forms of poetry that originated in Europe, mainly Provence and Italy. X commonly has 14 lines. It derives from the Occitan word "little song" or "little sound".

Sonnet

5.The five books are called:Mitra-bheda: The Separation of Friends (The Lion

and the Bull)Mitra-lābha or Mitra-samprāpti: The Gaining of

Friends (The Dove, Crow, Mouse, Tortoise and Deer)

Kākolūkīyam: Of Crows and Owls (War and Peace)

Labdhapraṇāśam: Loss Of Gains (The Monkey and the Crocodile)

Aparīkṣitakārakaṃ: Ill-Considered Action / Rash deeds (The Brahman and the Mongoose)

Panchatantra

6. Who is “Bard of Avon”?

Audience

What mytholological incident is being shown here?

Science

1.He might have used his principle of buoyancy to determine whether the golden crown was less dense than solid gold. So excited he was with his discovery, that he then took to the streets without clothes, crying "Eureka!" (Greek, meaning "I have found it!"). Who are we talking about?

Archimedes

2. What would you be eating if you were having mangifera indica?

Mango

3. X is a member of the chalcogen group on the periodic table and is a highly reactive  nonmetallic element that readily forms compounds with almost all other elements.By mass, X is the third most abundant  element in the universe after hydrogen and helium and the most abundant element by mass in the Earth's crust, making up almost half of the crust's mass. It was first discovered by Swedish pharmacist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.Scheele called the gas "fire air”.Joseph Priestley is usually given priority what he called the "dephlogisticated air”.

Oxygen

4. X is a congenital disorder characterized by the complete or partial absence of pigment in the skin, hair and eyes due to absence or defect of an enzyme involved in the production of melanin.

Albinism

5. 1729 is known as the Hardy–X number after a famous anecdote of the British mathematician G. H. Hardy regarding a hospital visit to the Indian mathematician X. In Hardy's words: “I remember once going to see him when he was ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi cab number 1729 and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavorable omen. "No," he replied, "it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways. 1729 = 13 + 123 = 93 + 103.

Two different ways are these Who is X?

Srinivas Ramanujan

6. Originally intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the Earth's equator to the North Pole (at sea level), its definition has been periodically refined to reflect growing knowledge of metrology. Since 1983, it is defined as the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum in 1 ⁄ 299,792,458 of a second.

metre

Audience

Who is he?

Sir Isaac Newton

ENTERTAINMENT

1.movie still

Rocket Singh: Salesman of the year

2.Which 2 actresses?

3.Which Singer?singerl.flv

Jagjit Singh

4. Which movie?movie still

Zindagi Milegi Na Dobara

5.Who is the singer?English song.mp4

Adele

6.Which brand?Advt.flv

Coca Cola

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