Padmavyuha 2k14

A quiz or a venture to take you to the edges of the great world of Quiz. The intelligence of men tore a small piece from the large quiz named

universe, It is Quizzing. Think this is one such

piece of paper.

Rules

Catch them all !

1. ______ ____ is a movie directed by Srilankan movie maker Sanjeewa Pushpakumara. It was the first short film to be producd by a film festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam.

Flying Fish

2. X is the author of Y, one of the international bestsellers in 2003 which was appeared in the theatre in 2006 by Ron Howard.Y featured Z, a religious iconology and symbology professor in Harvard University. Y had one ancestor and two heirs. The last part was written in 2013. X, Y and Z ?

X = Dan Brown

Y = The Da Vinci Code

Z = Robert Langdon

3. Some of the considered names for thisproduct/brand were:iCUCyrixiamfastest GenuIn5 SWIFFT RADAR1 Finally , the name _____ was adopted.

PENTIUM

4

 It was 1894, and 26-year old Václav Klement, a bookseller, was unable to obtain spare parts to repair his bicycle. Klement returned his bicycle to the manufacturers, Seidel and Naumann, with a letter, in Czech, asking for them to carry out repairs, only to receive a reply, in German, stating: "If you would like an answer to your inquiry, you should try writing in a language we can understand". A disgusted Klement, despite not having technical experience, decided to start a bicycle repair shop, which he and Václav Laurin opened in 1895. Which company was born henceforth?

5. Saraswatichandra, starring Nutan and Manish, won the National Film Awards in the Best Cinematography & Best Music Director categories in 1969. As per official records, what is so special about this movie?  

Last Bollywood movie to be made in black and white.

6. Traveler's diarrhea is the most common illness affecting travelers. It is defined as three or more unformed stools in 24 hours passed by a traveler, commonly accompanied byabdominal cramps, nausea, and bloating. Itsdiagnosis does not imply a specific organism, but Escherichia coli is the most commonly isolated pathogen.There are a number of colloquialisms for travelers' diarrhea, such as “Montezuma's revenge”, “Aztec two step”, “Pharaoh's Revenge”. What is the Indian colloquialism for this disease?

The Colours of life

1. Identify the gameBats: 25" to 26" long, 2¼" diameter, maximum weight 17 to 20 ounces

Balls: typically appear identical to baseballs but are slightly softer to reduce injuries: 9" to 9½" around, 4 to 6 ounces weight, with a molded core or sponge rubber center.

Footwear: Casual footwear such as tennis shoes. In some cases, baseball cleats.

Tee Ball / T ball

2. Id the last one (till date) of this collection

safety slide

Clyde

3.

3. Id.

4. Doodle is a tribute to whom?

Octavio Paz

5. Made in _________?

6. X is known in Burmese as Thurathadi, Tipitaka in Medaw language, Biancaitian In Chinese and Benzaiten in Japanese. By which name we better known X ?

Saraswati

MIXED BAGROUND 3

Inspired by the groundbreaking work of Friends Without Borders, an International NGO, these two leading dailies started this campaign on 1st January, 2010 to spread peace among the citizens of these two South Asian neighbours.

Name this campaign.

1

Aman Ki Asha

2

This is a toy used to pacify crying babies in Spain. What is it’s significance to modern day football?

Tiki Taka

3Founded in 1889, X’s first product was handmade hanfuda

cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small

niche businesses, such as a cab company, a love hotel, a

TV network and a food company. Eventually, it entered its

current business becoming one of the most influential in

the industry and third biggest company in its home

country, Japan with a market value of more than $85b.

According to X's Touch! Generations website, the name

“X" translated to English means "Leave luck to Heaven“

ID X.

4Kenya took the first major stand on this issue back in 1989 by torching 12 tons of this material. The country's president, Daniel Arap Moi, lit the flames himself. It was November, 2013 when the United States finally got into the act. It pulverized six tons of this material, a stock pile accumulated over 24 years. China soon followed suit and it is expected that Hong Kong will also destroy its stock pile (at 28 tons, it is the largest stockpile known).What material?

5Tribute to which day?

Nowruz on March 21 is the first day in Persian calendar.

6A famous Indian temple’s name is derived from a Sanskrit word of a sweet fruit whose scientific name is Phoenix Dactylifera? Identify the name of the temple?

Identify both the fruit and temple

KhajurahoKhajur fruit or Date palm

Celluloid

Id the singer 1

Kesarbai Kerkar

2Connect

Franz Ferdinand

3An ad film made in 2005 for Air Deccan held the then record for the longest ad ever to be telecast on Indian television. The ad titled The Old man and the Sky was meant to mirror the emotions of millions of Indians who could now fly at Re 1. Which national award winning actor played The Old Man in this ad?

4

5

6

David Copperfield

Crucible

X was reformed in January 2007, when X reorganized its automobile business, and traces its history back to 1899 when the first, X automobile, was produced. Really X was the largest automobile manufacturer in Italy.

Id X.

1

FIATFabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino

2Which company derives its name from the name of the league?

………..League was an alliance of trading cities and their guilds that established and maintained a trade monopoly along the coast of Northern Europe, from the Baltic to the North Sea and inland, during the Late Middle Ages and early modern period (c.13th–17th centuries)

Lufthansa

3 Operated by Karnataka Tourism, which

luxury ‘service’ has been named after this structure found in the Vitthala Temple at Hampi?

Golden Chariot

4

The parker brothers print about $50 billion money each year. Till date they may have printed $ 3 trillions. For what purpose are these money used ?

5X is powered by an ordinary 6 volt

alkaline battery manufactured by Bharat Electronics Ltd., Bangalore and Electronic Corporation of India Ltd., Hyderabad. This design enables the use of X throughout the country without interruptions because several parts of India do not/or have erratic power supply.

X??

Electronic voting machines (EVMs)

6……………………produced some of the earliest motorcycles in 1903These were two cylinder machines with French engines made by Antoine, which were marketed by a garage in Chelsea in London - one of the first motorcycle dealerships in the UK The motorcycle failed to impress the military authorities, despite optional accessories including a sidecar complete with Maxim machine gunThis venture was not a success. After the WWI they decided to continue to develop the in-line four engine - but in a new car called the 'Deemster' and they never returned to motorcycle productionToday, it is a major competitor to a company acquired by P & G recently

Randall Munroe

Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope

Short Visual

Connect

Instructions

*There are marks for identifying each visuals.

*No shouting.

*If you’re sure about you can press the buzzer and show me the answer.

1.Ingredients : Sucrose, Corn Syrup, Flavoring

50/-25

2. 45/-22.5

3. 40/-20

4. 35/-17.5

5. 30/-15

6. 25/-12.5

7. 20/-10

8.15/-5

9.10/-5

10. 5

Lollipop

Stuart Binny

Pusa ( It is the place where the HQ of ICAR and National Physical Laboratory )

Idly

Sambar

Hans Raj (The person is Hans Raj Bhardwaj, Hon’ble Ex-Governor of Kerala )

Aryan

Rajadhani

Bahadur

തവളക്കണ്ണൻ

And finally the connect is all are the names of Rice Varieties

SIXER

A round for sports

1Id the sport.

Lacrosse, the national sport of Canada

2. Left led to Right being called X. Man on right, X?

Hermann Maier‘Herminator’

3Born on March 2, 1944 in Tunisia, X’s World Cup career spanned five matches including an appearance in a Round of 16 match between Denmark and Spain. However, all these distinctions faded into irrelevance due to what X claimed was an adverse reaction to the treatment X was receiving for a latent haemorrhoidal condition which caused X’s medium-distance vision to suddenly become unfocused, causing X to miss Y. X, Y?

Ali Bin Nasser (X), the referee who missed Maradona’s “Hand of God” goal in the Estadio Azteca at the 1986 World Cup (Y).

That X headed the sporting reform of his country is difficult to believe. Despite his undeniable brilliance on the field, he's not necessarily considered particularly wise off it. The law, named after X, sought to modernize the country's sports industry. Salient features include:

- forcing professional sports clubs to observe business law and pay tax within two years.- allows clubs to organise their own leagues, breaking the monopoly of official organisations.- applying labour laws to athlete-club relationships.

Who?

4

What method well-known to sports fans was used for the first time in a rugby union match in the Heineken Cup semi-final which saw the Leicester Tigers beat the Cardiff Blues 27-26 on May 3, 2009?

5

The Penalty Shootout

____________ Was charged and pleaded guilty to possession of 400 grams of cocaine, assault and kidnapping in 1985 while he was a student at duke university, USA. He pleaded guilty on all charges and was sentenced to two years in prison. However, he did not serve any prison time and came back to India in 1986 after being released on probation. In 2007 a PIL was filed in Mumbai high court challenging his position in (his employer) on pretext of his criminal history.

6

Lalit Modi

MIXED BAG2ROUND 10

In the first week of june each year he would get a bad attack of hay fever, and he would cycle to the office wearing a service gas mask to keep the pollen off. His bicycle had a fault: the chain would come off at regular intervals. Instead of having it mended he would count the number of times the pedals went round and would get off the bicycle in time to adjust the chain by hand. Another of his eccentricities is that he chained his mug to the radiator pipes to prevent it being stolen, who? 1

Allan Touring

This is a street food common in Cape Town, South Africa, which was supposed invented by Rashaad Pandy one night in 1976, when he tried to feed some day laborers after he had sold out of fish

It was named after a famous 1925 novel, today widely regarded as a paragon of the Great American Novel, and a literary classic. 2

The Great Gatsby ( Gatsby will also be

accepted )

3

X, Y and the mirror and the light are 3 entities in news which involve an ancestor of this Englishman whose body was subjected to a symbolic posthumous execution in 1661.Identify X and Y.

X Y

Thomas Cromwell Trilogy by Hillary Mantel

4

There are four mandatory constitutional duties in South Korea - taxes, education, labour and military service being Olympic medal winners or Gold medalists in the Asian Games. X supposedly performed his military service from 2003-2005, but was later accused of not doing it properly. X filed a litigation against the military authorities in an effort to block his re-conscription. However he lost his appeal and was eventually re-drafted into the military in December 2007. This was supposedly the first such incident in Korean History. Who is X.

Psy from the psycho world

5

The Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC)of Sri Lanka recently announced its plan to establish The Sri Lanka Space Agency by signing an MOU with Surrey Satellite Company Ltd in UK to launch its first geostationary satellite. The satellite will be named after an internationally renounced visionary. Who is this person or after whom will this satellite be named?

Arthur C Clarke

6

He was the author of the best-selling book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. Other books he authored include First Things First, Principle-Centered Leadership, and The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Families. This prominent author died recently due to complications from a fall, having lost control of his bicycle on a steep road two years before. Who was he?

Stephen Covey (full name:Stephen Richards

Covey)

He is the subject of a biography titled “The Most Dangerous Man in the world” by Andrew Fowler. He is none other than Julian Assange, the editor –in –chief and founder of WikiLeaks website. In August 2012, Assange was granted political asylum by Ecuador, resulting in a tense diplomatic standoff between U.K. and the Latin American Country. Who is the current President of Ecuador who is in the news due to Julian Assange affair? 8

Rafael Correa

According to local belief, shepherd Buta Malik was once given a bag full of Coal by a Saint. To his utter surprise, he found the bag was full of gold coins. He went back to thank the Saint but couldn’t find him. Instead, he found an Ice-structure inside a cave.

Which holy place was thus discovered by Buta Malik?

9

Amarnath Cave

10

NASA’s Space Shuttle Program ended after 30 years with the final mission of STS 135 of Shuttle Atlantis in July 2011. What you see is the crew of the final Space Shuttle mission. It comprises of veteran astronauts Pilot Doug Hurley, mission Specialists Sandy Magnus and Rex Waldheim plus, of course, the mission commander. Who is the Commander of the final Space Shuttle Mission?

Chris Ferguson

Music de life

1. Id the male singer

2. This song is an advertisement of which corp.

Samsung

3. Id the conductor.

Zubin Mehta

4. Whose voice

Na Mo

5. Id. the film

Chettathi (1965 )