amritakalanjali 2014 finals

AMRITAKALANJALI 2014QUIZ FINALS

Round 1

• Pounce round

• 1. While campaigning in Florida in Jan 2012,Republican presedential canditate Newt Gingrich called for the entry of another region as the 51st state into the American Union-” I think the number is 13,000-when we have 13,000 Americans living there,they can petition to became a state.”

• Where?

• 2. It happens around 20 times a year, spaced at two week intervals usually, and isaccompanied by a music excerpt from Georges bizet’s Carmen suite #1

• What?

• 3. X loved sports and was a die hard fan of Muhammad Ali.

• While on US tour in 1979, X went to Kentucky along with his son and wife. The son recounts:”Ali was aware that my father was a great man from India. He came and sat down. May be it was exciting for him to meet my father and he said,” I am the great Muhammad Ali from America and you are the great X from India.”

• Who is X?

• 4. A ‘X’ on june 3,2008 , by Barrack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama during a televised presidential campaign speesch in St.Paul, Minnestoa, was publicized as “The X heard round the world”.

• The X was also suggested as a “nice replacement of the Hand shake” in an affort to prevent transmission of the H1N1 virus during the 2009 pandemic.

• What is X?

• 5. Rio de Duvida(“River of the doubt”), then one of the most unexplored and intimidating tributaries of Amazon was remaned after X, once he traced its origin and cource in a 1913-1914 expedition.

• Identify X,also the former holder of the Guinness world record for shakin hands in 1907, a record that was later broke in 1977.

• 6. One of Sathya Sai Baba’s biggest donors was Isaac Tigrett, the man who started X. In Issac’s dream Satya Sai Baba appared and saved him from the fatal disease, as the tale goes on. In return Tigrett sold X for $108 million and gave the entire proceeds in 1991 to Satya Sai Baba to start his hospital in Puttaparthi.

• Identify X

• 7. Silver Nitrate , on exoposure to NaCl and proteins with exposed sulphur atoms, forms salts that are largely pale. But light soon reacts with the silver and removes it from its compunds, depositing it as a metal.

• What is the common application of this process?

Round 2

• Infinite Bounce

• 1. Nilambur is a town in the Malappuram district of Kerala known for its teak plantation.

• The teak wood from Nilambur is traditionaly used by a 108 year old company whose almost every product is made to the order.

• What are these products?

• 2. There are only three individuals who has received the highest distinction in the Soviet union as well as the highest peacetime gallantory award in India.

• Two of them are Yury Vasilyevich Malyshev and Gennadi Mikhaliovich Streaklov.

• Who is the third person?

• 3. When the first cars rolled on to the Indian soil, only one company made a particular component for them. This company itself a street in Lianelli, Wales where it was located. The name is today used as generalization of the product involved.

• Which company?

• 4. Which room in a house was originally named from Latin for ‘bread room’? By the mid-nineteenth century, it had come to signify a palce of general food storage.

• 5.Lakme is an Indian Cosmetic company started by X on the personal request of Jawaharlal Nehru who was concerned that Indian women were spending precious foreign exchange on beauty products.

• Identify X.

• 6. X is a plant which is widely used in today’s cosmetic.

• X in Egpyt is called “Plant of immortality”• X is referred as “Alligator’s tongue” in

Indonesia.• Identify X

• 7. X is a Brazillian racing driver who won three F1 world championship.

• X was killed in an accident while leading the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix.

• Recently we celebarated his 20th death anniversary.

• Identify X

Round 3

• Identify the pictures.

Round 4

• Connect round

100/-50

80/-40

60/-30

40/-20

20/-10