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QUIZ MASTER:PRATEEK GOURAV

RULES1. There are total 30 questions.2. You will get 30 seconds to answer each question.3. You have to write down the answers in the sheets provided to you.4. The decision of the Quiz Master is final and binding.5. Kindly think of a suitable, catchy team name and write it on the top of the sheet provided along with the mobile numbers of both the members of the team.6. The use of cell phones, tablets or any other gadget is strictly prohibited.

“Wing Commander X of the Indian Air Force was the shining star on Sunday, and

this is the first time a woman officer has led the Guard of Honour at the Rashtrapati

Bhavan.” – dailymail.co.uk

NAME OF X?

*Q1

POOJA THAKUR

Which country became the 28thnation to join the European Union in July2013?

Q2

• CROATIA

What happened next ?

• World Athletics Final event was held in Monte Carlo, Monaco in 2005.

• In the long jump event, Russia's Tatyana Kotova won the gold.

• Kotova was found last year to have been caught for doping after her samples collected during the 2005 World Athletics Championships in Helsinki were found to contain traces of banned substance.

• International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) disqualified her gold medal for doping charges in 2014.

Q3

Anju’s silver medal turns gold.

World Heritage Centres

• UNESCO has established World Heritage centres in South Africa, Spain, Italy, China, Bahrain, Brazil, Mexico and Norway.

• Recently foundation stone of Heritage Centre was laid at Wildlife Institute of India (WII), in Dehradun.

• What’s unique about the Indian Heritage Centre ?

Q4

World’s first and only ‘Natural World Heritage Centre’• Others are only for the conservation of cultural heritage.

In 2006, X was named the richest fictional character by Forbes Magazine. But later X was dropped from the list because of angry letters from children claiming X was real.

Identify X.

Q5

Answer

Who directed the London

Olympics 2012 opening

ceremony ?

Q6

Answer

Danny Boyle

Name the mascot and the event.

Q7

CLYDE, COMMONWEALTH GAMES, 2014

Recently, Google came up with this doodle on which occasion?

Q8

• INDIA v PAKISTAN MATCH , CRICKET WORLD CUP 2015

After what event did Amul come up with this ad?

Q9

• Aam Aadmi Party formed coalition govt with Congress in Delhi

Identify the person

*Q10

• India-Born Punit Renjen to be Deloitte Global CEO

• X is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation. It also promotes healing.

• Uses a technique called palm healing or hands-on-healing as a form of alternate medicine and is sometimes classified as oriental medicine by some professional medical bodies.

• Through the use of the technique, practitioner's believe that they are transferring universal energy through the palms, which they believe allows for self- healing and a state of equilibrium.

• What is X?

Q11

• REIKI

• The evolution of 'x' brand started in 1982 with the establishment of 'Racal Strategic Radio Ltd' subsidiary of Racal Electronics .The same year ,Racal Strategic Radio Ltd formed a joint venture with Millicomcalled ‘Racal X’ ,which would later evolve into the present day X. X is the world’s second largest mobile telecommunications company. Identify ‘X’.

Q12

WHAT DOES THE MAP REPRESENT?*Q13

• LEFT DRIVING-BLUE, RIGHT DRIVING-RED

Gandhis n Nehrus everywhere!!!

Outside the PMs from the Nehru-Gandhi family, name the only two Prime Ministers of India to have airports in India named after them.

Q14

• Lal Bahadur Shastri (Varanasi)

• Charan Singh (Lucknow)

Which Olympic medalist's sports foundation runs a shooting academy in Pune called "Gun for Glory"?

Q15

GAGAN NARANG

STATE BANK OF INDIA’s logo has been inspired from a lake. Which lake am I talking about?

Q16

KANKARIA LAKE, AHMEDABAD

#olympics

• Which contingent did the Indian contingent follow in the opening ceremony march at the 2012 London Olympics?

*Q17

Independent Olympic Atheletes

• PALACE ON WHEELS- RAJASTHAN

• DECCAN ODYSSEY- MAHARASHTRA

• X - KARNATAKA

Identify X.

LUXURY TRAINS

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Q18

• GOLDEN CHARIOT- KARNATAKA

Khagen Mahanta is the father of the singer Papon. A musician himself, Mahanta is often known by the sobriquet “____ Samrat”, denoting his field of expertise. Fill in the blank.

Q19

• Bihu (he sings Bihu folk songs)

• This product is synonymous and gives a certain identity to the place where it is manufactured.

• The sale of this product is one of the chief sources of income to the organization producing it. About 60,000 of this product are produced daily, yet it only satisfies half of the customers’ requisite.

• Neravallur Srinivasa Iyengar’s family alone is authorized to produce this product and Vijaya Bank is the only centre authorized to sell this product apart from the organization itself. What product/item are we talking about?

*Q20

TIRUPATI LADDOO

Tarangini Mitra loved to pirouette. To danceby spinning on one foot came naturally to her.On one of her school functions, her talent wasspotted by a certain Mr. Padmasee, a reputedad film maker who approached her motherand said, “We just want her to do the spin,like she does so gracefully. The small twistwould be counterbalanced by a jingle. Thinkof it, she’s going to be the first X girl”. Whichad (X) am I talking about?

Q21

NIRMA GIRL

• In the early days, most of the trucks in India were manufactured bythe TATA Group. During these times, Tata Oil Mills Ltd. Co (TOMCO)came up with a new brand of detergent called X. And in order tomarket their detergent they used the trucks very effectively bypainting X on them.

• This brand had a symbol in the shape of a lotus flower. This carriedon for a few years and as times went by X became a part of the initialpaint itself by the lorry drivers and is still being used by peoplewithout knowing its glorious history.

• A very common sight nowadays. X?

*Q22

OK DETERGENT

Time Magazine’s Person of the Year 2014 is… ???

*Q23

EBOLA FIGHTERS

*Q24

Identify the logo*Q25

Standard Chartered Bank

This indigenously-built largest warship of India was

inducted by Narendra Modi in August, 2014.

Name the warship.

*Q26

INS KOLKATA

Miss World 2014, the 64th edition of the Miss World pageant was held on 14 December 2014 in LONDON.

Who was crowned the Miss World 2014?

Q27

ROLENE STRAUSS

Which movie won the Filmfare Critics Award for the Best Movie in the 60th Filmfare Awards held in January, 2015?

Q28

• What is the Full Form of NITI in NITI AAYOG?

*Q29

• National Institution for Transforming India

What is SPERMOLOGY ?

”Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many” :P

Q30

• Study of trivia :P