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1. In 1870 in the USA a special type of bullet was invented to fire in a curved line. It had a peculiarity, what was its peculiarity and what was its name?

• Boomerang Bullet.

• Most of the time this bullets travelled in complete circles, killing the person who had fired them.

2. “Selle d’ Agneau Pre-sale Arlesienne” is a mutton made from lamb was served in the banquet by the queen of England when former president Pratibha Patil visited England in October 2009. It is a royal dish at the queen’s banquet. The question is what is the specialty of this lambs?

• They are naturally salty as they are reared near sea-water.

3. About whom did Abdul Kalam once said “I consider him the Mahatma Gandhi of science”.

• Vikram Sarabhai

4. When Vladmir Lenin died at Gorki Leninskiye,

a place near Moscow, people attending his funeral were strictly warned not to cry. Why was crying prohibited?

• It was because the temperature was such a low that if anybody cried, his tears would turn into ice immediately damaging it.

5.Identify the bird?

• Egyptian Plover/ Nile Plover

6. Connect the three pictures

• 2014 has been proclaimed as the International year of crystallography by UNO.

• The third picture is a solid crystalline structure of Sr and Ti.

• 7. After 66 years of the following of IST, recently Assam decided to follow a new standard time. It is a day light schedule British tea planters introduced for over 150 years ago. The North East see sunrise and sunset well an hour before Mumbai. The IST forces them to work day light hours and work late till the evening. The dual time zones will help increase productivity, reduce power usage and curb alcoholism. What is this new standard time known as?

• Chaibagaan Time.

8. Connect the three picture.

• 1st pic- The band Praying Mantis.

• 2nd pic- The band Scorpions.

• 3rd pic-The Avengers character “The Black Widow” + Spider gives Black widow spider.

All the three creatures kill their mate after copulation.

9. Which famous Indian was an alumnus of this school?

Kalpana Chawla

10. Connect the three pictures.

• Constellations

• Dragon

• Honda Unicorn

• Giraffe

11. Connect him to internet. Obviously you must have heard him on the internet.

Hint:

Keith Kenniff of the Facebook Lookback music fame

12. What is this the value of?

1.16699016 × 10-8 hertz

• Once in a blue moon

13. What is the inspiration behind this John Quidor painting?

The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow

14. Identify.

First xerographic image. 10-22-38” refers to the 22nd of October, 1938 when the world’s first message was produced by photocopying technique, and Astoria to the location of Chester Carlson’s rented apartment in Astoria, Queens where with the help of his lab assistant Otto Kronei, this magic was wrought.

15. X based the character of Y on his son who was only fouryears old when he refused to take a nap and somehowmessed up his whole room. X had tried many possible namesfor the character, but when his then-wife Alice, in utterexasperation of their son’s antics, exclaimed, "Your son is a_________!", the name of “Y the _______" finally stuck.

The picture shows X and his son, the inspiration for Y. Identify X and Y

X-Hank Ketcham, Y-Dennis the Menace

Quizmasters

• Ashutosh Das and Rahul Choudhary of TezpurUniversity Adda Quiz.

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