General Quiz prelims

Special Thanks to Tarang Singhal Sir

&Shashwat Kant Sinha Sir

• 20 questions • Star marked are tie breakers

Question 1

• John 3:16 is considered to be the bible in a nushell

• “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. ”

• Why is an alternate version of this a famous sport quote?

• Austin 3:16

Question 2

• What did this inspire?

• Amul dairy girl

Question 3

• Video of smashing pumkins tonight tonight

George melies

Question 4

• When the computer was first built its internal storage was very less and it had to be booted from a floppy disk. Generally a computer would have two slots for floppy disks one to boot the computer and the other to store data that needed to be stored. The last storage option was the computer’s hard disk hence this naming convention was followed. What am i talking about?

• C: drive is the default drive

Question 5

• The symbol originated from the symbols for the letter ‘N’ and ‘D’ as used in the semaphore signals .

• Peace symbol (Nuclear Disarmament sign)

Question 6

• This abbreviation comes from the fact that there is a lens which focuses the light onto a mirror which reflects light through a prism. This allows you the user to see the light and when he is satisfied he presses a button and the mirror gets removed allowing the light to pass through.

• This abbreviation can also be interpreted as a term which is the limit for the amount of gold or government securities that a bank must have in order to operate in India.

• SLR

Question 7

• This sign gets its name from the fact that at a point of time it was the 27th alphabet and was slurred to its current name.

• This sign is a litigature of “et” from latin. If you know the meaning of “et” think of a symbol for that meaning .

• What sign

Ampersand

Question 8*

• Pheidippides and Marathon

Question 9

1) This term can be traced back to the type of iron that was used in making equipment by the US army OR the fact that their equipment was issued to them by the government.

2) One of the first formal uses of this term is this quote by D. D. Eisenhower “The truly heroic figure of this war [is] ______ and his counterpart in the air, the navy, and the Merchant Marine of every one of the United Nations”

• GI Joe

Question 10

• According Patricia L. Price this guy was born Jesus Juarez Mazo. He became a bandit after the death of his parents who died because of poverty. He died in 1909.

• Some people believe that this guy never existed that the folklore behind him has been made up by mixing the stories of two doumented bandits

• Real or not this guy is a cult figure and has a robin hood type image. What is he the patron saint of ??(Pic next slide)

• Patron saint of druglords

Question 11

• According to Wikipedia this popular soft drink contained about nine milligrams of cocaine per glass before 1903.

• Which drink?

• Coca cola

Question 12

• What was created by Minh “Gooseman” Lee and Jess Cliffe?

• Counter strike

Question 13

• What does the text at the bottom mean?

• I came I saw I conquered

Question 14

• Jonas Salk

Question 15

• Video of kung fury video game

• Kung fury

Question 16

• Which company started out as “Jerry and David’s guide to the internet”?

• Yahoo

Question 17

• Video of Rick and Morty steam boat morty

Mickey mouse steamboat willie

Question 18

• What connects these three movies?

Question 19

• Edward _____ was an aerospace engineer who was involved in a lot of rocket sled experiments. Where he encountered a lot of troubles with his assistant during the experiments. He blamed the failures on his assistant saying “Anything that he can do wrong he will do wrong”

• Give me the full name and the law.

• Edward Murphy• Murphy’s law

Question 20

• Identify.

• Dinesh Agarwal, Founder IndiaMart HBTI alumnus