yenepoya general quiz finals
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Round 1
1.
There is a well-known myth about the word ―X", which
says that in 1791 a Dublin theatre owner named James
Daly made a bet that he could introduce a word into the
language within twenty-four hours. He then went out and
hired a group of street urchins to write the word
―X", which was a nonsense word, on walls around the city
of Dublin. Within a day, the word was common currency
and had acquired a meaning (since no one knew what it
meant, everyone thought it was some sort of test) and Daly
had some extra cash in his pocket.
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2.
First to perform neo natal open heart surgery in his
country. First to perform open heart surgery using
microchip camera. Was Mother Teresa‘s doctor. Id .
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3.
Name the captain of the Indian Hockey team in
the recently concluded Olympic qualifiers.
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Bharat Chettri
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4. Id X
―X‖ works in the Army while his wife and mother
live in Morena. He surprises his seniors in the Army
with his athletic skills. He participates in the Indian
National Games and wins the gold medal in the
steeplechase event 7 years in a row but is later
forced to become a notorious baaghi.
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Paan Singh Tomar
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5. Id the structure and legend
There is a widely spread story that ―X‖ decided to
build the luxurious hotel after he was refused entry
to one of the city's then grand hotels, Parke's
Apollo Hotel, as it was reserved to whites (mostly
british) only. Another belief is that ―X‖ was built as
a result of the request of the editor of the then
Times of India who felt a hotel worthy of Bombay
was needed.
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The Taj and Jamshedji Tata
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6. Whose famous words are these ―LSD
was one of the best things I‘ve done in my
life‖.
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Steve Jobs
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Field Marshall Sam Manekshaw quotes ―If a man says he is not afraid of dying, he is either lying or
he is a ___________‖
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Ghurkha
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8. Id the two characters.
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Wenlock and Mandeville, the mascots
for the 2012 Olympics in
London, England.
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9.
When its name was changed some years
ago, Outlook Magazine called it ―The biggest
sex change in the History of Modern India‖.
What?
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Victoria Terminus being renamed
Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus
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10.
X was first granted permission to start operations in
India by the Foreign Investment Promotion Board in
April ‘07. In exchange, the US Government allowed
the import of mangoes from India after a gap of 18
years.
Mangoes for what?
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Harley-Davidson
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11.
India is my country and all Indians are my brothers and sisters.
I love my country and I am proud of its rich and varied heritage.
I shall always strive to be worthy of it.
I shall give respect to my parents, teachers and elders and treat everyone with courtesy.
To my country and my people, I pledge my devotion.
In their well being and prosperity alone, lies my happiness.
Who wrote the Indian National Pledge ?
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The Indian National Pledge was written by
Swami Vivekananda.
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12.
I was born Kuppali Venkatappagowda Puttappa.
But I am popularly known as?
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Rashtra Kavi Kuvempu
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Audience Question
Wishes from Cartoon Network to…?
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Audience Question : IdentifyAn on-going petition, called ―X for World Heritage,‖
claiming ― X is a masterpiece of human creative genius and
is also of universal human value― aims at getting X tagged
as a potential ―World Heritage Site‖ by UNESCO.
The petition is based on the view that X is ―predestined to
become the first ever digital World Heritage Site as it is a
pioneer project of the digital age, carrying the ancient idea
of common and free knowledge into the third millennium.‖
The claims finds some support from the fact that
UNESCO has recognized abstract ideas such as flamenco
dancing and French cuisine.
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Round 2
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1. Id X
• After India played its first match in the 1936 Olympics, ―X‘s‖ magical stickwork drew crowds from other venues to the _______ field. A German newspaper carried a banner headline: 'The Olympic complex now has a magic show too.' The next day, there were posters all over Berlin: Visit the _____ stadium to watch the Indian magician X in action.
• After seeing his prolific play at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Adolf Hitler offered him German citizenship and an offer to promote him to the rank of a Colonel (which he, of course, refused).
• In Holland, the authorities broke his ―modus operandi‖ to check if there was a magnet inside.
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Major Dhyan Chand
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2. Identify the significant roles these players
played in their respective games.
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Jerry West who inspired the NBA logo
and Stefan Edberg‘s distinctive serve
inspired the Australian Open logo.
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3. Significance??*Okhil Babu's letter to the Railway Department in 1909*
"I am arrive by passenger train Ahmedpur station and my belly is toomuch swelling with jackfruit. I am therefore went to privy. Just I doing the nuisance that guard making whistle blow for train to go off and I am running with 'lotah' in one hand and 'dhoti' in the next when I am fall over and expose all my shocking to man and female women on plateform. I am got leaved at Ahmedpur station.
This too much bad, if passenger go to make dung that dam guard not wait train five minutes for him. I am therefore pray your honour to make big fine on that guard for public sake. Otherwise I am making big report to papers."
It is on display at the Railway Museum in NewDelhi. Any guesses why this letter was of historicvalue?
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It apparently led to the introduction of
toilets on trains.
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4.
• This village in Raichur district of Karnataka has sporadic electric
supply and no internet access. It has no English signboards. Two
explanations regarding its name are given:
• 12th Century Kannada poet Allama Prabhu initially named it as
―Gavi Gallu‖ meaning ―Cave of Stone‖.
• It was originally called ―Kodava Gallu‖ meaning ―Singing
stone‖, after the sound the river makes on striking the rocks.
• On being informed of a certain co-incidence, the inhabitants of the
village said that they were very proud of this fact even though it was
purely
• co-incidence. What?
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The name of the village is ―Google‖
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5.
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AMUL : ANAND MILK UNION
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Western India Products Limited.
How do we better know this…?
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7. TIME COVER PAGE DATED: Feb. 22, 1937.
Identify his name, title & the reason why he was on the
cover page.
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Sir Mir Osman Ali Khan,
the last Nizam (or ruler) of the Princely State of Hyderabad and of Berar.
During his days as Nizam, he was reputed to be the richest man in the world, having a fortune estimated at
US$2 billion in the early 1940s.
At that time the treasury of the newly independent Union government of India reported annual revenue of
US$1 billion only.
He was featured on the cover of TIME magazine & believed to have remained as the richest man in South
Asia until his death in 1967.
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8.
Chaturanga the precursor of _____ originated in
India during the Gupta dynasty (c. 280 - 550 CE).
Both the Persians and Arabs ascribe the origins of
______to the Indians. Chaturanga in Sanskrit
literally means an army of four divisions or four corps
referring to four divisions of an army, viz.
elephants, chariots, cavalry, and infantry.
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Chess
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9. A lazy day dreamer young man used to sit at home just
killing time. His mother used to scold & advise him daily to do some work & earn for living. He didn't heed to her
words. One day while killing time, as usual, he was killing the flies that disturbed his day dream. suddenly he noticed
that he had killed a great number of flies. He counted them up to be 30 in number. In joy he shouted aloud and told his mother that he had killed 30 in an hour so why couldn't he do greater things at the King's palace. A passer by heard his
words &, thinking that he was taking about killing 30 enemies at some war, he propagated the young man's valour
throughout & around the village. People started calling him_______.
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10.
THE ROOTS a Chennai band, was a quartet
comprising John Antony, Jojo,
_________ & ________.
Just fill in the blanks.
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This band could not settle with a particular name
because of legal issues and the band subsequently
adopted that name for their first album. The lead
singer came up with the name which was a phonetic
version of a place named after an U.S. President, near
Santa Monica, that he would always drive past.
Name the band.
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12.
• Engineering graduate; did a stint at Oracle
Corporation.
• Trained in Carnatic and Hindustani classical music.
Grew up listening to Pink Floyd, Stevie Wonder and
Bobby McFerin.
• Been part of a Swedish band and dabbles in jazz
and fusion music. Has cut his own album; playback
singer and part of a music director trio. Identify
this singer cum music director.
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13.
• The shape of this product is modeledafter a hyperbolic paraboloid.
• This design characteristic is beneficialas it helps keep the product frombreaking during distribution byeliminating lines of stress along whicha small crack may easily propagate.Further, it keeps a stack of theproduct tightly interlocked or nestedduring distribution.
• The name of the product came from astreet in Cincinnati. The name waschosen simply for its sound andappeal.
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14.
The khadi-duck is an unconventional type of weave that meshes three threads into a weave as compared to
two weaves used in conventional weaving.
This type of weaving is extremely rare, and there are fewer than a dozen weavers in India professing this
skill.
The guidelines also state that there should be exactly 150 threads per square centimeter, four threads per stitch, and one square foot should weigh exactly 205
grams.
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15. Put Funda
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Mrs. Roentgens hand and hence the
first X ray.
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16.
A Unique Achievement:
Which grandfather, son, grandson trio have
been Chief Ministers of the same Indian state?
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Sheikh Abdullah,
Farooq Abdullah,
Omar Abdullah
All CMs of J&K.
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17. No comments …
Pollock to Sangakkara, another fuller length delivery
outside the off stump, Sangakkara goes for the drive
and ends up hitting it in the air towards point, didn't
get his foot to the pitch of the ball but went through
with the shot - X swoops forward and takes it inches
away from the ground. Y is heard commenting "The
Z has got another wicket".
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X- Hashim Amla
Y- Dean Jones
Z - Terrorist
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18. My name is …….
Pyarelal's ( of Laksmikant Pyarelal fame ) Goan
Music teacher is well known to Hindi Film
viewers ? Why ?
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Anthony Gonsalves
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19.
Brad barker was a very popular radio star and
mimic back in the hayday of the radio. he was
called "the man with the timber wolf
howl".Which world famous animal we have all
heard was actually brad barker using his gifted
vocal cords?
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For LEO – the MGM Lion
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20. What came in to existence as a result??
________were introduced by the governing body, after the infamous Antonio Rattin incident when the Argentinian captain failed to understand
that he had been sent off in a match against England at Wembley. The language barrier was clearly a
problem in international matches. The referee in that match, Ken Aston came up with the idea while he drove home: ‖As I drove down Kensington High
Street, the traffic light turned red. I thought, ‗Yellow, take it easy; red, stop, you‘re off ‘.‖
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Red and yellow cards
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Our whole universe was in a hot dense state,
Then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started.
Wait...
The Earth began to cool,
The autotrophs began to drool,
Neanderthals developed tools,
We built a wall (we built the pyramids),
Math, science, history, unraveling the mysteries,
That all started with the ______ _______!
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The Big Bang
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• Jawaharlal Nehru
• _________ _____
• Lal Bahadur Shastri
• _________ _____
• Indira Gandhi
• Moraji Desai
• Indira Gandhi
• Rajiv Gandhi
• V P Singh
• P V Narasimha Rao
• Atal Bihari Vajpayee
• H D Deve Gowda
• Inder Kumar Gujral
• Atal Bihari Vajpayee
• Dr. Manmohan Singh
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23. Id the movie and what is so special
about the scene shown below.
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Pursuit of Happyness and the guest
appearance of Chris Gardner himself.
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The following is an extract from a Nikhahnama (marriage
document) solemnised by Maulana Qasi Abu Talha Misbahi
Faiabadi on 21st August 1979. The translation in english
loosely reads,
― Dilawar Khan Kewal (44 yrs) hereby accepts Aisha Bi (29
yrs) as his wife on 21 August 1979 at a mehr of Rs. 111,000
in the presence of two legal witnesses‖.
25 yrs later this document created a furore. Who are the two
personlities?
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AUDIENCE QUESTION
X are believed to be the descendants of the soldiers
of Alexander the Great who invaded India in 327
B.C. The soldiers, married into the local population
and migrated along the coast. Having maintained a
separate identity, this warrior like clan is fiercely
independent and were never conquered by either
Tipu Sultan or the British. To this day they retain
the privilege of carrying firearms without a licence.
Id X.
Round 3 - Visuals
1. Id
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Mark Spitz
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2. Id band
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One Republic
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3.
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Dolce and Gabbana
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4. Id the personality on the right
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Gurusharan Kaur
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5.
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Verghese Kurien
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6.
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Jean Dujardin
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Round 4 - Connect
Connect Vandana Pathak, Vidya Balan,
Rakhee Tandon, Bhairavi Raichura,
Priyanka Mehra.
1.
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2.
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• Club 27/Forever 27 Club
• It is a name for a group of influential rock and blues musicians who all died at the age of 27.
• The 27 Club consists of two related phenomena, both in the realm of popular culture.
• The first is a list of five famous rock musicians who died at age 27—Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, and Kurt Cobain.
• The second is the idea that many other notable musicians have also died at the age of 27.
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3.
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Liril Girls
Karen Lunel (the first Liril girl)
Tara Sharma
Priety Zinta
Deepika Padukone
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4.
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Divya Narendra and the Winklewoss
brothers
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5.
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Iron
Sardar Vallabhai Patel – Iron Man of India
Iron Maiden
Robert Downey Junior – Iron Man
Margaret Thatcher – The Iron lady
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6.
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Pulsar
Discover
Caliber
Eliminator
Chetak
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Audience Question : Identify this mega
structure.One of the earliest known references to this myth appears
in a letter written in 1754 by the English antiquary William
Stukeley. Stukeley wrote that, "This (...) makes a
considerable figure upon the terrestrial globe, and may be
discerned." X is a maximum 9.1 m (30 ft) wide, and is
about the same color as the soil surrounding it. Based on
the optics of resolving power only an object of reasonable
contrast to its surroundings which is 70 mi or more in
diameter would be visible to the unaided eye. The apparent
width of the X from the ____ is the same as that of a
human hair viewed from 2 miles away. To see the X would
require spatial resolution 17,000 times better than normal
(20/20) vision.
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