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G.K. Club Quiz Finals
Round 1The Mystery Box Challenge
In this round, one must choose the mystery box which will give you your question
Rules of 1st Round
● There will be 4 question in this round. One for each team
● Each correct answer carries 10 points. Each incorrect answer will give a -2.
● There will be no pass questions
Choose your mystery box
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Question
X is a Swahili phrase that can be translated literally as "no worries." Its meaning is similar to the English phrase "no problem" or Australian English phrase "no worries" and also can be translated to "don't worry, be happy. Identify X. Answer
Answer - Hakuna Matata
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X is a city located in the Hazara region of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, in Pakistan. The city is situated in the Orash Valley, 110 kilometres (68 mi) north of the capital Islamabad, 130 kilometres (81 mi) from Rawalpindi and 150 kilometres (93 mi) Northeast of Peshawar at an altitude of 1,260 metres (4,134 ft) and is the capital of the X District. The city is well known throughout Pakistan for its pleasant weather, high-standard educational institutions and military establishments. It remains a popular hill station attracting hundreds of thousands of tourists every year. The Islamic fundamentalist Y was hiding outside the Kakul Military Academy in X. Find X, Y
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X - AbbotabadY - Osama Bin Laden
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Connect 1950 - President Sukarno (Indonesia)1962 - Queen Elizabeth ll (United Kingdom)1995 - Nelson Mandela (South Africa)1999 - King Birendra Bir Bikram Dev Singh2007 - Vladimir Putin (Russia)2011 - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyo (Indonesia)
Answer
Chief Guests to the Republic Day Celebrations
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X was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, to Fred and Deborah Sue Davisson. He has two elder sisters, Whitney and Hilary. In his youth, he was diagnosed with ADHD. Between 2004 and 2008, he studied sports marketing and management. X has made an estimated $5 million per year in endorsements, including a $1 million endorsement recently. Identify X. Answer
Michael Phelps
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What new malware hacked 45,000 Facebook accounts early in January 2012?
Answer
Ramnit
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Round 2
Pounce it up!
Rules
● 15 questions in all.● Questions can be pounced upon for 15s
the question is asked.● When pounced, you get 10 points for a
correct answer and -5 for a wrong one.● The question that is
Question 1
The position is one of the toughest ones in gymnastics. It is popularly known by two terms. One is from christian iconography (8 lettered), the other shares its name with a Prussian and German military decoration. Name either.
pto
Answer
Answer
The Crucifix or the Iron Cross
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Question 2
As part of a broader deal between Samsung and Roc Nation – estimated at $20m – a total of 1m copies of X's new album, were given away on Thursday at one minute past midnight (US eastern time), a full 72 hours before it officially goes on sale. The Korean mobile company has paid $5m so that the first million owners of Galaxy S III, Galaxy S4 and Galaxy Note II devices to claim the album though a free app from the Google Play store get a three-day headstart on the rest of X's fans. Identify X. Answer
Answer
Jay-Z
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Question 3
The red bar, which lies closest to the mast, symbolizes the places as it is today. The green and blue symbolize the possible stages in future. Flag of?
Answer
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The proposed flag of Mars
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Question 4
"We have decided to continue with him as he is synonymous with the brand and network of the company. He was more of an emotional attachment and was also important from the creative perspective. The child was not important though he would be introduced in the second phase" said Harit Nagpal, the business director of the company. What is being talked about here? Answer
Answer 4
The pug in hutch ads (Cheeka).
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Question 5
ACK Media is producing a stereoscopic 3d animation film of a well known desi comics character. Name the character
Answer
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Suppandi
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Question 6
X is an Irish author. He worked as a primary school teacher before he became a full-time writer. He is best known for being the author of the Artemis Fowl series. His novels have been compared to the works of J. K. Rowling. In September 2008, X was commissioned to write the sixth installment of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, entitled And Another Thing.... Identify X
Answer
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Eoin Colfer
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Question 7
Where can you find the following?The Cyrillic letter И , the Greek letter Ω , the Korean syllabic block 위 , the Arabic letter و (Waw), the Chinese character 維 , the Hindi akshar व at the left, the Bangla borno উ , the Kannada akshara at the
bottom, the Hebrew letter ו (Vav), the Georgian ვ (Vin) , the Armenian Վ (Vev) and glyphs like 維基大典 in Classical Chinese and the Japanese katakana ウィ.
Answer
Answer
Logo of Wikipedia
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Question 8
X is a collection of short stories published in 1943 by Indian Thought Publications.The book was republished outside India in 1982. The book includes 19 stories, all set in the fictional town, located in South India. Each of the stories portrays a facet of life in that town. The New York Times described the virtue of the book as "everyone in the book seems to have a capacity for responding to the quality of his particular hour. It's an art we need to study and revive." Identify the book.Answer
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Malgudi days
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Question 9
X is a Pixar movie. Dreamworks studios copied the concept of X and created the movie Y. This made Steve Jobs angry and he confronted John Lasseter (he was incharge of the Dreamworks Movie). Y was released before X and it did decently. X was a huge hit but the originality was gone as Dreamworks had copied it and released Y before X. Jobs always felt resentful for that. Identify X and Y.Answer
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A Bug's Life
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Question 10
Connect
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Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Julius Erving, Karl Malone, Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant form the 30000+ elite club.
Audience Question
Identify
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Audience Question
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Yo Yo Honey Singh
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Round 3
Logo Quiz!
Enter
Question 1
The logo of?
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The recently concluded Tri-series - "Celkon Cup"
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Question 2
Logo of?
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Burger King
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Question 3
First logo of?
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Cadbury
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Question 4
X's 125th birthday logo sees bubbles bursting from our famous contour bottle – a celebration of our past, present and future.
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Coca-Cola
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Question 5
In 1997, X decided to introduce an integrated corporate design, choosing as the core element a new and yet familiar logo: the 3 bars. It was designed in 1990 by then Creative Director Peter Moore, and initially used on the Equipment range of performance products. It is inspired by the 3-Stripes as they appear on footwear. Identify X
Answer
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Adidas
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Round 4
Think out of the box
Enter
Question 1
For what occasion did Google make this doodle?
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New year 2013
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Question 2
In the book "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation,” punctuation marks are compared to what highway safety device, since words won't bang together?
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Traffic signals
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Question 3
Connect
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Sponsors of Cricket World cup
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Question 4
Put Funda
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The MoBot (Mohamed Farah)
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Question 5
X (October 16, 1758 – May 28, 1843), was a lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and prolific author. He has been called the "Father of American Scholarship and Education". His blue-backed speller books taught five generations of American children how to spell and read, secularizing their education. According to Ellis (1979) he gave Americans "a secular catechism to the nation-state". His name became synonymous with "dictionary" in the United States, especially the modern dictionary that was first published in 1828 as An American Dictionary of the English Language.
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Noah Webster Jr.
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Question 6
22 June 1986, was the quarter-finals of the 1986 FIFA World Cup at the Estadio Azteca in Mexico City. The game was held four years after the Falklands War between Argentina and the United Kingdom and was a key part in the already intense football rivalry between both nations. The first goal, after fifty-one minutes, was the infamous X. Y's second, after fifty-four minutes, saw him dribble past five England players, Beardsley, Reid, Butcher, Fenwick, Butcher (again), and finally goalkeeper Peter Shilton. In 2002 this was voted Goal of the Century by FIFA.com. Identify X.
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X - Hand of godY - Diego Maradona
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Question 7
Y means "homeland" or "nation" hence X Y means "homeland of Xs". The word X itself means "sweet nectar". Identify X or Y
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X - Tamil Y - NaduX Y - Tamil Nadu
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Question 8
X, designed by D Udaya Kumar, was presented to the public by the Government of India on 15 July 2010,
following its selection through an “open” competition among Indian residents.The design resembles a Devanagari letter and a Latin capital letter. Identify X
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The Indian Rupee Sign
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Question 9
Identify the book
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The Satanic Verses
Question 10
X is a company which owns these trademarks - Friend Stream, X Footprints, X Sync, X Watch etc. Identify X.
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HTC (High Tech Computers)
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THE ENDWe hope your time wasn't wasted and you have had
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