General Quiz Mains!

Rules:-

• A random number of questions will be coming for you.• Infinite Bounce is the format!• Between the questions at any random time an LVC will

be there. Details will be given later regarding them. • 10 points for direct and 5 points for indirect. Can go for

the double only on the pass. -5 for wrong answer on the double.

• Clues will be given only on no objection. • Quiz master’s decision is final and binding!

1. What am I talking about?

• This internet phenomenon is not exactly recent but is certainly catching up with us now. Whynne, its creator has this to say “People were particularly fond of the grinning face which, at the time, had no name. It eventually became a separate entity and has since come to represent the humorous and mischievous side of ______.”

Trollface !

On the morning of 28th April 1986, workers at the Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant, Sweden, were found to have radioactive particles on their clothes.

It was Sweden's search for the source of radioactivity, after they had determined there was no leak at the Swedish plant, that led to the first news of _________________ to the outside world.

2.

Chernobyl Meltdown

3. From who to whom?

Gandhi to Hitler

4. What are we talking about ?

• Strangely, the two men most often associated with this curse, share eerily similar last names. One of them tried to escape the trappings of the role, and it ruined his acting career. Depressed, he committed suicide in 1959, though many theorize he was murdered. The other was paralyzed in 1995 after falling from his horse. He died in 2004 from heart failure, and, though she was never a smoker, his wife, Dana, passed away from lung cancer the next year.

The Superman Curse, George Reeves and Christopher Reeve

5. What is this pic telling you about ?

Richard Nixon leaving the White House after resigning as the President of USA

6. Give Funda?

Indian Coins

• Indian coins are mainly produced in 4 cities.• The production in city puts an identification

mark under the year of issue.• Noida: Dot.• Mumbai: Diamond. • Hyderabad: Star, Dotted Diamond, Split

Diamond. • Kolkata: Nothing.

7.

• X’s most famous movie roles are in Water for Elephants (2011) and The Artist (2011). In The Artist, his performance was considered by many to have upstaged those of his co-stars and has won him accolades in Cannes . There are petitions for other awards to be also given to him, on account of his exceptional performance.

• The campaign "Consider X" was launched in December 2011 on Facebook by S.T. VanAirsdale, an editor at Movieline, for X to receive a honorary Oscar nomination.

• Uggie the dog

Long-Visual-Connect

• Enough of reading questions. It’s time to observe very carefully!

• 4 visual clues. 20 on the first guess, 15 on the second, 10 on the third and 5 on the last guess.

• Any team guessing in any earlier clue will be further debarred from answering it.

8. Clue 1.

Clue 2.

Clue 3.

Clue 4.

Ivy League Institutions

• Harvard• Brown• Yale• Princeton• Pennsylvania• Columbia• Dartmouth• Cornell

9. This poster is of a documentary which

came into focus recently during march of this year.

It’s part of a famous protest campaign. What

is it’s name ?

Kony 2012

• It’s a documentary about the Ugandan leader Joseph Kony and the use of children in the army of LRA.

10.

• Who is Blaise Pascal talking about when he says - "________'s nose, had it been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed.“ ?

Cleopatra!

11. The adjoining poster is for a TV show based on

the life of young Stephen Hawking. ID the lead actor

or (for half points) his more famous

role.

Benedict Cumberbatch or as we better know him…. Sherlock Holmes!

12. What’s blanked out?

Shri Rob(a)rt Vadra

13. What are we talking about?

• The red colour symbolizes life.• The orange colour symbolizes healing. • The yellow colour symbolizes sunlight.• The green colour symbolizes nature.• The blue colour symbolizes serenity.• The violet colour symbolizes spirit.

LGBT Pride Rainbow Flag

14.

• Before he died, Milton Wright made his sons Wilbur and Orville make him a promise. This promise has now become standard procedure with persons of certain importance, for example Princes William and Harry of the United Kingdom, and the President and Vice President of the USA.

• What is this promise?

The brothers weren’t allowed to travel on the same place together; that way, if one died in a plane crash, the other would still be around.

15. • The logo is among the most artistically created technology emblems.

• The logo brings together the Nordic runes analogous to the modern Latin H (Haglazl) and B (Berkanan). Such combination of letters represents the connection that the product creates between two devices.

• The logo comprises of two unified letters sketched in white, and bounded by a blue background. The name of the technology is added to the logo in black. This arrangement signifies unison, strength and reliability, and provides the users with a safe and powerful connection.

• The font of the logo is simple, bold and effective. The logo is self-explanatory as its glimpse depicts the wide existence of the technology.

16. Who is he?

• During his university studies he was an upright bass player and occasionally performed as a cruise ship crooner. In later life he co-wrote AC Milan's anthem and the Forza Italia anthem with the opera director Renato Serio.

• He is also known under the nickname Il Cavaliere (literally, The Knight), due to the knighthood Order of Merit for Labour which he received in 1977.

• As of 2010, Forbes magazine has ranked him as the 74th richest man in the world with a net worth of $9 billion. He is also very powerful, though his political clout is on the wane.

Silvio Berlusconi

17.

• John Lawrence Nettleship was a British schoolteacher who taught chemistry at Wyedean School, Gloucestershire. His pupils there included a famous author, whose mother worked for some time as an assistant in his department. The author began studying at the school in September 1976. Nettleship described himself in hindsight as "a short-tempered chemistry teacher". He has been claimed as a major inspiration for the character of ________ in author's books. Name the author and the character.

J.K. Rowling and Severus Snape

18. In an interview to the Indian Express in November 2011, he said“After Operation Blue Star in Punjab, the final examinations were postponed. [I] led a group of students demanding a month’s notice as preparation.

We made banners saying, “____ ____”.

and went about raising this slogan.” He used these lines in a recent film. Which lines ?

He used these lines in a film.

Which lines?

“Sadda Haq” in Rockstar and the interviewee was Irshad Kamil

19. In which country was the song “hothon mein aisi baat” picturised?

Sikkim was then an independent country :P

20. The scientific name of this fruit is “Elaeocarpus ganitrus”. What are it’s

seeds more famously used for ??

Rudraksha Seeds

21. Its LVC time again ! Clue 1. Her name is Carol Ann Susi. But what

matters is her voice … ?

Clue 2. He has a recent connection to it.

Clue 3. They seem to be pretty studious….

Clue 4. The giveaway….

The Big Bang Theory TV Show

• Howard Wolowitz’s mother’s voice• Stephen Hawking appeared on its most recent

episode• The rip off in Belarus called The Theorists• The Big Bang explosion

21. This game was the first to utilize a certain gaming

technique which has become quite

commonplace in today’s world of games.

The WASD gaming keys as motion keys

22. This is a drawing of a child by a parent. The child is pictured looking at a flower which later became

very significant in his life.

Who is the kid? What is the relevance of this

flower in his life?

Alan Turing and Fibonacci Phyllotaxis.

23. These posters are celebrating something. What is it ?

Mole Day/ Moles commemorating Avogadro’s Number

24. What the F@#$* LVC again. Clue 1.

Clue 2.

Clue 3. Certain firsts…

The very first items sold on….

• Flipkart• Amazon• Ebay

25. This pic shows a certain area of a place in India from the top. It was founded in 1968 by Mirra Alfassa (also known as "The Mother") and designed by architect Roger Anger. As

stated in Alfassa's first public message about the township, “X is meant to be a universal town where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony,

above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities. The purpose of X is to realize human unity."

Auroville in Pondicherry

26. This pic in a newspaper was the centre of controversy some time back. It shows the US President

Obama and his national security team watching the raid that killed Osama bin Laden from the White House

Situation Room. What was the controversy ?

The Jewish newspaper photoshopped Hillary Clinton from the pic. It did not publish pics of women

27. Another pictorial controversy…

Is that guy Vladimir Putin the ex KGB agent ???!!!

28. Ok.. This is fairly easy. What did this thing used to be a part of ….?

The World Trade Center

29. There is something special about this beer brand … what is it ?

The Skinny Blonde beer

• She takes her top off as you finish the bottle !

30. Lena Söderberg (born 31 March 1951 in

Sweden) appeared as a Playmate in the

November 1972 issue of Playboy magazine. But her pic is famous for

other “technical” reasons??

Her pic is the most often used for testing algorithms in Digital Image

Processing

31. This is an ad of Cadbury Bourn-vita.

Who is the model supposed to be endorsing the product?

The model also endorsed products like Radium Cream, ghee manufacturer Sri Ghrita, Darjeeling tea

The great Rabindranath Tagore…

32. The product's name is derived from Nahuatl word tziktli.The original flavor was peppermint

But many flavors have been added and discontinued over the decades since the introduction in 1906.

Nahuatlis a group of related languages and dialects of the Nahuan (traditionally called "Aztecan“)

33.

• Washington Post reported that "India was offered a X 55 years ago, in 1955. But that offer, made by the United States and the Soviet Union, was declined by India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. Nehru said the X should be given to China instead." . This decision by Nehru is seen as a blunder and the loss of an opportunity to attain a stronger diplomatic stature by India.ID X.

Permanent seat at the UN Security Council

34.

The flag is designed to portray the "future history" of X. The red bar, which lies closest to the mast, symbolizes X as it is today. The green and blue symbolize stages in the possible terraforming of X should humanity ever have the will and the ability to undertake such a task.ID X.

The flag of Mars

35. LVC… Think very basic …. What connects them all…Clue 1.

Clue 2.

Clue 3.

Clue 4. And this is the place to be…

The southern part of San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California of USA or

as we better know it……..The Silicon Valley

• All of there headquarters are in….

36. What is happening here ?

• More than 130 people converged upon the ninth floor rug department of the Macy’s store in New York, gathering around an expensive rug. Anyone approached by a sales assistant was advised to say that the gatherers lived together in a warehouse on the outskirts of New York, that they were shopping for a "love rug", and that they made all their purchase decisions as a group. A certain first….

The first ever flash mob

37. Stretch your eyes … and tell me what do you see ?

Just roll it up into a ball and you get this….

This is the last edition of my Quiz in this college… So I would like to thank a

few people… The organisers for making this possible…. My friends for inspiring me… My juniors for driving me to keep on quizzing and last but

not the least … I would like to dedicate this quiz to a certain someone

special……

The cockroach that I killed last night at 3 in the morning…. Hats off to you

buddy!