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PERSOFEST QUIZFINALS
INFY POUNCE 1
RULES
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During 1971 in Tamilnadu,X (who was the founder of Swatantra Party and former of INC) asked Y (who was the chief minister at that time), “ You should not lift the ban, if you do this will affect the youth and the future generations”. But Y rejected the proposal of X and lifted the ban.
Id X and Y and what exactly are we talking about??
Answer
X- Rajaji
Y- Karunanidhi
Karunanidhi lifted the prohibition of alcohol in 1971.
Poornam Viswanathan was a theatre artist and film actor in the Tamil film industry and acted in the movies like Thillu Mullu, Varusham 16, Aasai. He holds the pride of doing something first. What exactly did he do?
Answer
Poornam Vishwanathan announced the news of India getting Independence in All India Radio first news bulletin broadcast
Phil Edmonds, a left arm spinner was trying to break a stubborn partnership. With hardly any turn in the track he did not seem to have much success. As a result, astute captain Mike Brearley used a certain tactic to have the batsman play across the line.
1. What did Mike Brearley do?2. What rule change thus came into place?
Answer
1. Brearley placed a helmet at short midwicket to lure the batsman to try hitting it and get 5 bonus runs.
2. The helmet can only be kept behind the wicketkeeper.
P. Seenivasan was an Indian politician of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and Member of the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu. He served as the Deputy Speaker of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly from 1971 to 1972. He was elected to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly as a Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam candidate from Virudhunagar constituency and Sivakasi in 1967 and 1971, 1989 elections.
He was the only one who has done this in Tamil Nadu. What exactly did he do?
Answer
He was the only one who defeated Kamarajar in TN elections.
Gavrilo Princip – a Serbian nationalist with ties to the secretive military group known as the Black Hand carried out the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, the archduke of Austria-Hungary.
This assassination led to what??
Answer
This assassination led to World War I
Mehrangarh Fort located in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, is one of the largest forts in India. Built around 1460 by Rao Jodha, the fort is situated 410 feet (125 m) above the city and is enclosed by imposing thick walls.A particular scene of a famous movie was shot in this fort. Id the movie.
Dark Knight Rises
X who was born on 23rd March 1975, is a former model, television actress and a producer. X was one of the finalists in Femina’s beauty pageant Miss India 1998. X had also acted in some television series and movies. But we all know X as a different person. Id X.
Smriti Irani
• X is thought to be a tradition that originated in Rome, while the Germans are credited with the creation of Y, which is largely associated with X. The Roman Empire came up with the concept of X due to the then prevalent religion, Mithraism, which later gave way to Christianity. Germans take the tradition of X really seriously and they sometimes get half-day vacation on the particular day. ID X and Y.
ANSWER
• X-BIRTHDAY• Y-BIRTHDAY CAKE
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GAIL
INFY POUNCE 2
ID
• Logo of X depicts Kamadhenu which suggests auspicious and Airavatham which depicts strength and power both with a shield of lotus with blades of grass on either sides with a conch in the middle of the unified India on shield and on the top with the rising sun.
THE HINDU
ID X
• WeRead• Mime360• Chakpak• Letsbuy• X Find out X ?
• MYNTRA THE ABOVE WERE THE ACQUISTIONS BY
FLIPKART
• Roosevelt was once invited to a hunting trip. Most of the hunters competing had already killed an animal. A suite of Roosevelt's attendants cornered, clubbed, and tied an animal to a willow tree after a long exhausting chase, called Roosevelt to the site and suggested that he should shoot it. He refused to shoot it himself, deeming this unsportsmanlike, but instructed that it should be killed to put it out of its misery. It became the topic of a political cartoon by Clifford Berryman in The Washington Post on November 16, 1902. While the initial cartoon figured an adult animal, later issues of that and other Berryman cartoons made the animal smaller and cuter.
• What got its name after this incident ?
Teddy Bear
James Cameron, the Hollywood director is known as the perfectionist in the industry. When he was set to release Titanic in 3D, he received an E-mail from Neil deGrasse Tyson, an astronomy expert stating a mistake in the movie, which has nothing to do with the screenplay. However, Cameron thanked Tyson for pointing out the mistake and corrected it and released the 3D version. What mistake did Cameron make in the movie??
Cameron changed the star alignment
Tyson sent Cameron a email saying that, at that time, in that position in the Atlantic in 1912, when Rose is lying on the piece of driftwood and staring up at the stars, that is not the star field she would have seen. So Cameron asked Tyson to send the right stars for that exact time and put it in the movie.
• . This firm was founded by Ashish Hemrajani, Parikshit Dar and
Rajesh Balpande, all three alumni of Sydenham Institute of
Management, Mumbai University. They had been working for
J.W. Thompson, SPAR and Chatterjee Soros Group, respectively.
• In 2007, they officially came up with this firm, which almost
every one of us knows about. Which firm?
BOOK MY SHOW
• . The word X has been in use in English since the 1870s,
replacing the word gammadion from Greek origin. It was
loaned from a Sanskrit term meaning “any lucky or auspicious
object, and in particular a mark made on persons and things to
denote auspiciousness, or any piece of luck or well-being”.
• However, it is stigmatized in some of the Western countries.
Identify X.
SWASTHIKA
ID THIS FLAG ?
ANSWER
• FLAG OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR
In 2004, a 2m statue of the dancing Shiva was unveiled at ---------. The statue, symbolizing Shiva's cosmic dance of creation and destruction, was given to ---------- by the Indian government to celebrate the research center's long association with India.
CERN
LIST
• List all the G20 members/countries
1. Argentina2. Australia3. Brazil4. Canada5. China6. France7. Germany8. India9. Indonesia10. Italy11. Japan12. Mexico13. Russia14. Saudi Arabia15. South Africa16. Republic of Korea17. Turkey18. United Kingdom19. United States of America
20. European Union
LIST 2
List All the One Day International Captains for INDIA
1 Ajit Wadekar 2 Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan 3 Bishen Singh Bedi 4 Sunil Gavaskar 5 Gundappa Viswanath 6 Kapil Dev 7 Syed Kirmani 8 Mohinder Amarnath 9 Ravi Shastri 10 Dilip Vengsarkar 11 Krishnamachari Srikkanth 12 Mohammad Azharuddin 13 Sachin Tendulkar 14 Ajay Jadeja 15 Sourav Ganguly 16 Rahul Dravid 17 Anil Kumble 18 Virender Sehwag 19 Mahendra Singh Dhoni 20 Suresh Raina 21 Gautam Gambhir 22 Virat Kohli 23 Ajinkya Rahane
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