Presents…. The GENERAL Quiz 30th March 2014

GENERAL QUIZMains

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SHANTANU SHARMASUJIT J PATIL MILIND SHARMA

Infinite Bounce (Clockwise)

It began on January 24, 1848, when something was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California.

Due to this event, San Francisco grew from a small settlement of about 200 residents in 1846 to a boomtown of about 36,000 by 1852.

One of its legacy is the word 49ers which was used to refer to the people involved in this event (reference to 1849). This word is still used in the name – San Francisco 49ers, a 5-time Super Bowl Champion.

1)

California Gold Rush

The first edition of ________ was released in July, 1947. The founder editor of the magazine was B.Nagi Reddy who later became a leading film producer in South India.

In August 2006, it was reported that Disney was set to buy a stake in ________. In 2007, it was acquired by technology company Geodesic Information Systems.

With the acquisition by a technology company, ________ announced that it will digitize itself. In later 2007, it released its website “www._________.com”.Its webpage on next

slide :

2)

Chandamama

• It is one of the largest star sapphires in the world. It is almost flawless and is unusual in that it has stars on both sides of the stone. It was mined in Sri Lanka.

• In 1900, J.P. Morgan donated it to the American Museum of Natural History.

• What is its name which it shares with the name of a chivalry order and the oldest ship still sailing regularly.

3)

Star of India

• The Maleeva sisters refers to three sisters who all became WTA top ten tennis players. They are the only set of three sisters ever ranked in the top ten at the same time. They are :

Manuela Maleeva (born 1967) Katerina Maleeva (born 1969) Magdalena Maleeva (born 1975)

• Among the unique instances of the 1993 Citizen Cup at Hamburg, one was that- 3 out of the 4 quarterfinals in the tournament had each sister playing against different opponents. But only one (Magdalena) advanced to the Semi Finals , she advanced only because of a specific reason. What ?

4)

Her opponent was Monica Seles who as stabbed in this game.

The ________ experiments on the International Space Station (ISS) use a mannequin that has been used to study cosmic radiation dose types and rates that relate to the health of space travellers on long duration missions.

The two-part experiment is named for the _____________ that has various layers of dolls, with the inner layers revealed when the outer layers are opened. In this experiment, the doll has measured the radiation doses of the separate components of the ionizing cosmic radiation at the skin surface and at different locations inside a realistic human torso, in order to establish the relation between skin doses and organ doses.

FITB.

5)

Matroshka Dolls

It is a 1999 American biographical film directed by Joe Johnston, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, and Laura Dern. It is based on the true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957 to take up rocketry against his father's wishes, and who eventually became a NASA engineer.

The film is based on the book Rocket Boys. According to Homer Hickam “Universal Studios marketing people got involved and they just had to change the title because, according to their research, women over thirty would never see a movie titled Rocket Boys”. So the title of the film was developed as an anagram of the book’s title.

What is the title of the film ?

6)

October Sky

X was an American daredevil, painter, entertainer, and international icon.

In his career he attempted over 75 ramp-to-ramp motorcycle jumps between 1965 and 1980, and in 1974, a failed jump across Snake River Canyon in the Skycycle X-2, a steam-powered rocket.

He is included in the Guinness Book of World Records for a unique record ? What ?

7)

Evel Knievel

X is a person who uses skill and deception to win at poker or other card games.

They are common characters in caper films like :The Lady Eve (1941)The Cincinnati Kid (1965)The Sting (1973)Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)The Prestige (2006), world-renowned card sharp Ricky Jay advised the actors and played a supporting roleRounders (1998)Shade (2003)21 (2008)The Princess and the Frog (2010)

8)

Card sharp or Card shark

Infinite Bounce (Anticlockwise)

Identify this term   defined by Merriam Webster as "a figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole (as fifty sail for fifty ships), the whole for a part (as society for high society), the species for the genus (as cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the species (as a creature for a man), or the name of the material for the thing made (as boards for stage)" which happens to be the first part of a 2-word movie name release in 2008 starring  Philip Seymour Hoffman .

1)

Synecdoche

X  is a common genre of semi-classical Indian music. Some of the most commonly used ragasare Pilu, Kafi, Khamaj, Gara, Tilak Kamod and Bhairavi.  

Besides the tabla and the tanpura, other typical instruments in X  are sarangi, and swarmandal. Nowadays, it is sometimes sung at the end of khyal concerts as a concluding item.

 Some famous singers of this genre are Gauhar Jan, Begum Akhtar, Shobha Gurtu, Noor Jehan and Prabha Atre etc.

2)

Thumri

X was a son of Dhritrashtra with a Vaishya woman named Sauvali,  other than 100 kauravas and   Dushala ( daughter of  Dhritrashtra ) with Gandhari.  He was younger than Duryodhana and elder than the rest of the ninety-nine Kuru brothers and Dushala. 

Eventually, he was the only son of Dhritarashtra who survived the Kurukshetra war, becming  the King of Indraprastha after the war.

3)

Yuyutsu

Bosnia , Herzegovina, Spain and San Marino have a very unique thing in common. What’s that?

4)

Nations not having lyrics in their national anthem

He entered the Indian Civil Service in 1873. During the Second Anglo-Afghan War he was Political Secretary at Kabul. He negotiated with Abdur Rahman Khan, the Amir of Afghanistan, the frontier between modern-day Pakistan the successor state of British India and Afghanistan. 

He has been immortalized in another sense that he started a tournament which was initially a military affair, open to the Army in India: the British Army, the regular Indian Army and other Indian military units, such as Provincial frontier-security regiments and the Volunteer regiments of the reserves.

Which tournament ?

5)

Durand Cup

He was a British writer, mostly of adventure fiction. He is best remembered best for Beau Geste, a much-filmed book of 1924, involving the French Foreign Legion in North Africa. This was one of 33 novels and short story collections that he wrote, mostly dealing with colonial soldiering in Africa. But most of us have read his some other work in our school days. Identify.

6)

P. C Wren

Back in the early 1800s, the British did something called impressment. During the Napoleonic wars, the British considered any ship that traded with the French an enemy. They would steal the supplies and capture the crew.

They impressed the crew into the navy for life. These guys would work as sailors for the rest of their lives and never step on dry land again. If they had a wife, the British would bring the wife aboard the ship. If the wife was pregnant, they would place her on the gun deck near the cannons. When she started having contractions, they would fire the cannons to make her push to have the baby. When the baby was born, it was called X.

7)

Son of a gun

X  is a state of having simultaneous, conflicting reactions towards some object. Stated another way, it is the experience of having an attitude towards someone or something that contains both positive and negative components.

The term also refers to situations where "mixed feelings" of a more general sort are experienced, or where a person experiences uncertainty or indecisiveness concerning something.

The expression "sitting on the fence" is often used to describe the feeling of X.  This state can lead to avoidance or procrastination, or to deliberate attempts to resolve it.

8)

Ambivalence

SVC

•Bharat Electronics Limited

•Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited

•Hindustan Aeronautics Limited

•Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited

•Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited

•National Aluminium Company Limited

•NMDC Limited

And some more…

1) +40/-20

•Kalidasa

•Vetala Bhatta

•Varahamihira

•Vararuchi

•Amarasimha

•Dhanvantari

•Kshapanaka

•Shanku

•Ghatakarpara

2) +30/-15

• Ruby 

• Pearl 

• Red Coral 

• Emerald 

• Yellow sapphire

• Diamond 

• Blue sapphire  

• Hessonite 

• Cat's Eye 

3) +20/-10

•Abu'l-Fazl

•Abdul Rahim Khan-I-

Khana

•Birbal

•Faizi

•Hamim Humam

•Raja Man Singh

•Raja Todar Mal

•Shaikh Mubarak

•Tansen

4) +10/0

And the answer is…

Navaratnas

LVC

*Non-exhaustive list

1) +30/-15

2) +30/-15

3) +20/-10

4) +20/-10

5) +10/0

6) +10/0

And the answer is…

All countries have more than one capital

Chile – Santiago, Valparaiso

Republic of China – Taipei, Nanking

Malaysia – Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya

Bolivia – Sucre, La Paz

The Netherlands – Amsterdam, The Hague

South Africa – Cape Town, Bloemfontein,

Pretoria