Quiz prelims

Just another written test

• 30 Questions

• 9 - Questions *** marked serve as in Built Tie Breaker...

• Top 6 Teams make it to the final (Max of 2 teams from the same school can qualify for the Finals )

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• Copy or Malpractice if any found by the organisers shall lead to disqualification of the team from the Event and the team that is showing the answers will also be disqualified

• Quiz Master's Decision is Final and all teams should abide by it...               *************** Good Luck **************                  Give Some Work to your Brains :)

General rules

Write the question number properly guys ! Number the questions from 0.) to 29.)

Precautions !

The first appearance of this word is from 1784 and means an odd person. 

It later acquired a meaning of - to make fun of, or to mock. 

There is a well-known myth about this word, which says that in 1791 a Dublin theater 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 this word, which was a nonsense word, on walls around the city of Dublin. Within a day, the word was a common currency and had acquired a meaning

***0.) What/Which word ?

1.) Identify the event for which this ad was released ps : lkg kid to granny use this word !

2.) Why were these hospital in news very recently ??

On  _______ 1858 , X first publishes his theory of evolution through natural selection in the journal “ THE JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON “ along with alfred russle wallace’s same theory

Find x and fill the date !

Clue : think a bit for the date !!!

*** 3.) Fill up the blanks !

4.) id him !

Chris Columbus Alfonso CuarónMike Newell David Yates

*** 5.) What connects all these people ?

6.) ID the picture !

*** 7.) id the person- founded a very famous chain of restaurants and sold it. Find the restaurants and him

“ With great power comes great responsibility “

8.) Where does this come ?

9.) Which Movie??

Name the only commoner to appear on British stamps ??

Clue : Carefully read the question... (A trick)

*** 10.) Who is this ?

X is recognised for his contribution to the development and structuring of Ralegan Siddhi, a village in Parner taluka of Ahmednagar district

X was awarded the Padma Bhushan—the third-highest civilian award—by the government of India in 1992

 X started selling flowers at Dadar to support his family, also started a own shop during his childhood days !

11.) Find X

According to Hindu legend, Lord Shiva gifts 3 magical stones to a saint to fight against the thugee cults which have risen in India

Legend has it that when the 3 stones are brought together, the diamonds in them glow

This Hindu legend is used in this movie

Name the movie, the saint and the collective name of the stone

*** 12.) Id

**13.) Name this cricketer and what is the unique record he has ??

The name of which Indian dynasty is derived from an Arabic word meaning "Mongol"?

14.) Sitter !

What Concept Introduced by Rajiv Rao(Bangalore based Nirvana Films ) won The PETA In 2009 for this Company replacing animals and bringing More Humane Ideas??

(1/2 pt for Identifying the company )

*** 15.) Put funda !

It was founded in 1937 by Shivkisan Agrawal, as retail sweets and namkeens shop in Rajasthan, India 

Raj Kachori is one of the most popular snacks sold by them, often eaten mixed with different kinds of sweet and sour chutneys.

Other products also include bhujia, dal mixtures, plain mixtures, available in all salty, sweet and spicy varieties

16.) Which company ?

" People can have the X in any color – so long as it’s black. "

Some one very famous person said this ?? .. who is it.. 

Clue :

17.) Find X ,who said this quote ?

18.) Whose doodle is this ??

*** 19.) ID the genric term given to this form of yatching .. Clue: think cricket

How do we better know the distance covered by light in vacuum in 1 / 299792458 of a second

20.) ID ?

21.) Who is shaky scientist ?

In late 1945, after the end of World War II, Masaru Ibuka started a radio repair shop in a bomb-damaged department store building in Nihonbashi of Tokyo. 

The next year, he was joined by his colleague, Akio Morita, and they founded a company called Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo K.K.,(Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation). 

The company built Japan's first tape recorder, called the Type-G

22.) Which company ??

23.) Identify the person in left looking at something !

24.) Identify this chess player (one in right)

According to its manufacturer, this product was registered in 1789 making it the oldest continuously existing brand in the world.

It was the first transparent product of its kind.

A recent attempt to change its formulation was resisted by a Facebook campaign forcing a return of sorts to the classic original.

Clue : think soaps !

***25.) Which product ??

26.) find - ad's music scorer

27.) id the ad

28.) id the movie

29.) id the movie

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