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UTSAV ‘11 – GENERAL QUIZ

PRELIMSBy: Nigel Thomas

1. Identify the place

Nativity Church/Birthplace of Jesus

2.

The film was produced by Reliance Entertainment under the banner of Big Motion Pictures, its first ever production in Malayalam. Anjuli Shukla became the first woman camera person in India to win the National Film Award (Silver Lotus) for Best Cinematography for her debut film that we are talking about. The lead actor of the movie quoted “ I am really excited because I will be playing three different characters but not three different roles, It is going to be a challenge for me because the basic nature of all the three characters is the same but there are different behavioural patterns and mannerisms based on what the three women say."

Name the Film ☺☺☺☺

3. Id this structure

Ferrari World, Abu Dhabi, world’s

largest indoor theme park !!!!

4.

The term is a Spanish farewell that can be literally

translated as Until we see again. This term with

added word ____ was used in the popular hit

song from 1987 "Looking for a New Love" by

Grammy Award Winner Jody Watley. The use of

the term in _______________ immortalized it as

a worldwide popular catchphrase. The American

Film Institute honored the quotation on by

ranking it #76 on a list of the best movie

quotations in the past 100 years of film.

HASTA LA VISTA, BABY

5. *X, hailing from the U K, appeared in the advertising campaign of __________in India, along with the child actor Jayaram. The duo first appeared on TV, billboards, newspapers and bus shelters in 2003 and became instant celebrities all over India. The TV ad was shot in lush green Goa. The campaign became a hit. X earned Rs. 1.5 lakh for the campaign, and still appears in _______ ads. X was also featured with pink nose, when ________ changed its signature color from orange to pink. This led to a rise in the popularity of Y in India, and the sale of Y more than doubled within months, with prices shooting up from about Rs. 10,000 to Rs. 20,000-60,000.

• X or Y please.

X,Y-Cheeka , the pug who appeared in the

"You & I" advertising campaign of Hutch

6. Identify the Logo

7. What’s this ?

First Integrated Circuit by Jack Kilby

8.

Who is Agni Deva’s Wife?

Special Thanks to Capt. Chandrakant Nair for his advice and this question.

Svaha

9.

• X was the first joint stock publishing company

of India, its press owned by Pulikkottil Joseph

Mar Dionysious II of the Indian Orthodox

Church. The name was chosen by the poet,

Raghavan Nambiar, and Kerala Varma granted

the symbol which is a part of the Travancore

kingdom symbol.

• What is X ?

10. *

First Non-American to be the TIME magazine

Person of the Year

11. Who is the man on the animal ?

12. Comic character based on whom?

13. Name “the book” which inspired a

recent movie

14. Who? Born in Alappuzha, after completing his education from there, he worked in the South Indian Rubber Works. He joined the Communist Party of India (CPI) in mid-1940s and actor Satyan, who, before becoming a star and while a police inspector, had tortured him when he was arrested after the Punnapra-Vayalar uprising for attacking a police station. He later became friends with Satyan through Udaya studios.

Sarangapani

15. *

• 1 bit: sniff

• 2 bits: crumb, quad, quarter, tayste, tydbit,

semi-nibble.

• 4 bits: nibble

• What is 256 bits called ?

Paragraph

16. • There are many different stories for how the name

came about for ‘it’, some say it represents the year

‘it’ was introduced by the famous restaurant in

Chennai, some say is evolved from the age of the

same used to prepare this, and Sanjay Thumma of

vahrehvah.com says “ It got the name from the serial

no. on the list of the military canteen in Madras”.

Chicken 65

17. Which dance form is being

performed by the dancer with M.J ?

18. What’s his lasting, but not so

lasting, feat on the Moon ?

Eugene Cernan – The last man

to be on Moon

19. Sitter, Full Name pls...

Julian Assange

20. *

• The Boy Who Wanted To Kill Vasco Da Gama.

• Is an upcoming Big Budget Malayalam project

which is being simultaneously made in English

• Name the film

Urumi

21.

• The first appearance of the word is from 1784

and means an odd person. It was also used in

the term ‘X’ glass, a common accoutrement of

British Regency dandies. It later acquired a

meaning of ‘to make fun of’, or ‘to mock’. How

it acquired its current meaning of a ‘test’ is

unknown.

• Give me X.

Quizzing

22. Ad for what

23. What is the Technology

mentioned ?

• An infra-red imaging system used in cricket to determine whether the ball has struck the batsman, bat or pad. It requires two infrared cameras on opposite sides of the ground above the field of play that are continuously recording an image. Any suspected snick or bat/pad event can be verified by examining the infrared image, which usually shows a bright spot where contact friction from the ball has elevated the local temperature.

• Contribution from Sanath Prasad.

Hot spot Technology

24. Who is guilty here ?

25. *This song is a show tune from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, Carousel. In the second act, Nettie Fowler, the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan, sings to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband, Billy Bigelow, the male lead, kills himself to avoid capture during a failed robbery. In the film, it is sung by Claramae Turner as Nettie. The weeping Julie (Shirley Jones) tries to sing it but cannot; it is later reprised by Ms. Jones and a chorus. The song has been recorded by many artists in notable hit versions made by Frank Sinatra, Gerry & The Pacemakers, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Tom Jones. Renée Fleming has sang the song for the Obama Inauguration. American singer and songwriter Barbra Streisand sang this song in a surprise appearance at the close of the 2001 Emmy Awards, in honor of the victims of the September 11th, 2001 attacks. Which Song?

You’ll Never

Walk Alone

Anthem of

Liverpool Football

Club