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Quiz Review, Independence Day Quiz at HOC recreation club ; Ambalamugal

Quiz Archive

HOC Recreation Club’s Independence Day Quiz – ‘10

1.       Which Viceroy is often referred to as ‘The father of the Local Self Government’?

Lord Ripon

2.       Who was the founder of the ‘Prarthana Samaj’ or Prayer Society?

Atmaram Panduranga

3.      How many times did Gandhiji visit Kerala?

5 times

4.      Name the present woman chief of UN Police, she is the first woman to hold the post.

Ann-Marie Orler

5.      Who is presently the ‘Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India’?

C Chandramouli

6.       Identify the lady below, who is the President of the

Kerala Sahitya Academy.

P. Valsala

7.      How many ministers are there in the state cabinet of Kerala?

20 ministers

8.      Which country published a Postal Stamp with the portrait if Sree Narayana Guru on his 155^th Birthday?

Sri Lanka

9.       Who is the present governor of Maharashtra?

Hint: he is from Kerala

K. Sankaranarayanan

10.   . This is the state fish of Kerala whose biological name is ‘Etroplus suratensis’?

Pearl Spot or Karimeen

11.     Name India’s first budget airliner.

Air Deccan

12.    Which is the FM Radio Station available from Kochi at 93.5 MHz?

Red FM

13.    Who was the chairperson of the Committee Constituted for awarding Khel Ratna, Dhyanchand and Arjuna Awards for 2010 ?

P.T. Usha

14.    Name the famous person nicknamed as ‘Vishy’.

Vishwanathan Anand

15.    Sachin Tendulkar scored the maiden 200 in ODIs against which country?

South Africa

16.    Which is the capital of Trinidad and Tobago ?

Port of Spain

17.    Who was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in’09?

Hertha Muller

18.   “Rule of Law and Role of Police” was written by which former Indian President

-

19.    Expand FISA

Federation of Indian Students in Australia

20.   Who presented the Gandiva Bow to Arjuna ?

Varuna

21.    In which district of Kerala is the Nallam Diesel Power plant located?

 Kozhikode

22.   

Who is its director?

Shaji N. Karun

23.   What is Mozilla Firefox?

Web browser

24.   What are the Wester Ghats in Maharashtra known as?

Sahayadris

25.   What is ‘etymology’?

It is the study and development of words

Quiz Review, EQL 3 - Leg 1 at Varuna

Quiz Archive

EQL 3- Quiz 1.

1.                            The first line of the national anthem of which country translates to “O! Dispenser of X’s destiny. Thou art the ruler of the minds of all people”.

India – Jana Gana Mana Athinayaka jayahe Bharatha   Bhagya Vidata.

2.                           In which city is the world’s only ‘International Pepper Exchange’ located?

Kochi

3.                          What is the nickname given to Lawrence Harvey Zeiger an American television and radio host, who holds the distinction of interviewing about 40,000 politicians, athletes, entertainers and other newsmakers. He is best known for hosting the Nightly Interview TV Program X on CNN.

Larry King live of the ’Larry King Live’.

4.                         In Italian, the symbol is informally called the “snail” (chiocciola); its proper French name is "arrobase"; in Dutch it is called the "monkey tail"; in Hebrew, it is informally called Strudel ("שטרודל"); and in Chinese, it is known as the "little mouse". What is it?

@ Symbol

5.                          Identify this logo.

Miss World

6.                          "X" is a term originally applied to the activities of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick during the War of Roses in England where it was upon Neville to decide whom the victor will be. Since it has become a very common word in Politics. Id X.

Kingmaker 

7.                          At the end of his life, he was arthritic and had a bad heart. He was in a wheelchair often, and was carried from his bedroom to the public lounge at Styles Court, a nursing home in Essex, wearing a wig and false moustaches to mask the signs of age that offended his vanity. This is the obituary of which famous detective which appeared in the TIMES?

Hercule Poirot

8.                          During India’s tour of South Africa in 1992, a popular slogan among the fans was “Is it a bird, is it plane, no it _____. Fill in with the name of the cricketer.

Jhonty Rhodes

9.                         In the 1984-85 season an India-Pakistan ODI match at Sialkot (India 210-3, Vengsarkar 94*) was called off due a peculiar reason. What is it?

Indira Gandhi’s assassination

10.                     The author’s protagonist in most of his novels ‘X is an alter ego of the author himself. The author states that he has molded X as “the guy I wish I was”. X is described as looking like "Harrison Ford in Harris tweed”, with his standard attire being a turtleneck, Harris Tweed jacket, khakis and collegiate cordovan loafers, which he wears to all events. Name the author.

Dan Brown

11.                           Then up he got and home did trot

         As fast as he could caper;

        To Old Dame Dob who patched his nob

        With vinegar and brown paper.

These are the lines from which nursery rhyme?

Jack and Jill

12.                      X is a team sport which is played by 7 players in each side. Its name is said to have originated from where it was first played but it also contains the letters of the 3 balls used (there are 4 in all, but 2 are of the same type). In the United States teams from more than 200 colleges are affiliated with the International X Association and play tournaments. What is X?

Quidditch

13.                     “No man's life can be encompassed in one telling…. least of all this man’s. There is no way to give each event its allotted weight, to recount the deeds and sacrifices of all the great men and women to whom he and his country owe such immense debts. What can be done is to be faithful in spirit to the record of his journey, and to try to find one's way to the heart of the man...” these are the opening lines to which famous film?

Gandhi

14.                     Who is being wrongly criticized here?

Tyson Gay

15.                      X is India's sole producer of rails and heavy steel plates and major producer of structures. The plant is the sole supplier of the country's longest rail tracks of 260 meters. With an annual production capacity of 3.153 MT of saleable steel, the plant also specializes in other products such as wire rods and merchant products it is SAIL’s most profitable plant.

Bhilai Steel Plant, Bhilai – Chattisgarh.

16.                      Why was ’Troubles’ a novel by the English author J.G. Farrell in the news recently?

It won the Lost Booker Prize.

17.                      I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists. If it were not for the Germans I would have constructed agricultural machines that would help farmers. These are quoted from which famous Rossiyskoy Federatsii award winner?

Mikhail Kalashnikov

18.                     Which chemical element comes from the Greek word for ‘Stranger’?

Xenon

19.                     The refrain of which popular song means “Come do it, who asked you to come? Its me.”

Waka Waka - This time for Africa.

20.                   When the Spanish settlers were exploring the new world they came across an animal which they called ‘el lagarto’. How do we know this animal?

Alligator

21.                      Only two Californian Governors have their own stars at the ‘Hollywood walk of fame’. One of them is Arnold Schwarzenegger who is the other?

Ronald Reagan

22.                     Name the religion started in 1953 by writer L. Ron Hubbard. It teaches that people are immortal spiritual beings who have forgotten their true nature and its most famous follower is Tom Cruise.

Scientology

23.                    Name the electronic device invented by Percy Spencer after a peanut chocolate bar in his pocket melted while he passed through radar.

Microwave Oven

Intro Quiz

 Quiz.

1.      Identify

 

2 

   2.  Who is being described here

1. Knowledge of Literature — Nothing.

2. Knowledge of Philosophy — Nothing.

3.Knowledge of Astronomy — Nothing.

4.Knowledge of Politics — Feeble.

5.Knowledge of Botany — Variable. Well up in belladonna, opium and poisons generally. Knows nothing of practical gardening.

6. Knowledge of Geology — Practical, but limited. Tells at a glance different soils from each other.

7. Knowledge of Chemistry — Profound.

8. Knowledge of Anatomy — Accurate, but unsystematic.

9. Knowledge of Sensational Literature — Immense. He appears to know every detail of every horror perpetrated in the century.

10.          Plays the violin well.

11.           Is an expert singlestick player, boxer and swordsman.

12.          Has a good practical knowledge of law.

3  3.Identify the addiction induced disease been shown here

4  4. Connect

 

  

5 5. “Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday tomorrow and fantasy”. Where can one see this inscription?

6.  Connect

   

7 7. Name India’s official aquatic animal which is found primarily in the Ganges and the Brahmaputra. It is known to the scientific world as ‘Platanista Gangetica Gangetica’.

9 8. In 1906 when the British declared war against the Zulus, X actively  encouraged the British to recruit Indians. He argued that Indians should support the war efforts in order to legitimize their claims to full citizenship. The British, however, refused to commission Indians as army officers. Nonetheless, they wereaccepted in a rather subordinate manner with X as their commander. Identify the commander X 

1 9.           Voted the number one movie line of all time by the American Film Institute, X is a line from the 1939 film Gone with the Wind starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh. It was spoken by Gable, as Rhett Butler, in his last words to Scarlett O'Hara. It occurs at the end of the film when Scarlett asks Rhett, "Where shall I go? What shall I do?" if he leaves her. What is ‘X’.

1 10.           This is the map of which fictional country

Hint: In a crooked way, it is the 3rd most populous country of the world

11.           What mental disorder does Rizwan Khan (SRK) suffer in this movie?

1 12.         The name of which element is derived from the German word for ‘evil spirit’ because it was poisonous and troublesome (polluted and degraded the other mined elements, like Nickel)

1 13.           Which fairy tale character X, sings

"To-day do I bake, to-morrow I brew,

The day after that the queen's child comes in;

And oh! I am glad that nobody knew

That the name I am called is X!"

1 14.           St. Alphonsa is the second person to be canonized from India, who was the first. He left India and was active in Japan and Philippines?

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