Inter school Quiz at Alleppey

GRAND FINALE

ROUND 1-INDIA ROUND

Question 1Question 1“On the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's 70th birthday he said "Generations to come, it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth.”

Who said this

Question 2Question 2What reasons is the freedom Fighter

Pingalli Venkayya famous for

Question 3Question 3

Who is credited with designing of New Delhi and also its several monuments in India such as the India gate and Rashtrapati Bhavan?We keep keep hearing it as Mr. X's delhi in media reports

Question 4Question 4Which state has the Hazaribhag wildlife sanctuary and Santhal ,

Oraon (Kurukh), Munda , Kharia , and Ho groups as the majority of the total tribal population

Question 5Question 5In India it officially denotes the end of the Republic day festivities

and is conducted on January 29th.The three bands of Army,Navy and Airforce in a ceremony at Raisina hills perform and march in front of the President?

What is the ceremony called

Question 6Question 6In 1591 which monument was constructed in Hyderbad to

commemorate the end of the Plague

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QUESTION 1)What is the name of India's first Super computer developed in 1991

which in Sanskrit means supreme?

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QUESTION 2)Unity and discipline is the Motto of which organization in India

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QUESTION 3)The leakage of which gas from Union Carbide caused the Bhopal

gas tragedy in 1984

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QUESTION 4)Who became the youngest to enter the current 15th Loksabha as MP

from Mandya in Karnataka

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QUESTION 5)Name the school for which Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli

created the world record partnership of 664 run in 1988?

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QUESTION 6)In newspapers you keep hearing the KYOTO Protocol ? What is the

KYOTO Protocol ?

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Additional question 7)Indrani Rehman,Kelucharan Mahapatra,Priyambada Mohanty are

famous dancers of which dance form?

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Additional question 8)The deficiency of what causes Marasmus and Kwashiorkar in

Infants?

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Additional question 9)In the mid 1930s who invented the principle of Analytical

engine,the forerunner of the modern electronic computer?

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Additional question 10) Who has won more Oscars than anyone else

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Additional question 11) Who is the latest in the list Sean Connery,Roger Moore,Timothy

Dalton,Pierce brosnan

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Additional question 12) Who was the first Communist to become Lok Sabha Speaker

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ROUND 3

Question1Who said these famous words recentlyOne child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the

world. I raise up my voice – not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard.Let us pick up our books and pens," "They are our most powerful weapons

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Question 2

What is Sapphire in Thai language called?

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Question 3

Who is the head of the AAM AADMI PARTY?

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Question 4

Who won the Nobel prize for Literature this year?

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Question 5

In which country did The Westgate Mall massacare take place recently in which 72 people died in September?

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Question 6

Queens Baton Relay came to India in October first week before the commonwealth games?

Where is the next Commonwealth games going to be held?

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Question 7

What does OPCW stand for ?It was in News last week

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Question 8

According to the census which state in India has the maximum number of Languages?

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Question 9)

Whose Autobiography Race of my life released recently

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Question 10

Who won the Dadasaheb phalke award in 2013?

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Additional question

Who has won this years Booker Prize for her Book “The Luminaries"

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Additional question

Name the RUBCO chairman and the brain behind establishment of State Rubber cooperative who died last week

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SPORTS SCIENCE AWARDS AND HONOURS

BOOKS AND AUTHORS KERALA GEOGRAPHY

ROUND 4-Select your Favorite

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SPORTS sectionSPORTS section

 a) Who will be the opponent of Viswanathan Anand in next months

World championship     b) Which team has won the Ranji trophy the maximum number of

times? 

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Litmus test- Science questionsLitmus test- Science questions

 Question 25 ) Who shared the Nobel prize in Physics with WA fowler in 1983 for research on the evolution of stars

b) What is a chemical substance produced by a living organism, generally a microorganism, that inhibits the growth of other microorganisms known as?

Audience  b) Name the New Zealand born British Physict who won the

Nobel prize in Chemistry for the concept of Nuclear atom and who proved that the positive electric charge in every atom is concentrated in a nucleus at the heart of the atom 

Answer: Ernest Rutherford  

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Awards and HonoursAwards and Honours

) Name the uncle and nephew from India to win the Nobel prize for Physics in 1930 and 1983?

  Answer CV Raman and S Chandrasekhar   b) Name the British prime minsiter who also won the

Nobel prize for Literature?   Answer: Winston Churchill

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BOOKS and AuthorsBOOKS and Authors

   a) Who wrote book “The Slumdog Millionaire” Answer: Vikas Swarup  b) What is the collection of Oriental stories known in Arabic

as Alf Laylah wa laylah which is of uncertain date and authorship whose tales of Aladdin, Ali Baba, and Sindbad the Sailor have almost become part of Western folklore? What is the collection called

  Answer Thousand and one nights

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KERALAKERALA

1) Who became the president of India after being the governor of kerala?

Answer; VV Giri  2) National award for best film is called Swarna Kamal

which was instituted in 1953 and currently carries a cash award of Rs. 2,50,000/- .Which was the first Malayalam film to win the award? 

Answer Chemmen in 1965  Audience question Who was the first Malayali to get the Rajat Kamal for

the best actor Answer P J Antony for Nirmalyam in 1973

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GEOGRAPHYGEOGRAPHY

 What are shock waves which spread through

rocks during earthquake called  Answer Seismic waves  2) Which national park in Gujarat is the only

protected area in Asia where Asiatic lions are found?

Answer: Gir Forest National park

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ROUND 6-VISUAL ROUND

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Additional question

Identify the writer

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  CLUE 1 : Scientist of German origin,he settled in US after being driven out by

Nazis .After the war he was hailed by the London paper the Times as the successor to Issac Newton after an important experiments conducted in connection with Theory of Gravitation

  Clue 2 In 1867–68; as a child after reading Popular Books on Physical Science), in

which the author imagined riding alongside electricity that was traveling inside a telegraph wire he asked himself the question that would dominate his thinking for the next 10 years: What would a light beam look like if you could run alongside it?

  Clue 3 He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the

photoelectric effect   ANSWER: Albert Einstein

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 Question 2   Clue 1: Indian national leader who led the Bardoli peasents agitation in

gujrat and was referred to as the IRON Man of India   Clue 2 : He was the first Home minister and Deputy prime minister of

India   Clue 3 He was responsible to forge an united india from British colonial

provinces and was given the title of Sardar by women of Bardoli taluka   Answer : Sardar Vallabhai patel

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Question 3Question 3

   Clue 1 : He was born in 1940 in fort kochi into Latin catholic family to

Musician father Augustine Joseph and and mother Alicekutty   Clue 2 :In 1980 he established the Tarangini studio in Trivandrum which

later moved to chennai   Clue 3: His nick name when translated into English would mean Celestial

singer and his initials is Katasssery Joseph   Answer : KJ Yesudas

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Question 4   Clue 1 He was born to Gurmukh singh and Amrit kaur on September

26,1932 in Gah,Punjab which is now in Pakistan   Clue 2 :he is the only Indian prime minister to have signed on the

currency note   Clue 3 The only priminister after Jawaharlal nehru to return to power

after completing a five year term   Answer Manmohan singh  

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Question 5   Clue 1 : this london born ethnic Indian author who also goes by the by the name

Nilanjan Sudheshna was raised in the USA by bengali parents   Clue 2: Her works illuminate the immigrant experiences and she won

Pulitzer Prize for her debut collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies (1999).

  Clue 3 : her first novel Namesake was adopted into a film by the same name and

later won many awards for her second collection of Short stories,the Unaccustomed earth.Her latest work The LOWLAND is in the shortlist for the BOOKER prize

  Answer : Jhumpa Lahiri

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  Question 6   Clue 1 :This writer,critic and orator was born in Kannur to Vidvan Dhamodran and

Koloth Madaviyamma   Clue 2 :He courted controversy by refusing Padma shri in 2007 stating that such

Honours are against Constitution and it discriminates people   Clue 3: His most famous work Tatvamasi won 12 major awards including Kendra

Sahitya Akademi awrd,Vayalar award and Kerala Sahitya Academy in 1985     Answer: Sukumar Azhikode

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ROUND 7- 6 questions in 60 seconds

TEAM ATEAM A

 Name the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh  Asnwer: Akhilesh Yadav  With Which sport will you associate Mithali Raj  Answer: Womens cricket On which high river is Aswan high dam built  Asnwer: Nile  What prize does the International Olympic association award for Fair play in sport  Asnwer: Pierre de coubertin  Whose Samadhi is Vijay ghat in Delhi?  Answer; Lal Bahadur shastri  Which organization website is wwf.panda.org Answer : Worldwildlife fund for Nature  

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TEAM BTEAM B

a) Which union territory's capital is Silvassa  Asnwer Dadra and Nagar haveli  b) With which sport will you assocate Pankaj Advani  Answer: Billiards and snooker By what name is Bahai temple in Delhi better known as   Ans: Lotus temple  Between 1992 and 2012 which club has won the englsh premier league football

the most number of time  Answer: Manchester united  e) Name the 2 national languages of Srilanka  Answer :Sinhalese and tamil  f) Which NASA Astronaut graduated from haryana?  Answer: Kalpana Chawla

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Team CTeam C

1) Hemant Soren is the chief minister of which Indian state? Ans Jharkhand 2) In which country did the Accupuncture therapy originate Asnwer: China 3) Where was the first Asian games held in 1951? Asnwer ;New Delhi,India 4) What does L in Laser stand for Answer LASER 5) Which country has tricoloured flag with white,Blue and red band Ans: RUSSIA 6) What does S in UNESCO stand for :Ans: S stands for Science: United

nations educational scientific and research organization

TEAM DTEAM D

What is the middle name of Charlie Chaplin  Asnwer: Spencer  With which intrument will you associate Zakir Hussein and Alla Rakha khan  Answer Tabla  Which countrys capital is LA PAZ the highest capital in the world  Ans : Bolivia  Name the place in Himachal pradesh where Dalai Lama gives his public sermons?  Asnwer Dharmasala  Who was known as the Punjab kesri  Answer: Lala Lajpat RAI  What is euthanasia Asnwer : Mercy killing

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 team E)  What was the first Artificial satellite to orbit earth called  Answer: Sputnik  Who is well known for his tratise on Geometry called the Elements  Answer Euclid  Who was the famous father of Amitabh Bhachan  Asnwer Harivansrai Bachan  Who was described as the IRON LADy Asnwer : Margaret Thatcher  Who was the first ASIAN to get the Noble Prize Answer Tagore  In which country is the Baikonoaur cosmodrome  Asnwer Kazakhsthan

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Team F)   1) In which country did the Battle of waterloo take place Answer :belgium  Who played the role of Gandhi in Richard Attenbourgh film Gandhi  Ans Ben Kingsley  In which field is Anjali Ela Menon famous  Ans Painting  Over 70% of one horned rhinos are found in which national park? Ans Kaziranga  5 ) Who is known as the METRO Man  Ans: Sreedharan  Who is the first woman speaker of Loksabha  Meira Kumar

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