Quiz 2013 FEB General Final Rounds Siliguri by Arup Bhattacharjee
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Final Begins……..
Round IGeneral Quizzing
Round iii Business
Round iiSports
Round iv 2 clues
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Round 1
• 10 Marks for Direct Q• 5 Marks for Pass Q• No negative Marks• Can Answer once only• 2 Qs per participants
GENERAL
QUZZING
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1ST Q to P1
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ANSWER
MOON LANDING
PICTURE No
EXPLANATION
1The Astronauts returned to the Pacific Ocean through COLOMBIA
2 Greek god of music - APOLLO The main Space Craft was Apollo 11
3 EAGLE was the craft by which Astronauts landed to the MOON
4 Logo of APOLLO MISSION of NASA
5 George W Bush with the Astronauts
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1ST Q to P2
This Famous Alcohol Brand Derives its Logo from an Oil Painting by the English Painter Sir Edwin Landseer (1851). The Name of the Brand means ‘Valley of the Deer’. WHICH BRAND ?
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ANSWER
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1ST Q to P3
Bangaluru is the City renowned for works outsourced by America. Recently, a columnist of The New York Times wrote that Bangalore is now Outsourcing from America. What is the thing that Bengaluru Outsources?
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ANSWER
RCB Cheerleaders
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1ST Q to P4
WHO KILLED DOCTOR
WATSON?
This is a Campaign
against What?
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ANSWERPassive Smoking
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1ST Q to P5
Why did the terms ‘Bull’ and ‘Bear’ come in the Stock Market ?
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ANSWER
Bulls attacks up
and Bears paw down
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2ND Q to P5
King ‘KAUSHIKA’ is believed to be the author of the ‘Rigveda’ & the ‘Gayetri Mantra’. How do we better know him?
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ANSWER
Vishvamitra
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2ND Q to P4 This is a good example of Victorian
architecture, designed by F W Stevens, which also has certain characteristics of Islamic & Hindu style.
This is rated as the most heavily used structure among all UNESCO world Heritage Sites.
NAME IT
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ANSWERCHHATRAPATI SHIVAJI TERMINUS
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2ND Q to P3This British Citizen was born in Hongkong and
spend her early life in different nations of Asia and Europe.
After the divorce of her parents, she lived with her mother Susanna Turquotte, but for her profession, she took her father’s surname.
She stepped in the world of entertainment at the age age of 14 as a model in London and today her FANs are uncountable.
WHO IS SHE?
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ANSWER
KATRINA KAIF
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2ND Q to P2 What TERM is used to describe such
Journalism that presents eye-catching headlines, Exaggerations of news events, scandals-mongering etc in unethical fashion to sell more papers instead of legitimate well researched news?
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ANSWER
Yellow journalism,
Or
the yellow press
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2ND Q to P1
Pi (π) is one of the important most mathematical constants. In 2009, The US House of Representatives agreed the designation of Pi Day to commemorate π on 14th March every Year. WHY ?
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ANSWER
Π = 3.142857142857142857…….
In the MM/DD format, the first three digits indicates the date.
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Round 2
• 10 Marks for Direct Q• 5 Marks for Pass Q• No Negative Marks• Can Answer only OnceSPOR
TS
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Q to P1 On 9 JAN 2006,
Australia played against South Africa for the first time in international Twenty20 game at the Gabba in Australia. What was so special about the uniforms of the teams?
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ANSWER
nicknames appeared on the back of the uniforms
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Q to P2
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ANSWER
DJOCOVIC
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Q to P3• ‘Bossa Nova’ is a unique style of Brazilian Music• ‘Carnavalesca’ means related to the Carnival• ‘Brazuca’ denotes National Pride
Brazuca defeats the other two in a poll, by FIFA and Adidas to name Which thing?
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ANSWER
Official Ball for 2014
World Cup
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Q to P4
• During the 2010 Men’s FIFA World Cup, they had only one of them, stationed at Oberhausen.
• The next year, during Women’s FIFA World Cup, Germany, there are 8 of them stationed at various German Towns.
WHAT
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ANSWER
• Due to the death of PAUL, Sea Life aquarium organized a competition to select his successor.
• They chose 8 octopi at different Sea Life Centers across Germany.
Octopus
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Q to P5IDENTIFY
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ANSWER
Yohan Blake of JAMAICA
finished second to sprinter Usain Bolt in the final of the 100m and 200m in London
Olympic 2012
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Round 3
• 10 Marks for Direct Q• 5 Marks for Pass Q• No Negative Marks• Can Answer only Once• 2 Q per Participants
BUSINESS
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1ST Q to P5
‘Experience the New’
is the tagline of which Company?
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ANSWER
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1ST Q to P4 This is a Stock Market Index
containing 30 stocks which presently have a base value of 1000 and base date 30.12.1987.
It runs in the electronic trading system called ‘Xetra’ which is operated by Deutsche Borse company, after which it is named.
NAME IT
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ANSWER
DAX
(Deutscher Aktien IndeX)
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1ST Q to P3Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim were PayPal
employees. In the early months of 2005, Hurley and Chen had attended a dinner party at Chen's apartment which Karim denied that it had occurred. Hurley and Chen experienced difficulty sharing videos that had been shot at the party with Karim.
A very unique idea was born out of this which is now the popular most among people.
Idea of Which portal?
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ANSWER
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1ST Q to P2 Hitler Took the Initiative for the NAZI Trade
Union ‘German Labour Front’ to make such a Aitomobile Company which will make ‘Common People’s Car’.
The Company was founded in 1937 with the intention that ordinary Germans would buy a Car by means of a Savings Scheme which says-Five marks a week you must put aside,
if you want in your own car to ride.
NAME THE COMPANY
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ANSWER
Volkswagen
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1ST Q to P1
Raajkamal Films International is an Indian film production and distribution company. Some of the films by this company is ‘Sathya’, ‘Hey Ram’, ‘Mumbai Xpress’etc.
Who is the Founder of this Company?
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ANSWER
Kamal Haasan
New Release: Vishwaroopam
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2ND Q to P1
• Daughters are precious
• Danger at home
• Poison on your plate?
• Idea of India
These are some of the 13 episodes
of which television series?
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ANSWER
Satyamev Jayate
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2ND Q to P2 On 9th Jan 2013, Google had published
this Doodle in UK.
What is the Occasion?
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ANSWER
150th Anniversary of the Tube
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2ND Q to P3• BRBNMPL is a PVT LTD company, wholly
owned by RBI. The company manages two centers – one in Mysore, Karnataka and the other in Salboni, West Bengal. The machineries at Karnataka has been supplied by KBA Giori, Switzerland & that of West Bengal by Komori Corporation, Japan. The present capacity for both is 16 billion product per year.
• What Does This Company Produce?
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ANSWER
INDIAN CURREN
CY NOTES
BRBNMPL (Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran Pvt. Ltd.)
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2ND Q to P4
EXPLAIN
‘DELL to acquire DELL’
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ANSWER
Michael Dell, the founder of Dell is taking the Dell Computers private by acquiring public shareholding
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2ND Q to P5
Who are the sisters of The Bretton Woods ?
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ANSWER
IMF&
The World Bank
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Round 4
• 15 Marks for 1st Clue• 10 Marks for 2nd Clue• 5Marks for Pass• No Negative Marks• Can attemp the 2nd clue
after wrong answer in the 1st clue
2 CLUES
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Q to P5• The movie ends with a scene of Michelle
amongst a crowd of people all dressed in black carrying candles walking towards a church. There is a voiceover of a letter Michelle has written to Debraj's friend Mrs Nair explaining that today was her teacher's first day of school, implying that Debraj had finally succumbed to his illness and died.
• It has won 11Film Fare Awards in 2006 which is the highest till date. WHICH MOVIE ?
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ANSWER
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Q to P4Last year, she received two awards:
Bharat Muni Samman for her contribution in Art and Culture.
International Personality of the Year award at the 12th Asian Achievers Awards.
Also the Government of Norway issued a postal stamp on her at the 10th Annual Bollywood Festival
She was nominated member by the BJP in Rajya Sabha during 2003–2009.
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ANSWER
HEMA MALINI
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Q to P3
This Irish gentleman, graduated from the Imperial College, London was MD of India based 15000 cr SP Group till almost the end of the last Year.
He is in the news not just because his sister is married to Noel Tata who was one of the strong candidates to succeed RATAN TATA.
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ANSWER
Cyrus Pallonji Mistry
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Q to P2 As a eye witness in the Assembly
Bomb Case, his father identified Bhagat Sing & Batukeswar Dutt. His father was also an very important contractor in the event of shifting capital from Calcutta to Delhi. Coming to his life, he had returned the Padma Bhushan Award in protest against the siege of the Golden Temple by the Indian Army in
• 1984.
His weekly column, "With Malice towards One and All“, carried by several Indian news papers, is among the most widely-read columns in the country.
IDENTIFY HIM.
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ANSWER
Khushwant Singh
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Q to P1 This IIT Kharagpur pass
out IAS officer from Andhra Pradesh was supposed to be retired from his current consignment in SEP2011. But breaking the tradition, PM’s office extended his term by 2 years.
He was deputed as lead economist in
the World Bank from 1994 to 2004
& served as a member of Prime
Ministers’ Economic Advisory
Council from 2005 to 2007.
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ANSWER
Duvvuri Subbarao
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