Mechnius 12 prelims

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Mechnius Quiz

Total 30 questions

Q.26 to 28 are starred

Q.29 & 30 are double starred

If still tie persists, then we will go on for Sudden Death

from Q.1 onwards

Cut off = 14

Carryover = (Your score – Cut off) * 5

Top 6 will move to the finals

Decision of Quiz master will be final

It was incorporated as a private limited

company owned by Indian Government in Sep

1992 as a marketing arm of ISRO. It got the

“Miniratna” status in 2007-08.

It got its name from the English version of

Sanskrit word for “space” or “atmosphere”.

Id the company which was in controversy an

year ago ?

1

Id the author…

2

X was an Olympic event in 1900, 1904,1908,1912

and 1920 Olympics and in 1906 Intercalated Games

which is a very common game in Kerala especially

during festival season?

Name it..

3

Started by two IIT Delhi graduates, Sachin Bansal &

Binny Bansal in 2007, who were former employees of

Amazon.com

Headquarters @ Koramangala, Bangalore.

John Woods' book “Leaving Microsoft to Change

the World” changed their life.

These are the descriptions about a company which

was a trend setter in its field.

Name it >>>>>>>

4

The Catholic Encyclopedia calls him "the Apostle of

the Lepers“

Was canonized by Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday

October 11, 2009

Gandhi claimed him to have been an inspiration for

his social campaigns in India that led to the freedom

of his people.

Identify this Roman Catholic priest from Belgium

5

This is the German counterpart of a famous vehicle

X which was introduced by US army during WW II.

X was manufactured by X & Ford Motor Company.

In 1991, X was designated an International Historic

Mechanical Engineering Landmark by the American

Society of Mechanical Engineers.

6

X is a national park in Kerala with a total area of

89.52 sq km. It was established as a national park in

1984. X got its name because of the absence of usual

sounds of cricket which is found in forests. It was

declared as a buffer zone in 2007

Id the national park.

7

In which literary work can you find the words

“Liberty, Equality, Fraternity” ?

8

His club career started with Sinop in 1990. In

1992 he went to Sao Paulo Football club where he

is now and scored more than 400 goals for the

club. He also scored more than 15 times for

Brazil. He is a perfect set piece taker.

Who is this world record holding goal keeper ?

9

Born on 18th July 1927 in Luna, Rajasthan

He was known as “King of Ghazal”

In 1979, he was awarded K. L. Saigal Sangeet

Shehenshah Award by the Government of India.

Legendary Indian singer Lata Mangeshkar once

likened his songs to the "voice of god“.

He died on 13 June 2012 in Karachi

He was conferred with, Nishan-e-Imtiaz, highest

civilian honour of Pakistan

Who is this legend ?

10

Rosalio Mera along with whom founded Inditex,

world’s largest fashion group ?

He was the richest man in Spain according to

Forbes in 2011.

11

"Shoot all the blue jays you want, but it is a sin to

________ ____ ____________“

Fill in the blanks…

12

Mankombu Sambashivan Swaminathan is a premier

name associated with which field ?

13

Y, an explorer originally named the X as the “Cape

of Storms” which was discovered by him. He

discovered X on his voyage to India, but was forced

to turn back when his crew refused to go further

beyond X. It was later renamed by King John II of

Portugal to the X because it represented the opening

of a route to the east.

Identify X and Y ……..

14

Which athlete plays himself in the film Endurance, a

Walt Disney production ?

15

In 1995, Bill Gates delivers a memo titled “The

________ Tidal Wave,” and declares the ________

as “the most important development since the advent

of the PC.”

16

Which famous cricketer wrote the books…

The Art of Cricket

How to Play Cricket

Farewell to Cricket

17

This is a 1975 Soviet-Japanese co-production film directed by Akira Kurosawa, his first non-Japanese-language film and his first and only 70 mm film. The film is based on the 1923 memoir by Russian explorer Vladimir Arsenyev.

Which is this film ?

18

Related to which special occasion for the Keralites,

one will be rushing to buy or bring some “ Cassia

Fistula” .

19

On December 21, 1991 The Alma Ata summit

was conducted which lead to the formation of

Commonwealth of Independent States. This

summit was famous for a proclamation which

states that “something” will happen with the

formation of Commonwealth of Independent

States.

What was that “something” which happened

later ?

20

Valeria Lukyanova the most famous Russian woman on the

Russian-language internet has become an internet sensation in

her home country of Russia, claiming on her blog that she is real

and she truly had what it takes to called as a real-life X contrary

to numerous speculations that she is not really true.

What is X or how is she known in Internet world ?

21

Born in Hamburg.

He proved the existence of electromagnetic waves.

He also proved that those waves are having similar

properties as that of light waves like refraction,

reflection, polarization etc.

Later Marconi used these electromagnetic waves for

communication purposes.

As a respect to him, a unit in physics has been named

after him.

Who is he ?

22

With which company can you connect these…

23

By what common name are these stamps known as ?

24

Connect

25

Identify the subject of this Amul ad.

26

This is a road in Westminster, in London which is the

main artery running north from Parliament Square,

towards Charing Cross at the southern end

of Trafalgar Square . This name is often used as a

metonym to refer that part of the civil service which

is involved in the government of the United Kingdom,

in a way which can be compared to the use

of Kremlin to refer to

the Russian/Soviet governments, or White House to

refer to the executive branch of the government of

the United States. Which is that name ???

27

Different forms of which famous literary

character was immortalized by these actors on

screen ?

28

A famous painting by Peter Paul Rubens depicting what ?

29

Contd…

Connect

30