High q nss palakkad quiz

1. By Shibin Azad

2. Prelims 25 Questions 1 Mark each No negatives

3.  1)As tech firms and law enforcement experiment with radio jammers and net- wielding interceptor drones to take down rogue quadcopters, police in the Netherlands are trialling a simpler solution. They have teamed up with a company named Guard From Above. What method are they planning to use?

4. 2)Put funda

5. 3)11.12.63,a new miniseries, which premiered on Hulu, is based on the bestselling book of the same title by Stephen King. It follows Jake Epping (James Franco), a high school English teacher who travels back in time with a mission to prevent the ____________ __ ___? What role does the man pictured play?

6. 4)These were the initial designs suggested for the shape of this entity. The English spelling of the thing in question did not have an e while the French did(the French version was finally adopted). In both languages, the word means agreement, harmony or union. What?

8. 5)She was arrested in 1932, and sentenced to life imprisonment by the British. Nehru met her at Shillong jail in 1937, and promised to help with her release. He gave her the title of ‘Rani’ (queen). Who is this?

9. 6)Which company is now expanding to fresh- grocery deliveries in parts of San Francisco and Los Angeles?

10. 7)This is a monument to an incident that happened in Iraq in December in 2008.Which incident is this?

11. 8)A play on the condition that it suffers from, what did the conservationists who discovered the turtle, name it?

12. 9)Put funda

13. 10)This was sold on ebay for $640 000. What has been blanked out?

14. 11)The clock shown in the figure communicates with the family member’s smartphones to periodically update on their location than the actual time. What inspired its creation?

15. 12)Born to Jewish immigrants from Poland, he had tested his invention on his wife and children before he used it on others. When he was asked who owned the patent to his invention he said “The people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?”

17. 13)Who posing as whom?

18. 14)When Mumbai hosted a Make in India event, the chief minister of Haryana had a riddle for those present in the audience, “Gita hamare dil mein hain, Dil ke beech mein Gita dalo tho kya milega?” When the audience didn’t get the answer, he said it makes “________. We want to be _______ Haryana.”

19. 15)“Tikhor aru Chutibai”written by Sahityarathi Lakshminath Bezbaroa, in“Burhi Aair Sadhu” – the first collection of Assamese folk stories published more than 100 years ago. Tikhor, a naughty, energetic orphan boy, not only plays various pranks in the story, but by his presence of mind also helps his sister Chutibai survive all odds including fighting a tiger that had plotted to eat them. Why is this name back in popular conscience?

20. 16)X, the guy featured in the picture told the Guardian in 2013, were “cultural replicators, the cultural equivalent of a gene, the cultural equivalent of DNA”, adding “the internet is a first-class ecology for Xs to spread”

21. 17)What is the name of the virtual assistant being developed by Facebook, similar to Apple’s Siri and Microsoft’s Cortana. The single alphabet chosen as the name is also the name of a film directed by Fritz Lang.

22. 18)Id the name that has been blanked out.

24. 19)Dev Patel and Jeremy Irons from the movie ‘The man who knew infinity’. Id the roles they are portraying.

25. 20)Scholars have referred to the “unfinished, premature, aboriginal, savage, exotic look” of the deities; the use of wooden idols to point out their tribal origin. The sacred food in Puri is called Kaivalya, which is similar to the Jain notion of salvation by which Jains also claim the deity. The Buddhists too claim him, stating that the three idols represent not Hindu gods but the “three jewels” or “tri ratnas” that are the central principles of Buddhism. Which deity?

26. 21)This is the world’s only floating national park and is located in India. Give me the name of the national park or the lake on which it ‘floats’.

27. 22)FITB

28. 23)Kamaraj was a bus driver employed by the Bharathidasan Engineering College, Vellore. What was unusual about the cause of his death which became the first confirmed event of its kind to occur in the 21st century. The odds of being killed in such a manner was between 1 in 700,000 and 1 in 250 million according to some experts.

29. 24)The company was incorporated on 16 September 2015-about 5 months ago--and has three directors: Mohit Kumar Goel, Sushma Devi and Rajesh Kumar. One picture shows the logo of the company, while the other picture shows one of the products it had launched earlier. What is their most famous product?

30. 25)Whose name has been blanked out?

31. Answers

32.  1)As tech firms and law enforcement experiment with radio jammers and net- wielding interceptor drones to take down rogue quadcopters, police in the Netherlands are trialling a simpler solution. They have teamed up with a company named Guard From Above. What method are they planning to use?

33. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAYVyj 6vf3Y Using Eagles to take out drones

34. 2)Put funda

35. 1001 nights equals two years eight months and twenty eight nights

36. 3)11.12.63,a new miniseries, which premiered on Hulu, is based on the bestselling book of the same title by Stephen King. It follows Jake Epping (James Franco), a high school English teacher who travels back in time with a mission to prevent the ____________ __ ___? What role does the man pictured play?

37. Assassination of JFK Daniel Weber as Lee Harvey Oswald

38. 4)These were the initial designs suggested for the shape of this entity. The English spelling of the thing in question did not have an e while the French did(the French version was finally adopted). In both languages, the word means agreement, harmony or union. What?

40. Concorde

41. 5)She was arrested in 1932, and sentenced to life imprisonment by the British. Nehru met her at Shillong jail in 1937, and promised to help with her release. He gave her the title of ‘Rani’ (queen). Who is this?

42. Rani Gaidinliu

43. 6)Which company is now expanding to fresh- grocery deliveries in parts of San Francisco and Los Angeles?

45. 7)This is a monument to an incident that happened in Iraq in December in 2008.Which incident is this?

46. Shoe attack on George Bush

47. 8)A play on the condition that it suffers from, what did the conservationists who discovered the turtle, name it?

48. Alby!

49. 9)Put funda

50. Microscopic view of how a gramophone record plays

51. 10)This was sold on ebay for $640 000. What has been blanked out?

53. 11)The clock shown in the figure communicates with the family member’s smartphones to periodically update on their location than the actual time. What inspired its creation?

54. Weasley clock in Harry Potter

55. 12)Born to Jewish immigrants from Poland, he had tested his invention on his wife and children before he used it on others. When he was asked who owned the patent to his invention he said “The people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?”

57. Jonas Salk

58. 13)Who posing as whom?

59. Ai Weiwei as Aylan Kurdi

60. 14)When Mumbai hosted a Make in India event, the chief minister of Haryana had a riddle for those present in the audience, “Gita hamare dil mein hain, Dil ke beech mein Gita dalo tho kya milega?” When the audience didn’t get the answer, he said it makes “________. We want to be _______ Haryana.”

61. diGITAl

62. 15)“Tikhor aru Chutibai”written by Sahityarathi Lakshminath Bezbaroa, in“Burhi Aair Sadhu” – the first collection of Assamese folk stories published more than 100 years ago. Tikhor, a naughty, energetic orphan boy, not only plays various pranks in the story, but by his presence of mind also helps his sister Chutibai survive all odds including fighting a tiger that had plotted to eat them. Why is this name back in popular conscience?

63. Mascot of SAF games is named Tikhor

64. 16)X, the guy featured in the picture told the Guardian in 2013, were “cultural replicators, the cultural equivalent of a gene, the cultural equivalent of DNA”, adding “the internet is a first-class ecology for Xs to spread”

65. Meme, Richard Dawkins

66. 17)What is the name of the virtual assistant being developed by Facebook, similar to Apple’s Siri and Microsoft’s Cortana. The single alphabet chosen as the name is also the name of a film directed by Fritz Lang.

68. 18)Id the name that has been blanked out.

70. T N Gopakumar

71. 19)Dev Patel and Jeremy Irons from the movie ‘The man who knew infinity’. Id the roles they are portraying.

72. GH Hardy and Ramanujan

73. 20)Scholars have referred to the “unfinished, premature, aboriginal, savage, exotic look” of the deities; the use of wooden idols to point out their tribal origin. The sacred food in Puri is called Kaivalya, which is similar to the Jain notion of salvation by which Jains also claim the deity. The Buddhists too claim him, stating that the three idols represent not Hindu gods but the “three jewels” or “tri ratnas” that are the central principles of Buddhism. Which deity?

74. Jagannatha at Puri, Odisha

75. 21)This is the world’s only floating national park and is located in India. Give me the name of the national park or the lake on which it ‘floats’.

76. Keibul Lamjao/Loktak lake

77. 22)FITB

79. 23)Kamaraj was a bus driver employed by the Bharathidasan Engineering College, Vellore. What was unusual about the cause of his death which became the first confirmed event of its kind to occur in the 21st century. The odds of being killed in such a manner was between 1 in 700,000 and 1 in 250 million according to some experts.

80. He was killed by a meteorite

81. 24)The company was incorporated on 16 September 2015-about 5 months ago--and has three directors: Mohit Kumar Goel, Sushma Devi and Rajesh Kumar. One picture shows the logo of the company, while the other picture shows one of the products it had launched earlier. What is their most famous product?

83. 25)Whose name has been blanked out?

85. Round 1 Written Based on Barbie dolls 5 for each right answer 5 for all correct

87. The Barbie doll shown in the picture was made in tribute to a fashion designer. Id the designer who has appeared in a cameo in Friends and for whom Rachel worked.

89. Which actress was the model for India’s Barbie doll?

90. These special edition Barbie dolls were based on characters from which movie?

91. Exchange sheets Answers

93. Kim Clijsters

94. The Barbie doll shown in the picture was made in tribute to a fashion designer. Id the designer who has appeared in a cameo in Friends and for whom Rachel worked.

95. Ralph Lauren

97. Nicki Minaj

98. Which actress was the model for India’s Barbie doll?

99. Katrina Kaif

100. These special edition Barbie dolls were based on characters from which movie?

101. Frozen

102. Clockwise 12 questions +10/-5 on pounce

103. 26)_________ was kind enough to supply a loophole in section 57.10. “This restriction will not apply in the event of the occurrence (certified by the United States Centers for Disease Control or successor body) of a widespread viral infection transmitted via bites or contact with bodily fluids that causes human corpses to reanimate and seek to consume living human flesh, blood, brain or nerve tissue and is likely to result in the fall of organized civilization,” the company says. What is the company in question and what is the occurrence being described?

104. And the answer is…..

105. Amazon, Zombies

106. 27)‘The most famous and enduring explanation is that a cow kicked over a lamp while being milked by Mrs. O’Leary, but this story was a baseless rumor spread by local papers. It caught on with the public partly due to anti-Irish sentiment and the desire for a clear scapegoat for the destruction that followed’ What was the incident that followed?

109. 28)Id the person in the picture. He was the MD and CEO of ICICI Bank and later served as the Chairman of Infosys as well. He has been nominated by India as the president-designate of the New Development Bank, a multilateral institution set up by the BRICS group—Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

112. KV Kamath

113. 29)Identify

115. Howard Carter after excavation of Tutankhamun’s tomb

116. 30)When Playboy recently published the last nude issue, they fittingly chose to put X on the cover. X has the distinction of appearing on the cover of Playboy the most number of times. Who is this?

119. 31)Identify the song used in the trailer of the movie Suicide Squad. (video)

121. Bohemian Rhapsody, Queen

122. 32)The work shown in the pic reimagines Disney characters in the event they were directed by a certain director. Who?

124. Tim Burton

125. 33)Modelled on the lines of the SAS of the UK and GSG-9 of Germany, which security force was set up in the aftermath of Operation Blue Star in 1984?

127. National Security Guard

128. 35)Gundaberunda is a mythical that is thought to possess magical strength and is capable of dealing with forces of destruction. The bird is generally depicted as clutching elephants in its talons. Which organisation uses it in its logo?

131. 36)The lead character in the TV series created by David Shore is modelled on Holmes. After all, X, too, is a detective, though a medical one. So, X’s home address is 221 Baker Street, Apartment B, Princeton, NJ, 08542. Id the character or the TV series.

134. 37)This temple was to honor Pharaoh Rameses II and his queen Nefertari. When the Egyptian government decided to build the Aswan Dam, the whole temple was relocated. Which temple is this?

136. Abu Simbel

137. Written round Based on famous cars 6 images 5 for each right answer 5 extra for all correct

144. Answers to follow Please Exchange

145. Back to the future

146. Breaking Bad

147. Ghostbusters

148. Little Miss Sunshine

149. Pulp fiction

150. The Rain man

151. Anti-Clockwise 12 questions +10/-5 on pounce

152. 38)In 1939, when X left Vanguard for Random House, he had one condition for his new publisher, Bennett Cerf — that he would let him do an “adult” book first. The result was ’The Seven Lady Godivas: The True Facts Concerning History’s Barest Family’. Who is this author famous for his books for children?

155. Dr Seuss

156. 39)What did these group of people create around 20 years ago?

159. 40)Iserlohn is German hockey team that went bankrupt in 1987. To deal with their financial woes, they turned to someone who asked them to promote something by incorporating it in their jersey design. Who? What?

161. Muammar Gaddafi The Green Book

162. 41)Pictured is a man who discovered among other things 14 asteroids. His ashes were attached to the New Horizons and will become the first human to have his remains sent outside the solar system. Id.

164. Clyde Tombaugh, the man who discovered Pluto

165. 42) Internet Individual Instruct Inform Inspire Put funda?

167. The ‘i’ in Apple products

168. 43) KFC has introduced a new KFC Flaming Crunch chicken. What is the signature spice that is used to make it?

170. Bhut Jolokia

171. 44) The Khalasis are famous for making Urus. What is the term that is generally used to refer to boats that are larger than usual? The term is also used to refer to small boats as well at some places. The term has been in currency since the later part of 2015.

173. Pathemari

174. 45)People generally agree that the song was put to paper in 1893 by Patty Hill, a kindergarten instructor in Kentucky, with her sister Milfred, though the melody came earlier. The copyright of the song will soon expire and be in public domain. Which song?

176. “Happy Birthday to you”

177. 46)Which fictional character was an exponent of the martial art style featured in the video shown?

180. 47) More commonly known by the shortened version of his name, IL Bula was a Fijian cricketer who played nine first class matches for Fiji between 1947–48 and 1953–54. His official name literally means "returned alive from Nankula hospital at Lakeba island in the Lau group“. What unique record does he hold?

182. Longest name for any cricketer Ilikena Lasarusa Talebulamaineiilikenamainavaleniveivak abulaimainakulalakebalau

183. 48) Guy de Maupassant was one of the few people who didn’t much like the Eiffel tower. So, he chose a particular restaurant to have his food so that he did not need to look at it. Where did he usually go to?

185. The restaurant in the Eiffel tower itself!

186. 49)X believe that Abu-Bakr, father in law of Muhammed was chosen as the Caliph after the prophet’s death, while Y believe that Ali, Muhammad’s son-in-law and cousin should be acknowledged as the successor. X and Y?

188. Shia and Sunni

189. Differential Scoring 20 if only one team gets the answer 15 if 2-4 teams get the answer 10 if 5- 7 teams get the answer No change in scores if all the teams get the answer

190. 1)

191. LiFi

192. 2)Id

193. Evo Morales

194. 3)This is a Yelp review of which fictional place

195. Hotel Transylvania

196. 4)This statue in Silicon Valley, broadcasts free Wi-Fi signal. Whose statue?

197. Nikola Tesla

198. 5)Titled Flight, the 20 feet by 10 feet, stainless steel and copper art work, mounted on synthetic granite,this is the first -ever commissioned piece by Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL). Who is the artist?

200. Yusuf Arakkal

201. What is being depicted in this relief from Udayagiri caves in Madhya Pradesh?

202. Varaha rescuing Earth

203. This photo won the Guardian’s Wildlife photo of the year competition a couple of years back. Which elusive creature is featured?

204. Narwhals

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