Not So Obvious Quiz Prelims
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I do not have enough information to determine the winner of the 2011 Rugby World Cup. Could you please provide more context?
Not So Obvious Quiz Prelims
- 1. 12th October 2011 IMQC Proudly Presents Prabhanjan B. Shivam B.
- 4. 30 questions 1 point each, unless specified Sudden death tie-breaker No mobiles/ wallets/ laptops to be used
- 6. This popular format of a game was started in 2010, with the first season having 12 matches, in various venues. As many as 250 teams registered for various matches in the inaugural season, with a person born in the decade of 8o’s and another in 90’s walked away with the title. The second season is expected to be bigger, better and more interesting with cut-throat competition. What competition are we talking about ?
- 7. IISER Quizzing League (IQL) IQL 2.5 today
- 8. Who currently holds the office for the following posts : Convener, IMQC- The Brighter Lamp Co-Convener, IMQC- The Brighter Lamp
- 9. Convener : Achyut Priya ‘Big Daddy’Shukla Co-Convener : Abhishek (wiki) Mishra ‘G’ Where G maane Genius
- 10. Heidi Klum Cameron Diaz Piers Morgan Jessica Biel Katherine Heigl Mila Kunis Anna Paquin Adriana Lima Scarlett Johansson Emma Stone, Brad Pitt and Rachel McAdams
- 11. Most Dangerous google search
- 12. Id the Duo.
- 13. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak
- 15. Team Rocket Jessie, James and Meowth
- 16. Identify the artist.
- 17. Nek Chand Rock Garden, Chandigarh
- 18. This phrase originated in the Shakespearean era, when mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes, the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Guess the phrase.
- 19. Good Night, Sleep Tight
- 20. According to Hindu mythology, this village was gifted by the Pandavas and Kauravas to Dronacharya as gurudakshina, and is therefore named after this incident. Which idyllic village?
- 21. Gurgaon
- 22. Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & 1 Northern Kashmir 2 Northern Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand 3 Western Rajasthan and Gujarat 4 Western Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh 5 Southern Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka 6 Southern Kerala and Tamil Nadu 7 Eastern West Bengal, Orissa and North Eastern 8 Eastern Bihar & Jharkand
- 23. Divisions for PIN CODE
- 24. Q9. We know a lot about him through Hiuen Tsang’s accounts. Who?
- 25. Harsvardhan
- 26. This city is one of the four in India that hosts the massive Kumbh Mela. It is believed that it got its name from the Ramayana period. Shurpanakha, the sister of the demon Ravana had proposed to marry Rama. Hearing this Rama ordered Laxmana to cut off her nose. Identify the place.
- 27. Nasik
- 28. When Robert Clive wished to pay thanks for his victory in the Battle of Plassey, he was unable to do so in a Church because the only church in Calcutta at that time was destroyed by Siraj-ud- Daulah. What was organised for the first time by Raja Nabakrishna Deb of the Shobhabazar Rajbari of Calcutta in honour of Lord Clive in the year 1757?
- 29. Durga Pooja
- 30. Albert Brocolli founded everything or nothing, often abbreviated to EON. The studio has produced 23 films, the least known of which is Call me Bwana. The studio however is bankrupt, which effectively means that their signature films will no longer be made. Which series of films were they famous for ?
- 31. 007 Bond James Bond
- 32. This place earlier covering parts of Andhra and Karnataka meant to mean the boundary of lands ruled by Krishna Deva Raya. What?
- 33. A13. RayalSeema
- 35. Rs. 1000 note
- 36. Just connect
- 37. Caster Semenya Santhi Soundarajan Both failed Gender Tests
- 38. What does this graph depict???
- 39. Sir Don Bradman’s Career Graph
- 40. For what cricketing achievement does the ICC award the “Gold bails” and the “Bronze bails” awards?
- 41. Golden bails: 100 test appearances as umpire Bronze Bails: 100 ODI appearances as umpire.
- 42. 18. Identify the lady whose writing has always created a lot of controversy. Her most famous work is a “fictional” narrative on the post Babri Masjid issue. Identify the book.
- 43. Tasleema Nasreen Lajja/ Lazza
- 45. US Presidential Elections
- 46. Bollywood-Hindi film industry Dallywood- ? Kaliwood- ? Kollywood- ?
- 47. Dallywood - Bangladesh Kaliwood - Nepal Kollywood - Tamil Nadu
- 48. Id the music composer.
- 51. This mineral (sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide) attracted a lot of media attention when it was first found in Serbia around 2006. Why and what is its name?
- 53. It is known as “ acetaminophen” in US & Canada. It was first marketed in the United States in 1953 by Sterling-Winthrop Co. The best known brand in US is “Tylenol” , owned by McNeil Consumer Healthcare which is a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. How do we know it?
- 54. Paracetamol
- 55. Which festival connects : Augustinerbräu Hacker PschorrBräu Hofbräu Löwenbräuaulanerbräu Spatenbräu
- 56. Oktoberfest official beers of the festival
- 57. Sometime in July this year, Agnello Dias, chairman and co-founder of TapRoot India, a Mumbai-based ad agency telephoned director Ram Madhvani."Are you free? What's up?" he asked.Dias is a former JWT man and has worked on the famous Nike ad, and the AmankiAasha and Lead India campaigns among others. Madhvani is an award-winning director who made the Happydent ad that won a bronze and a silver lion at Cannes in 2006.And yet when the two met up, neither had the slightest idea that they were about to create what is arguably one of the most talked-about commercial of the year. By the second week of August they had shown it to the X, the founder, chairman and Group CEO of ______________. The ad had a catchy score, a great script and a bunch of 70 young actors -- some of them still students -- exuding tremendous energy from shot one. After watching the video, X said, "Let's take it on air." There were no cuts, no changes, no extra suggestions. So just like that, on August 18, __________'s latest commercial was launched. Within days, the ad featuring practically no known face, went viral.
- 58. Airtel’s har ek friend zaroori hota hai campaign
- 59. “Other kids' games are all such a bore! They've gotta have rules and they gotta keep score! _______ is better by far! It's never the same! It's always bizarre! You don't need a team or a referee! You know that it's great, 'cause it's named after me!” No sport is less organized than ________. Sooner or later, all our games turn into ________. The only permanent rule in ________is that you can never play it the same way twice!
- 60. CALVINball
- 61. When the Kaurava princes failed to defeat the Panchala army, Drona sent Arjuna and his brothers for the task. The five Pandavas attacked Panchala without an army. Arjuna captured Drupada as ordered. Drona took half of Drupada's kingdom, thus becoming his equal. He forgave Drupada for his misdeeds, but Drupada desired revenge. He performed a yagna to have a son who would slay Drona and a daughter who would marry Arjuna. His wish was fulfilled and thus was born X, the slayer of Drona, and Y, the consort of the Pandavas.
- 62. X-Dhristhadhyumna Y- Draupadi
- 63. Who won the 2011 Rugby World Cup??
- 64. ?????