Quiziyapa set 1 - answers
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This document contains 5 multiple choice questions and answers about various topics: 1. The question is about Dr. Abraham Thomas Kovoor, a rationalist from India known for challenging supernatural claims and declaring an award named after him that was given to Kamal Haasan. 2. The question asks about someone who witnessed both Hanif Mohammad's record cricket score and Brian Lara's later breaking of it, and identifies them as Bob Woolmer. 3. The question connects several John Grisham novels that were adapted to film. 4. The question discusses how mercury was used in the felt hat making process in the 18th century, causing health issues for workers, and identifies the phrase "
Quiziyapa set 1 - answers
- 3. 1. He was a Nasrani, a rationalist who came in the limelight for his endeavor to expose several God-like fake people in India and Srilanka. An NGO declared an award by his name for the secular artists wherein Kamal Hasan was the first recipient. He is known for his paranormal challenge to anyone, where he announced a hefty sum for anybody who proves God or supernatural powers. What recent wonder/hit did this person inspire?
- 4. Aamir’s character as in PK! (He is doctor Abraham Thomas Kovoor)
- 5. 2.When he was just a ten-year-old lad, he showed interest in cricket. One nice morning, he was taken by his father who was working in Pakistan at that time to watch a local match. It happened to be the one in which Hanif Mohammad scored the mammoth 499, a record for first-class cricket that stood until 1994, when Brian Lara hit 501 not out forWarwickshire against Durham at Edgbaston. Identify the person associated withWarwickshire then who experienced both the instances.
- 6. BOBWOOLMER
- 7. 3. Connect these Hollywood films
- 8. All these films are inspired from John Grisham’s novels. The Chamber, The Client, The Pelican Brief, Skipping Christmas, The Rainmaker, The Runaway Jury, ATime to Kill andThe firm!
- 9. 4.The use of nitrate of Mercury dominated the manufacturing process of felt hats in the 18th century. Mercury was a chemical that could soften stiff rabbit fur hairs while keeping them joined together – a process that made the fur flexible, tractable, and easily molded but the element of poison can never be neglected. Thus mercury spread out the felt and as users inhaled felt dust and licked the points of finishing brushes, the poisonous substance used to mix with their blood and they used to feel become insane. Which phrase originated thus?
- 10. Mad as a hatter/ Mad hatter
- 11. 5.This man on the left invented something and named it after a place (Flag of the place on the right) where nuclear explosion testing was done in the mid 1940’s. He expected an explosive commercial and cultural reaction for his invention. What was the invention?
- 12. Bikini