Quizzology 1.0 set-1

Written round
 10 questions.
 +10 on every correct answer.
 No negetive marking.
 +10 bonus for getting 8 or more correct.

1.
Gauhar Ara Begum was born on 17 June, 1631 and died in
1706, at a reasonably old age of 75. We may not find her
death interesting, but why would her birth be significant?

Her mother Mumtaz Mahal died in childbirth while
delivering here. Her father Shah Jahan built the Taj
Mahal in Mumtaz’s memory.

2.
The first use of the word this word is thought to be by The British
Resistance, a nationalist organisation, in June 2012. However it
is possible that the term was "invented" simultaneously by a
number of writers because a similar had been in use since
February 2012.
This word become more popular worldwide due to an incident a
few months ago.
Which word?

3.
BYJU’s is an online educational service provider started by
Byju Raveendran. It gives online coaching for AIPMT, JEE,
board exams, CAT, IAS etc.
Which foundation started by a couple and whose creation
was announced on 1 December,2015 recently invested
50milion doller in BYJU’s?

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI)

4.
If Heer Ranjha, Sohni Mahiwal and Sassi
Punnun are three of a group of 4 popular stories,
which is the forth one?
(hint will given if needed)

5.
This is a family of confections made with sugar or honey,
roasted nuts (almonds, walnuts , pistachios, hazelnuts,
and macadamia nuts are common), whipped egg whites, and
sometimes chopped candied fruit. This food item is of three types,
White __, brown __ and Viennese or German __.
We know it’s name for an altogether different fileld too.
What is it?

6.
According to legend, only four people heard the
Bhagwad Gita from Krishna and had seen his
'Vishwarupa' form. If Arjuna, Sanjaya and Barbarika
(son of Ghatotkacha) are the three. Who is the fourth
one?

7.
Raghu Nayak, who worked as a gardener at the Birla House in New Delhi,did
something very important but remained forgotten by history for years. For his
heroics, the then President Rajendra Prasad awarded him Rs. 500.
In 2016, almost 33 years after his death, the Odisha government felicitated
85-year-old Mandodari Nayak, his widow. She was awarded a cheque of Rs.
5 lakhs.
What was his most heroic act?

He caught Nathuram Godse.
He managed to pin him down with the khurpi he used to dig
soil. A year later, Nayak was one of the prosecution witnesses
who helped trial judge Atma Charan sentence Godse to death.

8.
Identify the person this
programming language is
based on.

9.
Writer-director Cameron Crowe remembers, “When I first gave the
script to __, and we were reading through it, I said, 'I'm going to change
that line.' ___ said, 'Uh, I love that line. Why don't you give me a crack
at it.' I left it in, and on the night of filming, it was 4 a.m., on a Friday,
and everybody was dropping from exhaustion, ___ says the line. By the
end of his speech, everybody was in tears. Across the room, Renee
was a wreck. ___ had delivered the line so powerfully, and so directly to
her, she was still getting over it. Later he told me, 'I had always wanted
to say 'I love you' like that in a movie.‘
Which iconic line?

10.
According to mythology this story goes as follows – X had to clean the
Augean Stables which had not been cleaned in over 30 years, and over
1,000 cattle lived there. However, X succeeded by re-routing the
rivers Alpheus and Peneus to wash out the filth. Before starting on the
task, X had asked Augeas for one-tenth of the cattle if he finished the
task in one day, and Augeas agreed. But afterwards Augeas refused to
honour the agreement on the grounds that X had been ordered to carry
out the task by Eurystheus anyway.
According to the Odes(poems) by Pindar, X then founded something
that was held at regular intervels.
Id X and what he founded.

X = Hercules.
Founded olympic games.

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