TRIVIA QUIZ SAM 2024 with Answers- powerpoint presentation

1. The Dutch word for a donkey is often
used in the world of art because it serves
the same purpose of carrying a burden.
This word also appears a lot in
crosswords.
What’s the good word?

2. It gets its name from a French word
meaning "to toss food". It originated in the
area around present day Nice. It was
originally a poor farmer's dish, prepared in
the summer with fresh summer vegetables.
The original used only courgettes, tomatoes,
bell peppers, onion, and garlic. Nowadays
aubergine is added. Name the dish.(Image
follows)

3. Manufactured at the Matsushiba Robot
Factory, which fictional character, whose
birthday is on 3 September 2112, is 129.3
cm tall, weighs 129.3 kg, and can run
129.3 km/h when scared?

4. The flag of which country has a red
background with a yellow sun in the centre
with 40 rays that represent the 40 tribes which
were united by epic hero Manas? The centre of
the sun shows a stylized depiction of the top of
a traditional dwelling.(Image follows)

6. The MKV format is a container for files
with video and audio data. It allows for
media within a form of media i.e. a
container within a container and that
explains the MKV format's Russian-derived
name. What?

7. The language of Silbo Gomero is special
in that it is whistled, and not spoken.
Shepherds in the Canary Islands use this
language to communicate across long
distances over rough terrain. What
modern day invention is driving this
language to extinction?

8. What medical condition's name
derives from Greek word
hemicranium meaning 'half skull' and
is descriptive of its symptoms?

9. The wood of the holly tree is white in
colour. It is hard, fine-grained and durable,
and can be turned well and finely smoothed.
The wood also takes a stain well, often giving
it the appearance of ebony. All these
properties, especially the first and the last
mentioned, make it ideal material for making
what artefacts?

10. These structures are known by a 2-word name
referencing the part of the tree used and the
purpose they serve. Name these structures.

11. Mammoths, walruses, hippopotami,
sperm whales, narwhals and wart hogs
have all been used by mankind
throughout history as alternative sources
of what decorative substance?

12. This region of the world gets its name from
the Greek word for “near the bear, northern”.
The region at the other end of the world is
named so because it is the opposite of this
region or “opposite the north” and is
considered a desert. Name either of these two
regions.

13. What type of embroidery, literally
meaning “flower work”, comes originally
from undivided Punjab of the Indian
subcontinent? It involves use of a darning
stitch on a cotton cloth with colourful silk
threads.

14. Nicotine is one of the many harmful
substances found in a cigarette. Many of
these objects cause cancers in the human
body and hence are called carcinogens.
However, carcinologists are not people
who study cancer, they study an animal.
What animal?

15. The name of this GI tagged product comes from
the eye-catching cobalt dye used to colour them. By
what 3-word name do we know them?

16. What term whose literal translation
meaning 'circular dance writing’ is often
seen in movie credits?

17. The female versions of these decorative
architectural features, found mainly in
classical Greek and European architecture, are
named caryatids after a class of priestesses
from ancient Greece. The male versions derive
their name from a mythical figure whose heavy
burden mirrors the function of these features.
Which mythical figure?

18. A best-selling author, this nervous mild
mannered mouse is a resident of New Mouse
City on Mouse Island. He is also the journalist
and editor for the fictional newspaper The
Rodent’s Gazette and keeps getting involved in
adventures with his sister Thea, cousin Trap
and his nephew Benjamin. Who?

19. In the NATO signal
communication, A is referred as Alpha,
B as Bravo, C as Charlie and so on.
Only one alphabet is referred to by the
name of a country. Which alphabet and
country?

20. George de Mestral used to go for a walk
with his pet dog daily. One day, in 1948, he
found that some seeds were hooked on his
clothes and on the fur of his dog. He
observed these seeds under a microscope
and found some hook like structures on
them. Based on this, he created a new item
that is used commonly across the world to
hook/stick onto objects. What did he invent?

21. The puzzle, known as Number Place in
the US, was first published in New York in
the late 1970s by the puzzle publisher Dell
in its magazine Math Problems and Logic
Puzzles. It became immensely popular in
the UK in 2005, stimulating international
interest. What is its popular name which is
also the Japanese for ‘single number’?

22. The logo of which institution has
a Himalayan eagle with the state
emblem on top and the motto
“Nabha Sparsham Deeptam” which
means touch the sky with glory?

23. Traditional silk manufacturing methods
involve boiling the cocoons of the silk worm
and sorting out the threads. Estimate is that
around 15 silkworms are sacrificed to get 1
gram of silk yarn. An alternate
compassionate solution was found to extract
silk without killing them. What appropriate
name is given to the silk thus obtained?

24. In Windows, Mac OS and some other
operating systems, a ‘folder’ is a named
collection of related ‘files’ that can be retrieved,
moved, and otherwise manipulated as one
entity. The terms ‘folder’ and ‘file’ were chosen
to be consistent with the metaphor for the user
interface, which is named after a real-world
object on which files and folders might reside.
What?

25. Since its founding, a common feature of
Disneyland has been employees dressed up as
various Disney characters roaming the park and
interacting with visitors. In the late nineties,
though, an interesting quirk was noticed—if a
visitor shouted “Andy’s coming!” in the vicinity of a
particular set of characters, employees playing them
would stop whatever they were doing and lie down
on the ground motionless for a few minutes. What
set of Disney characters exhibited this behaviour?

That’s all folks!
Compiled By Niyati

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