kwizzathlon: science & general quiz

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TO THIS SIMPLE and humble QUIZ COMPETITION

RESEARCH CONDUCTED BY ASHRAF HASSAN

RULES

• ALL COMMON QUIZZING RULES WILL BE HERE• NO CHANCE FOR REWRITING WITHOUT PRIOR

PERMISSION• EVERY ONE SHOULD RISE THEIR HANDS FOR ANY

TALK WITH QM• ANSWERS MUST BE CLEAR AND ACCURATE• THERE IS NO HALF MARKS UNLESS QM

PROCLAIMED HALF MARKS BEFORE• THE DECISION OF THE QM WILL BE FINAL

Let’s start the battle…..

THIS quiz contains 5 rounds

25 questions

FIRST ROUND

CONTAINS 6 DIRECT QUESTIONSANSWER X AND Y FOR THESE 6

10 POINTS FOR EACH ONENO NEGATIVES

TOTAL 120 POINTS

• X was a merchant. He married a women in a town, which was located in his mercantile root. After his death, his brother took his (brother’s) son back to his father’s native town. While taking him through the way, people misunderstood something. This misunderstanding led them to call him a new name derived from that misconception and it became famous instead of the real name ‘Y’.

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• Colourless, odourless, and tasteless, X is the most abundant of the noble gases on Earth and the one most used in industry. It constitutes about 1percentage of air and it makes the third in the volume of elements in atmosphere after Nitrogen and Oxygen. It has an ordinary presence in our everyday life and it is through ‘Y’.

2-

• Identify the moves(specific name please..) and their performers?(x and Y)

• 5+5=10(x)• 5+5=10(y)

3-

X and Y

• X

• Y

Only once so care…

• From 1969 onwards, ‘X’ named this Indian business chain exists using ‘dream comes dine..’ as punch line. Its nearest outlet situated in Y.

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• The term Pan-African colours refers to two different sets of three colours,which are X(= 3 colours ) inspired by the flag of (Y), and red, green and black (which were adopted by the United States-based Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, or UNIA). They are used in flags and other emblems of various countries and territories in Africa and the Americas to represent Pan-Africanist ideology.

• Just think on African flags…..

5-

• He is X and he is..• From Portugal• Through Spain• In Y• Up to lapu lapu, Cebu

6-

EXCHANGE YOUR PAPERSPLEASE…

• C

• CARE MARKS YOURSELVES

ANSWERS

• X was a merchant. He married a women in a town, which was located on his mercantile root. After his death, his brother took his (brother’s) son back to his father’s native town. While taking him through the way, people misunderstood something. This misunderstanding led them to call him a new name derived from that misconception and it became famous instead of the real name ‘Y’.

1-

Hashimshaibathul hamd

• Colourless, odourless, and tasteless, X is the most abundant of the noble gases on Earth and the one most used in industry. It constitutes about 1percentage of air and it makes the third in the volume of elements in atmosphere after Nitrogen and Oxygen. It has an ordinary presence in our everyday life and it is through ‘Y’.

2-

Argonbulb

• Identify the moves(specific name please..) and their performers?(x and Y)

• 5+5=10(x)• 5+5=10(y)

3-

X and Y

• X

Scorpion kickrene higuita

• Y

Bicycle kick/scissor kickbrahimovic

• From 1969 onwards, X named this Indian business chain exists using ‘dream comes dine..’ as tagline. Its nearest outlet situated in Y.

4-

Shinepoonoor

• The term Pan-African colours refers to two different sets of three colours,which are (X )and it inspired by the flag of (Y), and red, green and black (which were adopted by the United States-based Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, or UNIA). They are used in flags and other emblems of various countries and territories in Africa and the Americas to represent Pan-Africanist ideology.

• Just think on African flags…..• If u r sure I will give you a gift now…. Anybody?

5-

Red, yellow and greenethyopia

Benin Burkina Faso Cameroon Central African Republic Congo-Brazzaville Ghana Mali

• He is X and he is..• From portugal• Through spain• In Y• Up to lapu lapu,cebu

6-

MagellanVictoria

Second round

5 simple questions20/-5 for pounce 10 for otherspecial options will be available

1-

Its history said to have traced back to an incident which occurred in a mosque. King Fahad was asking to set up an electronic device to avoid troubles in the congregational prayer

Ans-

network jammer

2-

It is known as Manihot utilisya in the scientific world. Which acid it contains in?or which African country is known as the land of this?

Did you get?

Ans

prussicNigeria

3-

C.c.t.v stands for?

Ans

closed circuit television

4-Caffeine is a bitter, white crystalline xanthine alkaloid

and a stimulant drug. It contains In coffee, tea, espresso and etc.

What is the most widely consumed beverage , containing this drug, in the world ?

Ans

tea

5-

it’s scientific name?

Phyllanthus emblica

ans

5 QUESTIONS TO IDENTIFY WITH 15 MARKS

I QUESTION TO SAY THEME( A GEOGRAPHICAL ENTITY)

U WILL GET 2 CHANCES 50/-20 IN FIRST ATTEMPT20/-7 IN SECOND ATTEMPT

Third round

• He is a British singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, humanitarian and education philanthropist.  He was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2014.

1-

Photo next

CAT STEVENS/ YUSUFUL ISLAM

aNS

2-

NO MORE CLUES……………………………………………………………………………………………………….

ANS

MAURICE BUCAIEE

3-

identify his area of fame?

• After his record achieving …… Mathew webb basked in national and international adulation, and followed a career as a professional. He licensed his name for merchandising such as commemorative pottery, and wrote a book called The Art of ……….. A brand of matches was named after him. He participated in exhibition …………… matches and stunts such as floating in a tank of water for 128 hours.

• On 27 April 1880 he married Madeline Kate Chaddock, and they had two children, Matthew and Helen.

Ans

swimming

Anybody tries…?

Fifty marks or only 20 minus

theme

4-

Ans

Papillon/henry sharriere

5-

Ans

richard dawkins

Anybody tries..?Clue…..?20 marks or -7

theme

English Channel

ans

• 4 Three fold questions• 30, 20 0r 10 in any one of three folds• Only one attempt is permitted but is

compulsory • Should be signed by QM in any of folds• -5, -10 or -15 if it is wrong• Then play carefully…..

Fourth round

1- Whose statue this is?

• While he was in the hospital his many facial wounds were tended to by an attractive young nurse called, Anna. After his face was no longer covered in seagull shit and the bitter scorn of the ocean, He downed a bottle of vodka and snuck upstairs to let himself into Anna’s room.

• Though no one is entirely sure what exactly he did while he was alone with Anna, what we do know is that his wife walked in halfway through whatever it was and that he was so surprised that he decided leaping out of a 20 foot high window was a better alternative than trying to explain himself.The end result was he smashing face-first into the concrete below, leaving him with a permanent scar that he carried with him for the rest of his life .

2

His statue in London

3

“I looked and looked but I didn't see God”- it is his famous and disputed quote.

Ans

yuri gegarin

• ……………….. of Syracuse was a mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer. Although few details of his life are known, he is regarded as one of the leading scientists in classical antiquity. Among his advances in physics are the foundations of hydrostatics, statics and an explanation of the principle of the lever. He is credited with designing innovative machines, including siege engines and the screw pump that bears his name

2-

2

3

Ans

archimedes

3- what is it ?

Ans

pearl harbor attack

-4 Find the missing..

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Ans

god

Contains 4 questionswritten20 for each and 20 negative if it is wrongMiscellaneous contents

Fifth round

1- to which infamous it belongs

Ans

Adolf Hitler

• ………………….is a branch of biology dealing with the study of the form and structure of organisms and their specific structural features.

• Clue needed?

2-

Ans

morphology

3- what is this(any of 2 possible answers)?

Ans

nuclear fission or chain reaction

• ‘hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia’ Is the fear of what?

4-

• Its etymology is From hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian, an extension of sesquipedalian with monstrum (“monster”) and a truncated, misspelled form of hippopotamus, intended to exaggerate the length of the word itself and the idea of the size of the words being feared; combined with phobia.

Ans

the fear of long words

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