V1bes Quiz

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A monopod, also called a unipod, is a single staff or pole used to help support cameras, video cameras, binoculars, rifles or other precision instruments in the field.

Recently there was a huge demand for the handheld monopod.

People also started referencing the same as ‘X Stick’.

Question 1

Selfie Stick

Recently Disney added this tribute at the end of the movie ‘Aladdin’.

Question 2

Robin William’s who voiced Genie

Robert Cornelius (picture on the right) was the first known man to do something. It became a common practice in social networking sites, especially since the time of Myspace.

Last week, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) finally declared it as a mental disorder.

What?

Question 3

Selfie.

Malaysian Airlines flight that vanished from the radar screens over the South China Sea was coded as?

Question 4

MH370

Who or what is the ‘baby’ in this recent newspaper headline: At 66, Mother India gets ready for her 29th baby?

Question 5

Telangana

Identify the multi-national company from Korea? Came on India in 1995.

Question 6

Samsung

These hand held devices became popular worldwide in the late 1990s. A US Patent was awarded to Taiwanese inventor Tsao-i-Shih in 1996 for this device.

The handle contains batteries and a charging mechanism that generates high voltage. The circuit is composed of an electronic oscillator, a step-up transformer and a voltage multiplier, similar to the circuit in an electroshock weapon or a stun gun, but with much lower power.

What device?

Question 7

Electric Flyswatter / The World Famous Mosquito Bat .

Question 8 In the following

picture is an advertisement of a shampoo product by Park Avenue.

What is the unique ingredient in this product they are advertising?

Beer!

Where would you find the following? 1) The City, 2) The Peninsula, 3) Pacific Coast Highway, 4) Sierra Nevada, and 5) Napa Valley.

Question 9

Road Rash.

Question 10 Identify

all three.

Oh yes! Arvind Kejriwal Narendra Modi Rahul Gandhi

Question 11 It is a cold and sweet

beverage made by mixing rose syrup with vermicelli noodles, psyllium (ispaghol) or basil (sabza/takmaria) seeds, jelly pieces and tapioca pearls along with either milk, water or ice cream.

What Hindi phrase is originated from this beverage?

Izzat ka falooda.

Question 12

Blue Eyes Lungi Dance Char bottle vodka Baby doll

Yo Yo Honey Singh

This book was written on the founders of which famous start-up?

Question 13

Facebook

http://24hoursofhappy.com/ is the website for a song by an American singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer, musician, and fashion designer Pharrell Williams .

Why is the website/song unique?

Question 14

Question 15

Identify the 'complan BOY and complan GIRL'...?(A very old AD,probably featuring in Doordarshan)

Answer

SHAHID KAPOOR AND AYESHA TAKIA

Question 16

Mars Curiosity to Mars Orbiter

Question 17 Whom did Barack Obama write this letter

to?

Life of Pi.

Question 1814) What is being assembled here?

Statue of Liberty

Question 19 Which famous photograph did Kolkata

Traffic Police use in an awareness campaign about road crossing?

Abbey Road cover.(The Beatles)

Which product?

Question 20

Goaogle Glass

*Question 21 Connect.

Devdas

The use of this word/phrase X was first reported in 1919 by the British admiral Lord Fisher, in a letter to then Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

A small excerpt from the letter says,“I hear that a new order of Knighthood is on the tapis – X! Shower it on the admiralty!”

ID X.

*Question 22

First use of “OMG” for “Oh My God!”

*Question 23

Which company’s is this???

Bajaj

Time Magazine Person of the Year:1930- Mahatma Gandhi1938- Adolf Hitler1982- ??2010- Mark Zuckerberg

*Question 24

The Computer

____ __ ___ ___ is a 2013 American comedy film written and directed by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg in their directorial debut, starring an ensemble cast including Rogen, James Franco, Jonah Hill as fictional versions of themselves in the aftermath of a global apocalypse.

The film was released on June 12, 2013, and was a critical and commercial success.

Name the movie (4,2,3,3). Also, last question.

*Question 25

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