SOI Inductions - Ans

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SORCERERS OF INTELLECT

QUIZ CLUB INDUCTIONS


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QUESTION

Identify the error in the picture, i.e. I want the

name of the person who should not be there

in the pic.


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ANSWER

Madhura Nagendra/Madhura Honey


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QUESTION

Googles tribute to who/what?


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ANSWER

Lego


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QUESTION

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, this phrasemost likely originated from children's games suchas hopscotch and snakes and ladders.

An alternative theory is that the phrase originated fromearly radio commentaries of football matches bythe BBC .The first live radio commentary featured aDivision One match between Arsenal and SheffieldUnited, broadcast on January 22, 1927.

A grid of a football pitch was published which divided

the pitch into eight numbered squares so thecommentator could describe the ball's location.

Pic in next slide.


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8 6 4 2

7 5 3 1

What is the phrase?


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ANSWER


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QUESTION

X, a former member of the Indian Administrative

Service, served as Secretary to the President ofIndia and as High Commissioner to South

Africa and Sri Lanka, among other administrative

and diplomatic posts. X translated into Hindi the Vikram Seth novel 'A

Suitable Boy titling it Koi Acchha Sa Ladka.

Xs grandfathers are more famous than him, hispaternal grandfather being the more famous.

Identify X.


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ANSWER

Gopalkrishna Gandhi

Grandfathers are Mahatma Gandhi and

C.Rajagopalachari.


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QUESTION

With respect to the 2012 London Olympics,

what makes the following athletes unique?

Athlete From Event

Liemarvin Bonevacia Curaao Men's 400 metres

Philipine van Aanholt Curaao Sailing Women's Laser

Radial class

Reginald de Windt Curaao Judo Men's 81 kg

Guor Marial South Sudan Men's marathon


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ANSWER

Independent athletes


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QUESTION

Duncan Edwards is manure,

rotting in his grave,

______ are manure,

rotting in your grave. ______, ______, went on a plane.

______ , ______ , never came home again.

What did the above two compositions leadto?


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ANSWER

Its Man Utd. and not Man U.

Compositions were chants sung by rival teams

mocking Utd.s Munich disaster.


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QUESTION

Man Singh, also known as "Daku Man Singh",

was a notorious dacoit, born in Agra to a familydescended from Rajput kings.

Between 1939 and 1955, Singh is credited with

1,112 robberies and 185 murders, including thekilling of 32 police officers.

Daku Man Singh is the title of a 1971 movie,

directed by Babubhai Mistry. In the movie, X, wholater became the first sportsman to be nominated

to the Rajya Sabha acted as Man Singh.

Identify X.


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ANSWER

Dara Singh


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QUESTION

This game was developed primarily by Tru

Iwatani, who stated that the main character's

shape was inspired by a pizza missing a slice.

He later admitted that the character design

came from simplifying and rounding out theJapanese character for mouth, kuchi.

Which game are we talking about?


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ANSWER

Pac Man


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QUESTIONWhat is the full name of the character depicted in the

cartoon?


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ANSWER

Barack Usain Bolt Obama


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QUESTION Modern Review was the name of a monthly

magazine published in Calcutta since 1907. . Witha broadly nationalistic outlook, it did not followthe line of any particular political party.

Famous historian Ramachandra Guha called the

magazine the leading journal of the progressiveIndian intelligentsia.

In November 1937, an article appeared in the

magazine severely criticizing Jawaharlal Nehru.The article was written by X, who was referred toas Chanakya.

Identify X.


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ANSWER

Jawaharlal Nehru


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QUESTION

Smaller than 1.5 m (5 ft) = granddaughter

Over 1.5 m (5 ft) = grandmother

Over 1.8 m (6 ft) = ___________

What am I describing?


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ANSWER

Clocks.

The blank is grandfather.


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QUESTION Valkyrie is a 2008 American

historical thriller film,directed by Bryan Singerand starring Tom Cruise.

The film depicts the 20 Julyplot in 1944 by Germanarmy officers toassassinate Adolf Hitler and

to use the OperationValkyrie, the nationalemergency plan to takecontrol of the country.


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X was a leading physicist of the 20th century,

who won the Nobel Prize in 1918.

On 23rd January 1945, Xs son was executed byfiring squad because of his involvement in

Operation Valkyrie.

Identify X.


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ANSWER

Max Planck


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QUESTION

The term X was coined in 1938by 9-year-old

Milton Sirotta, nephew of American

mathematician Edward Kasner. Other names

for X include ten duotrigintillion on the short

scale and ten thousand sexdecillion onthe long scale.

The founders of Y initially named their

company, BackRub. They then changed thename to Y which was a misspelling of X.

Identify X and Y.


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ANSWER

X- Googol

Y- Google


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QUESTION

X is an element with a half life of about 14.05

billion years.

X is estimated to be about four times more

abundant than Uranium in the Earth's crust.

India's three stage nuclear power programme ispossibly the most well known and well funded

effort to produce fuel from X.

X was first discovered in Lovoya Island, Norwayand was given its present name by Jns Jakob

Berzelius, who named it after a famous God.

ID X.


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ANSWER

Thorium after Thor, Norse God of thunder.


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QUESTION X (21 March 1768 16 May 1830) was

a French mathematician and physicist best knownfor coming up with X law to solve problemsrelated to heat transfer.

X method to solve problems related to vibrations

was found by him. X is also generally credited with the discovery of

the greenhouse effect.

Xs name is one of the 72 names inscribed on the

Eiffel Tower. Xs efforts to decipher the Rosetta Stone are well

known.

ID X.


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ANSWER

Joseph Fourier.

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