THE QUIZZING KNIGHT RISES

(MAINS)DHRUV BHATNAGAR

ByDhruv Bhatnagar

Round 1-Infinite Bounce

• 12 Questions• First 6 Clockwise, the remaining Anti Clockwise• +10,-0 (Without the double) • +20,-10 (With the double)

Q1. Who said this?

• “Forty-eight years is almost enough time to hold a record”

Larisa Latynina 18 Olympic Medals

Phelps broke her this week record with 21 medals.

Q2. This is Ford Model T launched in September 1908. It is generally regarded as the first affordable automobile. It was named the world's most influential car of the 20th century in an international poll and was the pioneer of the famous Ford’s assembly line production. However most of the models of it we see are black in color. Why?

Ans2. Black dries faster and is more durable

Q3.This is a photo of Little Cumbrae, an island in the Firth of Clyde, in North Ayrshire, Scotland. It is a rough and rocky island. Little Cumbrae was privately purchased in 2003 and there were plans for its development as a memorial park, nature reserve and corporate escape.The island was sold again in July 2009 for £2 million.[9] The buyers of the island, Scottish millionaire couple of Indian extraction, Sarwan and Sunita Poddar. Why was this place in the news a few years back?

Ans-3 Baba Ramdev Island

Q4. Connect the two images with one word.

Rembrandt –The Painter The Rembrandts- The band which made the title song of Friends “I’ll be there for you”

Ans-4

Q5

Connect:

1. General Douglas MacArthur ending World War II in the Pacific with The Armistice.

2. The Non-Proliferation Nuclear Treaty3. Obama’s Healthcare Bill

Ans5 Signed with a Parker

• Q6• The man in the picture is Pat Leahy. He was one of the US

Senators who was supposed to be at the receiving end of the 2001 anthrax attacks. He was also the person who introduced the PIPA(Protect IP Act) in the US Senate. He's one of the most senior Senators in the Senate.However, this senator is possibly more famous for 3 things he's done that people have seen him in 1997,2008 and recently in 2012. Where have people seen him?

He appeared in Cameo roles in Batman movies. Batman & Robin (1997)The Dark Knight (2008)The Dark Knight (2012)

Ans 6

Q7. This is a (15,000 pound) statue of Usain Bolt which was unveiled by the Birmingham City Council in the run up to the Olympics. However the council had to endure much criticism due to a glaring error in the statue. What?

Ans7 The wrong arms are raised. Bolt raises his left

arm while celebrating.

Q8 Kogan is an online retailer in Australia, which sells Consumer electronics. The founder Ruslan Kogan is known to be controversial, and when things suck, he is not afraid to say so.He had this to say about a latest move by his company. What is he talking about?

• “The way we've been able to keep our prices so low is by using technology to make our business efficient and streamlined.”

• “It’s not only costing us a huge amount, it’s affecting any business with an online presence, and costing the Internet economy millions.”

Ans-8 Internet Explorer 7 Tax

In 2006 Akira Haraguchi of Japancould convey 100,000 in 16 ½ hours.stopping for five minutes every hour toreplenish his strength with onigiri rice

balls.

Haraguchi told The Japan Times that thisrecollection is part of his quest foreternal truth. He calls it the religion of the universe.Guinness hasn’t recognized it yet though.• What does he do?

Q9

Ans9 He recalls the value of pi.

Q10. On October 1, 2011, India's first AC double-decker train was flagged off to connect Howrah and X. With this India joins the league of Europe and North America that run multi-deck trains. As on Oct 2011, the train runs daily except Sunday, departing from Howrah at 8:30 am to arrive at X at 12:45 pm, and on return trip it departs X at 6:30 pm to arrive at Howrah at 10:40 pm. Which city?

Hint: The city is in the news recently and is also home to a premiereducational institute.

Ans-10 Dhanbad

• Wasseypur is 2km from Dhanbad.• Indian School of Mines is located in Dhanbad.

Q11A professor at Princeton was asked for tea. The girl serving the tea asked the professor if he would like lemon or cream in his tea. The professor, absent-mindedly said "both". What book takes the origin from this incident?

The professor in question is a famous American theoretical physicist who was ranked one of the ten greatest physicists of all time in a poll by British Journal Physics World.

Ans 11:- “Surely you are joking Mr Feynman!”

• This is what the girl replied. The professor was Richard Feynman.

Q12

• It is the rarest blood group present with incidence of 0.0004% (about 4 per million). It was named after the city X, where its existence was first detected . Its incidence in city X, has been found to be 1 in 10000.

• The people belonging to this group lack the H antigen, because of which they cant receive blood from any member of ABO blood group but the vice-versa is not true.

• “Okkadunnadu” , was a telugu movie based on this phenomenon. It was also mentioned in a hit Hindi movie recently.

• Give me X (and hence the phenomenon)

X=Bombay Bombay Blood Group

Audience Question

• This Peephole Frame is one of the highest selling TV show memorabilia. Name the TV show.

FRIENDS

Scores….

Long Visual Connect

• 5 slides• Each slide has one question. The answers to

each of these 5 questions lead to a common connect/theme.

• Write down the answers on a paper. Teams exchange sheets in the end.

If you get the connect on the:-

• First slide:- +50/-30• Second slide:- +40/-20• Third slide:- +30/-15• Fourth slide:- +20/-5• Fifth slide:- +10/0

• 10 points for each of the individual questions.

LVC

Kojiki, the oldest surviving book in Japan (compiled in the year 712), a __________ is known as Kuebiko who appears as a deity who cannot walk, yet knows everything about the world.

+50/-30

• ______ was created by Larry Ewing using the first publicly released version of GIMP, a free software graphics package.

'The ____Books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them'George Orwell

+40/-20

The film has spawned several sequels and is marketed with the tagline "What ___ wants, ____ gets."

Contact dermatitis is a condition in which the skin becomes red, sore, or inflamed after direct contact with a substance. There are two kinds of contact dermatitis: irritant or allergic. One of the common allergens is X.

+30/-15

• _______ is a global management consulting firm headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. It is considered one of the most prestigious consulting firms in the world. Mitt Romney is a founding member of this firm.

• This word also means “a source of harm and ruin” according to Merriam-Webster.

• The ________ Potion is an innovative and complex potion that relieves, but does not cure, the symptoms of lycanthropy. The main ingredient is _______ (also referred to as aconite or monkshood). It has a "disgusting" taste, and adding sugar to remedy is not possible as that substance will render it ineffective.

+15/-5

+10/0

Answers follow

Kojiki, the oldest surviving book in Japan (compiled in the year 712), a “Scarecrow” is known as Kuebiko appears as a deity who cannot walk, yet knows everything about the world.

+50/-30

Scarecrow is one of the main four protagonists of ‘The Wizard of Oz’

• “Tux” was created by Larry Ewing using the first publicly released version of GIMP, a free software graphics package.

'The “Penguin”Books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them'George Orwell

+40/-20

The film has spawned several sequels and is marketed with the tagline "What Ivy wants, Ivy gets."

Contact dermatitis is a condition in which the skin becomes red, sore, or inflamed after direct contact with a substance. There are two kinds of contact dermatitis: irritant or allergic. One of the common allergens is X.X is Poison Ivy

+30/-15

• Bain & Company is a global management consulting firm headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. It is considered one of the most prestigious consulting firms in the world. Mitt Romney is a founding member of this firm.

• This word also means “a source of harm and ruin” according to Merriam-Webster.--- “Bane”

• The ”Wolfsbane” Potion is an innovative and complex potion that relieves, but does not cure, the symptoms of lycanthropy. The main ingredient is Wolfsbane (also referred to as aconite or monkshood). It has a "disgusting" taste, and adding sugar to remedy is not possible as that substance will render it ineffective.

+15/-5

+10/0

Known as ‘Djoker”

Connect is….

Batman Villains

1. Scarecrow 2. Penguin 3. Poison Ivy

4. Bane 5. The Joker

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