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Format30 questions on the grid between you and gloryInfinite
bounce (+10/0)First Strike (+10/-10)Direction of quizzing reverses
every 6 questionsQuiz-Masters decision is final and binding
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Q1. Identify this person who is in the news recently.
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A1. Hardik PatelHardik Patelis a leader of patidar caste, He
raised voice against injustice being done by Gujarat Government to
Patidar caste and other General category castes by the system of
reservation which only exist in India. He is campaigning for the
inclusion of thePatelcastein theOther Backward Class(OBC) category
in order to qualify for reserved quotas in education and government
jobs.
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Q2. X is an organic compound that contains only chlorine,
fluorine and carbon, produced as a volatile derivative of methane
and ethane. They are also commonly known by the DuPont brand name
Freon. Many of these compounds have been widely used as
propellants, and solvents among other usages. The manufacture of
such compounds has been however phased out by the Montreal
Protocol.
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A2. CFCs (ChloroFluoroCarbons)
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Q3. X is a rare blood group also known as Hh. This blood
phenotype was first discovered in India, by Dr. Y.M. Bhende in
1952. People who has this phenotype can donate to any member of the
ABO blood group system, but they cannot receive any member of the
ABO blood group system's blood, but only from other people who have
X phenotype. This very rare Phenotype is generally present in about
0.0004% (about 4 per million) of the human population, though in
some places locals can have occurrences in as much as 0.01% (1 in
10,000) of inhabitants and 1 in a million people in Europe. Name
this rare blood group named after a Indian metropolis.
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A3. Bombay Blood Group
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Q4. Why is the name of this man, an American civil engineer and
former faculty member of Pennsylvania State Universitys engineering
department, in the news in Goa?
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A4. Louis Berger It is the construction firm involved in
allegedly bribing Churchill Alemao and Digambar Kamat in the
multi-crore JICA scam.
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Q5. X is a polymer made of hexamethylenediamine and adipic acid,
which gives it a total of 12 carbon atoms in each repeating unit,
and its name. X is frequently used when high mechanical strength,
great rigidity, and good stability under heat is required. It is
used for ball bearing cages, electro-insulating elements, pipes,
profiles and various machine parts. Clue: This polymer made the
headlines in Goa in the mid-90s, after a manufacturing plant for
this was proposed to be set up at Keri Ponda.
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A5: Nylon 6,6
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Q6. We are all very familiar with Facebook and its blue scheme.
However the blue scheme was not randomly chosen but there is a
specific reason behind picking it. Apparently, Facebook founder and
CEO Mark Zuckerberg suffers from X medical condition and thus Blue
is the colour he can best see which explains the blue scheme. What
medical condition?
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A6: Red-Green Colour blindness
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Q7. Lasalgaon is acensus towninNashik Districtin the Indian
state of Maharashtra. It famous for Ahilyadevi Holkar's fort
located in the center of the city built in the 17th century.
However Lasalgaon has been in news recently for entirely different
reason. What isit Asia's No. 1 Market of what?
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A7: Onions
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Q8. Depicted in the picture below are different types of X.
What?
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A8: Types of MicroscopesOpticalTransmission Electron
MicroscopeScanning Electron MicroscopeScanning Probe
MicroscopeAtomic Force MicroscopeScanning Tunneling
MicroscopyScanning Near-field Optical Microscopy
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Q9. What in this world is: A character played by Boman Irani in
the movie 3 Idiots A type of malicious computer program A parasitic
agent that is smaller than a bacterium and that can only reproduce
after infecting a host cell Name of many music bands, songs, video
game et al
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A9: Virus
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Q10. Identify this famous Goan personility
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A10: Manohar ParrikarFormer Chief Minister of Goa and the
current Union Defence Minister
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Q11. His step-brothers Nitin and Ajit and step-sister Savita
were actually the children of his aunt (elder sister of his
mother). This famous sports personality was the born when his
father married the younger sister of his first wife after her death
at very young age, as was the custom back then in some parts of the
country.
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A11: Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar
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Q12. Ethanethiol, commonly known as ethyl mercaptan, is a
colorless gas or clear liquid with a distinct odour which I am
confidently everyone of us must have smelled. In what situation you
must have come across it?
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A12: Gas leaks added to otherwise odourless gaseous products
such as liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to help warn of gas leaks
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Q13. Connect
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A13: Pro Kabaddi leagueThePro Kabaddi League(PKL) is a
professionalkabaddileague in India. Teams include Bengal Warriors,
Bengaluru Bulls, Dabang Delhi, Jaipur Pink Panthers, Patna Pirates,
Puneri Paltan, Telugu Titans, U Mumba
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Q14. Below you see the logo of an Indianeyewearonline portal
founded by Peyush Bansal along with Amit Chaudhary and Sumeet
Kapahi in November 2010. Name it.
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A14: Lenskart
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Q15. one of the classification of prokaryotic cells is Cocci,
Bacilli, Spirochaete, Vibrio. What is the basis of this
classification?
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A15: Based on ShapeCocci spherical Bacilli rod-shaped
Spirochaete spiral-shaped Vibrio comma-shaped
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Q16. This is a video of rendition of the soundtrack by the
Indian Jam Project. Soundtrack of which movie is this based
upon.
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A16: Harry Potter
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Q17. What was the end result of this process? What first?
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A17: Dolly a female domestic sheep, and the first mammal to be
cloned from an adult somatic cell, using the process of nuclear
transfer.
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Q18. After being driven to mass eradication in the 1970s, the
last members of this species are located in captivity in Atlanta
and at Russia apparently for research purposes. Their existence has
been a subject of controversy ever since. Name this deadly species
(common name would do).
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A18: Small Pox VirusLast few laboratory samples of the deadly
virus are preserved, apparently for research.
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Q19. This pharmaceutical company headquartered at Mumbai was
setup by a goan, Gracias Saldanha. He named after his two sons,
Mark and Glenn, in 1977 with Rs 100,000 and three employees.Give me
the name.
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A19: Glenmark
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Q20. This is a board that one sees at all airports in India and
enlist all the persons who are exempted from security checks. There
was one controversial person enlisted at the bottom for over 10
years until the current government took him off recently. Which
controversial person?
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A20: Robert VadraHusband of Priyanka Gandhi, Son-in-law of Sonia
Gandhi
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Identify this international cricketer whose achievement are as
follows:Only bowler in cricketing history to take four wickets in
four consecutive balls.Only bowler in cricketing history to take
three hat-tricks.Only bowler with two World Cup hat tricks.Also
holds the record for most wickets taken in a single IPL season.
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A21: Lasith Malinga
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Q22. X was a Portuguese Renaissance Sephardi Jewish physician
and naturalist. He was a pioneer of tropical medicine. He sailed
for India in 1534 as Chief Physician aboard the fleet of the
Viceroy Martim Afonso de Sousa. He travelled with the Viceroy on
various campaigns, then, in 1538, settled at Goa, where he soon had
a prominent medical practice. He was physician to the Nizam Shahi
dynasty of Ahmadnagar, and concurrently to several successive
Portuguese Viceroys and governors of Goa.Clue: Panjim Municipal
Garden is named after him.
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A22: Garcia De Orta
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Q23. The birds that you see are referred to as Wood Breaker,
Glass Jaw, Egg Beater, Maching, Kamikaze. What modern day rage
would connect these birds?
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A23: Angry Birds
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Q24. IUCN is an international organization that supports
scientific research, manages field projects globally and brings
governments, non-government organizations, United Nations agencies,
companies and local communities together to develop and implement
policy.The organization publishes the IUCN Red List, which assesses
the _________ _______ of species. You would see this very often
when you access the wikipedia page for any animal. What does it
indicate?
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A24: Conservation Statusindicates whether the group is extant
(members of it are still alive) and how likely the group is to
become extinct in the near future.
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Q.25: What you see here is classification of regions of India
into different numerical codes. What does this numbering
signify?
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A25: Pincodes
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Q.26: Google Doodle on March 14th 2010. Commemorating what?
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A26: Pi DayPi day is celebrated on 14th of March each year
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Q27. X is a clothing brand that makes ovre-sized clothing. It is
well-loved by the hip-hop community. This guy in this picture was
nicknamed X as he was extremely fat and overweight as a teenager
that no other brand of clothing would fit him and he used to wear X
clothes all the time. Identify the brand and the person.
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A27: Arjun Kapoor a.k.a FUBU
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Q28. The logo below symbolizes is a partnership between social
networking services companyFacebookand six companies
(Samsung,Ericsson,MediaTek,Opera Software,NokiaandQualcomm) that
plans to bring affordable access to selected Internet services to
less developed countries by increasing efficiency, and facilitating
the development of new business models around the provision of
Internet access.
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A28: Internet.org
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Q29. Actinomycetes are a type of filamentous bacteria found in
soil which thrive when conditions are damp and warm. However when
dry conditions prevail, these form spores/cysts. Upon contact with
moisture (which acts like an aerosol) these spores burst open
resulting in what? This phenomenon is named after the fluid that is
supposed to be flowing in the veins of Greek Gods.
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Ans: Petrichor The smell of the earth after it rains.
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Q. 30: This bronze statue was recently unveiled and is located
outside Paris' Pompidou Museum. It is the work of sculptor Adel
Abdessemed. Who are the two people represented in it and what
famous event does it represent?
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A30: Zinedine Zidane head-butting Marco Materazzi In the 2006
World Cup final, which Italy won on penalties
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