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POLYTECHNIKIL PADICHITILLA GENERAL QUIZ
NAMESAKE RULES SLIDE24 qns. [18 dry, 6 themed written]Pounce
+10/-10Bounce +10Guess, its not injurious to health. ;)National
anthem wont be played anytime in between the quiz.
1Naraha is a town in Asia, which has an official
registeredpopulationof 7,098 and apopulation densityof 68.5 persons
per km2, although the current actual resident population is much
lower.
A group of old women in the city have resorted to making life
sized mannequin dolls to fill up the gap in the population.
Why is there a void in the population of Naraha ?
AND THE ANSWER IS
ANSWERFukushima disaster
2The image shown in the next slide is that of a painting titled
Bacons Man with the Child and Priest.This painting was awarded with
the Lorenzo De Medici Gold Medal, at Florence Internazionale
Biennale.Identify the artist. (Visuals follow.)
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AND THE ANSWER IS
YUSUF ARAKKAL
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3From a 1965 Doctor Who episode titled Celestial Toymaker. An
alien intelligence has invaded theTARDISand rendered theFirst
Doctorinvisible, leavingDodo ChapletandSteven Taylorincredulous.
They step outside into a strange realm where the Doctor reappears.
They have come to the realm of the Celestial Toymaker, an eternal
being of infinite power who sets games and traps for the unwary so
that they become his playthings. The Doctor and the Toymaker have
faced each other before, and the Toymaker abducts his old adversary
to another place.
Here the Doctor is asked to solve a game called the Trilogic
Game. What is it based on ?
And the answer is
ANSWERTower Of Hanoi
4_______ ____ _______ Winery is a winery-cum-adventure park
located in Gerseyville, California.
Recently this winery has come into the news for sponsoring the
wine to be used at the 89th Annual Academy Awards and the Governors
Ball that follow.
Identify the famous co-owner of this winery.
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And the answer is
ANSWERFrancis Ford Coppola
5Klaus Enrique is a photographer and visual artist. He has a
collection of works inspired by an Italian painter Giuseppe
Arcimboldo which he displayed at the Filter Photo Festival in
Chicago. Arcimboldo had a really imaginative method of recreating
portraits.
What exactly is the method used by Arcimboldo ?
And the answer is
ANSWERHe created portraitheadsmade entirely of objects such as
fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, and books.
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6Deepa Melukote is an 82 year old living in Indiranagar, East
Bangalore. She has created works from the damaged versions of an
item.
Describing her work, Deepa explains, I draw an outline and
instead of colours or paints, I use old, damaged _______. I cut
them in various shapes and sizes to fit the image I want to create.
Once Ive heard a story of a British woman who used this item as
wallpaper.
With what item does she create her art ?
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And the answer is
ANSWERStamps
7Dialoga tholvi Award is an award to be presented by Radio Mango
91.9 to dialogues that have the presence of something society has
been discussing upon recently. [not Beef]
Nominee dialogues have been from movies such as Narasimham,
Kasaba, Meeshamadhavan,Hitler etc.
So presence of what notion in these dialogues is Radio Mango
awarding them for?
And the answer is
ANSWERMisogynistic dialogues
8Confederation of Independent Football Associations [CONIFA] is
an organization that holds a World Cup every year since 2015.
Participants in this cup are countries like Darfur United, Isle
Of Man, Kurdistan etc.
So who exactly are the participants in this competition ?
And the answer is
ANSWERRebel countries/ Rebel Organizations.
9Same-sex marriage was legalized in Vermont, USA on the 1st of
September 2009 and was a game changer in the history of LGBT rights
in the United States of America.
After this legalization, Ben and Jerrys renamed their flavour
Chubby Hubby.
What was it renamed as ?
And the answer is
ANSWERHubby Hubby
10Put Pun[reference?] da.
And the answer is
ANSWER
11This certain theatrical term used to denote an area is said to
have gotten its name from the fact that this area was used by
actors for resting. Often new actors who would feel nervous and
nauseous would occupy the room.
Identify this term familiar to a majority of people here.
And the answer is
ANSWER
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No one can mimic his final image moored down at the watersedge.
No artist can provide that low blow. Ah, the world of art,the world
of images, billions of images. The words of a poemare cleaner, more
pure.
12In the previous slide were lines from the poem Sea Of Pain
written by Raul Zurita. This was exhibited at the Kochi Muziris
Biennale 2016 inside a large storage space at the Aspinwall
House.
Who/what incident was this literary work dedicated to?
At the very same storage space in 2014, a work titled 'Earth
Piece: Listen to the sound of the earth turning was displayed.
Which person popular in the 20th century as someones companion was
its creator ?
And the answer is
ANSWERAylan KurdiYoko Ono
THE WHOLE POEM
13__________ zone is referred to the habitable zone around a
star. This is derived from a principle that aplanetmust neither be
too far away from, nor too close to astarandgalactic centerto
supportlife, while either extreme would result in a planet
incapable of supporting life.
FITB.
And the answer is
ANSWERGoldilocks.
14IndiaVision is said to be Indias first 24 hour news channel
that began airing during 2004. It has had to stop its operations
since 2015 because of employees resigning due to irregular salary
payments. Its broadcasting center is located near to where we are
now.
Its former chairman is a political leader who is a
multi-talented personality who has written books title Sangh
Parivar and Fascism.
His father was an even more prominent political leader and has
been credited with revolutionizing the education sector in Kerala,
and was given the nickname Giant Killer because he defeated the
prominent INC Leader KP Kuttikrishnan Nair.
Identify the father and son.
And the answer is
ANSWER
15Ceylon _________ [Batrachostomus moniliger] is a species of
bird found in the Western Ghats. It is one of the rarest birds to
find in the Thattekad Bird Sanctuary due to its similarity to that
of a dry leaf.
It gets its name due to its similarity to that of an organism
from the order Anura. The gape of this bird is similar.
Identify this species of bird.
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And the answer is
ANSWERFrogmouth
16As Donald Trump succeeded Obama as POTUS, protests erupted in
various places.
A protest was also being staged at this peculiar place with an
avian reference where people were commenting remarks like not our
president and my _______ my choice etc.
So where was this protest being staged which has come into the
news again recently ?
And the answer is
ANSWER
17Michael O'Mara Booksis a small, family-run, privately
ownedpublishing housein theUnited Kingdom. Its imprint,Buster
Books, publishes children's books.
Some of the main publications which became a huge hit were
Diana: Her True Story and My Word Is My Bond.
Recently, they have been dominating the publications of a
certain kind of stress reliever for adults. They have had over 30
such publications already. Various studies have found out that
these publications were indeed a remedy for anxiety and stress.
What exactly are these publications and whose autobiography is
My Word Is My Bond ?
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And the answer is
ANSWERAdult-coloring booksRoger Moore
18This countrys name is supposed to have been derived from the
Turkic word for forty which is a reference to the folklore of the
country where forty clans were united against the Uyghur
Kaganate.
The forty-ray sun on the flag of this country is a reference
this and the object displayed in the center is a tunduk which is a
portable dwelling used in the steppes.
Which country ?
And the answer is
ANSWER
WRITTEN ROUND6 qns.Theme: Art by Mike Leavitt. Movie Director
dolls morphed with their most popular characters. Just identify the
director.DIFFERENTIAL SCORING.
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1
And the answer is
ANSWERTim Burton
2
And the answer is
ANSWERHayao Miyazaki
3
And the answer is
ANSWEROrson Welles
4
And the answer is
ANSWERSpike Lee
5
And the answer is
ANSWERWoody Allen
6
And the answer is
ANSWERGeorge Lucas
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