Prof.Kadambaran Namboodiri Memorial Inter Collegiate Quiz Competition-15

Kadambaran Namboodiri Memorial

Inter Collegiate Quiz Competition-15

PROF.KADAMBARAN NAMBOODIRI

memories never die…

ELIMINATION ROUND

Total 20 questions-(including 4 star questions as tie breakers(2,6,9,15) ...

Write your answers legibly, if we can’t read, its wrong answer…

We want the best 5 for the finals….

Remember-Quizmaster is a dictator-U can call me Hitler, Mussolini or what ever!!!!

Always keep your quizzing ethics&

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1 തിരിച്ചെ�ത്തുച്ചെന്ന് ഉറപ്പില്ലാത്ത

പുറപ്പാടായിരുന്നു അത്...ടങ്ങിവരവിച്ചെ�പ്പറ്റി ഞങ്ങളാരും തമ്മില്‍ തിരഞ്ഞു

കൂടിയില്ല.....പറിഞ്ഞുപപായ പവരുകപളാര്‍ി�ാല്‍ പായലുകള്‍ക്കു

ഒഴുകാ�ാവില്ല....പറന്നടിയുന്നപ�രച്ചെത്ത പപടി�ാല്‍ ചിതല്‍പുറ്റിച്ചെല കീടങ്ങള്‍ക്ക് ചിറകു ുളക്കില്ല.....ചുറ്റുപാടുകളല്ലാച്ചെത

ച്ചെറ്റാന്നുറിയാത്തവര്‍ എങ്ങുപപായിച്ചെ,ന്താണ്......

ലയാളത്തിച്ചെല ഏതു സകാലിക പ�ാവല്‍ ഇങ്ങച്ചെ� തുടങ്ങുന്നു?

Kadambaran Namboodiri Memorial Inter Collegiate Quiz Competition-

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‘X’ was born in Pankila forest(northern Kerala) in 1983…..History suggest the name of Dr. Somashekharan as the godfather of

‘X’….The myths says that during one of his escapades, ‘X’ was abducted by aliens from an unknown planet…Now a days an active social

media movement is on track by the name of ‘X’ organized by some atheist activists of Kerala and they proclaimed ‘X’ as their super hero-

Identify ‘X’……

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What is common between-

1. Wheeler Island, Odisha2. The global satellite for earth observation and disaster

risk reduction —(GlobalSat for DRR)…..3. Aurangzeb Road, Delhi….4. Marine Drive, Kochi…5. Kerala Technological University-Thiruvanathapuram


All these are named after Dr.A.P.J Abdul Kalam

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This is an Indian version of Google Doodle-Your task-Just give me a four digit number!!!

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Google’s Birthday gift to Ramanujan’s 125th birthday….

Four digit number-1729

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Why this cricket match remains incomplete?


This is why the match remains incomplete

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6*You can call the red marked spot as ‘X’, an important

ancient Indian city located on the banks of river Narmada…..

Once it was a part of Avanthi Kingdom-Ramayana depict this place as the capital of Heheyas

ruled by the legendary king Kartavirya Arjuna(Man with 1000 hands-epic narrate his encounter with Ravana)

‘X’ is very much in news recently through a very popular medium-

Identify ‘X’….I only want that name-

Nothing more, nothing less!!!


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Mahishmathi


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I am speaking about an invention which was happened in 1795-

Nicholas Jacques Conte (a French army officer) got the patent of its invention…He called it as ‘X’ in Latin) literally means ‘Little

tail’….The following is a numerical grading system introduced by US chemist John Thoreau to quantify its hardness….

9H/8H/7H/6H/5H/4H/3H/2H/H//F/HB/B/2B/3B/4B/5B/6B/7B/8B/9B …..

Thomas Alva Edison had a great collection of ‘X’ given to him by Eagle, one of the biggest British manufactures….it was on September 9, 2015 we saw the 21st century avathar of ‘X’

introduced by Phil Schiller….No more clues

Identify ‘X’……



Pencil

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• ‘SETI’ is the collective name for scientific activities undertaken to search for life outside Earth… In early 60’s

SETI used to consider things like electromagnetic radiation as indicators of transmission from the other life

zones…More recently Stephen hawking and Russian tycoon Yuri Milner held a news conference in London

announced a $100-million project • (SETI-2 ) , the most expensive and comprehensive hunt

for alien life ever….• Expand ‘SETI’


‘SETI’ Search for extraterrestrial intelligence

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Connect….Your clue

Hedychium cornarium

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കല്യാണച്ചെസൌഗന്ധികംം

(Hedychium cornarium)

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Name this new species of human ancestor(Hominid) recently discovered in South Africa…



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HOMO NALEDI



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@https://youtu.be/wA7s5Tlit-4


അങ്കമാലീലെലപ്രധാനമപ്ര�ി-ാലിയത്തച്ചന്‍

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Name the malayalam movie actor who served as the personal security guard of Mahatma Gandhi at the time of India’s

partition…..


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Jose Prakash


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13 Triplicane Six is a nationalist intellectual group

of four students and two teachers started something in 1878 to support a campaign to protect the judgeship of T. Muthuswamy Iyer

at Madras High Court…(He was the first Indian to be appointed to this prestigious

post)-What did they started?



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Name this economic concept with its four stages.



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The business Cycle-Boom, Recession, Depression & Recovery



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Connect!!!


Types of Kisses-Spiderman/Butterfly /Cool/Eskimo/ Wood pecker/French

(Beware-few are certainly injurious to health)

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This is the national flag of a new born country-The country’s name is Liberland-

I want its official motto inspired from India’s Jain Philosophy…

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Live and allow others to live

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Sleeping on Jupiter-Author ??

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Anuradha RoyShortlisted for this year’s Man booker

Prize

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Quizzers- I am introducing you Mr.Ravi Sankar,

born and brought up in Kochi…He is with Prime Meridian business group as its Managing director…He now lives in

Panangad(Kochi) with his wife and kids.Recently he got a new neighbour.

How is he?

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The pictures will tell you the story of a recent stampede occurred during the celebration of a Hindu Festival

(occurs once every 144 year) at the banks of Godavari and reported a causality of 27 persons…

identify the festival…


Godavari Maha Pushkaram

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Play video @https://youtu.be/20RTyGQuAp8

Our National anthem was first published in which unpublished journal?


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Bhagyavidhatha …..


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