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1.Who’s this?

IITR Freshers Quiz '16 (Prelims)

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1.Who’s this?

Vinicius

2. Heritage

The convocation hall of IIT Roorkee served a very special purpose during the World Wars - What purpose?

• It was a hangar for war planes.

3. Address please?

This "famous" tech company's headquarters' new location in California is - 1, Hacker Way (no kidding!). Which company are we talking about?

• Facebook!

4. Prank or not?

It was released by Google as an April Fool Joke in 2014.That was all we heard of it, until 2 years later, it captured the imagination of the entire world and became an obsession. What ??

5. Into masonry too

X is of half German and half Scottish descent born and raised in New York City. X worked in his father's real estate and construction firm. He assumed control of the business in 1973, later renaming it The X Organization. During his career, X has built skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, golf courses, and numerous other developments, many of which bear his name. He has twice been nominated for an Emmy Award and has made appearances as a caricatured version of himself in television series and films. Identify X and the reason he is in news now-a-days.

• Donald Trump, US Presidential Elections

6. Hungry?

Snickers ran an ad-campaign saying using "more satisfying than Italian" as their punch line. What event were they referring to?

• Suarez biting Chiellini

Question No. 7.

X is a multi-purpose sailboat with a motor or lateen sails that is used in the Maldives . It is handcrafted and its use within the multi-island nation has been very important. The traditional X is one of the oldest known sea vessels in the Maldives. Many of these traditional sailing vessels were, of necessity, built using coconut palm timber.

What is it called? I’m sure you’ve heard the name!

• Dhoni!

8. Palat!

X is a reality singing show which debuted in India last year. It is a part of an international franchise inspired by a Dutch show of the same name. The show is known for it's rotating chairs & 'blind auditions' (where judge face away from the contestants).

• The Voice

9. Connect?

Evan Spiegel( Co-founder of Snapchat) married Miranda Kerr

10. Trio

What / Who?

• Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Play's cast

11. Identify the song being played!

Bohemian Rhapsody

12. Certainly

What is this?

• What Would Richard Feynman Do?

13. Do you speak it?

X is no longer being used as a language of everyday communication, but rather as a language of learning and education among the nobility, with much literature and song composed in this language. At the start of June 2013, there were 667 words in the language.There are four grammatical numbers in X— singular, plural, paucal and collective.

For example, vala "man" (sing.); vali "men“ (pl.); valun "some men" (nom. pau.); _____ "all men" (nom. coll.).

• High Valyrian

14. The following, were within the acceptable guidelines, and recently inspired something. What?

• Nihon is one of the two ways to say “Japan” in Japanese, and literally mean “the Land of Rising Sun”

• The Moscow region, in honour of the ancient Russian land that is the home of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, where the discovery experiments were conducted using the Dubna Gas-Filled Recoil Separator in combination with the heavy ion accelerator capabilities of the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions.

• The Tennessee region, including Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Vanderbilt University, and the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, to _______ research, including the production and chemical separation of unique actinide target materials for ________synthesis

• Professor Yuri Oganessian (born 1933) for his pioneering contributions to significant advances in the nuclear physics including experimental evidence for the “island of stability”.

15. Who/What are we talking about?

• Elon Musk

16. Who’s floor plan???

17.

X literally means "An Island", and is a very famous news and information broadcating channel. It's credibility is very often questioned because of it's ownership lies with the Qatari govt. Id X.

Al Jazeera

18. F.I.T.B.

• In the June of 2016 in Nagpur, India saw its first reported case of this genetic disorder. The 1.8-kg girl was diagnosed with ________ Ichthyosis, a disorder that occurs once in 300,000 births, and her body was covered with thick plates of hardened, cracked skin and her internal organs were visible. She died after two days of her birth.

Harlequin

19. Betcha’

John Preskill is an American theoretical physicist, famously known for a popular bet that he placed with X in 1997. He suggested that in consistence to Quantum Mechanics, information could leak from a Black Hole. X, along with Kip Thorne, disagreed with him. Later in 2004, X conceded the bet and gifted a copy of 'Total Baseball, The Ultimate Baseball Encyclopedia' to Preskill. ID X.

Stephen Hawking

20. Hail Furher

X was the Reich minister for 'Propoganda and Public Enlightment' in the Nazi Party and succeeded Hitler as the chancellor of Nazi Germany. Though he served on the post only for a day and was later found dead along with his wife and 6 children.

Joseph Goebbles. He committed suicide a day later than Hitler

21. Internet does things to you

The product name X is the plural partitive of the Finnish word ____, which means 'snow'. But someone Googled the word X and found that somewhere, some time, it meant "prostitute" in Spanish. It seems to have originated in a tweet by tech writer Zach Epstein, and was then picked up by Rosa Golijan at MSNBC—and from there it went galactic. Most books couldn’t help prove the legitimacy of this fact, as they did not include slang terms. But according to The Real Academia Española’s online dictionary, “X" is a synonym for "prostituta."

22. Electropop meets Reggae

• “X" is a song recorded by Australian recording artist Y. An official remix version of “X" features vocals by Jamaican performer ________ . The song was originally meant for Rihanna's Anti (2016), but after she turned it down, Y decided to keep it and use it for her seventh studio album.

X-Cheap Thrills; Y-Sia

23. Sweeeet!

What?