General Open Quiz in Amrita School of Engineering,Amritapuri,Kollam

1. LANDMARK OPEN
GENERAL QUIZ
27th
April 2015

2. RESEARCHED AND CONDUCTED
BY
● Agney Rao
● Aswin Babu
● Joyce George

4. ROUND 1
● MIXED BAG

5. ●RULES:
All stuff mixed up
Bounce & Pounce applicable
+10 if right , +5 on pass
On pounce, +10 if right, -5 if wrong
You cant pounce on your own Q.
( well, why would you ? )
●

6. 1
The Vanishing Act is an upcoming thriller film to be directed
by Kamasutra 3D director Rupesh Paul, as inspired by events
surrounding ___________ .
A teaser of the movie was released at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival,
and received an adverse reaction from social and mainstream media.
The story revolves around five young people and the decisions they
make in life,
as inspired by events surrounding _________and a
theory by an unnamed journalist of what may have happened in
reality.
FITB.

8. MH370 / missing Malaysian plane

9. 2
In 2004, APJ Abdul Kalam broke this tradition, that was being followed by
most of his predecessors.
In 2009, Pratibha Patil followed suit, I mean, by breaking the tradition.
However, in 2014, Pranab Mukherjee decided to reinstate the practice.
What are we talking about ?

11. To vote or not to
whether the President should cast his vote

12. 3
● Whose FB Post?

15. 4
Two hundred thousand rotis (Indian flat bread), 1.5 tonnes of dal
(lentil soup) and free food served to 100,000 people everyday are what
makes the free kitchen run at the X stand apart.
By all measures, the kitchen is one of the largest free
kitchens to be run anywhere in the world.
At the X, no one goes hungry - and everybody gets a hot
meal regardless of caste, creed and religion.
Funda X.

17. Guru ka langar/Golden
temple langar

18. 5.Before and After 25th
April
Nepal Earthquake

19. ● Identify this tower of Nepal which was built in
1832 by then Prime Minister of Nepal Bhimsen
Tapa and is recogonised by UNESCO.
● Funda me this monument.

21. ● Dharahara/Bhimsen Tower

22. 6
● Tribute to?

24. ● Erwin schrödinger

25. 7
● WHICH COUNTRY ? •
● X became an independent state on 9 July 2011,
following a referendum that passed with 98.83%
of the vote. It is a United Nations member state,
a member state of the African Union, and a
member state of the Intergovernmental Authority
on Development. •
● In July 2012, X signed the Geneva Conventions
making it the youngest country in the world

28. 8.Id the patent holder & purpose of invention .

31. 9
● Identify the location in the next image.
● "In 2004, a 2m statue of the dancing Shiva was
unveiled at ---------. The statue, symbolizing
Shiva's cosmic dance of creation and
destruction, was given to ---------- by the Indian
government to celebrate the research center's
long association with India.
● FITB

34. CERN

35. 10
Only one Indian parliamentarian has the distinction of being
elected from four different states.
This person also holds the record of winning from six different
constituencies.
Who?

38. 11
● Funda Again

41. 12
● Gaming location inspired by?
●

43. ABBOTTABAD HIDEOUT OF BIN LADEN

44. 13
● Identify the location
● Video to follow.

45. ● Dhanushkodi

46. 14
Simple ..!!!
What is the capital of Sri Lanka?

48. ● Sri Jayawardhanapura Kotte

49. 15
These are called Ferrite Beads or Chokes – Essentially an
Electromagnetic wave-bouncer.
They look like this from the inside, mostly empty – essentially a
magnetic core to prevent EMI interference.
Where would you most regularly come across this in everyday life?

51. The beady looking thing on your Laptop Charger wire.

52. 16.
– The Imitation Game is a 2014 historical thriller film
directed by Morten Tyldum, with a screenplay by
Graham Moore loosely based on the biography X :
The Enigma by Andrew Hodges. It stars Benedict
Cumberbatch as the British cryptanalyst X, who
helped solve the Enigma code during the Second
World War and was later prosecuted for
homosexuality.
–
– Identify X

54. 16
● ALAN TURING

55. 17
● Where was India's First Nuclear Explosion and
what is it known as?

56. ● Pokhran
● Smiling Budhha

57. 18
● Good governance day is celebrated all over
India on?

59. ● December 25th

60. 19
● Which sport is known as “Gentleman's
only,ladies forbidden.”?

63. 20
● X Clueless About Y, Loves David Beckham.
X, who won the French Open but lost in
Wimbledon, said X was not aware of Y. The
Russian said she was impressed by David
Beckham and was in awe of basketball legend
Michael Jordan.
●
●
This is a 3rd
July 2014 news report in NDTV.

66. THE LANDMARK 2015
ROUND:2

67. GENERAL RULES:
Team with bounced answers will
get 5 points
Each team gets 10 points for
correct answers
Team with incorrect bounced
answers will get -5 points.

68. 1) NARGIS DUTT award given for best movie on
national integration received by films like border,
lagan.
This award was initiated in
1965.
Which film got this award in
1965?

69. Film based on Bhagat singh’s life

70. 2)”THE PUNCH” a winning design by an
American named Eric Atkins was
revealed in TV during 2012 Asia cup
match between India and Pakistan.
 Which company was behind this?

71. Micromax

72. 3) Hiteswar saikia former chief
minister of Assam rented out a
house in 90’s,the address still
reads:
House No. 3989, Nandan Nagar,
Ward No. 51, Sarumataria,
Dispur, Guwahati, Distt. Kamrup,
(Assam) – 781006
who is this famous resident?

73. Dr. Manmohan Singh

74. 4) "I would say the difference
between the two side is the fielding.
X are all-round a good fielding side. I
do believe that India have few...3or 4
very good fielders and one or two
donkeys in the field still," This is a controversial comment made by ‘Y’
during a cricket commentary.
 Identify X and Y

75. Nassir Hussain, England

76. 5) “Change is hard –- in our own lives, and
in the lives of nations. And change is even
harder when we carry the heavy weight of
history on our shoulders. But today we are
making these changes because it is the
right thing to do. Today, ‘X’ chooses to cut
loose the shackles of the past so as to
reach for a better future –- for the
‘Y’people, for us, for our entire hemisphere,
and for the world.
‘x’ and ‘y’ represents 2 nations
who made this famous


77. CUBA, USA
Barack Obama

78. 6) Find out a funda…

80. 7) This famous personality was
recently in news for raging a
protest against arms and
ammunition usage among
civilians.
-find out a funda between these
two images

81. Mark Edward Kelly (born February 21, 1964) is a retired
American astronaut, engineer and U.S. Navy Captain. He
is the husband of former Congresswoman Gabrielle
Giffords, an author, and an advocate of gun control.
 Kelly's identical twin brother, Scott Kelly, is also an
astronaut and served as commander of International
Space Station (ISS) Expedition 26.[5]
The Kelly brothers are
the only twins and only siblings to have both traveled in
space.[6]
In 2015, his brother was selected to spend a
year in space on the ISS. As such, the twin brothers will
be studied to find differences between living on Earth
and in space.

82. 8) FC Barcelona signed a new
sponsorship deal in December
2013 with this company.
- Identify This company.

84. 9) This image relates something to
a corporate which was formed long
back in 1932, with years of
successful service,
it have recently came up with a
new venture which has got its
name from the Sanskrit root word
for ‘EXPANSION’
what are we talking about?

87. 10)
Meant for the demonstration of
the conservation of momentum and energy via
a series of swinging spheres, when one on the
end is lifted and released, the resulting force
travels through the line and pushes the last
one upward. What is this device called

88. NEWTON’S CRADDLE

89. 11) The image shown on the next
slide have erupted a lot of
controversies which even shackled
the world journalistic solidarity.
- caused upsets around the world
and caused lives of more than 200
people.
-This is a picture by a Danish
cartoonist ‘x’ of a famous magazine
‘y’

91. Kurt westergaard

92. 12) This is an ‘Amul girl’ picture
ironically representing a
controversial matter.
- Identify the 2 personalities
portrayed in this picture.

93. George fernandes,Vajpayee

94. 13) Began in 1979,as a IT
division of Lucas film
grown as a corporation in 1986
with funding by Apple Inc.co
founder Steve Jobs.later The
Walt Disney company bought
this in 2006 at a valuation of 7.4
billion dollars thus Steve
becoming Disney’s largest
share holder at that time.

96. 14) Identify this world famous
UNESCO heritage site

97. Temple of the Tooth
Kandy,srilanka

98. 15) This is a model of the Viraat Ramayan
Mandir being built in Kesaria, Bihar. The
complex will contain 18 temples, spread over
110 acres of land. When completed, it will be the
largest religious monument in the world, even
larger than the one it takes inspiration from.
Name the magnificent monument that has
inspired its construction

99. Angkor wat,Combodia

100. ROUND:3
MELA QUIZ

101. 1
This is a TV Series that began airing on Feb 8,2015.This series is a spin off of a very famous
that aired from 2008-2013.What is the name of the original series?

104. 2
Which famous Music band?

107. 3
● Which Movie?
●

110. 4
● Identify the singer in this Audio

112. Elvis Presley

113. 5
Who is this famous
Personality?.
For what did she get
the award?

115. Bhanu Athaiya
Best costume Design

116. 6
What is so special
about this video?

119. 7
This the cover of a famous album by a very famous band. Which band and which album?

122. 8.Identify the commentator(Video
to follow)

124. Richie Benaud

125. 9
In the early 1900s Indian’s were used to watch stage programmes that lasted 5-6 hours and w
for an entire night. Then came this advertisement for a particular product ” A performance with
photographs. A picture two miles long, In 40 minutes. All for 3 annas”.What was the product?

127. Raja Harischandra
First Indian movie

128. 10
This is the symbolic funeral ceremony of which famous person?

130. Gabriel Garcia Marquez