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1. Grand
Finale

2. Grand finale
Sneha Biju
Bhavans Varuna Vidyalaya
Vaishnav M
Team Azad

3. Grand Finale
Ajaynath Prabhu K U
Abhishek K
Team Bhagat Singh
Bhavans Elamakkara

4. Grand Finale
Shivdutt S Jayan
Aryan P Nair
Team Gandhiji
Bhavans Adarsh Vidyalaya

5. Grand finale
Anugraha V K
Alwin Antony
GHSS Edapally
Team Nehru

6. Grandfinale
Akansha Sebastien
TOC H Public school Vytilla
Team Nethaji
Noel Antony Alex

7. Grandfinale
Jijo Job
Isabell Anna Peter
St Ritas HS Ponnurunni
Team Patel

8. Grand finale
Akhilesh A S
Vijay Sankar Anand
HSS Valayanchirangara
Team Tagore

9. Grandfinale
Ciril C Reji
Harikrishnan T N
ST Ignatius Kanjiramattam
Team Tilak

10. Format of the Quiz

12. Rules of the Round
Its a Buzzer Round!!!!!!
•20 points for Correct answer
• -10 points for a wrong answer
•Quizmaster will stop if buzzer goes midway.
•All Questions on the buzzer
•Buzzers will be reset only if the Quizmaster is giving an
Additional clue

13. Question 1
Identify the person who has directed films like Thenthulli,
Laxmivijayam, Thottam and Gramavrikshathile Kuyil.

14. Question 2
• Identify the girl in the picture

15. Question 3
• President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih was on a visit to
India last week
• He is the President of which country

16. Question 4
• Sir Winston Churchill award
recognizes extraordinary leadership
by individuals in the spirit of
wartime.
• The winners of this award includes
Sir John Major, Madeline Albright
and Baroness Thatcher
• Who won the award for 2022
recently?

17. Question 5
Identify the person who
passed away recently

18. Question 6
Who has written
the book the
“ Light we carry”

19. AUDIENCE QUESTION

20. AUDIENCE QUESTION
IDENTIFY

21. Audience question 2
Identify the film
which won the Best
Popular Film
Providing Wholesome
Entertainment in
National film awards
2022

22. •All Questions on the buzzer
•20 for correct answer,-10 for wrong answer
• Buzzers will be reset after the question
•. Buzzers will be reset only if the Quizmaster is giving an
Additional clue

23. Q-1
Noted India author and columnist
Khushwant Singh had, in a column
written for The Hindustan Times
published this English rendering of
words written by 15th century Poet
Narsingh Mehta.
A godlike man is one,
Who feels another’s pain
Who shares another’s sorrow,
And pride does disdain.
What are we talking about?

24. Q-2
He became the first Indian Musician
to join the galaxy of immortal
composers like Mozart,Beethoven
and Luciano Pavarottito to have a
minor planet named after him.
This planet lies between Mars and
Jupiter.
The minor planet is numbered
300128 the musical maestros date of
Birth

25. Q-3
What organization did Kiran Seth establish
for the youth in 1977 ?

26. Q-4
It is the most widely spoken language of
the Munda subfamily of the Austro asiatic
languages, related to Ho and Mundari, spoken
mainly in the Indian states
of Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Mizoram
, OdishaTripura and West Bengal
It is a recognised regional language of India per
the Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution
Identify the language
OL chiki script

27. Q-5
He was the founder director of Indian
Institute of Astrophysics and is
regarded as the father of Modern Indian
Astronomy.
His efforts of building an indigenous
large optical telescope and a research
observatory led to the founding
of an optical observatory at Kavalur in
the Javadi hills, near Vaniyambadi
in Tirupattur district and installed a
indigenously built 234 cm telescope.
Identify the person

28. Q-6
Identify this computer
scientist and inventor.
He is best known for his work
on Sixth sense a neck worn
gesture based wearble
system
Reliance Jio had recently
invested in the firm recently

29. AUDIENCE QUESTION

30. AUDIENCE QUESTION-1
• This dish was first referred in 17th
century literature In Tamil Nadu
• But The story of the Dish goes back to
the reign of Shahuji I (1684-1712). His
kitchen is believed to have tweaked
this curry using tur dal instead
of moong dal and most importantly
substituted kokum with tamarind
pulp.
• This theory also suggests that the dish
was named after the Royal visitor of
the day - Sambhaji, the Second
Emperor of the Maratha empire.Which
dish are we talking about
“ whats Missing here”

31. Audience
Identify the person
who gave us
something very
important for our
School Assembly

33. •6 Questions,on the buzzer
•Random clues will appear on screen.
•You have to give me overall connect
•30 marks for getting it correct
•-15 for getting it wrong
•Buzzers will be reset only if the Quizmaster is
giving an additional clue

34. Connect the dots Q-1

35. Connect the dots Q-2

36. Connect the dots Q-3

37. Connect the dots Q-4

38. Connect Q-5

39. Connect 6
Pradosh Chindra Mitra
Q-6

40. AUDIENCE QUESTION

41. Connect the dots Q 4

43. • There will be 6 questions in the round

44. Rules of the round
• 6 Questions in this round
• You have an option of Playing ‘NEWS QUIZ GOLD CARD ’which
will give you 50 points if you get it correct but -25 if you get it
wrong
• In case you do not mention the Gold card you get +20 if you
get it correct and -10 if you get it wrong
• Buzzers will be reset only if the Quizmaster is giving an
Additional clue

45. Q-1
•This a verse that has a strict rhyme
scheme of AABBA
• Its a folk form which sometimes has
insults and amuses.
•The name of this verse is
generally believed to originate from a
city in Ireland
•This form was popularized by
Edward Lear in his first Book of
Nonsense (1846) and a later work, More
Nonsense, Pictures, Rhymes,
Botany, etc. (1872)
What are we talking about ?

46. Q-2
This person, born on August 12,
1919, was responsible for setting up
• Indian Institute of Management
Ahmedabad,
•Darpana Academy of Performing Arts
•Uranium Corporation of India
•Physical Research Laboratory
He was also responsible for the
fabrication of Aryabhata, India’s first
satellite.
Who was this scientist.

47. Q-3
On August 12, 1851, Isaac Merritt _____ was
given a patent for a machine that he had
made. He hadn’t invented it though, as the
design had been around for many years.
Merritt copied Elias Howe’s (another
inventor) design, made minor changes and
then used his showmanship to make the
machine popular.
Gandhi called it “one of the few useful things
ever invented.
What is Isaac’s full name?

48. Q-4
This 1927 American musical drama
film directed by Alan Crosland was the
first feature-length motion picture with not
only a synchronized recorded music score
but also lip-synchronous singing and speech
in several isolated sequences.
It tells the story of a young man who
defies his devout Jewish family to become
an entertainer.
What was the name of the first ‘talkie’
film which refers to what the
character successfully becomes in life?

49. Q-5
On April 14, 1828, this person copyrighted
the first edition of his dictionary. Although
he wasn’t the first American to produce a
dictionary,
It contained 70,000 entries and included
the first definitions of ‘American’ words
such as chowder and skunk.
He has been called the "Father of
American Scholarship and Education"
Who was this gentleman who learned 26
languages, including Sanskrit and Old
English, to write his dictionary?

50. Q-6
• Identify this Microfinance
organization whose founder won
the Noble peace prize in 2006
• It makes small loans (known
as microcredit to the impoverished
without requiring collateral.

51. AUDIENCE QUESTION

52. Q-
Henry Dunant was awarded the
first Nobel Peace Prize in 1901.
He founded an organisation
which was awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize in 1917, 1944 and
1963.
What is this organisation that
played a vital role in major
events that preceded those
particular years?
AUDIENCE

54. Question 1
• All Questions on the buzzer
• 20 for correct answer,-10 for wrong answer
• Buzzers will be reset after the question
• . Buzzers will be reset only if the Quizmaster is giving an
• Additional clue

55. Prelims Q-1
• Just before dawn group of eight
members of the Black
September Palestinian terrorist
organization broke into the Olympic
Village and took nine Israeli athletes,
coaches and officials hostage in their
apartments. Two of the hostages who
resisted were killed in the first
moments of the break-in; the
subsequent standoff in the Olympic
Village lasted for almost 18 hours.
• Which city was the host of this
Olympics in which this massacre took
place?

56. Prelims Q-2
• Sadbhavana Diwas”, (Harmony day)is
observed across the country every year
to promote national integration and
communal harmony and spread the
message of goodwill towards everyone
and give up violence.
• On whose birth anniversary is
Sadbhavana Diwas observed?

57. • The First name of the person in Pashto means
Grief stricken .The person was named after a
poet who is considered a national folk hero of
Afghanistan.The last name is that of tribal
confideration of river valley in Khyber
Pakhtunwa district.
• Identify the person who in 2013, 2014 and 2015
issues of Time magazine was featured as one
of the most influential people globally.
Q-3

58. Prelims Q-4
When Ivo goes back with the urn,
the urn;Studds, Steel, Read and Tylecote return,
return;
The welkin will ring loud,
The great crowd will feel proud,
Seeing Barlow and Bates with the urn, the urn;
And the rest coming home with the urn.
• Where will you find these words?

59. Prelims Q-5
• The research and cultural institute founded in 1944 by
industrialist Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain of the Sahu jain
family, conceived an idea in May 1961 to start a scheme
"commanding national prestige and of international
standard" to "select the best book out of the publications
in Indian languages.The award consists of Citation,Cash
prize and statue of Saraswati.
• Mahakavi G Sankara Kurup was the first winner of the
Prize for his collection of poems in Malayalam called
Odakkuzhal
• What award are we talking about

60. Question 6
• Whose Google doodle was this on July 19

62. Its a Buzzer Round!!!!!!
•20 points for Correct answer
• -10 points for a wrong answer
•Quizmaster will stop if buzzer goes midway.
•All Questions on the buzzer
•Buzzers will be reset only if the Quizmaster is giving an
Additional clue
LOOK AT INDIA @75

63. Prem Behari Narain Raizada was an Indian calligrapher
He is remembered for writing which document .
Every page of this document bears his name and in the
last page his grand fathers name
Q1
LOOK AT INDIA @75

64. •1945 –Cordel Hull
•1946-Emily Green Balch
•1947-Quakers
•1948- ?
•1949-Lord Boyd Orr
•1950 Ralph Bunche
What is this list all about
LOOK AT INDIA @75

65. •What is the name of
the district which
means Magnolia
forest which was a
place of major
revolt in the Indian
Independence
movement?
Q-3
LOOK AT INDIA @75

66. • This memorial is located at a place in
Gorakhpur district
• Britishers built the memorial in 1923
to honour the Policemen who died in
a famous incident during the Non
cooperation movement
• Indian Railways has a train named
after this place which runs from
Gorakhpur to Kanpur
• Identify this place
India @ 75 Q-4

67. • Here Gandhiji is seen with
Lord Fredrick William
Pethick Lawrence.
• Lord Frederick William
Pethick-Lawrence was a
British Politician.
• He was a leader of the
woman suffrage movement
in Great Britain during the
first two decades of the
20th century and then
served as the secretary of
state of India and Burma
• What is the significance of
this picture ?
Q-5
LOOK AT INDIA @75

68. India @ 75
• Sandhya Maru while appearing for
an examination of Rajkot District
Shiskhan Samity in 2016 found that
the answer key mentioned an
“Unknown journalist” as the
correct answer for a particular
question.
• She challenged the same in Gujarat
High court who gave the verdict
that it was Rabindranath Tagore
who first used it.
• What was the question ?
Q-6

70. Rules of tie breaker
•We will have total of 6 question
•A team that presser the buzzer and
gets it right wins the tie breaker
•In case team gets it incorrect the other
team will win the tie breaker

71. • Tim Berners-Lee
created the first web
browser and World
Wide Web.
• The first web page went live
on August 6, 1991.
• It was dedicated to
information on the World
Wide Web project and was
made by Tim Berners-Lee. It
ran on a NeXT computer
• Where was Tim Berners Lee
working at the time of
developing this website
Q
Closest copy of the first website
Q-1

72. Q-2
•The Spanish conquerers who came to
the country hoping to find rich
deposits of Silver gave the country its
name .
•Name the country known for its Meat
and leather industry?

73. Question 3
•By what name do we know Krishna
Pandit Bhanji who has acted in
films like Schindlers list,Twelfth
night shutter island etc?

74. Question 4
•Ernest Starling coined the term
which means to “set in motion”
•These are organic substance secreted
by plants and animals that functions
in the regulation of physiological
activities
•What are we talking about

75. Question 5
• Around two thousand years ago
it was called Helvetia when the
Romans conquered the land.It
was initially inhabited by group
of people known as Helvetti.The
stamps still has the legend
Helvetia in it.
• Which country am I talking
about?

76. Q-6
Which states Tourism Website opening page is
shown below?
Tiebreaker

77. Q-7
Haiku is a short form of seventeen
syllables that forms culture of which
country?
Tiebreaker

78. Q-8
Which film festivals highest honour is the
Palme D’or or the Golden Palm?
Tiebreaker

79. Q-9
Identify the writer

80. Q-5
Identify

81. Q-6
• What is the name of the son of Hercules

82. • What is the name of the first satellite launched
by Srilanka. It was developed by two Sri Lankan
engineers - Tharindu Dayaratne and Dulani
Chamika
Q-7

83. Tie Breaker
• Identify the actor, film director, Kannada writer who
passed away recently .He is known for his works like
Tughlaq,Nagamandala,Maa Nishaada
Q-8

84. Q-2
Identify the logo which was
released recently