A simple 10 ques quiz to kickstart Version 2.0 of QUizzardo Online Quiz series... the Question setters are back after an year long sabbatical... a new set will be up and running every Sunday... mail your answers to athith123@gmail.com
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๏ข 10 simple Qsโฆโฆ do whteva u want โ googling,
oogling, oglingโฆ or nythinโฆ
๏ข All puns on the Acronym in the previous slide are
intendedโฆ..
๏ข Mail your answers by 2nd Aug to me on Facebookโฆ
or mail to athith123@gmail.com
๏ข Answers will be up on 3rd August Morninโฆ.
๏ข No answer is 42โฆโฆ
3. 1.
๏ข This movie had a disastrous effect on the Medical
fieldโฆ.
๏ข Something that was prevalent in 1977, dropped
60% by 1978 throughout the US thanks to this
movie.
๏ข What was the disastrous effect?
๏ข (Movie Poster on the next slide)
5. 2.
๏ข This personโs husband, Ptolemy III, ruler of Egypt
and Cyrene was normally off at wars. So, she
prayed for his safe return and, to ensure it, in about
247 B.C., had her long hair cut off and dedicated to
the gods in a temple of Aphrodite. The hair was
stolen, but the astronomer, Conan of Samos was
tactful- pointed somewhere and made up
something. This led to a trend which continues
even to this day in the field of science.
๏ข Whose hair, and what trend?
6. 3.
๏ข This species, native to Democratic Republic of
Congo, was named for a Norse God because of its
spine with godly strength and for a Professor at
Humboldt State University. They are the only
mammal species known to have interlocking
vertebrae. It was discovered in July 2013 at Baleko
village.
๏ข Which animal? (specific answer please)
7. 4.
๏ข The cause of much hilarity among schoolchildren, XY is
an old-fashioned steamed pudding which dates back to
at least the 1800s. The โX" refers to the dried fruit, while
โY" may be a corruption of the word pudding or possibly
a corruption of the word dough or dog, as โX dog" is
another name for the same dish with the use of plums
rather than currants.
๏ข The dish made national news in 2009, when the red-
faced staff at Flintshire County Council decided to
rename it the rather more polite โXZโ.
๏ข XY ???
8. 5.
๏ข N. Srinivasan refused to resign from the post of BCCI
President on moral grounds, earlier this year. So,
someone else felt that he had failed in making Srini
resign and thus he resigned from his post on moral
grounds and thought that this would set a precedent for
others who shared his profession and views (He got
back to his position after Srini resigned).
๏ข He said this and resigned, โIn the past ____ ___, in the
face of many adversities, has successfully exposed
many corruption cases harming the country. However,
this man is not willing to budge despite relentless
pressure. It is our moral responsibility to bring justice to
the people of this great nation for we consider ourselves
as the guardians of justice when everything else fails to
deliver.โ
๏ข Who?
10. 7.
๏ข The entire 200 of these were analyzed by a certain
American University and a strong dichotomy was
revealed.
๏ข There are 16 wicked mothers or step-mothers and
only 3 wicked fathers or step-fathers.
๏ข There are 23 evil female witches and only 2 evil male
ones.
๏ข There are 13 young women who kill or endanger the
men who love them, only one 1 man who harms his
bride.
๏ข What are we talking about?(Again โฆ specific answer
please)
12. 9.
๏ข This was originally established to preserve faith,
instead it prevented speech and thought for almost
3 centuries and was finally abolished in 1966 by
those who created it.
๏ข Epitome astronomiae Copernicianae was on it from
1621 to 1835. Other famous ones in the list include
Newtonโs Principia, Rosenbergโs Myth of the 20th
Century, Descartes, Giordano Bruno(all his works),
etcโฆ
๏ข There were certain loopholes in it which led to
formation of another organization which dealt with
Non-Printed Matter.
๏ข What am I talking about?
13. 10.
๏ข A body part that changed World History. Spin a tale
around this image below.
๏ข Just to help you guysโฆ.. The guy sitting on the
chair is being shown something by someoneโฆ..
continue..