General Quiz

3. Rules
 Total 4 questions.
 Direct answers- 10 points
 Pass answers- 5 points

4. 1)
He uses a specially designed Blackberry
phone which has high securtity
mechanisms. It doesn't have a selfie
camera and messaging software. The
messaging software is removed to
prevent hacking through it. A special
mechanism has been employed for him
to message to 10 selected persons by
encrypting the messages and sending
them through base stations hiding the
IMEI number. Therefore, wherever he
goes, some people follow him with base
station facilities.
Who?

5. ANSWER

6. BARACK OBAMA

7. 2) A common misconception is that the
term for these objects, which continue
to be used in Indian houses, derives
from a preferred consummable that
was served on them.
•On the contrary, the name derived
from the Hindi words that indicate how
many support structures this object
rested on.
What term?

9. ANSWER

10. Teapoy,
from “teen pai” (three feet)

11. 3)•In 1965, after approvals, a 450 ton consignment of
Lerma Rojo & Sonora 64 left to Pakistan and India but
was stopped at Mexico, then went by a 30 truck
convoy to Los Angeles, reaching LA after a detour due
to the Watts riots.
•At LA, a Mexican bank refused to honour the Pakistani
payment of US $100,000 due to a misspelling on the
cheque, but still the shipment was loaded on a freighter
and shipped to Bombay and Karachi.
•12 hours into the ship’s journey, war broke out and X
received a telegram from Pakistan minister Malik Bucha
“I’m sorry to hear you are having trouble with my
check, but I've got troubles, too. Bombs are falling on
my front lawn. Be patient, the money is in the bank ...”
Who was X and what was this consignment all about?

12. ANSWER

13. Norman Borlaug
The first dwarf spring wheat strains that
started the Green Revolution in India &
Pakistan

14. 4) In 2006 X was named richest fictional
character by Forbes magazine. but later
X was dropped from the list because of
angry letters from children claiming X
was real .
Identify X ?

15. ANSWER

16. SANTA CLAUS

17. 5)Simple One
Connect? (Something in order)
1. Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
(1,366.33 m)
2. Kollam, Kerala , India (1,180.5 m)
3. Kharagpur, West Bengal, India (1,072.5
m)
4. State Street Center ,Chicago, Illinois,
US (1,067 m)
5. Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India: 802 m
6. Cheriton Shuttle Terminal, Folkestone,
United Kingdom( 791 m)

18. ANSWER

19. Longest Railway platforms

20. Rules
Total 4 questions.
Direct answers- 10 points
Pass answers- 5 points

21. 1) “A friend you can bank upon”

22. ANSWER

24. 2) “ Inspire the next”

25. ANSWER

27. 3) “American by birth. Rebel by choice.”

28. ANSWER

30. 4) “Fly the good times”

31. ANSWER

32. KINGFISHER AIRLINES

33. 5)TYRES WITH MUSCLES

34. ANSWER

36. Rules
• Total 4 questions.
• Direct answers- 10 points
• Pass answers- 5 points

37. 1) The Indians paid 12 villages to the
Pakistanis in 1960s in exchange for the
village of Hussainiwala, a small village
in Punjab.
What made this village so special for
India to have?

38. ANSWER

39. Burial site of the three martyrs

40. 2) A new place was started after
the shutting down of these 2
places. What was the new place?

42. ANSWER

43. CELLULAR JAIL-
ANDAMAN&NICOBAR
ISLANDS

44. 3)WHICH INDIAN FREEDOM FIGHTHER IS
COMPARED TO PROMINENT GERMAN
STATESMAN BISMARK?

45. ANSWER

46. SARDAR VALLABHAI PATEL

47. 4)He was born as Mahesh Das in 1528, in a village near
Kalpi, Uttar Pradesh, India. According to folklore, it was at
Tikawanpur near the banks of river Yamuna. He was the
third son in a Hindu Brahmin family which had previous
associations with poetry and literature. He was educated
in Hindi, Sanskrit and Persian languages and specialized in
music and poetry in the Braj language. The name by
which he’s more commonly known is derived from Vir Var
which means courageous and great, quite contrary for
him since he was not known for his bravery or for his skills as
a soldier.
Who is being talked about here?

48. ANSWER

49. BIRBAL

50. Rules
• Total 4 questions.
• Direct answers- 10 points
• Pass answers- 5 points

51. IDENTIFY
1)

52. ANSWER

53. ASIAN PAINTS

54. 2)

55. ANSWER

57. 3)

58. ANSWER

59. VISTARA AIRLINES

60. 4)

61. ANSWER

62. BANK OF AMERICA

63. 5)

64. ANSWER

66. Rules
• Total 5 questions.
• Direct answers- 10 points
• Pass answers- 5 points

67. 1)

68. ANSWER

69. ALLEN SOLLY

71. ANSWER

72. BOSE

73. 3)

74. ANSWER

75. BOSCH

76. 4)

77. ANSWER

78. 

79. 5)

80. ANSWER

81. JUSTDIAL

82. Rules
• Total 4 questions.
• Direct answers- 10 points
• Pass answers- 5 points

83. 1) “I never dared to break the glass of his
house while playing cricket as I used to
be extremely scared of him.”
Virender Sehwag talking about which
former childhood neighbour of his from
Najafgarh?

84. ANSWER

85. SUSHEEL KUMAR

86. 2) Which two Sri Lankan cricketers own a
sea food restaurant chain called ”
Ministry of Crab ” ?

87. ANSWER

88. Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela
Jayawardena

89. 3)THE RECENTLY PUBLISHED
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SACHIN
TENDULKAR-

90. ANSWER

91. PLAYING IT MY WAY

92. 4) In the 1984-85 season, India and Pakistan
were playing the 2nd ODI in Sialkot. Indian
team was at 210/3 and Vengsarkar was at
94*. At this point, the match was suddenly
abandoned. Why?

93. ANSWER

94. Assassination of Indira Gandhi

95. 5) CONNECT

96. ANSWER

97. DAVID BEKHAM

98. RULES
• A PHOTO WILL BE SHOWN.ONE PERSON
FROM THE TEAM MUST FIND OUT THE
PERSON BY ASKING THE OTHER TWO
• SAME AS RULES OF 90 SECS
• POINTS WILL BE GRANTED AS THE TIME
REMAING*2

99. TIME STARTS NOW!!

100. POINTS PLEASE

101. TIME STARTS NOW

102. POINTS PLEASE

104. POINTS PLEASE

106. POINTS PLEASE

108. POINTS PLEASE

109. Rules
• Total 4 questions.
• Direct answers- 10 points
• Pass answers- 5 points

110. 1) Id the Character
• Birth Name: Vito Andolini
• Spouse: Carmela
• Children: Sonny, Fredo, Michael, Connie,
Tom Hagen (adopted), Johnny Fontane
(godson)
• Competitors: The Tattaglias
• Area of operation: Manhattan (New
York)Death: Heart attack while playing with
his grandson Anthony in his garden
• How do we better know him?

111. ANSWER

112. Don Vito Corleone

113. 2) Identify X and Y
• The title of the movie X was
originally a subtitle for Die Hard 4
project.
• Bruce Willis traded the name for one
his movies for acting in Die Hard 4.
So they changed the subtitle to Y.
• Identify the original subtitle X which
was made into another movie and
actual subtitle Y.

114. ANSWER

115. X – Tears of the Sun
Y – Live Free or Die Hard

116. 3) According to Motion Picture Association
of America, these highly condensed series of
movie shots cannot exceed 2.5 minutes,
usually start with a green or a red band and
include rating cards.
The name comes from the fact that they
were originally shown at the end of a feature
film screening.
What term are we talking about?

117. ANSWER

118. TRAILOR

119. 4)In the movie Benaam, Amitabh
Bachchan’s character’s name is
“Amit Srivastava”. What is so
special about this fact?

120. ANSWER

121. Real name of Amitabh
Bachchan

122. 5)First Indian Movie Submitted for Oscar

123. answer

124. MOTHER INDIA

125. BUMPER QUESTION
FOR EACH CORRECT ANSWER 5MARKS
TEAMS WRITE THE ANSWERS IN THE
GIVEN PAPER

126. The slide will have 6 movie represented
graphically.
Identifying each movie will fetch you 5
points.
If you get
1 correct - 5 points
2 correct - 10 points
3 correct – 15 points
4 correct – 20 points
5 correct – 25 points
6 correct – 30 points (+5 bonus points)

128. ANSWER

129. 1)Top gun 2)Pshyco 3)The Addams family
4)There Will be blood 5)Titanic
6)Transformers

130. Family tree (+5 for each answer)
• A is an American actor who featured as the NASA
administrator in the Hollywood blockbuster
Armageddon
• B is the Oscar winning ex-wife of A and is an UNHCR
Goodwill Ambassador
• E is the father of B and is himself an Academy Award
Winner.
• C is the current husband of B and together they form
one of the most powerful celebrity couples in the USA
• D is the ex-wife of C. Her character in one of the
famous sitcom to date, also resulted in a famous
hairstyle which is still very popular amongst women

131. ANSWER

132. A-Billy Bob Thornton
B-Angelina Jolie
C-Brad Pitt
D-Jennifer Aniston
E-John Voight