11th april 2010

QC-Quiz Club of IIST 11th April 2010

1. On 13th May 2009, astronaut Mike Massimino did something during the Hubble Space Telescope repair mission for which the two confused looking guys in the picture can be blamed. What did Mike do in space?

Mike was the first person to ‘Tweet’ from space.

2. Established in 1966 in New York City, this international organisation today is a worldwide confederation of more than 400 centres, including 60 farm communities, 50 schools and 90 restaurants. In recent decades the movement's most rapid expansions in terms of numbers of membership have been within Eastern Europe (especially since the collapse of the USSR) and India. In 1995, this organisation started a project called Food for Life in Washington D. C. which is currently active in over sixty countries and serves over 700,000 meals every day. Name it.

3. Judge the book by its cover. A story in which the boy ends up with a tiger, a hyena, a zebra and a orang-utan in a small life boat.

4. What is the better known name of the Collegiate Church of St Peter, the burial site for English (Now British) monarchs? It also is the burial site of Sir Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin.

Westminster Abbey.

5. Connect:

. Mount Rushmore:

1. 2.

3. 4.

1. George Washington2. Thomas Jefferson3. Theodore Roosevelt4. Abraham Lincoln

6. Developed in British India, this device can be described as an explosive charge placed on the end of a long, extendible tube. It is used by soldiers to clear obstacles. Initially developed to clear barb wires later it came to used to clear a path of mines too.

Bangalore Torpedo.

7. A large mirror of black granite, divided into 90 smaller panels. Names of 24 are scattered over the mirror, with names of some astronauts grouped on the same panel, or pairs of adjacent panels. The names are cut completely through the surface, and filled with translucent acrylic, which is then backlit with a combination of reflected sunlight (when available) and floodlights, causing the names to glow, and appear to float in a reflection of the sky. Near the mirror is a granite wall, bearing pictures and brief biographies of those listed on the mirror.What is being described here?

8. Space Memorial, Kennedy Space Center.

8. Identify the lady in the stamp.

Valentina Tereshkova

9. Connect:

• Alcatraz• Robben• Ross• Rikers

All are prison islands.

10. Connect posters:

All have Time Travel in their primary plot

11. Belgium and Holland pulled out of the competition, leaving Great Britain to play France. By Captain's agreement the game was played as a 12-a-side game, unlike the usual 11 in most matches. The two-day game was played at the Velodrome Municipal de Vincennes. Great Britain scored 117. France were then bowled out for 78. Great Britain then scored 145 for 5 in their second innings, setting the hosts a target of 185, who were promptly bowled out for 26. This meant that Great Britain was convincingly the winner of the contest. What are we talking about?

The only time when Cricket was included in Olympics.This was in 1900 Paris Olympics.

12. The terms were coined by the Press during the French Revolution, referring to the seating arrangement in the National Assembly. People supporting radical changes of the Revolution and people supporting preservation of Ancien Régime (monarchy and established church) sat separately. Currently these terms are commonly used to classify political ideologies.

Left wing, Right Wing.