mixed bag quiz

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MIXED BAG

Shubham Saurav 1st year, ETC

QUIZ

Rules

+10 on direct question +20/-10 on pounce Total 3 rounds

1First image of what?

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Light as a wave and as a particle.ENERGY-SPACE PHOTOGRAPHY OF LIGHT CONFINED ON A NANOWIRE, SIMULTANEOUSLY SHOWS BOTH SPATIAL INTERFERENCE AND ENERGY QUANTIZATION.

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As per the Ministry of road transport and highways, a division of Indian government is set to provide their services for commuters to enable them to plan their journey on national highways. The Highway advisory service will introduced as a pilot project on NH8 between Delhi and Jaipur where their facility will provide their services 22 times/daily.

Name the Division and their service.

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Division- All India Radio(AIR) Service- live traffic update for highways

3-List of what? Who is blanked out?

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Answer-3Most number of patents, Thomas Alva Edison

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A book titled ‘Love, Loss and What We ate’, is written by a Model___________ which includes details about her married life with her ex husband ___y____, who is quite famous and controversial figure of a particular field.

She has also hosted a popular TV show. She quoted-’___Y____ needed constant care ,feeding

and was insensitive when it came to sex . Name both of them.

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Padma Lakshmi and Salman Rushdie.

5ID X.

X syndrome is a term of Japanese origin, which refers to an isolated development branch of a globally available product. The term is used as an analogy to a part of Charles Darwin Origin of Species. Darwin encountered in the X isolated flora and fauna, which led to evolutionary changes. This phenomenon was a key to the development of Evolutionary Theory. Darwin stated that in the biological isolation species have evolved to develop different characteristics, allowing adaptation making them more viable in the local environment. Similarly, a development of goods "in relative isolation from the rest of the world because of a focus on the local market" can lead to similarly differing products.

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Galapagos Islands.

6This is a 7-Eleven store in Seattle doing a promotional campaign of what?

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Answer-6 The Simpsons movie

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Former Manchester United defender Ritchie De Laet did not get a winner's medal in the 2008/09 Premier League season because De Laet only made one league appearance, thus he wasn't entitled to a winners' medal with Manchester United.

But what unique first can he achieve this season?

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Winner of the premier league medal and the championship medal together in the same season.

8The X is a unit of information and of entropy defined by IEC 80000-13. One X is the information content of an event when the probability of that event occurring is one half.

X is equivalent to Y.

Y is a basic unit of information in computing and digital communications.

Gimme X and Y.

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X- Shannon Y- Bit

9 ____X____ is the 8th largest company in the world in terms of revenue. Ii is not a conglomerate also Unlike Aramco or Sinopoec this is not

some government organization masquerading as a company. It is not a popular brand. It doesn't employ a lot of people [hardly 5000 employees].

But, this under the cover company makes more revenues than Apple, Toyota, Microsoft, JP Morgan and the brands you know. $270 billion dollars in annual revenues. It is fairly secretive even though they are the largest independent energy trader in the world.

 Through this hoarding they control a lot of world market prices, besides enabling direct trading of many kinds.

They even enable the ISIS to sell oil to the United States. Name this Giant?

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Vitol

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A research conducted in CMU demonstrates that reading this takes 244 hours a year, which in monetary value is worth about $3534 per American.Reading it in a superficial manner, averages 6.3 mins thus accounting to 154 hours/year. The current policy decisions surrounding the activity suggest that 221 million American consumers should give up an estimated $781 billion of their time to achieve its objectives, to an industry worth substantially less.

What is the text we are talking about, which research concludes as that reading it is something hard, done infrequently and does not support rational decision making?

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Reading privacy policies

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Freddie Mercury used the same piano that artist X used in his song Y.

When X played this song for John Lennon and Yoko Ono, John interpreted it as being about him; he heard the lines and thought it was imploring him to leave his first wife and go after Yoko ("I always heard it as a song to me," said Lennon).

This was one of Lennon's more narcissistic moments, as he failed to grasp that the song was written for his son.

ID X and Y?

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X - Paul McCartney Y - Hey Jude

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 Alzheimer's disease,

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Claude Shannon (Father of Information theory)

Round 2

6 slides of 6 different pesons Need the connect between them.

+100/-75

+75/-50

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Color blindness  They Rock Despite Having The Color Handicap

Round 3

12 slides of common things that we use or see in our day to day life.

Need the full name of that thing. +5 for each +10 for 8 or more correct

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#prachar

5 ads by 5 different organization+5 for each.+10 bonus for 3 or more correct.

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