tech nidarshan 2012 general quiz finals

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Introducing Powerups!!!

1. ‘Our American Cousin’ is a play in three acts by Tom Taylor.

The play is a farcical comedy whose plot is based on the introduction of an awkward, boorish American to his aristocratic English relatives. The play's most famous performance at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865.

Halfway through Act III, Scene 2, the character Asa Trenchard (the title role), played that night by Harry Hawk, utters one of the play's funniest lines, "Don't know the manners of good society, eh? Well, I guess I know enough to turn you inside out, old gal—you sockdologizing old man-trap..."

As expected there was a huge raucous laughter from the audience for this line.

What happens next?

John Wilkes Booth jumps out and shoots Abraham Lincoln.

He was waiting for the laughter

to come so that people wont hear the gunshot

A way used by Steven Holt of Surbiton Clothing to bypass the

strict rules related to advertising during the London Olympics.

When sponsors pay millions to be the "official soft

drink/clothier/wart remover/whatever" of the London Olympics, the Games' organizers are going to

vigilantly protect their brand's exclusivity.

According to the Mahabharata when Bhrigu's wife Puloma was pregnant, a Rakshasa fell in love with her and carried her off. Puloma's child slipped from her womb, called a 'chyut' child in Sanskrit, (early delivery) and thus received his name X. Many years later King Sharyati offered his daughter Sukanya for marriage to X, who was now a Rishi, so that she could take care of the revered saint. Later, the Ashvins came to his Ashram and tried to seduce Sukanya. Sukanya who refused to leave her husband, instead asked the Ashvins to restore X's youth. Following their advice, X's youth was restored by a combination of three treatments. Certain herbs were put in to a pond and the Rishi was asked to have a dip in the pond, called 'Chandra Koop’. A herbal paste was prepared for application on the body of Rishi, which was part of 'Kayakalp'. And a special herbal paste, Y was prepared for Rishi to take as medicine.

Rishi Chyawan - Chyawanprash

X worked as an asst. personnel manager for the Chicago Cartoon Company and then as a promotion copywriter for Esquire magazine. When the company moved to New York they refused the five dollar raise he/she requested. He/She quit and tried to raise enough money to launch a new Chicago Magazine. After failing he/she worked as a news stand promotions director of Publisher’s Development Corporation. While working, he/she found that there was a demand for a gentleman's magazine.

Z graduated in mechanical engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, and holds a Master of Science degree from the University of California, Berkeley. He wrote articles on computer science; engineering design; and also contribution to research in computerization of Indian languages in his early days before entering the political arena. He is currently the chief minister of a state.

Prithviraj Chavan

The XY effect is based on the commonly accepted perception that you get what you pay for. In the 1950s, Coca Cola was twice as expensive as Pepsi. Yet, Pepsi sales increased after they raised the price of the soda. In 2010, consumers pay more for brand-name bottled water, believing it is of better quality even though water is colorless, tasteless and odorless. The Effect usually refers to the cost of tuition at private colleges and universities. Many parents assume that a higher-priced education is a better education.

Chivas Regal was once an obscure brand of Scotch whiskey.

By raising its prices, it not only increased sales but also taught marketers that people associate price

with quality.

Erin Everly, who is the daughter of Everly Brothers legend Don, met ____ at a Los Angeles party in 1986. Then only 19 years old, she was embarking on a modeling career in New York City; he was 24 and still largely unknown—his first album would not be released until the following year. The pair quickly fell for each other and Everly relocated to L.A. "It was the first relationship I had had," she told People in 1994. "I felt like we were two people who didn't have much but who had found each other." Y cast Everly in the iconic video for “X," along with the other band members' girlfriends. The clip was hugely successful and nominated for two VMAs in 1989.

Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine

Isabella Eugenie Boyer (1841–1904) was born in Paris to French and English parents. Isabella married Isaac Merritt Singer, the founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Co. After Isaac's death, she married a Belgian musician, Victor Reubsaet. That was when she met the Sculptor Bartholdi. What happens next?

Bartholdi asked her to model for the Statue of Liberty which he was

building.

The lesser known of the 12 are: Pallas (Female) Judith (Female) Rachel (Female) Argine (Female) Ogier the Dane (Male) La Hire (Male) Hector (Male) Judas Maccabeus, or Lancelot (Male)

These are the Jacks and the Queens of a Pack of Playing Cards

Sir James, writing in September 1938, was led to remark: ...... s tree is all right but his tiger looks too like some species of dog, and I am afraid that a design of a dog and a tree would arouse derision among the irreverent. .....'s tiger is distinctly good but the tree has spoiled it. The stem is too long and the branches too spidery, but I should have thought that by putting a firm line under the feet of his tiger and making his tree stronger and lower we could get quite a good result from his design. What was he talking about?

Reserve Bank of India logo

It is often claimed these animals were chosen because neither animal can move backward,

only forward - i.e. progress.

1. Cashmere and silk Turtleneck 2. Levi’s 501 3. New Balance 992

12. Connect

“My father was a lawyer by training, had an MA LLB degree, but he did various things in life except practise law. Mom was also highly educated, went to Oxford, but eventually took to social work. She was very active in Delhi. In my childhood I remember she was involved with various Trans-Yamuna projects. He was a freedom fighter, a classmate of General Shahnawaz Khan (of INA fame) and Mohammad Yunus. They belonged to Peshawar but his family blacklisted him because he joined the freedom movement and stayed on in India. His family, including my own uncles, is still there. I visited Pakistan twice as a child with my father. He got into various businesses in Delhi and ran a bottling factory. Incidentally, he designed the Diplomat whisky bottle and they still sell it the same way. But he died very young.

"Hitler had a certain time to come to the stadium and a certain time to leave". "It happened he had to leave before the victory ceremony after the 100 meters. But before he left I was on my way to a broadcast and passed near his box. He waved at me and I waved back. I think it was 'bad taste' to criticize the man of the hour in another country". "When I came back to my native country, after all the stories about Hitler, I couldn't ride in the front of the bus. I had to go to the back door. I couldn't live where I wanted. I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, but I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President, either." “Hitler didn’t snub me – it was FDR who snubbed me. The president didn’t even send me a telegram.”

Jesse Owens

Jim Wesley was a drummer who worked with X in his club gigging days. But he later quit the band to go and sell carpets because there was no money to be made as a musician back then. Jody Perpick is a Canadian former musician and current Sound Engineer for X He got married almost at the same time when Jim Wesley had quit the band. Perpick was once a part of X's group during his early days but quit to concentrate on the Sound Equipment for X as he achieved success. You needn’t tell me who X is, just connect A and B. Clue: Read read read again.

JIMMY QUIT,JODY GOT MARRIED.. Shud’ve known we’d never get far… …………….. …………….. Back in the Summer of ‘69

X is a nickname for a broad sub-genre of films that emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's film-making style and international box-office success. It was used by critics in USA and other countries because most of these were produced and directed by Italians.

Spaghetti Westerns

“It was intended as a 1 hour photo booth, similar to a Fotomat booth, which were a very common sight in the late 80′s when we were first developing Photoshop. It’s meant to be a person manning the booth and a cash register inside the booth. At that time, application icons were 32×32 pixels,

1 bit per pixel. The “128” is the resource ID number. That image is a screen snapshot from ResEdit, the common resourse editor at the time. Whether you like it or not, it’s much more representative of a “________” that the eyeball icon that Y finally chose. There were other icons that went with that. The re was a document icon that looked like a roll of film, and a plugin icon that looked like a “rectabular extrusion bracket”

John Knoll speaking about the first Photoshop icon

“By that time -- the early '70s -- Y was a fairly successful textile brand. So everybody expected me to do textile engineering. I shocked them by saying that I would go to IIT. Interestingly, 4-5 of us friends studying together for Inter-science were all among the top 10. Ajay Parekh, who runs Pidilite, topped Bombay University. I stood fifth or sixth. Since Inter-science results were announced after the IIT entrance, I joined IIT, Bombay. After the Inter-science results a few weeks later, I left and joined University Department of Chemical Technology (UDCT) along with my friends.” Who is speaking here?

Mukesh Ambani, Y is Vimal

The X can be traced back to the 1st century A.D. and the Old Roman cursive, in which the letters E and T occasionally were written together to form a ligature . However, during the development of the Latin script, while the use of ligatures in general diminished, the et-ligature continued to be used and gradually became more stylized and less revealing of its origin. The modern italic type X is a kind of et-ligature that goes back to the cursive scripts developed during the Renaissance.

The Ampersand

20. Connect..

5 wicket hauls in all 3 formats of the game

X is a director/producer whose documentary film was nominated for an Oscar in the year 1978. His half brother Y was a director/producer in his own right. Id X and Y.

X is Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Y is Ramanand Sagar

In 1865, on the very day he was assassinated at Ford's Theatre, Lincoln green-lighted the X Division to suppress counterfeit currency. In 1901, Congress informally requested X for Presidential protection following the assassination of President William McKinley. From 1902 onwards, The X assumed full-time responsibility for protection of the President. It wasn't until 1951--after a failed attempt on President Harry Truman's life--that Congress codified the agency's permanent protection of the First Family. Its duties also now include candidates for high office and visiting dignitaries.

23. LVC

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24. Connect..

In San Francisco, he got the chance to see his idols, most notably B.B. King, perform live. . After several years spent working as a dishwasher in a diner, X decided to become a full-time musician. In 1966, he gained prominence by a series of accidental events all happening on the same day. X was a frequent spectator at Bill Graham's Fillmore West. During a Sunday matinee show, Paul Butterfield was slated to perform there but was unable to do so as a result of being intoxicated. Bill Graham assembled an impromptu band of musicians he knew primarily through his connections with the Grateful Dead, Butterfield's own band and Jefferson Airplane, but he had not yet picked all of the guitarists at the time. X's manager, Stan Marcum, immediately suggested to Graham that X join the impromptu band and Graham assented.

Carlos Santana

The original choice for this had been the Maharajah of Patiala who withdrew because he couldn’t afford the time away from India, his substitute the Maharajah of Porbandar never deserved it on merit, and Porbandar’s brother in law, Limbdi who would have replaced him was injured. It was finally decided upon a commoner from Indore. Tell me who was this person and what was the controversy about ?

Colonel C K Naydu. The controversy is of course

regrding choosing India's first official test captain

His first-class career lasted from 1900 to 1907. In all he played 10 matches for MCC - 18 innings, 6 not-outs, 231 runs, highest score 43, average 19.25. He also took one wicket for 50 runs, that of W G Grace.. Identify him.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Bombay to Goa is a 1972 adventure-comedy Hindi movie starring Amitabh Bachchan, Shatrughan Sinha, Aruna Irani and Mehmood. The movie is known particularly for its catchy tunes. The film is a remake of a 1966 hit Tamil film Madras to Pondicherry. It was a 'Semi-Hit' at the box office. Bombay to Goa was remade in 2007 with an ensemble cast of comedians. Mehmood had offered the role of Amitabh Bachchan to X. Id X.

Rajiv Gandhi

In 1944, Japan realized that the Allied Navy was preparing to claw back the Philippines. Hence, they decided that what their country lacked in military might, it would make up for in fervor. That was how the XXXXX was formed, led by Admiral Takijiro Onishi a ruthless warrior and one of the heroes of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. The first strike came on October 25, 1944, off the Philippine island of Leyte, and included 26 fighter planes. It peaked with the start of the battle of Okinawa in April 1945. Admiral Takijiro Onishi, after seeing all his desperate attempts to ward off his country’s imminent defeat fall through and hearing the Emperor’s decision to capitulate, swam in a pool of blood for a whole 18 hours and died squeezing the hand of a close friend. Identify XXXXX.

30. Id this beautiful lass and the unique distinction she shares with

Jonty Rhodes.

Dr. X (born December 11, 1970) is an Indian physician turned leadership

consultant, mythologist and author whose works focus largely on the areas of

myth, mythology, and also management. He has written a number of books related

to Hindu mythology, including Myth = Mithya: A Handbook of Hindu Mythology, a novel, The

Pregnant King, and Jaya: An Illustrated Retelling of the Mahabharata

Devdutt Pattnaik

Set in 1960 by U.S. Air Force Col. Joe Kittinger, this record has remained unbeaten even after the recent attempt by Austrian pilot Felix Baumgartner. Incidentally, Kittinger was the man on the other end of Baumgartner’s microphone at Mission Control in Roswell, N.M. The 84-year-old retired colonel served as Baumgartner’s mentor throughout the preparation process and his adviser throughout the flight.

Longest freefall duration

X was originally supposed to be in Barcelona. But thinking the thing would end up looking like an eyesore, the city rejected its Designer Y’s plans, and he was forced to repitch the project elsewhere. Luckily, Y found a home for his idea, where it could serve as the main archway for the 1889 International Exposition. Truth be told, the X wasn’t supposed to stay up for very long. In fact, it was offered for sale as scrap and was spared only because it proved useful to the army. (They found that its 984-foot height worked nicely as a communications tower.)

Eiffel Tower

“My father late N Gopal Holla `invented’ the X in 1949. He was a good cook himself and was incharge of the food catering the Mutt during the Paryaya festival where there would be as many as 25,000 people present for the meal. That is when he created this munchy. It was loved so much, that he decided to make it a regular feature in our hotel”, said Achuth Holla, proprietor of Mitra Samaj, Udupi. What are we talking about?

Goli Baje

35. Connect

NEVERLAND

In common parlance, a X is someone who, given a certain argument, takes a position he or she does not necessarily agree with, for the sake of argument. In taking such position, the individual taking on the role seeks to engage others in an argumentative discussion process. The purpose of such process is typically to test the quality of the original argument and identify weaknesses in its structure, and to use such information to either improve or abandon the original, opposing position. It can also refer to someone who takes a stance that is seen as unpopular or unconventional, but is actually another way of arguing a much more conventional stance.

The X is described as resembling "a small, thin, flexible lap computer" encased in a "sturdy plastic cover" with the words "Don't Panic" inscribed on it "in large, friendly letters". It is presumably of robust construction, making it able to withstand falling through time/space wormholes and being thrown into swamps, being rescued, and still operating.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

38. Connect

Asterix The first visual is the first French satellite launched - Asterix-I (a dedication to Asterix). Goscinny and Uderzo in the next pic.

He was a leading artist of the Pop art movement. He has the largest museum in the USA dedicated to a single artist. In the mid-1960s, he adopted the band the Velvet Underground, making them a crucial element of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable multimedia performance art show. He, with Paul Morrissey, acted as the band's manager, introducing them to Nico (who would perform with the band at X's request). In 1966 he "produced" their first album The Velvet Underground & Nico, as well as providing its album art.

Y bought the rights to the novel anonymously from Robert Bloch for only US$9,000. He then bought up as many copies of the novel as he could to keep the ending a secret. To ensure the people were in the theaters at the start of the film (rather than walking in part way through) the studio provided a record to play in the foyer of the theaters. The album featured background music, occasionally interrupted by a voice saying "Ten minutes to X time," "Five minutes to X time," and so on. Every theater that showed the film had a cardboard cut-out installed in the lobby of Y pointing to his wristwatch with a note from the director saying "The manager of this theatre has been instructed at the risk of his life, not to admit to the theatre any persons after the picture starts. Any spurious attempts to enter by side doors, fire escapes or ventilating shafts will be met by force. The entire objective of this extraordinary policy, of course, is to help you enjoy X more. Y"

X – Psycho Y – Alfred Hitchcock

41. SVC

On a London vacation with his wife, Cole declined to enter a museum on the north London thoroughfare. "I told her, 'I've seen enough museums. You go on in, take your time and look around and so on, and I'll just stay out here and see what's going on outside,'" he recalled. Parked just outside was a black police van. "I like to just start talking with people," Cole said. "I walked out, and that cop was sitting there in that police car. I just started carrying on a conversation with him. I was asking him about all kinds of things, about the city of London and the traffic control, things like that. Passing the time of day.“ It was 10 a.m., Aug. 8, 1969. Photographer Iain McMillan was on a stepladder in the middle of the street. “I just happened to look up, and I saw those guys walking across the street like a line of ducks," Cole remembered. "A bunch of kooks, I called them, because they were rather radical-looking at that time. You didn't walk around in London barefoot.”

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42. ID

Chandrashekara Kambara

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