Excel General Quiz

Prelims

Identify the logo, explain funda

• India’s UniqueID Project

This footballer’s goalkeeping record doesn’t feature any goal saves penalty saves, or clean sheets or even long goalkeeping time. In fact his goalkeeping career was a result of his team losing 2 goalkeepers in the same game(against reading) on 14th October 2006.

Who is he…?

• John Terry

Who is the macho man…?

• Stan Lee

Logo of what…?

• Logo for ICC World Cup 2011

Who is the famous X…?

Although X has been famous for a while, the peak of his fame was reached when a fan website was started on Children’s Day, 2009. He is probably one of the youngest Indians to have a fan website of his own. One of the earliest reference to him in mainstream media was in the 2002 movie Kalyanaraman. In a particular scene in the movie, actor Innocent claims he was X in his previous birth died due to diabetes when he was studying in L.K.G at Little flower convent girls high school, Nadathara.

Archenemy - Sasi

• Tintumon

Identify the great…

• Venu Nagavally

Koo Bon Joon was appointed the CEO of which company recently…?

• LG Electronics, which is actually going through some pretty bad times..

Identify

• Suresh Kalmadi

TOWN was founded in 1796 by a group led by ‘Jebediah TOWN’ that, after misinterpreting a passage in the Bible, left Maryland trying to find "New Sodom”. After he refused to found a town where men were free to marry their cousins, half of the group left. The dissenters founded Shelbyville, after fellow pioneer Shelbyville Manhattan, and the two cities remain rivals. TOWN reached its pinnacle in the mid-20th century, when it became the home of the world's first Aquacar factory. The city's prosperity faded; a Time cover story on TOWN was entitled "America's Worst City”, and Newsweek called the city "America's Crud Bucket

Geographical features include TOWN Gorge, TOWN National Forest, the volcanic Mt. TOWN, the West TOWN desert ("three times the size of Texas"),the TOWN, the gigantic Murderhorn mountain, TOWN Glacier, Mt. Useful National Park, TOWN Mesa, and TOWN National Park.

The town's skies are usually blue and sunny. It has been subject to many natural disasters, however, including heat waves, blizzards, avalanches, earthquakes, acid rain, floods, hurricanes, lightning strikes, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions, and a comet impact.

Identify the TOWN

• Springfield, the town in Simpsons

What feature…?• According to a study , this feature costs Google $110 million a

year as 1% of all searches use this feature and bypass all advertising.

• On October 30, 2009, for some users, the feature was removed from Google's main page. The feature was replaced by "This space intentionally left blank." This text faded out when the mouse was moved on the page, and normal functionality is restored

• On May 21, 2010, the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man, the feature was replaced with a button reading the words "Insert Coin". After pressing the button, the user would begin a game of Pac-Man in the area where the Google logo would normally be. Pressing the button a second time would begin a two-player version of the same game that includes Ms. Pacman

• I am feeling Lucky

What is X…?

Hidden Reflex is a software product startup founded by Alok Bhardwaj in 2007 and based in Bangalore. Alok and team, inspired by the success of open source software and web 2.0 are working on two products simultaneously – X and NewsDrink. The company also has three patents pending related to its product innovations.

According to him, “We want to prove that India can be a hub for innovation in software and technology.“Our mission with X is to create the most secure, most productive and most “Indian” _______ experience

• Epic Browser

• Wikileaks poster featuring Julian Assange.

• Plain woven textile originally from the city of ________, Kerala, India. The fabric was made by the traditional weavers called chaliyans.

Calico from Calicut

Which club am I talking about…?

The current club crest was adopted in 1997, a result of the previous crest being ineligible for registration as a trademark. The shield features a ship on its upper half representing the ____________Ship Canal, and three diagonal stripes in the lower half, for the city's three rivers. The bottom of the badge bears the motto Superbia in Proelio, which translates as “Pride in Battle” in Latin. Above the eagle and shield are three stars, which are purely decorative.

• Manchester City

One of the Navratnas of Akbar’s court, he was the son of a schoolmaster. He mastered Persian and Arabic, philosophy and astronomy. He was accepted by Akbar but was disappointed when he was put in charge of the poultry house. He later went onto to become famous with a dish that he created, which according to legend happened when he asked for one particular ingredient to be increased.

Identify

• Mullah Do Piaza, of Chicken Do Piaza fame.

Who is X…?In May 2007, X made a post on the official Nine Inch Nails website condemning Universal Music Group . He labelled the company's retail pricing of Year Zero in Australia as "ABSURD," concluding that "as a reward for being a 'true fan' you get ripped off.

In September 2007, X continued his attack on Universal Music Group at a concert in Australia, urging fans there to "steal" his music online instead of purchasing it legally. X went on to encourage the crowd to "steal and steal and steal some more and give it to all your friends and keep on stealin'.”

• Trent Reznor

Id the movie…

Film directed by Tony Scott, The film's producer, John Davis, stated that “_________ was a recruiting video for the Navy. It really helped their recruiting. People saw the movie and said, 'Wow! I want to be a pilot.'“

The United States Navy stated that after the release of the film that the number of young men who enlisted, wanting to be Navy aviators, went up by 500 percent.

• Topgun

Which Movie….?

• This Malayalam movie was ultimately derived from HG wells' short story, 'Country of the blind'. 'In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king‘

• This movie was the official Indian submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1997.

• Guru

Which comic book hero…?

• Nagraj

• This novel starts with the lines"Love is not the greatest glue between two people. Sex is.”• And ends with “Sex is not the greatest glue between two people. Love is.”

Identify this sensational novel.

• Alchemy of Desire.

Id the book.. No I have not blanked anything out…

• One Red Paper Clip

• The collapse of the walkway in the CWG village.

Connect…

Kanishka

• Inderjit Singh Reyat, Air India Flight IA 182, coin with Kanishka on it.

This recently released game has earned a dubious distinction.

Ps: Its not the violence….

• The record for the most profane game.

• 200 occurrences of the F word.

• Arun or Aruna is the charioteer of the sun god in Hindu mythology. He is the son of vinata (one of the 13 daughters of daksha) and kashyapa. Aruna is also the personification of sun's reddish glow. Who is his more famous brother?

• Garuda

Which Sporting term originates from this…?

• Wickets from the term wicket gate.

What connects the two…?

• Welspun India manufactured the towels for Wimbledon 2010.

A game played by two people. It is known throughout the world as a pencil and paper game and predates World War I in this form. It was invented by Clifford Von Wickler in the early 1900s, but he never patented the game and it was soon published by Milton Bradley Company in 1943 as the pad-and-pencil game "Broadsides, the Game of Naval Strategy“. It made an appearance in the Asterix , when Asterix and Getafix play a variant of this game, Quinqueremes and Galleys

Type of ship Sizeaircraft carrier 5 battleship 4 cruiser 3 submarine 3 destroyer 2

What Game…?

• Battleship

Connect the people

• Mordecai Sherwin, Frank Shacklock, Dr. Joseph Bell.

• Real life people who inspired the name and character of Sherlock Holmes

Connect the following images

• The images on the back of the Rs. 1000 note