QUIZQUIZ CLUB KOTTAYAM

MEDICAL COLLEGE

• 25 Questions.• No negative points.• Some Questions carry 2 points.• In case of a tie,starred questions carry more

importance.

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Q1.Tribute to Nepal..• It was a nine-storey, 61.88-metre-tall tower at the center of

Sundhara in Kathmandu. It was the tallest building in Nepal.• It was built in 1832 by Mukhtiyar (equivalent to Prime

Minister) Bhimsen Thapa under the commission of Queen Lalit Tripura Sundari and was a part of the architecture of Kathmandu recognized by UNESCO.

• It was constructed for military use as a watchtower. When incidents of national importance occurred, bugles were blown from the top floor of the tower. This was the signal for soldiers to assemble.

• Most of the tower collapsed in the 25 April 2015 Nepal earthquake, but the base remains. About 180 bodies were found in the rubble.

• Name the Tower.

ANSWER

• Bhimsen Tower (Dharahara)

Q2. X & Y ?? ( 1 point for each)

• On 19th November 1863 , X delivered a speech at the Soldier’s National Cemetery,Gettysburg.

• “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal” ( starting line of the speech )

• The speech lasted for just 2 minutes - only 272 words- but made such an impact because of the choice of simple short words, & X’s confidence & belief in what he was saying.

• X ended the speech with what we now call us the best definition of Y ever made.

• Identify X & Y.

ANSWER

• X –Abraham Lincoln• Y - Democracy

Q3.

• NaMo visited this country first during his 3 nation visit to the Island countries of Indian Ocean(in April 2015) ,the other two being Mauritius & SriLanka.

• It is named after a French Minister of Finance during the time of Louis XV.Its capital is Victoria.

• Name the country.

ANSWER

• Seychelles

Q4.Identify the person sitting near Obama.

ANSWER

• RAUL CASTRO

Q5.IDENTIFY X & Y( 1 point for each)Profile that appeared in TIME abt X

Y’S REPRESSORThree years have passed since the succession of X. His father was a repressor who let millions die of starvation. X’s educational background abroad, including studies in Switzerland, raised hopes that he might open Y. Those hopes have gone unfulfilled…. Supermarkets, Internet shopping, Italian restaurants, European beers and coffee shops are the luxuries he has made available for a tiny privileged class. The rest of the starving population is left neglected….. X has made internal party matters—like the execution of his uncle completely public….X’s allies are slowly backing away from him…..

ANSWER

• X - Kim Jong Un• Y – North Korea

Q6.A campaign against ??

ANSWER

• Passive Smoking

Q7.

• This ceremony which took place last month (April,2015) is believed to be the biggest of its kind in the history.

• “When the two-hour ceremony ended at the symbolic time of 19.15, bells rang out 100 times, an action to be repeated at …………….. around the world”

• What is the ceremony ?? Or• Commemorating which incident ??

ANSWER

• Armenian Genocide -1915• The Biggest Canonisation Service in the history

Q8. Replace the Question Marks..(Or the Incident) (1 point)

In response to the incident,protests began world all over.Here’s another cartoon depicting the victims of another carnage

that took place at around the same time wondering why the world is not acting for them .It is ?? (1 point )

j # JESUIS CHARLIE (I Support Charlie) - Charlie Hebdo Attack

# Nigeria attack by Boko Haram terrorists

ANSWER

Q9.Jawaharlal Nehru (PMI: 1947-’64)

Indira Gandhi (PMI :1966-’77;1980- ‘84)Jawahar Lal Nehru received Bharat Ratna in

1955 & Indira Gandhi in 1971.The Controversy ??

ANSWER

• Self Nominated !!!!!• (The PMI nominates individuals for the

Award )

Q10.Whose post in twitter ??

CLUE : AN ARMY MAN , A MINISTER

ANSWER

• General VK Singh

Q11.Identify.

ANSWER

• UTHARA UNNIKRISHNAN (WON THE NATIONAL AWARD FOR THE BEST FEMALE PLAYBACK SINGER FOR HER SONG IN THE FILM SAIVAM )

Q12.

• Name the campaign/project launched by Kerala Govt aimed at freeing people away from addiction to liqour,drug & other substance use.

• It is supported by UNICEF.• It was launched recently by Chief Minister

Oomen Chandy & Art of Living Foundation founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.

ANSWER

• Subhodham

Q13.

• Shortlisted for Junior national hockey squad• Shortlisted for Junior national football squad• Captain of National junior rugby team• Holds six National school swimming records• A member of National junior Davis Cup team• Fastest 100m time in National junior athletics• National badminton U-19 champion• Several records in the sport he plays at present.

Who is he ???

ANSWER

• AB Devilliers

Q14.

• March 14 is celebrated as the Pi Day as the date matches with the approximation of pi (3.14)

• Physicists celebrate Pi Day on the same day for another reason.It is the birthday of a well known physicist .

• He is ??

ANSWER

• Albert Einstein

Q15.What is “It” ? Who is X ??• It was discovered by Kenzo Suzuki in Toyota in

1988.Traditionally,the honour of naming it is left to its discoverer.If it remains unnamed for 10 years,then IAU names it.

• On April 1,2015 ,……….. Published a news about it on their website.

• Some thought of the news as an April Fool’s Joke,including X.

• X is the first Indian to have received this honour.• Some others to have been conferred this honour are

Alexander Alekhine,Antony Karpov,Roger Federer,Jesse Owens etc..

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It – 4538 VishyanandX – Vishwanathan Anand

Q16.• In 1999,the Govt of India appointed Justice Mukherjee

Commission to solve this Mystery. In 2006,the Commission submitted its report. But the GoI rejected the commission report.

• In response to an RTI request to publicise the files related to this mystery,the PMO replied ““Disclosure of documents contained in these files would prejudicially affect relations with foreign countries. As such, these files are exempted from disclosure”

• Recently,the Government announced that it will publicise those files .

• Perhaps the best work related to this mystery is Anuj Dhar’s “India’s Biggest Cover Up”.

• And the Mystery is ??

ANSWER

• Death of NETAJI ..

Q17.

• An early inspiration for his turn towards mountaineering is said to have been the statue in his school of Lt. M.Uday Bhaskar Rao, a former student who was among those who died during the Indian Army’s Everest expedition of 1985.

• In 2006,he achieved the record of climbing all the 7 summits .• He did this in a span of 172 days ( a world record then) & he

climbed each on a different day of the week.• 2 months back, weather deteriorated when he was

descending after successful summit of Trés cruces ( in the Andes,South America) & the world lost this adventure loving mountaineer.

• Who is he ??

ANSWER

• Malli Mastan Babu

Q18.

• The Dutch Mathematician Albert E Bosman constructed this tree to commemorate whom ??

ANSWER

• PYTHAGORAS

Q19.From the CWC ‘15.(A Quarter final match)

When X bowled against Y ,X to Y : You Don’t Have the Bat in your Hand..When Y bowled against X,Y to X : I think you forgot your bat in the dressing room too..The chat between X & Y - actually a battle between willow & leather that will live on for ages…Y really did made X sweat when X batted.Finally,X’s team won the match …Both X & Y were fined for their verbal sparring.Tell me X & Y (1 point each )

• X – Shane Watson• Y – Wahab Riaz

Q20.Month & Year ? (MDCCLII)

ANSWER

• September 1752 Calendar• In the British Empire, it was the only year with

355 days, as September 3 through September 13 were skipped when the Empire adopted the Gregorian calendar.

Q21.Connect“India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.”

ANSWER

Shashi Tharoor WORKED WITH

UNITED NATIONS CONGRESS MP

FROM TRIVANDRUM

AUTHOR OF “THE GREAT INDIAN NOVEL”

MEHR TARAR (The Pakistani Journalist)..

Q22.• ………. is an upcoming American thriller television series,

created by and executive produced by Joshua Safran with Mark Gordon, that set to air on ABC as a part of the 2015–16 television season.

• The series follows a group of young FBI recruits, all with specific reasons for joining as flashbacks will detail their previous lives, battling their way through training at the ……. base in Virginia.

• However, the series will reveal in a flash forward twist that in which one of the recruits, once they graduate from the academy, will be suspected of masterminding the biggest attack on New York City since 9/11.

• The lead role in this series is by a Bollywood actress.• Name the Series & the actress.

ANSWER

• Quantico ,Priyanka Chopra

Q23.

There were reports recently stating that Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) overtook this party to become the party having the largest number of voters in the world.Which party ??

ANSWER

• Communist party of China

24. Who is X ??• The Forbes Fictional 15 is a list generated by Forbes magazine

that lists the 15 richest people in the realm of fiction. The members are characters from movies, books, cartoons, television, video games, and comics.

• X was the first in the list in 2002 & 2005.X is absent from the list since 2006.

• Forbes : “We still estimate X's net worth as infinite, but we excluded him from this year's rankings after being bombarded by letters from outraged children insisting that X is real. We don't claim to have settled the ongoing controversy concerning X's existence, but after taking into account the physical evidence -……- we felt it was safer to remove him from consideration.“

• Guess X.

ANSWER

• Santa Claus

Q25.The logo of ??

ANSWER

• The Edge Browser• Microsoft’s new Browser

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