kalavaibhavam quiz finals
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Welcome one and all
Rules
• Quiz master plays god here• Infinite bounce• Time limit for a direct question is 70 seconds
and for a pass question is 5 seconds• First 25 questions goes clockwise while next
25 questions goes anti clock wise
Explain
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The skit satirized recent failed Israeli-Palestinian peace attempts and features Large puppet versions of the colorful Angry Birds and their enemies, green Pigs, at a press conference to announce a brokered peace deal.
“I knew something would come in the slip for me, because I had dropped two in the previous game, I told my team mates I will get one. When it hit the edge, I knew it’s time and saw it into my hand. And the celebrations, malachi ran one way, and I ran the other”
Who about what????
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Dwayne Leverock about the “catch that shook the world”
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In the 18th century , It was too cheap to dye pink while it was too costly to bleach white. What happened as a result of this, which is present till date?
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• Yellow pages
Golden Sounds is a Makoosa group from Cameroon. It was led by a career member of Cameroon's presidential guard, Jean Paul Zé Bella. The men in the group provided comical musical entertainment, picture of their famous works is shown below….ID their now very famous song which was remade by another famous artist.
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Zangelwa or “Waka Waka”
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Diversity dance group
To render X, Y used a 10,000 sq ft (930 m2) server farm making use of 4,000 Hewlett-Packard servers with 35,000 processor cores running Ubuntu Linux and the Grid Engine cluster manager. The render farm occupies the 193rd to 197th spots in the TOP500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers. A new texturing and paint software system called Mari, was developed by The Foundry in cooperation with y. ID X and Y
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X-Avatar Y-Weta
The Mother of All Demos is X's December 9, 1968, demonstration of experimental computer technologies that are now commonplace ,like video conferencing, teleconferencing, email, hypertext, word processing, hypermedia , etc. ID X
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Douglas Englebert
What “lucky” feat did he achieve
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Tsutomu Yamaguchi…. survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings during World War II.
Modern logo of??
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Flat Earth Society………Bunch of people who think the Earth is flat…..still!!!
Who Said This
"Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye. And the world just watched. Tomorrow there will be no shortage of volunteers, no shortage of patriots. I know you understand.“
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• General Shepherd from Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare2
It is relatively common, especially in the United States, to find the X, with its two snakes and wings, used as a symbol of medicine instead of the correct rod of Y, with only a single snake. This usage is erroneous, popularized largely as a result of the adoption of the X as its insignia by the US Army medical corps in 1902 .ID X and Y
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• X-Caduceus• Y-Asclepius
ID the place and tell what significant event took place years ago
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• Liberty Bell• Declaration of independence of United States
of America was Signed here
Where would you find this computer
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Apollo guidance module and Lunar Module
X was a fake chess Playing machine constructed in the late 18th century. From 1770 until its destruction by fire in 1854, it was exhibited by various owners as an automaton, though it was exposed in the early 1820s as an elaborate hoax..Pic in the next slide
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The Turk
FITB
• Mehran Karimi Nasseri is an Iranian refugee who lived in the departure lounge of Terminal One in Charles de Gaulle Airport from 8 August 1988 until July 2006, when he was hospitalized for an unspecified ailment. His autobiography has been published as a book and was the basis for the movie _______.
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Connect
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• Products made as a replacement during world war II as resources were scarce
Explain
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• An easter egg!!!....Search for ASCII art in google and the google logo itself changes into an ASCII art!!!
How do we know them better??
• Max Ray - 'Brilliant' Sea Operations Commander
• Jake Rockwell - 'Rugged' Land Operations Specialist
• Ace McCloud - 'Daring' Air Operations Expert
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Setup for?
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Bullet time sequence
Logo of??
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Gringotts Bank
ID X or what he does for living
X has been named one of the "100 Most Influential People in the World" by Time magazine. Ranked 33rd in the GQ "50 Most Powerful in D.C." and featured in the Vanity Fair "Next Establishment" list. X was also one of "World's Most Beautiful People" issue of People magazine. Pic in next slide
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John Favreau……..official Speechwriter for Obama
First to get what??
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pacemaker
What's special????
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Whenever you see an flight being hijacked…or getting crashed in films or serials ….it will be Oceanic airlines(fictional)
Led to what???
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Hollywood studios began inserting the disclaimer "This motion picture is a work of fiction and any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental" in the credits of virtually every film released since.
• Homage to whom ??...by whom??? And why??
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Prior to Steam's Mac OS X release, Valve released teaser ads that paid homage to famous Apple advertisements, such as the 1984 commercial.
What are you watching if You see this??
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What’s special about a light blue Reliant Regal Supervan III (registration GRA 26K),
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Arch nemesis of Mr. bean .. which will usually get tipped over, crashed into, bumped out of its parking space and so forth by Mr. Bean
• Designed by Micheal Foley of Foley design along with Titan industries and Bharath electronics, it has an embedded system to receive messages from enthusiasts from allover the world to this number – 9818924545
• These messages can be viewed when it is Docked
• What is being described28
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• 2010 Commonwealth games baton
X is a common national personification of the American government originally used during the War of 1812. He is depicted as a stern elderly man with white hair and a goatee beard. Typically he is dressed in clothing that recalls the design elements of the flag of the United States. ID X
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Uncle Sam
Which IT company comes to your Mind???
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• Google• “Standing on the shoulders of giants” is the
motto of Google Scholar
ID X and Y
As seen in the 2007 movie “X”. A “Y” is an assault against the United States’ government, transportation, and economy by computer hackers. Much like the more common term meaning "everything must go." Any and all computer-based systems are the objective and would destroy the modern day life of America.
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• X-Live free or Die Hard• Y-Fire Sale
FITB
• _________ was founded in 1961, at a X restaurant in Elk Grove Village, Illinois. In the early 1960s, the first students had to complete strictly required courses such as chemistry, marketing, and cooking so that when they graduated, they would be able to create formulas to increase the profit of the company.
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ID Y
• 1.____may not immerse a human being or, through lack of flotation, allow a human to come to harm.
• 2. A _____ must obey all commands and steering input given by its human user, except where such input would conflict with the First Law.
• 3. A _____ must preserve its own flotation as long as such preservation does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
These three laws were clearly stated in The Handbook Of X, known as Y 16th edition, 1958 printing, the laws of my youth.
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Kottayam Nazir (famous mimicry artist from Kerala) had an important role in the Movie Endhiran, but got less or no credit for his role..what did he do for the movie Endhiran??
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• Dubbed for Cochin Hanifa, who passed away before he could dub for the movie.
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ID it’s owner!!!
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ID
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Arc Reactor from “Iron Man”
ID X and Y
The term X is a Spanish farewell that can be literally translated as Until we see again . This term with added word baby was used in the popular hit song from 1987 "Looking for a New Love" by Grammy Award Winner Jody Watley, It was also used in the 1988 Tone Loc single "Wild Thing." The use of the term in Y part 2 immortalized it as a worldwide popular catchphrase.
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• X-Hastala Vista• Y-Terminator
FITB
• In 1930, Dr. J. Clarence Karcher and Eugene McDermott founded Geophysical Service, an early provider of seismic exploration services to the petroleum industry. In 1939 the company reorganized as Coronado Corp, an oil company with Geophysical Service Inc (GSI). During World War II, GSI expanded their services to include electronics for the U.S. Army, Signal Corps, and the U.S. Navy. In 1951 the company changed its name to _________, GSI becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of the new company.
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ID X
The logo of X originally resembled a deformed radiation warning symbol. Controversially, the original name for the X project was the "Manhattan Project", a reference to the US nuclear weapons initiative. This was meant to displace Japanese videogame makers from their dominance of the industry.ID X
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How do we know bism illāh ir-raḥmān ir-raḥīm ("in the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate“) better???
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786
It is actually named after a 19th century guitar work named “Gran Vals” by Spanish musician Francisco terrega , The tune is heard worldwide an estimated 1.8 billion times per day, about 20,000 times per second. ID the Tune
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Nokia tune
X is a synchronized building exterior decorative light and laser multimedia display, featuring 44 buildings on both sides of the Victoria Harbor of Hong Kong accompanied by music. The technology was developed by Australian firm Laservision and cost approximately 44 million HK dollars. It has attracted over 4 million visitors and locals so far, and is held every night for ten minutes.
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Symphony of lights
Lego parody of what??
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VJ day
What is happening??
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Making of warne Muralidharan trophy
• When the national bird of India was under consideration, the X was a proposed candidate. But dropped in the favor of Indian peafowl with at least one reason being the potential for being misspelt
• ID X
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• The great Indian Bustard
What is special??
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• Michelle Obama on the cover of O Magazine with Oprah herself–the first time anyone else has been on the cover in the magazine’s nine year history.
• The United Commercial (UCO) Bank is the first bank to open branch at Shani Shinganapur in Maharashtra, Why is this branch special and why were other banks hesitant to open a branch here??
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Shani Shinganapur is the village where houses have no doors…USO has a lockless branch over there
ID X
• X made several world record-breaking attempts after 1985, when in the spirit of the Blue Riband he attempted the fastest Atlantic Ocean crossing. His first attempt led to the boat capsizing in British waters and a rescue by RAF helicopter,. In 1986, in his another boat", with sailing expert Daniel McCarthy, he beat the record by two hours. A year later his hot air balloon crossed the Atlantic. With its 2,300,000 cubic feet (65,000 m3), this was the largest hot-air balloon, and the first to cross the Atlantic.
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• Richard Branson- Owner of Virgin groups
• In Post renaissance Europe . Each bank issued a ceramic tile to the customer, the tile like a present day credit card had all the details inscribed on it, Every time a customer wants to borrow money he had to show the tile to the bank teller. And if the customer had exceeded the credit limit, the teller did something, and this led to coining of this word, ID the word
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• The teller broke the tile and this led to the coining of the word “broke”
They are called "spectaculars", and the largest of them are called "jumbotrons”. What are they??
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Sign boards at Time square
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That’s all folks!!!
A Quiz by S.Thirukumaran