Shobhit ShubhankarRohan Kulkarni

Mahendra Mohan Das

Fachcha General Quiz

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1) This flag is not official in any legal sense since there is no government or other authority in existence capable of adopting such a flag. It is designed to portray the "future history" of X. The red bar, which lies closest to the mast, symbolizes X as it is today. The green and blue symbolize stages in the future of X which is dependent on humanity’s will and ability. Give me X.

A: Mars

2) In 1975, he was performing in Chicago and Muhammad Ali happened to be staying in the same hotel as him. Being a fan, he wanted to meet with Ali who took the time to visit him in his room. Who?

A: Mohammad Rafi

3) This organisation was created in 1971, in the aftermath of the Nigerian Civil War, by a small group of French doctors and journalists who believed that all people have the right to medical care regardless of race, religion, creed or political affiliation, and that the needs of these people outweigh respect for national borders. It received the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of its members' continued efforts to provide medical care in acute crises. Name the organisation.

A: Doctors Without Borders

4) Whose residence is this a layout of?

A: Sherlock Holmes

5) What was inspired by these skirts?

A: The Coca Cola Bottle

6) It is an iconic photo taken by Alberto Korda on March 5, 1960 at a memorial service for victims of an explosion. Korda has said that at the moment he shot the picture, he was drawn to X's facial expression, which showed "absolute implacability" as well as anger and pain. Years later, Korda would say that the photo showed X's firm and stoic character.

It has been called a symbol of the 20th century and the world's most famous photo. It has been reproduced more than any other image in photography. Jonathan Green, director of the UCR/California Museum of Photography, has said that  ”It has become an alpha-numeric symbol, a hieroglyph, an instant symbol. It mysteriously reappears whenever there's a conflict. There isn’t anything else in history that serves in this way". What am I talking about?

A: Che Guevara’s Guerrillero Heroico photo

7) Who has authored the following books?

Break with a BansheeGadding with GhoulsMarauding with Monsters Voyages with VampiresYear with the YetiWandering with WerewolvesTravels with TrollsHolidays with HagsWho Am I? The Travel Trilogy_________'s Guide to Household Pests

A: Gilderoy Lockhart

8) What is this formula used for?

Weighted Rating (WR) = (v ÷ (v+m)) × R + (m ÷ (v+m)) × C where:

R = average for the movie (mean) = (Rating)v = number of votes for the movie = (votes)m = minimum votes required to be listed in

the ______ (currently 25000)C = the mean vote across the whole report

(currently 7.0)

A: The IMDB Top 250 List

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1) What was acquired by Facebook from The American Farm Bureau Federation in November 2010 for $8.5 million?

A: The domain Fb.com.

2) The spectrophotometric value of all the colours described by the ISI was measured and determined in conformity with the colours of the sealed sample held at Kanpur, by the Technical Development Establishment Laboratory (Stores) in Kanpur by using the illuminant - ' C ' as specified by the International Commission on Illumination 1931.

Last step in the manufacture of what?

A: The Indian National Flag. The official sample of the flag is kept in Kanpur.

3) Gumnami Baba lived at Ram Bhavan in Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh, around 1985. He was popularly perceived to be an alias for someone else, who was assumed dead. The Justice Mukherjee Commission of Inquiry was formed to look into the matter, and it held that the Baba was not the person people perceived him to be, for want of clinching evidence. However, it did not completely deny it either, saying there was a similarity in the handwriting. Who was Gumnami Baba believed to be?

A: Subhash Chandra Bose

4) The discovery of _____ dates from the 1890s when a German named Hans Henning offered it as a medicine. Its other properties were discovered later on. In the United Kingdom it was manufactured at the Research Department at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, where new projects were identified as 'Research Department No.' followed by their identification number. For some reason, this project was not given a number or kept 'unknown' either with the intention of adding the number later, or for reasons of secrecy. What are we talking about?

A: RDX

5) Palle Huld was a Danish film actor and writer. He appeared in 40 films between 1933 and 2000. He was born in Hellerup in Denmark. It is believed that his journey around the world at the age of 15 in 1928 reportedly inspired the creation of an enduring character. Who?

A: Tintin

6) This video was uploaded on YouTube at 8:27 P.M. on Saturday April 23rd, 2005. The video was shot by Yakov Lapitsky at the San Diego Zoo. The man in the video is named Jawed Karim. What’s so special about this video?

A: The first video uploaded on YouTube.

7) The ________ sequence first appears in the West in the book Liber Abaci (1202) by Leonardo of Pisa, also known as ________. He considers the growth of an idealized rabbit population, assuming that: a newly born pair of rabbits, one male, one female, are put in a field; rabbits are able to mate at the age of one month so that at the end of its second month a female can produce another pair of rabbits; rabbits never die and a mating pair always produces one new pair (one male, one female) every month from the second month on. The puzzle that is posed was: how many pairs will there be in one year? The sequence is formed by the rabbit population at the end of each month. Which sequence?

A: The Fibonacci Numbers

8) X is a masked anarchist who seeks to systematically kill the leaders of Norsefire, a fascist dictatorship ruling a dystopian United Kingdom. He is well-versed in the arts of explosives, subterfuge, and computer hacking, and has a vast literary, cultural and philosophical intellect. He is the only survivor of an experiment in which four dozen prisoners were given injections of a compound called Batch 5. The compound caused vast cellular anomalies that eventually killed all of the subjects except him, who developed advanced strength, reflexes, endurance and pain tolerance. Give me X.

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Business Sports Mythology

Q) He is infamously known as the Emperor who "fiddled while Rome burned”. The name of an optical disc authoring program for Microsoft Windows is a play on words concerning the legend that The Great Fire of Rome was started by him. Who?

A: Nero

Q) The Open Hand (La Main Ouverte) is a recurring motif in X's architecture, a sign for him of "peace and reconciliation. It is open to give and open to receive." It represents the give and take of ideas. A certain city in India hosts the largest number of such sculptures. Identify X.

A: Le Corbusier

Q) The Elephant House is a coffee shop in downtown Edinburgh with a nice view of the Edinburgh Castle out the back window. But what has made it a sort of pilgrimage place is that a certain insanely popular author started writing the ________ novels here. FITB.

Q) It was first documented around the 11th or 12th century AD, its creation being attributed to an extended period of warfare that took place between the Chera and the Chola dynasties in the 11th century.

The art was disseminated through schools known as kalari, which served as centres of learning before the modern educational system was introduced. Still in existence, they served as meeting places for the acquisition of knowledge on various subjects. It was banned during the British colonial rule but has found increasing popularity recently. What?

A: Kalaripayattu

Q) Dan Morrill, while posting the designs on a social platform, wrote: “See, we were prepping for an internal developer launch (meaning, we were going to ask _______ to start fooling with the APIs and give us early feedback), and I had no eye candy for the slides we were putting together. Hence these guys… They had a brief flurry of minor popularity amongst the team… But then +Irina Blok (as I recall) presented her work: the bugdroid we all know and love. Funny how the professional work is of vastly higher quality than the amateur, isn't it? ;) Even so, these guys have the distinction of being the first proposed mascots for X (that I'm aware of, at least.)” Give me X.

Q) Mitch Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation technique as taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, and named his company, best known for its spreadsheet application, after a yogic position. It was eventually acquired by IBM. Which company?

A: Lotus

Q) When the Mumbai School Sports Association recently destroyed the original score sheet of a certain Harris Shield match on February 24, 1988 between Shardashram Vidya Mandir and St. Xavier's, many were left aghast, believing it should have been preserved as a piece of history. Why was the score sheet considered so historic?

A: Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli shared a world record 664-run partnership in that match.

Q) She was the first human woman created by the deities on the instructions of Zeus. Zeus ordered her to be moulded out of earth and all the deities joined in her creation, offering her "seductive gifts.” Out of curiosity she opened a jar releasing all the evils of humanity, leaving only Hope inside. Who?

A: Pandora

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Q) After his most famous discovery, he was confident of winning the Nobel Prize in Physics, but was disappointed when the Nobel Prize went to Richardson that year and to de Broglie the next year. He was so confident of winning the prize the next year that he booked tickets in July, even though the awards were to be announced in November, and would scan each day's newspaper for announcement of the prize, tossing it away if it did not carry the news. He did eventually win that year’s Nobel Prize in Physics. Who?

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Q) The X Rifles is the senior most rifle regiment of the Indian Army. It was originally raised in 1921 as part of the British Indian Army, when six previously existing regiments were amalgamated to form six battalions of the 6th X Rifles. X was the older name for Rajasthan, and essentially means “the land of the Rajputs.” Give me X.

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Q) He was a notable Indian engineer, scholar, statesman and the Diwan of Mysore during 1912 to 1918. Every year, September 15 is celebrated as Engineer's Day in India in his memory.

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Q) Who?

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Q) A self-taught scholar and a polyglot, he had a wide range of interests in varied fields including physics, mathematics, chemistry, biology, mineralogy, philosophy, arts, literature and music. Rabindranath Tagore dedicated to him his only book on science, Visva–Parichay. He was honoured with the Padma Vibhushan in 1954. He is seen here with Paul Dirac, who named a class of particles after him. Who?

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Q) Which movie?

Directed by: Richard AttenboroughProduced by: Richard AttenboroughStarring: Ben Kingsley, Roshan SethMusic: Ravi Shankar, George FentonRelease date: 30 November 1982Running time: 187 minutes

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Q) After his most famous discovery, he was confident of winning the Nobel Prize in Physics, but was disappointed when the Nobel Prize went to Richardson that year and to de Broglie the next year. He was so confident of winning the prize the next year that he booked tickets in July, even though the awards were to be announced in November, and would scan each day's newspaper for announcement of the prize, tossing it away if it did not carry the news. He did eventually win that year’s Nobel Prize in Physics. Who?

A: Sir CV Raman

Q) The X Rifles is the senior most rifle regiment of the Indian Army. It was originally raised in 1921 as part of the British Indian Army, when six previously existing regiments were amalgamated to form six battalions of the 6th X Rifles. X was the older name for Rajasthan, and essentially means “the land of the Rajputs.” Give me X.

A: Rajputana

Q) He was a notable Indian engineer, scholar, statesman and the Diwan of Mysore during 1912 to 1918. Every year, September 15 is celebrated as Engineer's Day in India in his memory.

A: M Visvesvaraya

Q) Who?

Q) A self-taught scholar and a polyglot, he had a wide range of interests in varied fields including physics, mathematics, chemistry, biology, mineralogy, philosophy, arts, literature and music. Rabindranath Tagore dedicated to him his only book on science, Visva–Parichay. He was honoured with the Padma Vibhushan in 1954. He is seen here with Paul Dirac, who named a class of particles after him. Who?

A: SN Bose

Q) Which movie?

Directed by: Richard AttenboroughProduced by: Richard AttenboroughStarring: Ben Kingsley, Roshan SethMusic: Ravi Shankar, George FentonRelease date: 30 November 1982Running time: 187 minutes

And the connect is obviously the names of hostels in IIT BHU.

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