Freshers' General Quiz

Mains

Infinite Bounce (Clockwise)

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One of the most famous assasinations of the 20th century was carried out by this man.

Name the person he killed.

Q2.Holy Treasure

This temple, constructed in the Dravidian style of architecture, is glorified in the Divya Prabandha, the early medieval Tamil literature canon of the Tamil Alvar saints.

The shrine is currently run by a trust headed by the royal family of Travancore.

Name this holy shrine which was in the news recently as it was found to be the richest temple in the world???

Q3.Id. X

It is estimated that X would have been the richest textbook writer ever, considering there have been over 1500 editions of X's work.His name is used synonymously with the subject he wrote on.

Q4. Identify this famous couple

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According to the Oxford English Dictionary, this phrase most likely originated from children's games such as hopscotch and snakes and ladders.

An alternative theory is that the phrase originated from early radio commentaries of football matches by the BBC in the United Kingdom. The theory postulates that whenever a game was restarted from a goal kick, it would be in _______ _________, hence the phrase.

Coldplay used the phrase to name the first song in their album X&Y.

Q6.Identify the person on the right

Infinite Bounce (AntiClockwise)

Q1. Connect.

Q2. Name the Band

In 1964, Ronnie Van Zant, Allen Collins, Gary Rossington formed a band " The Noble Five ", which then changed to My Backyard when Larry Junstorm and Bob Burns joined them in Florida. Billy Powell a roadie joined them in 1970, and they tried a new name. Finally they choose a name that was a parody of their high school physical education teacher's name, who was strict in acting against boys with long hair.

Q3. What is the word???

What eight-letter word connects a pastry made by folding a piece of dough over a filling, the loss of possession of the ball in sports like basketball and an accounting term for the amount of business carried out over a given period of time?

Q4. Name the company being advertised???

Q5. Name the person in the KFC logo ???

Q6.Who said this???

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.

Hint: His adopted surname means steel in his native language.

At the age of 7, he fell ill with small pox, and his face was badly scarred by the disease.

He later had photographs retouched to make his pockmarks less apparent.

What's that Google Doodle???

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Etymology

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Etymology

X is the subject of a prominent miracle attributed to Jesus in the Gospel of John, in which Jesus restores him to life four days after his death.

The scientific term X taxon" denotes organisms that reappear in the fossil record after a period of apparent extinction; and the X phenomenon refers to an event in which a person spontaneously returns to life (the heart starts beating again) after resuscitation has been given .

Several bands have composed songs titled "X" in allusion to the resurrection story, including Porcupine Tree, Chimaira, moe., and Placebo.

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Music
Identify this place

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Movies
Name the most famous story from this book.

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Literature

As high school students, Joyce Carol Oates, Sylvia Plath and Robert Redford won their writing award. Which appropriately named company that launched a child literacy campaign as part of its 90th anniversary could claim to have discovered these talents in school?

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India
Id. X

According to the Jahangir Nama, the emperor was impressed by the performance of certain performers from Bengal. Their leader Krishna Chandra Dev was presented an entire village called Sutigram near Dhaka and the Dev family became the landlords of the village. Being landlords they were called _______ , a term that became their family name.Currently,X,an eighth generation descendant of the above family continues the tradition.

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Mega Connect

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The name dispute

X and Y tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called X-Y or Y-X. Y won the coin toss but named their electronics manufacturing enterprise The X-Y Company".

What's X??

X was founded by Leland X, a railroad magnate, United States Senator, and former California Governor, and his wife, Jane X. It is named in honor of their only child, Leland X, Jr., who died in 1884 just before his 16th birthday. His parents decided to dedicate a university to their only son, and Leland X told his wife, "The children of California shall be our children."

Cisco Systems, Google, Hewlett-Packard, LinkedIn, Netscape Communications, Rambus, Silicon Graphics, Sun Microsystems, Varian Associates, and Yahoo! were founded here.

What are we talking about???

This was first conducted on a large scale in imperial China

French psychologist Alfred Binet, together with psychologists Victor Henri and Thodore Simon published the first modern form of this in 1905.

Hearts' Delight

Before it got its current moniker, it used to be a luscious fruit valley, and was known as the Valley of Heart's Delight.

It is located in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California in the United States.