NEW YEAR 2010 QUIZ

2010Quiz Club @ MNNIT

Quiz Club @ MNNIT - GNOSIS

Some Rules & Info :

This marks the beginning of the season II on the Quiz Blog. Submit your answers in the comments on the blog.

http://gnosis.quizblog.in. Alternately you can mail them to [email protected]

10 questions -- carrying one marks each Answers accepted till 11th Jan 2010. After that every week 7 questions will be posted on the blog. At the end of the season the highest scorer will be awarded. Last Season’s winner was Pradeepta Panigrahi, he received a 2

States by Chetan Bhagat for his endeavours.

Congo to PRADDY!!!

P.S : For MNNITians, the cumulative performance in these & on spot quizzes will lead to the selection of team for Inter college fests.

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ISQ 1 . Sitter to start with ... Identify this famous comic book fictional City.One of my all time favourites .....

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Q 2 .It may have looked like a chamber pot, but the customized version used first by an Englishman in the late 1970s has proved to be one of the more influential innovations in the history of sport. In the 29 years since its trial run it has changed the way the game is played today. When the BBC’s 20th century road show rolled into Edgbaston’s indoor school three years ago, the original prototype was dug out by its creator and was valued at ~ 300 pounds. It was designed to even withstand a shotgun blast at 10 yards. As the creator puts it, the original design was quite poor and it made hearing difficult resulting in a spate of mishaps on field. For that reason, later models were based on equestrian designs. What?


Q3. 3rd March of the year 2009 was celebrated as what?

Such an event occurs 9 times every century.


Q4 .

In the UK, during the end of February 2009, Telco providers Orange and O2 threatened to not support the Nokia N97, because the handset carries a mobile version of ______.

The providers feared that including _______ will siphon away profitable cell minutes by allowing users to make free calls.

However, another telco, 3 already offers a handset with ______ capabilities, and T-Mobile has also gotten on board with support for the service.

Fill in the blank.


Q5 .Put Funda :• Ottiyana (Ornament covering stomach)• Hand• eyes• nose• throat• left arm• right wrist• right leg• right arm• genital organ• great toe• right toes• finger• left thigh• crown• earring• bone• left anklet• right anklet• Navel• Tubular bones of the feet


Q6 . Identify this person


Q7 .Only Indian to have captained Bayern Munich…..

:o :o :o


Q8 . Identify the advertiser.


Q9.Each group tends to belong to the same institution or literary and artistic group or the same political party, with their very own devil's advocate for verbal combat or what is known as____ .This word is hard to define, though it is integral to Bengali life. Before the 1930's Bengalis had akharas where young men would go regularly to build their physical fitness. During the nationalist movement akharas became hotbeds of seditious activity and were discouraged by the govt. So the more informal ___ was used.


Q .10 Somebody is missing. Who and connect?

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