END IS THE NEW BEGINNING

THE FINAL QUIZ!! ADIOS!Vineet Kumar(8th Sem)

Easy one to start with. Id the deadly trio.

Rohan Gavaskar, Sunil Gavaskar and Rahul Dravid

Meher Baba, Terry O’Riley.Connect: Baba O’Riley by The Who.

• Shashi Kapoor, Sanjana Kapoor and Jennifer Kendal all of them acted in Junoon(1978), movie based on Ruskin Bond's novella A FLIGHT OF PIGEONS directed by Shyam Benegal.

Identify this gentleman please. His stage name gives rise to a popular problem in mathematics.

Monte Halperin aka Monty Hall. The problem being the Monty Hall Problem, of course.

The question is an old chestnut. Fill in the blanks.

Albert Einstein being offered the post of President in the newly formed state of Israel.

The logo of this brand symbolizes “forward thinking and the pursuit for excellence”. It was created in 1908 by Tom Brown. The company announced the closure of its

production at Kilmarnock in 2011, where the brand was originated. Name the world famous brand?

Johnnie Walker

Take an ounce of tequila, add Juice of ½ lime or lemon, Pour over crushed ice, Rub the rim of a stem glass with rind of lemon or lime,

spin in salt – pour and sip. What are you drinking?

Absolut

Id the logo.

Tepco co. whoch owns the Fukushima Daichi plant.

What is the significance of the following list:Leonard Bleecker, Hugh Smith, Armstrong & Barnewall, Samuel March, Bernard Hart, Alexander Zuntz, Andrew D. Barclay, Sutton & Hardy, Benjamin Seixas, John Henry, John A. Hardenbrook, Samuel Beebe, Benjamin Winthrop, John Ferrers, Ephraim Hart, Isaac M. Gomez, Gulian McEvers, Augustine H. Lawrence, G. N. Bleecker, John Bush, Peter Anspach, Charles McEvers, Jr., David Reedy, Robinson & Hartshorne.

These are the 24 brokers who signed the Buttonwood Agreement thus giving rise to NYSE.

What is so special about this statue of Ganesha, and where in India can one find this?

• This is a statue of Ganesha worshipped in the female form, as Ganeshani or Vainayaki in Uchi Pillaiyar Koyil at Trichy.

Whose tombstone?

Erwin Schrodinger

During the 1982 Ranji Trophy semi-final, Raghuram Bhat picked 8 wickets in the first innings, including a hat-trick. Later, batting at No.11, he scored 30 runs and helped put on a partnership of 91 runs for the last wicket. Staring down the barrel of an innings defeat, the opposition captain came in to bat at the uncharacteristic No.8 position and did something remarkable. Though his 66-ball unbeaten innings failed to save his team, the match is still remembered for his heroics.Identify the batsman and what did he do?

Sunil Gavaskar(captain of Bombay), batted 60 balls as a Left handed batsman.match was Karnatka vs Bombay 1981/82.

Karnataka won

Identify

• he Doomsday Clock is a symbolic clock face, maintained since 1947 by the board of directors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at the University of Chicago. The closer the clock is to midnight, the closer the world is estimated to be to global disaster.

By the early 1980s, all that was left of this neglected company was a handful of shabby ‘odditoriums’. In 1985, Jimmy Pattison acquired this company for a sum of $6 million.

He retained its top managers and in subsequent years, it expanded significantly through franchising. Identify the company.

Ripley’s

What disappeared from the book version of 'Eat Pray Love' after the movie version was released?

The Commas from Eat, Pray, Love.

The Departed's Best picture Win, also makes it the only __________________

to ever win an Oscar.

Remake of a movie called Mou Gaan Dou or Infernal Affairs

A Stanford graduate named Rajeev Samant was one of the youngest finance managers at Oracle. After quitting his job, he teamed up with Kerry Damsky and started his own company in 1997. Named after Rajeev's mother, the company sports a 'smiling yellow

sun' logo. Identify.

As a child, he designed shoes for walking on water. After his graduation he was a lecturer of Astronomy. He propounded ground breaking theories on labour division and production technology. His inventions included, the cowcatcher, Speedometer, uniform postal rates and Greenwich Time Signals. He once baked himself in an oven at 265oF and on another occasion was lowered into Mt. Vesuvius to view molten lava. Identify him.

Lawrence Hargrave

The letter 'K' is forceful, direct and arresting. I decided to use it twice for emphasis, to begin the name and to end it. Then I filled in the other letters to make the word short and catchy as to sound." Who said this?

• George Eastman about how he arrived at the word 'Kodak'.

His stint with advertising began in 1987, with Allwyn’s Trendy Watch campaign. He went on to compose more than 300 ad films – Boost with Kapil Dev and Sachin Tendulkar, MRF Tyres, Premier Pressure cooker, Asian Paints, Hero Puch, etc. He owns Panchathan Record

Inn, one of India’s most advanced studios. Who?

A.R. Rehman

He started in April 1974 by acquiring an interest in Poona Coffee House. In July 1974, he acquired a dealership of Hindustan Petroleum. In 1985, under the banner of Sai Service Station Ltd. he took the dealership of Maruti Udyog Ltd. Next he added the dealership of Bajaj Auto Ltd. in 1986. He also brought to India via the Sai Service Group the Rent-a-Car scheme for the first time. Who?

Suresh Kalmadi

X (a term depicted in this cartoon) has been happening in India since 1959. The intensity of X has been lowered this year. What

and Where?

Goose-Step.The goose-step is a special marching step usually performed in formal military parades and other ceremonies. While marching in parade formation, troops swing their legs in unison to a nearly horizontally position while keeping their knees locked. It happens at the Wagah Border at the Flag Lowering Ceremony.

That’s all folks!!

Keep the Qutopia Flag flying high.

Cheerios.