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IISER Mohali QUIZ CLUB Presents Everything Under The Sun The General Quiz 10 t h April 2011 Shivam Bhardwaj

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IISER Mohali QUIZ CLUB

Presents

Everything Under The Sun

The General Quiz 

10th April 2011

Shivam Bhardwaj

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Prelims

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No googling

Team size restricted to 3 members per team

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X when ingested does no lasting damage but the

body's response is self-defence: sweat pours, pulse

quickens, tongue flinches and tears may roll.However the person gets pleasure from pain relief 

i.e. the bloodstream floods with endorphins and the

person gets a high. What is X?

Ingestion of X is also found to enhance the taste

of other items.

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Six children of Brahma jeered at him when he fell in

love with Saraswati- his own creation, and so to say,

his 'daughter'. Brahma became very angry andcursed these six children to be born in demonic

wombs. They got salvation finally at the hands of 

Lord Krishna. Who were they?

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It is a procedural defense (and, in many countries, aconstitutional right) that forbids a defendant from

being tried twice for the same crime on the same set

of facts. If the defendant successfully proves that he

has been acquitted or convicted of the same offense

then the projected trial has to be prevented from

proceeding. X has been used as a plot many a times

in movies as well as in fiction , notably crimethrillers. Identify?

A hollywood movie of the same name was

released in 1999 starring Ashley Judd.

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A appeared as herself in B’s maiden directorial

venture. She is the sister of a certain Vasanth Kumar

Shivshankar Padukone, who was later renamed to

C. A’s daughter, D, is a reputed film director and isknown for her woman-oriented films. C had got a

job of a telephone operator at a Lever Brothers

factory in Kolkata but soon he left it and moved to

Mumbai.

Name A, B, C and D.

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Sigma 6, The MegaDeaths, The Screaming Abdabs,

The Architectural Abdabs, The Abdabs, Tea Set,

________.

Fill in the blanks.

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A. His official birth date is August 21, 1921. He

made his debut in 1966 and went onto star in dozensof films and specials.

B. He is so popular in Poland that a street in

Warsaw is named after him.

C. 'The Tao of _____' is an elementary butentertaining introduction to Taoism, using him as

the central character. The book was on the New

York Times Bestseller list, and is often used in

college religion courses.

D. He was recently awarded a Hollywood Star on

the Walk of Fame.

Identify him.

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These boys from Hyderabad did something

extraordinary to get their names into the history

books.

What?

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What has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 different

patterns ?

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“Tatha cha smaryate yojnanam sahastre dwe dwe shate cha

yojane ekain nimishardhen kramamana namostute iti”

This is a prayer to the Sun God mentioned as a commentary

by Sayanacharya on the 4th verse of the hymn of Rig Veda

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What is the significance in scientific terms of this prayer?

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A new Belgian carrier, Brussels Airlines, has beenforced to change its logo. What was the reason for

doing so?

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His only failing grade in school at the age of 14, was an 'F' in music

class.

In 1961, he joined the US Army and was a trainee paratrooper. His

military records show that he was considered an incompetent

soldier, repeatedly caught sleeping while on duty and missing at

midnight bed-check.It is believed that his constant use of LSD was an integral part of 

his creative process.

He was found dead in a basement flat in London. He died amid

circumstances which have never been satisfactorily explained. Hehad spent the night with his German girlfriend , and likely died in

bed after drinking wine and taking 9 Vesperax sleeping pills, then

drowning in his own vomit.

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Google MentalPlex, Google Gulp, Google Romance,Google TiSP, etc. All of these fall into a certain category.

But there was one among these (which is obviously not 

given here) which was the odd one out.

What was it and what was different about it?

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What is the significance of the five flags shown here?

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• illustrates the difference between normal peopleand color blind people

• I-by most people

• II- by red-blind people

• III- by green-blind people• IV- by violet blind people

• V- by totally color blind people

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