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SJC Quizzers Meeting I

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SJC Quizzers

Meeting I

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1. This mythical character has a service in Karnataka named after it. Identify the character.

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ANSWER

Indra’s elephant Airavata

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2. What sporting event ?

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Hammer Throw

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3. Who lends his name to this object?

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Bunsen

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4 . Where was this picture taken? Or, what are we looking at?

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The tombs of Shah Jahan and Mumtaz

within the Taj

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5. What are these people fleeing from?

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Locusts

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6. The name of which weapon actually refers to this normally unseen part of the mechanism?

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Revolvers, from the revolving cylinder

shown

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7. Which country? What geographic formation associated with the country do you see in the ad?

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Maldives, atolls.

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Identify structure. Which country’s first WH site?

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The Tower of Jam, Afghanistan

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9. Which explorer was the first to reach both the North and the South Poles?

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Roald Amundsen

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10. Which Dutchman has a state in Australia named after him?

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Abel Tasman

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11 Portrait of X, In Y’s House in Atlanta, Georgia. Name X and Y.

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Scarlett O’Hara and Margaret Mitchell

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12. This Asian capital city was designed by the Greek urban planner Constantinos A. Doxiadis through the 1960s. His plan revolved around the building of the city in sectors, each containing four sub-sectors separated by green-belts and parks. Name city.

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Islamabad

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13.Biswajeet was probably the first Bollywood hero to do it—in a film titled Biwi Aur Makan. It proved so popular that he had to repeat it in a film titled Kismat. Others to attempt it include Kishore Kumar in Half Ticket, Amitabh briefly in Laawaris, and Javed Jaffrey, Naseeruddin Shah and Aditya Pancholi in Tehelka. What?

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Dress up in women’s clothing

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The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize is awarded to a young writer under thirty-five from the Commonwealth nations. The first Indian to win the prize did so for a book titled The Room on the Roof. Who was this writer?

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Ruskin Bond

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15. Since 2004, his name figures in the names of two countries. Who? How?

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Bolivia and the Bolivarian Republic

of Venezuela.

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5 What common inspiration do these three visuals share?16. Three separate tributes to which literary work?

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Tributes to Alice in Wonderland

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17 Evocative moment from film of the book. Which book ?

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The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand.

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10.18. He did something in 2000 which made him a national celebrity and got him modelling deals with biscuit companies among other things. Who? What did he do?

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Harshvardhan Nawathe, first to make a crore on

KBC.

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19. Identify this material from the natural world, now known to us as a colour. Also give the Greek word for the material .

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Amber/electrum.

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20. Which mythical figure do we see being punished in this stamp?

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Prometheus. He was condemned to have an eagle peck at his liver in perpetuity for the crime of stealing fire from the gods and handing it to men.