Freshers’ Quiz 2008

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1.
Put funda

• ___ ___ - _______

• _____ _____ - Actor
• ____ __ - Table Tennis Player
• Siddhartha Vaidyanathan aka "Bib"- Cricinfo cricket journalist
• Nikhil Joshi - Carnatic musician, guitarist
• Nanditha - Kannada Playback Singer
• Vijayalakshmi Bidari - Topped civil services exam in 2000 ( IAS
Topper)
• ___ __ - Model & Actor
• Avinash Mudaliar - Famous quizmaster.
• Natesh Babu DR - Gold Medalist at India Innovates (by Lockheed
Martin & Univ. of Texas @ Austin).
• T Ravi Shankar - Famous Electrical Designer.
• Sujay Dsa - Famous Day Dreamer.
• Sumukh Herlekar - Famous Software Designer.
• Mishraji - Noted Technician.
2.
This term in the English language was coined from the fact
that cheap novels / magazines were once printed on low grade
paper. These magazines are perhaps best remembered for their
lurid and exploitative stories, though many respected writers
wrote for _____. Modern superhero comic books are
sometimes considered descendants of "hero _____". The
magazines often featured illustrated novel-length stories of
heroic characters such as the Shadow, Doc Savage, and the
Phantom Detective. Other notable names include Buck
Rogers, Conan the Barbarian, Flash Gordon, Fu Manchu, and
so on.

The art form pls.

3. The give away of the prelims

ID the organization embarking on an earth moving (?)

project, involving protons.
4
What is depicted in the stamp?
The stamp commemorates a
famous event. Don’t bother too
much with the pic.
5.
This is the description of how X started

X has its origins in bootlegging during prohibition, when

drivers ran bootleg whiskey made in Appalachia. Bootleggers
needed to distribute their illicit products, and they typically
used small, fast vehicles to better evade the police. Many of
the drivers would modify their cars for speed and handling, as
well as increased cargo capacity, and some of them came to
love the fast-paced driving down twisty mountain roads. One
of the main 'strips' in Knoxville Tennessee, had its beginning
as a Mecca for aspiring bootlegging drivers.

X?
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6. Y's logo is a hollowed potato, named Sophia after the
Gnostic deity, that serves as a spoof of X's globe logo. Y, "the
content-free encyclopedia", was founded in 2005 as an
English-language ____ featuring satirically themed articles. It
is formatted as a parody of X and aims ultimately to parody all
encyclopedic subjects. Originally in English, the project
currently spans over 50 languages with almost 100,000 pages
of content. The site has gained negative attention due to its
articles on towns and places and its similarity with X, which
led to a warning being issued by the Malaysian Internal
Security Ministry.

Y, X?.. Ok X at least.
 7. The Abu Dhabi United Group for
Development and Investment is a
United Arab Emirates Private Equity
company owned by Sheikh Mansour
bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Member of the
UAE Royal Family and Minister of
Presidential Affairs. It made headlines
in a big way recently. Why?
8.
The first appearance of the word is from 1784 and means an odd person.
This sense survives today in the word _______. It later acquired a meaning
of to make fun of, or to mock. How it acquired its current meaning of a test
is unknown, but that sense did not appear until 1867. ____ as a test could be
a corruption of the Latin ___ __, meaning "Who are you?". In any case it is
probably from the same root as question and inquisitive.

An anecdote says that in 1791 a Dublin theater owner named James Daly
made a bet that he could introduce a word into the language within 24
hours. He then went out and hired a group of street urchins to write the
word ____, which was a nonsense word, on walls around the city of Dublin.
Within a day, the word was common currency and had acquired a meaning
(since no one knew what it meant, everyone thought it was some sort of
test) and Daly had some extra cash in his pocket. However, there is no
evidence to support the story, and the term was already in use before the
alleged bet.
9. This is the list of largest corporate bankruptcies:
X $639,000,000,000
Worldcom, Inc. $103,914,000,000
Enron Corp. $63,392,000,000
Conseco, Inc. $61,392,000,000
Texaco, Inc. $35,892,000,000
Financial Corp. of America $33,864,000,000
Refco Inc. $33,333,172,000
Global Crossing Ltd. $30,185,000,000
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. $29,770,000,000
UAL Corp. $25,197,000,000
Delta Air Lines, Inc. $21,801,000,000
Adelphia Communications $21,499,000,000
MCorp $20,228,000,000
Mirant Corporation $19,415,000,000
Delphi Corporation $19,415,000,000
10. The flag was unveiled by X on August 26th 2008 in Y’s
first public meeting. It has white color to 3/4 of its height at
the top, and the bottom 1/4 is filled with green color. In the
middle, a red colored symbol of the sun is embossed and
encircled with a yellow line. There are 24 red colored beams
beyond and around the yellow ring signifying the sun rays. X
said that "white" color represents all categories of people,
"green" referring to the farmers, "yellow" for happiness and
the "red sun" meaning to be working perennially. The 24
beams of sunrays conveys Y’s conviction to work round the
clock.

ID X and Y.
**11
David Gilmour recently said:
"In my view, all the greatest X moments are the ones where he
is in full flow. No-one can replace X - he was my musical
partner and my friend." He added: "In the welter of
arguments, X's enormous input was frequently forgotten. He
was gentle, unassuming and private but his soulful voice and
playing were vital, magical components of our most
recognized sound. Like X, I don't find it easy to express my
feelings in words, but I loved him and will miss him
enormously. I have never played with anyone quite like him."
12.
When the Roman General Marcellus attacked Syracuse in
214-212 B.C., Heiron asked his illustrious relative for help. As
the Roman fleet was approaching, he devised a great catapult
based on his study of levers and the Syracusans were able to
defend themselves well. But Marcellus regrouped his forces
and sometime later attacked from the rear and was able to
take Syracuse by surprise. This time he was not even aware
of the attack and was sitting quietly on the ground above the
city drawing geometrical figures in the sand. A Roman
soldier approached and stepped on the figures. He jumped
exclaiming "Don't disturb my circles!" at which the soldier
drew his sword and killed the 75 year old. Who?
13

After finishing film school, X started in the industry as a screenwriter

with Steven Spielberg's Amblin Productions, working on Gremlins
(1984), The Goonies (1985) and Young Sherlock Holmes (1985). X
made his directorial debut with the teen comedy Adventures in
Babysitting (1987). He had huge success with the popular Home
Alone (1990) and it's sequel Home Alone 2: Lost In New York. His
later directorial work includes Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), Bicentennial
Man (1999), the first two Harry Potter films and Rent (2005), an
adaptation of the popular Broadway musical.

In 1995, X started his own production company named 1492 Pictures

in honor of his more illustrious namesake.

X?
14.

As on Feb 2000, University of Florida had received $63

million as royalty for X. X was developed by a research
team at the University of Florida headed by Robert Cade.
The marketing rights of X were sold to Stokely-Van
Camp. The Quaker Oats company owned the brand. Pepsi
later brought it to India after acquiring Quaker Oats. This
brand is named so as it was first tested on the University
of Florida football team.

What is X?
15.

A was born on January 9, 1974, to screenwriters, ____X___ and

_______Y______, in Mumbai, where he did his schooling from
'Maneckji Cooper School', Vile Parle, and later joined H.R.
College, for a degree in Commerce, though he left it, in the second
year. A started his career by working as an apprentice with
cinematographer-director, Manmohan Singh at age 17, for films
like Lamhe (1991); before going on to assist director, Pankaj
Parashar in film Himalayputra (1997), followed by working in a
Television production house for three years, doing various jobs. He
made his acting debut in the film The Fakir of Venice in 2007.

Who?
 16. In 1992 X appeared on the updated New Zealand $5 note, thus
becoming the only New Zealander to appear on a banknote during
his or her lifetime, in defiance of the established convention for
banknotes of using only depictions of deceased individuals, and
current heads of state. The Reserve Bank governor broke with
convention by requesting and receiving X's permission — along with
an insistence from X to use Aoraki / Mount Cook rather than _____
_______ in the backdrop.
17.

Green is the most common form, no 2 red types have the same effect,
gold removes power permanently, white kills all plant life, black can
split personality while the pink one makes one gay.

What am I talkin’ about?

18.
According to J. R. R. Tolkien in “The Hobbit” :
“If you have ever seen a dragon in a pinch, you will realise that this was
only poetical exaggeration applied to any hobbit, even to Old Took's
great granduncle Bullroarer, who was so huge (for a hobbit) that he
could ride a horse. He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram
in the Battle of the Green Fields, and knocked their king Gol-firnbul's
head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the
air and went down a rabbit hole, and in this way the battle was won and
...”

The Romans had a version called it “Paganica”. The Chinese who claim
to have invented everything useful, called it “Ch'ui Wan”. The French
had a version called “paille maille” while the Dutch called theirs as
“Kolven”.

What are we talking about?

**19
THE FLAG OF WHICH “NATION” ?
**20.
____ founding president was Mohammad Ahmadullah
Siddiqi, now professor of journalism and public relations at
the Western Illinois University.

____ claims to have about 400 registered members and about

20,000 supporting members known as IKHWANS.
____ published several magazines in various languages,
including Tahreek in Hindi, Iqraa in Gujrati, Rupantar in
Bengali, Sedhi Madal in Tamil, Vivekam in Malayalam, and
Movement in English and Shaheen Times for children in
English.

Group?
21
Probably the most famous member of the African tribe Bafokeng Ka
Bakwena or Tribe of the Crocodile. These pictures depict X if he hadn’t
undergone the changes he did.
X?

YOUTH AGE 45 (in 2003) AGE 70 (in 2028)

22.
ID THE PRODUCT
ADVERTISED
**23.

The city of _____ noted the rise of X and decided to use the
common name to boost publicity for the town. It began X gave a
2006 interview with Japanese television network TBS where he
noted that, when passing through customs in Narita Airport, an
official looking at his visa noted that he was from _____. The
_____ City Hall heard about the interview and the then mayor,
Toshio Murakami, sent X a set of the city’s famous lacquer
chopsticks, a DVD about the city and a letter wishing him the best.
X has since thanked the town for their gifts and support, saying "I
look forward to a future marked by the continued friendship of our
two great nations and a shared commitment to a better, freer
world".
24.

Delilah DiCrescenzo, 23, was third in the 3000-meter steeplechase at the

2006 USATF Championships in 10:03.31. She had set a personal best of
9:59.48 in the steeple in June at the Music City Distance Classic in
Nashville. DiCrescenzo, from Chicago, attended Columbia University,
where she was a three-time Heptagonals steeplechase champion. She
was ninth in the steeple at the 2005 NCAA Championships. At the
Canadian National Track & Field Championships in Ottawa on August
8, DiCrescenzo won the steeple by 22 seconds in 10:16.16, though as a
native of Chicago, she was not eligible for a Canadian title. She's living
in Chicago, but she competes for the Westchester (NY) Track Club. She
got known to the world for an entirely different reason. What?
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