Les Quizerables 2K16

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RULES• The preliminary round consists of 25 questions. • No negative marking, u guys are free to guess.• Each question carries a weightage of 2 points• There are 5 starred questions.• In case of a tie these decide your future.• Clues will be provide by quiz master whenever he feels like.• However teams can object to clues being given.

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1) www.relentless.com will reach you to which famous website

www.amazon.com

2) The founders of this company had to use a punctuation in the brand name because the name had previously been used for knives, canoes and barbecue sauce. The company’s logo still retains the punctuation and in its latest revision in 2013 the punctuation was further tilted by nine degrees. Which company are we talking about?

Yahoo!

3)The following image is that of the montreal biosphere.The Biosphere is a museum in Montreal dedicated to the environment. It is located at Parc Jean-Drapeau, on Saint Helen's Island in the former pavilion of the United States for the 1967 World Fair, Expo 67. The building originally formed an enclosed structure of steel and acrylic cells, 76 metres (250 ft) in diameter and 62 metres (200 ft) high. This structure is in the shape of a geodesic dome. In the afternoon of 20 May 1976, during structural renovations, a fire burned away the building's transparent acrylic bubble, but the hard steel truss structure remained.

The site remained closed until 1990. Identify the famous architect who designed the structure.

Buckminster fuller

4) Cricket was included in only one Olympics which was in 1900. 4 teams were scheduled to compete in the tournament however 2 of them pulled out and only one match was played. Which country won that match to win the only Olympic gold in cricket till date?

Great Britain

5) This is Philip Hammond, Chancellor of the Exchequer is now residing in a place (shown above) were someone else is supposed to live. Who?

Theresa May

6) For what reason did this picture attain fame recently. Also identify the person.

Selena Gomez. Most liked picture on instagram.

7) After an accidental meeting between Jamsedji N. Tata and X on a ship in 1893 where they discussed Tata's plan of bringing the steel industry to India, Tata wrote to X five years later "I trust, you remember me as a fellow-traveller on your voyage from Japan to Chicago. I very much recall at this moment your views on the growth of the ascetic spirit in India... I recall these ideas in connection with my scheme of Research Institute of Science for India, of which you have doubtless heard or read."Tata, with the aim of advancing the scientific capabilities of the country, constituted a Provisional Committee to prepare a plan for setting up of an Institute of research and higher education. Thus resulting in the institute Y. Identify X and Y

IISc Banglore

8) X or capture-bonding, is a psychological phenomenon described in 1973 in which hostages express empathy and sympathy and have positive feelings toward their captors. X is named after the Norrmalmstorg robbery of Kreditbanken at Norrmalmstorg in Stockholm, Sweden. During the crime, several bank employees were held hostage in a bank vault from August 23 to 28, 1973, while their captors negotiated with police. During this standoff, the victims became emotionally attached to their captors, rejected assistance from government officials at one point, and even defended their captors after they were freed from their six-day ordeal. Identify X

Stockholm syndrome

9) What is this google doodle about?

10) Which space agency holds the record for placing maximum number of satellites in orbit in a single launch. Name the agency and the launch vehicle used.

Roscosmos dnepr

11)This great person received a posthumous Honorary Fellowship from the Royal Society of Chemistry. It comes 100 years after He returned from the dead to solve a case. Usually such honours are reserved for Nobel Laureates and other distinguished academics and industrialists. He is the first of its kind to receive the Fellowship, and a silver medal will be struck in his name. Who is he

Sherlock Holmes

12) In November 2007 X published several poems under the pen name Y – a combination of his middle name and the Jewish version of his mother Marcia Gresham Jacobson’s (above) maiden name Gresham – in Rubbish, an underground fashion magazineIdentify X and his pen name Y.

X is Daniel Radcliff and his pen name Jacob Gershon

13) X on witnessing something, remarked later that it brought to mind words from the Bhagavad Gita: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.“ Who is X and what did he witness?

14) Identify this couple famous for their paranormal adventures.

Ed and Lorraine

15) Late pop icon Michael Jackson’s personal physician Dr. Conrad Murray claimed that Jackson wanted to marry her when she was 11 years old after watching her first movies. Who is she?

Emma Watson, Harry potter

16) The official plane of American president is Air Force One.What is the official plane of Indian Prime Minister or President called.

Air India one

17) Connect these three substances

Gift of magi

18) This is Masako Nozawa. She is famous for voicing a popular comic book character. Name the character.

Goku

19)What does torino scale (above) measure.

20) What is the weapon of all Jedi masters?

Light sabers

21)Identify this famous Greek mythical creature.

Chimera

22) The first attested use of this word was in 1781 and means an odd person. It later acquired a meaning of to make fun of, or to mock. How it acquired its current meaning of a test is unknown. However there is a well-known myth about this word that says that in 1791 a Dublin theater owner made a bet that he could introduce a word into the language within twenty-four hours. He then went out and hired a group of street urchins to write this 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 he 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 in 1791. Identify the word

Quiz

23) These two basketball Players of the Golden State Warriors in the NBA, hold the record for most 3 point field goals made in a season. This duo is better known by a nickname. Identify the players and the nickname

Splash brothers. Klay Thompson & Stephen Curry

24) X (above) passed away on 24th june 2016. He is credited with conducting the first formal quiz in india in 1967. He was a three-time nominated mla in west Bengal. His son Y is TMC MP.Identify X and Y.

X is Neil O’BreinY is Derik O Berien

25) This is tay a twitter user, who got framed for its racist remarkes.What is tay really?

Micosofts Artificial intelligence bot , Tay.ai