Quiz Club meet at BVCOE

2. 1.
Who is the current Railway
Minister Of India ?

3. CP JOSHI

4. 2.
X was placed at top in the Executive
Pay Chart of the listed companies for
the fiscal year 2011-2012. He topped
the chart for second time in a row with
a package of 73.42 crore with a growth
of over 6 crore to that of his last years
package.
Identify X ?

5. Chairman and managing
director of Jindal Steel
and Power Ltd (JSPL)

6. 3.
Who is the leading
Wicket taker in the T20
internationals ?

7. Saeed Ajmal

8. 4.
Which commonly used word
derives its origin from two
Greek words ‘oikou’ and
‘nomos’ which means the
rule or law of the
household?

9. Economics

10. 5.
Connect

11. • Most No of Oscar awards -- 11

12. 6.
• Which famous Indian mascot was
conceived and created by Bobby Kooka
along with Umesh Rao, an artist with
J.Walter Thompson Ltd., Mumbai???

13. AIR INDIA Maharaja

14. 7.
In the Star Trek fictional universe, the fictional
computer OS known as “Library Computer
Access/Retrieval System (LCARS)” is often seen
used on a device known as “Personal Access
Display Device”. This device served as the
inspiration of the name for a modern technology
marvel – more so because of their similar
appearances.
Name this modern gadget every one of
you would love to own.

15. I Pad

16. 8.
Unveiled to the media on the 3rd
of August 2011 in Mumbai,
Nissan’s new sedan shares it
name with nickname of a famous
retired Indian batsman. What is
the name of the Nissan car?

17. NISSAN SUNNY

18. 9.
It started as a small activity from the
founder (an IIT Delhi graduate) to
create a giant database of menu cards.
It is now a restaurant guide for many
Indian cities . Sometime back in 2010
they renamed themselves. This was
done to avoid conflicts with eBay.
Which popular Indian website this is ?

20. 10.
Which company added a soundless
digital clock to its new model in 1980
to do something about 'the clock' in
its legendary selling line "At 60 miles
an hour the loudest noise in this new
X comes from the electric clock"?

21. ROLLS ROYCE

22. 11.
Who is this?

23. 12. PSY, K-POP star. Gangnam Style!

24. 12.
Which company founded in 1923 by
the brothers Henry and Helal
Hassenfeld uses a stylized smile in its
logo to indicate the fact that their
business is fun?

25. Hasbro (from
Hassenfeld
brothers)

26. 13.
Who is the owner of this company ?

27. Sunny Leone

28. 14.
Id the composer and this Soundtrack and movie
in which it is featured ??

29. MIND HIEST from
INCEPTION
By Zack Hemsey

30. 15.
After graduating with a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)
degree from The Presidency College, Chennai, he
completed his Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from the
Madras Law College and his Masters in Business
Administration (M.B.A.) from Harvard Business
School.
In 2009, He was shoed by Jarnail Singh, a Sikh
journalist during a press conference in Delhi. Singh,
was dissatisfied with his answer to a question on the
CBI clean chit to Congress leader Jagdish Tytler on the
1984 anti-Sikh riots case. Who is he?

31. P.CHIDAMBARAM

32. 16.
Connect

33. All Are Nestle
Products

34. 17.
Identify this iconic building in
downtown New York

35. The Friends Building

36. 18.
This is the episode listing of which television series ?
1. Daughters are precious
2. Break the silence
3. Marriage or Marketplace
4. Every life is precious
5. Intolerence of love
6. People with disabilities
7. Danget at home
8. Poisom on your plate ?
Think before you drink
10. Dignity for all
11. Sunset years, sunshine life
12. Every drop counts
13. Idea of India

37. Satyamev Jayate

38. 19.
When the Indian forces drove away the Portuguese
from this colony, it became an independent country in
the eyes of international law. When the residents of
the colony requested the Government of India for
administrative help, Mr K.G. Badlani, an IAS officer
was sent as the administrator. In 1961, Mr. Badlani
was, for one day, designated as the Prime Minister of
the ‘country’ so that as the Head of State he could sign
an agreement with the Prime Minister of India,
Jawaharlal Nehru, and formally merge the country
with the Republic of India.
Identify this former Portuguese colony.

39. Dadar and Nagar Haveli

40. 20.
India was the first Asian country to get a loan
from the WORLD BANK on the 18th of august,
1949.
What was the purpose of this loan?

41. Indian Railways
Reconstruction and
Devolopement

42. 21.
‘Sleepy John' is a Czech folk legend which tells the story of a useless fellow who
can do nothing but sleep. He happens to land in the king's court due to magic,
where the court is discussing the strange disappearance of the queen every
night.
The queen wears out a dozen pairs of shoes every night, yet no one has ever
been able to follow her. Sleepy john announces that he"ll follow her and find her
secret. He uses his magic to track her down, and discovers that she sneaks out of
the palace every night to attend a feast in hell and ends up dancing with the
devil till her dozen pairs of shoes are worn out. John is rewarded with half the
kingdom by the king for tracking her exploits, and the queen is swallowed by the
earth.
Where did most of us come across this story, in a slightly different form ?

43. “Hawa Hawa” Song from the
Movie Rockstar

44. 22.
Homo floriensis is a possible
species of extint human found on
the island of flores in Indonesia.
The First set of remains to be
found ,LB1, has an estimated
hieght of 1.06m, and a brain
volume of 23 cu in.
What was the nickname given to
Homo floriensis.

45. HOBBIT

46. 23.
Who was made an honorary member of the Bradford
City Supporters’ Club because of the huge boost he gave
to the sales of club scarves since his arrival in 2002?

47. Harry
Potter

48. 24.
• Kimbra Hickey works as a hand, foot and leg model
apart from being a part- time massage therapist.
• Her claim to fame is a photo of her hands shot in
2004, but she thinks that she never got as much
publicity as she deserved for the same.
• She has been trying to inform as many peoples as
possible about her contribution, and even carries
around a Gala Apple in her purse at times so she
can recreate her famous pose for people.
• Where was the iconic photograph of her hands
used ?

49. Twilight :
Breaking Dawn

50. 25.
According to the British tabloid press, Pippa Middleton is currently in a
relationship with George Percy, heir to the duke of Northumberland. He
is known by a nickname, derived from his residence, Alnwick Castle,
shown below. What is this nickname?

51. EARL OF
HOGWARTS

52. 26.
X used to sing in trains around the Sion station
in Mumbai where one fine day filmmaker
Anand Surapur came across her and offered
her to sing for an album. It was in his office
that music director Y came across her. Y was so
impressed by the texture of her to voice that
she offered her to sing the song Z. When X was
asked the meaning of her off beat song and
she says, "Z matlab Poora Satyanash"

53. X = Durga
Y= Sneha Ganwalkar
Z = Chee Chaa Ledar

54. 28.
X is an Austrian skydiver and a
BASE jumper. He is renowned for
the particularly dangerous nature
of the stunts he has performed
during his career. X spent time in
the Austrian military where he
practiced parachute jumping,
including training to land on small
target zones.
X ‘s current project is Red Bull
Stratos, where he plans to jump to
Earth from a helium balloon in the
stratosphere in October 2012.

55. Felix Baumgartner

56. 28.
FITB
1. The Wizard and the Hopping Pot
2. The Fountain of Fair Fortune
3. The Warlock's Hairy Heart
4. Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump
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57. The Tale of the Three Brothers