This document provides 20 multiple choice questions for a quiz contest being held at quizzcongoz.blogspot.in on 15 minutes. It includes questions from various topics ranging from art, literature, history, sports and more. Some questions have clues and details about famous persons, events, inventions etc to identify the right answer. Starred questions will be used in case of a tie between participants.

1. By
Akhil R Nair

2. Rules
• Total 20 questions
• Time : 15 mins
• Venue : quizzcongoz.blogspot.in
• Starred questions will resolve the tie

3. 1.(2pts)
This painting is an
example of a
movement which
bridged the
Romantic
movement with
the Barbizon
School and
the Impressionists.
Id the painter and
the movement??

4. • Co founded the Penguin
2.(1 pt)
Books and also created the
Id him>>>> Sainik schools. He is
considered as the prime
architect of Third Bloc
policy. He was described as
the 2nd most powerful man
after Nehru by Time
magazine

5. 3.(2pts)
88 searchlights placed
next to the site of a
world famous tragical
building to create two
vertical columns of light
in remembrance of
the its demolition.
Id the building.
Name this installation?

6. • After the release and
4.(1pt)
success of their first album
in Feb,1994, this US rock
band was threatened with
legal action by an Irish pop
band of same name. So in
order to avoid that they
included 3 numbers after
the band name.
• Name the band?

7. • "Shoot all the blue jays
5.(2pts)
you want, but it is a sin to
Complete the quote ____ _ ________"
Who is the speaker
in this case????

8. 6.(1pt)
Find the next one

9. • These are believed to have
7.(1pt)
been brought here by the
first foreign visitors to the
What are we
Malabar coast, the late 14th
talking about>>>>
century traders from the
Chinese ruler Kublai Khan’s
court. It involves a
cantileverd mechanism.
• These are the tourist
attractions of Kochi and was
there in front of Cochin Intl
airport during its early years

10. • ________is a criticism of
slide-based presentations
8.(1pt)
referring to a state of
boredom and fatigue
induced by information
overload during
presentations such as
those created by the
Microsoft application
PowerPoint. The phrase
was first coined by Angela
R. Garber

11. 9.(1pt)
A. CEO
of________
B. Founder of
___________

12. 10.(1pt)
Id the brand

13. • This word was coined in
11.(1pt)
1952 by Major Christian
Id the word >>>>> Lambertsen who served in
the U.S. Army Medical
Corps from 1944 to 1946
as a physician. It is used in
connection with
underwater diving with
breathing equipment. It is
actually an acronym.

14. • The evolution of this was
12.(1pt)
believed to be from the
What are we talking colour of the event
about ??? organizing newspaper
after the journalists had
asked the event
director, Henri
Desgrange, to make it
easier for them to find the
leader in the peloton.

15. 13.(1pt)
Put Funda!!!!!!

16. 14.(1pt)
Id her
An easy one

17. • Founding member of
the Communist Party of India.
15.(1pt) • Founder of Socialist the first
Id >>>>>>>>> socialist weekly in India
• Played an important role in the
formation of Maharashtra.
• Remained the Chairman of the
CPI till 1978, was removed in
that year because the majority
of party workers were against
his political line of
supporting Indian National
Congress & Indira Gandhi.
• Was in news recently in Kerala

18. • This place got its name
from the name of the
16.(1pt)
cottage of Pravarsena II
Id>>>>> who was the founder of
A question from Srinagar. It was on the
the FB page of banks of Dal lake.
Quizz Congoz Centuries later, a Mughal
emperor built his famous
gardens at this site with
the same name which is a
Sanskrit word meaning
“Abode of Love”

19. • only Asian Footballer ever to
be named among the 10
17.(1pt) best Captains in the world
Id him by the English FA in 1953
• part of the Indian Football
Team for the 1948 London
Olympics
• Captained Indian team
which Gold Medal in the
1951 Asian Games and also
won the Quandrangular
Tournament for four
consecutive years from 1952
to 1956

20. • He was referred to as X the
Great
18.(1pt)
• His successors and later
Id X Egyptians called him the
"Great Ancestor."
• He is also known
as Ozymandias in the Greek
sources
• in the 30th year of his reign
X celebrated a jubilee called
the Sed festival, during
which the king was ritually
transformed into a god

21. • The name of which mughal
19(1pt)
ruler’s wife’s means “light
An easy one of the world”

22. 20(1pt)
An easy one to
end
Id the game..
Positions are
shown here