second session slides

1. Who? Where? When? Why? What? How?

2.  Welcome to yet another quizzing session of SQA.
Scientia potentia est

3.  We do hate rules ! Still..
 Quiz master decision is final and binding
 Each round in quiz carries no negative marks so you can
guess !!
 Except for the last round where there would be deviation
from rules, in each round point system are the same
 10 for correct answer and 5 for passed question correct
answer

4.  Easy ones…. Starters  

6.  New imf chief !

8.  Housing development finance corporation

9.  X is a global youth organisation that develops leadership
capabilities through their internal leadership programmes
and engaging students and graduates in international
student exchange and internship programmes for profit
and non-profit organisations.
 Its international office is in Rotterdam, Netherlands. As of
November 2010, the X network includes over 50,000
members in 110 countries and territories, making it the
largest youth-run organisation in the world
 It is present in over 1,600 universities across the
globe, provides more than 10,000 leadership experiences to
its members and sends students and graduates on 10,000
international exchanges yearly.

13.  From where (city) was the first FM radio Service
started in India?

19.  Which Indian film director has a Swiss
lake, hotel, train named after him because of his
contributions to tourism?

21.  X Berhad is a Malaysian cellular operator company
headquartered at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
 It was started in the year 1993. It uses the dialing prefix
identifier of "012" , "017" and “0142”.
 Their mobile services are provided over the 900 & 1800
MHzGSM band and as July 2005, the 2100
MHz UMTS band
 Majority of the company's stake is owned by
billionaire Ananda Krishnan

23.  X, India's largest media conglomerate has power
packed Twenty Television Channels with the reach of
more than 95 million households in India.
 X’s channels Can be viewed throughout the world
including U.S.A, Canada, Europe, Middle East,
Singapore, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Australia
and New Zealand
 X has also has 45 FM Radio Stations, Two Daily News
Papers

26.  Measured both by time and number of games. In
the Gentlemen's Singles tournament first round, the
American 23rd seed John Isner defeated the
French qualifier Nicolas Mahut, after 11 hours, 5
minutes of play over three days, with a final score of 6–
4, 3–6, 6–7(7–9), 7–6(7–3), 70–68 for a total of 183
games.
 The match began at 6:13 pm British Summer
Time (17:13 UTC) on Tuesday, 22 June 2010.
 At 9:07 pm, due to fading light, play was suspended at
two sets all.

27.  After resuming on Wednesday, 23 June at 2:05 pm, the
record for longest match was broken at 5:45 pm. The
light faded again, and so play was suspended at 9:10
pm, with the final set tied at 59 games all.
 Play resumed at 3:43 pm on Thursday, 24 June, and
Isner won at 4:48 pm, the final set having lasted 8
hours, 11 minutes.
 Both players broke numerous Wimbledon and tennis
records, including each serving over 100 aces, with the
match being referred to as 'the endless match'

30.  Easy one...
With 35,000 people following his updates, who is the
most popular user on Google(PLUS), Facebook's latest
rival ??

36.  Connection round
 Rules
 First identify the baseline or connect , then go for
identifying individual pictures/audio/video
 Each direct question carriers 20 points and pass
carriers 5 points a piece

38.  First 3-d porn movie- Zen and sex
 First 3-d Indian game- Ghajini
 First 3-d movie- The man in the dark

40.  Val Kilmer
 George Clooney
 Christian Bale
 Michael Keaton

41.  Clue :

42.  Jonny Lee Miller (ex)
 Billy Bob Thornton (ex)
 Brad Pitt (present)
 Enna valzkha da ithu :P

48.  Rakesh sharma
 Indira gandhi
 Mohammed iqbal
 Rakesh sharma after reaching space first said these
words to indira gandhi who was phone with him
 Mhd iqbal has written to lyrics of the song

49. 6.) Connect

50.  Arjun Singh – minister who was prime accused
of bhopal gas tragedy
 Warren Anderson – head of union carbide which
caused the tragedy
 Bhopal Memorial

52.  Lk advani
 Sardar patel
 Charan singh
 Devi lal

54.  These are the national award winnings films of
director mani ratnam
 Roja, dalapathy, nayagan, bombay

56.  They have all voiced the main characters of the kung
fu panda movie

58.  Director of both the oscar winning movies
 His ex wife kathrine bigelow won 2010 oscar for the
movie hurt locker (she is the first woman director to
achieve this feat)

62.  Vaibhav Bedi,26,sought 26,000 euros from Hindustan
Unilever Limited in November 2009,citing
“Depression and psychological damage” caused due to
one of their products. What was this product and how
did it lead to the person’s “Depression and
psychological damage” ?

63.  According to him THE AXE EFFECT was a false. No
girl was attracted to him for all the seven years of AXE-
use leading him to “Depression and psychological
damage”!!!

64.  The word ________ was introduced to the public by the Czech
interwar writer Karel Capek in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's
Universal ______), published in 1920,but he himself did not coin
the word.He wrote a short letter in reference to an etymology in
the Oxford English Dictionary in which he named his
brother, the painter and writer Josef Capek, as its actual
originator.In an article in the Czech journal Lidové noviny in
1933, he explained that he had originally wanted to call the
creatures labori,though he did not like the word.So he asked his
brother Josef and he suggested the name.The first digital and
programmable ______ was invented by George Devol in 1954 and
was called the Unimate. Devol sold the first Unimate to General
Motors in 1961.The term became very famous in India after
______ was released on 1st october,2010.Identify ___________.

66.  This dish is described in the writings of Afanasiy
Nikitin, a Russian adventurer who travelled to the
Indian subcontinent in the 15th century. It was very
popular with the Mughals, especially Jahangir. Ain-i-
Akbari, a 16th century document, written by Mughal
Emperor, Akbar’s vizier, Abu'l-Fazl ibn
Mubarak, mentions the recipe for this dish, which
gives seven variations."Bisi Bele Bath" is a famous
variant of this dish from Karnataka.The name is the
Benarsi local name of the Makar Sankranti
festival.Identify the dish.

68.  Dr Walter Semkiw, in his book, "Born Again:
Reincarnation Cases Involving International
Celebrities, India's Political Legends and Film Stars"
depicts Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam as a reincarnation of
this great Indian.
 He had perfected the rocket's use for military purposes
and used it effectively against his opposition.
 After his death, his rockets were seized and taken back
to London for re-engineering. One of his rockets is still
preserved with the name “India's War Rocket“ (pic up
next) at the Woolwich Museum, London. Who am I
talking about?

77.  Betting round

78.  Each team will get a question, and before the question
is being asked – other teams can start placing bet on
that team
 Team which bets the max will compete against it ie to
both of them the question will be posted
 If the team that places the bet ans it correct they get
double the points they betted and if wrong they lose
the points they betted

79.  For the team that gets the question you wont lose
anything if you answer it wrong, but if u get it right
and other team that betted you gets it wrong u get
double the bet they placed on you !
 So more rules will be opichufied by the qm

82.  The software was invented and developed by Estonian
developers Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu and Jaan
Tallinn, the same individuals who together with the
Swedish entrepreneur Niklas Zennström and Dane
Janus Friis were also originally behind the peer-to-peer
file sharing software Kazaa.
 X as a company was founded in 2003 by Zennström
and Friis. In April 2003, x.com and x.net domain
names were registered.

83.  In August 2003, the first public beta version was
released. In September 2005, X was banned in South
China.
 In October of the same year, eBay purchased X for $2.6
billion. (In 2011, the Ars Technica estimated the
purchase price at $3.1 billion, not $2.6 billion.) In April
2006.
 Till April 2010 it has 663 billion registered users. Name
X?

92.  The wedding of Ms Lakshmi Venu — daughter of Mr
Venu Srinivasan (TVS Motors Chairman) and Ms
Mallika Srinivasan (Chairperson of TAFE) — with Mr
Rohan Murthy, son of Chief Mentor and Founder of
Infosys, Mr N.R. Narayana Murthy, and Ms Sudha
Murthy

95.  Happy quizzing !