Xquizite prelims

Rules and Regulations
->25 questions
Starred questions( Q 1,5,10,15,25) will be
used for tie breakers.
->Top 6 qualify for the finals

-> Write your team name and one of the
contact numbers.
-> Stay back after the prelims. Answers
afterwards.

Q1.
The phrase X means:
(1) to relax a tense or formal atmosphere or social situation; (2) to make a start
on some endeavour.

This came into general use, in sense , in English through Lord Byron's "Don
Juan" in the lines:

And your cold people [the British] are beyond all price,
When once you've __________.

The _____ in question is metaphorically that on a river or lake in early spring.
______ would be to allow boats to pass, marking the beginning of the season's
activity after the winter freeze. In this way, this expression has been connected
to the start of enterprise for about 400 years.

ID the phrase X.

Q2.
Name the mythical creature found on the masthead of the
Hindu.

Q.4
South Sudan is the newest independent
country.
Which was the last Asian country to get
independent ?

Q6.
What does the 4 rings in automobile giants
Audi represent ?

Audi logo each represent one of four car
companies that banded together to create the
company.

Q7. if one had travelled from Calais to
Dover in a ferry…he would have crossed
_____________ .

Q8. Which country has Albert
Einstein on its currency ?

Q10. Whats so special about this samsung phone

Q11
" Every year at least 16 million additional
hectares fall to the torch, the axe, bulldozers and
the chain saw. Five million hectares of forests
vanish every year just to meet the need for
paper. Cheil Worldwide, a leading advertising
agency decided to do something about this.
What simple idea have they given the world that
can help reduce this vanishing trees in a
significant way?"

Q12. Before the Theory of Relativity, the
peculiar orbit of Mercury was explained by
proposing a theory where a planet X was
supposed to be between Mercury and Sun.

X is also Roman God of both beneficial and
hindering fires, including volcano, thus
making name X apt for planet so close to Sun.

The name X is now well known for it is one of
the main planets in one of most popular sci-fi
space franchises.

Q14. What is so special about this
video(vid 1)?

Q15. what are these guys doing…?

Q17
The name of the software X is a pun mixing the legend of Emperor X playing
his lyre as Rome burned down during the ‘Great Fire of Rome’ which according
to some people was started by X himself. The software is made by a Germany
based company and the pun is more obvious in original German as the
German name for Rome is Rom.
The logo of this widely used program is an image of the Roman Colosseum in
flames; this is dramatic but inaccurate, as the Great Fire of Rome took place in
64 AD, while construction of the Colosseum only started a few years later,
between 70 and 72 AD.
Identify X.

Q18
X is a Caltech Theoretical Physicist who shares
an apartment with his colleague and best friend.
•The asteroid 246247 was named after him.
•exhibits a strict adherence to routine, a total
lack of social skills, a tenuous understanding
of irony, sarcasm, and humor, and a general lack
of humility or empathy.

ID (easiest question in the quiz :P )

Q19.
What is common in Kartikeya, Mars and
Odin?

Q20.
Which two alphabets don’t feature on the periodic
table ?
(points only for the precise answer )

Q21 ID the natural masterpiece.

Q22. Which club’s one of the earliest logos ?

Q24.
Who was the first rockstar to get arrested on
stage ?

Q25
Which Indian stringed instrument's name is a
derivation of a '100 colours' ?

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