General Quiz (Prelims) | Elixir '12

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xkcd parody of which very famous short story?

The Gift of the Magi

       “Gold,  as  a  precious  metal,  carries  a  lot  of  posi3ve  vibra3ons  and  it  has  guarded  me  throughout  my  life.  And,  it  keeps  me  in  a  happy-­‐go-­‐lucky  mood  all  the  3me,  which  is  essen3al  in  my  line  of  work.”  

Who?

Bappi Lahri

Ad for?

Lego

Minimalist poster for?

What?

Id?

Google Glasses!

The place of his birth was an important garrison town for the East India Company forces. Located on the Grand Trunk Road, it is now a well connected industrial center. His dad represented United Provinces in Ranji Trophy. He played most of his cricket in a town about 55 miles east-southeast of London, famous as a pilgrimage destination for Christians. Last year he was one of the recipients of the Sitara-e-Imtiaz. And he allegedly is the only man to have witnessed both Brian Lara's innings of 501 not out vs. Durham and Hanif Mohammed's 499 in Karachi. ID.

Bob Woolmer

Don Bradman had once remarked about a team "they score goals like we score runs in cricket". Which team?

The Indian Hockey team under Dhyan Chand

The  head  of  which  organiza3on’s  3tle  is  “Chief  Lizard  Wrangler”?  

Mozilla

     In  the  dark  blue  sky  you  keep     And  oHen  through  the  curtains  peep,     For  you  never  shut  your  eye,     Till  the  sun  is  in  the  sky,     _______________________  

Fill  in  the  blank,  which  is  also  the  name  of  a  famous  poem.  

Twinkle  Twinkle  LiKle  Star  

     Their  real  name  is  1st  Special  Forces  Opera3onal  Detachment  –  _________  (Airborne)  (1st  SFOD-­‐D  (A)).  It  is  known  in  the  Pentagon  officially  as  the  Combat  Applica3ons  Group.  What?  

Delta  or  Delta  Force  

This  is  a  graph  depic3ng  what  in  the  world  of  sports?  

The  baUng  average  of  Sir  Donald  Bradman  

     This  phrase  was  first  used  by  the  London  Times  on  28  December,1937-­‐”Who  can  think  without  horror  of  what  widespread  war  would  mean,waged  as  it  would  be  with  all  the  new  ________________?”  The  original  reference  is  to  aerial  bombing  of  ci3es,which  had  become  a  reality  that  year  in  the  Spanish  Civil  War.  What  term?  

Weapons  of  Mass  Destruc3on  

"The  Striding  Man  Society"  is  a  members  club  for  consumers  of  this  product,  a  key  marke3ng  feature  of  which  is  the  Striding  Man  logo.  Every  type  of  this  product  has  a  different  colour.  The  other  iden3fying  characteris3c  of  this  is  the  label,  which  is  applied  at  an  angle  of  24  degrees.  The  angled  label  means  the  text  on  the  label  can  be  made  larger  and  more  visible.  What  product?  

In  Renaissance  Florence,  it  was  fashionable  for  ladies  to  shave  their  eyebrows  off.  This  has  most  famously  been  incorporated  in  what?  

The Mona Lisa

Dedicated to whom?

Carlos Santana

Y : Saved from the X.Y : In Nacht und Eis.1913 : Atlantis.1929 : Atlantic.1943 : X.1953 : X.1958 : A Night to Remember.1964 : The ___________ Molly Brown.1966 : Rendezvous With Yesterday. (The Time Tunnel : Episode 1)1979 : X.1980 : Raise the X.1981 : Time Bandits.1983 : Voyagers of the X. (Voyagers! : Episode 15)1995 : X.1996 : X.1996 : No Greater Love.1997 : X.1997 : The Chambermaid.1999 : The Legend of the X.2001 : X - The Legend Goes On.2003 : Ghosts of the Abyss.2004 : In Search of the X.2010 : X Part II.2012 : X.2012 : X - Blood and Steel.

ID X and the year Y.

Titanic 1912

Doodle based on?

Halloween

What has been blanked out?

When Sachin made his debut

Which Hollywood film was released as Chakravyuh in Hindi?

NOTE: Not the Prakash Jha movie! :P

Inception

This is a product that is using a type of screw that no customer’sscrewdriver fits? The five-pointed 'pentalobular' fixing is currently being fittedto some of the company's products, a typical case of "screw you"!!!! Name the company.

Apple

Romer got these values 7.5 and 22.5.. X thought that system was the soul of elegance ..so he cockeyed up another system just removing the fractions and multiplying these numbers by 4.he did some more even uncanny manipulations to get what we have now... X?

Daniel Fahrenheit.

What has been blanked out?

Scrodinger’s Cat

Nirma

In an interview to the Indian Express in November 2011, he said :“After Operation BlueStar in Punjab,the final examinations were postponed.led a group of students demanding a month’s notice as preparation. We made banners saying,“___ ___”. and went about raising this slogan.”

He used these lines in a film...Which lines was he talking about??

SADDA HAQ