Bharati Vidyapeeth’s College Of Engineering

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Dr. Vikram Sarabhai Rotating Shield Quiz

• Founded in 1952 by California clothing company Pacific Mills, it became part of Kayser-Roth and then Gulf and Western Industries before being acquired by Donald Trump in 1996.

• From 1960 to 1990, the ______ Creed was read at each event : "We, the young women of the universe, believe people everywhere are seeking peace, tolerance and mutual understanding. We pledge to spread this message in every way we can, wherever we go."

Ms Universe

Dr Watson describing Sherlock Holmes’ knowledge of various fields

• What is associated with rockets in this movie for the first time?

Countdown

A ________ program following this initiative would enlist people in the following timeline :

• Age 30: an offer to help settle in ________ is extended to select pioneers

• Age 30-35: training and social conditioning for long-duration isolation and time-delay communications

• Age 35: launch three married couples to ________; followed in subsequent years by a dozen or more couples

• Age 35-65: development of sheltered underground living spaces; artificial insemination ensures genetic diversity

• Age 65: an offer to return to ________ or retire on _________is given to first generation settlers

Mars To Stay

Scientists at Vienna University posing with – what?

The world’s first 3-D Printer

In 1882, William Sanderson prepared one hundred casks of blended whisky and hired a panel of experts to taste them. The batch from a specific cask was adjudged to be the best. This cask would later determine the name of the brand. How do we know this brand today?

VAT 69

Facebook EdgeRank Algorithm

Connect Foursquare, Hipmunk, Flipboard and GroupMe, Chegg.

[Hint : Think sitcoms]

The stickers on Ashton Kutcher’s laptop in Two And A Half Men.

There was something about CBS blocking it too; if you meet Bhasin

at a quiz, ask him for the full answer, this was his question.

Legend has it that X's chants of a hymn led to the Goddess Kali appearing before him. Instead of being intimidated, he laughed at her appearance, later apologising and explaining the joke to her. Despite her initial rage, the Goddess saw the humour in his witticism and laughed along with him. In reward, she gave him the honorific of Y. Y is a phonetic palindrome. Solve the alphabet soup.

Tenali Raman, Vi-ka-ta Ka-vi

One theory is that he was angered by the continuous taunts of 'macaroni eater' by the French. Another is that he was misled by a conman who masterminded the whole thing. The courts accepted his defence that it was a ‘patriotic act’, however, and awarded him only a lenient sentence.

In any case, what did he do?

Vincenzo Peruggia. Stole the Mona Lisa

Beatrice Tanner was the star of the play 'The Second Mrs. Tanqueray' by A. W. Pinero and was also a famous stage actress of her day. She eloped and married a Mr. Patrick Campbell in 1884 and this ruined her career. How is she immortalised?

Eliza Doolittle

Already a wealthy businessman, X wanted to

enter the motor industry as well. He disliked the Y cars he saw on the road – he regarded them as too noisy, too Spartan and common vehicles. He wanted to build high-performance cars with interiors to match. In 1963, X started production on his dream cars, with the 350 GTV making its debut at the Turin auto show that year. Name X.

X = Feruccio LamborghiniY = Ferrari

• The Liberty Bell Classic was an international sports event held at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1980 and participated by 29 countries. Participating nations included the United States, Canada, the People's Republic of China, Egypt, Thailand, West Germany, Sudan and Kenya. It began on July 16.. Earlier in the year, the United States had previously considered holding other games in Côte d'Ivoire, Italy, Japan, West Germany or China

• The Friendship Games or Friendship-84 was an international multi-sport event held between 2 July and 16 September 1984 in the Soviet Union and eight other socialist states.

• Some fifty states took part in the competition. While the 8 countries were represented by their strongest athletes, other countries sent their reserve teams. These included India, France, West Germany, East Germany, Italy, North Korea and many other nations

What is so special about these two events?

A parallel set of sporting events held in the same year as the Olympics. Originally held due to the Western boycott of the Moscow Olympics

because of the Afghanistan War. The Soviets retaliated four years later

with a boycott of their own.

The _________ were a British India“ Special Force" that served in Burma and India in 1943 and 1944 during the Burma Campaign in World War II. They were formed into long range penetration groups trained to operate deep behind Japanese lines, and led on these by their unconventional commander, Orde Wingate. Their name is a corrupted form of the name of a Burmese mythical beast named Chinthay, statues of which guard Buddhist temples.

Chindits

A photo taken after The Battle of Khem Karan. Identify the chap in the centre.

Anna Hazare (or whatever his full name is)

This brand of beer is brewed by the Den Horen brewery in Leuven, Belgium. In 1717, the master brewer gave it his family name. The brand began to be marketed internationally in 1926, first sold in Canada; before long, they came to flood European markets. Their tagline in the UK, one of their most major markets, was for a long time the iconic phrase ‘Reassuringly Expensive’. They are more widely known, though, as the title sponsors of a well-known sports tournament.

Stella Artois

Identify

Dennis Ritchie

This incident took place in June 1756. An initial account by JZ Holwell, put the death toll at 123; however, historians today estimate the figure to have been at most 43. The prisoners died due to suffocation, crushing and exhaustion. Either way, no one disputes that the tragedy occurred, and that it was avoidable. A revenge expedition led by Robert Clive later avenged the atrocity, and an obelisk was erected in the memory of the dead. How is this place/incident better known today?

The Black Hole of Calcutta

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