QUIZ CLUB MEET

08th February, 2009

Conducted by Ishan Mahajan

DISCLAIMER: All these questions have been lifted from various blogs due to paucity of time. My thanks to all those fanta-siastic quizzers!!

If you think u can make a better quiz on your own, then DO IT the next time we ask you to…

X when ingested does no lasting damage but the body's response is self-defence: sweat pours, pulse quickens, tongue flinches and tears may roll. However the person gets pleasure from pain relief i.e. the bloodstream floods with endorphins and the person gets a high. What is X?

Ingestion of X is also found to enhance the taste of other items.

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•Red Chillies

Six children of Brahma jeered at him when he fell in love with Saraswati- his own creation, and so to say, his 'daughter'. Brahma became very angry and cursed these six children to be born in demonic wombs. They got salvation finally at the hands of Lord Krishna. Who were they?

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•The six children born before Krishna who were killed by Kamsa.

It is a procedural defense (and, in many countries, a constitutional right) that forbids a defendant from being tried twice for the same crime on the same set of facts. If the defendant successfully proves that he has been acquitted or convicted of the same offense then the projected trial has to be prevented from proceeding. X has been used as a plot many a times in movies as well as in fiction , notably crime thrillers. Identify?

A hollywood movie of the same name was released in 1999 starring Ashley Judd.

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•Double Jeopardy

Guy in the pic was in news recently. Why?

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•Vikas Swarup – Author of Q & A : Basis for “Slumdog Millionaire”

A appeared as herself in B’s maiden directorial venture. She is the sister of a certain Vasanth Kumar Shivshankar Padukone, who was later renamed to C. A’s daughter, D, is a reputed film director and is known for her woman-oriented films. C had got a job of a telephone operator at a Lever Brothers factory in Kolkata but soon he left it and moved to Mumbai. Name A, B, C and D.

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•A – Lalita Lajmi•B – Aamir Khan•C – Guru Dutt•D – Kalpana Lajmi

Sigma 6, The MegaDeaths, The Screaming Abdabs, The Architectural Abdabs, The Abdabs, Tea Set, ________.

Fill in the blanks.

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•Pink Floyd – the others are previous names of the band

A. His official birth date is August 21, 1921. He made his debut in 1966 and went onto star in dozens of films and specials.B. He is so popular in Poland that a street in Warsaw is named after him.C. 'The Tao of _____' is an elementary but entertaining introduction to Taoism, using him as the central character. The book was on the New York Times Bestseller list, and is often used in college religion courses.D. He was recently awarded a Hollywood Star on the Walk of Fame.

Identify him.

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•Winnie the Pooh

These boys from Hyderabad did somethingextraordinary to get their names into the history books.

What?

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B Manoj Kumar and Md. Shaibaz Tumbi320 (127 balls) and 324 (116 balls)

Partnership of 721 in 40 overs beating the previous best by Kambli and Tendulkar (664 runs in two days).

Highest victory margin. The opposing team was bowled out for 21.

No six was hit during the entire innings.

What has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 different patterns ?

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•The Rubic’s Cube (Bad question, I know!! :D)

“Tatha cha smaryate yojnanam sahastre dwe dwe shate cha yojane ekain nimishardhen kramamana namostute iti”

This is a prayer to the Sun God mentioned as a commentary by Sayanacharya on the 4th verse of the hymn of Rig Veda 1.50.

What is the significance in scientific terms of this prayer?

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•The first ever mention of the value of speed of light 1 yojana=9 miles0.5 nimisha = 8/75 seconds

•Using these values the value of speed of light comes 186,413.22 miles per second

A new Belgian carrier, Brussels Airlines, has been forced to change its logo. What was the reason for doing so?

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•The logo had 13 dots – considered inauspicious, hence changed to 14

His only failing grade in school at the age of 14, was an 'F' in music class.In 1961, he joined the US Army and was a trainee paratrooper. His military records show that he was considered an incompetent soldier, repeatedly caught sleeping while on duty and missing at midnight bed-check. It is believed that his constant use of LSD was an integral part of his creative process.

He was found dead in a basement flat in London. He died amid circumstances which have never been satisfactorily explained. He had spent the night with his German girlfriend, and likely died in bed after drinking wine and taking 9 Vesperax sleeping pills, then drowning in his own vomit.

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•Jimi Hendrix

Google MentalPlex, Google Gulp, Google Romance, Google TiSP, etc. All of these fall into a certain category. But there was one among these (which is obviously not given here) which was the odd one out.

What was it and what was different about it?

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•Google announced the launch of GMail on Apr 1, 2004, which was actually a genuine announcement and not an April Fool's joke as many had thought.

What is the significance of the five flags shown here?

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•illustrates the difference between normal people and color blind people

•I-by most people•II- by red-blind people•III- by green-blind people•IV- by violet blind people•V- by totally color blind people

Connect…

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Jodie foster, John Hinckley Jr., Ronald Reagan

Hinckley tried to impress Jodie Foster (who he was fixated upon) by emulating the guy in her movie “Taxi Driver” and made a bid to assassinate Ronald Reagan.

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Conn

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Shane Warne

Ian Botham Patrick Veira

Gary SobersTheir Autobiographies were called

“My Autobiography”

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