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Final Round: 1st Half

Presented by: Tamal Majumder and

Sutanu Banerjee

Tamal Majumder and Sutanu Banerjee

Question 1:

• X was born on January 15, 1926 in a small village of Maharashtra.

X is best known as an Olympian who won a bronze medal at the

1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. Before the selection for

Helsinki Olympics, X alleged that nepotism among officials

prevented X from getting selected for the Olympics. X was one of

the first athletes from India to win a medal in the Olympics. In

2010, a sports venue at the Indira Gandhi Sports Complex in New

Delhi was named in X’s honor. ID X


Answer: Kashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav


Question 2: What is happening


Answer: Launching Agni-V by DRDO


Question 3:

• The X species of animal once ranged throughout the entire stretch of the

Indo-Gangetic Plain, but excessive hunting and agricultural development

reduced their range drastically to 11 sites in northern India and southern

Nepal. In 2015, a total of 3,555 X are estimated to live in the wild. A steatite

seal, popularly known as Pashupati Seal was discovered at the Mohenjo-daro

archaeological site in 1928–29 of the Indus Valley Civilization. It has a

human figure at the center seated on a platform and the human figure is

surrounded by four wild animals: an elephant and a tiger to its one side, and

a water buffalo and an X on the other. X is also the organizational logo for

Assam Oil Company Ltd. What is X?


Answer: Indian Rhinoceros


Question 4:• X served in five consecutive Cricket World Cup finals

from 1992 to 2007. He was widely known for his long

deliberations before making decisions, for which he

earned the nickname "Slow Death“. Before joining this

trait, he was a football player and referee, a high school

mathematics teacher and a sports coach. X has a record

of officiating all the test playing nations at least once

whereas X is also popular or victimized by the Indians for

the horrendous LBW of Sachin Tendulkar in 2003. ID X.


Answer: Steve Bucknor


Question 5: Name the movie


Answer: Full Metal Jacket (1981)


Question 6:

• X was born on 1st October 1945 in Paraukh village in the

Kanpur Dehat district, Uttar Pradesh. X’s father Maikulal

was a landless Kori who ran a small shop to support his

family. Before entering politics, X was a lawyer for 16

years and practiced in the Delhi High Court and the

Supreme Court until 1993. X was elected and became a

lok sabha MP from the state of Uttar Pradesh in April

1994. He served a total of twelve years, two consecutive

terms, until March 2006. Identify X.


Answer: Ram Nath Kovind


Question 7:

• X is famous multinational company with acting headquarters located in

Lausanne, Switzerland. The organization has a retail presence of over 5200

retail stores in more than 70 countries and production facilities in 18

countries. In 1914, with the outbreak of World War I, the company had a

significant development due to military orders. From 1914 to 1918 the

number of X’s employees increased ten times. The company opened its own

stores in Zlín, Prague, Liberec, Vienna and Pilsen, among other towns. After

1930, the company had decided to allocate plots for their 7500 employees in

a small hamlet near Kolkata and that place is named after the company. Id

the company.


Answer: Bata


Question 8: ID the movie, name of the

song/Hindi movie with a song inspired from

this tune


Answer: The Godfather, Speak Softly, Love/

Akele Hum Akele Tum


Question 9: • X is a domestic market conglomerate founded in late twentieth

century decades in Ahmedabad and currently has a revenue of

3.550 crores with more than 15000 employees. In November,

2007, X purchased the American raw materials company Searles

Valley Minerals Inc. - making it among Top-7 Soda Ash

manufacturer in the world. The founder used to make deliveries in

cycle in earlier days whereas there are 2 million retail outlets in the

entire country in 2017. We have seen Sangita Bijlani and Sonali

Bendre among the few of the brand ambassadors of this

company. Identify X.


Answer: Nirma


Question 10:• X is an American technology and retail entrepreneur, investor, computer

scientist, and philanthropist. X’s diversified business interests include

aerospace and newspapers. X is the founder and manufacturer of Blue

Origin with test flights to space which started in 2015, and plans for

commercial suborbital human spaceflight beginning in 2018. In 2013, X

purchased The Washington Post newspaper. A number of other business

investments are managed through X’s Expeditions. When stock markets

opened on July 27, 2017, X suddenly became the title holder of something

but lost that title after four hours. Identify X.



Answer: Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com


Audience:

• X was part of "Danish India" from 1755 to

1845.The hot humid climate of the area suited the

textile industry and the local land was well known

for its cotton and silk weaving. The Danish

obtained the parwana by paying fifty thousand

rupees in cash to Nawab Alivardi Khan, along with

many gifts, acquiring three bighas of land on the

riverfront. ID X.



Answer: Srirampore


Question 11: What is happening



Answer: Mario Götze scoring in 2014 WC Final


Question 12:• X is a type of emergency vehicle that has a quick responding

provision which can increase survival rates for patients suffering

cardiac arrest according to some perception. In WWI, the allied

force army used X for the first time to help the sick and wounded

people at the front. The British Red Cross Society used an 8 bhp

(6 kW) NUT with a double decker facility like the US version. X

was launched in Bengaluru India on April 16, 2015. Volunteer X

operator Karimul Haque of Lataguri received the Padma Shri

award in 2017 for his service in Dooars. We can loosely connect

this service with a scene of ‘Three Idiots’. What is X



Answer: Motorcycle Ambulance Service


Question 13:

• X was created by American psychologist and writer William MoultonMarston. Marston drew a great deal of inspiration from early feminists, andespecially from birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger to create X. Hippolytais the mother of X and X was created during World War II; the character wasinitially depicted fighting Axis military forces as well as an assortment ofcolorful super villains, although over time her stories came to place greateremphasis on characters, deities, and monsters from Greek mythology. GloriaSteinem, Lynda Carter and Keri Russell acted in the character of X. OnOctober 21, 2016, the United Nations sparked controversy by naming X as"UN Honorary Ambassador for the Empowerment of Women and Girls"but dropped after two months from UN Ambassador following a petition.ID X.



Answer: Wonder Woman


Question 14: ID the entrepreneur



Answer: Jack Ma


Question 15: Id



Answer: F-16 Fighting Falcon


Question 16:

• X is a proposed mode of passenger and/or freight transportation,first named as such in an open-source vactrain design released bya joint team from Tesla and SpaceX. Elon Musk's version of theconcept, first publicly mentioned in 2012. Gene Roddenberry'sfollow-on to Star Trek, Genesis II, used a very similar concept –called a "subshuttle" in the program – to move characters fromplace to place quickly. The ‘Orcapod’ is the first proposed designentry of X in India. Workbench Projects is Bengaluru's firstFablab makerspace, having 5000 sq ft of creative space rightunder the Halasuru Metro Station to create the first X in India. IDX.



Answer: Hyperloop


Question 17: ID the story



Answer: Tintin in Tibet


Question 18:

• X (Thai, meaning "agate“ or ‘Star of the sea’) was a

strong catastrophe that caused widespread impacts by

devastation and severe flooding across Sri Lanka,

Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bangladesh, Myanmar

and Northeast India in May 2017. X reached peak

strength with maximum sustained winds of 110 km/h (70

mph). X caused damage that reached to Rs.131 crore

(USD $20 million) in northeastern states of India.

Identify X.



Answer: Cyclone Mora


Question 19:• X is a beam bridge in India that connects Assam and Arunachal Pradesh

over the Lohia river of Assam. At 9.15 kilometers (5.69 mi) in length, it is the

longest bridge in India. With rapid movement of India's defense assets in

mind following incursions by the Chinese Army, the X Bridge has been

designed to handle the weight of 60-tonne (130,000-pound) tanks such as

the Indian Army's Arjun and T-72 main battle tanks. Construction began in

November 2011 as a public-private partnership with Navayuga Engineering

Company, with an expected completion in 2015. However, due to

construction delays and cost increases, the bridge's completion date was

pushed into 2017. Identify X.



Answer: Dhola–Sadiya Bridge (Bhupen

Hazarika Setu)


Question 20: What has just happened here?



Answer: Apollo 13 disaster of Oxygen tank


Audience: Id the Bengali version and movie


Answer: Aaj gun gun gun kunje amar/ Rajkumari


Audience:

•Why Sanchi Stupa suddenly

came into limelight again

on 25th August this year??



Answer: 200 Rupee Note


Question 21:

• X is an Indian mountaineer and the first woman in the world who scaled thesummit of the Mount Everest twice in a season (and also just within 5 days). It isalso the fastest double ascents of the tallest crest by a woman. This 32 year oldmountaineer is from Bomdilla, headquarters of West Kameng district, ArunachalPradesh - the state that holds most north-eastern position of India. Beforemarriage, she used to live in Gohpur, Sonitpur district, central Assam, and her namewas Deepa Kalita. Her husband, Tsering Wange, is the president of the AllArunachal Mountaineering and Adventure Sports Association. After taking theblessings of 14th Dalai Lama, she began her Everest climbing expedition fromGuwahati on April 2, 2017. She took 38 days schedule for acclimatization at theEverest Base Camp (at 17,600 ft) and started her main journey on April 4. At 9.15am on May 16 along with 17 other climbers, she climbed up to the mountaintop andunfurled the Indian National Flag. ID X.


Answer: Anshu Jamsenpa


Question 22:

• NASA have named a new organism discovered by them — a form of

bacteria that has been found only on the International Space Station (ISS)

and has not been found on earth. Researchers at the Jet Propulsion

Laboratory (JPL), the foremost lab of NASA for work on interplanetary

travel, discovered the new bacteria on the filters of the International Space

Station (ISS) and named it to honour the late person, who was a renowned

aerospace scientist. The bacteria has not characterized fully but there are

hints that the new bug could be a key source for chemicals that can help

protect against radiation damage. This bacteria is named after a famous

person. Just name the person or the bacteria.


Answer: A.P.J Abdul Kalam/ Solibacillus kalamii


Question 23: ID the film and music director of

this version


Answer: Bose: The Forgotten Hero/ A.R. Rahman


Question 24: Connect

122nd Amendment Bill


Answer: GST in India


Question 25: ID the sports person


Answer: Joshna Chinappa


Question 26: ID the movie


Answer: Partition: 1947


Question 27:

• X is a type of malicious software from cryptovirology that threatens to

publish the victim's data or perpetually block access to it unless some money

is paid. While some simple X may lock the system in a way which is not

difficult for a knowledgeable person to reverse, more advanced malware uses

a technique called cryptoviral extortion, in which it encrypts the victim's files,

making them inaccessible, and demands a financial payment to decrypt them.

X is difficult to trace because it uses digital currencies such as Ukash and

Bitcoin as payment, making tracing and prosecuting the perpetrators difficult.

ID X.


Answer: Ransomware


Question 28: Why people have stopped talking

with him?


Answer: Watch it


Question 29: Id the player


Answer: George Best


Question 30:• The X (Neofelis nebulosa) is a wild cat occurring from the

Himalayan foothills through mainland Southeast Asia into China.

Since 2008, it is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List. Its

total population is suspected to be fewer than 10,000 mature

individuals. The X is the state animal of the Indian state of

Meghalaya. The Rukai people of Taiwan considered the hunting

of X a taboo. In the 1970s the print of Rama Samaraweera's

painting X was a best-seller in the USA. In this year, X has

become somehow important for the sports spectrum of India.

What is X.


Answer: Clouded Leopard


Audience: Id the ad

Answer: Vodafone 3G

Question 31:

• The origin of X is a well-known chant 3.1.6 from

the Mundaka Upanishad. This was popularized and

brought into the national lexicon by Pandit Madan

Mohan Malaviya in 1918. Mick Jagger, one of the

founder members of the "Rolling Stones" is

somehow related to X. Recently a famous TV show

was based on the name of X. ID X.



Answer: Satyameva Jayate


Question 32:

• ANI Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Is operating under thetrade name X. X is an Indian company, mostly workingthrough an online platform with more than 6000employees. Bhavish Aggarwal and Ankit Bhati foundedX on 3rd December 2010 in Mumbai, but theheadquarter is now shifted in Bangalore. X's technologycame under criticism for various times regarding thesecurity of its mobile app. Recently X have madecollaboration with with Indus OS , Yupp TV and someother partners for better services. ID X.



Answer: OLA



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