Shobhit ShubhankarRohan Kulkarni

Mahendra Mohan Das

Fachcha General Quiz

1) The Ouroboros or Uroboros is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail. It often symbolize self-reflexivity or cyclicality, especially in the sense of something constantly re-creating itself, the eternal return, and other things that begin anew as soon as they end. What was inspired by something similar?

A) Benzene ring

2) He got the sobriquet he is known by when on his 1960 victory over Abdul Khaliq in Pakistan, Ayub Khan, then President of Pakistan, told him "You didn’t run today, you flew". He gave away the rights to a biopic on his life for Re 1. Who?

A) Milkha Singh

3) Identify the series.

A) The Big Bang Theory

4) What have I blanked out?

A) The Road Runner

Q) Absolut tribute to?

6) Born to be Wild is a rock song made famous by the Canadian rock band Steppenwolf. It is often used in popular culture to denote a biker appearance or attitude. It is sometimes described as the first _____ _____ song, and the second verse lyric "_____ _____ thunder," marks the first use of this term in music.

I like smoke and lightning_____ _____ thunder Racin' with the wind And the feelin' that I'm under....

FITB.

A) Heavy Metal

7) It was started in 1960 by Tom and James Monaghan when they purchased DomiNick's, a small store in Ypsilanti, Michigan. The company’s logo was originally planned to add a new dot with the addition of every new store, but this idea quickly faded as it experienced rapid growth. The three dots represent the stores that were open in 1969. Which company?

A) Domino’s

8) Whose self-portrait?

A) Vincent Van Gogh

9) This particular term was used in a certain context by M. V. Gopalaswamy after setting up the nation’s first private radio station in his residence, "Vittal Vihar" (about 200 yards from AIR’s current location in Mysore) in 1936. It literally means a "celestial announcement.” When the gods wished to say something, this occurred. What’s the good word?

A) Akashvani

10) These are the former quarters of X in the Potala Palace and the figure on the throne represents X. Who?

A) The Dalai Lama

11)* It is believed that after the Middle Ages, it was forgotten by people and was once again discovered by a shepherd named Buta Malik in the 15th century. According to the story, he was given a bag full of coal by a holy man. When he reached home, he found that the bag contained not coal, but gold coins. Overjoyed, he ran back to the place where he had met the holy man. However the holy man had disappeared and Buta Malik instead discovered this place. Which place?

A) Amarnath

12)* Its name is a blend of the name of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, the Spanish for "my house“ and the colloquial word for what it primarily deals with. It was originally created by a company named Lifescape. After its acquisition in 2004 by another company, it began being offered as a freeware. What?

A) Picasa

13)* It is a term used to refer to popular musicians who have died at a particular age, often as a result of drug and alcohol abuse. The number of musicians who have died at this age and the circumstances of many of those deaths have given rise to the idea that premature deaths at this age are unusually common. Musicians who share this distinction include Brian Jones, Alan Wilson, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain and most recently Amy Winehouse. What’s the term?

A) The 27 Club or The Forever Young Club

14)* He was initially named Inquilaab, inspired from the famous phrase Inquilab Zindabad, from the Indian independence struggle. However, at the suggestion of fellow poet Sumitranandan Pant, his father changed the name to the name we know him by which means, "the light that would never go off”. In 1984, he contested a Lok Sabha seat against H. N. Bahuguna, former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, and won by getting 68.2% of the vote, one of the highest victory margins in the history of general elections. Who?

A) Amitabh Bachchan

15)* The ____ ____ Shuttle is a fare-free shuttle bus system at the Honolulu International Airport. In the Hawaiian language the word “____" means quick, and “____ ____" implies very quick. The shuttle's name inspired one Ward Cunningham to call his new website “________Web". It was designed to allow visitors to the site to edit its content, and this type of website came to be known as a “____”. FITB.

A) wiki

16) The album tells the story of a war against sound and colour by a supremacist government, set in the world of "Silencia", an Orwellian society. Silencia has been taken over by a supremacist government, led by Major Minus, who controls the population through media and propaganda. His aim is to take sound and colour off the streets. The album follows two lead characters: Mylo, a "silencer", who is one of an army tasked to hunt and track down "sparkers", people who harness light and energy and use it to create sparks, comparable to graffiti in real life. He comes across Xyloto, a sparker who is the most wanted by Major Minus. Through Xyloto, Mylo discovers his sparker abilities and his affiliation with the "Car Kids", a major sparker faction founded by Mylo's parents. Drummer Will Champion has noted that the album is a story of the characters "falling in love and trying to escape together", with a general theme of "love conquering all". Which hugely popular group released this album?

A) Coldplay

Q) Whose voice?

A) Naseeruddin Shah

18) While she began her professional career as a computer scientist and engineer after completing her M.E. in Computer Science from the IISc Bangalore, standing first in her class, she is mostly known for her social and charitable initiatives. She is also a prolific author and her works include Wise and Otherwise, Old Man and his God and How I Taught My Grandmother to Read & Other Stories has been translated into 15 languages including English, Hindi and Assamese. Who is her famous husband?

A) NR Narayan Murthy

Q) He was the chief economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and foresaw the impending financial crisis in 2005. He served as honorary economic adviser to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh before being appointed to the post he would be taking over next month. Who?

A) Raghuram Rajan

20) Google Doodle tribute to whom?

A) Schrodinger