ZAKIR HUSAIN DELHI COLLEGECONOSCENZA 2016

GENERAL QUIZFINALS

QM- MANOJ SINGH MEHTA

18 QUESTIONS

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1. X (born 1 April 1956) is a member of the 16th Lok Sabha. He

represents the Dhenkanal constituency of Orissa, and was re-elected for the fourth time in 2014. He is a member of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD).

In 2015, he became first MP to hold official ‘Ask Me Anything’ on Reddit. His other views include support to net neutrality, abolishing Sec 377, legalising cannabis, repealing laws banning pornography, inclusion of MPs in Jan Lokpal Bill, implementing Uniform Civil Code.

ID X.

Tathagata Sathpathy

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Elon Musk Cameo

3.……………… is a layered dessert, often considered a cake. It originated in Italy’s Veneto in Europe, in the 1960s. It consists of ladyfinger or sponge finger biscuits, coffee, mascarpone cheese, cocoa, sugar and egg yolks. It’s an Italian word that can be translated as ‘pick me up’, often thought to be referring to either the appealing nature, or the energy boosting caffeine and sugar content. Which popular Italian dessert is it?

Tiramisu

4.The Goddess on the rooster,………….., is invoked in many Hijra communities during the Hijra’s castration ceremony which is termed ‘Nirvana’. She is shown as a woman who carries a sword on her top right, a text of scriptures on her top left, the abhay hasta mudra ("showering of blessings") on her bottom right, and a trident on her bottom left.

Bahuchar mataji or Bahucharaji

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Taher Shah• First image denotes “Eye to Eye”• Second image denotes “Angel”• Third image is his logo.

6.During one of the trials, X impressed with 9 goals in one match. X has never won the World Cup, never been named the Fifa World Player of the Year, nor has he ever been awarded the Ballon d’Or but X is one of the greatest to ever play the game.

Id X.

X = ZICO/White Pele

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7.An X system is an airborne radar picket system designed to detect aircraft, ships and vehicles at long ranges and perform command and control of the battlespace in an air engagement by directing fighter and attack aircraft strikes. X units are also used to carry out surveillance, including over ground targets and frequently perform C2BM (command and control, battle management) functions similar to an Air Traffic Controller given military command over other forcesX aircraft are used for both defensive and offensive air operations, and are to the NATO and US forces trained or integrated Air Forces what the Command Information Center is to a US Navy warship, plus a highly mobile and powerful radar platform.ID X?

airborne early warning and control (AEW&C)

8.X, launched in 1970, was a project of India's National Dairy Development Board (NDDB), which was the world's biggest dairy development program. It transformed India from a milk-deficient nation into the world's largest milk producer, surpassing the USA in 1998, with about 17 percent of global output in 2010–11. X's objectives included:-1)increasing milk production;2)augment rural incomes;3)fair prices for consumers.The Anand pattern experiment at Amul, a single, cooperative dairy, was the engine behind the success of the program. Verghese Kurien, the chairman and founder of Amul, was named the chairman of NDDB by the then Prime Minister of India Lal Bahadur Shastri.ID X?

OPERATION FLOOD

9. Id this Chocolate

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CONNECTBrianna Rollins was born in Miami, Florida, daughter of Temperance Rollins. She is a 2009 graduate of Miami Northwestern senior high school. Rollins competed for Clemson University and graduated in 2013, majoring in travel and tourism.Nia Ali raised in the Germantown section of Philadelphia, Ali moved to Pleasantville, New Jersey for her senior year and graduated from Pleasantville high school in 2006.Kristi Catlin graduated in the top five percent of her class. she gained a scholarship to study political science at Virginia tech. She graduated from Virginia Tech in 2010.

1-2-3 historic podium sweep by USA in 100M hurdles final.

11.• X is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of

Economics at MIT . X is a co-founder of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (along with economists Duflo and Sendhil Mullainathan). X was a president of the Bureau for the Research in the Economic Analysis of Development, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is the co-author of Poor Economics.• He was honoured with the Infosys Prize 2009 in the social sciences

category of economics.

• ID X?

Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee

12. Nasadiya Sukta, is the 129th hymn of the 10th Mandala of the Rigveda. It is concerned with cosmology and the origin of the universe. The hymn has attracted a large body of literature of commentaries both in Indian theology and in Western philology. The hymn features in the title track of ‘Bharat Ek Khoj’. Carl Sagan quotes this poem in episode 10, 'The Edge of Forever‘ in “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey”. What does the hymn talk about?

• नासदासीन्नो सदासीत्तदानीं नासीद्रजो नो व्योमा परो यत् |कि�मावरीवः �ुह �स्य शम�न्नम्भः कि�मासीद्गहनं गभीरम् ॥ १॥न मृत्युरासीदमृतं न तर्हिह' न रात्र्या अह्न आसीत्प्र�ेतः |आनीदवातं स्वधया तदे�ं तस्माद्धान्यन्न परः कि�ञ्चनास ॥२॥तम आसीत्तमसा गूहळमग्रे प्र�ेतं सलि88ं सवा�ऽइदम् |तुच्छ्येनाभ्वकिपकिहतं यदासीत्तपसस्तन्मकिहनाजायतै�म् ॥३॥�ामस्तदग्रे समवत�तालिध मनसो रेतः प्रथमं यदासीत् |सतो बन्धुमसकित किनरकिवन्दन्हृदिद प्रतीष्या �वयो मनीषा ॥४॥कितरश्चीनो किवततो रश्मिJमरेषामधः स्विस्वदासीदुपरिर स्विस्वदासीत् |रेतोधा आसन्मकिहमान आसन्त्स्वधा अवस्तात्प्रयकितः परस्तात् ॥५॥�ो अद्धा वेद � इह प्र वोचत्�ुत आजाता �ुत इयं किवसकृिOः |अवा�ग्देवा अस्य किवसज�नेनाथा �ो वेद यत आबभूव ॥६॥इयं किवसकृिOय�त आबभूव यदिद वा दधे यदिद वा न |यो अस्याध्यक्षः परमे व्योमन्त्सो अङ्ग वेद यदिद वा न वेद ॥७॥

• Atheism/Agnosticism/Questions the existence of god.

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13.When Takashi Hashiyama, CEO of a Japanese television equipment manufacturer, decided to auction off the collection of impressionist paintings owned by his corporation, including works by Cézanne, Picasso, and van Gogh, he contacted two leading auction houses, Christie's International and Sotheby's Holdings, seeking their proposals on how they would bring the collection to the market as well as how they would maximize the profits from the sale. Both firms made elaborate proposals, but neither was persuasive enough to get Hashiyama’s business. Unwilling to split up the collection into separate auctions, Hashiyama asked the firms to decide between themselves who would hold the auction, which included Cézanne's "Large Trees Under the Jas de Bouffan", worth $12–16 million.The houses were unable to reach a decision. Hashiyama told the two firms to ____________to decide who would get the rights to the auction, explaining that "it probably looks strange to others, but I believe this is the best way to decide between two things which are equally good".

14.Wildlife scientists in Southern Karnataka recently done to reduce thefts of camera traps used to estimate leopard population densities. Sanjay Gubbi and his Nature Conservation Foundation team are setting up motion sensitive cameras along forest trails frequented by leopards in a large study area covering 30,000 square kilometers (11,583 square miles).

Unfortunately, the cameras were vulnerable to timber smugglers and poachers, who didn't want their activities recorded. Most camera security devices proved to be prohibitively expensive. Chains and padlocks helped to a degree, but the vastness of the study area and its inhospitable terrain made it impossible to effectively guard all the cameras all of the time. After 15 costly cameras went missing or were destroyed -- along with their invaluable photographic data -- the researchers were forced to innovate.

In a flash of what some might call divine inspiration, the frustrated field team decided to erect a ‘social fence' of sacred symbolism around the cameras.

• In India, sliced lemons stuffed with blood-red vermillion powder are often used in black magic, and are viewed with fear and avoided.

15. Who is the author?

Ramachandra Guha

Democrats and Dissenters authored by Ramachandra Guha was released in September 2016. The book is a work of rigorous scholarship on topics of compelling contemporary interest, written with elegance and wit.

16.The film X’s song, “Y”, is also the opening song of the second act of A.R. Rahman’s, Don Black’s, Shekhar Kapur’s and Andrew Llyod Webber’s musical “Bombay Dreams”, which opened in London in June 2002 and in New York in April 2004.

X = Dil SeY = Chal Chaiyya Chaiyya

17. Equation of?

18.Jon Hicks is an English designer who is currently working at Opera as Lead Designer. He has designed the Miro, Mahalo.com and MailChimp logos. He has also created a popular diagram of the CSS Box model and a widely used trick to counter the "IE whitespace bug". But he is best known for his logo of X, which was later named Y. The logo comprises of earth and Ailurus fulgens.Give X.

•X = Phoenix• Y = Mozilla Firefox

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Google’s 18th birthday

Mukesh Mathur’s 93rd birth anniversary

Pakistan National Day 2016

Ladislao José Biro’s 117th birthday

112nd anniversary of Rukmini Devi Arundale’s birthday

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1.• X was brought to the site by Nettie Tobin and accepted in 1912.

Construction began in 1921 and was completed in 1953, with a delay of several years during the Great Depression and World War II. Also known as the "Mother Temple of the West“.• The cladding is made of white portland cement concrete with both clear

and white quartz aggregate. It has received numerous design awards, and is a prominent Chicago-area landmark. In 1978, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.• On April 30, 2007, it was named one of the Seven Wonders of Illinois by

the Illinois Bureau of Tourism representing the Chicago metropolitan area

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2.• The Mother Temple of Africa is situated on Kikaaya Hill, in Kawempe

Division, in Y. It was designed by Charles Mason Remey. Its foundation stone was laid in January 1958, and it was dedicated on January 13, 1961.• The building is more than 130 feet (39 m) high, and over 100 meters

in diameter at the base. The dome, composed of lace-like tiles, rises over 124 feet (37 m) high and is 44 feet (13 m) in diameter. The foundation goes 10 feet (3 m) underground to protect it from earthquakes common in this part of the world.

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3.• The Temple in Z in the northern suburbs of Sydney, Australia

was dedicated on September 17, 1961 and opened to the public after four years of construction. • The initial design by Charles Mason Remey was approved in

1957, and given to Sydney architect John Brogan to develop and complete. • Construction materials include local hardwoods and concrete

surmounted by a dome, with seating for six hundred people. The building stands 38 metres in height, has a diameter at its widest point of 20 metres, and is a highly visible landmark from Sydney's northern beaches

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4.• It was designed by Teuto Rocholl. The temple was dedicated on July 4,

1964, after three and a half years of construction. It is made of steel, aluminum, and glass. 540 diamond-shaped windows give the dome an optical lightness and permit the sunlight to play in it. • The outstanding characteristic acoustics of this setting are created by

the reverberation within the dome and the resonance of its myriad window ledges. Choirs here sometimes sing while standing around the circumference of the temple floor, with the audience in the center.

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5.• It designed by Peter Tillotson. It is perched on a high cliff, "Cerro

Sonsonate" ("Singing Hill"), overlooking the city, and is constructed of local stone laid in a pattern reminiscent of Native American fabric designs.• The dome is covered with thousands of small oval tiles, and the

entrance gates of the temple are constructed in a unique three-dimensional design each consisting of an equilateral triangle of three vertical posts with multiple rows of bars stretching between them at various angles, each row of which gradually changes from vertical to horizontal.

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6.• It was designed by Hossein Amanat, and was dedicated by Malietoa

Tanumafili II, the Samoan head of state (1913–2007), who was the first reigning Bahá'í chief of state. Its 30-meter domed structure is open to the public for individual prayer, commemoration of Baha'i holy days, and weekly devotional meetings. The structure is completely open to the island breezes.

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7.• It was designed by Siamak Hariri of Hariri Pontarini Architects in

Toronto, Canada.• Its sides and dome will be composed of nine wings, each one

consisting of a steel space frame with panels of translucent marble and cast glass cladding.The construction phase started in November 2010.The construction completed in October, 2016, with doors opening on October 19, 2016.

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8.• Inspired by the lotus flower, its design is composed of 27 free-

standing, marble-clad "petals" arranged in clusters of three to form nine sides. Nine doors open on to a central hall, capable of holding up to 2,500 people. Slightly more than 40 meters tall, its surface shining white marble, the temple at times seems to float above its 26-acre (105,000 m²; 10.5 ha) nine surrounding ponds. The site is in the village of Bahapur, in the National Capital Territory of Delhi.

Bahai House of Worship• Wilmette, Illinois, U.S.• Kampala, Uganda• Sydney (Ingleside), New South Wales, Australia• Hofheim-Langenhain, Germany• Panama City, Panama• Tiapapata, Samoa• Santiago, Chile• Lotus Temple, Delhi, India

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