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Welcome to Third Grade!• I will introduce you to
third grade and to our classroom.
• If you have any questions during my presentation, please raise your hand and wait to be called on.
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About HQF• Hyd Quiz Forum (and its Parent IQCircle) is
one of the oldest clubs in Infosys.
• We share lotsa interesting trivia day in day out.
• If you like this quiz and would want to join just drop a mail to [email protected]
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Rules For Finals• All questions will be related to our theme somehow
or the other viz:BACK TO SCHOOL
• Dries will be in Infinite Bounce format
• Throughout the quiz u can use the ‘Ask A Friend’ option twice to pass the qn over to your team mates sitting in audience
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Classes• We will have 5 classes today:
• Dries• Pictionary• Specialized• Dries • Cartoons
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If its –• Rove McManus in Australia• Dominic Bowden in New Zealand• Silvio Santos in Brazil• Gorge Gabriel in Portugal• Ramon Garcia in Spain• Noel Edmonds in UK• Jeff Foxworthy in US
Who was it in India from April 2008?
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Qn)School anthem/song of which school?
• X,X,X• Teach us something, please,• Whether we be old and bald• Or young with scabby knees,• Our heads could do with filling• With some interesting stuff,• For now they're bare and full of air,• Dead flies and bits of fluff,• So teach us things worth knowing,• Bring back what we've forgot,• Just do your best, we'll do the rest,• And learn until our brains all rot.
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Ans:• Hogwarts,Hogwarts, Hoggy Warty Hogwarts• Teach us something, please,• Whether we be old and bald• Or young with scabby knees,• Our heads could do with filling• With some interesting stuff,• For now they're bare and full of air,• Dead flies and bits of fluff,• So teach us things worth knowing,• Bring back what we've forgot,• Just do your best, we'll do the rest,• And learn until our brains all rot.
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• Qn) In 1905 Binney & Smith' started ______ there were only 30 of them but now its 1629
• Asparagus, Banana Mania, Atomic T angerine, Cerulean, Eggplant,Inchworm,Macaroni and Cheese,Mango Tango,Periwinkle,Salmon etc are few of the lesser known ones
• A Yale University study found that the smell of _____ _____s is one of the most recognizable scents for adults, ranking at number 18 trailing coffee and peanut butter
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• In 1992, Ernest Hemingway's sons (John, Patrick and Gregory) formed Hemingway Ltd. to license the use of his name, image and signature.
• The brothers soon came under fire when one of the first items they authorized was a Hemingway shotgun. (Hemingway had used a double-barreled 12-gauge English shotgun to commit suicide.) They protested that their father really had loved such a gun.
• Some time later, they were criticized again, this time for licensing a $600 limited-edition Mont Blanc fountain pen. Why?
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• The first patent for ______ was issued in 1858 to a man from Philadelphia named Hyman Lipman. This patent was later held to be invalid because it was merely the combination of two things, without a new use.
• What did he invent/Why was he denied the patent?
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ERASER TIPPED PENCILS
• Patent office said: Pencils did exist, Erasers did exist, u just attached both
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• Otto von Guericke was a German scientist,
inventor, and politician. His major scientific achievement was the establishment of the physics of vacuums.
• Once he joined two copper hemispheres of 51 cm diameter and pumped the air out of the enclosure. Then he harnessed a team of eight horses to each hemisphere and showed that they were not able to separate the hemispheres. When air was again let into the enclosure, they were easily separated.
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Qn) In German folklore there are these spirits called Kobolds . The name is often translated in English as goblin. Like Goblins, these spirits were very naughty creatures.
Hence when the German Silver Miners ended up finding the mineral _____, instead of Silver, they named it after these spirits, because they assumed that the silver was replaced with _____, by these Goblins.
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• Because of its adhesive characteristics, it was used by Apollo astronauts to secure their tools in zero-gravity.
• After its success as a toy, other uses were found. In the home, it can be used to pick up dirt, lint, and pet hair. The material's unique properties have found niche use in medical and scientific applications. It is used in large quantity by physical therapists for rehabilitative therapy of hand injuries
• wHAT Crayola owned trademark are we talking about?
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• Qn)• A) ______ are highly magnetized rotating
neutron stars which emit a beam of detectable electromagnetic radiation in the form of radio waves. The radiation can only be observed when the beam of emission is pointing towards the Earth. This is called the lighthouse effect and gives rise to the pulsed nature that gives them the name ______
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• WHAT WORD connects a navigational instrument and a tool to draw arcs and distances?
• In some medieval illustrations, the _____ was used as a symbol of God's act of creation
• A _____ is often used as a symbol of precision and discernment. As such it finds a place in logos and symbols such as the Freemasons' Square and _____es and in various computer icons
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MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB
Sarah Josepha Hale (pic above) wrote this famous rhyme; which was, amongst other things the first recording on Edison’s phonograph and a song by Wings (McCartney).
Sarah, incidentally, was the one who had convinced Abe Lincoln to make Thanksgiving a national holiday in United States (through a letter dated circa 1863)
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• Christopher Standish’s father, was the cabin boy on Christopher Columbus's ship Santa María when he sailed to the Americas.
• In 1536, when Christopher was 20 years old, he was a part of what was supposed to be the last voyage of his father. On February 17, the ship was attacked by pirates of the Singh Brotherhood in a bay on the coast of Bengalla.
• The last thing Christopher saw before he fell unconscious and fell to the sea was his father being murdered by the leader of the pirates. Both ships exploded, making Christopher the sole survivor of the attack
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• “Does anyone know where _______ ____came from? It is an ancient spell in Aramaic, and it is the original of abracadabra, which means 'let the thing be destroyed.' Originally, it was used to cure illness and the 'thing' was the illness, but I decided to make it the 'thing' as in the person standing in front of me. I take a lot of liberties with things like that. I twist them round and make them mine.“.
• Who about what??
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AVADA KEDAVRA• The killing Curse in Harry Potter was
apparently inspired from abracadabra• JK Rowling
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• The watermark in paper is produced by bending the wires of the mold, or by wires bent into the shape of the required letter or device, and sewed to the surface of the mold; -- it has the effect of making the paper thinner in places.
• The old makers employed watermarks of an eccentric kind. Those of Caxton and other early printers were an oxhead and star, a collared dog's head, a crown, a shield, a jug, etc. They also used a fool's cap and bells, as a watermark, which eventually gave rise to the term X. What?
• Clue Next Slide
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• Born Ramkishan Yadav in 1953 in in Said Alipur in the Mahendragarh district of Indian state of Haryana. As a child he suffered from paralysis and has stated that it was through ‘X’ that he was able to regain the full functionality of his body again
• He attended the school till the 8th grade in Shahjadpur. He then joined a Gurukul in Khanpur village to study Sanskrit and ‘X’.
•Which immensely popular personality are we talking about here?
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• She was the first woman in Italy to be awarded a medical degree
• She was exiled by Mussolini mostly because she refused to compromise her principles and make the children into soldiers.
• In the year 1939, the Theosophical Society of India extended an invitation asking her to visit India. WHat did she bring alongwith her?
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►German stamps depicting what?
133
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Sleeping Beauty
135
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• X is very rich in flora and fauna and is home to 5% of the world's plant and animal species of which more than 80% are endemic to ‘X’
• ‘X’ is also the world’s largest producer and exporter of Vanilla. So, in 1985 when Coca-Cola switched to New Coke, which involved less vanilla, ‘X’s economy took a marked downturn, but returned to previous levels after the return of Coke Classic (older version)
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• Y is often referred to as the strongest man in the world
• X first met Y during his travels in Africa. Y was then "Prince of the Seven Nations", a mighty federation of jungle tribes. He passed on the chance to become king and instead followed X on his world travels, fighting crime and villains from all over the world (and the rest of the universe as well).
* The ‘brownie’ is finally cool!!
The newest addition to Archie’s gang, who features in ‘#21 Tales from Riverdale’, rides a skateboard and walks around with a camcorder to capture his friend’s antics.
Name please,…
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Who is the author of this rather well written poem?
“The zebra's stripes are lacking hues
So they don't compare to you-know-whose
Orange, Black and White is what to wear!
It's Haute couture for those who dare
It's camouflage and stylish too
Yes, _____look the best, it's true”
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• They were created by Edward Stratemeyer, the founder of the Stratemeyer Syndicate, a book-packaging firm
• They live in the fictional town of Bayport with their father, detective Fenton ______, their mother, Laura ______, and their Aunt Gertrude.
• Despite frequent they never lose their nerve ... They are ______, luckier and more clever than anyone around them."
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Teenage Mutant Ninja TurtlesTNMT
• Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (Pieta)• Raphael Sanzio (Sistine Madonna)• Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (Last Supper)• Donatello di Niccolò di Betto Bardi (Mary Magdalene)
The turtles were named after these four artists.