General Quiz

*1. In the waning days of the Sri Lankan civil war, a weakened LTTE was cornered in a small spit of land, with the might of the army massed against it. At the time, Prabhakaran handed out, to his commanders, copies of a very appropriate film, saying he had seen it five or six times himself to seek inspiration. Which film?

2. Julius Caesar Act I Scene II – FITB CASSIUS

“Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow worldLike a Colossus, and we petty menWalk under his huge legs and peep aboutTo find ourselves dishonourable graves.Men at some time are masters of their fates:__ _____, dear Brutus, is not __ ___ _____,But in ourselves, that we are underlings.”

3. lan A was starting a dating website called – “Tune in, hook up”, plan A failed as it did not get enough traction. The Plan B which is an extremely popular entity in the world we live in. What?

The founding trio didn't come up with the YouTube concept straight away. YouTube began life as a video dating site dubbed "Tune In Hook Up," .

4. What does this image parody?

• Flash not found on ios!

5. Connect the following

• HMS Beagle, charles darwin’s ship.

*6. Born as Yuri Irsenovich, this great leader had quite was born in secret, most saying that it was in the village of vyatskoye, near khabarovsk, in 1941.On this day, 23 years ago he became the ruler of his country for the first time, name this “dear leader”.

• Kim Jong Il

7. Parliament of which country?

8. The Grenzschutzgruppe 9 der Bundespolizei commonly abbreviated as GSG 9 is a German counter-terrorism and special operations unit.On September 5, 1972 the Palestinian terrorist movement Black September infiltrated the Summer Olympic Games in X, West Germany, to kidnap 11 Israeli athletes, killing 2 in the Olympic Village in the initial assault on the athletes' rooms. They failed and the operation led to the deaths of one policeman, five of the eight kidnappers and all of the remaining nine hostages (subsequently called the X massacre). Apart from the human tragedy, Germany's law enforcement found itself severely compromised, in part due to its historic relationship to Jews and Israel.GSG 9 was formed after this incident..Identify the city (X)

• Munich massacre

9*. Logo of which company did these prototypes become?

10. In whose honour was this google doodle made?

• Robert Arthur "Bob" Moog, founder of Moog Music, was an American pioneer of electronic music, best known as the inventor of the Moog synthesizer.Moog's innovative electronic design is employed in numerous synthesizers including the Minimoog Model D, Minimoog Voyager, Little Phatty, Moog Taurus Bass Pedals, Moog Minitaur, and the Moogerfooger line of effects pedals.

11*. _____ ______ (born 4 July 1968) is an Irish businessman who became chairman of X Group, an Indian business conglomerate, on 28 December 2012. He is the sixth chairman of the group and the second not to be named X. The Economist has described him as "the most important industrialist" in both India and Britain. He studied at the Cathedral & John Connon School in Mumbai and graduated from the Imperial College, London with a BEng in civil engineering and holds a Master of Science in management from the London Business School. He is a fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers..FITB and identify X.

Cyrus mistry

12. What system does this picture depict?

Mumbai dabbawallas

13. Born in the land of the pure I can make you run for sure South is where my games go FRB, Ordem e Progresso While on the ground men fight to tame me but when I fly, only Magnus can control me

Who am I?

*14. The company was founded in 1884. Their famous emblem—a cross in a shield—has been used by X since 1909. That year, the mother of the founder died and he named the company after an erstwhile British monarch. In 1921, with the introduction of the term for acier inoxydable, the French term for stainless steel into their products, the brand and name of the company became the present X. Their products are popular and have become synonymous with a country.Identify X?

15. After he won the Nobel Prize in 1922, the Carlsberg brewery gave him a gift – a house located next to the brewery, and had a pipeline running from the brewery into the house so that he could have a never ending supply of fresh beer on the tap.Who was this dipsomaniac?

Neils bohr

16. Which award is this?

Fairplay award for fifa 2014.It is given to the team which plays the most

honest and peaceful football, with least cards and fakes.

17. X is a Dutch diversified technology company headquartered in Amsterdam with primary divisions focused in the areas of Healthcare, Consumer Lifestyle and Lighting. It was founded in Eindhoven in 1891 by Gerard X and his father Frederik. It is one of the largest electronics companies in the world and employs around 122,000 people across more than 60 countries.On May 9, 1940, the company’s directors learned that the German invasion of the Netherlands was to take place the following day. Having prepared for this, Anton X and his son in law Frans Otten, as well as other X family members, fled to the United States, taking a large amount of the company capital with them. Which company?

18.Logo of what?Give full form

• Islamic Itate of Iraq and Syria(ISIS)

19. What is this ???

This is the smallest film in the world, made of atoms!

20. Who said this?