BMSCE QUIZ CLUB

BMSCE QUIZ CLUB

General Quizpresents

1. Who is depicted in this Google Doodle?

Michael Jackson

2.According to the BBCs Pat Murphy: My understanding is that it came from the mid-sixties and a guy called Graham Corling, who used to open the bowling for New South Wales and Australia.Apparently the suggestion was that this guys wife was having an affair with another team-mate, and when he came into bat [the fielding team] started singing When a Man Loves A Woman, the old Percy ______number.

What are we talking about?

Sledging

X is a city car. It is a rebadged version of an old model of the Suzuki Alto. Over 2.5million of these have been sold since its launch in 1984. The same car is sold inPakistan as the Suzuki Mehran with a much older 1980s era Suzuki SS80 carburetorbased engine.

Which car are we talking about? 3.

Maruti 800

Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president said in a speech at a youth festival in Tehran, Those who believe in this type of thing cannot be the leaders of the global nations that aspire, like Iran, to human perfection, basing themselves in the love of all sacred values. He accused the West of using him to spread "western propaganda and superstition .

WHO? 4.

Paul, the Octopus

5.Which website?

Wikileaks

The origin of the "__" sign has been variously accounted for. Perhaps the most widelyaccepted explanation is that it is the result of the evolution of the Spanish and Mexicanscribal abbreviation "ps" for pesos. This theory, derived from a study of late eighteenth andearly nineteenth-century manuscripts, explains that the s gradually came to bewritten over the p developing a close equivalent to this sign.

Which symbol? 6.

The dollar sign

7.Which products tagline isThinnovation?

Macbook Air

The use of X has been generally adopted in Christian worship as a concluding word for prayers and hymns and express strong agreements. Muslims use the word not only after reciting the first surah (Al Fatiha) of the Quran , but also when concluding a prayer or dua, with the same meaning as in Christianity. The Islamic use of the word is the same as the Jewish use of the word.

Which word is being described here? 8.

Amen

In March 2006, he was rated the 11th richest man in the world. Everyone above him on the list was at least ten years older. He started his career by opening five companies from 1992-95. But most of his wealth came from buying companies cheap when Russia was privatizing its state run firms. He bought himself a majority stake in Sibneft, an oil company, and later merged smaller companies to form Rusal, the worlds second largest aluminium producer. In 1999, he was elected to his countrys parliament. He also bought the UKs second most expensive car registration number VIP1 for a whopping 285,000. But to us, hes known for something else altogether.

Whos he? 9.

Roman Abrahamovic

10.This is the blurb (back cover) of a book.

Id the author.

X's annual shareholders' meetings take place in the Qwest Center in Omaha, Nebraska & are routinely visited by 20,000 people. The 2007 meeting had an attendance of approximately 27,000. The meetings, nicknamed "Woodstock for Capitalists", are considered Omaha's largest annual event along with the baseball College World Series. Known for their humor and lightheartedness, the meetings typically start with a movie made for its shareholders. The 2004 movie featured Arnold Schwarzenegger in the role of "The Warrenator" who travels through time to stop X's President and Vice President from saving the world from a "mega" corporation formed by Microsoft-Starbucks-Wal-Mart. Schwarzenegger is later shown arguing in a gym with It's President regarding Proposition 13.

Id X and its founder. 11.

X-Berkshire HathawayFounder-Warren Buffet

The Akatsuka Award for most humorous The Dengeki Grand Prix for best one-shot The Kodansha Award (multiple genre awards) The Seiun Award for best science fiction of the year The Shogakukan Award (multiple genres) The Tezuka Award for best new serial The Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize (multiple genres)Awards presented for what? *12.

Manga awards

The ad featured the controversial tagline: "I'm good. I'm tempting. I'm too good toshare. What am I? ________ or Kashmir?

Name the company or the product. *14.

Temptations from Cadbury

She was born in Bamberg, South Carolina on January 20, 1972. She was born and raised as a Sikh. She converted to her husbands faith, Methodism, right before they were married. On September 6, 1996 she married Michael _____ in both a Methodist church ceremony and a Sikh gurudwara. She identifies herself today as a Christian, but also attends both Sikh and Methodist services out of respect for her parents' culture. She sits on the board for Mt. Horeb United Methodist Church.

Who and why is she in the news recently?

15.

Nikki Haley/Namrata Randhawa

1st Lady Governor in the US of Indian origin

Which present day mascot did this guy become?

*16.

Ronald McDonald

The name ____ ______ comes from the cheap paper on which the magazines were printed. Magazines printed on better paper were called glossies or slicks. In their first decades, they were most often priced at ten cents per magazine, while competing slicks were 25 cents apiece. They were the successor to the penny dreadfuls, dime novels, and short fiction magazines of the nineteenth century. Although many respected writers wrote for ____, the magazines are best remembered for their lurid and exploitative stories and sensational cover art.

Fill up! 17.

Pulp Fiction

18.

Put Funda.

R.K.Laxmans cartoon depicting Malgudi

He is said to represent the modern Indian; he is an achiever with a positive attitude, a global citizen but justifiably proud of his nations ancient heritage, and a fierce competitor but with integrity and honesty.He is also a large-hearted gentleman wholoves making friends and enthusing people to come out and play.

Who is he? 19.

Shera, the CWG 2010 mascot

American President coming to India. If I had known, I wouldnt have gone looking for him all over America & met him in Andheri or Ghatkopar.

Put Funda. 20.

Shah Rukh Khans tweet on President Obamas visit to India referring to his character in My Name is Khan

21.Logo of?

When the Kaurava princes failed to defeat the Panchala army, Drona sent Arjuna and his brothers for the task. The five Pandavas attacked Panchala without an army. Arjuna captured Drupada as ordered. Drona took half of Drupada's kingdom, thus becoming his equal. He forgave Drupada for his misdeeds, but Drupada desired revenge. He performed a yagna to have a son who would slay Drona and a daughter who would marry Arjuna. His wish was fulfilled and thus was born X, the slayer of Drona, and Y, the consort of the Pandavas.

22.

X-Dhristhadhyumna

Y- Draupadi

In X, twenty-sixth century setting, the player assumes the role of the Master Chief, a cybernetically enhanced super-soldier. Many game magazines have praised X as one of the best and most important games of all time. The game's popularity has led to labels such as "X clone" and "X killer", applied respectively to games either similar to or anticipated to be better than it. In addition, the game inspired and was used in the fan-created Red vs. Blue video series, which is credited as the "first big success" of machinima - the technique of using real-time 3D engines, often from video games, to create animated films. A prequel to the game, was released on September 14, 2010.

What is X?

*23.

Halo

CONNECT THEM! 24.

Slumdog Millionaire

The Sanskrit term has been in use in English since 1871, replacing gammadion (from Greek ).Other names for the shape are : crooked cross, hook cross or angled cross (German: Hakenkreuz). cross cramponned, in heraldry, as each arm resembles a crampon or angle-iron(German: Winkelmakreuz). fylfo t, chiefly in heraldry and architecture. The term is coined in the 19th centurybased on a misunderstanding of a Renaissance manuscript. gammadion , tetragammadion (Greek: ), or cross gammadion(Latin: crux gammata; French: croix gamme), as each arm resembles the Greekletter (gamma). sun whee l, a name also used as a synonym for the sun cross. tetraskelion (Greek: ), literally meaning "four legged", especiallywhen composed of four conjoined legs (compare triskelion (Greek: )). The Tibetan form is known as g-yung drungGeometrically, it can be regarded as an irregular icosagon or 20-sided polygon. *25.

Swastika