Veda Intra College Quiz Session

1. Quiz Session
DHANANJAY SACHDEVA

2. RULES
 010 100 Questions in Total
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 Part Points where applicable
Aaj ki Quiz ke liye
Apun hi Bhagwan
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 Who welcoming whom?

6. 1
 X was brought to North America by European
immigrants around the 19th century.
 The Europeans would celebrate the harvest around
a bonfire, share ghost stories, sing, dance and tell
fortunes.
 The first official celebration of X in America was in
Anoka, Minnesota so as to divert kids from pulling
pranks like tipping outhouses and letting cows loose
to run around on streets.

8.  Halloween

9. 2
 Sharing its name with a 2015 movie, which city, a
part of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, gets its
name from it supposedly being the place where
warriors used to change their horses?

11.  Badlapur

12. 3
 What is the unit for the smallest detectable
movement of a mouse, aptly called?

14.  Mickey

15. 4
 XY is an Indian animated television series produced by
DQ Entertainment International, which aired
on Nickelodeon India. It was the first Indian non-
mythological animated show that was produced
completely locally.
 XY is the title character of the show. He was a magical
creature in the form of a school bag. He's from Toyland
and can speak Toylish. He looks just like a monkey and
does lot of drama.
 XY might sound like a distorted version of the Bengali
phrase:
“How are you”

17.  Keymon Ache

18. 5
 ID the footballers by their peeing techniques

21. 6
Which word’s meaning, as in Urban Dictionary
 When unsure where to swipe, you make a circular
swipe on the screen and let fate decide.
 Eg. I am going to take a gamble on “Lexi”. Gonna
______ _______ this one.

23.  Tinder Tornado

24. 7
 X was a member of the travelling Circus Arcanus
where she put on very convincing transformation
acts.
 X is far from the villain one expects as we’ve only
seen her as a _______. Actually she’s a wonderful
and vulnerable woman who wants to live which is a
wonderful contrast to the original character as we
might know.
 Which fantastic character is being talked about
which came into limelight around July 2018.

26. Nagini

27. 8
ID the person
 Co-founder X
Chairman and Founder Vulcan Inc.
Owner Y and Z
Founder _____ Institute for Brain Science
Founder _____ Institute for Cell Science
Founder _____ Institute for Artificial
Intelligence
Founder Apex Learning
Co-founder Mojave Aerospace Ventures
 BONUS FOR Y and Z

29.  Paul Allen
 Seattle Seahawks
 Portland TrailBlazers

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 The origin of this word meaning “ action or habit of
estimating as worthless” dates back to the 18th
century.
 Its originally a combination of four Latin words all
signifying “at a small price” or "for nothing,” which
were listed together in a rule of the well-known Eton
Latin
Grammar. The kind of jocular formation that was pos
sible among educated men in Britain in those days.
 What is the good word?

32.  floccinaucinihilipilification

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 X painted Y from an asylum, during the daytime,
one year before he took his own life. The painting
came from what made X so compelling– a mind
ablaze with color, motion, and wonder.
 Though, Y is now X’s most famous painting he
originally considered it to be a failure. He casually
said that it “might give others the idea of doing night
effects better than I do.”

35.  The Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh

36. 11
Id the footballers bearing resemblance to these
characters

39. 12
 X is an informal term for any unspecified short period
of time, as in "I will be back in a X".
 From this it has acquired a number of more precise
applications for short, very short, or extremely short
periods of time. First attested in 1785, the word's
origin is unclear, though one suggestion is that it
was thieves' cant for lightning.
 The earliest technical usage for X was defined
by Gilbert Newton Lewis. He proposed a unit of time
called the “X" which was equal to the time it
takes light to travel one centimeter in a vacuum.

41.  Jiffy

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Which is the most famous name missing from the list?
There can be many more infamous additions to the list
 Otto Octavius
 Cindy Moon
 Jessica Drew
 Kaine
 Ben Reilley
 Miles Morales
 Billy Bradock
 Ezekiel Sims
 Ashley Barton
 Hobart Brown

44.  Peter Parker

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 X is a recently launched movement in USA, started
by Candace Owens. According to their site
“X is a grassroots nonprofit organization made of
community members who are ready to address the
inequity in our state and country. We gather to
strategize ways to make an impact on the private
and public sectors of our economy by investing in
the Black community and divesting from systems
that have benefited from our pain.”
 Basically the movement aims to encourage Black
Americans to quit the Democratic Party.
 What is the movement named?

47.  Blexit

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 The “_______ _____" challenge is the latest trend
sweeping Weibo and Instagram as the elite youth
flaunt their wealth on social media. According
to South China Morning Post, the trend is also
known as the "flaunt your wealth" challenge in
Mandarin, and started in Russia before mega-rich
Chinese kids adopted it.
 The challenge showcases rich people pretending to
fall out of their expensive vehicles, such as cars,
private jets, and yachts, and some choose to
"accidentally" spill the contents of their designer
purses on the ground.
 Name of the hashtag

51.  #fallingstars

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 Baazaar is a 2018 business crime drama film
starring Saif Ali Khan as the male lead.
 In the trailer of Baazaar we hear Saif say that our
country is being ruled by a handful of families,
namely _____, ______, _____, _______ and
______.
 List all the 5 major business families as mentioned
by Saif Ali Khan.

54.  Tata
 Birla
 Ruia
 Ambani
 Wadia

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 The name X comes from Latin and means, “I roll”
describing rotational movement. The management came
up with the name as it was simple, and easy to
pronounce. It also held an immensely strong symbolic
connection to the company’s entire operations.
 For its logo the company adopted the ancient chemical
symbol for iron. This is one of the oldest and most
common ideograms in Western culture and originally
stood for the planet Mars in the Roman Empire. Because
it also symbolised the Roman god of warfare, Mars, and
the masculine gender, an early relationship was
established between the Mars symbol and the metal from
which most weapons were made at the time, iron.
 Which company is being talked about?

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 X is a pet-simulation game developed by Nintendo for
Nintendo DS. The game was released on April 21, 2005
in Japan.
 The game starts out by the player getting their first dog.
After it is bought, the puppy is to be cared for by giving it
food and water. Dogs can do a lot of things, like perform
tricks involving the use of the console's Microphone and
participate in competitions.
 The player can also make money via selling items that
can be found on walks, or winning cash prizes in
contests. If they have a certain amount, they can buy
another dog to take care of or buy a new house at
the Interior Decorator.
 Like most simulation videogames, this doesn't have an
ending sequence, nor a story mode.

60.  Nintendogs

61. 19
 General Floor plan for which sport?

63.  Bowling

64. 20
 The Loha Campaign was a unique initiative at the
rural level, in which various social engagement
organizations and volunteers worked to collect used
iron farming implements from the villages of the
country.
 Around 1,69,000 kits were collected from about 7000
villages of the country.
 For what reason were these tools being collected
from across the country?

66.  Construction of Statue of Unity

67. 21
 The following poem describes the flag of which
country?
All those of red blood and yellow skin
Together we fight under the nation’s sacred flag
The flag is soaked with our crimson blood, shed for
the nation
The yellow star is the colour of our race’s skin
Stand up, quickly! The nation’s soul is calling for us
Intellectuals, peasants, workers, traders and
armymen
United as a five-pointed yellow star…

69.  Vietnam

70. 22
 This company has named some of its robots after X-
Men characters.
 Here’s what the different “X-Men characters” do:
 Xavier: “stands at the entrance to the trim line, lifting cars
down to the floor from an electrified rail.
 Iceman, Wolverine, and Beast: engage in heavy lifting.
 Storm and Colossus: “can be found at the end of the
chassis line.”
 Vulcan and Havok: “work as a team to lift cars back onto
the rail.”
 Name the company

72.  Tesla

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 X B.S., M.S., M.A., Ph.D., Sc.D. , is a Caltech theoretical
physicist.
 Originally from East Texas, X started college at the age of
11, receiving his first Ph.D. at the age of 16.
 Proudly geeky, he has no qualms about
speaking Klingon, wearing vintage t-shirts sporting
superhero logos, or spouting various historical and
cultural anecdotes.
 While he might claim to be the perfect human specimen,
X does have his faults. He is characterized by a strict
adherence to routine and hygiene; an overly intellectual
personality; a tenuous understanding of irony, sarcasm
and humor; and a general lack of humility or empathy, the
former of which is demonstrated in the fact that he has no
problem voicing to his peers his admiration for his
superior intellect.

75.  Sheldon Cooper