This document contains the questions and instructions for an elimination round of the Kadambaran Namboodiri Memorial Inter Collegiate Quiz Competition-2015. It provides 20 total questions, including 4 star questions as tie-breakers. It instructs participants to write legibly and notes that the quizmaster is the final authority. It wishes all participants the best of luck and provides some golden rules for the competition.
4. Total 20 questions-(including 4 star questions as tie
breakers(2,6,9,15) ...
Write your answers legibly, if we can’t read, its wrong
answer…
We want the best 5 for the finals….
Remember-Quizmaster is a dictator-U can call me
Hitler, Mussolini or what ever!!!!
Always keep your quizzing ethics
&
Wish you all the very best
Some golden rules for u
10. ‘X’ was born in Pankila forest(northern Kerala)
in 1983…..History suggest the name of
Dr. Somashekharan as the godfather of
‘X’….The myths says that during one of his
escapades, ‘X’ was abducted by aliens from an
unknown planet…Now a days an active social
media movement is on track by the name of ‘X’
organized by some atheist activists of Kerala
and they proclaimed ‘X’ as their super hero-
Identify ‘X’……
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What is common between-
1. Wheeler Island, Odisha
2. The global satellite for earth observation and
disaster risk reduction —(GlobalSat for DRR)…..
3. Aurangzeb Road, Delhi….
4. Marine Drive, Kochi…
5. Kerala Technological University-
Thiruvanathapuram
16. This is an Indian version of Google Doodle-
Your task-Just give me a four digit number!!!
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17. Google’s Birthday gift to Ramanujan’s 125th
birthday….
Four digit number-
1729
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23. You can call the red marked spot as ‘X’, an important
ancient Indian city located on the banks of river
Narmada…..
Once it was a part of Avanthi Kingdom-
Ramayana depict this place as the capital of Heheyas
ruled by the legendary king Kartavirya Arjuna(Man with
1000 hands-epic narrate his encounter with Ravana)
‘X’ is very much in news recently through a very popular
medium-
Identify ‘X’….
I only want that name-
Nothing more, nothing less!!!
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26. I am speaking about an invention which was happened in
1795-Nicholas Jacques Conte (a French army officer)
got the patent of its invention…He called it as ‘X’ in
Latin) literally means ‘Little tail’….The following is a
numerical grading system introduced by US chemist
John Thoreau to quantify its hardness….
9H/8H/7H/6H/5H/4H/3H/2H/H//F/HB/B/2B/3B/4B/5B/6
B/7B/8B/9B …..
Thomas Alva Edison had a great collection of ‘X’ given to
him by Eagle, one of the biggest British
manufactures….it was on September 9, 2015 we saw
the 21st century avathar of ‘X’ introduced by
Phil Schiller….No more clues
Identify ‘X’……
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• ‘SETI’ is the collective name for scientific activities
undertaken to search for life outside Earth… In early
60’s SETI used to consider things like electromagnetic
radiation as indicators of transmission from the other
life zones…More recently Stephen hawking and Russian
tycoon Yuri Milner held a news conference in London
announced a $100-million project
• (SETI-2 ) , the most expensive and comprehensive hunt
for alien life ever….
• Expand ‘SETI’
35. Name this new species of human ancestor(Hominid)
recently discovered in South Africa…
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41. Name the malayalam movie actor who
served as the personal security guard of
Mahatma Gandhi at the time of India’s
partition…..
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44. Triplicane Six is a nationalist intellectual group
of four students and two teachers started
something in 1878 to support a campaign to
protect the judgeship of T. Muthuswamy Iyer
at Madras High Court…(He was the first
Indian to be appointed to this prestigious
post)-What did they started?
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Types of Kisses-
Spiderman/Butterfly /Cool/Eskimo/ Wood
pecker/French
(Beware-few are certainly injurious to health)
52.
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This is the national flag of a new born country-
The country’s name is Liberland-
I want its official motto inspired from India’s Jain
Philosophy…
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Quizzers-
I am introducing you Mr.Ravi Sankar,
born and brought up in Kochi…He is with
Prime Meridian business group as its
Managing director…He now lives in
Panangad(Kochi) with his wife and kids.
Recently he got a new neighbour.
How is he?
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The pictures will tell you the story of a recent stampede
occurred during the celebration of a Hindu Festival
(occurs once every 144 year) at the banks of Godavari
and reported a causality of 27 persons…
identify the festival…