A KNOWLEDGEABLE QUIZ

1. BY- PRAGYAN YADAV

2. This is a 13-feet tall bronze
sculpture in Illinois, by
Lorado Taft, depicts a
mother-figure wearing
academic robes and flanked
by two attendants Learning
and Labor. This is basically
a term that originates from
ancient Rome as a title for
mother goddesses like
Ceres, later the term was
used in Christianity for
Virgin Mary. Identify the
statue.

3. Almamater

4.  Jeopardy! is an American television game show
created by Merv Griffin. The show features a quiz
competition in which contestants are presented with
general knowledge clues in the form of answers, In a
show of April 19, 2011 B(a political party) was a clue
for $2000 in a category called “Mad Tea Party”. B was
founded in objection to new policy changes by the
Libertarian Party announced at its Oregon convention
in 2006 by a group of former Libertarian Party (LP)
members, Thomas L Knapp was its founder, however
the party dissolved in July 22, 2012. The party
focused on Ronald Paul’s campaign for Liberty i.e.
Educate Americans in freedom, sound money, non-
interventionism, free markets, and related positions
of candidates at all levels of government.

5. Boston Tea Party

6. C is a French word which appear to have had
antecedents in Mexico and Central America
around the 9th century, in North America they
were using plants but in Spain they introduced
fine paper in 17th century and the product was
called papelate, in 1830 when it crossed France it
took the name in which we know it today,
manually 27 of them could be made in a minute
before Bonsack built this machine which
increased its production to nearly 8times with
200/minute, he took the patent in 1880 and his
invention revolutionized the industry.

7. CIGARETTE

8.  Tom sums up his life as a "great Horatio Alger story," his
father died on Christmas Eve when he was 4. His mother
sent him to a Michigan orphanage run by Polish nuns, after
being a college dropout he joined Marine Corps before
supervising newspaper boys for the out-of-town papers.
One day in 1960, his brother told him about a shop in
Ypsilanti, Mich that a friend of his was running, having
financial problems he joined the shop. ”The plan was for
me to work half the night and my brother to work the
other half. But it didn't work because he didn't want to
leave his full-time job as a mailman. Within about eight
months he wanted out, and I bought him out by giving him
the Volkswagen we used for deliveries. I bought another
place and then another. All three were in the same county,
and I wanted to get them all under the same name, I
decided we'd put three dots on the logo because we had
three stores, and every time we added one, we'd add a
dot.”

9. Dominos

10.  The deadly Ebola virus is no joking matter in
today's circumstances, but in 1995 it was
apparently a different story. Few people knew or
cared about Ebola, with one exception being
Pierre, who for some reason had a fascination
with the virus. When Pierre launched E in 1995, it
wasn't a site we know it today. It was mostly an
assortment of information on things that
interested him, with Ebola being high on the list,
an "offbeat tribute to the Ebola virus", including a
photo of the virus and links to news stories on
outbreaks. How do we better know the site?

12. He Suffered from asthma, earaches and sinus problems. A
doctor treated his sinusitis by inserting a pellet of radium into
each of his nostrils. Nasal imagery and references appear in his
music and lyrics, childhood diseases may have been due to
exposure to mustard gas, released by the nearby chemical
warfare facility. Introduced by Vachlav Havel was one of the
special ambassadors of culture and tourism in Czechkoslovakia,
a band PPU in Prague took its name from one of his songs.
When he was asked to fill in the Fathers religion in his sons
birth certificate, the atheist wrote “MUSICIAN”

13. FRANK ZAPPA, The Plastic People of the
Universe(PPU) took its name from
Zappa’s Plastic People

14.  The Biggest Loser is an American competition reality
show that debuted on NBC October 19, 2004. The
show features obese people competing to win a cash
prize by losing the highest percentage of weight
relative to their initial weight. In September 2012 they
used a mansion named after an American
businessman G(surname) purchased in 1926 based
on Spanish Colonial Revival Architecture, after G’s
death it was successively sold to director Clarence
Brown, Bob Hope, Elizabeth Clare Prophet before it
was opened to the public for Park in 2007, G is
famous for a major discovery in 1901 and forming his
own company in 28 September, 1901.

15. Gillette/Gillette mansion

16. Hocus Pocus is a term currently used by magicians,
usually the magic words spoken when bringing about
some sort of change. It was once a common term for a
magician, juggler, or other similar entertainer. It is
believed the word H was coined in the late 18th
century as a contraction of the verb hocus, which
means "to cheat", The term is occasionally used in
reference to urban legends and rumours.

17. HOAX

18. ‘I’ never wrote an autobiography nor did he authorize any official
written account of his life, so there are discrepancies regarding
when and where he was born, he was born to Andreas who
converted from Roman Catholicism to Islam, he was forced to join
the British Army in WWII and served in Burma Campaign, he was
an Athlete in the British Army, 6ft 4 inchs tall he was the light
heavyweight boxing champion of his country from 1951-60, and
was also a Swimmer, and with that a brilliant Rugby Forward,
played for Nile RFC. There is a myth that he was replaced for the
East African team in the 1955 Rugby match against British Lions
though his name doesn’t feature the list nor does he feature in the
photograph. He was a huge fan of Hayes Football club. [A very bad
hint: Sourav Ganguly]

19. IDI
AMIN
DADA

20. Cricket plays an integral role as both the match &
the film is set in the same time period. The
director had even shot some dummy scenes lest
he wasn’t allowed to use the original footage, but
thankfully, it wasn’t required. The director
confirms, “We’ve got the rights to the famous
match. It was a historic win for the Indian team,
and I’m very thankful to the BCCI.” “We could not
have used the general footage as everyone in
India remembers that match ball-by-ball,” said
Manish Hariprasad, creative director(UTV). Which
match? Which film?

21. KAI PO CHE! Based on KOLKATA TEST 2001

22. The guy below is a Swedish teacher, aged 23, Jonathan
Brack. "I wanted to place hundreds but my friend told me
not to waste my money on such a stupid thing. "After he left
I placed 80 Kronas (£7) on the bet.“ Jonathan says he now
intends to spend some of his winnings travelling to a
Premier League game in England. "I hope I can get someone
to travel with me. "I've never been to Old Trafford before so
that could be nice.“ said the die hard ManU fan who was one
of the 167 people to benefit from the incident. Which
incident is talked about here?

23.  LUIZ SUAREZ WILL BITE IN WORLD CUP 2014

24.  Miss Grable and Mr. Haymes are neither given
nor deserve a script if the caliber of their
performances is a valid criterion, and several
other minor actors behave ridiculously in silly
roles. There is no more voltage in "The
Shocking Miss Pilgrim" than in a badly used
dry cell.- This was a 1947 review of New York
Times, talking about minor actors being silly
who made debut in this movie as a telephone
operator?

26.  Past Continuous is a 1977 novel originally written
in Hebrew by Israeli novelist Yaakov
Shabtai(translated in English). Past Continuous
happens to be another popular novel about an
orphan called Ritwik Ghosh, who grows up in the
by lanes of south Kolkata amid a crowd of
suspicious and nosy relatives. He escapes to
Oxford on a scholarship, but grows up suddenly
as he discovers his true self and chooses to be an
illegal gay wanderer on the streets of London and
in its public toilets. The book was released in a
different name in UK, but this book won the
Vodafone Crossword Prize. Identify the author.

28.  (O) is the 15th letter of the greek alphabet, in
Greek numericals it has a value of 70, It is rarely
used in mathematics because it is
indistinguishable from the Latin letters O, o and
easily confused with the digit 0. The upper-case
letter of (O) was originally used in mathematics
as a symbol for Big O notation . (O) is frequently
used to designate the fifteenth star in a
constellation group, the last of these stars(better
known as Atik) is well-known due to its use as a
setting in science fiction, including Star Trek,
Mystery Science Theater 3000, Transformers, and
Futurama. Just like Omega means Great O, this is
the opposite-“Little O”.

29.  OMICRON

30.  Souram Singh(Hanumanta) is a retired army
subedar born in 1959 who presently resides
in the Jhansi district of Uttar Pradesh. His dad
too was an Indian soldier who loved having
multi-colored German icecreams, icecreams
with gulab jamun, had fascination for softy
icecreams. Height of 6ft 1inch his dad also
had a record of reaching a bar of icecream to
a senior officers residence within 5 mins
allowing it to not melt, who was his infamous
dad who joined army for Food?

32.  When introducing the iPhone 4, Steve Jobs said the number of
pixels needed for a R is about 326 PPI for a device held 10 to 12
inches from the eye. One way of expressing this as a unit is
pixels-per-degree (PPD) which takes into account both the
screen resolution and the distance from which the device is
viewed. Based on Jobs' magic number of 326, the threshold for a
R starts at the PPD value of 53 PPD. The distance is calculated by
the formula Raymond Soneira, president of Display Mate
Technologies, has challenged Apple's claim. He says that the
physiology of the human eye is such that there must be at least
477 pixels per inch in a pixelated display for the pixels to
become imperceptible to the human eye at a distance of 12
inches The astronomer and science blogger Phil Plait notes,
however, that, "if you have [better than 20/20] eyesight, then at
one foot away the iPhone 4S's pixels are resolved. The picture
will look pixelated. If you have average eyesight [20/20 vision],
the picture will look just fine, so in my opinion, what Jobs said
was fine. Soneira, while technically correct, was being picky."

34.  Born in 1986 this actor started his life as a
bus conductor, met with an accident in 2015.
While adopting his screen name he used the
last 2 letters of his maiden/original name
because it meant silence. On his first trip to
Bollywood he was not allowed to enter the
studio, had glimpses of Raju Hirani, Sanjay
Leela Bhansali, Karan Johar and wished to
work with them but in vain, his last movie(yet
to be released) is SORRY!

37. Tomania

38.  Crazy Eights is a game that originated in
Venezuela, pre extension of Irish Switch or
Mau Mau, while playing this game with his
son Merle Robbins(a barber from Ohio) had a
heated argument about the rules, to resolve
the issue he invented a new game, he saved
$8000 to create the first 5000 decks and sold
from his barber shop. Merle Robbins passed
away in 1984, but his creation is now an
addiction in classrooms. What did he invent?

39.  UNO

40.  In the year 1801 Napolean Bonaparte started this
Prize(V prize) to honor a great discovery,
demonstrated at the French Academy of Sciences,
the prize was kept in the name of the person who
received it for the first time, in 1880 Alexander
Graham Bell invented the telephone and received
this prize, with the prize money he established
the V Laboratory with his V fund, and then the V
bureau presently known as Alexander Graham
Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing,
a resource, support network and advocate for
listening, learning, talking and living
independently with hearing loss

41.  Volta Prize