1. The document discusses a general quiz with questions related to famous assassinations, temples, textbooks, bands, words with multiple meanings, logos, quotes and more.
2. It also includes rounds related to etymology, music, movies, literature, India, and technology with clues and questions to identify terms, people, places and things.
3. Bonus points are awarded for correct answers and teams can bid to answer first.
3. Q1.
One of the most famous
assasinations of the
20th century was
carried out by this man.
Name the person he
killed.
4. Q2.Holy Treasure
This temple, constructed in the Dravidian style of
architecture, is glorified in the Divya
Prabandha, the early medieval Tamil literature
canon of the Tamil Alvar saints.
The shrine is currently run by a trust headed by
the royal family of Travancore.
Name this holy shrine which was in the news
recently as it was found to be the richest temple
in the world???
5. Q3.Id. X
It is estimated that X would have
been the richest textbook writer
ever, considering there have been
over 1500 editions of X's work.
His name is used synonymously
with the subject he wrote on.
7. Q5.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, this
phrase most likely originated from children's
games such as hopscotch and snakes and
ladders.
An alternative theory is that the phrase originated
from early radio commentaries of football
matches by the BBC in the United Kingdom.
The theory postulates that whenever a game
was restarted from a goal kick, it would be in
_______ _________, hence the phrase.
Coldplay used the phrase to name the first song
in their album X&Y.
11. Q2. Name the Band
In 1964, Ronnie Van Zant, Allen Collins, Gary
Rossington formed a band " The Noble Five ",
which then changed to “ My Backyard ” when
Larry Junstorm and Bob Burns joined them in
Florida. Billy Powell a roadie joined them in
1970, and they tried a new name. Finally they
choose a name that was a parody of their high
school physical education teacher's name, who
was strict in acting against boys with long hair.
12. Q3. What is the word???
What eight-letter word connects a
pastry made by folding a piece of
dough over a filling, the loss of
possession of the ball in sports
like basketball and an accounting
term for the amount of business
carried out over a given period of
time?
15. Q6.Who said this???
“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a
statistic.”
Hint: His adopted surname means steel in his
native language.
At the age of 7, he fell ill with small pox, and his
face was badly scarred by the disease.
He later had photographs retouched to make his
pockmarks less apparent.
31. Bids:
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Other teams get:
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32. Etymology Music Movies
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Literature India Technology
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33. Back
Etymology
X is the subject of a prominent miracle attributed to
Jesus in the Gospel of John, in which Jesus restores
him to life four days after his death.
The scientific term “X taxon" denotes organisms that
reappear in the fossil record after a period of apparent
extinction; and the “X” phenomenon refers to an event
in which a person spontaneously returns to life (the
heart starts beating again) after resuscitation has been
given .
Several bands have composed songs titled "X" in
allusion to the resurrection story, including Porcupine
Tree, Chimaira, moe., and Placebo.
35. Movies Back
Name the most famous story
from this book.
36. Literature Back
As high school students, Joyce Carol Oates,
Sylvia Plath and Robert Redford won their
writing award. Which appropriately named
company that launched a child literacy
campaign as part of its 90th anniversary could
claim to have discovered these talents in
school?
37. India Back
Id. X
According to the Jahangir Nama, the emperor
was impressed by the performance of certain
performers from Bengal. Their leader Krishna
Chandra Dev was presented an entire village
called Sutigram near Dhaka and the Dev family
became the landlords of the village. Being
landlords they were called _______ , a term
that became their family name.
Currently,X,an eighth generation descendant of
the above family continues the tradition.
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41. The name dispute
X and Y tossed a coin to decide whether the
company they founded would be called X-Y or Y-
X. Y won the coin toss but named their electronics
manufacturing enterprise “The X-Y Company".
42. What's X??
X was founded by Leland X, a railroad magnate,
United States Senator, and former California
Governor, and his wife, Jane X. It is named in
honor of their only child, Leland X, Jr., who died
in 1884 just before his 16th birthday. His
parents decided to dedicate a university to their
only son, and Leland X told his wife, "The
children of California shall be our children."
Cisco Systems, Google, Hewlett-Packard,
LinkedIn, Netscape Communications, Rambus,
Silicon Graphics, Sun Microsystems, Varian
Associates, and Yahoo! were founded here.
43. What are we talking about???
This was first conducted on a large scale in
imperial China
French psychologist Alfred Binet, together with
psychologists Victor Henri and Théodore Simon
published the first modern form of this in 1905.
44. Hearts' Delight
Before it got its current moniker, it used to be a
luscious fruit valley, and was known as the
Valley of Heart's Delight.
It is located in the southern part of the San
Francisco Bay Area in Northern California in the
United States.