Limca Book of Records

1. LIMCA BOOK OF RECORDS QUIZ 2010- NOIDA
Date: 9 November, 10
Venue: Amity Int. School, Noida
QM: Mr. Andrew Scolt (Derek O Brien & Asscoiates)
Cut-off: 17
Results:
1) Bal Bharati Public School( Nabeel and myself)
2) Amity Int. School( Vaishnavi and Aniket)
3) Army Public School( Shivender and Shivender)
PRELIMS
Q1 In which district does NOIDA come?
Q2 what is the best way of using saffron?
• Before soaking
• Dry
• After soaking
Q3 Which organ is encompassed in a sac called the pleura?
Q4 Historically these creatures have existed from Mesopotamia and the Caucasus throughout
most of South and East Asia. It can also swim on water.
Q5 What is -40 C on the Fahrenheit scale?
Q6 When approached by his students, he said: "Instead of celebrating my birthday separately,
it would be my proud privilege if my birthday is observed as ………………” Id the person.
Q7 Which train runs from 9
3/4
th platform of King Cross railway station?

2. Q8 Indian ocean is the only ocean to be named after a country. True or False?
Q9 Who is the oldest of the three?
• SM Krishna
• Manmohan Singh
• Pranab Mukherjee
Q10 Which fictional character’s girlfriend is called Superman?
Q11 Apart from Num Lock and Caps Lock, which other ‘Lock’ key comes on the keyboard?
Q12 Which country has the maximum no. of mobile connections?
Q13 Which was the first capital city of Pakistan?
Q14 Who defeated Alan Gogaev to win the World Wrestling Championships 2010?
Q15 Which organizations motto is ‘Shubh Yatra’?
Q16 What in India is printed with the OVI ink?
Q17 Margaret cousins were the first to set the notations of what?
Q18 Whose motto is “Unity and Discipline”?
Q19 Which Indian text has 700 verses over 18 chapters?
Q20 With which country would you associate the internet domain .za?
Q21 What is a violent, dangerous, rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of
the earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud?
Q22 What kind of creature is the Bagheera in the Jungle Book series?
Q23 Id.
Q24 Id the place.
(Birds eye view of Statue of Liberty.)
Q25 Id.

3. Q26 Id the movie from song.
Aisha
Answers
1) Gautam budhh Nagar
2) After soaking
3) Lungs
4) Asiatic tiger
5) -40 F
6) Dr. S radhkrishnan
7) Hogwarts Express
8) True
9) SM Krishna
10) Superman
11) Scroll Locko
12) China
13) Karachi
14) Sushil Kumar
15) Indian Railways
16) Currency Notes
17) National Anthem
18) NCC
19) Bhagawad Gita
20) South Africa
21) Tornado
22) Panther
23) Michael Schumacher
24) Peahen

4. FINALS
Round 1- Gaming
Which game was the most sold game, when released?
• Space Invaders
• Pacman
• Tetris
A. Tetris
What does the Japanese dish Sushi mean?
• Sweet
• Sour
• Salt
A. Sour
What is the uniqueness about Bagheera Kipling, a species of mosquito named after
Rudyard Kipling?
• It can fly
• It is vegetarian
• It has 6 legs
A. Its vegetarian
What does the word ‘Sikri’ in Fatehpur Sikri mean?
• City surrounded by water
• City of villages
• Victory city
A. City surrounded by water
Which is the most common password?
• 123456
• Date of Birth
• Password
A. 123456
Round 2- Direct Orals
The name of which Software Company means a mixture of ‘Sand, clay and water’?

5. Adobe
Leaning Tower of Pisa is a campanile. What’s a campanile?
Bell tower
Which sport, also featured in CWG 2010 means ‘Taxofoly’?
Archery
Why is 9 January celebrated as the Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas?
Mahatma Gandhi returned back to India from S.A. on that day
What is the uniqueness about the Saragossa sea?
It has no coastline (the area also called Bermuda triangle)
Round 3- Facebook
Id her.
Stephanie Meyer
Id the buildings on left and right.

6. North and South block of Rashtrapati bhawan
Id.
Tapir
(Sorry, I don’t remember the other three. One was a dancing style)
Round 4- Direct Orals
What was used in ancient times by gladiators to tone their muscles and was believed to
have an eternal life.

7. Onions
Alaska is the easternmost state of USA. Which is the westernmost?
Alaska
Chanoyu, is a Japanese art dealing with?
Tea making
Who’s a fernambulist?
Titrowalker
In which dance form can you find women wearing White Cassavu sarees?
Mohiniattam
Which is the only Indian batsman to score a hundred in all formats of the game?
Suresh Raina
Round 5- Youtube( AV round)
Id the footballer.
Andrei Arshavin
Id the singer.
Mika(not the Indian one.)
Id the lizard.
Jesus Christ lizard
Id the monument.
Golconda Fort
Id the person from this audio clip.
Kapil Sibbal
Round 6- Twitter( Buzzer)
Complete the series- Byte, Kilobyte, megabyte, Gigabyte…….?
Terabyte
Which is the only vowel to come on the second line of the keyboard?
‘A’
After water, which is the second most drunk beverage?

8. Tea
According to Indian mythology, whose vahana (carrier) is the buffalo?
Yamaraj
SHARING IS CARING
THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE
Let it Grow
Compiled By:
Mukund Marodia
(mukund.quizblog.in)
BBPS, Noida