Quiz done at MA College, Kothamangalam as a part of Takshak..AURA 2014

1. Prelimin
ary
Aura

2. 1
Cheras were also known by the name X and that’s why
a prominent town in central Kerala got its name, as it is
supposed to be one of the major places of Cheras.
As per Joseph Mundassery a place near this town,
Thrikkariyur was the ancient capital of Chera dynasty!
Id the name X!

3. 1
‘KOTHA’ as in Kothamangalam

4. 2
Funda?

5. 2
Love Locks on Moscow bridge

6. 3
X is the state flower of Uttarakhand. X is also a herb used in
Tibet! X is immortalised through a malayalam song from the
movie ‘Savidham’.
Id the flower!

7. 3 BRAHMA KAMAL

8. 4
Some super humans planned to submerge the Trikkariyur temple,
whose presiding deity is Lord Shiva by making a dam in the Periyar
river and flooding the area. Suspecting trickery, the omnipotent Lord
Shiva, came up with a plan to deter them. He faked the approaching
dawn by a rooster's sound. The demons fearing the arrival of light, fled
the place. To this day there is a visible proof of their effort where you
can see the boulders which the demons were supposed to have rolled
onto the riverbed.
Which place, am I talking about?

9. 4
Bhoothathan kettu

10. 5
Identify!

11. 5

12. 6
CONNECT

13. 6
Reynolds

14. 7
X began acting in the plays put up by the young men in his
village, Moorkkanikkara, in Thrissur district. He also started
acting in professional drama. Radio plays were popular in
those days. Thikkodiyan introduced X to Aravindan, a highly
acclaimed Malayalam Director, which fetched him his first role
in Utharayanam.
But he didn’t get any offers to act after that, so he produced a
film himself, Padasaram, in which he was, predictably, the hero.
It flopped at the box office, but the next two films he
produced, Chora Chuvanna Chora and Chakara, did better.

15. 7

16. 8
The term X refers to a lifestyle associated with the so
called district in South Korea where people are trendy,
hip and exude a certain supposed "class". The term
was listed in Time's weekly vocabulary list as a
manner associated with lavish lifestyles.
X?

17. 8

18. 9
Id them!

19. 9 SASHA AND MALIA
OBAMA’S DAUGHTERS

20. 10
Bihar’s Muzzafarpur have witnessed more than 70
children dying due to a kind of encephalitis! What is
the reason(though not proven) behind?
The similar incidents have been reported in West
Bengal too!

21. 10
Litchi Syndrome

22. 11
The X phenomenon was first described in Principles of
Psychology by William James(1890), although he did not label
it as such!
These experiences are common and occur in people
regardless of gender. The X phenomenon is known to occur in
young adulthood, middle age, and older adulthood. Education
level is not thought to be a factor in the experience of this.
Monolinguals, bilinguals, and multilinguals all experience this,
although with varying frequencies

23. 11 TIP OF THE TONGUE PHENOMENON

24. 12
The findings were published in the Swiss journal Frontiers in
Human Neuroscience following a series of motor skills tests
carried out by Japan's National Institute of Information and
Communications Technology, which was a news recently.
What was the findings all about?

25. 12
Neymer’s brain tests

26. 13
What connects

27. 13
What connects

28. 14
In 2012 November Jabong.com had an exclusive sale of a
product which was branded as VS319.
What was it?

29. 14

30. 15
What, popularly seen in news(particularly political) has got its
name from this fruit because of the similarity in shape?

31. 15
GRANADE

32. 16
In 1959, Ermal Fraze devised the "pull-tab". But the pull tab
had practical issues of pollution!
Thus the ‘Pull Tab’ and later the STA-TAB were introduced.
What are these varieties of?

33. 16
CAN OPENER

34. 17
X was used by British soils engineer John
Burland in the successful 2001 stabilization
of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Small amounts
of subsoil saturated by groundwater were
removed from far below the north side of the
Tower, and the weight of the tower itself
corrected the lean.
The principle is also found in pescalators,
which are X designed to lift fish safely from
ponds and transport them to another
location. This technology is used primarily at
fish hatcheries, where it is desirable to
minimize the physical handling of fish.
It is also used in Chocolate fountains..

35. 17
ARCHEMEDIS SCREW

36. 18

37. 18
Windsor Castle

38. 19
What was founded in London in
1961, following the publication of the
article "The Forgotten Prisoners"
in The Observer 28 May 1961?

39. 19
Amnesty International

40. 20
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Cilly Aussem,
Karen Hantze Susman,
Ann Haydon-Jones,
Virginia Wade,
Conchita Martínez,
Jana Novotná,
Petra Kvitová,
Marion Bartoli.

41. 20
Wimbledon women champions who never reached
World no.1 ranking

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