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Mechnius
2012 present
Mechnius Quiz
Total 30 questions
Q.26 to 28 are starred
Q.29 & 30 are double starred
If still tie persists, then we will go on for Sudden Death
from Q.1 onwards
Cut off = 14
Carryover = (Your score – Cut off) * 5
Top 6 will move to the finals
Decision of Quiz master will be final
It was incorporated as a private limited
company owned by Indian Government in Sep
1992 as a marketing arm of ISRO. It got the
“Miniratna” status in 2007-08.
It got its name from the English version of
Sanskrit word for “space” or “atmosphere”.
Id the company which was in controversy an
year ago ?
1
Id the author…
2
X was an Olympic event in 1900, 1904,1908,1912
and 1920 Olympics and in 1906 Intercalated Games
which is a very common game in Kerala especially
during festival season?
Name it..
3
Started by two IIT Delhi graduates, Sachin Bansal &
Binny Bansal in 2007, who were former employees of
Amazon.com
Headquarters @ Koramangala, Bangalore.
John Woods' book “Leaving Microsoft to Change
the World” changed their life.
These are the descriptions about a company which
was a trend setter in its field.
Name it >>>>>>>
4
The Catholic Encyclopedia calls him "the Apostle of
the Lepers“
Was canonized by Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday
October 11, 2009
Gandhi claimed him to have been an inspiration for
his social campaigns in India that led to the freedom
of his people.
Identify this Roman Catholic priest from Belgium
5
This is the German counterpart of a famous vehicle
X which was introduced by US army during WW II.
X was manufactured by X & Ford Motor Company.
In 1991, X was designated an International Historic
Mechanical Engineering Landmark by the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers.
6
X is a national park in Kerala with a total area of
89.52 sq km. It was established as a national park in
1984. X got its name because of the absence of usual
sounds of cricket which is found in forests. It was
declared as a buffer zone in 2007
Id the national park.
7
In which literary work can you find the words
“Liberty, Equality, Fraternity” ?
8
His club career started with Sinop in 1990. In
1992 he went to Sao Paulo Football club where he
is now and scored more than 400 goals for the
club. He also scored more than 15 times for
Brazil. He is a perfect set piece taker.
Who is this world record holding goal keeper ?
9
Born on 18th July 1927 in Luna, Rajasthan
He was known as “King of Ghazal”
In 1979, he was awarded K. L. Saigal Sangeet
Shehenshah Award by the Government of India.
Legendary Indian singer Lata Mangeshkar once
likened his songs to the "voice of god“.
He died on 13 June 2012 in Karachi
He was conferred with, Nishan-e-Imtiaz, highest
civilian honour of Pakistan
Who is this legend ?
10
Rosalio Mera along with whom founded Inditex,
world’s largest fashion group ?
He was the richest man in Spain according to
Forbes in 2011.
11
"Shoot all the blue jays you want, but it is a sin to
________ ____ ____________“
Fill in the blanks…
12
Mankombu Sambashivan Swaminathan is a premier
name associated with which field ?
13
Y, an explorer originally named the X as the “Cape
of Storms” which was discovered by him. He
discovered X on his voyage to India, but was forced
to turn back when his crew refused to go further
beyond X. It was later renamed by King John II of
Portugal to the X because it represented the opening
of a route to the east.
Identify X and Y ……..
14
Which athlete plays himself in the film Endurance, a
Walt Disney production ?
15
In 1995, Bill Gates delivers a memo titled “The
________ Tidal Wave,” and declares the ________
as “the most important development since the advent
of the PC.”
16
Which famous cricketer wrote the books…
The Art of Cricket
How to Play Cricket
Farewell to Cricket
17
This is a 1975 Soviet-Japanese co-production film directed by Akira Kurosawa, his first non-Japanese-language film and his first and only 70 mm film. The film is based on the 1923 memoir by Russian explorer Vladimir Arsenyev.
Which is this film ?
18
Related to which special occasion for the Keralites,
one will be rushing to buy or bring some “ Cassia
Fistula” .
19
On December 21, 1991 The Alma Ata summit
was conducted which lead to the formation of
Commonwealth of Independent States. This
summit was famous for a proclamation which
states that “something” will happen with the
formation of Commonwealth of Independent
States.
What was that “something” which happened
later ?
20
Valeria Lukyanova the most famous Russian woman on the
Russian-language internet has become an internet sensation in
her home country of Russia, claiming on her blog that she is real
and she truly had what it takes to called as a real-life X contrary
to numerous speculations that she is not really true.
What is X or how is she known in Internet world ?
21
Born in Hamburg.
He proved the existence of electromagnetic waves.
He also proved that those waves are having similar
properties as that of light waves like refraction,
reflection, polarization etc.
Later Marconi used these electromagnetic waves for
communication purposes.
As a respect to him, a unit in physics has been named
after him.
Who is he ?
22
With which company can you connect these…
23
By what common name are these stamps known as ?
24
Connect
25
Identify the subject of this Amul ad.
26
This is a road in Westminster, in London which is the
main artery running north from Parliament Square,
towards Charing Cross at the southern end
of Trafalgar Square . This name is often used as a
metonym to refer that part of the civil service which
is involved in the government of the United Kingdom,
in a way which can be compared to the use
of Kremlin to refer to
the Russian/Soviet governments, or White House to
refer to the executive branch of the government of
the United States. Which is that name ???
27
Different forms of which famous literary
character was immortalized by these actors on
screen ?
28
A famous painting by Peter Paul Rubens depicting what ?
29
Contd…
Connect
30