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IISER Mohali QUIZ CLUB
Presents
Everything Under The Sun
The General Quiz
10th April 2011
Shivam Bhardwaj
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Prelims
Prelims
No googling
Team size restricted to 3 members per team
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X when ingested does no lasting damage but the
body's response is self-defence: sweat pours, pulse
quickens, tongue flinches and tears may roll.However the person gets pleasure from pain relief
i.e. the bloodstream floods with endorphins and the
person gets a high. What is X?
Ingestion of X is also found to enhance the taste
of other items.
hint1
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Six children of Brahma jeered at him when he fell in
love with Saraswati- his own creation, and so to say,
his 'daughter'. Brahma became very angry andcursed these six children to be born in demonic
wombs. They got salvation finally at the hands of
Lord Krishna. Who were they?
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It is a procedural defense (and, in many countries, aconstitutional right) that forbids a defendant from
being tried twice for the same crime on the same set
of facts. If the defendant successfully proves that he
has been acquitted or convicted of the same offense
then the projected trial has to be prevented from
proceeding. X has been used as a plot many a times
in movies as well as in fiction , notably crimethrillers. Identify?
A hollywood movie of the same name was
released in 1999 starring Ashley Judd.
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A appeared as herself in B’s maiden directorial
venture. She is the sister of a certain Vasanth Kumar
Shivshankar Padukone, who was later renamed to
C. A’s daughter, D, is a reputed film director and isknown for her woman-oriented films. C had got a
job of a telephone operator at a Lever Brothers
factory in Kolkata but soon he left it and moved to
Mumbai.
Name A, B, C and D.
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Sigma 6, The MegaDeaths, The Screaming Abdabs,
The Architectural Abdabs, The Abdabs, Tea Set,
________.
Fill in the blanks.
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A. His official birth date is August 21, 1921. He
made his debut in 1966 and went onto star in dozensof films and specials.
B. He is so popular in Poland that a street in
Warsaw is named after him.
C. 'The Tao of _____' is an elementary butentertaining introduction to Taoism, using him as
the central character. The book was on the New
York Times Bestseller list, and is often used in
college religion courses.
D. He was recently awarded a Hollywood Star on
the Walk of Fame.
Identify him.
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These boys from Hyderabad did something
extraordinary to get their names into the history
books.
What?
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What has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 different
patterns ?
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“Tatha cha smaryate yojnanam sahastre dwe dwe shate cha
yojane ekain nimishardhen kramamana namostute iti”
This is a prayer to the Sun God mentioned as a commentary
by Sayanacharya on the 4th verse of the hymn of Rig Veda
1.50.
What is the significance in scientific terms of this prayer?
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A new Belgian carrier, Brussels Airlines, has beenforced to change its logo. What was the reason for
doing so?
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His only failing grade in school at the age of 14, was an 'F' in music
class.
In 1961, he joined the US Army and was a trainee paratrooper. His
military records show that he was considered an incompetent
soldier, repeatedly caught sleeping while on duty and missing at
midnight bed-check.It is believed that his constant use of LSD was an integral part of
his creative process.
He was found dead in a basement flat in London. He died amid
circumstances which have never been satisfactorily explained. Hehad spent the night with his German girlfriend , and likely died in
bed after drinking wine and taking 9 Vesperax sleeping pills, then
drowning in his own vomit.
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Google MentalPlex, Google Gulp, Google Romance,Google TiSP, etc. All of these fall into a certain category.
But there was one among these (which is obviously not
given here) which was the odd one out.
What was it and what was different about it?
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What is the significance of the five flags shown here?
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• illustrates the difference between normal peopleand color blind people
• I-by most people
• II- by red-blind people
• III- by green-blind people• IV- by violet blind people
• V- by totally color blind people
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