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LOURDE INTER CLASS QUIZ

-July 2013

FORMAT OF THE QUIZ

INDIA ROUNDINDIA ROUND World PanoramaINDIA ROUND Breaking news

DIRECT ROUNDS

Fastest Finger VISUAL ROUND

Buzzer Rounds

INDIA ROUND

“ “I had failed to realize my dream of becoming a pilot. It is only when we are faced with Failure do we realise that we have the resources within us.We only need to find them and move on with our lives are lines of newly released book “ My Journey: Transforming Dreams into Action"

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Who is the Author of the book

QUESTION 1

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QUESTION 2

”India is the cradle of the Human race,the birthplace of Human speech,the mother of History ,the grandmother of legend and the great grand mother of tradition.Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of the man are treasured in India only''

Which American humorist, journalist, lecturer, and novelist said these words.

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QUESTION 3

Leander Paes at the Age 40 this year

won the US 2013 open Doubles

crown? Who was his doubles partner

for the event

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QUESTION 4

In India it officially denotes the end of the Republic day festivities and is conducted on January 29th.

The three bands of Army,Navy and Airforce in a ceremony at Raisina hills perform and march in front of the President?What is the ceremony called

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QUESTION 5

C V Raman and APJ Abdul Kalam were

the first 2 scientists to get the BHARAT

RATNA,Who is the third Scientist to get

the Bharata Ratna

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QUESTION 6

IN November 2013,The Indira Gandhi

Prize for 2013 for Peace ,Disarmament

and development was announced.Who is

the recipient of the Prize?

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Audience 1

She won the Pulitzer Prize for her debut collection of

short stories, Interpreter of Maladies (1999). Her first

novel Namesake was adopted into a film by the same

name and later won many awards,Her latest work The

LOWLAND was in the shortlist for the BOOKER

prize.Identify the writer

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Audience 2

Name the current chairman of the TATA group of companies

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Audience 3

Who took over as the 24th chief of the Air staff from Air

chief marshall NAK Browne on December 31st

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Answers

1. APJ Abdul Kalam

2. Mark Twain the writer of books like the Tom Sawyer and

Huckleberry finn

3. Radek Stepanek from Czech republic

4. Beating retreat

5. CNR Rao for his contribution on Solid state and structural

chemistry

6. Angela Merkel

Audience

1 Jhumpa Lahiri

2 Cyrus Pallonji Mistry

3 Arup Raha

WORLD PANORAMA

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QUESTON 1

What is Saphire in Thai Called?

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QUESTION 2

Who won the Nobel prize for

Literature this year

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QUESTION 3

Queens Baton Relay came to India in

October first week before the

commonwealth games?Where is the

next Commonwealth games going to be

held?

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QUESTION 4

Who was re elected as the

Zimbabwe's president for the

fifth time in August 2013.He

has been ruling the country

ever since Independence in

1980

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QUESTION 5

Which New Zeleand

Batsman scored the fastest

ONE Day century recently

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QUESTION 6

Ms Megan Young won

the Miss world 2013

title.Which country

does she belong to?

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Audience QUESTION

Name the creator

of the two popular

comic strips of

Phantom and

Mandrake the

Magician?

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Audience Question

What is the most widely used

quantitative measure or a Scale of

the magnitude of an earthquake,

devised in 1935 by an American

seismologist called?

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Audience Question

Which nation will be hosting the 2020

Summer Olympics?

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Answers

1) Phailin2) Alice Munro, Canadian short story writer3) Glasgow,Scotland4) Mr. Robert Mugabe5) Corey Anderson,36 balls6) Philipines

AUDIENCE QUESTION1) Falk lee born as Leon Harrison gross2) Richter scale3)Tokyo

ROUND 3

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Question 1

Who was sworn in on December

14th as Madhya Pradesh Chief

minister for the Third term?

“ Question 2

Where will you find the Bay of Rainbows?

“ Question 3

Who received the European Unions Sakharov Human rights

prize for 2013 on November 23 rd?

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Question 4

Who will be the chief Guest at this years Republic day parade?

“ Question 5

Pierre Deligne from Belgium was awarded the 2013 ABEL prize?In which field is ABEL prize given

“ Question 6

Who has been named as the TIME magazine person of the

year?

“ Audience Question

Who took the Oath of office of Chief Minister in Chattisgarh on December 12th

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Answers1)Shiv Raj singh2)On the moon.it was where Chinas Lunar probe: Jad rabbit landed3)Malala Yousafzai4)Japanese Prime minister Shinzo Abe5)Mathematics...Deligne got it for contributions to Algebraic Geometry6)Pope Francis

AudienceRaman singh

Fastest Finger first

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QUESTION 1

Amīr Khusro,one of India's

greatest Persian-language

poets,is considered the

Father of this form of

Music.Identify the music.

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QUESTION 2

What programme launched in

Saudi Arabia classifies the

country's private firms into four

categories based on percentage

of Saudi employees ?

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QUESTION 3

It has been mandatory from Jan

1,2013 by Ministry of Consumer

affairs to label every food item

with GM containing GM food

items.What does GM stands

for?

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QUESTION 4

Who is the current Chief justice of

India who was sworn on

July 19,2013 as the 40th Chief

Justice of India?

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QUESTION 5

If you are travelling with your parents in

your Christmas vacation through places

like Bhagalpur,Purnia,Motihari and

Darbhanga which Indian state will you

be in ?

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QUESTION 6

Name the person who was conferred

with Bharata Ratna in 1992

posthumously but due to controversy

the award was withdrawn?

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QUESTION 7

Name the Indian Born American Biochemist

who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine for

research that helped to show how the

nucleotides in nucleic acids, which carry the

genetic code control the cell's synthesis of

proteins.

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QUESTION 8

Who won the Ladies Singles title at

Wimbeldon in 2013?

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QUESTION 9

Bimal Jalan,Y V Reddy,D Subbarao..Who is

the latest in the list

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QUESTION 10

Identify

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AUDIENCE QUESTION

Name the 2 national languages of

Srilanka

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AUDIENCE QUESTION

In which country is the Baikonoaur

cosmodrome

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AUDIENCE QUESTION

Over 70% of one horned rhinos are found

in which national park?

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1) Qawwali

2) NITAQAT.This program classifies countrys pvt firms into 4

categories

Premium(more than 40%),green(12-39%),yellow(7-11% ) and

Red(0-6%)

3 Genetically modified

4Justice Palanisamy Sathasivam

5 Bihar

6 Subhash Chandra Bose

7 Hargobind Khurana

8 Marion Bartoli

9 Raghuram Rajan;the present RBI governor

10 The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons

(OPCW), which won the Noble peace prize.

Audience

1) Sinhala and Tamil 2) Kazakhsthan 3)Kaziranga

Answers

ROUND 4-VISUAL ROUND

Get set on the Buzzer

Identify the Person from the clue

Question 1

Baden powell

Question 2

IDENTIFY THE FAMILY

SOUND OF MUSIC VON TRAPP FAMILY

Question 3Whats common to the following

Answer

All woman heading various banks Arundhati bhatacharya recently appointed as SBI MD,Chanda kochar ICICI MD,Shubalkshmi Pandsa Allahabad bank,Vijaylakshmi Iyer-Central Bank

Question 4)Identify

Uday Kumar the person who created the Rupee symbol

Question 5) Identify the person

Bachendri Pal: The first Indian Woman on everest

Question 6-Identify the Writer

YANN Martel

Question 7

Identify the singer

Ans 7

Manna Dey

Question 8

Identify the Scientist

Ans 8

Jayant Narlikar is an Indian astrophycist who proposed the steady state technology

Question 9

Identify the boy

Ans 9

Minon : Child artist from kerala who got the National film award for best child artist in 2012 for the film 101 chodyangal

Question 10

Identify

Ans 10

Farooque Sheikh

Audience

IDENTIFY

Audience

Subedar Major Vijay Kumar

AVSM, SM (19 August 1985 - ) is a sport shooter from India. He won the silver medal in the individual 25-metre rapid fire pistol event at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Audience Identify the Girl

Louise brown: The first Test tube baby

ROUND 6

Clue 1: This Physist won the 1983 Nobel prize was born in Lahore but is a citizen of America

Clue 2 :He is a nephew of CV Raman

Clue 3 He gave the theory that White Dwarf Star cannot grow beyonf a mass 1.4 times than that of the Sun.

Subrahmanyan Chandrashekhar

Clue 1 :Political activist, feminist, poet-writer, and the first Indian woman be appointed an Indian state governor of United Provinces now Uttar Pradesh

Clue 2 Her first volume of poetry, The Golden Threshold (1905), was followed by The Bird of Time (1912), and in 1914 she was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

Clue 3 She became the first Indian woman president of the National Congress—having been preceded eight years earlier by the English feminist Annie Besant

Sarojini Naidu

Clue 1 : In 2010 the Movie SOCIAL Network,Directed by David Fincher about the finding of one of the largest visited website created lot of controversy

Clue 2 : He along with Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes founded a popular website where Harvard students entered their own information and photos into a template that they devised

Clue 3 The site was mainly aimed at students entered their own

information and photos into a template that they devised

Mark Zuckerberg

CLUE 1- This Mumbai born British writer became the first writer from the Indian Sub Continent in post colonial era to be awarded Knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II

Clue 2: In 1993 his book won the booker of Boker prize.

Clue 3: For Nearly 7 years ,Iranian Fundamentalists pronounced a Death sentence on him for Blasapheming Islam

SALMAN RUSHDIE

Clue 1: Polish-born French physicist who caried the surname Skłodowska

Clue 2 : The first element to be discovered by she and her husband through radio chemical analysis, was called polonium after homeland Poland

Clue 3 She is the only woman to win the Nobel award in two different fields.

Marie Curie

Clue1: This Indian actor who has won a record 8 filmfare awards.He was born in 1965 to Muslim parents of Pathan descent in New Delhi, India.His father, Taj Mohammed Khan, was an Indian independence activist from Peshawar, British India.

Clue 2: He started his acting career with roles in tV serials like Dil Dariya ,Fauji and Circus

Clue 3 He has his own production company called Dreams Unlimited which was later changed to Red chillies entertaintment.He has also hosted the Indian version of “ Who wants to be a millionaire”

Shah Rukh Khan

CLUE 1 : A former prime minister of India was born in Gwalior to Krishna And Krishna Devi .He earned a masters degree in political science from the Victoria College (now Laxmibai College) and DAV College, Kanpur.

Clue 2 : He is well-known for being a poet, eminent journalist, and has published a book of poetry. He was one amongst founder members of Jana Sangh and was the Minister of External affairs in Cabinet of Morarji desai

Clue 3 : He is also the first ever Indian to address the UN general assembly in Hindi

Atal Behari Vajpayee

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