Qusstion Set 10

Continuing with the trivia hunt:

1)

What is the significance?

This is the blank editorial in Indian Express by Ram Nath Goenka in protest of the emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi.

2) What connects Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan to:
Nalcheti
Jwala
Kanthari
Birds Eye
Bolita

These are different species of Red Chillies and SRK's production house is called 'Red Chillies Entertainment'.

3) Having refused food and water for more than 500 weeks since November 2000, she has been called "the world's longest hunger striker" and was nominated for a Nobel peace prize in 2005 from Guwahati. Who?

Irom Chanu Sharmila.

4) With what science, would you associate these pictures?

Taxonomy (Lazarus, Elvis, Zombie. These are names of Taxons).

5) This country's flag contains a special character from the Soyombo script (Founded on the Sanskrit Devanagari scrit).
This character resembles a vertical arrangement of abstract and geometric representation for fire, sun, moon, earth, water, and the yin-yang symbol.
Which country?

Flag of Mongolia.

 

6) Which God in Norse mythology has such exceptional sense of hearing that He can hear the sound of wool growing on Sheep's body?

Heimdall

7) What word is blanked out?

Fibonacci. (Courtsey : xkcd.com)

8) Who is the designer of this very pecular kind of chair depicted in this  Switzerland stamp?

Le Corbusier.

9) Which person, recently in news for the very wrong reasons connects these?

Oscar Pistorius, who is a brand amassador of the de-mining project called 'Sole of Africa'. He  is nicknamed 'Blade Runner', a movie of the same name was inspired from the Sci-fi book from Philip Dick.



10) The sculptures, as shown below are carved out of trees, especially the Giant Cedar in Southern America.
These type of sculptures have given name to a particular type of Electronic Circuit. What is the circuit called?

Such monuments are called Totem Poles, which is another name of the Push-Pull output stage in TTL or CMOS digital integrated circuits.

Question set 9

Here is the next set of questions:


1) In probably a first of its kind development, which Nobel laureate's family announced that the Nobel prize will be auctioned in March 2013?




Francis Crick.

2)

Identify thie pioneering 'monk'.

Gregor Mendel.

3) The sixth Avatar of Vishnu is Parashurama. His name is the combination of words 'Rama' and 'Parashu'.

The word 'Parashu' is a reference to what?

The Axe, which is a the weapon of Parashurama.

4) Early Greek considered the evening and morning appearances of planet Venus as two different objects calling it different names Hesperus and Phosphorus.
Which Greek philosopher is credited with the discovery that both these objects are indeed the same planet?

Pythagoras.

5) Which island in the South China sea is at the center of dispute between China and Japan which was the cause of massive anti-Japan protests in China in September 2012 when Japan acquired a major portion of the islands from a private owner?

Senkaku Islands.

6) In a first of its kind discovery of one of the most amazing miracles of nature, what was discovered along the seabed of the Back sea, near the Bosphorous Strait, by robotic submarines developed by scientists of Leeds university in August 2010?

An under-water river!

More about this here.

7) What is the connect between:

a) The 2009 Bollywood film 'Ishqiya'

b) The Hindi poet Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena

c) Airport at Tangier, Morroco

Ibn Battuta, after whom the Tangier airport is named and who is also the subject of a poem of Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena and a song in Ishqiya.

8) Name the dance performed by Serana Williams after hitting the winning shot against Sharapova to win a gold medal during London olympics.

Crip Walk.

9) In the retail industry, the term 'Five finger discount' is an euphemism used for what?

Shoplifting.

10) What is 'Egosurfing'?

Surfing on the internet for data or pages about yourself.

11) Foil, Epee and Sabre are the equipment used for which sport?

Fencing.

12) Using an Indianized Bunny rabbit as its mascot, which organization with the primary objective of empowerment and employment of women was started in 1959 with a seed capital of Rs. 80, by 7 semi-literate Gujarati housewives?

Shree Mahila Grih Udyog (Lijjat Papad)

13)

Identify this 'Holy Wisdom'.

Hagia Sofia (which means 'Holy Wisdom' in Greek).

14)

This monument is in the shape of a unit cell of an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times. What and where?

Atomium, Brussels.

15)

This gesture is supposed to have first used by Nicolos Kroon since 1988 and has been popularized by Leyton Hewitt. What is this gesture called?

Vicht.

16) The 2010 Indian constitutional amendment to make education as fundamental right was  much talked about.
Earlier, in 1978, another amendment was passed to remove a right that was originally stipulated to be a fundamental right. Which right?

Right to property.

17) Which Sikh Dharmaguru was killed by Mughal emperor Aurangzeb at Delhi’s Chandani Chowk, allegedly for refusing to convert to Islam?

Guru Tej Bahadur.

18)

The works of literature like this one are examples of what form of writing?

Lipogram (where a letter or group of letters is omitted from a literature work).

20)

What is the eponym here?

Vishwa Mohan Bhat after whom the instrument 'Mohan Veena' is named.