SCAN"IT" Quiz

On 7/2/12,Delhi and a few others organised a Gen-Quiz for the folks @SASTRA.The overall response was warm with approximately 25 participating teams.Good show for a first timer amateur Quizzer I’d say.Here are the Prelims  Questions directly.

1)Connect

  ‘Fauji’ ,‘ Biwi ho to aisi ‘ , ‘Bekhudi’ ,’Saat hindustani’ ,’Jodi’ .

2)If the Durand separates Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the Radcliffe line divides India and Pakistan, then what does "Vinculum" separate?

3)In sanskrit, Nirukta is one of the six vendanga disciplines of Hinduism .Written by Yaska , Pāṇini and Kātyāyana in brief sūtras it deals with X.In classical Greek period , Plato was the first person to address X with the Socratic dialogue Cratylus .Isidore of Seville compiled a volume of X to illuminate the triumph of religion.X ?

4)Created by George W.Dunham , Howard Coffin and Roy E. Chapin , X came into existance in 1909.X produced Y between 1951 and 1954.X was the first automobile manufacturer to get involved in stock car racing . Y dominated racing in the early 1950’s with over 27 NASCAR races .X,Y ?

5)What are these and name 2 more which ought to be in this list …?

•Honeycomb

•Gingerbread

•Eclair

•Donut

•Cupcake

6)

“If, in the very intense electric field in the neighbourhood of the cathode, the molecules of the gas are dissociated and are split up, not into the ordinary chemical atoms, but into these primordial atoms, which we shall for brevity call corpuscles; and if these corpuscles are charged with electricity and projected from the cathode by the electric field, they would behave exactly like the cathode rays”

Who said these words ?

7)The original name of X was Pratipalapura, a flourishing Buddhist town in the ancient Sala kingdom that predated Satavahanas. From available inscriptional evidence, King Kuberaka was ruling over X around 230 BC. X is well known for its Buddha stupa (Vikramarka kota dibba) built about 3rd-2nd century BC. During excavations at X there has been found __________ that belongs to 3rd Century BC, and the progenitor of Brahmi script, well known as X to historians.Merchants took it to Southeast Asia where it parented the scripts of Mon, Burmese, Thai, Khmer, Javanese and Balinese languages.ID X

8)X is an iraqi born author and former military officer in the iran-iraq war . According to X and some other sources X was the body double of uday hussein. X was trained for 6 months to imitate uday completely. The 2011 movie Y , directed by lee Tamahori tells the story of X as uday’s body double.ID X,Y

9) Founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878, the club changed its name in 1902. In October 1945, the impending resumption of football led to the managerial appointment of X. X led the team to second-place league finishes in 1947, 1948 and 1949, and to FA Cup victory in 1948. In 1952, the club won the First Division, its first league title for 41 years.With an average age of 22, the media labelled the back-to-back title winning side of 1956 “Y “, a testament to X’s faith in his youth players.ID X,Y

10)X was created in 1923 by Briton Hadden and Henry Luce, making it the first of its kind in the United States. The two had previously worked together as chairman and managing editor respectively of the Yale Daily News and considered calling X as Y .Hadden was a rather carefree figure, who liked to tease Luce and saw X as something important but also fun.X has a domestic audience of 20 million and a global audience of 25 million .X, Y ..?

11)X is a simulated or otherwise medically ineffectual treatment for a disease or other medical condition intended to deceive the recipient. Sometimes patients given a X will have a perceived or actual improvement in a medical condition, a phenomenon commonly called . The Y points to the importance of perception and th importance of the brain’s role in one’s health

12)

•The silver chair

•The horse and his boy

•The magician’s nephew

•The last battle

What do these have in common?

13)X is used in finance as a measure of investment portfolio risk .X was also used to name a meteorological phenomenon in 2005.Y denotes the area under a normal curve to denote significance level when proving null hypothesis.Y is also the name given to the dominant individual in a wolf pack.A ______ is subjected to X and then Y tests before it is actually released.FITB and ID X and Y.

14)X is the oldest and the 6th largest of its kind in Asia and the 14th largest in the world .The World Council of Corporate Governance has awarded the Golden Peacock Global CSR Award for X’s initiatives in Corporate Social Responsibility .The Annual Reports and Accounts of X for the year ended March 31, 2006 and March 31, 2007 have been awarded the ICAI awards for excellence in financial reporting.The Human Resource Management at X has won the Asia – Pacific HRM awards for its efforts in employer branding  through talent management at work, health management at work and excellence in HR through technology.X.?

15)X’s father , who had charge of the Kingdom of Sardinia’s military chest, was of good social position and wealthy, but before his son grew up he had lost most of his property in speculations, and X had to rely on his own abilities for his position. X was educated at the college of Turin, but it was not until he was seventeen that he showed any taste for mathematics –his interest in the subject being first excited by a paper by Edmund Halley which he came across by accident. Alone and unaided he threw himself into mathematical studies; at the end of a year’s incessant toil he was already an accomplished mathematician, and was made a lecturer in the artillery school.Between 1772 and 1788, X re-formulated Classical/Newtonian mechanics to simplify formulas and ease calculations. These mechanics are called ‘X’ian mechanics.X also contributed to number theory , Astronomy and Algebra (also has a theorem named after him )

[End of prelims.What is so interesting is that the highest score from the prelims was 8.5 and lowest was 3.5.Either the standard was too arbit or way too high funda.Either way,the prelims were peppered here and there with one or two “Very Long Questions”.Over to the Finals in the next post]

Courtesy: Delhi

A great victory for democracy!!

The judgement by the apex court today, cancelling all licences allotted by the UPA-I government and tainted telecom minister A.Raja,is a most welcome decision. By this unprecedented move, the Court has sent out a strong message that the corrupt,no matter how highly placed they maybe,can’t go scot free. It has also set a precedent for dealing with corruption in the future,with an iron hand.

 

The decision today must be fully credited to Dr.Subramanian Swamy’s relentless one-man crusade in bringing the guilty to justice. But for him, 2G would have become another buried corpse like the Bofors issue.It will provide comic relief at this instant to remember the fact that our honourable HRD Minister Mr.Kapil Sibal had, in the not so distant past, virtually given a clean chit to his colleague Raja going to the extent of claiming “zero-loss” to the exchequer!!

The issue in the author’s view is far from over. As Swamy had said then Raja is only small fish who enabled the scam. The real mastermind is still out there. The Court must ensure that the case proceeds to its logical conclusion.

 

QED: Indians must learn to identify  real politicians from those scamsters who merely pose to be one to mint money by abusing power.

Oru Naal Podhuma?!

[Title translates from tamil to english:”is one day enough?!'”]

1)

•X is praised with many names such as,

• the ultimate Creed
• falseless word
• truthful praise
• the divine book
• the common Creed of world

•X was translated by many people in many languages(>30).

•notable translations of X are: The Latin translation made by Constanzo Beschi in 1730 and English Translation by George Uglow Pope in 1886.

•X’s author name as we know is not his/her real name.

•some scholars are telling that “he/she was a king/queen” because more then half of X is about public life.

•ID X.

2)

•Actually there were 3 poets of the name “B”,but only 2 persons’ history and works are known today.

•Most of the people don’t know there were 2 Bs because there are no specific mentioning(B1 or B2) in their works in current books.

•B1 was a poet,ethicist,govt. advisor and ‘political activist’.

•B1′s quote has been translated as

"What you have learned is a mere handful;

What you haven’t learned is the size of the world"

and exhibited at NASA.

•In 2009, Red Hen Press published a selection of B2′s poetry, entitled "Give, Eat, and Live: Poems by B."

• ID B.

3)ID

4)

•X was a sitting member in the Rajya Sabha for 18 years continuously.

•X was known as the "Tiger of Parliament" among the other MPs in appreciation of his good manners in the Parliament.

•X suffered imprisonment for 28 times spending a total of four precious years of his life in jail.

•X is the only political leader who spent such long term without any expectations of power, position or material gains!

•X using his personal funds vaccinated 65 thousand children to protect them from the dreadful disease of jaundice.

•Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in his Speech paid rich encomiums and Tributes to X stating that

"X is a Glittering Star among leaders in this Dais.He used to meet me to represent always a public cause ,never a personal request.I salute him."

• ID X.

5)ID and put funda

Courtesy:Jammy

Randomise the frequency distribution?

1)

• In earlier days, disputes between ‘noblemen’ would often be settled by duels of honor. Each of the combating parties would select a representative called the "second"; the seconds would between them usually decide the time and place of the duel.
• For which sporting ‘duel’ were Efim Geller & Nikolai Krogius (for 1 party) and William Lombardy (for the other party) the chosen seconds ?

2)

• X who was born as Madabhushi Rangadorai(b. November 8, 1937) is a prominent Indian lawyer, columnist, film and legal historian associated with The Hindu.
• He graduated in B.Sc and B. L. from Madras University and commenced his career as a lawyer. After practising as a lawyer for a short time, he quit his job and joined a firm called Paterson and Co. where he worked for 5 years. In 1976, he resigned to devote all his time to writing. He has been writing books on history and films since 1967.
• However, he became popular when his article on Frank Capra was purchased by the United States Information Agency for use as a reference work. X remains the only non-American whose work has been acquired as reference material by the Government of the United States of America.
• X has also written the screenplay for a few short documentaries and feature films. He has also produced a few advertisement films. In 1999, he made a 100-minute feature film in English titled Perfumed Garden for a Hollywood film company. The film was also subsequently dubbed into Hindi, Tamil and Telugu as Brahmachari. He has also written a Sinhalese film called Paradise Peakbased on a best-selling crime novel written by him. Currently, he is working with the screenplay for an English film called Maya starring Kollywood actress Namitha. Maya is Namitha’s first film in English. Id X.

3)

• Bill Wright was an RAF pilot in World War Two, and his experience of being interrogated by Hitler’s secret police-Gestapo inspired his creation. Under the Geneva Convention, the only information prisoners were required to give was name, rank and number. Wright adjusted this to name, occupation and specialised subject. What did Bill Wright create?

4)

• The animal was brought to prominent European attention by speculation on its existence found in popular press reports covering Henry Stanley’s journeys only in 1887. Explorers may have seen the fleeting view of the striped backside as the animal fled through the bushes, leading to speculation that it was some sort of rainforest zebra. Remains of a carcass were later sent to London by the English adventurer and colonial administrator Harry Johnston and became a media event in 1901. Today there are approximately 10,000–20,000 in the wild. This animal was adopted as an emblem by the now defunct International Society of Cryptozoology. ID

5)

• As a teenager X worked as an apprentice in his older brother James’ printing shop in Boston, where The New-England Courant was printed. X never got anything he wrote published, so, at age 16, he created the persona of a middle-aged widow named Y. Once every two weeks, he would leave a letter under the door of his brother’s printing shop. A total of 14 letters were sent. The letters poked fun at various aspects of life in colonial America. The letters were published in The New-England Courant fortnightly, and amused readers. Some men wrote in offering to marry Y, upon learning she was widowed. Id X and Y.

Courtesy:UVeSa