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The Written

Quiz

QUIZMASTER: SHARATH BABU (BABUMATIC)


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Please write answers on your teams sheet only. Please write all the answers in CAPS 35 questions and 45 minutes to spare

Please mark the starred questions, even Ive marked it. There are no negatives so take a wild shot at everything.


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1) X is commonly used in email or memo messages, typically as the first

thing on the subject line, to flag the message as an informational message.

This is typically used to communicate to the receiver that 'action is not

required'.

On the Internet, Xs are a subset of the RFC series.

The following description is taken from X 1, the X on Xs: The Xseries of

notes is designed to provide Internet users with a central repository of

information about any topics which relate to the Internet. Xs topics may

range from historical memos on "Why it was done this way" to answers to

commonly asked operational questions.

ID X


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2) X currently lives in Bangalore in the

township of Kalyannagar after spending morethan fifty years in Mumbai. He also maintainsa Calcutta address. He still travels widely inthe world to present musical programs. HisBengali-language autobiography,Jiboner

Jalsaghorey, has been published in Englishas Memories Come Alive, in Hindi as Yaden JeeUthiand in Marathi as Jiboner Jalsaghorey.

Jibaner Jalsaghore, a documentary on Xs life,

was released in 2008. ID X


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3) ID him. . .

Do not get confused with. . .


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4) __________ Kumari is an eight-year-old girlwho is living with a severe cleft lip in one ofthe poorest areas of India. Not allowed toattend school at her native village, RampurDahaba village in Mirzapur, near Varanasi andostracized because of her deformity, ________

lives a life of quiet desperation as she waitsand wonders if she will ever receive the cleftsurgery. Her parents could never afford thesurgery that she desperately needs. By

chance, _______ parents meet a social workerone day who is traveling village to village,gathering patients for a hospital that providesfree cleft lip surgery to thousands of poorchildren each year through the The Smile

Train program.


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5) Connect


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6) There are several long halts like New Delhi 60min, Hazrat Nizamuddin 40 min, Trivandrum andErode 20 min, Nagpur and Vijayawada 15 min each.

The fastest speed is 124 km/hr near Trivandrum

Petta (onward journey to Kanyakumari) and theslowest is in Trivandrum Central (9km/hr). Thelongest halt is at New Delhi (120 min) followed byHazrat Nizamuddin (30 min), and Ludhiana (15 min).

The fastest speed is achieved near Nellore (95km/hr) and the slowest speed is on the HazratNizamuddin to New Delhi leg (8km/hour). It takesaround 4hours to clear the Delhi area.Put funda. . .


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7) His real name is Balasubramania. How do

we know him better?


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8) "This isn't a tale of derring-do, nor is it merely

some kind of 'cynical account'; it isn't meant to be, atleast. It's a chunk of two lives running parallel for a

while, with common aspirations and similar dreams.

In nine months a man can think a lot of thoughts,

from the height of philosophical conjecture to themost abject longing for a bowl of soup in perfect

harmony with the state of his stomach. And if, at the

same time, he's a bit of an adventurer, he could

have experiences which might interest other people

and his random account would read something likethis diary.

Whats the tale and whos the author?


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OLD

NEW9) Put funda. . .


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10) These three pics inspired a bollywood movie. . . Which movie?


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11) Which nations squad is this?

Jordi Codina (Real Madrid)Victor Valds (Barcelona)

David Belenguer (Getafe)Joan Capdevila (Villarreal)Alberto Lopo (Deportivo La Corua)Fernando Navarro (Sevilla)Gerard Piqu (Barcelona)Oleguer Presas (Ajax)

Carles Puyol (Barcelona)Sergi Busquets (Barcelona)Marc Crosas (Celtic)Cesc Fbregas (Arsenal)Luis Garca (Atltico Madrid)Sergio Gonzlez (Deportivo La Corua)

Xavi Hernndez (Barcelona)Joan Verd (Deportivo La Corua)Sergio Garca (Real Betis)Bojan Krki (Barcelona)scar Serrano (Racing Santander)Ral Tamudo (Espanyol)


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12) All of my life, I have been fascinatedby the big questions that face us, andhave tried to find scientific answers tothem. Perhaps that is why I have soldmore books on physics than Madonna hason sex. Who quoted this?


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13) Give me the blocked

part


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15) Connect


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16) On July 24, 2006, while delivering a speech at the Earth Dialogue forums,

_________ told school children at the Brisbane City Hall, "I have a very hard

time with this word 'non-violence,' because I don't believe that I am non-

violent." She went on to say, "Right now, I would love to kill George (W.)

Bush", blaming him for the deaths of children, particularly in the Middle East.

"I don't know how I ever got a Nobel Peace Prize, because when I see

children die the anger in me is just beyond belief. It's our duty as human

beings, whatever age we are, to become the protectors of human life.

In a keynote speech at the International Women's Peace Conference on July

11, 2007, __________ told a crowd of about 1,000: "Right now, I could

kill George (W.) Bush," she said at the Adam's Mark Hotel and Conference

Center in Dallas, Texas. "No, I don't mean that. How could you nonviolently

kill somebody? I would love to be able to do that.. __________laterapologized for the remarks. Although threatening the life of the President of

the United States is a crime the US Secret Service which protects the life of

the President did not question or investigate her.

Who?


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17) "This is unbelievable. We can't believe this.

Ladies and gentlemen... sorry... I share the stagewith two magicians, you know, who created thevery ordinary sounds of Bombay, the cacophonyof Bombay, into a soul-stirring, artful resonance. Icome from a country and a civilization that giventhe universal word. That word is preceded bysilence, followed by more silence. That word is'Om.' So I dedicate this award to my country.

Thank you, Academy, this is not just a sound

award, this is history being handed over to me.My sincere and deepest gratitude to myteachers. . . . . I dedicate this to you guys. Thankyou, Academy. Thank you very much." Whose

modified speech is this?


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18) The pic on the rightinspired the person in theleft to create something thatlives even today. . . What?


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19) Connect this pics to ancient trade.

. .


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20) According to many witness statements, after a

downfall of rain, the dark clouds broke and the sunappeared as an opaque, spinning disc in the sky. It

was said to be significantly less bright than normal,

and cast multicolored lights across the landscape,

the shadows on the landscape, the people, and the

surrounding clouds. The sun was then reported to

have careened towards the earth in a zigzag

pattern, frightening some of those present who

thought it meant the end of the world. Some

witnesses reported that their previously wet clothesbecame "suddenly and completely dry. What is

happening? Wait Ive some pics too. . .


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21) The following formula is used to calculate the weighted rating:

w= Weighted Rating

r = average for the ________ as a number from 0 to 10 (mean) = (Rating)

c= number of votes for ________ = (votes)

v= minimum votes required to be listed

m= the mean vote across the whole report (currently 6.8).

Put Funda. . .


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22) The convention establishing X was signed on29 September 1954 by 11 countries in WesternEurope. The acronym X originally was a provisional

council for setting up the laboratory, established by11 European governments in 1952. The acronymwas retained for the new laboratory after theprovisional council was dissolved, even though the

name changed in1954Soon after its establishment, the work at thelaboratory went beyond the study of the atomicnucleus, into higher-energy physics, an activity

which is mainly concerned with the study ofinteractions between particles. Therefore thelaboratory operated by X is commonly referred toas the Laboratoire europen pour la physique des

particules which better describes the current


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23) Whats common to this long but exhaustivelist? 2006 Commonwealth games 1982 Commonwealth games closing ceremony Sydney Opera House Australian National University

High Court of Australia Parliament of Australia Darling Harbor. . .


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24) One common thing is obvious from the pics. Whats the other thing?


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25) Name the song. . .

________ ________sits on the old gum tree

Merry merry king of the bush is he

Laugh __________, laugh __________

Gay your life must be

_____________ sits on the old gum tree

Eating all the gumdrops he can seeStop ___________, stop ___________--

Leave some gums for me

_________ sits on the old gum tree

Counting all the monkeys he can see

Stop ___________, stop ___________

That's no monkey, that's ME!!!

To help you:


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26) The title page of the first issue of Volume17 ofAnnalen der Physik, published on June 9,1905. what is its claim to fame?


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Abhinav Bindra Lord Sebastian Coe Kapil Dev Sania Mirza Dame Kelly Holmes Vijender Kumar

Sushil Kumar Flying Sikh Milkha Singh Misha Grewal Soni Monty Panesar Sue Gilroy, Karnam Malleswrari

Dilip Tirkey Gurbachan Singh Randhawa.

27) They are in some order Connect them. . .


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28) Which two teams compete for this cup?


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29) Connect


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30) ____________________ is a public garden

in Amritsar in the Punjab province of India,and houses a memorial of nationalimportance, established in 1951 to mark theincident that occurred on on the occasion ofthe Punjabi New Year on April 13, 1919. The6.5-acre (26,000 m2) garden site located inthe vicinity of Golden Temple complex, theholiest shrine of Sikhism.Name the garden


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31) This is a photo outside one of theconventions of an organization. Which?


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32) Connect


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33) Connect


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34) Connect


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35) This word has been discussed in the Bangkok Post,the Times of India and other Asian newspapers. A searchsuggests it has been in use in the USA for about the pastfew years but is only now beginning to appear in print.

It refers to people who have been laid off from amultinational because their job has been moved to

________ a business practice designed to save money

that is arousing passions in some countries, especiallyBritain and the United States.

An example of usage :I am a software developer who is about to be

_________. Fine. I am not going to pout about it. Themedia write that we are in a global economy, so dealwith it.Electronic Engineering Times, Apr. 2004

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