The document appears to be a summary of a quiz club event held by Pushpendra Nagle for BTech 1st year CSE students. It consists of two rounds of quiz questions on topics ranging from history, literature, movies, science, and companies. The questions are multiple choice, fill in the blank, identification, and short answer. Bonus points are awarded for correct answers and deductions made for incorrect answers.
5. IDENTIFY THE PERSON
• He was a champion wrestler, taking part in about 300
matches and earning a reputation as a tough fighter
(also, being 6 feet, 4 inches tall didn’t hurt).
• Led the nation through the American Civil War, its
bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional,
and political crisis
• Cause of death – Assassination
7. • ____x__ assumed importance and grandeur around
490 BCE as Ajatashatru, the king of Magadha,
wanted to shift his capital from the
hilly Rajagrha (today's Rajgir) to a strategically
located place to better combat
the Licchavis of Vaishali.
• He chose the site on the bank of the Ganges and
fortified the area. _____y_______travelled through
this place in the last year of his life. He prophesied a
great future for this place even as he predicted its
ruin due to flood, fire and feud.
11. IDENTIFY THE OBJECT AND THE PERSON
• The last ____x___ was made in Brazil, after 65 years in
production.
• Informally, it is called in German as the Käfer
• its concept and its functional objectives were formulated by
_____y ______who wanted a cheap, simple car to be mass-
produced for his country's new road network
(Reichsautobahn).
13. • In 2006, Person of the Year was __x___ , a move that
was met with split reviews. Some thought the concept
was creative.
• In February 2016, __y__ included the British and
male author Evelyn Waugh on its "100 Most Read
Female Writers in College Classes" list (he was 97th
on the list) which created much media attention and
concerns about the level of basic education among
the magazine's staff. Time later issued a retraction.
15. FILL IN THE BLANK
• The term ___x___was originated as an insult—meaning
ignorant peasant.
• As a Telegraph columnist explains, it was “a shortened
version of Ignatius, a common name in Bavaria, the area
from which the ___x____ emerged.
• Opponents seized on this and shortened the party’s title
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, to the
dismissive ___x____
19. • Here in the place of that Hijli Detention Camp stands the
fine monument of India, representing India's urges, India's
future in the making. This picture seems to me symbolical
of the changes that are coming to India.
21. • ________ ____ (29 December 1917 – 12 December 2005)
(born Chandramauli Chopra) was an Indian film director. He
is most famous for making the Ramayan television series, a
78-part TV adaptation of the ancient Hindu epic of the same
name, starring Arun Govil as Lord Ram and Deepika
Chikhalia as Sita.
• This TV serial was then widely watched and liked across the
country. The Government of India awarded him the civilian
honour of Padma Shri in 2000.
23. NAME THE ARTIST/BAND
• A popular song of this artist/band means ‘an epic
poem on/by a socially unconventional person’
• The name of the song also resembles a region in
Czech Republic.
26. • Shashtri subsequently died of a reported heart attack
in ____x____ , after signing the ____x_____
Declaration
• The ___x____ Declaration was a peace agreement
between India and Pakistan signed on 10 January
1966 that resolved the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
27. IDENTIFY
• The ________ is the world's largest office building,
with about 6,500,000 sq ft (600,000 m2) of space, of
which 3,700,000 sq ft (340,000 m2) are used as
offices.
• The central five-acre (20,000 m2) plaza is nicknamed
"ground zero" on the presumption that it would be a
prime target in a nuclear war.
28. NAME THE COMPANY
• Name of the company translates to tri-star.
• Logo changed three times. (coincidence?)
• Had a chance to buy Android OS but decided not to.
• Tagline – ‘IMAGINE’
29. _____ IS ALSO CALLED THE "CAPUT MUNDI"
(CAPITAL OF THE WORLD).
30. IDENTIFY THE COMPANY
• Produced India's first indigenous typewriter.
• Introduced the first lock with lever technology.
31. IDENTIFY
• It is an Indian cosmetics brand.
• It was named after a French opera
which itself is the French form of
Lakshmi (the goddess of wealth).
32. IDENTIFY THE PERSON
• There were more than 600 attempts made to
kill him, by political opponents, criminals, and rival
countries, among others.
• These ranged from an exploding cigar, a poisoned
diving suit, and psychedelic drugs to make him sound
crazy when speaking in public.
• Main rival country - United States of America
33. The Tiago was previously announced as the Tata
_____(short for “zippy car”)but was changed because it
sounded like something else.
34. • It is named after physicist ___x_____, who in
1964, along with five other scientists, proposed
the mechanism to explain why particles have mass.
• On December 10, 2013, two of the
physicists, ____x_____ and François Englert, were
awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their
theoretical predictions.
• In mainstream media the _____x____ has often been
called the "God particle", from a 1993 book on the
topic, although the nickname is strongly disliked by
many physicists, including ____x____ himself.
36. FOLLOWING QUESTIONS ARE VERY SHORT.
SOME HAVE TAGLINES AND YOU HAVE TO GUESS
THE COMPANY.
FIRST BUZZER : +15/-5
SECOND BUZZER: +10/-5
THIRD BUZZER: +5/-5
52. ‘THE BEST OR NOTHING’
THE COMPANY BUILT THE WORLD’S FIRST ROBOT
CAR, TOGETHER WITH THE TEAM OF PROFESSOR
ERNST DICKMANNS AT BUNDESWEHR UNIVERSITY
MUNICH.
56. THE PLAY NOW ENDED,
THINK HIS GRAVE TO BE
THE RETIRING HOUSE OF HIS SAD TRAGEDIE,
WHERE TO GIVE HIS FAME THIS, BE NOT AFRAID,
HERE LIES THE BEST TRAGEDIAN EVER PLAYED.
STILL LIVES HE;
A WARRIOR WHO KNEW NO SWORD BUT PEN.
*BONUS POINTS FOR GUESSING HIS RESTING PLACE.
NAME THE PERSON