SORCERERS OF INTELLECT

QUIZ CLUB INDUCTIONS

QUESTION
Identify the error in the picture, i.e. I want the name of the person who should not be there in the pic.

ANSWER
Madhura Nagendra/Madhura Honey

QUESTION
Googles tribute to who/what?

ANSWER
Lego

QUESTION
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, this phrase most likely originated from children's games such as hopscotch and snakes and ladders. An alternative theory is that the phrase originated from early radio commentaries of football matches by the BBC .The first live radio commentary featured a Division One match between Arsenal and Sheffield United, broadcast on January 22, 1927. A grid of a football pitch was published which divided the pitch into eight numbered squares so the commentator could describe the ball's location. Pic in next slide.

What is the phrase?

ANSWER

QUESTION
X, a former member of the Indian Administrative Service, served as Secretary to the President of India and as High Commissioner to South Africa and Sri Lanka, among other administrative and diplomatic posts. X translated into Hindi the Vikram Seth novel 'A Suitable Boy titling it Koi Acchha Sa Ladka. Xs grandfathers are more famous than him, his paternal grandfather being the more famous. Identify X.

ANSWER
Gopalkrishna Gandhi Grandfathers are Mahatma Gandhi and C.Rajagopalachari.

QUESTION
With respect to the 2012 London Olympics, what makes the following athletes unique?
Athlete Liemarvin Bonevacia Philipine van Aanholt Curaao Curaao From Event Men's 400 metres Sailing Women's Laser Radial class Judo Men's 81 kg Men's marathon

Reginald de Windt Guor Marial

Curaao South Sudan

ANSWER
Independent athletes

QUESTION
Duncan Edwards is manure, rotting in his grave, ______ are manure, rotting in your grave. ______, ______, went on a plane. ______ , ______ , never came home again. What did the above two compositions lead to?

ANSWER
Its Man Utd. and not Man U. Compositions were chants sung by rival teams mocking Utd.s Munich disaster.

QUESTION
Man Singh, also known as "Daku Man Singh", was a notorious dacoit, born in Agra to a family descended from Rajput kings. Between 1939 and 1955, Singh is credited with 1,112 robberies and 185 murders, including the killing of 32 police officers. Daku Man Singh is the title of a 1971 movie, directed by Babubhai Mistry. In the movie, X, who later became the first sportsman to be nominated to the Rajya Sabha acted as Man Singh. Identify X.

ANSWER
Dara Singh

QUESTION
This game was developed primarily by Tru Iwatani, who stated that the main character's shape was inspired by a pizza missing a slice. He later admitted that the character design came from simplifying and rounding out the Japanese character for mouth, kuchi. Which game are we talking about?

ANSWER
Pac Man

QUESTION
What is the full name of the character depicted in the cartoon?

ANSWER
Barack Usain Bolt Obama

QUESTION
Modern Review was the name of a monthly magazine published in Calcutta since 1907. . With a broadly nationalistic outlook, it did not follow the line of any particular political party. Famous historian Ramachandra Guha called the magazine the leading journal of the progressive Indian intelligentsia. In November 1937, an article appeared in the magazine severely criticizing Jawaharlal Nehru. The article was written by X, who was referred to as Chanakya. Identify X.

ANSWER
Jawaharlal Nehru

QUESTION
Smaller than 1.5 m (5 ft) = granddaughter Over 1.5 m (5 ft) = grandmother Over 1.8 m (6 ft) = ___________ What am I describing?

ANSWER
Clocks. The blank is grandfather.

QUESTION
Valkyrie is a 2008 American historical thriller film, directed by Bryan Singer and starring Tom Cruise. The film depicts the 20 July plot in 1944 by German army officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler and to use the Operation Valkyrie, the national emergency plan to take control of the country.

 X was a leading physicist of the 20th century, who won the Nobel Prize in 1918. On 23rd January 1945, Xs son was executed by firing squad because of his involvement in Operation Valkyrie. Identify X.

ANSWER
Max Planck

QUESTION
The term X was coined in 1938 by 9-year-old Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner. Other names for X include ten duotrigintillion on the short scale and ten thousand sexdecillion on the long scale. The founders of Y initially named their company, BackRub. They then changed the name to Y which was a misspelling of X. Identify X and Y.

ANSWER
X- Googol Y- Google

QUESTION
X is an element with a half life of about 14.05 billion years. X is estimated to be about four times more abundant than Uranium in the Earth's crust. India's three stage nuclear power programme is possibly the most well known and well funded effort to produce fuel from X. X was first discovered in Lovoya Island, Norway and was given its present name by Jns Jakob Berzelius, who named it after a famous God. ID X.

ANSWER
Thorium after Thor, Norse God of thunder.

QUESTION
X (21 March 1768 16 May 1830) was a French mathematician and physicist best known for coming up with X law to solve problems related to heat transfer. X method to solve problems related to vibrations was found by him. X is also generally credited with the discovery of the greenhouse effect. Xs name is one of the 72 names inscribed on the Eiffel Tower. Xs efforts to decipher the Rosetta Stone are well known. ID X.

ANSWER
Joseph Fourier.