tata steel vt quiz'13 (prelims+mains)

TATA STEEL VT QUIZ 2013

Quiz Masters: Srijan, Sourav, Sneha & Shikha

PRELIMS

Quiz Masters: Srijan, Sourav, Sneha & Shikha

Q1*

PROJECT LOON

Q2

EDWARD SNOWDENPRISM

It means “raised platform around an ancient arena," also "projecting base of a

pedestal,“ in Lating and in Greek it is πόδι, "foot of a vase”.

Q3

PODIUM

Connect the following pictures

Q4

KINGS OF CARDS

Claim to fame?

Q5

Voice Actor for Howard’s mother in TBBT

MARY ANN SUSI

The Gurjars, pratihars, solankis and people of various casts settled in North India around 6th

century. One village near modern day Delhi houses a landmark derives it’s name from one

of these clans.

In the village is a very famous landmark, famous because of the number of VIPs that

visit there!

Which landmark am I talking about?

Q6

Tihar Jail!

Back!

This line was famously said by Cap’n Vikram Batra when interviewed by Barkha Dutt. Cap’n Batra played a

fundamental role in operation ‘Vijay’. These lines were also used by a

company, and it became a nation-wide commercial success.

What were the lines said by Late PVC Vikram batra ?

Q7

Back!

It is one of the Internet's largest sites devoted entirely to investing education. The site was started by Cory Janssen

and Cory Wagner in June 1999 as an unbiased resource.Based in Edmonton in Alberta, Canada, In 2007,

the site was purchased by U.S. publishing company Forbes which sold it to ValueClick in 2010 for $43 million.

Q7

INVESTOPEDIA

How many laws of cricket are there anyway?

Q8

42

She was found, roaming about in darkness, by an American on Feb 18, 1930. Though he wished to

name her Minerva, she was finally named X, after the suggestion given by Venetia Burney, a eleven year old schoolgirl. She enjoyed being part of a

big family, until on August 24,2006 she was unceremoniously banished from the family.

Identify X.

Q9

Born in Bhidausa in Madhya Pradesh, he was an Indian athelete who went on to represent India at the 1958 Asian Games in Tokyo, Japan. He also served in the Indian Army. He was killed on October 1st, 1981 in a police ambush. Who?

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PLUTO

Gunter's Chain is a measuring device used for accurate land survey by triangulation. It consists of a chain formed of 100 long

wire links, with brass tags along the chain for intermediate measurement. One of its lasting legacies is as a very well-known

length. Of what?

Q11

CRICKET PITCH

The kilogram is the only such remaining base SI unit.

What differentiates it from other SI base units?

Q12

Defined in terms of an artifact, instead of a fundamental constant like all the others.

He was born as James Howlett, but you don’t know him by his actual name. He has also served

in the Vietnam war.

A myth goes around him is “You can’t kill him, but you can definitely hurt him”. Contrary to popular

belief, he is actually very old and is “scientifically” obese. Who am I talking about?

Q13

WOLVERINE

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains is a list of the 100 greatest screen characters (50 of both the hero and villain category) chosen by American Film Institute in June 2003. It is

part of the AFI 100 Years… series.

NOW,Which is the only character to be featured

on both the villain and the heroes list?

Q14*

THE TERMINATOR

Complete the passage- "It's almost like a powder. (The) ground mass is

very fine. I'm going to step off the LM now. .________________________________

____."

Q15

Small step for [a] man, Giant leap for mankind

LEAP OF FAITH

This person was asked why numbers kept appearing in the titles of his works. He

alluded to his earlier profession by way of a reason. Who?

Q16

CHETAN BHAGAT

Chance Furlong and Jake Clawson were members of the Paramilitary Law Enforcement Agency, known as the Enforcers. Unfortunately,

the Enforcers were commanded by a certain Commander Feral, a power-mad and overbearing

but hopelessly incompetent Enforcer. In his anger, Feral discharged Chance and Jake from the Enforcers and reassigned them to work at the city's military salvage yard to pay for the

damage to the Enforcer Headquarters. What does this result in?

Q17

SWAT CATS

When asked the reason for naming the show thus, J.D Majethia, the producer of the show was quoted as saying that, “The show was written with a Bania family in

mind, preferably a Gujarati one. We briefly considered the names Shah, Mehta and

Desai, but eventually settled for ________.”

FITB

Q18

:D

What can be defined as “an indentationcaused by a structural variation

in the facialmuscle Zygomaticus Major”?

Q19

Suitable pic

DIMPLE

What are the Arabic words for spring and autumn known across the length of the

subcontinent and something which we all learnt via our high school textbooks?

Q20

RABI AND KHARIF

MAINS

Quiz Masters: Srijan, Sourav, Sneha & Shikha

Tata Round

Quiz Master: Sourav & Sneha

It consumed 26,500 tons of steel, out of which 23,000 tons of high-tensile alloy steel, known as Tiscrom, were supplied by Tata Steel. The main tower was founded with single monolith caissons of dimensions 55.31 x 24.8 m with 21 shafts, each 6.25 m2 square.

The fabrication was done by Braithwaite, Burn & Jessop Construction Company. What are we talking about?

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HOWRAH BRIDGE

During his tenure as the president of the workers’ union at the Tata Steel plant in Jamshedpur, he fought with the management to appoint more Indians in key positions. He also forced the management to implement maternity benefits for employees. On his call, the company also witnessed its first and last strike in 1928. This is a lesser known side of which famous Indian?

2

NETAJI SUBHASH CHANDRA BOSE

Video

3. “WE ONLY DO WHAT’S RIGHT FOR YOU”

Tata Capital, the financial services arm of the Tata group, recently launched the Do Right initiative, a campaign aimed at inspiring and inculcating the right values in children from a young age.

4. A VENTURE BY WHICH COMPANY?

Titan Industries has claimed to have manufactured the world's slimmest wrist watch. Produced indigenously after four years of research and development, it has a total thickness of 3.5 mm. Identify the brand.

5

TITAN EDGE

Roots Corporation (RCL) operates the _______ chain of hotels. This wholly owned subsidiary of Indian Hotels Corporation (IHCL) was established in 2003 and runs the first-of-its-kind Smart Basics hotels across India.

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GINGER HOTELS

BONUS

JAAGO RE!

MIB 1

This person was born into an OBC family. He inculcated patriotic feelings since the 1965 war, where he volunteered to serve for the soldiers in

transit at Railway station. He ran away from home to Himalayas for two

years, and did odd jobs like running a tea stall. He refrains from practicing the “minor vices”, and is

an ardent follower of Swami Vivekananda.

Who am I talking out?

1

ANSWER

NARENDRA MODI

Burma – 1969Sri Lanka - 1972Nepal – 1975India – 1975Bangladesh – 1975Somalia – 1977

As a result of this, what announcement was made on 9th Dec, 1979?

2

ERADICATION OF SMALLPOX

3

INDIAN CURRENCY WATERMARK

This chemical formula was shown as series of advertisements by a company. Please explain this formula and name the company.

4

The formula is 3.5 shots of gin and half shot of vermouth with four cubes of ice. Stir it

thrice and martini is ready.

MARTINI, PARKER

You probably might have heard of this place but you have never seen it.

5

TOWER OF HANOI

X is an informal term for consumer touch-screen devices with screens that are between five and seven inches. These devices combine the capabilities of a smartphone and mini tablet — and occasionally incorporate a stylus. A X is larger than most smartphones, but not as large as a tablet or mini-tablet.

6

PHABLET

She was born in 1957, caught in December 1957 in Sichuan, and moved to the Beijing Zoo in January 1958.

It went on a journey to Tierpark Berlin, the zoo in the eastern part of the then divided city. By then She had already been sold to a zoo in the United States, but the American government had ceased all trade with communist China for political reasons. Thus, she was refused entry to the USA.

F died on 22 July 1972 and was mourned by the nation. A post mortem was conducted. Her remains, now a stuffed exhibit, sit in a glass case, at London's Natural History Museum.

7

CHI CHI

X originally started in the baking powder business. With baking powder, he offered free Y. He later abandoned the baking powder business when he realized that people were buying it just for the Y.

8

WRIGLEY’S GUM

What makes X such a fantastic character becomes evident when you look at the world from his point of view. He's not necessarily trying to rule the world; in his eyes he's saving it. Think about that for a second - X is trying to save the world from Y. This man craves to be the world's savior, yearns to have "his" people worship the ground he walks on and refuses to see that birthright seized by another.

9

LEX LUTHOR

It was a beautiful sunny day [26 April 1986]. My daughter and me were sitting in our yard. A soft spring wind was blowing. Suddenly a huge military truck stopped right in front of us. A man wearing a gas-mask and a protective costume jumped out of the truck and began to walk around us gazing at some device that was hanging on his chest… Then he looked at us, fastened a little sign with a symbol that we had never seen before, got back into the truck and drove away. Everything happened in complete silence. No word was pronounced. We were just looking at the sign and the truck and had no idea what was going on… The day was not that beautiful any more…

10

CHERNOBYL INCIDENT

X pioneered the India soft drink industry when it introduced Coca-Cola into India in 1949, and were the sole manufacturers and distributors of

Coca-Cola till the 1970's when Coke was asked to leave.

X then created Y and virtually monopolized this section of the market in absence of foreign

competition

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X – Pure Drinks GroupY – Campa Cola

ANSWER

What’s so special about this?

12

West Bengal joins R-day parade after 13 years

After over a decade, West Bengal has sent a tableau to participate in the state procession at the Republic Day parade, ending the previous Left Front government’s

policy of staying away from the event.In 1999, a year after the Pokharan nuclear test, the Jyoti Basu government had drawn a plan to send a tableau highlighting nuclear non-proliferation — a

move eventually prevented by South Block amid much acrimony.

ANSWER

MIB II

This word, derived from the Latin genitive plural form of 'who', refers to the minimum

number of members necessary for an assembly to function. A similar but

unrelated word is the name of a Palo-Alto-based question-and-answer website. Give

either word.

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QUORA

The Victoria police in Australia said they have been called to rescue of a number of distressed motorists over the past several weeks who got lost in Australia's Murray-Sunset National Park. The police told people that they are "extremely concerned," as there is no water supply within the park, and temperatures can reach as high as 114.8 degrees Fahrenheit, "making this a potentially life threatening issue." Some of the people saved by police had been stranded for up to 24 hours without any food or water. Others walked long distances through dangerous terrain to try to get phone reception and find their way out. What was responsible for this?

2

APPLE IOS6 MAPS

2000 - Tehran

2007 - Mexico City

2008 - Bonn

2010 - Sofia

2012 - Moscow

What are we talking about?

Hint: Sporting Connection

3

Vishwanathan Anand’s world championship victories.

VISHWANATHAN ANAND

In meeting terminology, what is a topless meeting?

4

A meeting in which participants are not allowed to use laptops. A topless meeting

organizer can also ban the use of smartphones, cellphones and other

electronic devices. The purpose of this is to create an environment free from

distraction, to foster enhanced focus and to generate more discussions.

MEH

India Today called the film a "dead ember" and added, "Thematically, it's a gravely

flawed attempt."

Filmfare said that the film was an unsuccessful mincing of Western style with

Indian milieu, making it a "imitation western—neither here nor there.“

Declared as the "Film of the Millennium" by BBC India in 1999.

5

SHOLAY

6

ALEX FERGUSON

Each year, The American Dialect Society selects its Word of the Year. For 2012, the winner was a bit of a surprise.

It wasn't fiscal cliff, the ubiquitous term in the news from Capitol Hill. And it wasn't YOLO, the youthful acronym for "You Only Live Once" that quickly rose (and just as quickly fell) this past year.

It wasn’t even Gangnam Style.

The official announcement reads:

“This was the year when Q became a ubiquitous phenomenon in online talk,” Zimmer said. “Q have created instant social trends, spreading bite-sized viral messages on topics ranging from politics to pop culture.”

What is Q?

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#HASHTAG

Today I bake.Tomorrow I brew my beer.The next day the queen's only child will be mine.Not even the census taker knowsthat ______________is my name . . .

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RUMPELSTILTSKIN

Mr. SanjivMehta is a London-based Indian entrepreneur, who migrated to London in 1989 to focus on international trade and marketing, after completing his studies in gemmology and jewellery. •He catapulted to fame in early 2010 due to his takeover of a $15 million business, about which he said, “….as an Indian, when you think with your heart as I do, I had this huge feeling of redemption -this indescribable feeling of owning a company that once owned us.“What company did he take over?

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ANSWER

10

Organizations/Agencies who have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

International Peace BureauUnited Nations High Commissioner for

RefugeesLeague of Red Cross Societies

European Union

ANSWER

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FUNDA?

12

Thomas Alva Edison, Nikola Tesla Nobel Prize

ANSWER

AV