MEC School quiz prelims

A quiz conducted by aniruddh aka ginerjoos. i won the quiz partnering jobin tom of jyothi nivas, alwaye.






1. The term ____________ _____________ was coined by Ralph Vaerst, a Northern California entrepreneur. His journalist friend, Don Hoefler, first published the term in 1971. He used it as the title of a series of articles "_______________ _____________ USA" in a weekly trade newspaper Electronic News which started with the January 11, 1971 issue. It was called the Valley of Heart's Delight.
Silicon valley

2. Which newspaper’s motto is “All the news that’s fit to print”?
NewYork Times


3. In which religion are the priests called Dasthoor?
Parsi

4. Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” tells the story of which war?
Crimean War


5. Which was the company that was responsible for the controversial bullet with animal fat cartridge that was the main reason for the outbreak of the 1857 revolution for Independence.
Enfield


6. “The bronze doors”, “The Arch of Bells” and the “via de porta angelica” are the 3 entries to a country. Which country?
The Vatican


7. Which painter won the Golden Bear award in Berlin film festival in 1967 for the documentary “Through the eyes of a painter”?
M F Hussain

8. Which President of India was a chief minister of a sate and also one time Lok Sabha speaker?
Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy

9. “Little Red Book” is a collection of speeches of which famous leader?
Mao Tze Tsung

10. Which war related term was coined due to massive aerial bombing during Spanish Civil War?
Weapons of mass destruction

11. Whose epitaph reads “He lies somewhere around here”?
Heisenberg

12.Who was the first commoner to appear on british stamp?
William Shakespeare

13.Whose autobiography is “banker of poor”?
Mohd Younus

14.Which Indian company’s slogan is”beyond the obvious” ?
T C S

15. What is common to numbers…6…..28…..496…?
Perfect numbers

16.Who is the current premier hockey league champion?
Bangalore hi-fliers

17. In medical field, P K Sethi and Ram Chandra Sharma invented what?
Jaipur Foot

18. What is common to Erbium, Terbium, Ytterbium and Yttrium.
They are all named after Ytterby, Sweden.

19. This place is Asia’s largest wholesale market. Built by a king for his favorite daughter in 1650 AD so that she could shop all she wanted to, this market place derives its name from the canals filled with water that sparkled like silver in the moonlight. What place in contemporary Asia is this?

CHANDNI CHOWK - built by Shah Jahan for Jahan Ara.


20. “Steward and Bailiff of Her Majesty's Three Chiltern Hundreds of Stoke, Desborough and Burnham in the county of Buckingham” ,“Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead, Scarborough, North Yorkshire “. Connect
Members of Parliament in the House of Commons in UK are not allowed to resign. Appointment to an “office of profit under the Crown” disqualifies an MP. Hence when an MP wants to resign, he applies to the King/Queen for one of these posts.

21. Who is the only lady in the league in the film adaptation of “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen”?
Mina Harker

22. How do we better know Sir Nicholas de Mimsy Porpington?
Nearly Headless Nick

23. His real name is Luis Carlos Almeida da Cunha. How do Manchester United fans knows this Portuguese football star?
ANS: Nani

24. The brainchild of Subhash Chandra of Essel Group. Classic story of David taking on Goliath. Inspiration from this is about to result in such a venture by the PayAutomata Group in the United States. What?
ANS: ICL


25. Which Indian actor's autobiography was titled "Romancing with Life"?
ANS: Dev Anand