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30 th Aug 2009. IISc Quiz Club. What is the postal code of an area which houses the famous Chandni Chowk and the monuments of Jama Masjid and Red Fort?. 1. And the answer is. 1.
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30th Aug 2009 IISc Quiz Club
What is the postal code of an area which houses the famous Chandni Chowk and the monuments of Jama Masjid and Red Fort? 1
Every year a film festival is held on this sandbar outside a European city. This festival was founded in the 1930s. Name the city and the location, which has a Bangalore connection. 2
What event connects the first woman to study aeronautical engineering at Punjab Engineering College and a fighter pilot who saw service in the Yom Kippur War, the 1982 military operations in Lebanon, and the 1981 bombing of an Iraqi nuclear reactor? 3
What term applied to planets like Jupiter and Saturn, arises from the fact that they are made up largely of hydrogen and helium? 4
Something that happened in 1924 helped raise the profile of X, a town at the foothills of the Mont Blanc in Switzerland. Identify X. What put this place on the map? 5
Which unit, normally used for measuring depth, is also a verb in English meaning to understand? 6
fathom 6
Connect. 7
Which country that derives its name from a generic Sanskrit word for a large island later added a honorific meaning either prosperous or shining to that name? 8
We've heard his account of their first meeting in 1948 and seen it immortalised in a 1973 film. Her own account of the meeting was far less romantic--she told her friend Letitia that a fat blue-eyed pinkie had visited her. Name both people or the 1973 movie. 9
How Raj Kapoor & Nargis met for the first time, immortalized in Bobby 9
Identify this military formation which takes its name from the Greek word for finger? 10
When he was asked for a symbol to disseminate his teachings after his death, he laid down his begging bowl, albeit upside down. Who? What was the result? 11
This precious stone lends its name to a shade of colour. Identify. 12
Turquoise 12
Which company is the largest (in terms of number) manufacturer of tyres in the world? 13
Marina Bai, a Russian astrologer, in 2005 sued NASA for USD $300-310 million. Her case was originally thrown out of a lower court on the ground that Russia had no jurisdiction over NASA, but the ruling was overturned when her lawyer was able to show that NASA's office in the US Embassy in Moscow does fall under Russian jurisdiction. Marina's case began to be heard in a Moscow court. Vladimir Fortov, a Russian physicist stood as witness for NASA and managed to get the case thrown out. What was Marina Bai suing NASA for? 14
Marina Bai claimed that the Deep Impact NASA probe that crashed into the Tempel 1 comet would interfere with her astrology work because the comet would no longer be the same, claiming it "ruins the natural balance of forces in the universe" 14
This is a commercial for the Audi A6 which was released in 2006. What does the ad take inspiration from? 15
MC Escher 15
