QC# 66

   A former nun leaves the convent to become a governess for the seven children of a wealthy, Austrian widower who has grown into a cold disciplinarian. Soon, she opens the children to the wonders of life and the joy of music - and eventually softens the heart of their father and gains his love. This is the plot of which hollywood classic ?

The Sound of Music (1965) by Robert Wise starring Christopher Plummer and Julie Andrews. It won 5 Academy awards including best film

QC# 65

A tribute to Indian soldiers

1. This Indian fighter bomber aircraft derives its name from a Sanskrit word meaning " Spirit of Tempest ". It was India's first jet aircraft which was designed by German designer Kurt Tank. Identify the aircraft.

2. This fighter aircraft from Britain was extensively used by Indian Air Force during Indo-Sino war in 1962 and Indo-Pak war in 1971. It was phased out of service in 1996 and was replaced with the famous Sukoi 30MKI. It is still in service in Lebanese Air Force. Identify it.

3. K-152 Nerpa is an Akula class nuclear powered submarine from Russia. How do we better know this submarine ?

4. Connect these 4 photos with Indian army

5. The modified version of this Russian third generation battle tank is used by Indian Army with an addition to its original name. The added part is the name of an immortal warrior from Mahabharata. The original one was first used by Russia in Invasion of Dagestan. Name the battle tank.

6. Identify the doodle.

ANSWERS

1. HAL Marut

2. Hawker Hunter

3. INS Chakra

4. Trishul, Pawan, Virat,Checkmate. All these are Indian Peace Keeping Force's operations.

5. Bhishma

6. India's 67th Republic day

QC# 64

1. West Bengal govt on 22nd January 2013 declared that it would give heritage status to whose ancestral house in Kodalia ?

2. This tournament was started in England two years before the first men's tournament took place. India hosted it in 1978 and in 1997. There are only 3 winners since its inception and of those the two countries didn't won the tournament in men's version. Name the tournament.

3. Name the world's largest optical telescope which will be developed by a 5 nation consortium including India. 

4. Recently, X's sonnets were encoded in DNA by scientists of Cambridge University. They also made strands of DNA that stored part of audio of Y's 1963 speech "I have a dream". 
Identify X and Y.

5. Which French company announced the acquisition of Chennai based MacLellan on January 9, 2013 ?

Answers :

1. Netaji Subash Chandra Bose

2. Women's world cup cricket tournament

3. Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT)

4. William Shakespeare

5. Sodexo

QC# 63

Non Aligned Movement

1. Which country will host the 17th Non Aligned Movement summit in 2015 ?
2. Which are the two countries that are recently accepted as new members of NAM in the 16th summit ?
3. Where was the 16th NAM summit conducted ?
4. Who coined the word "Non Alignment" ?
5. Identify him who is one of the founding father of NAM.

6. Which city hosted the first NAM summit in 1961 ?
7. In which year New Delhi hosted 7th NAM summit ?
8. What was the theme of 16th NAM summit ?
9. Name the only African country which is not a part of NAM now?
10. Given below is the logo of which NAM summit ?

11. Given below is a Marvel comics named "The NAM". About which war is it based on?

Answers ::
1. Venezuela
2. Azerbaijan and Fiji
3. Tehran, Iran
4. V K Krishnamenon
5. Kwame Nkrumah, first president and PM of Ghana. He won Lenin Peace Prize in 1963. He was also the founding member of Organization of African unity.
6. Belgrade, Yugoslavia from September 1-6, 1961
7. 1983 
8. "Lasting Peace through Joint Global Governance"
9. South Sudan
10. 1998 Durban, South Africa
11. Vietnam War

QC# 62

X is a goose foot species crop which was considered to be sacred by the Incas and they referred it as "Mother of all grains". It is cultivated mainly in Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador along the Andes. The Spanish conquistadors suppressed its cultivation during the Spanish conquest of South America and termed it as "Food for Indians". United Nations declared 2013 as the International Year of X. 
Identify this psuedocereal X....

Quinoa

QC# 61

She is the winner of  which title awarded by Hollywood Foreign Press Association in 2013. Her sister won this in 2005. 

Miss Golden Globe
Pictured here is Fransecsa Eastwood, daughter of Clint Eastwood. Her sister Katheryn Eastwood won the award in 2005. The honoree, traditionally the daughter (or son) of a celebrity, assists in the Association's Golden Globe Awards

QC# 60

The graveyard of this church which is situated on the banks of river Esk is used as a setting in a famous novel.
Identify the church and the novel...

St.Mary's Church, Whitby which featured in the Bram Stoker's novel Dracula

QC# 59

What is the subject of this cover ?

Vietnam War

QC# 58

Who are they ?

Menachem Begin, 6th PM of Isreal with Anwar Sadat, former Egyptian president. This cover was a result of the Camp David accords 

QC# 57

Identify him who was instrumental in the making of a legend....

Ramakanth Acharekar

QC# 56

Whose statue is this ?

Ho chi Minh

QC# 55

1       This is a private business school established in 1908 and is now located on the banks of river Charles, Boston. Some of the famous alumnus include George W Bush, P Chidambaram, Rahul Bajaj, Rajat Gupta etc. Identify this institution….
2       Pratheeksha ,Akshaya ,Pournami ,Bhagyanidhi ,Dhanasree are the list of _________________.
3       (*) You can find these on either side of the tail of something which started its operation on 29 April 2005 which is most remembered for an incident on 22 May 2010 at Managalore.
Thrissur Pooram, Pushkar Fair
 Konark sun temple, Taj Mahal
 India Gate, Gateway of India
  Dal Lake, Thar Desert
 Kathakali, Bharatanatyam .
Identify it….
4.       Whose tweets are published under the name @pontifex ?
5.       Former alumni of IIT Kharagpur and employee of TATA steel. Joined Indian Revenue Service in 1992 and later turned into politics and social works. Got Ramon Magsaysay award for Emergent leadership in 2006. Helped in the foundation of “Parivartan” a movement to help people on issues related to income tax, ration etc.
Identify this famous Indian personality
6.       BSNL provides services all over India except Mumbai and New Delhi. Instead who provides services there ?
7.       (*) This term originated from George Orwell’s famous novel Nineteen Eighty four. This is used as the title of a reality show which was first broadcasted in Veronica channel in Netherlands. Later various adaptations of this was aired in different countries. This show gained attention in India due to racist remarks towards an Indian celebrity. Which is this show ?
8.       In the Bretton Woods conference which was conducted on May 1944, agreements were signed for the setting up of two international organizations which are commonly known by the name Bretton Wood Sisters. If one of them is IMF, name the other one…
9.       Which multinational company’s official magazine is named “THINK” ?
THINK is also a trade mark of this company as they used this word along with their so many products….
10   Joseph Woodland who died on 9^th Dec 2012 along with Bernard Silver invented __________
Woodland once said "I just extended the dots and dashes downwards and made narrow lines and wide lines out of them."
11   Identify the advertisement 

12   Which American MNC designed the 6 reactors in Fukushima nuclear power plant which underwent serious destruction in 2011 leading to radiation emission?
13   The Imperial Bank which in turn became the State Bank of India was formed by the merger of 3 presidency banks namely Bank of Calcutta, Bank of Bombay and _________________.
14   (*) “The Moguls of Real Estate” is the biography of which Indian born construction tycoon who is always referred as the Phantom of Bombay House and is the richest Parsi in 2012 according to Forbes ?
15   Why they were in news recently ? Name the firm associated with them which was involved in the controversy.

16   "I had a terrible dream yesterday with military helicopters and the Taliban. I have had such dreams since the launch of the military operation in Swat. I was afraid of going to school because the Taliban had issued an edict banning all girls from attending schools. Only 11 students attended the class out of 27. The number decreased because of Taliban's edict."
This is a diary entry from a person who was short listed for Time person of the year in 2012…Whose words ?
17   The resignation of the sitting MP on June 26 lead to the by-poll in Jangipur Lok Sabha constituency in Murshidabad on October 2012. Who was that sitting MP/ why did he resign ?
18 (*) Don Bradman, Brian Lara, Bill Ponsford, Wally Hammond, WG Grace, Graeme Hick, Mike Hussey , ________________
Who is the 8^th person in this list and the 1^st Indian to achieve that feat ?
19.   _________ is an Italian word which means “every other year” and it is used to describe any event that occurs every two years. This word conquered news some days ago in India.
20.   Which recently released Hollywood film was awarded two National Tourism awards by Ministry of Tourism because of its impact in promoting India as a tourist destination especially Munnar and Puducherry. “Richard Parker”, one of the main characters is of Bengali descent and also has other connections with India.
21.   (*) Dennis Papin, a French Physicist invented “Steam Digesteur” after his intense studies about steam. This was the first model of something that is found in every house. How do this invention better known to us ?
22.   This newly discovered Etheostoma genus fish is named after a Nobel laureate. Name him 

23.   “Still, I dare to submit my imperfect work for my readers to judge. Perhaps some of you will find my bursts of word-fire too long, others may regard them too brief and broken.” What matters is if my words hit the target.”
These are the starting lines of whose auto biography?
24.   ___________  is a marketing term for the Monday after Black Friday which was invented by shop.org. This was created to persuade people to shop online and the recent trends showed that is it one of the biggest online shopping day of the year.
25.   This phrase is a Korean neologism that refers to a lifestyle associated with a district of Seoul. It entered the Collins dictionary as word of the year for the month of November and it also entered Guinness World records. Identify the phrase.



Answers.....

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