TRIVIA QUIZ SAM 2024- Only quetions-pptx

1. TRIVIA QUIZ

2. Rules: 25 Questions in all. Every correct answer carries 1 point, star questions carry 2. No negative marking so feel free to guess.

3. 1. The Dutch word for a donkey is often used in the world of art because it serves the same purpose of carrying a burden. This word also appears a lot in crosswords. What’s the good word?

4. 2. It gets its name from a French word meaning "to toss food". It originated in the area around present day Nice. It was originally a poor farmer's dish, prepared in the summer with fresh summer vegetables. The original used only courgettes , tomatoes, bell peppers, onion, and garlic. Nowadays aubergine is added. Name the dish.(Image follows)

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6. 3. Manufactured at the Matsushiba Robot Factory, which fictional character, whose birthday is on 3 September 2112, is 129.3 cm tall, weighs 129.3 kg, and can run 129.3 km/h when scared?

7. 4. The flag of which country has a red background with a yellow sun in the centre with 40 rays that represent the 40 tribes which were united by epic hero Manas? The centre of the sun shows a stylized depiction of the top of a traditional dwelling.(Image follows)

8. *5. Identify the speaker:

9. 6. The name of this GI tagged product comes from the eye-catching cobalt dye used to colour them. By what 3-word name do we know them?

10. 7. The language of Silbo Gomero is special in that it is whistled, and not spoken. Shepherds in the Canary Islands use this language to communicate across long distances over rough terrain. What modern day invention is driving this language to extinction?

11. 8. What medical condition's name derives from Greek word hemicranium meaning 'half skull' and is descriptive of its symptoms?

12. 9. These structures are known by a 2-word name referencing the part of the tree used and the purpose they serve. Name these structures.

13. *10. The wood of the holly tree is white in colour . It is hard, fine-grained and durable, and can be turned well and finely smoothed. The wood also takes a stain well, often giving it the appearance of ebony . All these properties, especially the first and the last mentioned, make it ideal material for making what artefacts?

14. 11. Mammoths, walruses, hippopotami, sperm whales, narwhals and wart hogs have all been used by mankind throughout history as alternative sources of what decorative substance?

15. 12. This region of the world gets its name from the Greek word for “near the bear, northern”. The region at the other end of the world is named so because it is the opposite of this region or “opposite the north” and is considered a desert. Name either of these two regions.

16. 13. What type of embroidery, literally meaning “flower work”, comes originally from undivided Punjab of the Indian subcontinent? It involves use of a darning stitch on a cotton cloth with colourful silk threads.

17. 14. Nicotine is one of the many harmful substances found in a cigarette. Many of these objects cause cancers in the human body and hence are called carcinogens. However, carcinologists are not people who study cancer, they study an animal. What animal?

18. *15. The MKV format is a container for files with video and audio data. It allows for media within a form of media i.e. a container within a container and that explains the MKV format's Russian-derived name. What?

19. 16. What term whose literal translation meaning 'circular dance writing’ is often seen in movie credits?

20. 17. The female versions of these decorative architectural features, found mainly in classical Greek and European architecture, are named caryatids after a class of priestesses from ancient Greece. The male versions derive their name from a mythical figure whose heavy burden mirrors the function of these features. Which mythical figure?(Image on next slide)

21. 18. A best-selling author, this nervous mild mannered mouse is a resident of New Mouse City on Mouse Island. He is also the journalist and editor for the fictional newspaper The Rodent’s Gazette and keeps getting involved in adventures with his sister Thea, cousin Trap and his nephew Benjamin. Who?

22. 19. In the NATO signal communication, A is referred as Alpha, B as Bravo, C as Charlie and so on. Only one alphabet is referred to by the name of a country. Which alphabet and country?

23. *20. Traditional silk manufacturing methods involve boiling the cocoons of the silk worm and sorting out the threads. Estimate is that around 15 silkworms are sacrificed to get 1 gram of silk yarn. An alternate compassionate solution was found to extract silk without killing them. What appropriate name is given to the silk thus obtained?

24. 21. The puzzle, known as Number Place in the US, was first published in New York in the late 1970s by the puzzle publisher Dell in its magazine Math Problems and Logic Puzzles. It became immensely popular in the UK in 2005, stimulating international interest. What is its popular name which is also the Japanese for ‘single number’?

25. 22. The logo of which institution has a Himalayan eagle with the state emblem on top and the motto “Nabha Sparsham Deeptam ” which means touch the sky with glory?

26. 23. George de Mestral used to go for a walk with his pet dog daily. One day, in 1948, he found that some seeds were hooked on his clothes and on the fur of his dog. He observed these seeds under a microscope and found some hook like structures on them. Based on this, he created a new item that is used commonly across the world to hook/stick onto objects. What did he invent?

27. 24. In Windows, Mac OS and some other operating systems, a ‘folder’ is a named collection of related ‘files’ that can be retrieved, moved, and otherwise manipulated as one entity. The terms ‘folder’ and ‘file’ were chosen to be consistent with the metaphor for the user interface, which is named after a real-world object on which files and folders might reside. What?

28. *25. Since its founding, a common feature of Disneyland has been employees dressed up as various Disney characters roaming the park and interacting with visitors. In the late nineties, though, an interesting quirk was noticed—if a visitor shouted “Andy’s coming!” in the vicinity of a particular set of characters, employees playing them would stop whatever they were doing and lie down on the ground motionless for a few minutes. What set of Disney characters exhibited this behaviour?

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