Questions from Landmark Quiz 2011 Bangalore

• A daffodil with scientific name Narcissus poeticus, also called ___ in Persian is the name of the 7 billionth baby born - Nargis
• Picture - painting of Jesus Christ - what is the popular form of imagery called ? - Good Shepherd
• Which is the highest grossing bollywood movie with the figure of 189 crores? - 3 Idiots.
• What is special about F1 tracks in Brazil, Singapore and Abu Dhabi? - Here, the circuits run anticlockwise.
• Kalidasa - Asti Kaschit Vagvisheshah - asked by his wife - his works - Kumarasambhavam, Raghuvamsham and Meghaduta - start with Asti, Kaschit, Vagvisheshah respectively.
• Music - BEATLES - grey album - Jay 2 Black album of beatles
• Audio/Video - Hollywood - Wilhelm Scream - first in 1951 movie Distant Drums
  
• Discoverer of animal electricity - Luigi Galvani - Novel based on this phenomenon - Frankenstein
• Episode from Ramayana at Kodandarama temple, Hampi - coronation ceremony of Sugreeva
• Fulgurite - fossilized lightening - formed at 1800 degree Celsius
• Export from Louisiana to Europe - cash crop - after 18th century planter turned to sugar, cotton, tobacco - which crop ? Indigo
• Video - 2 songs - guess the third - non-English songs to win an Oscar - 3rd one - Jai Ho from Slumdog Millionaire
• Figure of 8 in F1 track - Suzuka Circuit, Japan
• F1 - The car is guided into its pit by the 'lollypop man'
• Before each event the center piece of this sport is weighed because as per regulations, it must weigh no less than 460 kg. What is the center piece - Bull in Spanish Bullfight
• Unique test record at the 100th test match at Lords - England vs WI in 2000 - parts of all four innings played on the 1st day itself
• Identifying the symbol of Ham Radio
• In 1982, on the occasion of IAF's golden jubilee, IAF formed a group - The Thunderbolts or Surya Kiran
• 1961 - Project by US Government for the peaceful use of nuclear bombs - Project name ? - Operation Plowshare
• Nobel peace prize winner from China - Liu Xiabo presented a charter named Charter 08 - this is based on which earlier charter? - Charter 77 issued by dissidents in Czechoslovakia
• Often the raga compositions of Tansen are prefixed with some words - what are they - Miyan Ki - e.g : Miyan ki Todi, Miyan ki Malhar, Miyan ki Mand, Miyan ka Sarang
• What are the 3 UNESCO heritage sites in Madhya Pradesh? - Sanchi Stupa, Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka and Khajuraho temples
• This word means "putting to flight" in Greek - winning word - monument erected by winners - TROPHY
• Episode from Chanakya's life - he comes across a mother scolding her child for burning himself by eating from the middle of a bun or bowl of porridge rather than the cooler edge - then he attacks Nanda empire on its edges after his initial attack on core part of the empire fails.
• Name of the plant - term means finger in Arabic - BANANA
• Swami Vivekananda and formation of IISc by Jamsetji Tata after former wrote a letter to him.
• Novel The Fifth Horseman - by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre - plot - Libyan leader Gaddafi holding New York City hostage with the threat of setting off a hidden nuclear bomb.
• When facing an economic crisis consumers will be more willing to buy less costly luxury goods - this theory is called ____? Lipstick effect
• What does a dolphin do to avoid nasty surprises by predators and other threats during sleep? It sleeps with an eye open!
• Which event was banned after 1924 Paris Olympics after the contestants went missing after the event? Cross Country Running
• USSR project which was called svetloe budushchee or 'a radiant future'? - Moscow Metro
• Video - song from movie Mujhse Fraaandship Karoge - Who is the music director for the movie? Raghu Dixit
• Formation of Google Chrome logo.
• Lewis Carroll - Through the Looking-Glass - The Walrus and the Carpenter - 1871
• Event which was banned by Karnataka Government in Bangalore recently - La Tomatina
• Which is the world's loudest non-brass acoustic music instrument? - Nadaswaram
• What is measured in bbl's? - Petrol or Oil
• This business in its 120 years of existence never was shut down even for a day. But recently it was shut down for a day in support of Anna Hazare's anti-corruption campaign in August 2011. Name the business - Mumbai Dabbawalahs
• Question on Rajanikanth - born in 1950 - son of Ramoji Rao and Jijabai - fan base in Japan.
• Video - Kannada movie Super clipping - What is unusual about naming of this movie? - Initially it was named as a 'hand symbol' denoting best. Subsequently named as Super.
• Video - Identifying the animated character - Lady Goo Goo
• Video - Identifying the sportperson - His farewell speech was shown - Lou Gehrig
• Connection between films 'Farenheit 9/11' and 'Celsius 41.11' - significance of 41.11 - 41.11 degree Celsius is the temperature at which brain begins to die.
• It is a 360 km long wall in India, next only to Great wall of china - located at 82 km from Udaipur - built to protect Mewar region - Kumbhargarh
• Moore's law - for computers, Haitz's law - LED lights
• Badrinath of South - temple on hillock surrounded by a fort - Melkote(meaning "high fort" in Kannada)
• Picture - 20th anniversary celebration of 'Fall of Berlin Wall'
• Lawsonia inermis - Henna, Mehendi
• Ambedkar - statues in blue - why? All colors taken by other parties, wanted to represent Dalits with seperate color.
• NASA's Juno probe spacecraft - August 5, 2011 - products of which company - LEGO
• 36th cake festival in Bangalore - Mumbai landmark was prime attraction - Taj Mumbai
• American Civil war and battle of Gettysburg
• Who got the divine sword Chandrahasa from Lord Shiva - Ravana
• Audio - connection with the words translated from hindi song - chaahe koi mujhe junglee kahe - Jonathan Swift - English writer
• Concept car by Tata - Pixel - Device that can be used to control car's - iPad
• Style of song and dance - Rumba
• Clipping of pre-production of movie - The Hobbit - presenter - Peter Jackson
• Whose birthday is celebrated as Teacher's day in China - Confusius
• Who was the first Kannadiga to receive Bharata Ratna - Sir M Vishweshwaraiah
• website www.simran.in launched on 19th Oct 2011 by RDSO, Lucknow and IIT Kanpur - what is the purpose of the portal - Tracking trains on the Indian Railways Network
• Why is Uruguay named officially Oriental Republic of Uruguay - because it lies on the eastern part of Uruguay river
• TP Kailasam - Kannada song Namma Tippaaralli Baludoora - based on original English song - 'It's a long way to Tipperary'
• Only US president to wear a Nazi uniform - Ronald Reagen in film Desperate Journey
• SUV - were given a new expansion by Jairam Ramesh - Socially Useless Vehicles
• First sporting event to be live on youtube - IPL 2010
• Name of Music band by Malcolm, Angus Young - AC/DC
• Question about Timbuktu - capital of Mali empire
• Question on Indian Antarctic Program
• Question about spear phishing.