Calicut University D-Zone Quiz Prelims

Calicut University D-Zone Quiz Prelims – 24th January, 2006

Questions:
Underlined questions were tie-breakers.


1. Whose autobiography is “Spirit of St. Louis”
2. Which snake (land) is considered to be the most poisonous in the world?
3. Which perfume was named so because its formula was perfected on May 5?
4. Who was the captain of Pakistan in India’s first test series at Pakistan, Lala Amarnath being the Indian captain?
5. Identify the company from logo?

6. Which famous philosophical statement will one find in the essay “Discourse on methods”, and who is its author?
7. Who is the first person to be inducted into both Country Music Hall Of Fame and the Rock Music Hall Of Fame?
8. How do we know Archibald Leach better as?
9. Who coined the term ‘Francophonie’ to denote all people and countries using French in a variety of circumstances?
10. Who is the second youngest winner of Nobel Prize?
11. Which word meaning ‘a person who completely dominates and controls another, usually for selfish or sinister motives’ came from George du Maurier’s 1894 novel “Trilby”?
12. What are Chatreux, Maine Coon, Japanese Bobtail, British Shorthair types of?
13. This game was originally called ‘mokshapat’ (good deeds take us to heaven and evil to a cycle of re-births) created by Saint Gyandev is forerunner of which popular game with kids?
14. Recently Zheng He, Chinese mariner and explorer, is claimed to have discovered the N. American continent before Columbus after some maps were found which gave details of N. American continent. Another explorer is also in this exclusive ‘list’ of explorers who is said to have come before Columbus. Name this other guy?
15. For what purpose was the guillotine originally designed?
16. What first has Kate Warne to her credit (in USA)?
17. This church has been celebrating Christmas on 30th of October since 1999. With 20,000 people from as far as Iceland and Vietnam have become church members via the official web site. Name the church?
18. Who’s the wife of the fishmonger, Unhygenix, the character in Asterix comics?
19. Who was the captain of the Titanic on its first voyage?
20. The DuPont archives reveal that the other names suggested for it were Duparooh (from DuPont pulls a rabbit out of a hat). Later they settled for a more sedate name. What?


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Answers To 'Quiz@Over 3'

1. Simple one: Tell me, how many members were there in ICC before India became a full member of the ICC (then Imperial Cricket Conference).
Ans. England, Australia, South Africa, the West Indies and New Zealand (I believe ya’ll can count)

2. His books include: The Appeal of Cricket; The Modern Game; My Spin on Cricket. Many feel that he has no peer in his analysis of cricket. Identify this Australia’s beloved son?
Ans. Richie Benaud.

3. This person was 27 years before he - or anyone else - realised that he was a uniquely gifted fast-medium bowler (he switched from off-breaks to fast in middle of a county match); 28 before he had the opportunity to demonstrate the fact; and 29 before he played a Test match. His father after a rather sorry episode in his only test (he dropped a decisive catch; then when the team needed 8 runs to win, scored a four and was bowled!) said, “Never mind, I've got a little kid at home who'll make up for it for me." Identify him?
Ans. Maurice Tate. His life is really wonderfull, really gifted, it's a dream life.

4. In the first recognized test match i.e. Australia v/s England, Australia had two brothers playing (debuting obviously). This cricketing family had 6 brothers all playing cricket; five from the family played for Australia and two from the family were captains. Name the two brothers?
Ans. Dave Gregory (captain) & Ned Gregory (Others are Syd Gregory (captain), Harry Donnan & Jack Gregory).

5. Australia v/s West Indies, Brisbane, 1960-61 & Australia v/s India, Chennai, 1986-87. Connect the two epic matches (There are two answers to this; I don’t want just the obvious one, so give me both or the ‘less’ obvious one)?
Ans. Obvious one - Only two tied tests in the history
Not so obvious one - Bob Simpson; He played in one Australian team and managed other Australian team.

6. Identify this person
Ans. Rahul Tondulkar - He broke Kambli's school record of 345 . He scored 357 and next highest score was 130 (remember the genius who partnered Kambi in that knock!)