Quiz 1

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1. What was Operation “Wrath of God” launched in 1972 and continued over a decade, a response to?

2. Which corporate takes its name from the Japanese word that translates to “almost surrounded/captured”?

3. Which famous personality died while on a mission to negotiate with Moise Tshombe, the leader of the breakaway Congoleses province of Katanga?

4. "Palace of Miraflores” is the official residence of which head of state?

5. He was a student leader who led a movement against foreigners in the state. After a 6 year agitation, he became one of the three signatories of a peace accord with the Government. In 1985, he was elected as Chief Minister of the state becoming the country’s youngest CM (at the age of 31). Until he took over the reins of power, he was a resident of the university hostel along with other leaders of his party. Identify.

6. This small town is located in the region of Auvergne, on the banks of the Allier river and was famous even during Roman times for its thermal springs or spas. It was also the de-facto capital of the country for a brief period in the 1940s. Identify the town, quite infamous during this brief period.

7. Vijaya and Krishna, two chivalrous young men, hailing from Dwaraka in Gujarath, came to the assistance of Princess Devajammanni who was being forced by a neighboring ruler to marry him. After defeating the intruder, Vijaya married the princess and established which dynasty?

8. One urban legend that went around for quite some time declared that, when the logo is viewed in a mirror at an angle, it translates to Arabic for “No to Mecca, No to Mohammed”. Another theory states that the man who created the logo was a rabid cocaine addict and drew it to represent cocaine being snorted in liquid form. Which logo?

9. The British arsenal located at this place developed bullets which expanded to a significantly larger diameter inside the body, producing larger wounds than the full metal jacketed versions. The bullets were named after this locality. Identify the place which also referred to an airport in recent times.

10. It has two subspecies. One of them is named after an ancient Persian province near Turkmenia and the other is named after the Greek word that means “to run”. Which animal?


Answers:

1. The killing of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics.
2. “Atari”, the game company. The phrase is also interpreted as “about to be attacked”.
3. Dag Hammerskjold, the UN Secretary General who died in a plane crash.
4. Venezuela.
5. Prafulla Kumar Mohanta, who signed the Assam Accord in 1985, went on to found the Asom Gana Parishad.
6. Vichy. The infamous wartime government that collaborated with the Nazis was called “Vichy France”. The Govt. was led by Marshall Petain.
7. Wodeyar.
8. Coca-Cola logo designed by Frank Mason Robinson. His handwriting is seen on all Cola bottles.
9. Dum-Dum bullets. The locality gave its name to the Dum-Dum airport as well.
10. Camel. Bactrian (after the province of Bactria) and Dromedary (“dromas” means “to run” in Greek) are respectively, the two-humped and one-humped varieties of Camel.


Scores:
Atul V Nath-3
Praveen V R-3
Vipin S Nair-4
Rajesh Mohan-5
Sreeram Iyer-7