Freshers Finals- Part 1

The Freshers’ Quiz Finale

Sreeni kicks it off!!!

1) Identify them

Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the creators of South Park

2) This diabolical device has lent it’s name to a band. What is it called?

3) Identify the lady

4) The electron microscope image of ….?

The H1N1 Influenza virus

Audience

Michael Jackson

5) Poster for which movie?

6) Connect

7) X is a series of epic fantasy novels written by the late American author James Oliver Rigney, Jr. The series consists of 11books and a 12th one in the making. The covers of the books feature the ouroboros, a serpent that gnaws it’s own tail. All 11 books of the series start with “The X turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and evenmyth is long fodgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, calles the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose. The wind was not a beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the X. But it was a beginning.”

X is the Wheel of time

8) X is a model village on the south side of Birmingham, England, best known for its connections with the Cadbury family and chocolate. The first part of the name is that of a nearby brook, and the second part is french for town.

Audience : The name X is an anglicised version of the city's name. The earliest reference to the name X was found in a ninth century Western Ganga Dynasty stone inscription. In this inscription found in Begur, X is referred to as a place in which a battle was fought in 890. It states that the place was part of the Ganga Kingdom until 1004 and was known as the "City of Guards“. An apocryphal, though popular, anecdote recounts that the 11th-century Hoysala king Veera Ballala II, while on a hunting

X is Bangalore

The Leap into Coll Quizzing • Dileep takes you through!!

1. CONNEC T

Answer • Scooby Doo

2. • X is a team created by Abe Saperstein in 1926 in Chicago, Illinois. They have played over 20000 exhibition games in 118 countries. Some of the famous players that have played in this team are Wilt Chamberlain, Magic Johnson… ID X

3. • For over a century X had kept their team strip sponsor-free. All this changed in 2006 when the club finally decided to have a logo of a corporation Y on its jersey but instead of taking money from the Y they give money to Y. Give me X and Y...

4. • Scoring is achieved by passing the ball into the net at the opponent's end of the court for points, while preventing the opposing team from doing the same at one's own net. The aim is to have outscored the opposing team when the game ends. A successful score can be worth two points if the ball is thrown through the hoop without the offensive player touching the hoop. Slam dunks are scored three points. All shots outside three-point arc are worth three points as well. What game???

SLAMBALL

5. • X is an American actor who starred as a child actor in Doogie Howser M.D a hit TV series in the early 90’s. He is known better as Barney Stinson a serial womanizer in the sitcom How I Met Your Mother. X also hosts the 61st primetime Emmy Awards this year. Name X

NEIL PATRICK HARRIS

6. • Who is missing??

7 • According to bookies The odds of X & Y winning a Grand slam in doubles is 50-1 and 200-1 to take the Wimbledon doubles crown. The odds of them claiming a grand slam before their 25th birthday is 25-1.. ID X & Y. At least put funda…

CHARLENE RIVA & MYLA ROSE

8. • This technology is based on the principles of triangulation using the visual images and timing data provided by at least four high-speed video cameras located at different locations and angles around the area of play. The technology was first used by Channel 4 during a Test match between England and Pakistan on Lord's Cricket Ground, on 21 May 2001. This technology was also used in Brian Lara Cricket to make game appear more like television coverage. It is now used widely in sports like cricket, tennis, billiards etc… What technology are we talking about??”

HAWK EYE