Prelims:Hostel-4

Enriched with great experiences and wonderful adventures, journey of Nist Quizzards was scaling one peak after another.This time around we were at hostel-4,biggest of all first year hostels. Participation was relatively good comapred to other places.

Presenting the questions from the prelims:
1. Who was conferred the Bharat Ratna this year?
Ans: Pandit Bhimsen Joshi

2.Name the "Crocodile Hunter" who died not so long back.
Ans: Steve Irwin

3. Who is the owner of the essel group that conducted the ICL t20 cricket tournament?
Ans: Subhash Chandra

4. Which is the tennis first grand slam in the year?
Ans: Australian Open

5. Name the Indian tennis legend who also happens to be brand ambassador for Rolex in India.
Ans: Vijay Amritraj

6. With which Indian Prime minister would you associate ‘Operation Blue Star’?
Ans: Indira Gandhi

7. Indra Nooyi is the CEO of this Fortune 500 firm.name it.
Ans: Pepsi Co.

8. Which company's meaning in Latin means "sound"?
Ans: Sony

9. What is the capital of Mexico?
Ans: mexico City

10. Name the place where the first session of INC was held?
Ans: Bombay (in the year 1885)

11. Name the first political party in India to have a website?
Ans: Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP)

12. Name Adolf Hitler’s autobiography.
Ans: Mein Kempf (It means My struggle in English)

13. Name the first Asian to win the Noble Prize.
And: Rabindranath Tagore (for literature)

14. Who invented the "world wide web"?
And: Tim Berners Lee

15. Who is the director of the film 'Taare Zameen Par'.
Ans: Aamir Khan (TZP is his directorial debut)

16. As Minnie is to Mickey Mouse, then _______ is for Donald Duck?
Ans: Daisy

17. What is the Boundary line between India and Pakistan known as?
Ans: Radcliff Line

18. Who owns DLF infrastructure.
Ans: Kushal Pal singh

19. Name the king who declared ''The drums of war shall never be beaten in my land again".
Ans: Ashoka

20. Name the traditional dress for Japanese women?
Ans: Kimoni

21. Which city should you be in to see the famous 'Monalisa ' painting?
Ans: Paris

22. ‘Driven by Values, Powered by Intellect’ is the tagline of which Indian software giant?
Ans: Infosys

23. National Highway 2 (NH-2) is better known as what?
Ans: Grand Trunk (GT) road or Shershah Suri Marg

24. Name the science exhibition train touring all over India (it was in Orissa recently).
Ans: Science Express

25. Which battle marked the beginning of British expansion in India?
Ans: Battle of Palassey(1757)

Hope you all liked our questions.
Till then Keep Quizzing!!

Dheeraj Kumar Bhatt
+919861683855

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Prelims:Hostel-3 & 5

After successfully conducting the quiz in hostel-7 we moved on to other hostels the next day.This time we divided the task and prelims were held at two hostels simultaneously.

Questions of the prelims :
1. Fidel Castro recently quit the presidency of this country owing to health problems. Which country?
Ans: Cuba

2. Who is Hillary Clinton's main opponent in the US presidential election's primaries?
Ans: Barack Obama

3. Which cricketer has the record for being the fastest to score 9000 test runs?
Ans: Rahul Dravid

4. Which famous multiplayer game has been developed by sierra studios?
Ans: Counter Strike:Condition Zero

5. Name the award given to coaches who have excelled in their respective fields.
Ans: Dronachrya Award

6. Name the highest run getter in tests?
Ans: Brian Lara (Presently Sachin Tendulkar holds the record bur the prelims were in march 2008 at that time Lara was the highest run getter in tests )

7. Which sports company's logo is called 'swoosh '?
Ans: Nike

8. Which company owns the 'Pizza Hut', 'KFC' &'Taco Bell' chain of restaurants ?
Ans: Pepsi Co.

9. Name the writer of 'Robinson Crusoe'.
Ans: Daniel Defoe

10. Name the current Indian vice-president.
Ans: Md. Hameed Ansari

11. Which country shares its' National Day on 15 august with India?
Ans: South korea

12. Who composed the national song of India?
Ans: Bankim Chandra Chatterjee(The national song 'Vande mataram has been adopted from his book 'Anand Math')

13. How many Indo-Pak wars have been fought over the kashmir issue?
Ans: Three

14. Name the co-founders of Microsoft.
Ans: Paul Allen

15. Who was the director of the bollywood blockbuster "Mughal-e- Azam"?
Ans: K. Asif

16. Which element is common to all the acids?
Ans: Hydrogen

17. Name the blind poet who wrote the epics 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey'. (film ‘Troy’ is based on the two works)?
Ans: Greek poet Homer

18. Name the CEO of the Citicorp.
Ans: Vikram Pandit

19. In which year was the 1st train in India started, it was from Bombay to Thane?
Ans: 1853

20.Name the captain of Pakistan cricket team that won the world cup’92?
Ans: Imran Khan

21.Who is the mascot of the Indian Railways?
Ans: Bholu,the guard

22.Which company's tagline is "The best a man can get"?
Ans: Gillette

23.Name the company that bought the Delhi IPL team .
Ans: GMR

24.What does PETA stand for?
Ans: People for Ethical Treatment of Animals

25.At what temperature the celsius and fahrenheit gives the same reading.
Ans: -40

Prelims at both hostels were successfully conducted.Our journey was going great.
Hope you all liked the questions and our ideas.

Till then Keep Quizzing!!

Dheeraj Kumar Bhatt
+919861683855

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Our First Step:Hostel-7

Then we started our journey of quizzing and our first step was ‘Inter Hostel Quiz’.
NIST ISTE Students’ Chapter introduces…NIST QUIZZARDS…the community of quiz fanatics of the college
Aiming to create general knowledge awareness in the campus, it will hold you in good stead for the competitive future lying ahead .It will make sure that you remain well aware of happenings around. It will encourage participation in quizzing events throughout the country.
The inaugural event is the ‘INTER-HOSTEL QUIZ’ for which the preliminaries will be held in all the hostels as per the given schedule.

1.Hostel-7 on March 01,2008 in between 7:00 PM- 8:30 PM
2.Hostel-3 & 5 on March 02,2008 in between 7:00 PM- 8:30 PM
3.Hostel-4 on March 03,2008 in between 7:00 PM- 8:30 PM
4.Hostel-1C,Mermaid & 2 on March 08,2008 in between 7:00 PM- 8:30 PM
5.Hostel- Sagar on March 08,2008 in between 7:00 PM- 8:30 PM
6.Hostel-1 on March 15,2008 in between 7:00 PM- 8:30 PM

We set our foot in Hostel 7.The response was tremendous and very heart soothing.

Questions of the preliminary round as follows:
1. Who was the guest at the republic day celebrations this year?
Ans: Nicholas Sarkozy
2. What is the name of the world’s cheapest car.
Ans:Tata Nano

3. Name the venue for 2010 football world cup?
Ans: Republic of South Africa

4. Who won the Formula one championship last year?
Ans: Kimi Raikkonan

5. Who is known as the "Payolli express"?
Ans: P.T. Usha

6. What is the name of David Beckham's present football club?
Ans: LA Galaxy
7. Whose tagline is "High Performance. Delivered."?
Ans: Accenture

8. Who owns the "Virgin" group of companies?
Ans: Richard Branson

9. Who is the governor of Orissa?
Ans: M.C. Bhandare

10. The lead character in the novel 'Da Vinci Code' and "angels and demon"?
Ans: Robert Langdon

11. Which is the all time international best seller in the world?
Ans: Bible

12. From which country is Linus Torvalds ,writer of the Linux kernel?
Ans: Finland

13. Which city is known as 'The Windy City'?
Ans: Chicago

14. What is the name of the cell phone that was launched by Apple Inc. not so long back?
Ans: Apple I Phone

15. Which eminent pop performer is also called "Slim Shady"?
Ans: Eminem

16. Which Indian sports legend's autobiography is titled 'Goal'?
Ans: Dhyan Chand
17. Which state advertises itself as 'God's Own Country'?
Ans: Kerala

18. Aditya Birla Group is currently chaired by which person?
Ans: Kumar Mangalam Birla

19. Who invented the elevator?
Ans: Elisha Otis

20. Which Muslim ruler raided india 17 times between 1000 and 1026 AD?
Ans: Muhammad Ghazni

21.Who was the 'Man of the series ' in the recently concluded Twenty20 world cup?
Ans: Shahid Afridi

22.Who was the first indian to become Miss World?
Ans: Rita Faria

23. Who is the supreme commander of the armed forces of India?
Ans: The President of India

24.Napolean was defeated in which famous battle?
Ans: Battle of Waterloo
25.In which year did the the ship titanic sink on her maiden voyage?
Ans: 1912 AD

The Preliminary was conducted successfully and was a great experience and inspiration for our team to move ahead.

Till then Keep Quizzing!!
Dheeraj Kumar Bhatt+919861683855

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Letter to the Dean

Respected Sir

Re: Quiz Club in our college

Introduction
World’s needs are changing rapidly these days. Mere surviving is not what today’s budding achievers want to do. And to excel in this world which is now more of a challenge, perhaps the most important thing that one needs to have is knowledge of what happens around him. This is where general knowledge plays a pivotal role in building a man’s confidence and plays a large part in deciding what kind of future he will have. This is exactly what this club will help to achieve in this college by providing all those who have a thirst for knowledge and encouraging the rest to inculcate that thirst in them by providing an ideal platform for the same, thus giving them enormous confidence that will help them become more knowledgeable technocrats with a brighter future.

Need
This kind of initiative is always helpful for making us prepared for our further studies
Our team will help in spreading general awareness both in and outside campus
Updated knowledge of happenings around us is must in this competitive era
This club is needed to develop better and more meaningful interaction abilities
A platform is needed for sharing of information among students

Functioning & Plans
We plan to organize monthly quizzes at college level to maintain the momentum of quizzing environment
Inter college quizzes, inviting various colleges of the state have been planned as one such event per year or per semester, if possible
Organizing ‘Sankalp’ and ‘Waves’ quiz events and enhancing their standards are aimed by us
We will work for the encouragement of quizzing habit in schools of villages and the city of Berhampur
We will make inclusion of members frequently by giving many opportunities to students
We also plan to hold competitive quizzes using college’s website
A new and competitive format of quiz in ‘nist e-news’ is planned
Our functioning will be systematic as we will appoint hostel and batch representatives
We shall welcome the faculty involvement for our betterment
We shall regularly invite questions and ideas from students
We shall organize frequent group meetings to make the club better
We also will be assisting various college clubs to organize events
Providing general awareness among students is also one of our priorities
For continuous involvement and interest we plan to post interesting facts frequently on all notice boards weekly
We shall focus the attention on all the courses of the college equally
Plans to run a magazine in future is also in our vision
One of the most important function that we are going to have is to provide needed consultancy (like information of dates and patterns) to students for participation in various events through the state and country
We will also be making sure of providing relevant magazines and papers to all the hostels

Support
First of all we will be having the support large group of eager students
We are sure of winning the support of our ever encouraging teachers
We look forward to attain significant sponsorships for our major events
We can have support from interested NIST alumni by contacting them

Conclusion
This club will definitely create an environment of healthy competition, inspiring students to improve themselves and make them better prepared to excel in the challenges that lie in front of them when they eventually step out of the college and add new heights to the glory of our institution.

“Ability is nothing without an opportunity.”
-Napoleon
Hoping for your invaluable support, sir,

Subhasis Dalal
Adityanshu 200620045
Dheeraj Kr Bhatt 200620128
P Kumar Sachin 200610101
Prasenjit Sharan 200626131
Rohit Mohanty 200620158
Sadique Nasar 200620046


Respected Dean sir responded very positively and suggested us to work under ISTE Student chapter of our college. Mr. Ajay Kumar Rath being the ISTE faculty adviser became our mentor .After all the administrative hustles and persuasion the quizzing community of NIST started functioning under the prestigious banner of Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE) Student chapter.
Thus began the real journey of NIST Quizzards. In next post will discuss about our first major task (Inter Hostel QUIZ competition).
Hope you all liked our approach, ideas, and motto.

Till then Keep Quizzing!!

Dheeraj Kumar Bhatt
+919861683855
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The Journey Begins

March 23,2009

In this blog I am going to post something about the origin of our group. Six of us batch mates got stucked to an idea of doing something to spread a healthy quizzing environment in our college and thus make people more knowledgeable and inquisitive. The most basic motto of our group is to inculcate a quizzing culture in campus and spreading awareness.
Before going into the details of what, how, when… of our journey. Let me have the pleasure to introduce my friends, bros and real quiz fanatics. Adityanshu, P Kumar Sachin, Prasenjit Sharan, Sadique Nasar and last but not at all the least Rohit Mohanty. Above all our constant source of inspiration was Mr. Subhasis Dalal (our senior in college, presently studying in XLRI, Jamsedhpur )
All six of us are third year student of B.Tech in National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST), Berhampur, Orissa.
Next post will be about our approach to the college authority stating the need of such an initiative and that charter will also explain our mission and modus operandi.
Stating our approach and publishing the letter forwarded to the Dean may appear childish, boring and unnecessary but that is how all the things began and I do really support this as this shows our thinking, belief and urge to do something really close to our heart.
I hope you all will also appreciate the excitement of a novice blogger and an enthusiast quizzer.

Till then Keep Quizzing!!

Dheeraj Kumar Bhatt
+919861683855
Comments, brickbats, bouquets and responses at bhatt05@gmail.com or as comments.

Welcome All

You all might be wondering that another quiz blog, why? What's the need of that, we have got many. But my dear fellow NIST Quizzards is not only a blog nor a quiz club or a college quizzing society but it’s a dream.
Dream of bringing a renaissance where everyone is equally inquisitive and curious to be aware of facts, current events, and business and about the World we live in!!
Here on behalf of my team I, Dheeraj Kumar Bhatt welcome you all to our small step for the betterment of Quizzing fraternity.
In this ample lot of space I will try to bring an unprecedented experience of Campus quizzing.
Our team and I expect a great response from you all torch bearers of quizzing culture and fanaticism.
So we began our journey with the soul purpose of spreading knowledge and awareness.

BonVoyage
Till then Keep Quizzing!!

Dheeraj Kumar Bhatt+919861683855
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